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Subject:Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:16:56 -0600
Unfortunately, this one is true. And it applies to all types of writing.
Technical writing is not specificaly mentioned. If it were just about
tech writing, it might be reasonable.
Technicaly, if you keep a diary in LA and eventualy use material from it
in work that gets published, you owe back taxes, and penalties. This one
is quite absurd, and will be overturned, but it is, at this point, true.
LA, rather recently, legalized the reciting of poetry in public. Bizzare
place.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: barryk -at- MDHOST -dot- CSE -dot- TEK -dot- COM [SMTP:barryk -at- MDHOST -dot- CSE -dot- TEK -dot- COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 10:43 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA
>
>On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Dimock, Dick wrote:
>
>> And you thought the Certification Wars were intense.
>>
>> Technical Writers, working out of their Los Angeles
>> homes, must be licensed and taxed.
>
>If the above is true, so is the "Good Times Virus".
>
>And Elvis dancing with the Susquatch!
>
>Will these urban legends ever end...
>
