damian7000

they're not tired at all of it. my buddy used to overstay all the time. they welcomed him with open arms whenever he was leaving. they loved the guy.

so in the last year or 2, just off the top of my head beyond the strength of the baht...

land entry - 2 weeks

150 baht ATM fees

prison if you overstay

.... more is coming.

The question then becomes, how many weeks will they keep this up?

There is a better chance of them being pulled to the side to pay yet another fine, than actually going to jail.

this is exactly what it is.... i love how people are applauding this move.

all it is is another squeeze and they'll be coming up with new ones for us everyday. you'll be feeling it sooner rather than later.

There were similar joint operations throughout the country in the 90's; they would shut down whole red light districts at a time ; then the situation was improved ; less under age girls, no more naked table snogging, some "cabarets" closed .Quite a sudden change.

And of course bust of many poppy fields ; result was end of easy & pure ya saï tit, and appearance of ya ba.

this does nothing but raises the prices of drugs and puts more burden on the state to house the busted...surely it will cause more violence and crime as prices go up and users need to do more to get their fix.... crime means nothing more than business to law and the DEA especially. legalize it or stop fighting it and those guys are out of the job. come up with places that 'need cleaning up' and it means business.

it doesn't help that the law and government (both thai and american) are often some of, if not the biggest crooks in town.

3, buffalo is fine.

Both of My Buffalo 500gb USB powered external drives have a Seagate drive inside.

i still think it's fine... but maybe not for this guy since he is trying to stay away with seagate.. nothing wrong with that... i do think WD is the best choice regarding warranty and quality imo.... hitachi is fine too regarding quality but not sure about warranty policies.

Disgusting man. Unfortunately, even if his actions were "above the norm", the attitude of Thai police that they are the law - not servants of the law - is very much the norm, at least so I have seen in my 8 years of living here.

I hope more people, both Thai and foreign, have a go at corrupt coppers to their face in the future (as I do) rather than accept it as a Thai custom. I consider it my civic duty to do so. And yes, I know that in the future there might be 'repercussions' - but you can say the same with almost any disagreement in this country. Besides, I'm a stoic and I'm not willing to take unwarranted rubbish off someone whose salary comes from the tax I pay. If I do something wrong, then fair enough - otherwise $?&% off!

Having recently moved to Phuket, I had to laugh at the recent 2-page article in the Phuket Post that stated that corruption is 'impossible' by the Patong police department. Ridiculous, I hear corruption stories almost every day, both from the public and policemen.

I know the Abhisit government has put a fairly high priority on reforming the police, but I don't think they have the manpower to sack and replace the lot of them, which is not far off what is needed.

i've actually found the thai police to be far more chill than american cops. i've spoken to thai cops and immigration in ways that would of had me in jail and probably beaten to a pulp if i'd spoken that way to law back home... i've also run from cops on my motorbike when not having my helmet on and they just say eh, mai pen rai and have never chased me. in america i'd be in jail for that. these guys aren't so bad.

OK, it looks like I'm leaning towards a 500gb 2.5" portable and lots on the market now.

2 questions remain......

1] Do the smaller [lower rpm] portables run cooler?? I am a believer that it is heat that kills hds.....2 hot seagates fried on me.

2] and I have one of those 7" screen portable tv/dvd/usb for the kids to watch movies while traveling and would the portable hd work in that?? be recognised like a flash drive?? better than bringing a lot of flash drives or dvds.

3] and I'm now seeing lots of 'buffalo' on the market now.....to me that's a new name.....but is it a 'no name'??

1, yes lower RPM drives will GENERALLY run cooler..especially if transmitting lots of data at a time.

2, unlikely that plugging the usb portable into the portable DVD will work.

3, buffalo is fine.

Reliability is a crapshoot??

So, you're saying Damian that all hd's are created same same/crap?? The 'story' that I've heard is that locally made seagates and wds are cheap replacable [for 5 yrs] crap and that if you want a hd that lasts, then you have to go with the big name brands......samsung, hitachi and toshiba.

Your idea of a buying a 2.5 case and hd separately can save afew baht and I may go for that and go with a branded hd......anything but seagate!!

what's the best 500gb-1tb hd in ur opinion??

and do they run cool?? I think that my seagate failures have been due to overheating.

touch of grey......how do you know??

