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wish the world as peacefull as its sunsets!
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The end of last year I have seen in Fortune Tower an universal external battery pack which could be placed underneeth a phot camera.
Price was around Baht 6.000
Now I am fed up with my standard built in battery (Ion Lithium) but I cannot find the pack I have seen before anymore.
Somebody an idea?
Thanks
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can somebody recommend me Photo Album software for use for a site? When it's free preferable of course
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Murphy was an optimist.
Murphy's law??
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I'm working on a new website, and today when I opened it up I discovered...it's been banned!!!!
The bizzarre thing is that I haven't finished it yet, so there's *no content on it at all*. I haven't even finished registering the domain name yet either, so I'm using a temporary URL provided by my webhost to access it: http://72.29.87.109/~andaman/
Which redirects you to the 'ban': http://www.mict.go.th/ci/iiijjjIllllllllllllllI.html
Is there a way to get it delisted or to report a 'mistake'? I'm also curious - has anyone been asked for money to 'delist' their site?
scary cyber controll
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OptimismAll readers and members, please do this. Click the link....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5020788.stm
Go to irrepressible.info and sign up. Everyone should do this now!
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when you want to JOY:
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
"If you live in one of the following countries, you can join online"
"THAILAND Go"
Not possible!:
"The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
"Alternatively contact Amnesty International in your country"
Succeeded!:
"THAILAND
Web site www.amnesty.or.th
Telephone (+ 66) 2938 7746
Fax number (+66) 2938 4756
Address 641/8 Ladprao Road
Ladyao Jatujak
Bangkok
10900
THAILAND"
Good on ya, Toni. At least there are few of us 'optimists' here that believe in 'every drop in the ocean' counts."It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later."
- Lucimar Santos de Lima -
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All readers and members, please do this. Click the link....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5020788.stm
Go to irrepressible.info and sign up. Everyone should do this now!
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when you want to JOY:
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
"If you live in one of the following countries, you can join online"
"THAILAND Go"
Not possible!:
"The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
"Alternatively contact Amnesty International in your country"
Succeeded!:
"THAILAND
Web site www.amnesty.or.th
Telephone (+ 66) 2938 7746
Fax number (+66) 2938 4756
Address 641/8 Ladprao Road
Ladyao Jatujak
Bangkok
10900
THAILAND"
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they only laugh at you!Don't think those that censor really will care much about a petition.
That's for real, isn't it? Countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria, persecute and imprison people simply for criticising their government, calling for democracy and greater freedom of the press or using the Internet to exposing human rights abuses.
But it's not only about governments. The IT companies of the USA have helped build the systems that enable surveillance and censorship to take place. Yahoo! have supplied email users’ private data to the Chinese authorities, helping to facilitate cases of wrongful imprisonment. Microsoft and Google have both complied with government demands to actively censor Chinese users of their services. It's these mega-companies that should be targetted with anti-repression petitions, lobbies and
boycotts.
I had problems with Yahoo and with Microsoft but they are too strong and too big to care! And not only these mentioned: when you must have a problem solved by a big company you mostly can forget it. By the way as we are always complaining about bad service delivered by uninterested anonymous staff doing their "job" might be nice to start a topic: I experienced there and there a fabulous treatment whatsoever! …….”Be careful with your email provider or open and read first their warning on privacy!.....
……….”A new era of “Big Brother is Watching You” started which seems to be a never ending story.”……….
………..”Now we are facing the Yahoo-scandal which is really awakening the world. Although Yahoo invites you very clearly to visit their “privacy” warning, who is doing so? Or am I the only idiot in this enlighten world having too much confidence? I am afraid so.”…………
……………“But that companies like Yahoo are so vulnerable to pressure, or might be even to blackmail (or is it “only” the big money they might loose on a certain market?) from the side of a government of a country is at least very frightening.”………..
Some quotes from my earlier publications in 2005
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All readers and members, please do this. Click the link....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5020788.stm
Go to irrepressible.info and sign up. Everyone should do this now!
