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Mr. Mark seems to forget that the entire Preah Vihear temple is in Cambodia, and not Thailand. The outer compound is another question; not related.

How come it's not related?

This is exactly the point that goes against UNESCO's own rules for listings - they should never have separated the temple and the adjacent area.

And the site was going to be listed in its entirety until Cambodians decided to play hardball sometime in 2006, and it was impasse until Noppadon decided to satisfy their demands and split the site into temple and "not temple", against all common sense (and unesco rules).

it is clearly documented that the Blue Shirts did attack the red shirts in Pattaya, and were armed.

So why did the reds attack Asean summit in retaliation, let alone Bangkok?

When will they accept responsibility for their actions????

If red movement is developing at all, it's clearly retarded.

And yes, that intellectual giant Pravit has shown exactly the same condescending attitude he always blames Pad and "elites" for.

I found out that screen resolution can be controlled in various places - the usual display tab in control center (or whatever it's called in your distro), in driver settings (not easily visible in Ubuntu, I admit, but it is there somewhere), and maybe in graphic card own settings manager, like "Nvidia display control".

On KDE desktops all of those are somewhere in the menu, under system or administration, but Ubuntu's Ghome menu looks a lot simpler, so you should either try to get GUI programs for these things or search for config files manually.

I believe Gnome's idea is that too many controls on KDE are confusing for users, but, if you managed to screw something up, then it's time to dig deeper into the system.

I didn't drive Accord, I drove gf's Camry side by side with it.

Have no idea about transmission overheating, it doesn't belong to this thread anyway.

Diesels indeed would suit the best for Thai roads, actually they sell better on European roads, too - excellent low-mid range performance, just what Toyota seems trying to achieve.

Hondas numbers are not only on paper, they are available for those who want to explore them.

Yes, and Toyota sells cars to those who just want to drive faster than regular traffic, not explore red-line possibilities - they are not selling racing engines, they sell practicality, engines that give advantage 99% of the time on the road.

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What I'm saying is that 0-100 is not a real life speed. Pickup trucks, for example, are very slow in those tests, but in real life, on the go, they are very very quick and would outrun 1.8l Civics easily - massive torque from 2,000 rpm is unbeatable if you only have something like 10 seconds to accelerate in city traffic.

Personally, I'm on the receiving end of this phenomenon as I have 2jz engine in my Sportrider - not enough torque at low rpms, shitty acceleration in lower gears, and the power shines through only over legal speeds.

Is this guy trolling? In a sense looking for a fight?

Why post the same, off-topic message in every linux thread?

Thailand’s reformist reds are still clearly largely rural, provincial farming and tradesmen masses (who are, yes, forced to go to the cities for work, and sell their rice at rock bottom prices to the middle-men etc.). The yellows are clearly a largely urban, metropolite elite, with mostly urbanized supporters, who yes, control the labour and rice markets.

Reds are not proposing any meaningful reforms.

Yellows don't control rice markets, they are controlled by red leaders or their colleges - local feudal lords.

I have no idea why Thailand is compared to Iran. In Iran, afaik, it's the old guard that relies on rigging elections, not the opposition. In Thailand it's the "reformist reds" who are worst offenderds against fair elections, not the "traditionalist".

The story is at:

http://nationmultimedia.com/2009/06/17/pol...cs_30105318.php

In real world driving 2009 Civic 140hp/5 speed auto performs much better than any 2009 Corolla Altis.

And the Accord 2,4/180 hp performs much better than Camry 2,4.

Tourque is more evenly distributed in the mentioned Toyota engines, and the Honda engines can feel a bit jumpy/jerky below 4.500 rpm. Then they kick off and park Toyota.

In real world people hardly ever rev up over 4,500 rpm for any extended periods - there's just not enough space on Thai roads for long acceleration and very few highways are suitable for going flat out at max speed, too.

At everyday rpm range, which is below 4,000 rpm, 1.8l Civics have nothing to be proud of. They've been out for years and still haven't gained any reputation for speed.

As for Accord - I haven't noticed any superiority when driving at 180km/h.

What I noticed is that Honda tries to gain numbers on paper by squeezing a few extra hp close to red line while Toyota concentrates on low-mid range performance.

From the thead I linked earlier it appears that Toyota was going to electronically limit red line (and so top end power).

We need a real history experts here, I think most of the earlier versions were just plain nonsense - about Thaialnd colonising them and about them being part of Malaysia and so on.

Though their ethnically close to Malays, they don't speak the same language, for example. I don't think they were ever truly independent either.

Also muslims in Satun and Songkla have no insurgency problems, despite sharing the same history.

I've been reading up on this engine on this board, but it's a long, six-page topic from couple of years ago, when the engine wasn't out yet

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180424

Afaik, the engine is not detuned but uses better technology for low-mid range performance, as I expected, I might add.

Honda's top end horse power doesn't perform well in real world - their 1.8l Civic gains absolutely nothing over 1.6l Corollas, for example, despite having extra 20+ hps.

I still might be totally wrong. Let's wait for proper driving tests. 4speed auto sounds cheap, but then again, on Thai roads it might perform just as well, especially if torque is evenly distributed, and there are paddles on the steering wheel to shift gears manually.

Just to clarify the issue - if you go back to my posts - then you might see that i have never disputed the fact that red shirts indeed have burned the buses themselves.

Yeah, but then you blame blue shirts in Pattaya for that.

