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Up to you of course, but the point is as you say that the *governments* have been unstable, not the country. The reason to have real estate is to save rent and have an asset, not that I'm giving you any news. Naturally each person acts in his own interest, and I'm not trying to convince you of anything. My minor (maybe) point was just saying that Thailand is as solid as anything gets, whatever the shakiness of any individual regime.

And you've got the Norton "security" I bet. Well. Try this first: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/51.html (Scroll down to red-x. There are a LOT of steps, many of which are generic. Try them all, one by one. This is excellent advide, at this page.) Frankly the red-x problem is sometimes not solvabe unless you change browsers. Firefox is a wonderful browser, free, well supported and the geeks love it.

BigD, TU is a recurring feature of Thailand, not a threat - 1973, 1976, 1992 just being the big ones. There's a lot of fighting in downtown Bangkok for a week, investors are scared for two months. The people who take over are exactly like the people they overthrew. There is currently no one/group on Earth that will cause Thai policy to change so that you'd notice. It's not like the commies are going to take over any more.

His computers ALSO go down? What a naughty place.

One of three things I said on Sept 19 is that the junta commander Sonthi should start immediately figuring out how many Thais he will kill in the riots before he steps down. Because he will. The other two were that no advance would be made in democracy because everyone in the "government" and the junta would be fixated on trying to PREVENT the return of Thaksin - and no one would be punished even though the primary reason for the coup was to punish them. I have zero sympathy for these violent, stupid, abusive military people. I just feel sorry for the ones they will kill before they ar

That's easy. Take it off her L/T.

I'm going to get a lot of money around the end of the year when the jail population increase stands at zero. I made a lot of bets on that, and I was/am very confident. Actually, in Thakin's personal case I don't think he did anything they can pin on him anyhow. This land deal stinks, but fact is they paid four times the asking price - and he wasn't even in the government when it happened back in the last century. He hasn't avoided a baht of taxes. In court, I'm convinced he'd walk out a free man. I doubt it will come to that, but if it does get ready for riot city. But all his cronies and

One thing that Thaksin policies did was keep a HUGE percentage of people in the village instead of running off to Bangkok for seasonal (and xhitty) jobs. I'm no fan of populism, but some of the Thaksin programmes were very sustainable and very successful, Otop being one of them. "One tambon (village) one project" employed people, made money and helped the LOCAL economy of many villages. Of course, since it was Thaksin, it was a Bad Thing and gets no more funding or promotion. Still, a lot of the Otop villages are doing very well.

Need more detail. What type of computer (Windows XP? Apple?). When CAN you see pictures, when can't you? Can you see all the snaps you took, but not on the Internet? Or what?

Not to mention this year's early rains, the quality of nighttime TV shows and the rising incidence of skin cancer. It's fashionable and utterly crazy, but "Thaksin dunnit" is the national motto. It saves the current lot from having to look in the mirror. It's really hard to take a lot of the criticism seriously at all when it starts off something like, "of course the reason for the rise of the baht is the policies of Thaksin but the hard-working members of the military government... " There IS quality analysis and background around, the print media is not all that badly intimidated as the

Don't have to be rewritable. Just get plain old CD-R as they are called, in any shop around town. Every time you empty the card, burn it onto a CD. The card is 512MB, the CDs are around 700MB, no problem. Take them home, copy off the pix on any computer.

Email is not a good solution. It's slow (using valuable bar time) and not all that dependable. On the road, if you have too many pix and no laptop of your own, the best solution is a USB (thumb) drive. A one-gig USB is very cheap, especially compared with the time of emailing or the value of your pix to you.

One GIGabyte card. Heh. Glad I never do that.

A lot, but what size pictures do you want? If you want highest quality, then you'll get many less than if you want "suitable for 3x5 prints" for example. For the highest quality your camera makes you should get well over 50 of those humongous pics that a lot of people post here. For 800x600 pixels that you can see without scrolling across the browser, something close to infinite - several hundred. But it really depends on an awful lot of things.

Cucumber's good but I don't like cucumbers and vice-versa. Ordinary rice is pretty good, actually. Almost any fruit is very helpful, particularly pineapple but also banana.

Well, generally: Your embassy gives you the new and old passport. They also give you a letter. You take all of this to immigration, where a clerk hand-writes and stamps the details on the first page of your new passport. But some countries seal/staple old and new passports together with official notice that the two documents are legally one. They claim that you then need not make the immigration visit, and I don't know the answer to that. The definitive answer will be available at your own embassy, which knows the rules for you and other of its own nationals.

It's not Vista per se. It's your browser, probably, which is set up differently on your new computer. You can always refresh your browser by pressing Ctrl-F5 together. I'm assuming you are using Internet Explorer, the Microsoft browser, and haven't installed any others. First of all, click on Tools, Options, Delete. That will get rid of the old forum crap on your computer which your browser (probably) is reading instead of coming to the website. The easiest way around the problem is to tell the browser to get rid of your "cache" every time it quits, automagically. Click on Tools,

Had a car crash this morning. I rear ended a car. Fella got out and he was a dwarf. He said, "I'm not happy." I said, "Well, which one are you then?"

Yes! Absolutely. Nothing better, arguably in the world.

Thanks a lot. It looks great. What is the size? Sorry if you have posted this before BTW. I was sure I saw a previous post on this flag with more details but Search doesn't cough it up for me.

Much better. You originally said US dollars. I hope you don't mind if I ask you one more time: How do you account for how the Thais pay for THEIR millions and millions of four-wheel cars and pickups if "most" of them are paid around 191 baht per day? I'd ask you to note, too, that "most" -- hell, nearly all of the BG, who make way more than 191 baht, don't even have a four-wheel vehicle. Again: I say that "most" Thais make way more than 191 baht. That is backed up by every available study, but in my opinion, you can see that with your own eyes just by trying to cross the highway. I

I'm sorry for my big nose, but I'm intrigued by this never-ending thread. If you have a simple, ordinary tourist visa you don't have to count days at all. You can get a visa by mail. So I just have to ask: Why don't you get a visa?

The search function is your friend. From this very board: http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry408211 They don't have a website. Most of their customers seem to be long stays. 33/40 M. 10 Soi LK Metro Pattaya City Banglamung Chonburi 20150 66(0) 3841 6234 keerati_home@hotmail.com That's what's on the business card I have from when I stayed there the month of June. The manager's name at the time was On, and she also gave me her e-mail address. She seems to use it for business purposes so I will post it here. on_tongyan@yahoo.com That's ei

"Tony's gym complex" just says way, way too much for me.

Ah yes, Norton. Remember very well when it had good stuff. That was back in the last century, though.... well, actually the last millennium I guess it was, before it started making viruses and protecting security instead of handing out employee ID information and locking up "customer" computers. BEIJING (AFP) - Millions of Chinese computers may have been paralysed by a faulty anti-virus update from Symantec, the world's largest security software provider, state media reported Thursday. An automatic update to the Chinese version of the Norton anti-virus software sent out last Friday ide