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Blistex posted:they just started the transfer process without following their own security procedures, so there isn't really a way to prove fraud. I'd check to see if it's just "their own security procedures" or some state/federal regulation that they've broken and report them if so. Just for kicks.
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Blistex posted:My friend got a call from a mainland China number last evening. He outright blocked it without answering it. I forgot about your friend's drama at first and thought you were talking about someone so terrified of coronavirus that they won't even talk to a Chinese person on the phone
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The shopping center at the nearest metro station has a little information desk where they recently set up a hand sanitizer dispenser. Today when I walked by it there was a very exasperated employee arguing with an old guy while he filled up a small bottle with sanitizer from the dispenser.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'd check to see if it's just "their own security procedures" or some state/federal regulation that they've broken and report them if so. Just for kicks. He has a lawyer and a financial adviser going through the various processes etc. that he needs to in order to get the divorce underway and him and his assets protected. I'm sure one of the two will investigate that further. Overall he's pretty sure that everything is good. If a fraud charge is not pending, and she were to come back and lawyer up, she might be entitled to half of the car, and half of any value the house has accrued since they bought it. With the exception of those two things, she apparently has nearly exactly half of their funds, so the only real thing to do during a divorce is sign the papers. She could fight it, but his lawyer (specialises in estate and divorce) is certain it would be a waste of time on her part, and any lawyer who would take her case would insist that she bring enough cash back to Canada so that he can get paid and she can pay both parties court fees when she inevitably fails in her case.
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I mean... if she clearly didn't love him enough to go against her parents, and ended up with about half of their joint assets (if only thanks to some fast action from your friend), I guess the overall outcome could be viewed as just skipping the slow parts of a divorce. Y'know, like the 5-10 years of clinging on in quiet desperation/apathy followed by an extended courtroom battle.
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Yeah, seems like a mighty efficient way to fast forward through the lovely tail end of a failed marriage. Your friend might actually have lucked out there, in a weird and horrible way.
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So I'm set to return to Osaka on Tuesday but I just found out Universal has been closed til the 15th  I'm waiting til morning over there so I can talk to my boss and ask if I should just stay here in the states for a while longer
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Feb 28, 2020 16:33
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Atopian posted:Japan and Korea not looking like great destinations right now. No kidding. I work in foreign exchange for American high schoolers and I'm honestly getting a bit concerned about how this year is going to go.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:31
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just have a COVID-19 party to infect everyone a month before you go so there will be no problems
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Atopian posted:Japan and Korea not looking like great destinations right now. Trying to get out is not going so well either.
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I like to think of myself as a pioneer of the "locked door, water filter, sacks of rice and beans and noodles" response.
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bones 4 beginners posted:The shopping center at the nearest metro station has a little information desk where they recently set up a hand sanitizer dispenser. Today when I walked by it there was a very exasperated employee arguing with an old guy while he filled up a small bottle with sanitizer from the dispenser. It's free alcohol, why wouldn't you stock up if you could?
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The Zombie Guy posted:It's free alcohol, why wouldn't you stock up if you could? They really hate it when you drink straight from the spout.
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MarcusSA posted:Can you do us a favor and keep us updated if they actually do end up shipping? I just spoke to FedEx trade networks and their container ship is set to sail March 17.. it’s loaded with cargo so, things are open and moving a bit? This is from the Shanghai port. My product needs to be ready by March 8th to make it on this ship ..