How about suing MacDonalds, too?

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The country doesn't have a problem with blue shirts running amok, and the reds refuse to accept ANY responsibility for their actions, and here, on TV we are expected to play along so that our local reds don't feel discriminated against.

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Today Pravit wrote another ridiculous piece for the Nation. He found a new hot topic - college hazing, and quickly connected it to the illegal 2006 coup, and then shifted to his personal act of defiance by not standing up to national anthem. He even proudly claimed it's a fascist practice.

Is he dememnted or simply an obsessive maniac? Why can't he just write about hazing? And that kind of stuff looks heroic in junior high, in adult world it's just plain stupid.

Your post seems to indicate that the songkran riots were planned by the Reds

No way!!!

They were planned by the invisbile hands pulling Abhisit strings. Reds were framed. Abhisit wasn't in the car, and invisible hands dressed up in red shirts were the ones burning buses and killing people, who were in fact evil PAD guards dressed as civilians, so they had to be shot anyway.

There was one million red shirts in Bangkok during Songkran, but they were all sitting and quietly meditating. It was the biased media who lied to the whole nation.

The truth today is that elites killed hundreds if not thousands of blues dressed up as reds and then carried their bodies away in military trucks.

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Red movement is a fully blown cult now.

I don't know whether you think the number 16 (in reference to solar power plants) is surprisingly high or low.

Low, butn not surprisingly.

Qualifies it as "untested".

take a long in-depth look at the innovations that are developing in the rest of the world.

Well, the trend now is to go nuclear. Energy is too serious, too strategic issue and Thais are taking the safest road - safest in terms of reliability, not safety per se.

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I don't understand this obsession with government refusing to go solar - what stops people from investing themselves? Why is that guy from Texas quoted earlier doesn't come here and invest? Why the proponents are vocal only when someone else's money is put at risk?

There was an article by Abhisit himself a couple of years ago where he discussed various problems with financing politics, it doesn't look pretty, whichever way people vote.

Also corruption is a by-product of a poorly designed system, until the flaws are corrected, we will all be watching a fight with the symptoms, not the disease itself.

I thought that they would just steal the 2.0L engine from the camry and glue that on to it????

Yes, just like Honda does.

Somehow they have decided to build a new engine instead. I hope it's worth the effort and the price.

That old 2l is also used in a Wish, btw.

Can you search or browse for stuff on rapidshare?

So you are not in favour of free will and individual freedoms?

Missed the point - in regard to Buddhism Thais have as much free will as patients in rehab.

They don't even bother to disguise it on TV because the majority are too uneducated to work it all out.

Yeah, but when someone implies they are uneducated to vote, too....

All the monks ask for is to stay sober during religious holidays.

That's neither here nor there. They shouldn't even consider requesting stuff like this in order to harmonise their own agenda.

They don't have their own agenda. They work within the society and they have full rights to give feedback or suggestions. Upholding Buddhism is a duty of everyone, not just monks. It's not like Thais made a deal with them - we do whatever we want and it's your job to keep the country Buddhist regardless, so don't bother us with anything.

Oh, and Thaksin's latest phone in to red meeting in Udon is all over the mainstream media. He reportedly thanked Kwanchai for support and for not betraying him.

How could anyone reach the conclusion that reds have moved past Thaksin already is beyond me.

Nevermind Kwanchai's role in Udon mob attack on PAD rally just a year ago. Yeah, reds are agents of change...

I think the country's PM said the same thing a couple of days ago.

He meant fatality rate among infected, which could be true. Trouble is, unlike for common flue, there's no vaccine, and millions of people get vaccinated for flue every year, so there aren't that many infected and there aren't that many fatalities, and no one would report deaths from common varieties of flue anyway.

DVD is a rather old format for compressing videos, so the sizes are big, about 4.5GB. Same movie in a newer format, DivX, for example, would probably fit on a single CD - about 700MB.

Most DivX movies are compressed to fit on a CD, so resolution is a bit smaller than that of a DVD, and sometimes you'll need two CDs. You also won't have various DVD features like subtitles or scene selection, but subtitles in major language can be found easily on the Internet, too, and players that can show DivX videos will also show these "external" subtitles.

If you decide to burn your downloaded videos on DVD you will hardly see any difference in the end, especially on smaller TVs.

Check out .mkv files - those are usually High Definition videos, majority are TV shows recorded off the air, not many movies yet. Quality is higher than DVDs and they are still significantly smaller files.

Even pro-red Prawit admitted that reds failed to live up to expectations, he wrote a very critical article about them a couple of weeks ago.

And yes, he attends red rallies in person.

PAD has the point, rhetoric or not - under current political system it's impossible to have govt working for the benefit of people.

Even Democrats can't avoid making shady deals with the likes of Newin, and it's not like Newin doesn't have a legitimate reason, too - he needs to wrestle Isan from Thaksin in the next elections, and so he needs serious funds.

Democrats are less reliant on govt budget to finance their campaign, thanks to all the years in opposition, but the fact still stays - politicians need to steal to stay in politics, or need to borrow and then repay favours.

The whole system, including elections, is all set from the start to breed corruption, and at the moment only the PAD who try to raise public awareness of that.

It is somewhat besides the point that many of their leaders and sub-leaders are deeply tainted by patronage and corruption as well.

I'd say it's the inability of reds to find their own voice, outside those patronage networks, that is most depressing feature of the current situation.