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In a message dated 1/31/2002 4:05:54 AM Central Standard Time, Keith Henson
<hkhenson@cogeco.ca> writes:
> I think Aaron was pulling your leg and it came off in his hand. :-)
>
> Keith Henson
Hi Keith.
I know that you are working more on the applied side than in academia. But
there are academics who take their business about as seriously as the
Scientologists do. Consequently, there are some academics who will do some
pretty wierd things, though not quite as bad as the Scientologists. Viewing
Scientology as (among other things) a "business," one can see memetics as
having business implications that run into the billions of dollars. Yet there
are other much larger business implications, and these too draw out their
share of people trying wierd things to gain one advantage or another, or one
piece of information or another. One simply must keep one's eyes open, but
not become paranoid either.
--Aaron Lynch
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