I strongly recommend reading the story in Bangkok Post (Thailand) under Opinion and Analyses dated September 20, 2005, written by Alan Dawson.
I read in OPINION & ANALYSIS:
ANALYSIS/MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN CHINA
Yahoo feeds great firewall of China
Internet site bows to pressure and delivers a journalist into the clutches of the Chinese police
“In one of the greatest developments of the digital age, the leading worldwide website Yahoo fulfilled the dream it shared with millions of young internauts and launched the first new style of modern news coverage since the invention of the TV camera.
Then in an instant, Yahoo proved it is unworthy of any trust, a fifth column in the ranks of press freedom, and willing to sell out journalists and reporters at the drop of a dollar bill.
Blame globalisation, the tortured (we shall return to that word) difficulties of doing business with many governments, the complications faced by internet companies.
Blame the 250 national laws that often – usually – conflict on important matters, but actually what happened was quit simple.
Yahoo opened a new site (hotzone.yahoo.com) where a young, hotshot and extremely digitally endowed correspondent, Kevin Sites, is to produce the first news of, for and financed by, a major all-internet company.
And Yahoo also picket out a young, hotshot and dedicated journalist, Shi Tao, and shopped him to the Chinese police who immediately arrested him, took him somewhere no one could see what happened next and, eventually, took him to a judge who sent him to jail for ten years for the crime of being a young, hotshot reporter.
So far as we know, and it must be noted that we may not know everything because of the way China throttles and intimidates the media, Mr. Shi was a reporter for Dangdai Shang Bao (Contemporary Business News) of Hunan province.
Like all Chinese newsmen, he was called last year to a conference with the Chinese secret police for instructions on how to cover the 15th anniversary of the massacre of democracy advocates at Tiananmen Square, which boils down to “not aggressively”.
Mr Shi, who believes (or believed) in freedom of press, emailed this printed document to a friend in America – the court sneered that the friend was a counterrevolutionary, aka dissident – who posted them on a website.
The secret police served a notice on Yahoo Hong Kong to provide all details of e-mail accounts that might be tied to Mr. Shi, and Yahoo immediately did that, because Yahoo keeps all such records on everyone’s e-mail.
Mr. Shi was imprisoned last April on the basis of the information Yahoo provided, for “revealing state secrets”.
Remember, the information was an instruction to newspapers on how to cover their news – and it is easy to see why China would want to cover up such exceptionally blatant censorship that stomps on freedom like a cockroach.
We return to that word torture, because it is unclear just why and how the Chinese approached Yahoo Hong Kong with a precise “request” for details of Mr. Shi’s accounts and records of his e-correspondents.
Amnesty International provided possibly helpful clues in its most recent summery of how Chinese invite arrestees to cooperate in state enquiries.
“Tens of thousands of people continued to be detained or imprisoned in violation of their fundamental human rights and were at high risk of torture or ill-treatment,” Amnesty notes.
“Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed, many after unfair trials.”
Mr. Shi was not sentenced to death, and is possible he never was tortured. And it is also possible he was persuaded to disclose the Yahoo e-mail address by an approach other than polite police questioning.
All of this is horrible, and Mr. Shi would be worthy of protest by free-press advocates around the globe, if China had arrested and railroaded him into prison without the help of an American company, out of the other side of its mouth, is celebrating its entry into journalism.
Yahoo did this to Mr. Shi willingly, without the slightest compunction or shred of protest or legal action, even though the venue for its poltroonery was Hong Kong which, to Beijing’s distress, still has courts and lawyers.
Yahoo did not attempt to use the legal system to oppose the Beijing order.
It did not attempt to use the Hong Kong press to publicise what it could have claimed was its plight in shopping a journalist, although it is highly likely Beijing would have backed away if Yahoo had done so.
On the craven contrary, when the publicity became too intense to wave off with more no-comments, the Yahoo founder and aspiring publisher Jerry Yang uttered the 69 words of the most pusilamous statement in the history of American journalism, even taking into consideration Yahoo is America’s newest journal.
“We did not know what they wanted information for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws. I don’t like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that’s what we need to do.”
