linuxuser010101

One does not need to go to East St. Louis to know it is the most dangerous city in the US, your argument is flawed and the other posters are correct you seem to have some interest to protect the red light district, I sure wouldn't take my daughters there. This is a nice thread for potential tourists to see how poorly the expats in Thailand behave.

I think Loy Kroh is undesirable as well not to mention the smell, I know a lot of people that live here that will not go to Loy Kroh Road. But other than that yeah, Chiang Mai is generally a very safe place as mentioned.

Thus you miss my point and do what you accuse me of.

I'm a secular humanist-atheist-Zen Buddhist and I was a Zen monk for more then 10 years. This is my reality and I can live with it no matter if someone else's reality has difficulty accepting it because I do not need their acceptance nor do I feel the need to be part of their reality, in fact they can keep their reality if it means believing in superstition and magic. I have a hard time believing that scientific Western minds have religions with invisible friends that smite people now that is ridiculous! I do not judge others, I do not debate others, I do not bother others nor do I tell others (usually) what they think is ludicrous, laughable and absurd, I refrain because I am a Secular Humanist and a Zen Buddhist and I have metta for them and hope they too can escape ignorance and find some sort of liberation in this life without having to fear reality as it truly is.

I do not care if other Western people or Eastern people for that matter do not accept that I am Buddhist, my Eastern and Western family does accept it, my friends and colleagues accept it and the majority of Thai, Japanese and Chinese people do, in fact no one ever told me they did not accept it other than one of the Christian Thai people in my village that I laughed at and told I gave my place up in heaven for her... she hasn't spoken to me since then which pleases me immensely. I have lived in Asia for a total of 28 years now and I could really give a hoot what someone in an expat community thinks about me if they do not like it they have the choice not to associate with me as I have chosen not to associate with them. This is my reality and I am comfortable and happy with it and that is all that matters to me.

I'm surprised you take such delight in denigrating the beliefs of others, but I suppose we claim progress rather than perfection...

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I'm not sure how you read that into my post but I was just being honest about how I felt which was the I got from the OP but my apologies if you feel in any way offended if that will make you feel better about my reality.

I still wash all of my food with veggie wash I get at Big-C plus and I don't eat meat but I get my protein at The Taoist Temple on the second ring road next to Rimping Romchoke or Spa Foods across the street from imagination

People tend to want to nail you to something, set you on fire or throw rocks at you when you tell them the truth.

I returned mine about 6 years ago just after they became True and they returned my money.

I'm a secular humanist-atheist-Zen Buddhist and I was a Zen monk for more then 10 years. This is my reality and I can live with it no matter if someone else's reality has difficulty accepting it because I do not need their acceptance nor do I feel the need to be part of their reality, in fact they can keep their reality if it means believing in superstition and magic. I have a hard time believing that scientific Western minds have religions with invisible friends that smite people now that is ridiculous! I do not judge others, I do not debate others, I do not bother others nor do I tell others (usually) what they think is ludicrous, laughable and absurd, I refrain because I am a Secular Humanist and a Zen Buddhist and I have metta for them and hope they too can escape ignorance and find some sort of liberation in this life without having to fear reality as it truly is.

I do not care if other Western people or Eastern people for that matter do not accept that I am Buddhist, my Eastern and Western family does accept it, my friends and colleagues accept it and the majority of Thai, Japanese and Chinese people do, in fact no one ever told me they did not accept it other than one of the Christian Thai people in my village that I laughed at and told I gave my place up in heaven for her... she hasn't spoken to me since then which pleases me immensely. I have lived in Asia for a total of 28 years now and I could really give a hoot what someone in an expat community thinks about me if they do not like it they have the choice not to associate with me as I have chosen not to associate with them. This is my reality and I am comfortable and happy with it and that is all that matters to me.

