joekicker

I'm not even clear what the argument is. This laptop is worth exactly what someone will pay for it. To you, it has no value at all, which is an entirely different issue, and has nothing at all to do with how much it is worth. By not being interested in buying the produce AT ALL, you (and I) have no ability to set any value on it or to decide what is too much to pay. .

Nah, but they didn't almost come back, not really. This series could easily be over by now. It reminds me a LOT of the opening series, Sharks-Avalanche. San Jose was about 10 times better but the Avs won a couple of games and threatened in all the six. Philly is way, way better here. Chicago wins even one game out of the seven on a fluke, winning the Cup would take about 20 flukes. Sure it's possible, just really unlikely. Game 1 was a TOTAL fluke, all round. But this is an inevitability here and now, and it set in about 10 minutes into the first period of Game 2. Chicago winning would just be proof that "anything can happen" and "that's why they play the game." Even as I write, she is waddling to the microphone stand. Kane isn't MIA, he's shut down. And if Kane's nowhere around, what about Captain Toews, so intimidated he won't even go out to a press conference to speak for the team now -- refuses to LEAD for krighssake? Pronger is unbelievable. His actual play is incredible, but I can't remember the last guy who had stats like that for time on ice and the goals-scored and goals-allowed ice time. .

For a guy in Pattaya, the price of this laptop in the United States is roughly $2,200, not counting the transportation from the airport to the computer store and back -- depending what airline you take, what day you make the round trip, etc. Let's say $2,000. The OP is offering to sell for less than that, eh? What it costs in the US has no meaning to a person in Thailand. The OP is hardly giving it away, but for a good-working laptop with those specs, in Thailand it's not an outrageous price at all. Plus he doesn't seem to want pounds for it, only baht, the price in UK pounds is as meaningless as the going price at a US computer store. I don't want to buy it, a few BMs will claim they can get a a better deal on a similar machine (but not the same one). And a few may be interested in buying it, why not? .

I don't know. Those guys at the UN and at the International Olympic Committee and at the Thai foreign ministry, PLUS Hillary Clinton, get tonnes of money for being super-smart, and they don't get it, they all think it's one country. So why get pixxed in a foreign Internet forum in a discussion that really has nothing to do with it in the first place when some dingbat sort of skims over it? .

Indeed. One-sport heathens may have missed that a baseballer almost threw the 20th perfect game in the history of baseball -- 20 in way over 100 years in the shabby city of Detroit this week. Except that he didn't because on the very last perfect play of a 27-play perfect game, the umpire totally, completely blew the call, and said the batter was safe, not out. He was clearly out, I mean it really wasn't close. But part of the unpredictability of this particular sport is that the HUGE number of judgement calls by umpires during the course of one game, always hundreds of them, never are questioned or reversed. Ever. No matter how egregious the call is wrong. So because of this ONE call which was so obviously wrong (confirmed by all the technology available to us but not the umpires or players during the game), it was not the 20th perfect game. It's part of the sport. Just like uncalled hand balls, really. I'm always torn, but so far I have always come down 51 per cent or more for unpredictability. The fact that the outcome of a game sometimes rides on these calls is horrible and ALSO part of the sport. I would like perfect refereeing, but I don't want the game stopped for 5 minutes every 15 minutes to check the cameras, which sometimes ALSO lie of course. .

Why is it every time you even mention the word Britain or UK and the Brits get all defensive and pixxed off and worked up about it? Why yes, thank you for noticing, yes it IS irony. .

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This is just in from the BBC an indication it could even be factual: Designers defend World Cup ball Engineers who designed the official World Cup football hit back at criticism of their ball by some players. Engineers, huh? WHY would you turn a job like this over to an engineer? What can they do? Make it more round? Use special engineer air? The engineers don't know jack. A school yard full of kids knows more about how soccer balls should look and feel than a university full of engineers. Engineers on TRAINS know more. Yes, exactly, if design is somehow necessary at all, it's a job for the players. Then the engineers can figure out HOW to do it, instead of what to do. .

And therefore FIRST on the list as presented, I presume? i.e. a countdown? .

