bangkockney

And in the other examples cited?

Which issue is it that concerns you?

Age?

Fighting?

Child labour / no free will?

No goal posts moved. Muay Thai is a Thai sport is it not. So I am referring to Thailand. different forms of abusing children (child labour). Why is that hard to understand?

All three in this context.

Which issue is it that concerns you?

Age?

Fighting?

Child labour / no free will?

No goal posts moved. Muay Thai is a Thai sport is it not. So I am referring to Thailand. different forms of abusing children (child labour). Why is that hard to understand?

I didn't say you can't criticise but your post is phrased such that you believe it only happens in Thailand.

Now you move the goal posts and say of course it happens everywhere? How can you think that yet still be "boggled"?

And what do you mean different forms? Kickboxing is kickboxing, for money is for money. Kids are kids no matter what the country I don't understand you.

Your post is critical of Thailand for it. I'm pointing out to you it happens in other places too.

Have you taken one too many to the head or what?

Kiddie kickboxers in Australia too, fighting for prize money.

Well that makes it OK then?

We can't criticise Thailand can we. Of course it happens in different forms around the world, but the documentary highlighted kick boxing in Thailand. Just because it happens in other places does not make it right..

Your post is critical of Thailand for it. I'm pointing out to you it happens in other places too.

Have you taken one too many to the head or what?

Kiddie kickboxers in Australia too, fighting for prize money.

Well that makes it OK then?

Kiddie kickboxers in Australia too, fighting for prize money.

Why split hairs. You're all a bunch of pikeys anyway.

It's hard to refute that comment

Actually its not hard to refute ignorant comments,and silly point scoring,

although I know what you are refering to,in your wisdom the word "Pikeys" is not in any Dictionary that I know of,

so please explain the word for all of us to see,and by all means quote a Dictionary reference.

Must try harder. Pikey is in the dictionary and has it's origins in the mid-19C.

You really should make use of proper NAT/firewall router otherwise you could be awfully vulnerable to attack. Chances are forwarding ports correctly on the router would have fixed your download speed problems.

Can't have two DSL modems on the same line. Only one can make use of the line at a time. You could simply swap each modem out if you wanted to change, but since True won't deliver through a TOT line, this is not possible.

True probably mean that they will drag a new line to your house that supports data only, not voice.

I think the advice to challenge the application is very poor.

Or indeed completely imagined by you.

The change in the rules concern the where and when of learning English. The rule change was not about integration - it was introduced to reduce net migration. No ifs, ands or buts. Damian Green has admitted this point previously. This fact alone will cause significant problems. Race Relations Act 1976 (common law) also comes in to play and for this reason it is important to note that the case is phrased with an and/or reference to EHR. Plenty of juicy stuff.

What has not been addressed or admitted is the unfairness of test, the economic impact of denying UK English language teaching institutions and the better quality of English language teaching and testing in the UK. Further, there are few tests specifically for spouses at CEFR A1 level. How a candidate is expected to fare after the disheartening experience of sitting through a seventy minute reading and writing test has not been considered. There are also gender issues, given in some parts of the world women do not have equal access to education, whether implicitly or explicitly.

VisasPlus also provides two solid examples of the paradox in-play: you can be from a majority English speaking country yet not speak English and have the requirement waived. The Hispanic community in California is what sprang to mind for me.

With reference to EHR, the true test under Article 8 is proportionality, not exceptionality. A blanket rule which applies to all cases without reference to the individual facts is classically the kind of rule which the European Court of Human Rights has held to be disproportionate: e.g. Hirst v United Kingdom (No. 2) (2006) 42 EHRR.

Therefore, it is difficult to assert that the application of pre-entry language requirements is a proportionate means of reaching the espoused aims of the government when it is perfectly possible to encourage or even require spouses to learn English on arrival in the UK.

As 7by7 opened, it will certainly be interesting.

The line that processes you has nothing to do with letting foreigners in more easily. What nonsense.

If you hold a UK passport all of your companions can go through the UK channel -( as a family) They will not split up a family on entry.

You will find the same courtesy is extended here for you too if you are part of a Thai family.

My son holds a Thai passport and we get through in seconds, and I must just give credit where credit is due, with extremely friendly immigration staff. (too many negative posts at times about Thai immigration- they have been nothing except smiling and helpful)

If you however have a bit of time to kill waiting for a connection in the UK, you could always send your extended family into the slow queue behind the hundred or so Nigerians in the foreign passport channel, it does sort of make the wait a little less stressful.

Oh yes they will.

Me and my 1 month old baby had to sit around and wait while the missus queued at the non-EU desk.

That was 7 years ago now so maybe they're gotten easier about letting foreigners in.

