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Will this be used mostly as a PC monitor?

Deleted. Decided against a pissing contest despite the lame attemp at a swipe toward US airlines.

True and true but the temp at Avenue Mall theatre is bearable.The volume is louder for sure during the previews. It's gotten so bad that I was almost looking forward to the animated owl movie due last week But I was spoiled with new 1st run movies each week when I lived here last year...........guess I'll have to do more c(s)hopping.

I've seen all the english language crap but Piranha-just couldn't even waste 60b on a Wed for it! Wall Street was supposed to show last week but didn't. They say patience is a virtue but that's crap as I have less with each passing birthday.

Unlike some of you 1 week millionaires,some of us that stay here longer need a diversion from Walking St,beer bars,C(s)hopping, bowling,Koh Chang,church,beach,ect...so once a week or so I like to treat myself and whomever to a movie and McDonalds,my bit of Americana.

And the ones playing in English are awful,basically 0-1 star.In '08-'09,you could count on a new movie every week and at least a decent flick but the crap on offer now should go straight to DVD.

My post was in part sent because on 2 occasions I had sent messages regarding PBG and received no response.No biggie.

Boeing, Air China Announce Order for Boeing 777s SEATTLE, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE:BA - News) and Air China today announced an order for four 777-300ERs (Extended Range), which have a total average list price value of $1.1 billion at current list prices. "This is a great day in the history of our long and enduring partnership with Air China," said Marlin Dailey, vice president of Sales & Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "Today's order of 777s also underscores Air China's confidence in the world's most successful twin-engine, long-haul airplane." Air China, the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China, will use the airplanes to expand its international routes. "The 777-300ER will be the backbone of our long-haul international fleet," said Fan Cheng, vice president of Air China. "The airplane's high efficiency and performance features will enable Air China to launch more direct long-haul routes to meet the increasing demand of our passengers." The Boeing 777 is the world's most successful twin-engine, long-haul airplane. The 777-300ER extends the 777 family's span of capabilities, bringing twin-engine efficiency and reliability to the long-range market. The airplane carries 365 passengers up to 7,930 nautical miles (14,685 km). Boeing incorporated several performance enhancements for the 777-300ER, extending its range and payload capabilities. Excellent performance during flight-testing, combined with engine efficiency improvements and design changes that reduce drag and airplane weight, contributed to the increased capability.

Can you afford the $10 fare to KUL to avail yourself these fares?$10 fare to BKK may be a big help to someone traveling from Down Under or UK.

PP starts a topic and doesn't come back.Nice of you to pi(u)mp your place.

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Saw the CB 123.It's in great shape and a good deal at 15k or so.Can't decide if I want it just for 3 months though.Now if I had a buyer for the end of December...........

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Where are said items located?E-mail sent to addy in OP.

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UPDATE 1-Boeing takes orders for 10 planes in latest week Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:47am EDT * Boeing takes orders for 10 777s * Orders potentially valued at $2.7 billion * Cathay Pacific buys 6; 4 from unidentified customers * Boeing shares down 0.9 percent ATLANTA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) took orders for 10 wide-body 777s potentially worth $2.7 billion in the week ended Sept. 21, the plane maker said on Thursday. Six of the orders for the plane were from Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways (0293.HK), while four were from an unidentified customer or customers. Earlier this week, Boeing said the Cathay Pacific orders for six 777-300ER aircraft had an estimated value of $1.6 billion at current list prices. Boeing has now logged net orders for 288 planes this year.

+1 on volume-no louder.If I have to yell at someone like I do in some clubs,they won't see a satang of mine. An occasional country western tune wouldn't hurt either.I'm 59,so I appreciate the classic rock but can do w/o the new wave crap from 90s to current.Yes I know you have to love all/serve all with your tunes but that new crap is annoying.And remember,we don't come there for the music in the end.