I'm not surprised but I haven't a clue what you mean. The police are supposed to be trained to do their jobs. It has nothing to do with being worldly. In an average month, the average US traffic policeman of Middle America is likely to see 30, 40 difference drivers' licences from three, four countries. It's what they DO. It's about as "worldly" as driving a Toyota car. What do you figure, the US gets 12, maybe 15 foreigners a year tops zipping around in actual four-wheeled automobiles, two of whom are actually stopped and stared at slack-mouthed? You don't have to be worldly to be trained in drivers' licences. .

How "baffled" then? You mean he couldn't figure out if you were permitted to drive on it? I can certainly imagine that - just never happened to me. At the driver's licence place, I said to the woman "I have a Thai licence, I live in Thailand" and she took it four steps to her supervisor, and said to her, "We have a gentleman here from Taiwan". TWICE wrong, I told her ungentlemanly. .

Exactly right. I actually sat through the first 21 minutes of it, up to the beautiful penalty balloon of Mrs Waddell's son - and may eventually watch it all. I can only takes bits of that sort of programme with the smarmy comedians and all, do we REALLY need them in every single segment of a 50-part sports show? I think you're being WAY too hard on English footballers. .

By one of them, anyhow. On the other hand, Pakistan's soccer team is unlikely to figure in a thread about the WC hint-hint. .

Yeah, I used to get that, back in high school. Last Cup's balls were made in Thailand, weirdly enough. .

I'm just torrent-downloading a video of apparently 50 shocking moments of English football. The description says that Peter Crouch is one of the presenters and I thought, How phuocking apt can you get? .

Hmmmm, two million lemmings ARE wrong. That could be it. It's just niggling at me that I'm missing something, though. And I am a bit of a gadget purchaser, too, although never serious money. .

Fair enough. But 2 million iPads sold, now selling ("legally" as Steve Jobs would say) outside the US - knocked off by China and others - and I still can't figure out why I'd actually want one. I had thought that the idea with mobile stuff was to boil them all down into ONE device, which is why I understand the iPhone, say (or the superior Android). But the iPad is an extra carry-around that doesn't seem to do... well, anything useful. It's not a terrific book reader, it doesn't take phone calls, I can already put everything I want for a month on a 16-gig thumb drive that weighs nothing and takes up zero room in my pocket.... Obviously, I'm missing something. Anyone? .

There has been one thing that has been bothering me, wac: Do they not have actual turf on the playing fields in South Africa? Why are they to play on dirt fields? .

I don't understand the last part. How do people "win a few baht" on the World Cup? You're not suggesting people bet on international soccer, surely? .

Yes indeed. Nah, all this does is reinforce YOUR stereotypes to yourself. Get out more. Really. It's 2010, pretty well everywhere. Sometimes, a political criticism is just, you know, a political criticism. Even if the big-mouth IS a one-legged black-Mexican woman. Even if the politician IS a cream-complexioned gentleman in a suit. .

Well, if we didn't have that heavily enforced rule that we have to read every post in every thread it would be better. Then we could skip the ones that so clearly indicated The Dreaded One was involved. How about it MM? Isn't it about time to stop enforcing this rule? .

Well into the second period, Game 1 and it's 4-4. This could be one hell of an entertaining series. Philly is "better", Chicago has some very tricky stuff up its collective sleeve, I'm impressed with the speed and head-manning of both. .

"Researched". Heh, I like that. It's so... neutral. .

These were still popular in Ratchadamnoen well into the mid, even late 1980s. They'd have a night for one martial art versus Muay Thai. Those were absolutely packed out, those nights. Very good fun indeed. .

Possible. I don't know the mentality of your police. I've been using a Thai licence in many countries for many years without a problem. In the US they just ask me what the hell all the squiggly stuff means, and accept my translation of the non-English bits, not confusing to them at all. To the OP: Just go along to your designated licence office, take your passport, and you should be fine. You *MAY* need the dreaded embassy letter or immigration letter, but just go along without it, and find out. You're suffering the common delusion that there is one infallible rule for the entire country. .