jspill

I always enjoy the posts: My business is in UK, My client is in Brazil. I am paid to my bank account in It is all done online. Switzerland. So what has that to do with Thailand?

Your ass is in Thailand.

I do enjoy the digital nomad banter too. They are winning the argument though. Vaguely written laws. Zero arrests or raids of co-working spaces. Anecdotal reports of IOs saying 'no probrem for you'. Some tenuous statements from public officials. No defined limit on back to back Tourist Visas.

It makes quite a few references to having an employer, wages, being paid in Thailand by an employer, etc.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/195336-working-aliens-act-2551-2008/

This question doesn't have a definitive answer until the law starts using words like offshore, online etc., we'll have to agree to disagree.

Show me where autonomous online work paid from an offshore source, without a physical presence in Thailand, falls under the remit of the alien working act (which within it references having an employer, being paid within Thailand, etc.).

I'd link you to statements from Thai officials saying it isn't illegal but I suspect you've read them already as my posts have caught your attention.

On a serious note: How dangerous is Bangkok? If I look online I get conflicting reports. A few people who chime in will tell you that it's safer than New York or LA. Other people will tell you that's it's a dangerous place to be at night, I do know of one incident where a foreigner was butchered to death on his moped at 1am on a Saturday. Also, a lady had her purse snatched and banged her head on the street and passed away. I think that was a few years ago.

It seems to me that NY is much worse. At least Bangkok doesn't have nut jobs who will shot you on subway like Colin Ferguson did in the early 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road_massacre

For a male expat who mostly spends his time at home, the gym, a workplace, and well-lit public areas in expat nightlife areas, with common sense, I'd agree its safer than NY. For a female it's different, but that'd be the case anywhere.

That The OP hasn't answered any other questions suggests it's probably fictitious. As pointed out, if you were hit three times with a meat clever that would leave some serious damage.

To be fair to the OP he hasn't answered any posts (nor made any new posts), which makes me worried that the OP has succumbed to his injuries.

Another school of though that is currently sweeping the MKs of Bangkok is that the OP is really just another incarnation of jspill, the attack really did take place and the brain damage that occurred explains jspill's recent posts.

However, I'm not buying that theory, that would not explain the bitterness issue.

I'm flattered that I've rustled your jimmies so thoroughly in my few posts.

Soutie, you have to learn to ignore jsill's posts, he is just another re-incarnation of you know who.

That's why his posts are so bitter and twisted towards members who make an honest living.

Conventional jobs where workers have little autonomy, are constricted to a 9 to 5, morning commute, suit and tie etc., are only 'honest work' by dated societal definitions. The world is changing and people waking up the fact that they're essentially working as slaves to make someone else richer. As a cog in the machine they're not being honest to themselves.

At some point, given that no one put a gun to anyone's head to force anyone to live here, the question does need to be asked, 'Why not leave?"

Life overall in a nanny state country back home would be even worse, and other SE Asian countries are worse. That and/or having dependants. It's ok to vent on a forum from time to time.

I don't necessarily want your posts removed or alerted to mods (who might then lock an interesting thread), I'd rather they stay up reflecting poorly on you.

Interesting article, on a news outlet that can't be linked on ThaiVisa but google ''Thai police are in a class of their own' and it's the first link.

This editorial in the Bangkok Post today pretty much sums up what those criticizing the Thai police and government have been saying.

That link may get removed as Bangkok Post articles can't be linked on ThaiVisa, but it's a great read, google 'Thai police are in a class of their own' to find it.

I see two of the worst posters on TV, mrtoad and soutpeel have started trolling a thread to get it closed, yet again.

Sometimes it seems that -- other than from pornography -- the way most people make money on the internet is from selling information to other persons on how to make money on the internet.

That definitely applies to 95% of the people who spruik their 'systems and strategies' for trading the Forex market.

Where there is money to be made there will be some scammers, shysters, unscrupulous people selling systems, in any industry. Particularly something anyone (with skill) can do at home on the internet without qualifications. On the other side of the coin there's a massive free online course in forex at babypips.com with thousands of lessons, and they aren't trying to sell anything. Hopefully beginners find that site and start there, but if they fall for some scammy strategy they probably would've lost their money in any other endeavour anyway.

