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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      44/ 20+ years of friendship, and she took a $15,000 gift and turned it into a funeral pyre bc she wanted to claw another $7k out of me.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      45/ So my take home re all of this: treat your friends BETTER than you treat your credit card company. treat your farm hands BETTER than you treat FedEx treat your baby sitter BETTER than you treat Costco

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

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      46/ https://twitter.com/ThalesLives/status/960559232528633858 …

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Azathoth Liberation Front

      47/ hah. :) yeah, that sucks. I should prob open source my article. ...not that anyone wants it.https://twitter.com/TristanSevers/status/960559692362625024 …

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      Azathoth Liberation Front @TristanSevers
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Ha. I have slightly mixed emotions about this though, because TSR's lackadaisical IP management is why we can't buy the Dragon compilation anymore.
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

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      48/ I linked to this thread earlier...but read the whole thing. https://twitter.com/ThalesLives/status/960559232528633858 …

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      49/ so anyway, circling back to the beginning, I played the game with Hasbro a bit sharply. I didn't lie to them. I didn't say "yes, I will ask the court to delay the hearing". ...but I DID let them create for themselves the impression that they had another week or so.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      50/ How do I justify this? a) they were in the wrong, and not accidentally so - I had sent them a registered letter a YEAR BEFORE the publication date. They escalated to "sharp". b) technically I didn't lie; I was agreed to their wording. c) ...

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      51/ c) to actually delay the court date would have put a lot more tasks on my plate: i) contact the court ii) ask for a delay iii) rearrange my schedule (I'd already taken the next morning off from work) iv) etc.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      52/ They de facto were asking me to do all those things, but (a) were offering no compensation, (b) didn't even explicitly state what they were wanted.

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      53/ In an iterated game with a real person (e.g. a farmhand) who I felt warmly towards, that'd be THREE different reasons to play in cooperative mode. In a non-iterated game with a corporation who had wronged me first...that's not a time for cooperative gameplay. Play to win.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

      54/ This is a great question.https://twitter.com/debeehr/status/960563020337467392 …

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      John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt @debeehr
      Replying to @MorlockP @amyalkon
      What wd you have done if he said “Oh, 10 bucks” (i.e. less than you were thinking of paying) or even “I’ll do it for free?”
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          55/ I always insist that my people get paid. I've had situations where a laborer stacks lumber in location X not Y, where I asked. ...because of honest miscommunication. And he's said "oh, knock those two hours off my bill". And I refuse. "No, man. You worked. You get paid."

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          56/ If I'm sitting inside at the keyboard in the AC and some poor bastard is working in 90 degree weather, an honest mistake is no reason to short him. WORK GETS PAID. YOU ALWAYS PAY YOUR PEOPLE. ...AND YOU PAY THEM FIRST.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          57/ I ran a firm for 15 years. My people got paid every two weeks, like clockwork. I skipped paychecks. My people never did. When someone is good enough to do work for you, you bend heaven and earth to pay them. ...and if you can't, you don't accept the labor.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          58/ So if farmhand had said a fair price, I would have paid him that. If he said "free", I would have refused, and offered a fair price. If (as he did) he said 4x fair price, I would refuse.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Random Guy

          59/https://twitter.com/NNJ_Taxman/status/960564494404608001 …

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          Random Guy @NotNJ_Taxman
          I appreciate this Thread, as an Accountant who works in a private business it have "clients" try to get free info from me all the time for $0 paid to me. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/960539254542696448 …
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cargar Dolor

          60/ Nice analogy:https://twitter.com/k_d_payne/status/960564593788641280 …

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          Cargar Dolor @k_d_payne
          "Tie off the bag before it's full." https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/960556423150219264 …
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

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          61/ And we get into an interesting space: a friend who I've NEVER employed? I'd take the favor from him. ...but a history of employment, and a task in a similar space? Gotta pay for that labor.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/960564864157671424 …

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          58/ So if farmhand had said a fair price, I would have paid him that. If he said "free", I would have refused, and offered a fair price. If (as he did) he said 4x fair price, I would refuse.
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          62/ If you have friends help you paint your living room, you can "pay" them in pizza. ...but if you've got a friend who paints for a living, and he helps, you gotta pay him either in cash or in trade.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Greg Monforton

          63/ No. I had misgivings. ("she's not going to be able to pull this off...but MAYBE she can rise to the occasion ?") Never thought the loss could be greater than the initial gift. I was wrong.https://twitter.com/GregM410/status/960571639392948225 …

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          Greg Monforton @GregM410
          Replying to @MorlockP @amyalkon @Spivonomist
          Same circumstances, different friend, would you do it again? If so would you change anything?
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          64/ So I see that I'm picking up a lot of new followers today because of this "business ethics" thread. If you like ethics, morality, prudence, pragmatism, etc., and also like rip-roaring science fiction, you might enjoy my novel People say it's good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 pic.twitter.com/5DNKWqIIpe

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Feb 2018

          65/ (That's not to say that this is a boring novel of business ethnics. It's an exciting novel with gun fights, swarms of drones, nuclear explosions, anti-gravity, snipers, AI, uplifted dogs, and very very big guns.)

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