I have been testing the installed OS on a USB drive and have had no luck with the machines running windows XP and Windows 7, I constantly get a message from Windows saying my USB drive needs to be formatted. I did not try it on a Mac because... I do not know anyone with a Mac nor could I find one. In any event the USB drive works great as a live disk on any machine running Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Red Hat, Zenix, openSUSE, Debian and Edubuntu.

If you want to live under Muslim law and you want to oppress people move to a Muslim country like Iran for example.

I'm not sure if you are referring to my post but, if you are, I have lived in a Muslim country (Kuwait) & the 'oppression' there is nothing compared to Palestine, especially Gaza.

Which is why I made a reference to Iran rather than Kuwait. I am so sick of people and their superstitions, at times it feels like we still live in the dark ages.

If you want to live under Muslim law and you want to oppress people move to a Muslim country like Iran for example.

A lot of exchange and study abroad students from the US and Canada.

I sure could use the support I quit about 5 months ago but slipped up a few times.

MrRed forget about the e-cig, it's a waste of time and money I went down that very expensive path and wound up using that and smoking.

Yep, quitting was easy I did it at least 30 times, this time it's kind of sticking but I did slip up a few times in the past 5 months. I know I am no longer physically addicted to nicotine but I get strong cravings to smoke, I do enjoy it and the only thing keeping me from going back to it is my skin feels better, my face isn't greasy, my teeth are white for the first time that I can remember and I don't wake up with that nasty taste in my mouth like someone took a dump. I also consider my children who are young because my wife and I got started late in life and we would like to be around for them. I do feel better when I don't smoke and I tend to eat more healthy and do not drink when I do not smoke so, it's one of those things you need to take moment by moment not day by day. I don't know how much of it is in your mind and how much of it actually becomes part of you, I smoked for 3/4 of my life so not smoking is just odd.

There are much worse forms of pollution in the world, burning fields in Thailand, Laos and Burma for example and the argument for the land use for growing tobacco is flawed as long as we grow hops and barley for beer and grapes for wine and other things like that. Some countries count on tobacco production for income like The Dominican Republic, Honduras and Cuba. While I hope I never smoke another cigarette this argument is hype against tobacco, vegetarians and vegans could easily argue that meat production is a wast of good farm land (which it is) and we could grow a lot more food in fact what cattle alone eat could feed 8.7 billion people.

This is the US Navy version same same but different.

This is all very true however, no one will kick in your door and and take your computer if you use too much bandwidth and start looking for file shares. It is also possible to circumvent blocks placed on the internet in Thailand very easily.

I do hope you tell your members that "his own visual scanning system called energy field imaging" is not in fact accepted medicine and is in fact quackery.

If your wife's business is on a major soi downtown call the police there should be CCTV somewhere in the area.

Here is a list of Ubuntu Certified hardware, you can see the specs and mix and match if you are building your own PC from the ground up.

The truth is, truth is a alien (foreign) concept to many Thais.

The truth eludes most people living on this planet!

Do you have both devices set to "discoverable"? I only know of one person that had trouble with this and he upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 you can get it here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/ or torrent files:

ubuntu-11.10-alternate-i386.iso

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot desktop CD i386

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot desktop CD 64bit

LMAO quite the contrary, most people here could get a job with Sarah Palin at FOX News. How do you find my statement as invalid? I don't want your opinion (like FOX News) I want you to look it up and READ.

I did make a mistake, an omission actually, there was a prime minister legally voted in after the coup tow actually, Samak Sundaravej but he was kicked out because he had a cooking show many years ago and the upper class had a problem with him because he would stop for lunch on the road side and only pay 20B for a bowl of noodles, not high-so enough.

And then Somchai Wongsawat who was also thrown out on non-proven charges of vote buying (he didn't have to buy votes because he had the majority). Then Chaovarat Chanweerakul, not legally elected and then Abhisit Vejjajiva also not legally elected. Now Thailand has a legally elected prime minister and she seems to make the people happy so, what right does any one of us have to say anything about it.

