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Initial investigations by police found that the bus driver lost control of the steering wheel on the slippery road during wet weather.

Loosing control of any vehicle is usually the precursor to an accident. Awesome detective work on the behalf of these police.

I wonder if the driver will be found to be at fault, for perhaps driving fast under the conditions, or will they simply blame the tourists (i.e. accident would not happen if tourists not there).

I think too much emphasis by bus companies is placed on maintaining their time schedules, such that safety is often overlooked. Until liability is an issue in LOS (and other 3rd world countries), things will continue to be the same, whether it be with a bus, a boat, taxi, etc.

When you ask if they will "permit" you to teach these things do you mean will they get you a work permit to do it or will they allow you to do it...meaning you want to do it for free?

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I am not quite ready to retire yet, so I meant to ask if there is any school that would hire me to work (teach, give instruction, etc) in a subject other than English, and pay me for such efforts. No doubt, this would require a work permit.

I see many TV posts about teaching English, but I rarely read anything about teaching other subjects.

I do not have a teaching degree, much less any teaching experience. I do however have a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree in Computer Science, and a good understanding of the basics of Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. If not already apparent, I am also able to teach programming languages (such as C++ and Java), Object Oriented Design (OOD), and I have a strong command of the English language (US style).

Does anyone know a school that will permit me to teach any of the aforementioned subjects, besides English? Will they require me to know how to speak/write in Thai? Also, any other ancillary information that may help my search for this information would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Believe it or not, it is "work" to stay squeeky clean, considering all of the "mierda" we see everyday in the news. It is easier to steal, kill, etc than the opposite.

For those who opt not to "work" at obeying the laws of the land, let them collect nothing for their deeds.

I have no sympathy for those who have committed crimes. I have never been in jail, and thanks to my moral standards, I will never have such displeasure.

Amnesty International is run by a bunch of pansies that don't quite see the world as it is. They focus too much on the notion of a utopian society, and not much effort in reality. The world is already overpopulated. Kill the criminals, and the world will be better for the rest of us.

Bottom line, crime does not pay, and should not pay, or cost the innocent. Criminals should not commit a crime, and then get treated like a deserving citizen. Punish them harshly... reveal their horror stories while incarcerated, and let that be a lesson to all others.

To pull this issue together with another one I read recently on TV, it is amazing that criminals are afforded more comfort than a harmless dog.

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my answer.... 42.

what photo are we talking about???

Avoid the ACS on Mondays... it seems to be their busiest day. Also, avoid them this upcoming Monday, January 2nd... they are probably closed for the New Year's Day holiday.

Does anyone know how cold the weather is in CR? The news article didn't care to mention it. It would be nice to compare the Thai's viewpoint of "cold" versus the Westerner's.

It would be nice if the Thai gov't will also declare all of LOS a disaster area when it gets bloody hot in the summer. Maybe hand out cold-towels, air con units, and build swimming pools in every neighbourhood!

You should not have any trouble connecting to your linux box using the ADSL provided address, even in you are within your LAN.

I have SSH daemon running on my linux box, and I am able to use either the IP address assigned by the router (which is fixed), or the IP address that my internet provider assigns me (which varies... well, hardly ever).

Rather than trying to memorize the IP address given to me by my provider, I set up a DNS-reporting client on my PC, which reports this IP address to a server somewhere in the outside world (whenever the IP changes). Now, all I have to do is remember the DNS name (which I was able to choose) in lieu of the IP address. For more info on this, visit http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns. The client app is free, as is the service.

P.S. I use the (free) SSH-client that is available from http://www.ssh.com.

Apply for a multiple-entry tourist visa. You can apply for two, three, or more entries.

Each entry is good for 60-days, and can be extended for 30-days within Thailand at an Immigration Office (for 1900 Baht).

When the visa expires, you will be required to leave the country (i.e. border run), and then re-enter the following day utilizing the next visa. Repeat this until you exhaust your multiple-entry visas, or you have a job. Bear in mind that you cannot work with a multiple-entry tourist visa!

