Congrats on the check!!!

I'm glad that stacks of paper kike that don't form black holes. Otherwise they would have sucked you in by now.

Congrats on the check.

Congrats on the check, Amy, and here's to many more!

I have probably close to that many papers on my desk, but since it's a big desk, they're scattered in little piles all over the place. (This is what happens when you leave 2 pieces of paper alone overnight on a desk. They breed.)

Wait, why does it take so long to get a royalty check? Do they wait until your advance is covered and then send royalty checks at certain milestones?

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But didn't you say, repeatedly and in Caps, that "I Don't Support Forcing Anyone To Do Business With Anyone"?

Because I'm all, like, huh?

Congrats on the royalty check? Can we get hint on how much. Was it large? Hope enough to treat yourself to something nice.

Also, crid what has your post got to do with Amy's success.

I may be drunk, but that is bit rude crid. Could you not have waited to threadjack another thread. Patience man. I enjoy your insights but time and place.

Amy, I still don't see how you've come to work with paper - are so dependent on it.
I have a 4 terabyte database of engineering drawings and procedures to work with. For serious amounts of information, there's no way to print that. If you'd taken that stack in Acrobat and combined them, everything would be instantly available to a search. I could find every instance of a citation in that stack before you finished wetting your fingers to thumb through them.
You do very nice work, but it still seems to be in spite of yourself in this case.

Cheers for the check - hope you get more!

Congratulations on that first check, Amy.

Amy, I'm not disputing that your system works for you. I'm noting that when research involves truly huge amounts of information, thumbing through a stack of paper is tough. That's not the output side, it's the research side. Sorry I didn't distinguish that from the subject: your output, the stack.

> That doesn't even begin to be a
> consideration here.

?

No?

> And turning somebody away from life-saving
> medical care is obviously a no-go.

So when something is "life-saving," you're ready to do all kinds of "forcing."

Ok then! Economics in action!

There's a terrible shortage of GP's happening, because guys who aren't specialists know they wont be able to charge the money they'll have earned.

This is another application of that principle. Freedom of association is terribly, terribly important to you... Until it actually means something to someone, at which point you know what's best and are ready to limit people's choices and constrain their behavior to a fare-thee-well.

Sounds great to say that everyone should do what they want, though.