Then he refused to say more because, he falsely claimed, “I cannot talk about the details of this case.” Of course, unlike Mr. Shi, he can talk about it all he wants, without fear or personal harm.
What he would have to say, however, is that at the drop of a coin in a nation where Yahoo dreams of 1.2 billion clicks on his advertisements, Yahoo was on its knees scrambling to turn over a newsman to the so-called Chinese “justice system”.
That happened at a trial which was secret because if Mr. Shi’s own newspaper had even mentioned it, many more employees would have joined him in the chain of arrest, torture, kangaroo court and incarceration that makes the Chinese media pitiable but a laughingstock anywhere the phrase “freedom of the press” is mentioned.
Google and Microsoft are also complicit in Chinese censorship. The Chinese versions of their search engines block sites which have filthy phrases like “Chen Shui-bian” and “communist thieves”
The Microsoft weblog site stops anyone from using a headline with gutter words like “democracy” and “elections”. Cisco Systems provides censorious internet routing hardware to prevent access to pornographic websites such as CNN.com and the Thai Embassy in Germany.
The American media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV does not carry the prejudiced, anti-Beijing BBC newscasts near China. All these companies help to support the suppressions of the great firewall of China, but only Yahoo has helped to secretly arrest and imprison a newsman (so far).
Yahoo has long been an internet portal for news and opinion worldwide, and there is no evidence it ever has changed or withheld a story from an outside source. But as Yahoo becomes a news provider, the shoe shifts foot. Now Yahoo executives become responsible for its content like, say, the editor of the Bangkok Post.
Hollywood old-media veteran Terry Semel was appointed chairman and chief executive of Yahoo in 2001 to help to make the internet company an original-content producer.
On its site introducing its combat correspondent Mr. Sites, Yahoo makes splendid promises.
It “will deliver stories via a five-fingered multimedia platform of text, photography, video, audio and interactive chat”, and it “will be aggressive in pursuing the stories that are not getting mainstream coverage and we will put a human face on them”.
Yahoo promised that in generating news, it will follow the ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists.
But with its part in Mr. Shi’s case, the corporate Yahoo has already broken all four ethics it lists: to report the truth, independently and accountably, while minimising harm.
“We also pledge”, Yahoo promises emptily at the new content section, “an honest and authentic accounting of both our failure and successes, to pull back the curtain on our editorial and technological process”, which is precisely what Mr. Yang refused to do.
Kevin Sites, is a seasoned and experienced reporter, with a reputation, and scoops to his credit.
Now he goes to work for a wannabe publisher which both recently and currently displays the backbone of a snake and a strong commitment to currying favours with violent dictatorships way ahead of supporting freedom of information and the front-line journalists who make it possible.
According to his preview page, Mr Sites is to travel the world – Indonesia, Iraq, Chechnya, possibly Thailand – reporting on violent conflicts in ways that will upset some governments, some of the time.
Yahoo will be paying his expenses and salary, but he may want to consider always keeping an alternative route out.
And he definitely should find a more reliable, customer-friendly e-mail provider.”
“Care your principles but leave them home”
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL QUOTED:
“Tens of thousands of people continue to be detained or imprisoned in violation of their fundamental human rights and they are at high risk of torture or ill-treatment.
Thousands of people are sentenced to death or executed, many after unfair trials.”
My personal conclusion: put the clock back again and send your confident matters through ordinary and old-fashioned mail again! Thank you ##### !
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I've always wondered how they did it
another story from an executioner with photo
which can be found at: http://www.farangonline.com/p_Room_101_The...origin=Arrivals
Room 101:The Executioner Gets Fired
December 2003
........."The hardest part of being on the execution team at Bang Kwang prison in Bangkok was having to walk into the death-row cell and tell the prisoner that he was about to be executed, said Chaowares Jarabun. Whatever crime the person had committed, “They were still heroes to their families,” he added.
“The inmates had time to write a letter to their family, have a last cigarette, and a meal. But they usually didn’t feel like eating,” he said. “They were also given the chance to see a Buddhist monk.”