This is one of my favorite internet lawsuits Rossi v MPAA / Motion Picture Association of America

Semi-related, one of my favorite internet debates is the issue of piracy / file sharing.

LSE published a study (PDF) showing that the claims about digital downloading killing music and movies are overblown - In fact, there is new evidence to indicate that it actually generates more income in certain cases. http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/documents/MPP/LSE-MPP-Policy-Brief-9-Copyright-and-Creation.pdf

Digital piracy not harming entertainment industries - http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/digital-piracy-not-harming-entertainment-industries-study-1.1894729

What about this forum and many other started by a Digital Nomad?

I guess he didn't listen to logic like 'there's already a Lonely Planet forum that will blow me out of the water.' Or 'I'll never be as big as TripAdvisor so what's the point.'

What is anti rape car?

car = carriage on a train. Female-only carriages were introduced when 13 year old Nong Gaem was raped and murdered.

Yeah let's label him 'Asian' in headlines and cross our fingers desperately hoping he isn't Thai.

This article sums up whats going on

Thailand really isn't that safe for backpacker females http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2014/09/ko-tao-murders-thailands-legacy.html

what is the murder and/or assault rate of women tourists to thailand per 100,000 visits as compared to other tourist destinations?

Here's a broadsheet newspaper saying 'the frequency [of deaths in Thailand] is very significant. The random, brutal murder of UK tourists [in other destinations] is thankfully relatively rare: cases elsewhere in Asia, the US and the Caribbean made headlines because they are so uncommon.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/british-tourists-murdered-in-thailand-the-sinister-streak-lurking-beneath-seeming-paradise-9733837.html

And BBC Radio 4

The other point of that Andrew Drummond article is the frequency of cover-ups, tortured confessions, Thai headlines like 'Insurance scam suspected', and the prevalence of media to imply the girls were being promiscous, having sex on beaches, wearing bikinis, agreeing to sex then inviting violence when refusing anal sex, the list goes on. All with little to no evidence, shameful victim blaming. As another BBC reporter said that does seem endemic to Thailand with its 'patriarchal culture forgiving to the males involved in sexual assault cases'.

Even if it isn't endemic to Thailand, it isn't Thai bashing as you call it to point out that a country isn't particularly safe. I'm sure Baghdad is considerably less safe.

and if they only wanted your wife, or daughter, then what?

I've no idea what your point is. My original post was that it's pure speculation that the victims placed themselves in harms way by heading to an isolated dark beach, to have sex or otherwise. If a determined mafia group above the law wants me dead, I don't think it matters how careful or not I am. Statements like 'to be fair they shouldn't have gone to that beach, drunk at night after fighting in a bar' have no value.

Some parallels to a horrific murder rape committed by two Thai men against a female Brit backpacker on a beach in 2006. Who bragged about it afterwards.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/1507482/Delicious-boasted-Katherines-sex-killers.html

they were alone and vulnerable,

or they would be alive and home

If a Thai mafia gang wants me dead, I imagine I'd be dead within the hour.

to be fair,

if they had an altercation in the bar,

they should not have gone to an isolated spot behind large rocks,

they walked right into this by not having enough healthy fear of the possible danger they were in,

alcohol will dumb down fears,

it is sad this happened, and I am in no way blaming the victims,

they just were not well advised not to go to a hidden spot no matter how romantic it is to sit by the water

How does anyone actually know that they decided to head to that isolated spot after the altercation. Only they know and they're dead. For all we know they were ambused/drugged elsewhere and dragged there. To 'be fair', one shouldn't speculate or listen to Thai police theories.

I'm sorry to say I felt a bit sorry for him too and I detest everything he stands for

PM said about bikinis.

feel free to provide his quote

He said it yesyerday.

And british mp had answer for it as well

Thai PM was trying shift blame on tourists...

I try find it.

It was on mirror.co.uk

Thank goodness for that, for a moment there I thought you were going to cite a real and useful newspaper, not one that comes with perforation strips in it for after use!

Same in The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thailand-beach-murders-thai-pm-suggests-attractive-female-tourists-cannot-expect-to-be-safe-in-bikinis-9737016.html