If you get offered a job, you will be required to apply for a different type of visa (non-imm b?) and also apply for a work permit. This is all done outside of Thailand (folks say that Penang is best place to go).

Query (google) TV for more info on what is needed for the non-imm b visa and work permit.

P.S. You might also want to weigh the option of applying for a non-imm o-a (?) visa for retirees, since you are at the magical age of 50. But I am not sure what impact there will be if you get this visa, and then start looking for work.

Well in a perfect world this is what one would do, but there are risks in doing so. The pisshead decides he will try to beat the shi*e out of you or wreck said establishment. BTW you can't argue with a drunk - might as well talk to a bloody wall. Remember he is a customer too, and as long as he isnt harming everyone - most Thai(s) will ignore it rather than confront.

Personally I'd tell the lad to fk off, and then prepare for a scrap, but not lot of people are like this, so better to make an exit or be his new best mate until you are ready to leave.

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I get the feeling the OP is a female....

Just ignore him....if he becomes more belligerent, ask the staff to call the police very loudly....it sounds like his mate was less drunk and he would probably get his mate out of there.

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I also got the impression that the OP is a woman, but I could be wrong.

My advice... never get in a fight when you can get someone else to do the fighting for you. Like I said earlier... get restaurant mgmt involved, or as someone else said, call the police.

If you must fight, never do it in a public venue. Do it discreetly and execute extreme prejudice so that the incident will not come back to haunt you.

I hope this new plan serves as a deterrent against drink-driving.

It is always a catch-22 situation when you penalise the drunk driver too severely, because all to often, this is the same person that is the bread-winner for his family.

Imposing heavy fines, siezing vehicles, and excess jail time are all great, and can serve as deterrents, but at the end of the day, most do not heed the call to drive responsibly.

The gov't should also consider offering free (or reduced fare) transport for those who make the right decision to not drive while pissed. This works in some major cities in the US, but in rural areas I doubt there is anything like this.

show some backbone. ignore the bloke. don't buy him drinks. and if you are at a restaurant or bar, tell the management that you are dissatisfied with the environment because you are being harrassed by someone. in some finer establishments, you might be excused from paying the bill. if the management refuses to take action, tell them you will never return, and that you will pass the story of your bad experience to your friends, and then your friends will pass the story to theirs, and so on.

any respectable business (owner) does not want to tarnish good business relationships because of one or two unruly customers.

Or delay both dates 10 days and come out when you have a  visa

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Thetyim has it right. The most logical, and perhaps the easiest thing to do is simply delay your departure from the US until you have the visa.

If it is at all possible, hand carry your visa request (with cash in hand) the the RT Consulate in LA. It is easy to find, parking is a cinch, and there are generally no crowds there. I really think that the "two week" time period mentioned on their website is merely to denote the worst case scenario. Generally the visa is ready the next day.

What??? Thailand is going to war with....???

oh, chickens and the bird flu. ok, i got it. Thailand definitely has to send those infected chickens out of the country, and Russia is a good of place as any.

If temps in Thailand fall to 5 C, at any time of the year, please let me know where. To me, that is the place to buy property!

For those who cannot afford property, but can afford a drink or two, at least buy a jacket.

Cheers to all. Be careful not to become a statistic this winter.

I'm piss drunk right now.

BTW, 1/77 + 29/65 = (1 * 65)/(77 * 65) + (29 * 77)/(65 * 77)... which equals some number more than zero, but less than one... say approx 0.5 just for grins.

I think that even Thais know this answer.

If not, then perhaps I have a job as a drunk mathematician.

All joking aside, we each do what we are "programmed" to do... learn a trade, and practice it. Some are more fortunate than others, and have the opportunity to learn other facts that may embellish their livelihoods. Great... more kudos to them.