Blindfolded, and with chains around their ankles, the inmates were led into the death chamber by two guards. His hands were tied together so he could clutch three unopened lotus blossoms, a like number of joss-sticks, and a small orange candle, just like a Thai person going to pray at a Buddhist temple".........
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I'm working on a new website, and today when I opened it up I discovered...it's been banned!!!!
The bizzarre thing is that I haven't finished it yet, so there's *no content on it at all*. I haven't even finished registering the domain name yet either, so I'm using a temporary URL provided by my webhost to access it: http://72.29.87.109/~andaman/
Which redirects you to the 'ban': http://www.mict.go.th/ci/iiijjjIllllllllllllllI.html
Is there a way to get it delisted or to report a 'mistake'? I'm also curious - has anyone been asked for money to 'delist' their site?
Alarmed
I just was in contact with my (Dutch) hoster. Because of reasons of these kind of problems they bann in their hosting-contract spam and sex .So, when I understand it all well as a dummy the main problem is not your site but certain collegues using the server for porno purposes. So for a lot of people using their sites it can be a problem to stay out of the hands of
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I am just starting on a home page and just reading various info about blocking
Anyway, for the time being I don't try to think about these desasters.
I am hosting in the Netherlands although I am in BKK. It have been told that all the European connections are going through Holland so speed should not be a problem.?
Now they are offering me a ID-protection service, only about 350 Baht/year, so that is not the problem. Do you think it is worthed because it seems to stop spammers and collectors of addresses. They name it "Dynamic eMail system". I am not asking this for the price but I am getting sick of scam from Africa and spam from Holland (lottery) and Thailand.
When I want to create "normal" eMail addresses which provider is the best concerning spam-protection? Now I have some with Yahoo. I don't like the company but they are unfortunately the only ones with a quit sophisticated package or am I wrong. I am willing to pay, but than NOT through Yahoo anymore!
thanks for your reactions
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Many years ago the Bangkok Post had a 2 page story on a retiring executioner. I think it was in Outlook. The procedure/ritual was very complex leading up to a shooting execution as it was in those days.
The idea of the screen between the executioner and the condemned man was to fulfill the Buddhist belief in not killing. In theory the executioner is only shooting a screen and not the person behind the screen.
CRUEL and unusual
Inside Bangkok’s very own museum of torture
Story by Ian Neubauer
It’s hard to imagine the terrors that took place on the lush green lawns of Bang Lamphu’s Romanirat Park. Until 1991, this inner-city sanctuary housed the infamous Bangkok Remand Prison, one of the institutions former farang inmate Warren Fellows wrote about in his bestselling book The Damage Done.
Fellows was jailed in 1978 after being caught in a Bangkok hotel room with a large amount of heroin he was intending to smuggle to his native Australia. During his 12 years of incarceration here, Fellows witnessed, experienced and eventually wrote about many of the elaborate torture techniques used by Thai prison guards to discipline and maintain order among inmates.
Introduced into law in 1435, many of these tortures were later outlawed under the penal code of 1908. Yet, according to Fellows, some of these tortures continued to be employed with impunity by some of the prison officials charged with his care.
The Corrections Department says these practises are now no longer used. To prove the point, they’ve even built a small museum in Rommanirat Park illustrating the tortures being carried out on wax dummies and dubbed it, appropriately, the Corrections Museum.
Located in the northeast corner of the park, the museum’s displays have been cleverly installed inside individual prison cells in the prison’s last surviving ward. This way visitors are forced to step inside these cells, which still reek of dampness, and experience for a short time what is like being on the “inside”…………
………..Fellows (imprisoned 1978 for 12 years AU) describes how guards used shackles to punish and routinely restrain inmates – a practice that contravenes the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment…………
…………The Bangkok Corrections Museum is not for faint-hearted. Nonetheless it offers fascinating insight to a part of Thailand’s darker past and impetus to support reforms that are slowly making Thai penitentiaries more humane and geared toward rehabilitation instead of pure punishment…………
One photo showing an execution with the text: “Superstitious executioners preferred to machine-gun people in the back.”