The RG boosts the winter rates to 45k-55k per month which is over the top.You can find a better deal elsewhere for that price.Don't get me wrong,I like it there but those prices are lunacy. http://www.theresidencegarden.com/room_rates.php

Some funny (true) responses from another site: What a backwards country we are living in. By the time they sort this out, Laos and Cambodia will be on 4G. Absolutely zero interest in the wellbeing of the public. Welcome to Amazing Thailand! Bureaucracy, greed, corruption and fear always stops progress. I think we need a foreigner prime minister with full arm body guard to take Thailand out of the stone age. We already have a foreign PM LOL 3 G coming to you NEXT DECADE Thats another 3-4 year wait with all the asociated damage to investment and development. Still at leats the bureacrats of CAT and TOT get to keep all their perks, exalted position and the status quo at the expense of everyone else in the country. Oh and of course the opportunity to extend access to information to areas where there are no land lines, ie poor areas, is delayed for another age or two which will no doubt please the dinosaurs I think the country should say the auction is for 10G so that by the time comes when the public ACTUALLY gets the system, it WILL be 10G. Plan ahead dummies.

Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:02am EDT * Offers 5,000 yen tickets between Haneda and Kuala Lumpur * Aims to increase flights to daily from 3 a week - CEO * May expand further to Osaka, Fukuoka, Sapporo - CEO By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia's AirAsia (AIRA.KL), the first international budget carrier to fly to Tokyo's Haneda airport, plans to kick off service with $58 flights between Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur and said it could expand to three more Japanese airports. In a move that could pour fuel on increasing price competition over Japan's skies, the 5,000 yen flights are on offer from December until July next year, after which prices will start at 10,000 yen ($116), with premium lie-flat seats costing 48,000 yen. That compares with current prices of around $650 to $2,000 for the same route from airlines such as Japan Airlines (JALFQ.PK), All Nippon Airways (9202.T), Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MASM.KL) and Cathay Pacific (0293.HK). The pricing comes on the heels of tickets between Shanghai and Japan's Ibaraki airport, 85 km north of Tokyo, for as little as 4,000 yen from China discount carrier Spring Airlines. Until recently, low-cost airlines had found it difficult to expand to Japan due to high labour costs and limited slot availability at key airports. But Haneda, which is closer to central Tokyo than Narita International, Japan's major international airport, will open a fourth runway next month while a new "open skies" pact will cut government restrictions on airlines to flying in and out of Japan. (Edit:yeah,those "cut" restrictions still make new entrants to Haneda only open between 2200-0500-great deal,huh?) "The power of Haneda is its very strong domestic network, with dozens of flights to Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka ... and its very central location thanks to which it already has a strong cargo operation that we can tap," Azran Osman-Rani, chief executive of AirAsia X, the carrier's long-haul unit. "We could operate in at least three different airports in Japan, just give us a couple of years as airports like Fukuoka, Osaka and Sapporo are all places that we have a strong interest in," he added. The Tokyo-Kuala Lumpur flights will use Airbus (EAD.PA) A330 aircraft and the company hopes to eventually offer flights daily from an initial three per week. The incursions by budget carriers into the Japanese market have prompted Japan's No.2 carrier All Nippon Airways to announce a plan this month to start a low cost carrier to fly between Japan and China in partnership with Hong Kong-based private equity firm First Eastern Investment Group. [iD:nTOE68807K] Japan Airlines has also said it would look at creating a low-cost carrier.

