From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/14/2014 06:46 AM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/13/14 7:11 AM, mumble wrote:   
   >> On 06/12/2014 04:53 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >>> On 6/12/14 4:27 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>>> On 12/06/2014 11:19, mumble wrote:   
   >>>>> On 06/11/2014 09:24 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 11/06/2014 09:32, mumble wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 06/09/2014 10:17 PM, Bill Swears wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> For a current WIP:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for   
   >>>>>>>>> more   
   >>>>>>>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no   
   >>>>>>>>> interfering   
   >>>>>>>>> with   
   >>>>>>>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> cd   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> A three book contract.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Contracts are muse-death.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Yes, dear, of course they are.   
   >>>>>> :-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes honeybunch, they certainly are; compare having a contract which   
   >>>>> obligates you to grind out the words,   
   >>>   
   >>>      Here you show no actual knowledge of how this works.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, my.  What I say in response is that if you are only allowed by your   
   >> family circumstances to write when you are making money from it,   
   >   
   > `    No. I'm able to write MORE when I get paid for it.   
      
   That's because you are dependent on what you get paid.   
      
   >> you   
   >> demonstrate a lack of understanding of how the real world works, you   
   >> remain captive to the idea that you must have an employer in order to   
   >> make money by doing what you have been told, even if you generated the   
   >> telling yourself.   
   >   
   >   
   >      No. The employer is doing all sorts of work that I do not ever,   
   > ever want to do. I get paid to do X. If I was doing X by myself, I'd   
   > also have to do A, B, C, D, and E, none of which I want to do.   
      
   One of the benefits of government is that it forces all companies to   
   provide accounting services, and can then audit the company and even   
   impose penalties *without* benefit of a trial and the presumption of   
   innocence.  I don't care to act as the government's unpaid tax slave,   
   and I don't like what the government spends taxes on, so I don't play   
   the game.   
      
   >> If you want to make money you have to invest your time in something you   
   >> believe in sufficiently to gamble on its success.   
   >   
   >      If your personality goes that way, great. Mine doesn't.   
      
   Indeed, every moment I am awake is a gamble, every bridge is burned   
   behind me.  Mileage varies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)