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AND you might say it is why baseball FANS honour the pitchers who don't need them. Moneyball is good busiiness and provides consistency. It's endless discussion. But individual achievement is what we crave and what we honour. I'll give you 400 set-up men just to watch Nolan Ryan start the game and walk out for the 12th inning of the same game. I've watched hundreds of World Series games but the one I really, really remember with massive clarity -- where I was, who I was with, all of that -- was the one that ended with Yogi Berra running out and leaping on Don Larsen. .

You sound like the Canadians bitxhing about losing to the US in hockey, the Americans whining about losing to Italy in basketball and the Dominican Republic crying about a loss to Holland in baseball. It is what HAPPENS in club sports versus international competitions. Kwitcherbijing. Live with it. Because clubs are what keep the sport alive, international sports being impossible to sustain on a continuing basis. Club sports is NOT about cross-border honour -- never was. But club sports are perfect for consumers, who can ignore the clubs and stay away when their club does something they don't like -- such as lose too often, or such as hire too many wogs. .

heh. Look. I don't carry any water for these intellectual property gangs, and you're not a million miles off, in my personal opinion. HOWEVER it is most definitely and assuredly national and international law. And actually, countries such as yours are ganging up on Thailand shamefully for not doing enough of it, and have been for years. .

You're positive it's because they're serious, right? Not dour? Not bored? Not wound tight as a cheap watch? Not pixxed at each other? Not empty-headed? Not faction-riven? Not grim? Not ashamed? Not united against the BBC criticism? Not engrossed in next season's contract negotiations? "Serious" is not the only possible opposite of "laughing and backslapping", especially after what this team has shown while the whole world is watching. Frankly, that lack of locker-room camaraderie has me thinking that they are all deeply thinking where they want to travel to spend their vactions in late June and early July. .

What, never? No! Never! What? Never? Well... hardly ever. .

Indeed. But he was on base every day after that this past week. Ubaldo has had a no-hitter. I agree the perfect games are notable and then some. .

I wouldn't believe much of this BUT when this happens, it is almost always sprung suddenly. Very nasty surprises all of a sudden. .

Is it funny? Just seems to confirm that all oil executives are white and live in the suburbs to avoid paying taxes to help inner city kids. That's what it says to me. .

Excellent. I read recently that the movie company had ordered all these YouTube Hitler spoofs taken down, so we need to enjoy it quickly, probably. .

Yes. Doubled and redoubled. I still recall the thread wondering if Rooney was the greatest football player in history (not Art Rooney, Vic). And then there was Michael Kay and Joba, a love affair I sat through with gritted teeth since only the YES Network is generally available in Thailand. Strasburg is a phenom and he is just so much fun to watch. He's not yet a star. Also, it wasn't a bad week for Daniel Nava, eh? But he's not the best batter in baseball, not yet. .

Okay, so we're separating out the children at last. .

Thanks for the explanation. I can understand why you wouldn't want to be in the United Nations, but how come you guys aren't in the Olympics? Who the hell are the people in London even going to cheer for with no local team? .

All countries? Dream on. In 10 years, there is not a single solitary lonely tiny sliver of a soupcon of a chance that soccer will be the Number one sport in the US. Not a chance. Or India. Or Australia. Or Japan. Or Cuba. Or Venezuela. Or the Philippines. Or South Afirca. Or any other of the LONG list of countries where it isn't Number 1 today, either, even though World Cups have been held in them. The un-decisive Game 5 of the NBA finals beat the hugely hyped US-England World Cup match in US TV ratings. The decisive NBA Game 7 blew it away. And as for the South Korea-Argentina match (say), it isn't in the ratings game with Nascar. These ratings are for similar/identical TV networks by the way - terrestial ABC network for the NBA-World Cup and popular cable channels for Nascar-World Cup weekday matches. As of today, the biggest rating (audience) ever for a soccer game in the US was in 1999, when about 7 per cent of the country watched the women's World Cup final. You're not going to change that culture in 10 years, sorry. Soccer is a growing spectator sport in popularity in the US. So are lots of others including (gridiron) football, baseball, hockey, Nascar, video games, pro and high school basketball, swimming and women's lacrosse. That's all you can say. It's growing. Echo. heh. What an EXCELLENT choice of words from the older, parent country. The front pages below tell a good story. The Sun had two standout headlines. The first was a story on the royals William and Harry who were present for the Algeria game: House of Wincer The other was the main Sun headline on the same match: Never in the field of World Cup Conflict has so little been offered by so few to so many .

