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I thought in order to sue for defamation the statements have to be knowingly false? But it seems like the Lebua management were in fact headhunting at other hotels?

Are you sure?

The online schedule for True sport 1 is showing:

UBC Chanel : True Sport 1

Date : 27/03/2008

Start time Program

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00:00 Live From Ot

00:30 Lfc Now

01:00 Calcio Serie A 2007/2008

02:30 Mutv

03:30 Calcio Serie A 2007/2008

05:00 Heart Of Goals

I've been looking through the ESPN and Starsports listings and i don't see the England vs France friendly showing up. Does anyone know if it is on TV? 3am right?

EMS cannot be tracked through the Thaipost website. This function does not work. I went to

the post office and had a detailed discussion with them about this. They can print you off a

tracking sheet giving you the itinerary of your package on their internal system but it can't

be checked on the internet similar to fedex. Tracking function on Thaipost's website is disabled.

You will repeatedly get an error message saying item has not been entered into system.

It does not take 3-5 days. They may tell you 3-5 days but I've sent probably 4 packages with

this method and they all arrive in 7-10 days. So, while it has always arrived it does call into

question paying a premium for a service you don't really get or is misrepresented slightly.

It's 3-5 business days. So if there is a weekend in the middle that is 5-7 regular days. I ship packages on a weekly basis. They are rarely late with EMS.

Also their tracking system is not disabled, it is available here:

http://track.thailandpost.co.th/trackinter...lt.aspx?lang=en

Here's a tracking number just to prove that it works:

EE073486570TH

EMS can be tracked through the Thai Post website, plus once it arrives it can also be tracked through (most) countries local mail websites.

(Auspost, USPS, Royal Mail websites etc...)

EMS takes 3-5 business days.

Airmail (10-14 business days) also comes with a tracking number, but this only shows up in the tracking system once it arrives in the destination country.

(Basically it doesn't "track" the package, but just confirms that it has arrived)

UPS has detailed tracking, but from my experience they are totally crap. I had a package delivered to US and signed for by "Porch".

The person never received the package, and we called UPS to ask why. They (Thai UPS service center) said "Yes the package was signed for by Mr. Porch". At which point we had to explained to them that in US "Porch" actually means the door step, and we highly doubted the person who signed for it was actually called Porch.

They then "investigated" for about 2 weeks, we continued to call them about it, in the end they told us they had been in touch with the recipient and he had confirmed the package had now arrived.

A month later the person who had supposedly received the package contacted me asking about why the package had still not arrived.

Basically UPS had totally lied to us about ever contacting the recipient, they don't even have a record of any investigation ever being initiated.

Its now over 5 months since we shipped the package, and we are still waiting for them to "process" the refund.

Also their rates are pretty outrageous IMHO.

I agree with the OP on Vandalism. All you have to do it ride the BTS to MRT and his point is proved (ever ridden the subway in NYC?).

I disagree about violence and general crime, which seems to be just as high here.

I need a place to live, i got money for it but i dont have Visa here in Thailand.

i dont have any money, if i get a place to live i can work, get money pay the 20k baht fee and buy a ticket to Norway.

Did you forget your financial status between posts?

You're worried about needing a visa to get an apartment, but you don't seem bothered about getting a job without a visa?

I remember back in the US at school we had Community Service days; one of the activities was often beach clean up.

Maybe you could try and persuade a local school that it would be good for the kids to do some community service.

A lot of people may think it is totally out of the question and Thais are community service adverse, but my wife is doing community service at least a few times a month, in the form of volunteering at a low income day care, reading to blind kids, etc... She normally organizes a group to go; so this leads me to believe there must be quite a few Thais willing to do community service.

Invite him over, drug him, cut his brain out and serve it up to him.

You should have roundhouse kicked the lot of them back to the stone age.

I hope sensei bitch slapped you for your failure!

Asking for directions is always a good option

A year or so ago i looked into a 7/11 franchise and basically decided it wasn't worth it because the way the earnings are setup.

You'd think "You sell 1 beer Chang for 38baht, 7/11 Franchise sells it to you at 34baht and you earn 4baht"...WRONG!

7/11 sets a projected target profit for each month based on historical data.

If you bring in less profit than the target you get say 15,000 baht

If you hit the target you get say 25,000baht

If you exceed the target say 25,000 plus X times the exceeded amount/Y

Which is all well and good for the first year, as you might be able to smash their forecasts, but what about the year after that, and after that, when the forecast is based on what you did last year.

So you've got to be constantly out doing yourself, and for what (pretty much chump change), the only ones getting rich is the central 7/11 corporation.

I can't imagine the amount of stress that goes into owning a 7/11, but even if you totally rocked at running the store and making sales, you'd probably max out at 50,000baht a month profit, based on their wacky profit system.

But maybe i misunderstood something.

I would assume they could leave some kind of a mark if the car was left directly in the sun all day...?

