joekicker

US Air Force pilots have to go to the Royal Naval College? Jeez, I am really behind the curve. When the hell did THAT service integration start?

Good word substitution "flick" - more inventive than fuxk. Personally, I think that all US cops issued with tasers should have to undergo being tasered before they are allowed one, like Air Force pilots are waterboarded. Might make them think a bit harder before they whip it out (so to speak).

The last time I was in a hotel, I was going to destroy the card but I couldn't lift my arms out of the ice water I was in to protect me from the kidney removal.

Well, there is FREE beer tomorrow.

What kind of polish? Furniture polish, turtle wax...???

All of the above. Plus, you're going to need a new computer probably. If it came with a CRT, it's getting a bit long in the tooth anyhow. You might consider a whole new set, and donate the one you have - always a lot of good groups looking for used computers.

I appreciate your reading the post, nothing worse than writing something no one reads, like Harry Nicolaides. Chiang Mai?? Where did you get that?

I'm not keeping track of the changes, but I'm a little harsher than you. I don't think it's "under control" that they want. I believe they are trying pretty much to wipe out "residency without visas". Still trying to find the right combination. Of course they'll never get everybody, because they have to leave room for REAL tourists, and some people will always attach themselves to that like fungus. But I think they'll get 95 per cent, and sooner rather than later. I don't really care, or I guess I should say I have no vested interest in it apart from being a vicarious spectator, which is why I'm not counting. I think people who live here and don't get a visa are dumb, and there's a certain Darwinian flavour to all of it. Adapt or die, really.

Not following you here. Most residents of neighbouring countries don't even need a passport to go back and forth to Thailand as often as they wish. Thais, of course, don't need visas or permits for Thailand. Almost all Thai traffic is for the casinos anyhow. I agree that this regulation is not for "real tourists" who are very very VERY seldom going to need five 15-day permits in a row. It's for "unreal tourists" who live in Thailand and exist by going back and forth every 15 days (formerly 30), piling up paperwork unnecessarily and, eventually, futilely. The Immigration Department really is going to wipe almost all of this out, probably sooner than later. Visas really aren't that hard to get, and if you refuse to even try, you're almost certainly going to be SOL pretty soon.

Emirates brings the new jumbo to town. Bangkok Post, Tuesday 2 June 2009. .

Yes, echoing jacko - but hoping that transportation folks will troll through thousands of topics on a dozen boards looking for a possible current customer is not the right approach. You have to look for them - far better chance of success. jacko's three are the top three mentioned on this board, and they all have good reviews, some exceptions such as your own. Dream Transport is a PM away.

Yes. I don't understand this wear and tear. If you live in Thailand, there is ALWAYS a way to not do border runs, but every 15 or 30 days over and over again is ridiculous. If you have to do that, get out. Really.

No, including the Japanese bars.

Thanks for the pictures and all the details. Okay, the details I can figure out.

Hard to argue with a well-sourced argument like that, pointing out as you did so well that farangs don't need Thais to buy heroin to send out, or to get through customs with the cocaine and E brought in. If you think farangs are really big and independent movers in the drug business in Thailand, you may be interested in a couple of bars I have for sale. They do great business, really, you can take my word for it. Briefly: Farang drug dealers can be big, and farang drug dealers can be independent of the local folks. But they can't be both.

This board (and most) won't let you execute side-code. It is serious security risk, so they just shut it down. If MM doesn't do it, nobody does it.

Turned on the pr0n channel, I see. First things first.

mmm, don't think so. You do a drug business in Thailand, you get permission. Either that or you stick to selling three tabs to your friends in the disco washroom a night or taking a chance with the 200 grammes of smack back to Australia.

Yes but. It's not much of a machine for six months old. 1GB ram and 180GB. For the right person, surfing and not doing much intense stuff such as watching movies and getting at the better pr0n sites, it could be okay. For a student for doing research and writing -- excellent buy for that kind of person.

I saw you called it "trapped". Being "trapped" in a Pattaya establishment is not what I'd ever call a serious impediment to vacationing, really. If I felt "trapped" I'd get weather-proof clothing such as a newspaper, or use an umbrella, or just brave out the horror of falling water, and get un-trapped. So I was wondering if there was something I was missing. In my opinion, you can get "trapped" in some very nasty, cold and horrible rain. In England, say, or New York or Melbourne. But not in Pattaya.

Same thing. All kinds of disposable, name-brand razors here. MAYBE not your brand but they do have ever so many. Do you also use Spray-brand razors? Funny thing is that I understand brand loyalty and I actually DO pack deo on occasion, because the brand I have long favoured is not available in Thailand. But I can "make do" if necessary.

Weather in Thailand doesn't vary all that much. It's always hot and humid. In Pattaya in late July, it's likely to rain every second or third day in late afternoon for no more than an hour. It pretty well has to rain, it's so humid from the onshore winds. It's not usually very heavy. It varies of course, but that's about average. I don't know how rain could inconvenience anyone very much, really. Do you have a lot of metal implants that rust, or what? It's 95 degrees and the rain is 92 degrees. What's the downside even if you're out in the rain?

Shrimps do it better. Koong Den

A couple of them made me laugh out loud. But "last year"? I doubt that. I don't think you'll find a kid who knows Nancy Kerrigan. Hell, I can't remember what her teeth looked like. (Maybe I'm TOO old??? Nah.) At Albertville (not Minnesota): But no picket fence here! .

It's not a problem to clear cookies. Your browser will do it. Or get an all-in-one like the super (totally free) Crap Cleaner, now called CCLeaner because of all the sensitivity going around. ccleaner.com Almost universally praised and recommended as a cleanup tool. But the question was: SHOULD I CLEAR my cookies? Different opinions on that and, indeed, different levels of reasoning by users. There is no "correct" answer for everyone. I believe you didn't state what was incorrect. I believe you claim to have some information, so have a go. "Flash cookies" (LSOs) are capable of tracking you from site to site. Polite ones don't do it, and Adobe has attempted to build in safeguards to prevent it from happening. However, that safeguard HAS been bypassed already in proof of concept. There is NO software that can't be hacked, including LSOs.