JoeLing

1. My BIOS is password protected. (the only password I have to enter by keyboard)
2. All other passwords are entered via finger print scanner on my PC not on screen or by keyboard.
3. I don't log in as administrator.
4. For internet I use a proxy server.
5. Security Software: Kaspersky
(Several UK banks, offer "Internet Security 2013" for PC, Android or Mobile free of charge)
6. I block most ports on my PC.
7. My network settings are set to the highest level.

8. All my social networks have only basic info for the public to see.
9. I use Window Washer to clean regularly all traces left behind, when surfing the net.
10. No sensitive data is stored on my PC for more then 24 hours

11. All my documents are stored on a cloud and regularly backed up to a hard drive at home.

Pay the farmers with shares in the upcoming High Speed Railnetwork. By doing so YL makes a smart move and the farmers have great perspectives for them and their next generations.

Now that would probably be a pretty good political move and give her a bit of breathing space.

At least until the "share holders" realize, the high speed train is not operational yet and those

posters are just photoshoped

Maybe a promise of buying more rice, giving every buffalo an iPod and abolish elections might

get some people excited too

Bad, bad people stealing the Military's toys.
Now they don't know what to do anymore ;-)

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CpSrNPQUrQ4

If one doesn't like the wife's haircut,
why stay married to her?

Simon,

Could you please expand a bit on the part about this bus route having a lot of this sort of crime?

I thought the tourist police are there to help, well... tourists. Seems they could have done something other than nothing.

In average at least twice every month, I have customers who had something missing

from their bags when they used Transport Co Ltd on the Bangkok to Surat Thani bus.

But then again, this happen since 40 years and travel guides are warning tourists

about that since many years.

Of course, those people reading all those different travel guides, should maybe start

at the beginning of the books where there is info about the country, their culture and

what is or isn't acceptable behaviour. Sadly, most people I meet just use those travel

guides to find out where there is cheap accommodation or where to find their next

tourist attraction.

As for the police, well we who live in Thailand do know how hard working they are ;-)

but as a foreigner on holiday anywhere in the word, where would one go for help if

not to the police?

BTW - I'm pretty sure, the majority of people who have their stuff stolen do not expect

the police to find their belongings but without a police report, and I assume that's what

most people want the police to do, one can not claim on their [travel] insurance.

So what are the risks for a foreign person having this description/status:

1. He is a European, age 38 and he lives here in Bangkok... He is unmarried, he rents a nice apartment, he does not own anything here (no condo, no car) He has no kids, no permanent girlfriend, etc.

2. He is semi-respectable for a resident "sex-tourist" type... he is very clean-cut, dresses conservatively, no tattoos, no piercings, he does not drink or smoke, and he's never been in any trouble for anything. He presents a very 'clean' image, perhaps almost unusually so for a European guy his age.

3. He is independently wealthy and he does not work.

4. He goes in and out every 30-days, VOA, and he always flies in and out through swampyboom, and he always stays over night offshore one-night or two-nights where ever he goes, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, etc.

Technically, he fits the definition of a foreigner who lives here in LOS on tourist visas. However, he is squeaky-clean and he does not work here. Additionally, he is not making "border runs", per se... (there is always a one-day or two-day offshore break between the exit and the re-entry visa stamps)

However, I'm wondering, what are his risks? On the one hand there is the literal reading of the Thai immigration rules versus how we think it is being enforced.

Comments? Advice?

If this person is "independently wealthy" then it should be easier for him to get a Non-O visa for Thailand

in the embassy in his own country then making border runs every 14/30 days.

The posting is about people entering Thailand without visa and making border runs every 14/30 days.

VOA is not the same as Visa exempt.

Not quite sure what to think about this letter. Although she mentioned some real good points,
there's nothing the world wouldn't have been aware of already. She conveniently forgets to put
all the other crocks in to her equation. At least if she would have commented on all the fractions
involved it would be a brilliant posting but like this? Now, is this letter a reply to a silly statement
of an US Senator or just propaganda aimed at the English speaking readers in Thailand?