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By Usanee Mongkolporn The Nation Injunction order says licence auctioneer NTC itself in transition; Planned auction on Monday hinges on NTC's appeal today against verdict The Central Administrative Court has hampered hopes for the long-overdue 3G (third generation) telecom development in Thailand in the near future with a bombshell injunction on the licence auction scheduled to kick off on Monday. In a 16-page verdict, the court reasoned that if the auction was allowed to proceed as scheduled by the National Telecom Commission (NTC), it would lead to a number of obstacles because the NTC itself is currently in a transition period, awaiting the creation of a new regulatory body. The NTC will today appeal against the court's decision, and hope for a quick, favourable verdict, without which Monday's bidding would need to be called off. NTC commissioner Natee Sukonrat said the telecom body will appeal today. If the court accepts the appeal, the NTC will go ahead with holding the auction on Monday as planned. If the court rejects the appeal, the NTC will stop all auction activities. This could mean a considerably lengthy delay as the establishment of the National Broadcasting and Telecom Commission hinges on a bill awaiting parliamentary approval. The licence auction is scheduled to take place at Evason Hua Hin and Six Senses Spa hotel from September 20-27, with two 3G licences up for grabs at a starting price of Bt12.8 billion per licence. The court's verdict put Information and Communications Technology Minister Chuti Krairiksh in the hot seat and dealt a severe blow to the country's three major telecom firms - AIS, DTAC, and True - which were all set to bid for the lucrative licences. Chuti last night said it was "my fault" to have failed to prevent CAT Telecom, an agency under his watch, from seeking the court's injunction. Citing the 2007 Constitution, the court said there would be a new regulatory body called National Broadcasting and Telecom Commission (NBTC) soon with the powers to oversee both the broadcasting and telecom sectors. To avoid creating future trouble for the NBTC, the court said, the NTC's plan to auction the 2.1G radio frequencies for the 3G mobile services should be suspended. A bill to set up the NBTC is now pending in the House of Representatives following key amendments made by the Senate. The House of Representatives is expected to set up a joint committee with the Senate to consider the proposed legislation, which was earlier expected to be enacted by the end of this year. The joint deliberation could last long, and Chuti himself seemed uncertain if the auction could be called within next year or bidders will have to wait until next year. Observers believe the planned NBTC is unlikely to be functioning until the middle of next year at the earliest when all commissioners are appointed. Although the NTC was given provisional power to fill the void as the country awaits the setting up of the NBTC, telecom analysts blame the NTC for having waited too long. They said that with NBTC close to coming into existence, the current NTC would be perceived more and more as lacking the authority to auction the licences. One analyst also warned that if the 3G auction is postponed for an extended period, telecom operators might not invest more on the existing networks as they have to transfer their network assets to the state concession owners TOT and CAT under the Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) when their concessions end. The concessions of TrueMove, AIS, and DTAC will end in 2013, 2015, and 2018 respectively. Thana Thienachariya, head of corporate affairs and strategy of Total Access Communication, declined to comment on the matter, pending the company's examination of the court order. But he is concerned that the industry would be affected if the auction is delayed. Wichien Mektrakarn, chief executive of Advanced Info Service, said the NTC has to hurry with its appeal. What the private telecom operators can do is wait and see if the court will accept the NTC appeal. Supachai Chearavanont, True Corp chief executive, said he was disappointed by the court's verdict, but hoped the NTC could make the appeal successfully. "If the auction is delayed indefinitely, the country will lag behind in terms of technology adoption." Information and Communications Technology Minister Chuti Krairiksh said he is confident the 3G auction would take place within this year. He added that the government has supported the development of the 3G technology. In a petition filed with the court, state-owned CAT Telecom said the NTC's planned auction was unlawful and could financially affect its concession revenues. The telecom operators that can obtain the licences will migrate the customers from the state concessions to the licences to save regulatory cost. CAT estimated that the state agency would lose Bt15 billion as a result of customer migration to the licences. As regulator, the NTC insisted that it had followed international standards in designing the auction, and had carefully studied the various pros and cons. The auction would benefit the entire telecom industry by promoting greater competition, adding that the NTC acknowledged, however, that this would adversely affect any currently dominant entities that could not improve their efficiency. Justification for the injunction - The court views that the auction could affect the work of the upcoming National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. - There is no spectrum allocation master plan - The court will also ask the Constitution Court to rule if the NTC has overall regulatory authority under Section 305 of the 2007 Constitution - The court views that granting an injunction now will affect only three bidders. If the auction takes place and later the Constitution Court rules that the NTC's authority is against the 2007 Constitution, this could lead to possible bigger impacts to the related parties. - According to the court, the injunction will not affect the NTC work and the public telecom service as there are already two 3G telecom operators, TOT and CAT Telecom, and the network of existing private telecom operators have already covered nationwide. -- The Nation 2010-09-17

