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Yes and no. It's because RickToronto has put all of that in one "word" with no space. .

And once again: No, they do not, any more than the Beatles lose ownership of their song just because you download and listen to it. Personally, I think that is such a minor point when you are acting so unethically, but the sender of a PM never loses ownership, and for darned sure you don't gain it. .

Indeed. They've had them on Bangkok moo ban streets for quite a few years, can't remember when they first appeared. Well tested, I'd say, and pretty well accepted and patronised. .

And J.D. Salinger and Hemingway in semi-similar US cases. Absolutely, as I stated right at the start, we totally agree on that -- just maybe not on WHAT circumstances. But I can easily think up half a dozen cases where PMs SHOULD be revealed quoted. Just for starters, I'm not a priest, lawyer or doctor and any PMs to me about horribly illegal stuff like kiddie rape or porn, human trafficking, dope dealing, etc, I'd publish that in a heartbeat and probably do more than publish. No sick phuock should think for a heartbeat that he can confess to me confidentially. I think we all agree there's a line, but apparently it's at different places. And life will surely go on. .

C'mon Monty, just read the posts, okay? I explained before you asked why this is impossible. Mr 999: There is an international copyright law, yes, called a convention, and generally adhered to -- and there are national laws of course. Prime example: NOTHING from the US government is copyright, but almost everything issued by the UK government (and most governments) is copyright. .

There are lots of things you won't find specifically mentioned. In your list, I don't see letter. I don't see thank-you note. I don't see newspaper article. I don't see Internet blog entry. I don't see magazine editorial. I don't see hotel advertisement. Nevertheless, any item you write down is copyright the instant you close or save it, and it is called a "work". This isn't opinion. And before you or someone asks, there are several EXCELLENT reasons why I'm not breaking copyright law by quoting you. Most important is that I am not claiming that I wrote it, in order to have "fair use" of it -- but there are others. There are lots of things you won't find specifically mentioned. In your list, I don't see letter. I don't see thank-you note. I don't see newspaper article. I don't see Internet blog entry. I don't see magazine editorial. I don't see hotel advertisement. Do you also believe that song music is not copyright -- that you can just go ahead and record "I Wanna Hold Your Sand" using the Beatles' music, and take the profits for your excellent recording? Any item you write down, by any means, is copyright the instant you close or save it, and it is called a "work". (There are exceptions, usually of shortness, such as the TITLE of a work can't be copyright, which is why you see lots of movies and songs with the same titles.) This isn't opinion. And before you or someone asks, there are several EXCELLENT reasons why I'm not breaking copyright law by quoting you. Most important is that I am not claiming that I wrote it, in order to have "fair use" of it -- but there are others. .

Well, "not" because the person who wrote (and just by-the-by owns the copyright to) the PM decided it should NOT be public, and why is your decision about his writing more important than his decision about his writing? And despite the copyright comment I'm not suggesting there will be *legal* problems in 100 cases out of 99, either. I'll stick with "rude or worse" and, as above, insist there are exceptions for sure. In the real world, publishing a PM almost always is of the "gotcha" genre, where the exposer has a snarky "... then why did you say this in your PM?" intro. So I suppose you (general "you") don't care if you're rude to the guy anyhow. But in my world, you've gone the extra mile to be *more* rude. But I think you're a bit disingenuous with the "if it were a friend" exception. Sounds more like an out than a commitment. It lets you and only you decide who's a friend and how close a friend while you think about whether to publicise the person's personal mail to you that he figured was fairly private. Personally: I try not to write things down EVER that I might be sorry for, and rudely publishing my PM wouldn't -- I hope -- cause more than very mild and brief embarrassment. Personally, I don't publish one-on-one correspondence without asking (with possible exceptions). I will maintain it's a matter of trust to a large extent, and publishing breaks that link of trust. .

I dont' much like it, but it seems to work. You have to tweak a couple of things. Click "new content" but ALSO check that you're looking in forums, for example. The three arrows are important:

I think it is HUGELY rude to publish a PM without it, and in some cases worse than rude. In 100 cases out of 99, it's a breaking of trust. A person sends you a PM *because* he does not want it in public. If you just turn around and publish it, it means you can't be trusted. As always, there are exceptions. .

The floods are mostly gone. That does NOT count the poor buggers with water locked into their housing estates and the like. There is almost nothing important blocked by floods anywhere in the main part of Bangkok. As always, the airport, highways, Pattaya and so on are untouched by floods. You might have to go to two or three bars to get your FAVOURITE beer, so it's pretty much hardship all round on that score. .

Two generations old, but I'd buy one. They're good under the desk, linked to any PC, heavy buggers and pretty good disks. .

Good.

I don't think the board will do that. You can go into your browser and tell it not to show images, or only show text -- something like that, depending on your browser. Usually under "Internet Options" --> Content

Yeah, IP is what I'm using -- not that there is any choice IP board or mobile -- on a PC. It sucks like a gasoline thief with a small hose. The whole "white space" thing is way overdone. I just think that forums are ALL about the text (and feelthy pitchers of course) and not wide borders, triple-spaced posts and massive blank avatars. Although the avatars seem to have shrunk in the past few hours, that's one Good Thing. There was no reason for IP Board to change the look and feel, that's my opinion. I don't know under the hood, although it seems to work very smoothly. But out here where actual real non-geek people mouse and read and write, it's a huge CHANGE, not an upgrade. EDIT. Almost forgot. The little Red X's are the flags. MM: the (cough)"upgrade"(cough) changed the directory for them. It is now (remove the spaces): /forums/ topic/ 56940-forum-software-upgraded-today/ style_images/ flags/ .

