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I don't think you fully appreciate how expensive it is to go to court.

EarthLaunch 13y ago
He knows more about court expenses, than you know about what he knows. Just say "It's expensive to go to court", or better, just don't comment.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  Completely off-topic, but your comment made me wonder: Is there any way to formalize expressions like "he knows more about X than you know about Y", where X and Y are different domains? Is there a way to quantify it, to answer questions like "how much more"? Do we have any kind of well-defined "unit of knowledge"? Does anyone here knows of relevant math branch that talks about these questions?
  - StevenXC 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) A measure is a function on the subsets of a space which yields a non-negative real number. For example, a measure of the triangle with vertices (0,0), (2,0), and (6,0), is 6, the area of that triangle. Measure satisfies certain nice properties, such as if A is a subset of B, then the measure of A is no more than the measure of B. So, I guess if you can define a reasonable measure on the spaces X and Y, you can measure collections of X and collections of Y, and use the real numbers to determine which is "more". But this doesn't strike me as useful in any way other than the fun of abstract mathematics. :-)
- smalltalk 13y ago
  No, if he knew anything at all about legal expenses, he wouldn't have implied it made sense to sue someone with maybe $500,000 in assets.
slantyyz 13y ago
A big part of the game is played before the matter is even played out in the court system. This part is much less expensive. It's one thing to be threatened with a lawsuit, but it's another matter once the paperwork is filed. When I was hit with a revenge suit during the first bubble, the single, asset-free me had a different reaction than some of my peers who had families and much more to lose. There's a lot of psychological warfare going on. When a process server shows up at your doorstep and serves papers to your spouse at your partially-paid-for house, things take a turn. Any sense of righteous defiance you might have starts to waver at this point. The plaintiff in my situation got a lot for the 20-30K they probably spent on suing us. Without going to court, they shut down an entire company and made over a half-dozen people unemployed -- edit: while making them pay for their own legal fees too --. And they got the satisfaction of a "moral" victory for chump change. Never mind that most of their claims were bunk. So, in a nutshell, it's not always about going to court.

He knows more about court expenses, than you know about what he knows. Just say "It's expensive to go to court", or better, just don't comment.

TeMPOraL 13y ago
Completely off-topic, but your comment made me wonder: Is there any way to formalize expressions like "he knows more about X than you know about Y", where X and Y are different domains? Is there a way to quantify it, to answer questions like "how much more"? Do we have any kind of well-defined "unit of knowledge"? Does anyone here knows of relevant math branch that talks about these questions?
- StevenXC 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) A measure is a function on the subsets of a space which yields a non-negative real number. For example, a measure of the triangle with vertices (0,0), (2,0), and (6,0), is 6, the area of that triangle. Measure satisfies certain nice properties, such as if A is a subset of B, then the measure of A is no more than the measure of B. So, I guess if you can define a reasonable measure on the spaces X and Y, you can measure collections of X and collections of Y, and use the real numbers to determine which is "more". But this doesn't strike me as useful in any way other than the fun of abstract mathematics. :-)
smalltalk 13y ago
No, if he knew anything at all about legal expenses, he wouldn't have implied it made sense to sue someone with maybe $500,000 in assets.

slantyyz 13y ago

A big part of the game is played before the matter is even played out in the court system. This part is much less expensive. It's one thing to be threatened with a lawsuit, but it's another matter once the paperwork is filed. When I was hit with a revenge suit during the first bubble, the single, asset-free me had a different reaction than some of my peers who had families and much more to lose. There's a lot of psychological warfare going on. When a process server shows up at your doorstep and serves papers to your spouse at your partially-paid-for house, things take a turn. Any sense of righteous defiance you might have starts to waver at this point. The plaintiff in my situation got a lot for the 20-30K they probably spent on suing us. Without going to court, they shut down an entire company and made over a half-dozen people unemployed -- edit: while making them pay for their own legal fees too --. And they got the satisfaction of a "moral" victory for chump change. Never mind that most of their claims were bunk. So, in a nutshell, it's not always about going to court.