First thought, if a Thai-Franco-American lawyer subsidises her income by filling out hundreds
of surveys to make XXX$ every week in order to try to "survive as a Parisian girl" how much
does she earn a week to write letters?

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Who is who in this picture ?

Hard to determine without the point.

Idiots.

The Russian thief is disguised as the petit Thai lady, and the 2 metre tall foreigner is actually the Thai lady incognito

And the bloke in the front must be an MP looking at porn.

As the police are at a meeting somewhere upcountry who are the other two geezers?

Could it be that this law abiding Russian guy just saw an original, fake
copy of a replica iPod and thought it's necessary to confiscate the item?

Since when can private security guards confiscate counterfeits?

I thought a company has first to file a complain to the courts, then
it's the police who will enforce the law and confiscate the items?

Can anyone just employ some thugs, dress them in a funny uniform

then send them out "confiscating" supposing fake items?
Then, once I confiscated the fakes, can I declare them to be originals
and sell them again?

If not, can I sue Blue Sky for stealing my whistles?

Oh dear:

'the police exposed themselves and asked to search him'

Guess that's why he 'took the opportunity to escape'.

Not quite sure why he took the opportunity to escape,

especially having the police exposing themselves?

Well, suppose that Russian guy didn't like spicy sausages

but rather preferred to "consume himself"

Just curious, I've heard of "ping pong shows" but ping pong bombs ??? Can someone enlighten me ?

I too, although I have a picture in my head of a row of nubile young ladies launching ping pong balls like mortars.

Could it be that those men in black were in fact some support from Pattaya ?

I was under the impression that soldiers, in any country, were not legally allowed to perform their regular duties out of uniform.

Or does that only apply to combat?

I could be completely misremembering that.

Anyone?

There are reasons for some army personnel not to wear uniforms.

There is loooodas to read in the Geneva Convention, particularly sections:

Non-uniformed members of armed forces

Uniforms in internal armed conflicts

Not sure if I can mention the ICRC's website here on TV

http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/irrc_853_pfanner.pdf

well, if not, i'll be deleted. Sorry

I was under the impression that soldiers, in any country, were not legally allowed to perform their regular duties out of uniform.

Or does that only apply to combat?

I could be completely misremembering that.

Anyone?

There are reasons for some army personnel not to wear uniforms.

There is loooodas to read in the Geneva Convention, particularly sections:

Non-uniformed members of armed forces

Uniforms in internal armed conflicts

Army performing in plain clothes? Guerrilla warfare?

According to the Geneva Convention:

"The absence of a military uniform usually indicates that a person is a civilian,
is therefore NOT ALLOWED to perform military functions and must not be attacked"

"In an extreme case, the armed forces of a State fighting against a handful of individuals.
In such situations, the almost certain loser has no interest in wearing military uniforms or
other distinctive signs."

"Obviously, the weak army will tend to dispense with its means of identification sooner
rather than later, and individuals fighting in an asymmetrical conflict are even more likely
to conceal their membership of an illegal organization. But the powerful army, if engaged
in such an unequal struggle is also tempted to give up, at least partially, its means of
identification."

Just wonder, if anyone is threatening anyone on Facebook,
isn't that against Facebook rules? Shouldn't Facebook close
that page?

And who does he expect to treat the casualties of Monday or does he not care?

Maybe he is then at the frontline and help there with first aid?!

he is a permanent secretary to the minister of health, not a paramedic.

And he is encouraging doctors and nurses to Abandon their hypocratic oath (if they adhere to such a thing in Thailand) at a time when severe civil unrest is threatened. A totally irresponsible position to take

The Hippocratic Oath is not taken by all doctors as it's not compulsory.