I assure you even in the right wing nuts win the election in my country with their religious delusions and raciest views I would stand against anyone that tried to stage a coup against the legally elected president of my country, I do not need to respect the man to respect the office and the vote of the people. I do not believe Thai people were doing anything differently than I would do in my own country. A little "Occupy Wall Street" goes a long way to get the worlds attention and let them know the people are not happy.

I would suggest that when you become a Thai citizen you can have an opinion other than that I suggest sticking to facts not propaganda by the people leading the coup other wise you risk looking the fool in the eyes of the majority.

"I suggest sticking to facts not propaganda"

The coup was illegal. There aren't many people who deny that.

But Thaksin wasn't the legally elected PM at the time. He had dissolved parliament to call an election.

I'm glad you support that PMs can have two jobs. The PM job isn't really important enough to have on it's own.

"non-proven charges of vote buying" ... another omission, it seems. The video evidence seemed pretty good proof.

"Abhisit not legally elected" ... what was illegal about both his election as MP and his election as PM? What was the difference between Somchai's election to PM and Abhisit's election to PM?

Show me.

Precisely! I fail how anyone could see any of the "governments" since 2006 as legitimate up until this currently democratically elected government that seems to take more cheap shots from TV members than the people that elected the government. I suspect most expats live here because it is a lot cheaper (or was anyway in the past) than their own countries but they insist on backing the people that rape the environment and extort the people including the people that staged the coup IT IS ILLEGAL and not a recognized government just like Burma was.

A coup is illegal, that's all there is to it, if you do not like a president or prime minister you impeach them not drive a tank to their house and tell them to leave the country (Thaksin was told to leave he did not run before they could get him). Obviously a lot of you did not like former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra but he was the legally elected leader of this nation and the law was broken meaning justice, freedom and democracy went out the window when it did not suit.

I would be curious what you would have to say if this happened in your country. To spite the animosity between the political parties in my country the people would rise up against a coup on either side because we value justice, freedom and democracy in some twisted way we haven't quite gotten right but nonetheless no coups. So, why do you think Thai people deserve less?

Why wasn't the Samak government legitimate?

I guess he's having his Sarah Palin moment now (Samak, Samak?...)

LMAO quite the contrary, most people here could get a job with Sarah Palin at FOX News. How do you find my statement as invalid? I don't want your opinion (like FOX News) I want you to look it up and READ.

I did make a mistake, an omission actually, there was a prime minister legally voted in after the coup two actually, Samak Sundaravej but he was kicked out because he had a cooking show many years ago and the upper class had a problem with him because he would stop for lunch on the road side and only pay 20B for a bowl of noodles, not high-so enough.

And then Somchai Wongsawat who was also thrown out on non-proven charges of vote buying (he didn't have to buy votes because he had the majority). Then Chaovarat Chanweerakul, not legally elected and then Abhisit Vejjajiva also not legally elected. Now Thailand has a legally elected prime minister and she seems to make the people happy so, what right does any one of us have to say anything about it.

I assure you even in the right wing nuts win the election in my country with their religious delusions and raciest views I would stand against anyone that tried to stage a coup against the legally elected president of my country, I do not need to respect the man to respect the office and the vote of the people when we throw a coup because we don't get what we want we destroy democracy.

I do not believe Thai people were doing anything differently than I would do in my own country and it was the majority of Thai people that were angry not what the propaganda said if it were true Yingluck Shinawatra would not be the prime minister now. A little "Occupy Wall Street" goes a long way to get the worlds attention and let them know the people are not happy.

I would suggest that when you become a Thai citizen you can have an opinion other than that I suggest sticking to facts not propaganda by the people leading the coup other wise you risk looking the fool in the eyes of the majority. I also want to mention how shocked and a bit horrified I am that many of you are so out of touch with the average middle class Thai Citizen, there must me a lot of millionaires on TV that live in secluded compounds.