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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 broadcasters. But it's very hard to track it down. My litmus test is exactly what you say. If the first para says it's Thaksin's fault, I'm off to the next one.

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, Internet Options, then the Advanced, tab. There is an option there you can click on called Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed After you do that, you'll have to restart the browser for this fix to take. Hope this helps.

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 don't even grasp why there is some sort of debate about this. It seems to be some sort of mass denial that Thailand has a middle class.

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 either an "n" or an "m" just before @yahoo.com. Her handwriting isn't the best.

"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 identified two critical files of the Microsoft XP operating system as malicious codes and deleted them, the China Daily said. Millions of computer systems collapsed as a result, with users unable to restart their computers or reinstall their operating systems, according to an earlier report by Xinhua news agency. Alleged "wits" can insert mandatory Microsoft joke here: _____

17:46 in Bangkok - got it on both True and TOT. That would definitely be a DNS eff-up somewhere.

Just to add to the excitement, TOT censors a lot more than the other major ISPs, so you never can be sure, ya know? Like, for now, they are blocking most of Blogspot.com blogs because they are incompetent at blocking one particular blog out of Chiang Mai. FWIW True is a lot more ahem liberal about that, but then True doesn't have the wi-fi. I have both (don't ask) and at the moment both are working okay, although True has some obvious DNS problems (still no Bangkok Post) and TOT still can't sort out the difference between blocking one blog and blocking thousands of them. Aint it fun?

15:53 Pattaya time, I'm currently logged into that board, reading a message on Beer Singha WTF ???? By: MIGHTYONE What ISP are you using, Alan? (Edit) Jeez. 16:15 and I can't get to the BangkokPost.com and I know for an absolute fact that site is not censored. It is definitely effed up today. Not the first time, either.

This is (almost 100% certainty) a DNS problem, i.e. a temporary condition on a major server that translates what you type into numbered Internet addresses. It happens - too often. I'm in Bangkok, I use two different ISPs, and there is no problem with this site from here at all this morning. Stuff happens on the Internet. If it happens over and over, and happens EXACTLY consistently for more than... oh, say, 8 hours, it COULD be government induced. If it lasts for 24 hours it probably is. But for an hour? Wait, try again, stifle that paranoia for a bit.

I don't know Pattaya dentists well, but I think you are about to be flooded out by recommendations. I think one of the things everyone agrees about Thailand is the very high quality of Thai dentists, and the low prices of all their services. So when the recommendations start coming in, just pick any of them, probably a clinic close and convenient to you. It's VERY unlikely you'll go wrong.

In this discussion, I already stipulated four-wheel car or pickup. Add "sedan" or some such adjective if you wish. NOT motorcycles, not real trucks. I'm sure you've noticed some on the streets, highways and byways? This is more up to date: 3 May 2007 Bangkok- About 14 million Thais, or 31 per cent of the population over the age of 20, now own a car, media reports said Thursday. According to a recently released regional survey by Nielsen Media Research, Thailand ranks fifth worldwide in terms of the number of total cars owned, estimated at 14 million, and has one of the highest car ownership percentages in Asia, said the Bangkok Post. At 31 per cent of the adult population, Thailand ranked above Singapore (21 per cent), Hong Kong (16 per cent) and the Philippines (10 per cent), but below Malaysia (67 per cent), Taiwan (66 per cent) and South Korea (74 per cent). China and India, although ranked among the fastest growing markets for automobiles, still have fairly low percentages of car ownership at 6 per cent and 9 per cent, respectively, said the Nielsen survey. The US ranked first with the highest percentage of car ownership among adults at 89 per cent, or nine in every 10 adults, and a total of some 190.3 million vehicles. Japan was excluded from the survey.

Absolutely. As I said above, it is end-of-school in Canada and the US, end-of-school for international students in Thailand. When school is out is when companies and embassies and so on move their people. There is a VERY high demand for North America-Thailand flights at this time of year, even though it is the tourist off-season. If I'm not mistaken, the Oz end-of-school is also Christmas-New Year and of course mid-summer??? That must be a wonderful experience, trying to book cheaply at that time.

What do you give it now?

Is that "free" as in STD? Unbelievable. Sky really "gives" you this disease? Good grief! If my ISP tried to install McAfee I would ditch that company so fast. If your computer is accidentally infected with that horrible viral "program" the only solution is to format the drive and start all over.