Fair enough, too. But I was actually more concerned with a terrible official who missed or mismanaged several quite crucial calls that affected the course of the match, and almost certainly the actual outcome even if not the actual winner -- since goals count, goals allowed count, etc. AND he is unwilling to explain his actions as is the odious Fifa. .

And he missed Dempsey's red card high elbow in the first minute or so, TOTALLY missed it. That also was a game changer. Let's not forget that he didn't let in two Slovenia goals, eh? .

Yes, this was pretty easy. I was wondering how come England didn't play Rooney. They showed him on TV after the match AHEM pulling up his socks, literally. Too bad he and they didn't do that BEFORE the match. I don't remember such a poor all-star team in any sport in quite a few years. .

Why do you continue to say "scam"? This operation is the same as in all developed countries and increasing numbers of developing ones. It's legal, it's international law, it's national law. No matter how you hate it, it's not a scam any more than the sale of Microsoft Windows or the sale of cheap and expensive airline tickets for the same flight. It's business. Not only that but if you consider that 700 million baht for a moment, you'll be able to see how totally insignificant Pattaya bars are in the overall scheme and why RS gives them the amount of respect as they do with that (alleged) crummy little one-man operation. ("Alleged" because I haven't a clue what is ACTUALLY happening in collecting fees from Pattaya bars, only what is alleged in these threads.) I don't know. But you could ask, and I bet it is as easy to find out. I would GUESS that Marriott is paying twice, once a total for in-room screens, and then again based on "walk-in" restaurant and bar screens, and I'd guess it's way more than 10,000 baht total -- but I don't know and definitely don't care that far down the food chain. .

When I saw this story on the wire, I thought, wow, there's a good Vic Vegas joke in there dying to get out. .

Yes THIS is the point. *IF* the missing file is part of the bad guy, you obviously don't want to restore it. You can restore it, of course you can. But you don't want to. You want to find out why it is running automagiclly (probably through a registry entry) and remove THAT so it won't try to run. You would only want to restore something that you want to run. So the FIRST thing before we go restoring something is to find out what it is. I've come up with this from time to time, not through virus action, but regular program action. First thing I do, search the registry, remove any reference to it. Then replace the entire program. But again this is because I knew what the program was, and I knew I wanted it. Sometimes you have to go another two steps back and try to figure out what the heck the program is. That's why I asked the OP what the rest of the error message was. .

They also are as good as each other. As is True in areas that have True. As are the smaller, niche ones. Connections and speed and the like have very, very little to do with the ISP, and depend almost exclusively on where YOU are located and what your phone connections are like. The humans you deal with are 90% interchangeable across all the the ISPs too - most are barely competent but pleasant, and know just what to do if you walk them slowly through what you want. The rest are either horribly dumb, dreadfully rude or fantastically switched on and knowledgeable, 100 times better than you... er, me. .

RS is a public company and reports all details of this (and much more). Why not go and see what they've paid? Before the last World Cup the Thai TV Pool (meaning all stations, meaning taxpayers) bought rights to the World Cup. The amount paid was also public. Heh. I don't think Pattaya bars get much time at the RS board meetings. RS Entertainment Plc has estimated it will gross 700 million from the World Cup broadcast resale. That's in a mandatory report to the Stock Exchange, available to all. I haven't read that report, but I have read the media reports, foreign and domestic, based on it. .

When AVG upgrades a major number, then it stops supporting updates (signatures and the like) for the previous freeware versions, so yes, pretty soon (if not now) you'll have to go to 9.0 or cank AVG. I got very disappointed in AVG a couple of years ago. I think it's important to trust what you've got, so I got rid of it. Right now, I'm very happy with a combination of the MSE that Microsoft gives me, and the software my parents gave me. Between the two of them, I've had no problem with nasties. .

No, no, no. It is quite possible that what won't run is the VIRUS/malware because it has been partly removed. It's more important to track it all down to the source and find out -- or wipe the disk and start again. .

It's almost a cult. It's a very good program indeed, however, and well designed and does not impact any decent Windows system. .

hmmm, I wonder.... I think you could argue it was a hell of a goal, the shot essentially had to bend behind the commie. It wasn't exactly classic or classical goaltending, don't get me wrong but it WAS an excellent shot. At that angle, even a half-starved, nuclear-exposed propagandised goalie has to be thinking "he's going to try a cross, I'll step up and try to get it". .