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Good one. I'd say again - Azinger. He was a terrific captain/manager. I'm glad, because I always thought (long before cancer, too) that he was a terrific person, a real people-person. You might even say he was up to European standards, because the European captains recently have been sensational, not counting Faldo. Well, if he doesn't like the crowd screaming and the player celebrating right before he putts, there are always vacant club-pro jobs. The golfer is supposed to wait to get pumped AFTER the opponent putts? Eff that with bells on. There *is* rudeness/boorishness/unfairness in golf as Brookline so clearly serves to show and should never be forgotten, either. But sorry, getting pumped and elated at the exact moment your putt sinks ain't any of those choices. Even the English don't get in line to wait to get ready to cheer.

I don't blame Sergio a bit - for me he is WAY too entertaining doing his imitation of an actual championship golfer. Enough people in the room, you can get quite a valuable pool up on just when he'll choke.

I thought pretty well the whole tournament was classy - players, fans, officials and all. A long way from Brookline and a couple of others. Full props to Azinger. The captain really means something and he just out-gunned Faldo - first time the Americans have done that for a while. Poulter was my pick for player of the tournament - passionate, and excellent golf. The other one was Kim. Putting him up against Sergio the Choker was a great decision too, and he really came through and made Sergio do it yet again. The US had six rookies, Europe had four. Very smart decisions and the 6-4 ratio may just be why the USA won it. One thing Tiger has done - most important in my mind - is made players step up, and the young guys today are really great. Full props to the old guys, but the young guys can play the golf and take the pressure for the full five rounds.

Well, CI serves booze if that is what you mean. Your boy sounds quite the salesman. "Oy vey, have I got a deal for you!"

I agree that China Airlines is very solid and won't go broke, but I doubt China would care very much if China Airlines went broke. I think the odds are closer to 1 in 23 million, which is the population of Taiwan.

Sybarite, keep the reviews coming, most of us don't actually go in that bar. Coke less than beer - hmmm, that sounds attractive.

Most obvious answer: You have to have administrators rights to install a program. Vista is a Mommy about that. Download the upgrade/plug-in to your desktop. then RIGHT click on it and tell Vista to "run as administrator"

Now, now let's not start bashing Apple, it's terrible enough it's not even called "Apple Computer" any more.

Google is your friend. Type the name of the company or other unique information from your friendly malware into the search engine and be told exactly how to clean it.

As I said way ^^^^^^ up there, you have a malware infection. This is a blackmail. You need to get totally free, really easy-to-use software such as Ad-Aware and Spybot to get rid of it. Why won't you do this rather simple and free thing?

Some?

Man, that was some night you had, eh?

The only serious fibre has been laid by oil companies, especially in the Northeast - and they don't give costs easily. The CAT Telecom has put out a couple of contracts which didn't come to much, but they're so corrupt it would be difficult to judge costs according to their contract. 2.15 billion for 9,000 kilometres last month. http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-sout...?parentid=94413 On the other hand, I can give you a fairly good cost estimate for cost of laying pipe, per inch, in Pattaya.

Very informative, thanks.

Good stuff Emil, thanks, especially the correction. One clarification: this trading has to be an equal number of miles exactly? Meaning (in effect) you couldn't actually sell them?

So you can trade between these three airlines? Or only inside each of their plans? Example. I know United is $75 plus a tiny bit per 1,000 miles for family and more for non-family - but only on United.

Generally no, you can't send miles between programmes. But the devil's in the details. Do tell, what airline to what airline? I know people sell miles on eBay all the time.

The usual reason these days is spyware/malware/mailbots. You need a couple of good anti-spyware programs like Ad-Aware and Spybot. You need a good anti-virus program like AVG. You need to disconnect from the Internet, reboot cold, and run all of the above intensively and repeatedly for a couple of hours. If you have done all that, then you have a flaky Office setup and should re-install. There are hundreds of other possibilities but these are the most likely places to start.

So you're saying you don't work for the government? One rule fits all for those "people" jacko, you must know that. "Retired" for this one-size rule means you've worked and now you don't because your're over 50. Actually I kind of grasp the simplistic reasoning except that for Thais retirement of that sort doesn't begin until 60 and I can't figure out how the "civil" "servants" arrived at 50. Seriously? Seriously there are so many categories of people that can stay indefinitely on non-immigrant visas that if a person WANTED to stay in Thailand and had that "requisite" funding, he could find a way. But I'm pretty sure he can't get a retirement extension, that's all.

I'm PRETTY sure retirement visas are age-specific, although I'd take a correction with proof. A foreigner disabled and unable to work and with no real connections to the country wouldn't ... um, no nice way to say this, really wouldn't be wanted. If he married a Thai, he would be wanted and welcomed with a spouse visa, though. For example. And presuming they had the requisite income and bank account, etc.

It's a REALLY old hotel, but it has been refurbished quite well at least twice. As someone else says, it's good value, and a very good location, although of course that goes along with "lots of traffic". Never heard a cockroach complaint in all those years.

I have no argument with ANYONE in Thailand who says, "For me they did it differently." I consider that a feature and not a bug in Thailand - and it happens all the time. There's the rules, there's the "most of the time" and there's the "that's not what happened to me".

Okay, but I'm not quite sure what it is. Do you mean the 9-month reference? That's correct. As your 90-day non-immigrant expires, you apply for a one-year extension. That extension (if granted) is given to the date of FIRST ENTRY, not to the date of application. So: Enter on June 1, apply on 30 August (roughly), visa will be extended to 31 May only - for retirement or whatever - NOT to 29 August. The following year, you apply on 30 May for another one year, and this time you get the full year (sort of). Or did I miss your point entirely?

You had money. Your bank refused to give it to you. When you contacted them they simply blew you off and told you that you cannot have your money no matter what. And you are mildly upset about that but you are still using this bank and recommending this bank to others. That is what happened above in the OP, right? It's early morning but I think I'm awake?

Let's see how many punch lines we can get out of this.