The magnet thing will not work. First, I doubt that the field it produces is strong enough to degauss a hard drive platter. Second, even if it is, a unchanging magnetic field won't necessarily wipe media -- to really erase, you need a fluctuating field, and then you need to slowly diminish its intensity, so you leave infinitesimally-thin 'layers' in the media in opposite directions. And third, the hard drive is in a metal box.

It would probably work to wrap the drive itself in a few hundred turns of wire, and then connect that to an autotransformer, plugged into AC power, and start it up at some high voltage and then run the voltage slowly down to zero. That would probably be enough to ensure saturation, and then complete elimination of data as you diminish the field and randomize the platters from inside to out.

However there are numerous reasons why no one ever uses this to erase data, some covered already.

Speak to your warrenty provider; most have policies in place to wipe drives as soon as they are sent in.

You should of course want to print it anyway, regardless of the requirements, in order to keep a record for yourself.

I think you need a third option, of being mad at yourself, for not checking up-to-date requirements from a primary source.

My family always go through the Thai line together and all approach the counter at the same time when returning here. No problem at all.

Be it UK or Thailand we've never been told we're in the wrong line.

I went to the UK with my son, wife and mother-in-law. We all went through the UK line together; wife and MIL hold only Thai passports.

Please do the same upon the return to Thailand.

And let us know the result.

Very interesting to see the nationality mix: almost an even split between developed/developing countries, which I wouldn't of expected.

All go through together in the EU channel, you are one family and travelling together.

The only service I can think of is imobile4u, at least I think that's right (Google them).

300 Baht a month if memory serves correct, but I haven't used it for donkeys.

Can't access TV at all on 3BB Bangkok

With you on more straightforward, but agreement stops there.

If you're say in a large corporate network and you complain to IT that your dload speeds are slow. You can bet anything that the IT Dept will run much more robust test than FTP transfer before raising a ticket with their ISP.

You can not say that an FTP transfer test provides available bandwidth with 0 error. That's just silly!

Unfortunately, the results of such an exercise will result in the goodput which is typically less than the maximum theoretical data throughput, leading to people into believing that their communications link is not operating correctly. In fact, there are many overheads accounted for in goodput in addition to transmission overheads, including latency, TCP Receive Window size and system limitations, which means the calculated goodput does not reflect the maximum achievable throughput.

You can use pings to estimate available bandwidth by sending packet trains. Essentially you can characterise the relationship between probing speed and available bandwidth by measuring the one way delay of probing packets. By trying different probing speeds an estimate of available bandwidth can be found.

This is however a highly technical approach. But pings most definitely can be used to assess available bandwidth.

That's true.

I suppose one could, if one had the knowledge and the time. I suppose one could also use a teaspoon to empty a swimming pool, but I doubt that anyone would bother when there are large buckets and pumps available for the same purpose.

But an FTP transfer from a robust server is a far more useful and straightforward measure, well within the grasp of the most non-technical user. It also has the merit of requiring no assessment, and is not an estimation. It just gives the desired answer.

Horses for courses.

You can use pings to estimate available bandwidth by sending packet trains. Essentially you can characterise the relationship between probing speed and available bandwidth by measuring the one way delay of probing packets. By trying different probing speeds an estimate of available bandwidth can be found.

This is however a highly technical approach. But pings most definitely can be used to assess available bandwidth.

is the router/modem yours?

If so log onto the modem and check the speed from there.

That would only tell you the synchronisation speed, which is pretty meaningless.

A ping will only indicate the latency, and eventual lost packets.

An FTP transfer to/from a robust server will tell you the real transfer speed. And of course this is what most (all?) browser-based speed tests actually do.

Background of friend and aggressor? Ages?

Why is the threat of violence considered credible?

OP clearly states he is paying rent to the council for the flat he lives in, so the above is a bit much.

I suggest you start chasing te awarding body. And don't take what the college tells you as gospel truth.

Whilst the college's sponsor licence status is not relevant to your wife, you should still check it. If they do not appear on the Tier 4 Register of Sponsors you know something is afoot. Perhaps they don't accept int'l students, in which case you should re-check their existing accreditation.

You must independently eliminate the college as the cause of the problems.

Your post does suggest the awarding body were guilty of the fraud, though this is not clear. If this were to be true - and the fraud was shut down by UKBA as you put it - one would think the UKBA would remove them from the list of approved bodies.

How long till the application is due?

Seek legal advice ASAP as you may well have to make a late application, which can be a minefield.

Don't submit the application without an original certificate as you'll waste your money. Can't really blame the UKBA over this however I do feel for you.

Rumours abound that various "watermelons" were on board whom the military wanted out of the way.

“... If he wants to enforce the law, he has to do so across the whole island – not just in select locations,” he said.

Fair one.