Or maybe they just do it so people don't stick pamphlets under them

ahh yes, the 9th month; thats the tricky one.

Most of the time affiliates programs are geared so that most people fall short of the collection threshold.

For example:

- You have to collect a certain amount of credits before you can cash out. So you may "have" $25 in your affiliates account for a couple of sales you referred, but you can't touch it until you get to $100.

- Credits expire; this works well in conjunction with the above.

- Cookies expire; ie something goes to their site via your link, then a week later they come back and buy something but you don't get any credit cuz the cookies already expired.

All these are details you should consider when looking at an affiliates program.

Lifetime cookies, a low cash-out threshold and non-expiring credits is what you should look for.

so what iexactly distinguishes a fake from a kit car?

Good point; for example:

http://www.kitcar.com/lamboreplicasforsale.html

Are all these cars illegal?

I don't understand the logic behind putting a fake Ferrari on show for people to marvel at in an attempt to stop piracy?

"Hey look how cool this is....IT'S BAD!"

Maybe you should offer to pay their service and gas separately.

Have them keep all the gas receipts and you pay all the gas. Then give them a fix fee for their services.

This way they will not discover they miscalculated the gas cost and leave you hanging.

My father in-law (Thai) has been staying in the hospital for the last few days as he has a problem with a disc in his back.

My wife went to stay with him yesterday and one of his friends had recommended some kind of fortune-telling Buddhist medicine man to him.

So this medicine man shows up and says "You'll be better in a couple of days", he then goes on to say my father in-law needs to buy a cow in order to get better. Claiming that my father in-law killed many cows in his past life; kind of strange as he doesn't eat any meat except fish.

The cow costs 12,000 baht and the medicine man asks for the cash, he will go buy a cow from a slaughter house and then they can do a ceremony on Friday and give the cow to a farmer; who will not kill it.

At this point my father in-law is convinced that this 12,000 baht cow is the way to go, but my wife tries to convince him that maybe he should at least wait and pay the cash on the day that they actually buy the cow.

Medicine man seems put out that my wife doesn't trust him; and then proceeds to do some fortune telling; to prove his powers.

So he says the following for my wifes fortune:

1) She is not yet married, and her current boyfriend will not last very long

She is married

2) She is not yet 25

She's almost 26

3) She will have a serious accident 15 days after her 25th birthday, so she should go ahead and book the hospital now (i'm not joking)

She's already had her 25th birthday without any accidents

4) She will marry a governor

I am not a governor

.. and the false predictions go on and on, but my wife just listens on, without "breaking his face".

He then says that in the past she said some bad things behind her father's back, so she should also come to the ceremony with some flowers and apologize to her father; in some kind of ceremonial way. (she never actually said bad things about her father)

My wife then asks her father, "Do you think David (me) should come to the ceremony", and the medicine man asks "Who's David", and my wife tells him that i'm her husband.

The medicine man then asks why the name doesn't sound Thai, and if i am a foreigner. He then explains that he was unable to detect me because i am a foreigner and thus "too far away".

But not conceding anything he goes on to state that we will either break up or one of us will die soon anyways. And that my wife should definitely book that hospital room for her 25th birthday; and my wife decided to tell him that she is already 25.

He did not have any response for this so just changed the subject.

But here's the kicker; my father in-law still wants to go ahead with the cow ceremony, plus gave the guy 5,000 for his hospital consultation.

I reckon all said and done this guy will probably take my father in-law for over 20,000 baht. No doubt the whole cow thing is a scam, buy it from the slaughter house for 12,000...sell it back tomorrow for 10,000 and everyone is happy.

I mean even in you believe in mystical healers and such, why would you believe in a guy who just told you a fortune which was total wrong on every point?

I wish i had $2.3billion, then i could afford to have some sideburns like these:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billio...Taxis_0PW3.html

If you are a US citizen still with a valid US address it is well worth getting the debit card. It makes my live here so much easier, costs only $1 transaction fee to take money out at a Thai ATM. (Bank of American charges $5 a pop!)

And no fee, actually i get 1.5% cash back, when using the card at a store.

Plus exchange rate is not too bad (except if you let a cashier charge your card in USD)

Normally they put your passport into the shredder at immigration and stick you in the IDC for missing a rent payment, consider yourself lucky and best lay low for the next 10-15 years.

Clearly extortion, surely the police should be called.

My father in-law told me he "used to be a dog", and I would not disagree; except maybe with the "used to be" part.

I was looking at a similar plan and put all the payments and payouts into excel.

Then along side it i set up a column if i just stuck the same payments into the bank at like 2% and withdrew the same payouts at the same time.

Putting it in the bank was a better return.

The endowment only made sense if you die within a certain time frame (ie first 5 years or last 2 year or something). Otherrwise you would have had more money in the bank than the endowment paid out on death.