55Jay

8 hours ago, joloit said:

I always compare Immigration with the road traffic in Thailand.

Sorry, but gradually I'm getting the feeling, that they doing all of this nonsense on purpose.

Even that's giving them credit they don't deserve. 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2019/08/30/immigration-bosses-say-tm30-fix-underway-plead-for-understanding/

2 hours ago, zydeco said:

Why is this good news? The TM 30 is still in place and the TM 6 was no inconvenience whatsoever.

Nor was the TM28, apart from the 24 hour time frame to report that you've moved house.

I wonder what it's like being in the room for their reform strategy meetings. 

They must spend a lot on bananas.

Just now, mauGR1 said:

 

Have it ever occurred to you that something like the 10 commandments are just a general directive for a peaceful co-habiting ?

Would you really like it if your money gets stolen, your wife raped, your children killed ?

 

I have not much sympathy for organised cults of any sort, yet i have a hard time understanding the hate.

Like almost everything, religion has a bright and a dark side, is it so difficult to understand that ?

No, it's not difficult to understand at all.  Nor is the fact I was talking to someone else regarding an assertion about genetic propensity, and gave some examples. 

But I do enjoy the crusader's sense of balance and smarmy suggestion that failing to list the good with the bad means the errant commentor must be ignorant that such high-minded concept exist.
 

Back to sipping your "Oh gawd, this is so beneath my level of brilliance" cup of coffee.

Have a nice day.

^ Except for incarcerated prisoners.  Many join a religion for the slight gain in freedoms/movement.  As well as easy points at the parole board.  Again.  Religion = Good Person.  Prisoners get a good laugh at how easy that is. 

25 minutes ago, Dolmance said:

Maybe certain people, possibly a majority, are genetically programmed to believe in a higher being, of which I am one.

It's programming alright, but not genetic. More accurately, post-birth conditioning and indoctrination.  Quite often at the hands of the people we, as small children, a captive audience, must rely upon for our basic needs.

There are other paths to religion beyond feeling inadequate or unfullfilled, such as fitting in to a social group.  Shotgun coversion in order to marry a finance and be accepted by his/her family.  Traumatic events.  Drug/alcohol/sexual orientation recoveries.  Incarcerated prisoners - another captive audience.  Calamities in 3rd world countries can be a conversion windfall.

The common thread, and cautionary tale, is these folks are exploitable in some way.  Kids don't have a choice.  In later life, it's the ones at rock bottom in some way, emotional strife, who are most vulnerable to offers without full disclosure.   Ironic that it can wind up feeling like you dun a deal with the devil.  Tough divorce procedures for some, can get nasty.

Genetic?  Naw.  All in your head.  Literally.  Sadly, foolish western society, USA and christianity in particular, still has its arm twisted into equating "Being Religious" with "Being a Good Person". 

Prayuth has just learned a 100,000 Baht lesson.  Engage brain before mouth.  

I see the fear mongering propoganda machine is still in high gear.  

Oh, and this guy, and his wife.  The Vaping "EPIDEMIC"!  ????

1 hour ago, Suradit69 said:

Much like Brexit. Oh wait, no one's sorted that yet.

Uh oh, touched the nerve.  Boing! 

The primary reason I am "stuck" here is my own apathy.   I know I should get off my a** as the gap in my CV only gets bigger, obviously.  Whatever network I had before is dead, folks move on, haven't kept in touch.  Coasting along in Thailand has been far too easy.

Might as well start taking donations for the next unforeseeable calamity. 

Already well commented upon, but my first blush was us "legal" aliens are helping to pay the bin with our TM30 fines as well. 

No problem with Thai Immigration running out the riff raff from the country.  They are the ones who make it harder for us "legal" aliens, and all the s**t we've endured in the past 2 years, and moresoe in the last 9 months, is due to their nonsense.

Can't move everything, like the stock Apps that came with the phone, but some of the ones you've installed that couldn't be moved, can be.  Give it a try.  Cheers, 55J.

Maybe old-hat for more advanced users, which I'm not, so sharing for low to mid-level Users like me. 

Added an SD card to my 3 year old Samsung phone recently, which has modest 16gb Internal Phone Memory.  Moved photos, vids and some Apps to the SD card but noticed some Apps weren't able to be moved, so I still get the occassional "Low Storage Space" warning. 

Came across this vid showing how to turn on the phone's "Developer Mode", which is normally hidden from view - I had no idea about it.  Afterward, able to toggle on a setting allowing Apps to be "force" moved onto the SD card.  Worked as advertised, allowing a more comfortable margin for the phone's internal memory. 

1 minute ago, brokenbone said:

yes, i used to have various firefox pages open,

i had no idea browsers can be that consuming,

this has got to be a somewhat new phenomena

Yup.  Shut down as much as you can to free up resources, and the game ought to run more smoothly.  Keep the laptop cool as you can as well, especially while you're putting heavier load on the vid card.

And if you're not using Cortana in Win10, disable that krap in the registry - takes a few steps, how to vids all over Youtube. 

Heading out the door, good luck. ////

Ah, ok.  Back on post #10, Peterw42 hit the recommended gear to run that game you're playing.  Looks like you're a bit light on the laptop specs, and if you've got anything else running in the BG while in game-play, performance is going to suffer.  @Peterw42

Yeah, my FF usually hovers in the 600 range without much load on it.  

Apart from hardware, seems like you've nailed down a likely suspect. 

As an aside, tweaking some settings and shutting certain functions off in a new Win10 install is one of the first things I do.  Usually watch this vid, or one like it, to refresh my memory.  If this is way under your 'puter knowledge and capabilities, disregard, no sweat.

OP:  Did the update uninstalls and/or a restore operation do the trick?

Not the brightest bulbs in the box.  The cops, that is. 

Are these suspects compelled in some way to perform these things?