Source: International Herald Tribune THAI DAY; August 26, 2005, Thailand
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Delays foreseen in opening of new airport - - Continued from here.
BANGKOK: -- Caretaker Deputy Transport Minister Gen. Chainant Charoensiri has expressed his concern that a planned opening of Suvarnabhumi international airport this July could be delayed due to extensive repairs on the passenger terminal and of roofing fabric on concourse buildings.
Leading civil engineers from the Air Force and journalists to inspect progress on the construction work of the airport in Bangkok's neighbouring province of Samut Prakan Friday, Gen. Chainant said 14
sections of roofing fabric on concourse buildings had to be replaced while another 81 sheets needed repairs and this could take a few months.
Refurbishment of the duty free shopping area, to be operated by King's Power Duty Free, is also required as many cracks were found on the floors of concourse buildings and water leaked from them.
Construction contractor ITO Joint Venture, however, reiterated that construction would be completed this June but tests on facilities could be delayed. Its staff said the airport should be opened within this year but they declined to specify the exact month.
The caretaker government had earlier set the deadline for the opening of Suvarnabhumi international airport for this July.
-- TNA 2006-04-29
We’re on schedule – ITO
Watcharapong Thongrung
The Nation
ITO joint venture, the prime contractor for Suvarnabhumi Airport, yesterday said it was confident it could avoid any penalties for slow work, because it will complete its work on schedule.
However, ITO would not make any money on the project after being forced to speed up construction in the past two months, Tawatchai Suthiprapha, deputy senior chief executive of Italian-Thai Development Plc, (
which holds 40 per cent of the consortium, said yesterday.“Still, we’re quite satisfied with the final result. Despite not making a profit, we’re proud to have taken part in the developing Suvarnabhumi airport,” he said.
ITO was awarded three contracts – the passenger terminal complex worth Bt15 billion, the airport pavement worth Bt21.6 billion, and the underground train tunnel worth Bt576 million.
Earlier, observers thought ITO had incurred a huge liability following the late delivery of 26 baggage explosives-detection machines, which could have held up completion of the terminal. If that had happened, ITO would have had to pay Bt 2.5 million a day for the delay.
As of Wednesday, the day before Suvarnabhumi was due to begin trial flights, ITI had completed the substantial part of its work, Tawatchai said. Over the next 21 days, a consultant for New Bangkok International Airport Co. the airports’ developer,
will run checks to see if anything needs to be changed.
The final completion date is slated for March 31. If ITO can complete all the works by then, it would not have to pay any penalties.
Source: The Nation, Bangkok 30-9-2005
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will I be safe on the 7th floor then ?? and how can my car make it into the elevator ?
don't worry: its all destiny.......
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I wouldn't expect an unlimited expiration date on the money put into the number through a card... normally it's a reasonably lengthy enough period of time that it's used up prior to expiring anyway, eg. 30 days for a 300 baht card.
The problem I see in this news is that, if the provider decides to, it could cancel the number, by invalidating the pre-paid monies, BEFORE, as in my example, that 30 days is up.
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that is exactly what they do (did?) in Indonesia, Singapore, the Phils and Germany for example untill someone or some organisation made a courtcase in Germany because of this theft. The consequence was also that you lost your number! Our solution was to leave the telephone behind with (business) relations to have it topped up frequently.
"Thank you. I thought I was just being ignorant and not reading or understanding this all correctly. Now that I know I wasn't just being stupid.... in this case, anyway....
all I can is ....
That's fcuked up!.... That's like my landlord saying I have to move out after I've paid the rent AND I haven't violated the lease in anyway..... <deleted>??
Who the frick do these companies think they are? It's robbery....
"and not reading or understanding this all correctly"
no, because it is a unbelievable story for a normal thinking human and that's why they won the case in Germany
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I wouldn't expect an unlimited expiration date on the money put into the number through a card... normally it's a reasonably lengthy enough period of time that it's used up prior to expiring anyway, eg. 30 days for a 300 baht card.
