Space elevator team wins $900,000

[Meister]

Are you ever right about ANYTHING????

she was right about calling you a fraud....

Then put your money where your mouth is.

Bet me $10,000.

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

 

[Chris]

she was right about calling you a fraud....

Then put your money where your mouth is.

Bet me $10,000.

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

 

[DiveCon]

Then put your money where your mouth is.

Bet me $10,000.

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

LOL look whos talking

 

[Harry Dresden]

Then put your money where your mouth is.

Bet me $10,000.

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

ok Chris answer me this.....what is the subjects of the books involved?....

 

[Meister]

Then put your money where your mouth is.

Bet me $10,000.

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

Have you ever had a coward kick your ass?

 

[Chris]

Chris, give up...nobody wants your stinking money.

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

Have you ever had a coward kick your ass?

Like I said, you don't have the guts to admit you were wrong.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Coward.

You don't have the balls to admit you are wrong.

Have you ever had a coward kick your ass?

Like I said, you don't have the guts to admit you were wrong.

surely you can tell us what the books are about Chris.....

 

[Chris]

Have you ever had a coward kick your ass?

Like I said, you don't have the guts to admit you were wrong.

surely you can tell us what the books are about Chris.....

Sorry, no personal info.

One of them was published in Japan, however.

 

[KittenKoder]

Like I said, you don't have the guts to admit you were wrong.

surely you can tell us what the books are about Chris.....

Sorry, no personal info.

One of them was published in Japan, however.

Seriously? That's what you come back with?

 

[Chris]

Yes, it was a strange story.

I got a letter from a guy who said he wanted to publish my book in Japan. I wrote him back and told him my terms and he agreed. Then for about three months we corresponded about the book until he wrote me and told me he was almost finished translating it into Japanese. Then I never heard from him again. Later I discovered that he translated my book and published it as his own. He even used the same illustrations!

After I discovered this, I got another letter from someone who wanted to publish my book in Japan, and I agreed, but only if I got money up front. They paid me and published the book, but since the stolen book was already out and selling well, my book did not do as well.

I contacted a lawyer in Japan to see if I could sue the guy who stole my book, and he wanted $5,000 just to start. That was more than I could afford at the time, so the guy got away with it.

 

[Charles Stucker]

Yes, it was a strange story.

I got a letter from a guy who said he wanted to publish my book in Japan. I wrote him back and told him my terms and he agreed. Then for about three months we corresponded about the book until he wrote me and told me he was almost finished translating it into Japanese. Then I never heard from him again. Later I discovered that he translated my book and published it as his own. He even used the same illustrations!

After I discovered this, I got another letter from someone who wanted to publish my book in Japan, and I agreed, but only if I got money up front. They paid me and published the book, but since the stolen book was already out and selling well, my book did not do as well.

I contacted a lawyer in Japan to see if I could sue the guy who stole my book, and he wanted $5,000 just to start. That was more than I could afford at the time, so the guy got away with it.

What this "strange story" tells me is you are an admitted gullible fool. Go talk to a few real authors about publishing in foreign languages and you will find this could only happen in fiction; unless the individual writer was so desperate to get published that he/she agreed to some scheme with a person they met at a convention.

Not exactly the sort of personal information which lends you any air of intelligence.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Sorry, no personal info.

One of them was published in Japan, however.

oh give me a break....how about this ....fiction or non-fiction?...will you go that far?

 

[KittenKoder]

Sorry Chris, but you are just digging yourself deeper now.

 

[KittenKoder]

As to the elevator thing, the one part of this story that disturbs me is that Seattle has made nothing but a blip of this whole story. You'd think that a tech town, as we brag about being, would actually see this as something to hold up like a gold medal ... but we aren't. We swept it under the rug even though this was actually a project for several decades. It's been something NASA has dreamed of for so long it made it into almost every publication. Even Isaac Asimov wrote a bit about it in his Opus series.

 

[Chris]

Yes, it was a strange story.

