Space elevator team wins $900,000

[Chris]

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.

You don't really know shit about Japan, do you?

It is very hard to sue people in Japan.

It is not like here.

 

[KittenKoder]

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.

1. You called it a bet, making it gambling, period. Don't play semantics with me, you know you lose every time.

2. The other person would only respond if it was a gamble to them.

 

[Chris]

Hideo Yokochi was 48 years old when he filed suit against a Japanese company whose contaminated cooking oil gave him a liver disorder and a severe skin disease.

Now he is 59. After 11 years in court - Mr. Yokochi filed suit in 1976, six years after the first plaintiff in the cooking-oil case went to court - his legal battle has finally ended, not with a decision, but with a settlement. Mr. Yokochi and 1,895 other victims of cooking oil contaminated with PCB's received payments ranging from $20,000 to $30,000, less than half the money they had originally asked for.

But Mr. Yokochi said the financial hardships of pursuing the case persuaded the plaintiffs to settle. Many of those affected by the cooking oil were too sick to work, and some had to go on welfare. Meanwhile, the suit dragged on - at a cost of about $33,000 a month for the action covering all 1,895 plaintiffs.

The cooking-oil case is one of the longest on record, but it is not unusual in Japan for complex lawsuits to take more than 10 years to go through the courts.

Japan has become known as a land where people do not sue, obeying a cultural taboo against resorting to the courts. But many here suggest that if Japanese do not sue as much as Americans, it is more because doing so is such an ordeal than out of a cultural embrace of harmony. Trials are long, court fees can be high, and judges often exert pressure to settle. 'Legal System Is Bankrupt'

Such a system, critics charge, can also hurt less powerful groups in Japanese society - those who do not have enough money to pay for expensive court cases or those without enough political influence to press for changes in Japan's legislature.

Tokyo Journal; To Be Sorely Tried, Try Filing a Lawsuit in Japan - The New York Times

 

[KittenKoder]

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.

You don't really know shit about Japan, do you?

It is very hard to sue people in Japan.

It is not like here.

Again? Again you attempt to think you know about Japan? Just because you stopped off at one of their airports for a lay-over does not mean you know shit. Last time you tried this I squashed you in one post with some hard facts about them. You never learn, Japan has one of the highest number of lawsuits in the world, America is just above them (and we are probably the most litigated country).

Go Fish — For A Gaming Lawsuit, in Japan
Tokyo Journal; To Be Sorely Tried, Try Filing a Lawsuit in Japan - The New York Times <- This one even looks like a bogus suit.
Googles Street View Criticized For Privacy Violation In Japan

These are just the first three that came up in the search.

 

[Chris]

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.

You don't really know shit about Japan, do you?

It is very hard to sue people in Japan.

It is not like here.

Again? Again you attempt to think you know about Japan? Just because you stopped off at one of their airports for a lay-over does not mean you know shit. Last time you tried this I squashed you in one post with some hard facts about them. You never learn, Japan has one of the highest number of lawsuits in the world, America is just above them (and we are probably the most litigated country).

Go Fish &#8212; For A Gaming Lawsuit, in Japan
Tokyo Journal; To Be Sorely Tried, Try Filing a Lawsuit in Japan - The New York Times <- This one even looks like a bogus suit.
Googles Street View Criticized For Privacy Violation In Japan

These are just the first three that came up in the search.

Thanks for making it so easy....


USA: 270 people per lawyer
Japan: 5,800 people per lawyer

Or put another way, Japan has 22,000 licensed attorneys; the United States has more than 1,000,000.

The Land of the Rising Number of Lawsuits - Law Blog - WSJ

 

[DiveCon]

You don't really know shit about Japan, do you?

It is very hard to sue people in Japan.

It is not like here.

Again? Again you attempt to think you know about Japan? Just because you stopped off at one of their airports for a lay-over does not mean you know shit. Last time you tried this I squashed you in one post with some hard facts about them. You never learn, Japan has one of the highest number of lawsuits in the world, America is just above them (and we are probably the most litigated country).

Go Fish &#8212; For A Gaming Lawsuit, in Japan
Tokyo Journal; To Be Sorely Tried, Try Filing a Lawsuit in Japan - The New York Times <- This one even looks like a bogus suit.
Googles Street View Criticized For Privacy Violation In Japan

These are just the first three that came up in the search.

Thanks for making it so easy....


USA: 270 people per lawyer
Japan: 5,800 people per lawyer

Or put another way, Japan has 22,000 licensed attorneys; the United States has more than 1,000,000.

The Land of the Rising Number of Lawsuits - Law Blog - WSJ

except that doesnt prove a thing in the point you were claiming
you fail once again kirky

 

[Charles Stucker]

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.

You don't really know shit about Japan, do you?

It is very hard to sue people in Japan.

You really don't know shit (sic) about reading do you?
Criminal charges does not mean a lawsuit, the two are separate. Japan has a pretty good record on catching criminals as you might know if you ever read something other than a comic book.

And about your "personal information" bull - you must not realize that anyone who wanted to look up Japanese authors could find the scandal you claim happened in the trade journals and link that back to your book here and hence to who you claim to be, or do you think no one understands Japanese?

All of which is beside the point - unless your alleged books are actually relevant to a space elevator, your opinions are no more expert than anyone else and your blatant ignorance fairly well shows that, no matter what you claim, they are not.

 

[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?

Non-fiction.

ok so they are non-fiction.....what was the subject matter?.....Cook Books,physics,tech manuel.....your the guy who brought this up Chris,not us....i cant see how if you say it was a cook book for instance how this would be personal info.....

 

[Meister]

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

Non-fiction.

ok so they are non-fiction.....what was the subject matter?.....Cook Books,physics,tech manuel.....your the guy who brought this up Chris,not us....i cant see how if you say it was a cook book for instance how this would be personal info.....

Harry, Your stepping into his BS, better clean off your boots.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Non-fiction.

ok so they are non-fiction.....what was the subject matter?.....Cook Books,physics,tech manuel.....your the guy who brought this up Chris,not us....i cant see how if you say it was a cook book for instance how this would be personal info.....

Harry, Your stepping into his BS, better clean off your boots.

notice how Chris just let this drop....