Sam, I said that about several previous upgrades. But this is a change, pictures for text. That will always be noticed. Of course a skin could fix it, probably, so we'll, er, see. .

I REALLY hate the new look, with blank avatars half the size of the screen and spacing like a pre-kindergarten book. I can't figure out how to make it look even half decent, every theme/skin is about the same. .

I read quite closely, and you stated: "The price of computers" is the price of one computer, one time now? Not in my careful reading, it's not. In any case, I didn't even dispute anything about the computer or the computers, either one. I disputed that the floods were responsible. Why do you believe the floods to be responsible for one or many computers going up in price? Wouldn't that be like.... strike that, would that not be precisely the same as blaming the floods for the cancellation of THAI flights to and from London? And we know the floods weren't (wholly) responsible for that! Don't we? Is there a difference that my careful reading doesn't reveal? Or my small brain conceals? .

Well, that's just the sun rising, and isn't proof or denial to me. I *can* believe a THAI person said it, but I have no particular reason to believe this specific incident, that's all. An airline person, a THAI airline person passed along a story. Yes? And? People are "living" at Don Muang, not Suvarnabhumi. There are no air operations at Don Muang. The Suvarnabhumi car parks have been quite full recently because of floods, and I wouldn't count on getting parked at busy times for a few more days. But there is no restriction on access. .

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You continue to stamp your little foot and say this same thing. I understood you the first time, way up ^^^^ there in the thread. It's so easy to predict the future that it's a cheap shot -- who can argue? What isn't so easy is to hang around and see if you're right. I guess you won't do that, fine. If you change your mind, want to set a standard to CHECK your prediction, I'll be here, probably. .

Very cool. Tell me this, also your opinion. Without the Bangkok floods -- just Bangkok -- do you think THAI would have "cancelled" London flights? And now it's my turn. Like the Elton John song, The Circle of Strife. The people who sell computers say that the floods caused the hard-drive factories to shut down. Of course we know, the floods did no such thing, you and I, don't we? Meanwhile, though, the prices of computers haven't gone up. The price of hard drives has risen. But you can still get a computer for the same old price, without a hard drive. Or with a different kind of storage, SSD for example, still the same old price for computers with them, too. I MIGHT barely give slight credibility to the story that a THAI person told this porker to a passenger -- except it's Stickman. So I'm going to dismiss it. If a reliable source comes up with it, fine. I don't believe the actual story, whether a THAI person said it or not. .

What he said. What *I* said. Tell me this, also your opinion. Without the Bangkok floods -- just Bangkok -- do you think THAI would have "consolidated" London flights? .

Pretty tortured. The hip bone is NOT connected to the leg bone, there's a little fluid (hahahaha) in between. The airport operations have nothing to do with flight frequencies. If "normal operations" is connected to airline schedules, then airport operations are NEVER normal, ever, anywhere in the world. Which is logically silly, impossible, or both. Plus of course you (and I) have no idea how many THAI flights are landing and taking off at/from Suvarnabhumi. .

And once again you're wrong. YOU argued this. YOU argued the prices of computers. Now you refuse to back up YOUR argument. Not only didn't I argue, it's impossible to argue about what the future WILL be. It is possible, however, to write it down, wait and see. Why not do that? Then there's STILL no argument. Oh, good, you've brought a dictionary to a word fight. How.... impressive. Let me try this again: What would YOU call it when someone ILLEGALLY raises the price of, oh, say, the price of rice -- in the middle of a natural disaster to people caught up IN that disaster in... oh, I don't know, say, Bangkok? Raises the price of a necessity, a controlled-price necessity, breaks the law, during a natural disaster. What do you call that? Or even: In YOUR opinion, is raising the price of rice - a price-controlled necessity of life - during the natural disaster of being trapped in floods in Bangkok - in YOUR opinion is this profiteering, same as raising the price of "stocks" is profiteering? In YOUR opinion, is there a difference? .

Um. You claimed 3TB disks were $100. But the very best, lowest-price bargain disk you can find on one bargain website is $110. Not only are you wrong, you can't even find ONE rare example on ONE bargain site to illustrate. YOUR example: 3TB disk for $110. But look, you're not paying attention. The flood has BARELY had an effect on prices IN GENERAL. The floods WILL HAVE an effect on prices, but so far, they have pushed prices up a bit. Like, for example, your claim that 3TB disks are $100, the best you can find is $110. If you find one for $3.80 it won't have anything to do with the FACT that hard-drive prices are going up IN GENERAL. Your "gem" is 10 per cent more than what you claimed ALL disks were priced at. But in any case, I'm not even talking about one disk at one website. I'm talking about the actual, real prices of hard drives. Which are going up. They are going up on Slickdeals, on Amazon, at Best Buy, at your corner store. They have BARELY gone up, but they have gone up, which is why you cannot show a $100 deal on a 3TB disk, not even one. I fearlessly predict they will go up more. And if you find a deal for under $100, I won't be shocked because it doesn't mean snit. Heh. You're absolutely positive about that, right? No waffling? No backing out? If they MAY not go up and MAY not go down, do you think they'll stay the same? Or is that too difficult to predict? .