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The dish called Laksa in Australia (and many other places) is very common in Thailand. There are indeed several versions, meaning you can get it how you want it. In Thailand, the pretty rich and "thick" coconut-milk version is probably most common, although I haven't seen statistics. .

Tuna is packed in Thailand. Several of the really big canning firms are Thai-owned, including the American ones (although there has been some ownership changes I haven't kept up with). So tuna is a local product, actually. All those photos of Burmese slave workers and their kids, most of them are tinning tuna. About half the tuna in Europe comes from Thailand, more than that in the US. No figures on how much dolphin is mixed in but there's a pretty good chance some of you cowboys have killed Flipper for a tuna sandwich. .

It's not a restaurant dish, but a street or market vendor dish. One stall will serve only this dish.They're all over, everywhere in Thailand -- it's tough not to stumble over it. It's VERY common in Thailand, so common that the Malaysians call the coconut-milk version "Laksa Thai". I don't offhand recall a specific stall or street in Pattaya, sorry, but my point is you have to look outside restaurants. You might well find a soup shop with it. I never say "never" but you'd rarely if ever find it an actual restaurant. .

Some Thais eat "fresh" salmon, but I'd guess you're right, that damned few would try it on their own. They've acquired the taste, abroad or from foreigners or from mom who was abroad..... high-so types in many cases. That's why Carrefour has it. But I literally have never seen a Thai EVER purchase, let alone open a tin of salmon. Ever. Even in Villa. Even overseas. That's why Carrefour doesn't have it. .

Pretty well everything you listed is at Villa Market - if not at the branches like Pattaya, definitely at the main store in Bangkok. Thais don't eat tinned salmon, only a few eat salmon at all. Or the other stuff you list. .

Putting the machine to sleep has been a problem for laptops just about since XP came out. Different machines, different cures (sometimes) just to make it worse and non-generic. Tell, the truth, when it does this, the best thing is just to reboot every time you come back to it. Taking the time is a pain, but not as painful as the annoyances. And yes Vista did improve it, but the BIOS can still eff up Vista too. Probably Windows 7 for all of that. .

He said non-immigrant. .

Not all European critics are anti-American, not all anti-Obama people racists and not all those who disagree with feminazis are misogynists. But some are. Heck, some are all three. And those who are, deserve to be called out from under their rocks. .

You see, that's why I didn't give you links because you would accuse me. And you did. Google is your friend. You can be so blind that you refuse to learn the juku facts, of course you can. But you stop shooting the messenger while you're being blind, deaf and stubborn, hear? Stop accusing, and go look up the facts (here is one suggestion for a starting place), come back and report what YOU found. .

I don't think your criminal enterprise is going to make it Samsonite. This is a terrific package for business/industry and personal privacy but if the FBI or No Such Agency wants it, you're just finished -- and that was what you started the thread on, when the US government comes after us. Truecrypt is convenient to use, although I like public keys. But if I were a criminal I'd use nothing but one-time pads, which are quite easy to generate these days, so close to true-random that it doesn't matter -- and thus truly unbreakable until you are beaten so badly with so many broken bones that you hand over the key, or you are so stupid that "they" can steal it. .

Hmmm. I don't think they collected anything. Lots of lawyers kept Mercedes Benz busy, though. YOUR tax dollars at work, thank Khrighst for that. I imagine Yurp will get approximately the same deal from Intel. .

???? Why would you be using a US retail encryption system for your kiddie pr0n business? There are encryption methods and encryption software that are essentially UNcrackable, as several US court cases have shown, not that I buy this neat "128 years on a mainframe" marketing horsepuckey. I do agree that using an off-the-shelf US-retailed program for your secrecy is like, well, NOT using encryption, but "smart" criminals would do no such thing, surely?. Not when non-off-the-shelf non-US-approved programs are so easily available? But there are also means and methods whereby if the government wants to know what is in YOUR files, you will simply hand it over to them with a grim smile, unless you truly like living alone with one hour per week in the exercise yard. You will not keep your files secret AND keep your freedom if the government wants your files. The way you keep your stuff secret from the government is not to get the government at all interested in you. This is why, at the very bottom line, the whole Coffe/Decaf business is total, irrelevant BS. If the gummint is thinking about using Coffe against you, you're phuocked, they ALREADY have evidence. .