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ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- In 2009, Delta(DAL) financed three 777s it bought from Boeing(BA), paying interest at 8.11% over nine and a half years. That same year, Emirates Airline bought three similar aircraft, paying interest at 3.4% over 11.9 years. While the Emirates borrowing had a loan-to-value ratio of 50%, Delta's loan-to-value ratio was 40%. So Emirates' low-cost loan covered more of its purchase. How can that be? The reason for the discrepancy is that Emirates and many other carriers can borrow at low cost for aircraft financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and similar agencies in Europe, Canada, Brazil and Japan, all aircraft exporters. But such financing is unavailable to U.S. and major European carriers. "It's absurdly unfair to U.S. carriers that the U.S. government should be financing our foreign competitors with below market interest rates," said Ben Hirst, senior vice president and general counsel for Delta, in an interview. "It creates an unlevel playing field for U.S. airlines competing internationally, and it has led to [high] capacity levels in international markets that have been encouraged to develop regardless of market conditions." U.S. carriers are speaking out now because this week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 33 developed countries, will meet in Paris to discuss extending a multilateral agreement called the Aircraft Sector Understanding, which codifies aircraft financing standards. "We are particularly concerned that the damage to U.S. airlines caused by such export credits may be worsened by the outcome of the current negotiations," said Jim May, CEO of the Air Transport Association, in a recent letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. May noted that during the past decade, the Export-Import Bank provided guarantees backing $46 billion in financing for more than 800 Boeing aircraft. In fact, Boeing is the bank's principal beneficiary. In fiscal year 2009, aircraft financing accounted for $8.6 billion, about 40% of the bank's $21 billion in total export financing. "Given U.S. aviation's role as a major export factor and jobs source, it makes sense," said Boeing Capital Corp. spokesman John Kvasnosky. But does it? The airline beneficiaries from the financing include nine of the ten most profitable airlines based outside of the U.S., France, Germany and the United Kingdom, May said. Among them: Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Japan Airlines, Singapore Airlines and WestJet. They all "compete with U.S. airlines for U.S. passenger traffic," May said. WestJet, founded in 1996, has received nearly $1.7 billion in Ex-Im Bank financing since fiscal 2002 -- and has been able to take traffic from U.S. airlines as a result, he said. Hirst said the use of Ex-Im financing has expanded dramatically in recent years, as international markets have grown, partially because the U.S has negotiated nearly 100 Open Skies agreements with airlines around the world. One result is that international carriers have continued ordering aircraft from Airbus and Boeing even during a recession, enabling many of them to have far younger fleets than U.S. carriers do. What do the U.S. airlines want? Hirst said airlines from developing countries continue to need help, but in general, "there should not be export credit financing for airlines that have an ability to go to the commercial market on their own. The market ought to regulate aircraft financing, not the governments. We're pushing for a more market based outcome." Meanwhile, Boeing called the questions raised by the U.S. carriers "legitimate" and said that "export credit, and in particular the Ex-Im Bank of the U.S., has been an important funding source for many of our overseas customers, especially during the recent economic downturn when commercial financing has been harder to obtain." "Reconciling all of the global perspectives and issues involved in export credit policy is a challenging task," the aircraft maker said, in a prepared statement. "However, we are committed to working through these complex issues with the goal of ensuring a level playing field both for airplane and engine manufacturers and for their airline customers." -- Written by Ted Reed in Charlotte, N.C.