This oath has probably more to do with Christianity then medicine, so

doubt it very much, that doctors will swear on that oath outside Christian

influenced regions.

And an other one in clear defiance of the constitution.

CHAPTER IV

Duties of the Thai People

Section 74. A Government official, official or employee

of a Government agency, a State agency, a State enterprise or

other State official shall have a duty to act in compliance with the

law in order to protect public interests, and provide convenience

and services to the public in accordance with the good governance

principle.

In performing the duty and other acts relating to the

public, the persons under paragraph one shall be politically

impartial............

No respect for the government, no respect for the law, no respect to their own constitution

and then they talk about democracy

U do not get it.

this government is corrupt.

there are no equal rights (law) for all.

the constitution has a lot of loopholes and is outdated.

Here is no democracy, if the majority is looted from few corrupt people.

Why does he say that?

Why people feel this way?

It seems a lot of people in this country are fully feed up with these unethical politicians.

I think he, as a doctor helped more people than all the politicians together in the last 12 years!

Now my comment is not what the government or Thailand is or isn't. My comment

was about politicians who want to topple a democratically elected government in an

unconstitutional way because they say, the government acted against the constitution.

Do you get it?

Doesn't matter at all how many people he helped as a doctor but sure not in the last

12 years. As the permanent Health Secretary he's a politician not a doctor and I doubt

it very much, he will even have seen a single patient. In fact, I'm not even sure if he is

a Doctor of Medicine.?

BTW. Dr Mengele did help many people too - before he started butchering people.

Do you get it?

Suppose you don't quite understand what a constitution is!

A constitution is not something you go change ever couple of years.

A constitution has nothing to do with the present government.

Do you get it?

How can a fundamental document in a democracy whose basic function is to express

guiding national principles, establish basic rules, and limit the power of governments,

be outdated within 7 years?

USA's constitution was established in 1787 and had 27 or 28 amendments, not changes,

and has basically still the same principles as the first constitution had.

Switzerland's modern democratic constitution dates back to 1848 and did have two

total revisions in 1874 and 1999, not a change. Apart from the right of referendum and

the right of initiatives those revision did not change anything of importance in substance.

Germany's "basic rules" or "ground rules" where established in 1919 and remained in

effect throughout the existence of the "Third Reich" until 1947 when it got amended and

approved by the allied nations of the second world war. Since then, a few amendments

but no change in basic rights.

Lifespan of a constitution in Europe and Asia last in average between 19 and 32 years.

In 2006, the 1997 constitution of Thailand—considered by many a model of institutional

design adopted with extensive citizen participation—died a peaceful death in a bloodless

coup at the age of nine.

Fine tuning, amendments, revisions with the participation of all parties and the population

fair enough but an other, new constitution? Thailand's new constitution, not even 7 years

old, is still in his baby shoes. Has not even matured yet and some individuals already want

to change it? Even abolish it !!!

Maybe teach basic politics at school first, so the people of Thailand could have a real

understanding of what democracy, constitution, laws, rights and duties really mean.

Maybe then, Thailand has a democratic future which will benefit every single citizen of this

country and not just the ones who don't care about basic rules.

Do you get it?

Kun Suthep and Abhisit, how long is it since Thailan has Ben involved in a real war?

The "temple war" against Cambodia, only being ment as a minor test of power, and this before conducting their real war, and up against a huge majority of their "fellow" country men.

Who the <deleted> is "Ben" ?

This is the second thread you mentioned this 'Ben"

So who is he? Thai? Norwegian?

Mean while in Thailand - JoeLing get's eaten alive by Mosquitos .......

Some reasons why to chose Koh Phangan,

which ever bungalow or beach you're staying

Why Koh Phangan.png

.... come on now!

Don't tell me you prefer to be stuck in traffic in Pattaya?

Will add a few more after my next trip to Koh Poo Poo, Krappi, and Fukit

Some reasons why to chose Koh Phangan,
which ever bungalow or beach you're staying