... basically yes, all hd's are created same same in regards to choosing one that might or might not fail...assuming we're talking about one of the major brands.... sometimes you can determine reliability better through model than through brand...but even that is just guess work...so yes, all hd's are basically cheap/replaceable and usually no matter the brand don't expect it to last more than 3 years. which is a pretty long time considering it's got all those little moving parts in there and the relatively inexpensive price..i mean the amount of storage you get for the price is really quite remarkable imo. i remember when 20 MEGA(not giga)byte hard drives were $600.

if you really want something that lasts, look at SSD, but they are way too pricy at this point imo.

it's actually funny (well not funny, but...) you mentioned seagate as being crap because it's generally considered to be one of if not the most reliable hd manufacturer's. seagate and wd are considered to be at the top. that's all they really concentrate on is HD's. computer 'geeks' usually don't even consider toshiba, hitachi etc... not to say they're bad, but they're not considered to be up there with WD and Seagate... WD is known to have the best warranty program.

i would go with WD if not for their warranty alone.... they run relatively cool, though contrary to popular belief high HD temperatures do not usually correlate with drives going bad. also with utilization (how often the hard drive is actually being used) there is only weak correlation between the amount of time the drive is in use and it's failure rate... one thing to keep an eye on is SMART status. a drive is 39x more likely to fail within 60 days once SMART read errors start showing up. not to say they can't fail w/o smart errors showing up...but it's a good indicator.

re touch of grey, saw your avatar i'm gonna listen me some dead right now...

not much of an article "thai women go to make money selling sex in sweden". it has to read 'exploited' and 'taken advantage of' and 'poor innocent'. and when the ring gets busted it's 'oh, we thought we were going to be cleaning houses'. it's really quite amazing what the media and a young pretty face can have people believing.

laptop or desktop?

regardless,i'd get a 2.5" SATA usb case for about b150-400 and 2.5" western digital.

i would partition 50/50 or 33/33/33 . i'm not sure it offers many advantages (or disadvantages) unless you're running multiple operating systems or dual booting.... i still do it. for me it just neatens things up...documents and important files on one, movies and music on another...or some such. though of course it can be done with folders also. one advantage is you can format them separately if you want/need whereas if it wasn't partitioned you'd have to format the entire drive.

It would be for both a laptop and a pc and that's why i am leaning towards the smaller USB powered for 'on the road' portability. Seemed like in the old days [2 yrs ago] the choices here were only WD and Seagate, but Now I'm seeing many other possible options....Toshiba, WD, and too many others.

the smaller more portable units mostly run at slower rpms......is that good or bad or mai pen rai??

...really recommend you just get a USB SATA case and 2.5" drive separate. especially if you'll be using it with your laptop too. the 2.5" cases are small, thin and light, you can choose your size,rpm and brand and if you ever wanted you could just pop that drive out of the case and into any laptop compatible with SATA. maybe even set a 20-50gb partition as the first one in case you want to install an operating system on it someday.

regarding 5400 vs 7200. not a big difference. especially over USB. if you think you might want to use it in a laptop someday, the 7200 could provide some benefit, but with everyday use most people won't be able to tell the difference...

touch of gray

as far as reliability, it's really a crapshoot and may depend on model moreso than brand.

What is your evidence they donot want farang students at the school, are you just shooting from the lip.

sounds like you're the one 'shooting from the lip'. did you read the post? you must of not been here long enough to even begin to understand how we're tolerated at best by most thai and less than dirt to many.

Take the "law lid" off, it's like prohibition, only nourishes the dark side of it... the so called "oldest trade" of the world... nothing will make it vanish over night - be human, give those sexworkers rights, a green-and healthcard and let them pay taxes and for health security and social benefits!

This it not the issue. The issue is of how people getting tricked into illegal activities. It doesn't stop at prostitution.

bullcrap and it's fully the issue. they know well what they're getting into. thai women weren't born yesterday.

they may know a thing or two but aren't able to understand the full extent of transnational crime syndicates.

growing up in thai society, i think they can at least guess.. i'm saying these girls aren't nearly as innocent and 'exploited' as the media portrays it. somehow whenever work has to do with sex it's immediately disgusting and horrid and dirty, but working in a factory 100 hours a week for 3000 baht a month while the owners are getting rich off them isn't considered as bad. please, most of these women are more than happy to lay on their backs and do what they do when given the alternatives.

laptop or desktop?

regardless,i'd get a 2.5" SATA usb case for about b150-400 and 2.5" western digital.

i would partition 50/50 or 33/33/33 . i'm not sure it offers many advantages (or disadvantages) unless you're running multiple operating systems or dual booting.... i still do it. for me it just neatens things up...documents and important files on one, movies and music on another...or some such. though of course it can be done with folders also. one advantage is you can format them separately if you want/need whereas if it wasn't partitioned you'd have to format the entire drive.

