http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/ Engadget Comments for Apple and Sony settle with Japanese battery burn victims http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
Japanese medical services is offered through a universal health care insurance system that provides relative equality of access, witch is not the case in the US.

So if you want a universal health care system in the US better vote for the party tha promote it in nov.




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think different. think life-threatening.]]>Apr 15th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
Thinking different. :)]]>Apr 15th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 23rd 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/in america they wouldve been asking for millions.... billions!!]]>Apr 15th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/]]>Apr 15th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
that's 5000 yen.]]>Apr 15th 2008 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/It is a million (local units of currency) to them... you can twist that into other currencies and make it sound paltry or huge, but regardless of that, they did sue for over a million and got over a million, to them. ]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
1 cent = 1 yen
1.3 million cents = 1.3 million yen

13 million cents = 13,000 dollars = 13 million yen

The Japanese don't have a Dollar/Cent system. It's just a Yen to Cent system. ]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
I really don't understand why western currency even uses a decimal based system. ]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
You realize in Japan a million yen is not and extraordinary amount to the average Japanese person. It doesn't matter that is a million of their local currency. It's like me saying I'm gonna give you a million pennies. Thats only $1000.

Japan happens to not have the same type of denominations that we use in the U.S. In Japan everything goes in terms of Yen, the most basic unit (would be like our penny). They don't have a system where 100 Yen equals a Japanese dollar, they just call it 100 Yen. The average Japanese salary is between 300,000 and 500,000 Yen. Does that mean every Japanese is a multi-millionaire? NO!

"It is a million (local units of currency) to them... you can twist that into other currencies and make it sound paltry or huge, but regardless of that, they did sue for over a million and got over a million, to them."

And that would be like me suing someone for 1,000,000 pennies.

Learn something about the subject your talking about before you open your mouth.]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
Good God - it seems that not only do you lack a national health service in the US - your schooling system is clearly in need of some help!]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
*Thats only $10,000.]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/And after three attempts, you finally came to the same conversion rate *that was already in the article*.
I said EXACTLY was Lloyd said I did. I was being facetious, but I forgot to dumb it down for the LCD readership.
And yes, that is me in the picture, somehow (U.S.) American yet not fat, and I'm obviously running +50 on the brains department in comparison to either of you.]]>Apr 15th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
You are right in they received a million of their currency. But the way your post reads implies that they were suing for a huge sum of money, "they did sue for over a million and got over a million, to them." That ignored the fact that the Yen is essentially a penny in the Japanese monetary system, so they were suing for a much smaller sum that it appears. You can also misread your, "It is a million (local units of currency) to them" part because in the western world me measure things in Dollars, Pounds, Euro, etc. not the smallest denomination. So when you say local currency units it seems to read like you were implying the Yen has the same value to the Japanese as a Dollar does to an American.

All that inference comes from your first post up a little bit where you said, "They did get a million; just because they didn't convert it to a million in U.S. dollars, it's still a million in Yen..." Which once again looks like you were saying a Yen is the same to a Japanese person as a Dollar is to an American.

So you may not have "said" they got a lot of money, or a yen= a dollar, but it sure could be implied from it. All CMOS and I were trying to do was show that a million Yen wasn't as big as it sounds and the fact the Japanese consider a million like we consider a thousand.

As far as Lloyd goes, I can't tell if he was kidding with his "This makes them a millionairre in their own currency..." comment. Taking it from his bashing of our education I don't think so. Which goes to show his lack of education. A million pennies doesn't make me a millionaire.]]>Apr 15th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/On a side note though, are you aware that Zimbabwe just started printing 1 million Dollar bills. I mean 1 million Zimbabwe Dollars. I guess that makes everyone in Zimbabwe a millionaire]]>Apr 15th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/I said "you can twist that into other currencies and make it sound paltry or huge." Which means, in some currencies, the number needed to equal that worth will be bigger, in some, the number needed to equal that worth will be smaller, and neither has any bearing on the 'worth' of the amount (when converted to other currencies or equating it to cost of living, etc.). Why is that hard to understand?

There is no possible way that my post 'implies' anything by reading it; it's the person reading it who interprets. That's standard-issue PEBKAC. I didn't ignore anything, imply anything, and the only one capable of misreading anything, again, is the reader, not the author. So, some people were smart enough to get what I meant, some weren't; and you couldn't even figure out Lloyd's comment, so there you go. The penny analogy (while accurate in terms of conversion), does not hold water - U.S. currency is not based on the penny (it is based on the dollar), while Japanese currency is based on the Yen. If someone requested a settlement of a million pennies, that does not make it the U.S. standard of currency, but it does mean that they have a million units of a form of currency. His education still seems spot-on.]]>Apr 15th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/I will choose one which don't use Sony batteries.
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the whole "sue for a billion dollars" mentality is very American, probably has something to do with why everyone's so fat and uneducated.]]>Apr 15th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
also: are you a pedophile? ]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
@gypsy: i'm 5' 11"]]>Apr 15th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
That ammount of money is almost a slap in the face and really good example of how Apple or Sony really care about it's customer .


]]>Apr 15th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
My mistake, forgot a decimal. ]]>Apr 15th 2008 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/"Well it looks like the companies have decided to settle, and will pay the fire-damaged pair a total of ¥1.3 million (or around $13,000)."
A sensor with no sense, it seems.]]>Apr 15th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
I mean, they must be feeling so rich.]]>Apr 15th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
The point that this article makes to me is that the Japanese don't play around with frivilous lawsuits like other countries; i.e., US and Europe, so you better hope your figures match the damages or the judges won't give you diddley-squat... and the lawyers here know that.]]>Apr 15th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 15th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/Apr 16th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/

my fear of batteries exploding has just risen tenfold.]]>Apr 16th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/apple-and-sony-settle-with-japanese-battery-burn-victims/
likes the site: http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:42PM