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I find this a sensible idea.

Assuming, of course, they all have the proper qualifications.

It's good to get used to English pronounced with different accents.

I remember my first business trip to the US as a fresh graduate who had been taught Oxford English (yes, much of this is lost now, I realise this). I was having real trouble communicating.

I also remember the first time I had to be part of a project involving Indian engineers...

I don't think that they stand a chance to catch him.

This guy has access to enough funds and support to be invisible unless someone's willing to put even more money on the table (huge bounty?).

He will doubtlessly be able to flee the country if the pressure becomes to high, assuming he hasn't done this yet.

I might be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

I've seen this exact same kind of setup (except no Apple TV but a regular internet operator's TV box instead) and the same symptoms at a friend's house.

Reason was poor quality HDMI cable(s) (not sure, he's replaced both).

Interesting idea, but Germany's economy would then grind to a halt.

Always the Sun - Stranglers

A big hit the year I first set foot in Thailand... life-changing memories.

Are you for real?

Saying that Pattaya is ugly, polluted and dirty just is stating real facts.

However, most of the people who come to Pattaya don't actually care. They come for extra-cheap housing, easy transportation, cheap food and goods, and for access to a lot of entertainment including (for quite a few) things that are seriously frowned upon in their home countries if not straight illegal (not being judgmental here)

That's the plain truth.

So this isn't going to make them run away.

Now the government has plans to change this image. But they need to make it happen for real and that starts with cleaning up pollution and all the ugliness. This will take quite a while if it ever happens. Some of the harm done to the environment can't be undone and even a cleaned up Pattaya wouldn't look as nice as many competing tourist places in the world.

I can't think of any direct translation, but based on the sample phrases you're giving, I think that in such a context, many people would end with "tok long raw <insert action decided upon here>". I hear "tok long raw..." (ตกลงเรา) used much as "so we do agree that we..."

Just based on everyday's conversation. I'm not a Thai language expert by any means.

Don't rule out power supply issues.

I find it hard to relate the memory stick and network card issue otherwise.

A marginal power supply typically causes such behaviour: remove some RAM, a controller and the PC becomes stable again.

If it's a standard case, I would try with a new power supply. They're easy to replace and cheap. If it's a brand PC (Dell or such) then they usually have their own models of power supplies and that makes it more difficult.

Can't you try with a regular Windows DVD instead of the USB drive installer too? this would rule out problems in this area. Win10 DVDs still are freely downloadable AFAIK.

FYI such a meeting is taking place in Metz, France today and the Turkish Foreign Minister is there.

My own home country let him in and I'm not happy with this. I'm not 100% sure the Dutch have taken the right decision, but we should certainly have stuck to it as consistency within EU dictates.

I've head a Turkish journalist's fairly balanced report on a French radio today and he was pointing out that Erdogan's government consistently bans meetings supporting the "no" vote within Turkey, so this outrage ouf having the support meeting canceled in Holland really is cynical.

I'm really shocked that some of you don't really consider that given the circumstances, there's a good chance that someone from his family is reading this topic if his whereabouts still are unknown.

I already feel quite uneasy when such topics deal with dead people, but then there's someone missing like this, it's even worse.

Just my two cents.

Careful with the figures mentioned above.

They only make sense if you compare them with the figures for neighboring countries, especially with Vietnam. That shows a trend.

This is pathetic. My own country is the laughing stock of the whole democratic world. In most places, he wouldn't be able to run for president of a ping-pong club. Yet this crook still wants to run the country. After wasting almost a million Euros of taxpayer's money for his own benefit and his children's, he'll telling us he's about to have each and every taxpayer tighthen his/her belt seriously and sabotage our public health system to save money.

I'm ashamed.

Le Pen isn't any better, but for some reason her electoral base is willing to forgive fake employment  so she still can use this to get more votes. Nothing rational in there.

Pretty much the same thing as Fillon is suspected of, possibly on a larger scale, in Paris' town hall. A few so-called employees who actually were working for the party and not for the Mayor then.

Best experiences in and out of Thailand: Emirates, Cathay

Worst: Oman Air, Thai, Qantas (to be fair, the Qantas flight was a long time ago, maybe better now)

So-so: Etihad, Qatar, Air France, Turkish, KLM

21 hours ago, twizzian said:

 

Make sure none of your cash is torn or any pen writing scribbled on them as SuperRich will reject those notes.

Many normal Thai banks will not take them either.

Not in my experience. At Suwa' airport booth, they even taped one torn note for me. They're quite forgiving. As for banks, it varies a lot. Kasikorn is the worst: the slightest, almost invisible spot on the bill and they will reject it (tried different branches). Others like TMB less demanding.

Re: the issue of carrying cash: I put the money on my Thai bank account ASAP so not much of an issue for me, but this doesn't apply to many tourists, I agree.

Confused... is this the same fire as the one discussed there ?

Used to enjoy my Etihad Gold card giving me a pass to the business class line even while traveling in eco... unfortunately I've been downgraded to silver now, so I'm back with the cattle. That's what you get for catching opportunities to fly the wonderful A380 with Emirates.

Anyway, I will seriously consider Chickenleg's advice. After a long and exhausting trip, it might be worth the 850B.

It is a very common French first name.

Last time I've been through the immigration on my wait out, they were letting anyone use the "ASEAN Only" lanes because it was such a huge mess. They couldn't even let people go down the stairs because the immigration hall was packed.

Yes, and my advice would be to go exchange your foreign currency at the Superrich exchange counter on the basement level of Suwa' airport, next to the bus station.

There or one of the bank counters next to them, in my experience they seem to offer the same exchange rates. Significantly better rates than at any bank branch in town and way better than at the bank exchange desks on the arrivals floor.

I know that you can get even better rates at the Superrich main branch downtown, but that's too much of a hassle for me, so I use the counter at Suwa'.

It's kind of a pain to get back to the arrivals level after this, you have to use an overcrowded elevator and waste a lot of time. For some reason they won't let you use the ramps back to there.

Agreed, except that a slow process gives more time to the leaders to mentally prepare people to something stupid like mass suicide.

Wouldn't be surprised that some of them already are working on the weakest minds.

Is Thailand headed towards a local remake of Waco?

Does this seem completely unlikely to you guys? not to me anymore, the followers are so heavily brainwashed.

I find it impossible to feel the slightest sympathy for either of the two opposed parties here.

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Here might be one possible lead:

 

I wonder what local attorney/attorneys the BBC has retained to defend Jonathan Head?

I wouldn't use the same one, the junta's going to make this guy's life miserable.

Sorry, but GH is..?

Just now, lucky11 said:

Journalists that work for the BBC are famed for their neutrality - JH does not even come close to fitting this description.

I'm sure you'd deal with this if he were singing the praises of the junta.

Anyway, I'm off this thread, won't take us anywhere.