This is obviously faked. There's a brunette in there. .

Oh come ON, GIYF ferpetesake. "juku microsoft' gets hundreds of hits in current news stories. Here is the Seattle PI On Tuesday morning, Microsoft admitted that MSN Juku contains code ripped off from Plurk. The software superpower indefinitely suspended access to MSN Juku, which Microsoft said was developed by a third-party vendor that contracted with MSN China.

Mostly BS. Cofee is used by forensic experts when they come to your home with a warrant to grab your computer. Before they uplug it and walk away with it, they can plug in Cofee and try to get evidence against you and find some of your stash of kiddie pr0n. Then they take it back to THEIR office to work on it. Cofee is not some mysterious roam-the-Internet program, it is a disk-based client "program" (collection of tools with one interface, actually) used to search computer hard drives. It has to be literally and physically plugged in to the machine it is working on. If you are in that deep that the authorities are at your door with a copy of Cofee on their USB drive to plug into your computer, Decaf isn't going to help you half as much as a multi-million dollar lawyer. If you are so deep into it that the authorities are at your door with a search warrant, get a phuocking THERMITE GRENADE for your disk, not some diddly little Decaf software. Otherwise, a tinfoil hat will protect you even better than Decaf, and take up fewer CPU cycles doing it. .

I hadn't read about your previous campaigns in the jihad, but in this particular case the software was contracted by Microsoft, and totally written by a third party. That doesn't take Microsoft out of responsibility of course, but Microsoft neither begged, borrowed, nor stole a thing. It does look right now like it BOUGHT a program that fell off the back of a truck. .

Interesting little lesson. Thanks. I'd always associated both companies exclusively with Canada, the infamous Avro Arrow and the Beaver-Otter planes for example. .

I'm surprised I'm the first to comment on this. I bet there are more. Maybe they started in the UK? .

Would you PLEASE stop bringing up Anglia! .

China is a good budget airline that gets you there. They stand out in nothing beyond -- sometimes -- price. Yes, they have entertainment, but how good as always depends on the plane you get and the system that has been installed on it. ALWAYS take a book. .

This is not the same idea, though. It's more a collection of the "best" apps, where Download, TuCows and many others keep updating and keep adding new stuff, too. One's not really a competition for the other. .

Stolen! In return: Rapper 50 Cent is saying that Tiger Woods never would have been caught if he had been more "gangster." In response, Tiger said 50 Cent would have never been shot nine times if he had been more "golfer." - Conan O'Brien .

On the computer, three quickies: You can watch most channels here live, full screen is not good quality: http://www.maxnettv.tv/index.php http://www.siamtv.info/start.html You can watch lakorn (just search for it) at YouTube Finally, you can buy an actual iPTV service that works quite well, for $100 a year here http://www3.thaitv.tv/th/OnlineService/OnlineProduct.aspx You can also get torrents for the lakorn, but you said watch online so that's the three above. .

You got that straight!! I still remember the THAI pilot who was making his first flight, and he THOUGHT it was *over* the Himalayas, but he and and his 112 dependents were actually trying to go through them, and the mountain was harder than the cheap tin Airbus. (I always loved that phrase "controlled flight into terrain".) But what the hey, if you get FROM London TO Pattaya, what else matters, really? I wouldn't mind if my last thought was, "Oh, xhit, I didn't make it back to London!" If that's the worst that happens to me, it will have been one hell of a great ride -- pun also intended. .

The well known philosopher Bucky Covington has a long essay on that as well: We were born to mothers who smoked and drank Our cribs were covered in lead based paint etc Full text