Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 23:12:24 GMT

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    > Talking to myself....
    >
    > > I am declaring that no employer would pay someone for announcing
    > > that he was about to do something, and then never doing it.
    >
    > Haplessly, there are those, publishers for instance, who pay in
    > advance. But, this is to an author who has otherwise proved
    > productiveness and salability. Giving an advance to Stephen King, say,
    > versus giving _me_ an advance, just on my intention to write a horror
    > novel. Established patterns of performance are worthy, most times, of
    > advance payment.
    >
    > And, yes, there are retainers given to some professions, of course,
    > but none of these are for _intention_, even stated intention, a meme
    > in itself, alone.
    >
    Past performance demonstrates an ability to succeed at the same or similar tasks in the future; the mathematician who solved Fermat's Last Theorem would be hired by just about any Ivy League university even if he would not talk to them about what he was (mentally) working on.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    >
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