Take the "law lid" off, it's like prohibition, only nourishes the dark side of it... the so called "oldest trade" of the world... nothing will make it vanish over night - be human, give those sexworkers rights, a green-and healthcard and let them pay taxes and for health security and social benefits!

This it not the issue. The issue is of how people getting tricked into illegal activities. It doesn't stop at prostitution.

bullcrap and it's fully the issue. they know well what they're getting into. thai women weren't born yesterday.

i love how the news continues to portray this as 'exploiting' as if the thai women had no clue what they were getting into and wouldn't be working 100 hours a week in a factory for 1/50th of the pay back in their home country.

I think those "electric wires" are actually telephone wires.

yea, with internet cable and power cable and megaphone cable and anything else you can imagine cable twisted and knotted around them.

these people got no right driving anything other than motorbikes. watching them try to drive cars or trucks reminds me of borat trying to use a cell phone.

GoneNative wrote:

Why did this happen to us?

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun GoneNative,

Sorry to see you have not received a bit more sympathy on this thread. What happpened, whatever its cause, is deplorable, and undoubtedly traumatic for you and your wife. And, the owner's behavior is reprehensible.

you fraggin' people have been in thailand for too f'n long. this dude goes to a restaurant and has this happen to him and you're saying 'oh, you weren't really beat up were you?', 'why'd you leave your wife in there like that?'. i'd like to know the name of the place. go over there and take a piss in the corner of his restaurant.

you can say that again!

Like letting a butcher do an autopsy

good now that that's out of the way. stop being lazy and get to researchin'.

it has nothing to do with pay. B15000 is triple what the average non government worker makes. it has to do with how they spend it. stop buying fancy cars and big tv's and you'll be fine.

Hello -anybody there?I'm asking about the collection of documents on this site!I want to know about them do you understand?

i really think you are the most obtuse poster I've come across for some time

now i understand. you just want to know about the pictures... that i understand. it's a healthy interest and not above unreasonable request. but calling him irresponsible or that he's not being intelligent, or whatever else you accused him of for not satisfying your whims on what you think was the right way to post in a picture posting thread....erm... that was my only point. guy's already spent many hours posting these and renaming them... praise his efforts thus far.

in answer to your question. i think it's quite clear. nobody's home.

While I certainly don't condone his life choices or actions by preying on young victims. Why was this young girl put in the circumstance to be victimized in the first place? And as another poster mentioned, why did it take almost 6 months to execute the arrest warrant? Gathering evidence or money?

Also, confiscating his passport is against international law as far as I have read, the passport is the property of the nation that issued it. To quote the German Consul to Phuket: "Passports are the property of the issuing state and should not be withheld by the host country." See link to article: Phuket Consuls Meet

this is a scary scary place to be accused of anything. i wouldn't trust the thai courts to find the general truth of a a traffic ticket let alone cases like these...condoms and viagra and pornography? must of been molesting children ..it's obvious isn't it?

you don't like someone, or they slighted you? just go to the police and say they molested your daughter... or throw a packet of ya-baa in their yard and tell the police they are dealing.. instant bye bye.. well, may be more complicated than that..but get the drift.. lay low and mind your business and don't make enemies. '

i don't condone bangin' 14 year olds, but feel sorry for this guy more than anything.

personally I would never buy a unit with a built in HDD. They offer no upgrade options in the future and are pain in the a$ if something goes wrong.

Buy the best case / NAS unit you can find, or can afford, and then buy the HDD to go with it.

Agree... if you want portable, just buy a 2.5" SATA USB case and then a SATA 2.5" WD or Seagate drive and plug 'er in. Though may have trouble finding 2tb in 2.5". 1tb should be doable.

Pattaya is the toilet of The World.

may be true, but it sure is fun takin' a pss there

Yes I have seen this already. Some airlines are even thinking of trying bed bunks.

How cheap a ticket are people prepared to pay?

You won't be a customer but just a package.

Trust the Yanks to think of these things first, I was expecting airasia maybe.

epic failure of a post. europeans were the ones that dreamed this up. it will be shown at the american expo.

Sounds good. There's also a couple million guys wandering around in orange that could be contributing to the state.

haha...my thoughts exactly. most are not much more than smart(er) bums who have found a way to get food and shelter given to them by the rest of society...and be revered at the same time to boot