The problem I see in this news is that, if the provider decides to, it could cancel the number, by invalidating the pre-paid monies, BEFORE, as in my example, that 30 days is up.
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that is exactly what they do (did?) in Indonesia, Singapore, the Phils and Germany for example untill someone or some organisation made a courtcase in Germany because of this theft. The consequence was also that you lost your number! Our solution was to leave the telephone behind with (business) relations to have it topped up frequently.
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Here's the url:
members.ams.chello.nl/danblokker/index.html
This refers top a website (not mine) about holidays for disabled people in Chiang Mai (search for disabled chiang mai on google).
The site is blocked.......
I'm sure I previously visited this website without problems, and saw no naked wheelchair users!!
Who on earth makes these decisions to block websites? I assume they are not accountable for their actions...(TiT)
Simon
This is disgusting!
Might be they can reach something through the Dutch Embassy as they are Dutch. I thought these "specialists" were only after porno, however they never reach their goal, never.
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Gibbon problem returns to Patong
Check out http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.as...=5011&display=1
Why am I not surprised by hearing that the cops aren’t doing their job in protecting illegally kept Gibbons? I’ll tell you why: it’s because they simply don’t care about anything except money.
Here’s an idea: why don’t the cops plant a couple of marijuana joints on the Gibbon hawkers and shoot them under Thaksin’s anti-drug campaign?
Until the police start doing their job Thailand is destined to remain in the category of Third World. I see no reason to think this will change anytime soon. This country’s treatment of all animals, all animals, is absolutely pathetic.
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If there was ever a country that should be disconnected from the internet, surely this is it.
isn't it an idea to foreward all the Nigerian sh...
to:[email protected] or [email protected] ?
Might be it helps a bit, untill they are blocking your mail-address!
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"Service providers will be prohibited from invalidating pre-paid cellphone cards that are not used up within the validity period"
Am I reading this right? Are they saying it required a governmental regulatory commission ruling to stop providers from cancelling my number (that I "topped" up with a card and that I still had money on, but hadn't used all of it) BEFORE the time period expired?
:D and that prior to this ruling, they could?
<deleted>??? .... talk about corporate greed and arrogance....
"bend over..."
YES, and this happened not only in Thailand! In Europe all over! If I remember well Germany was the first country where the law forced the providers to keep the numbers valid as long as there remains money.
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Mobile congestion chaos in Thailand
BANGKOK: -- Hard to call on your mobile? Network error?
You are not alone. To call an AIS number from a DTAC mobile or opposite is nearly impossible.
To call a landline from or to a Thai mobile is no success, since many days.
Thaivisa.com tried to connect this evening to several networks, but it's impossible.
A lot pf promotions from AIS, DTAC and True has made it impossible to call through these networks. It is a mess!
We have tried to get an answer from both AIS and DTAC Customer Services, the two leading mobile operators in Thailand. They refuse to speak with journalists.
Your comments and complaints here, please!
--thaivisa.com 2006-05-14
RELATED NEWS:
Too much promotions!
Higher Mobile Rates will solve the problems!
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=68899
Mobile Phone Traffic Jam To Be Solved
Expansion of inter-network capacity
typical bad, very bad management and (where I have seen that before?) taking ad-hoc decisions without overseeing the consequences or not being prepared!
In Europe such management was already sent home!
We have lost already business by not being reachable.
One of the problems is that the connection has been established for one second and cuts out right away. Who pais the first connection?
Very arrogant not willing to speak to journalists; very shortsighted!
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hi!
can somebody tell me how I can make a screenshot? I find a button "Print Screen SysRq" but it doesn't react.
thanks
External Battery Pack
in Photography and the Arts
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Well, the reason I didn't supplied more info was that this pack really was very universel with various adaptors and current outlets which where adjustable! To be used both for still camera's and for video camera's. This pack must have been quit powerfull because of the much higher power consumption of a video camera. The execution was a bit like the old "autowinders" to be put underneeth the still camera's in ancient times. Anyway the camera is a Minolta Dimage A200. Does this info helps?