I got a letter from a guy who said he wanted to publish my book in Japan. I wrote him back and told him my terms and he agreed. Then for about three months we corresponded about the book until he wrote me and told me he was almost finished translating it into Japanese. Then I never heard from him again. Later I discovered that he translated my book and published it as his own. He even used the same illustrations!

After I discovered this, I got another letter from someone who wanted to publish my book in Japan, and I agreed, but only if I got money up front. They paid me and published the book, but since the stolen book was already out and selling well, my book did not do as well.

I contacted a lawyer in Japan to see if I could sue the guy who stole my book, and he wanted $5,000 just to start. That was more than I could afford at the time, so the guy got away with it.

What this "strange story" tells me is you are an admitted gullible fool. Go talk to a few real authors about publishing in foreign languages and you will find this could only happen in fiction; unless the individual writer was so desperate to get published that he/she agreed to some scheme with a person they met at a convention.

Not exactly the sort of personal information which lends you any air of intelligence.

Not really worried about what you think.

In the end the guy who stole my book was disgraced within the publishing community there in Japan.

 

[Chris]

Sorry, no personal info.

One of them was published in Japan, however.

oh give me a break....how about this ....fiction or non-fiction?...will you go that far?

Non-fiction.

 

[KittenKoder]

Sorry, no personal info.

One of them was published in Japan, however.

oh give me a break....how about this ....fiction or non-fiction?...will you go that far?

Non-fiction.

A start, but not enough to prove you are an author. No betting allowed, it's illegal in my state and many others except on "sanctioned" sites and Indian Casinos ... so stop repeating that bullshit, we know you are just because you know that chances are no one can legally take that bet. Posting "personal" information? We aren't asking for a phone number or even street address, we are asking quite simply for a link to the books you supposedly authored ... your reluctance to do so only demonstrates that we are correct in assuming you have writ nothing.

 

[Chris]

oh give me a break....how about this ....fiction or non-fiction?...will you go that far?

Non-fiction.

A start, but not enough to prove you are an author. No betting allowed, it's illegal in my state and many others except on "sanctioned" sites and Indian Casinos ... so stop repeating that bullshit, we know you are just because you know that chances are no one can legally take that bet. Posting "personal" information? We aren't asking for a phone number or even street address, we are asking quite simply for a link to the books you supposedly authored ... your reluctance to do so only demonstrates that we are correct in assuming you have writ nothing.

You know what happens when you assume.

Besides it's not betting. It's a sure thing.

 

[Chris]

Yes, it was a strange story.

I got a letter from a guy who said he wanted to publish my book in Japan. I wrote him back and told him my terms and he agreed. Then for about three months we corresponded about the book until he wrote me and told me he was almost finished translating it into Japanese. Then I never heard from him again. Later I discovered that he translated my book and published it as his own. He even used the same illustrations!

After I discovered this, I got another letter from someone who wanted to publish my book in Japan, and I agreed, but only if I got money up front. They paid me and published the book, but since the stolen book was already out and selling well, my book did not do as well.

I contacted a lawyer in Japan to see if I could sue the guy who stole my book, and he wanted $5,000 just to start. That was more than I could afford at the time, so the guy got away with it.

What this "strange story" tells me is you are an admitted gullible fool. Go talk to a few real authors about publishing in foreign languages and you will find this could only happen in fiction; unless the individual writer was so desperate to get published that he/she agreed to some scheme with a person they met at a convention.

Not exactly the sort of personal information which lends you any air of intelligence.

You do realized that any published book can be stolen and translated into another language, right?

I guess you don't, and that makes you a fool.

 

[Charles Stucker]

You do realized that any published book can be stolen and translated into another language, right?

I guess you don't, and that makes you a fool.

You do realize you essentially admitted to falling for some guys scam, right?

And yes if you want to break a whole slew of copyright laws you can translate something and use the original illustrations, but if they did it in Japan they would face criminal charges.

Perhaps you'd like to whine a little more about your book.

Why don't you change your name to "Good old reliable Jake"
It would fit.