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Super Waffle posted:So I'm set to return to Osaka on Tuesday but I just found out Universal has been closed til the 15th Do you work at USJ??? Plz post in the waifu thread and/or goon chat (more)
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Regarding the guy whose Chinese wife ran away with the money: To what benefit to her is staying married at this point? She ran back home, took all the cash she could, clearly has no intention of coming back/reconciling. Now he has taken the steps to protect what is left, surely she would agree to a quick divorce so she could marry someone else in China? Why would she want to fight it? Oh, and re: Coronavirus in Korea. I live in a rural part of Gangwon-do. There have so far only been 6 cases in my state, and none in my region. But the hagwon I work for still closed for all of last week, and most people are wearing masks. The big cities seem to have been hit pretty hard with infections, but very few people here are dying. As far as I know they have put back the start of public school by a week as well. Apart from that, my life goes on as normal. I am nowhere near the hoarding bottled water stage yet. Unrelated: I just tried to buy my brother a Wonju Basketball jersey for his birthday, and the Korean sites were making it so much more difficult and complicated than it had to be that I gave up. I might try to go to a game next month and buy one there. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Feb 29, 2020 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:Regarding the guy whose Chinese wife ran away with the money: Fight for the remainder of the cash she might think she is entitled to or a lawyer convinces her she has a shot at getting. Not staying married.
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Blistex posted:Fight for the remainder of the cash she might think she is entitled to or a lawyer convinces her she has a shot at getting. Not staying married. Fair enough. I misread. Sorry. Also do we know if running away was her idea, a long con she was pulling, or she was bullied into doing it by her greedy parents once they found out he got some money?
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That would require more info than we or the poor sod have at this point.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Unrelated: I just tried to buy my brother a Wonju Basketball jersey for his birthday, and the Korean sites were making it so much more difficult and complicated than it had to be that I gave up. I might try to go to a game next month and buy one there. In Japan, soccer and basketball seasons have been delayed. Baseball will start as scheduled but all games until March 15 are "no audience" matches.
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Chinese economy has completely crashed because of this https://twitter.com/TomOrlik/status/1233559208278319105?s=19 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKBN20N03R quote:China's factory activity posts record contraction as coronavirus bites
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The North Tower posted:Surely this will not stop 6% growth? Once again quote:Nomura expects first-quarter growth to be at 2.0% year-on-year while Capital Economics estimates China’s economy would contract outright in year-on-year terms this quarter, for the first time since at least the 1990s.
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The North Tower posted:Surely this will not stop 6% growth? I predict they'll adjust the number down to 6.2 instead of the usual 6.4-6.6
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The 6% number was always for internal consumption. If they're smart, they'll talk up how badly hit other countries are, contrast their own, uh, wise and enlightened response was, then use the cover of this virus as an exterior problem that they nevertheless handled 'as well as could be expected' to bring their stated economy figures back into line with reality. Thus allowing for another X years of '6% growth' afterwards.
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Feb 29, 2020 06:46
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No no, as the tankies in CSPAM explained, workers will just work (even more) overtime to catch up to those numbers
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Darkest Auer posted:No no, as the tankies in CSPAM explained, workers will just work (even more) overtime to catch up to those numbers Communism: Ever with the working man in mind.
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Any chance China will learn a lesson about eating every loving endangered species? I'd like to see that rate an incredible social credit hit.
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Supposedly there is now a ban on selling wild/hunted animals for consumption. No idea how long it'll last or how hard it'll be enforced (this being China, the answer to both will be "varies by region"), but it's definitely there now. And, interestingly, came about due to popular opinion. The Chinese internet has had some... scathing things to say about the whole practice, which were permitted to spread uncensored.
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Atopian posted:Supposedly there is now a ban on selling wild/hunted animals for consumption. Good. I really hope it stays in place for good.
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Beachcomber posted:Any chance China will learn Let me stop you there
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Atopian posted:Supposedly there is now a ban on selling wild/hunted animals for consumption. But not, apparently, for ""medicinal""" use as part of dark ages primitive "medicine"
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On the plus side, as the TCM corps have made their packaging ever shinier and looking more like real medicine, they have been lowering use of non-distinctive ingredients. As in, they have to keep the taste/colour mostly the same, but other poo poo costs money so maybe you only kinda wave the endangered species near the vat as you mix your herbal sugar water. Kinda cool how cost- and corner-cutting can work for... well, not 'good', but less harm.
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