The only result of WWII that I think we can all agree on, is that we each have the freedom to say our opinion about whatever we think. I believe that this is the fundamental right that every person should have... educated or not.

How is a person who thinks he/she is "right" to feel satisfied, if there is not something "wrong" to compare against?

Personally, I love to teach, and also to learn.

Have you considered using a plastic tube to siphon water from one source into the other?

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Actually I bought a siphon tube in Big C to clean out the fish tanks every so often and that works very well.

Buadhai, I also have a battery powered (2 D cells) water pump for the 20 litre bottles that I bought at Lotus Tesco in BKK or Makro.

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Funny, after I made my post about the siphoning tube, I though... hmmm, maybe the pumps are probably located the next aisle over at the same store, at a similar price.

I heard this "news" on RadioBangkok. I cannot believe that that the Public Health Minister thinks that the "cold" and the consumption of alcohol are issues in Thailand.

I guess he worries that someone will fall asleep on the curb side, and suffer from hypothermia, if not death, with nightly temperatures near 20C. That is rich!

It seems that this Minister had no original ideas of his own, so he posted something that he clipped from the Russian press, and changed a few things so that the word "Thai" or "Thailand" are in there. Is this what he was taught to do in school... plagiarize?

Anyhow, seriously, if you are going to drink a lot of alcohol this Xmas/New Years season, please do so cautiously if you plan spending any time in a freezer at a Thai restaurant or 7-11.

I thought that Beer Chang already came in a light version... the small bottle.

You have "yai" and "lek", the latter weighing in less than the former.

(Forgive me if my Thai phonetical spelling is off).

Ok, not quite the same restuarant that I'm familiar with, but the post caught my eye.

Here's the P&W I know about: http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/pigandwhistle/

Here you go:

http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dic...er=score%2Cname

Very useful is Google

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Cool... then I am an ex-pat. I was born in Iceland, but now I live in the US, with US citizenship. By the way, I also looked up the word "native" from your source... a native is "a person born in a specified place".

Anyhow, Morden, not quite the response I was looking for, but Merry Xmas anyhow.

I think this is more to do with uninterested and appathy more than anything.  I'm sure that there are World history and geography class that every Thais have to take in the secondary school.  They probably know it before the exam and immediately forget it afterward.  This situation happen in the US as well with the whole "Why do the rest of the world hate us so badly" 

Many Thais in my generation is mostly uninterested in current affairs in general.  Let alone the issues surronding Thai politics (Who can blame them)

Soon, The only place that you can disscuss about current affairs will be in the Universities where only the professors will talk among themself!

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Danbkk, I agree with you... this is notion is universal, especially in more developed nations where the honey-bees become too specialized in one area, at the expense of learning another.

I am a software engineer... I wish sometimes I had studied to becomee a civil engineer (so as to know how to build a house), or a mechanical engineer (to build an ice-box), or a chef to learn to make a good meal from scraps. But it seems that I do not have the luxury of time to learn everything. The same can be said for others, including Thai.

I have read many TV posts where the term "ex-pat" is used. It always seemed to me that an ex-pat is a person who totally gives up (denounces?) their country of citizenship, and would prefer never to return to such country (for whatever reasons).

Does this apply to the ex-pats that I hear about on TV? Or is the ex-pat term merely used as a descriptor for those person living in Thailand (i.e. not visiting as a tourist)?

I hear that it is very difficult, if not near impossible, to become a Thai citizen if you are a farang. Therefore, for those who have not attained Thai citizenship, you must still deal with your country of citizenship (for renewed passports and other docs) in some way or form, right? Therefore, do you still think of yourself as an ex-pat?

congratulations spuds... probably the best Xmas present you will ever get.

I received a basket full of chocolate confections, cheese crackers, and one stick of sausage. The basket is worth keeping! The rest, well I will share it with friends as they stop by the house.

By the way, what makes this gift so special and interesting, is that it was given to me by the company that terminated my employment on Nov 30.

A Xmas not too forget!