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But in five years you can only buy one egg for that $3500.

BTW buying 500 bitcoins would cost 200.000US$! A little diffrent then trying something for 20.000 GPB.

At the moment you have 99% change it goes down and 1% it goes up.

Wait until it goes down at least 80% then buy some.

Maybe only have to wait a few days, you never know when one of the server on mount Gox goes offline for a while.

Never ever buy at the top!

I think you are confused, you think Bitcoin is like a stock. Bitcoin is being adopted as digital currency by more individuals, merchants, stock exchanges, companies, and countries every day. The adoption and increase user base guarantee's the increase in price IMO. If you think it's going to drop, IMO, you are waiting for something that won't happen.

All we need is one large merchant, e.g. Ebay, Amazon or any other Fortune 500 company to start using it on their website, and the price will go to $1000. I believe we are very close to this happening.

Bitcoin is at it's highest price ever in a market with wild volatile swings in price.

Do you really expect me to believe that the current price (the highest ever) is the lowest it will ever be again and that the volatility has now vanished because some large company might use it ?

This reminds me of what people were saying in the first days of April right before Bitcoins 'value' plunged from the then all time high of $266 to $50 in the space of a few days.

Bullish on Bitcoin! I'm mining at a current rate of 2.3 TH/s with 5.2 TH/s hardware on the way.

I don't really know much about this 'Bitcoin Mining', I've only purchased my Bitcoins so far but Isn't that quite a lot of hardware ?

I'm not going to start mining these coins but where do you get this hardware from and is it expensive ?

The miners are specialized and called ASICS and frankly it's turned into an arms race now. From everything I read, individuals have a very difficult time now to recoup their investments in mining gear.

That doesn't sound like it's too sustainable to me.

The whole Bitcoin thing is becoming a massive 'greedfest' - I don't see it ending well.

I will generally read the first couple of pages of a topic but if it's about 5 or more pages then I won't bother reading them all unless it's something I'm quite interested in.

Of course it all depends on the topic. If someone requests an opinion then I'll post my opinion without reading all the other replies - like now for instance.

If you're asking for information then I'll read the other replies and if I have anything new to add I'll add my post.

I suspect they would issue a new passport unless it's an offence for which you can be extradited for, a serious offence.

It would be interesting to know this as it will be an extension of 'big brother creep' betweeen government departments and I'm sure the rules and regulations will vary between the different countries.

I know in the US they will prevent you from renewing a passport for things such as being behind on child support payments but I have a feeling the EU will be slightly different.

Bullish on Bitcoin! I'm mining at a current rate of 2.3 TH/s with 5.2 TH/s hardware on the way.

I don't really know much about this 'Bitcoin Mining', I've only purchased my Bitcoins so far but Isn't that quite a lot of hardware ?

I'm not going to start mining these coins but where do you get this hardware from and is it expensive ?

That was sickening enough, but all the cars on the scene then manoeuvred around the lifeless body laying in the road and continued on their journey, other cars slowed down to pass the guy but didn't stop.

I'm pretty sure I saw a dead woman lying in the road once. The paramedics just left here there while they worked on the injured.

We didn't stop but the taxi did have to slow down a bit to drive around her.

I'm not 100% sure she was dead but she looked it and was being ignored by the rescue workers at the time we passed.

I guess you would class me as being in the 'other cars slowed down to pass' category as I didn't see the accident but was driving the same way.

What would you do ? Stop the car and then what ?

I wonder if there's any upcoming changes to the ASEAN countries as well as this recent G7 thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if the ASEAN changes are more generous than the G7 changes and I seem to remember reading something about it earlier in the year.

I heard the embassy staff buy them all up every time a new shipment arrives into Thailand.

Has anyone heard any update about this border crossing recently ?

Taxi from where ? Maybe people who stay at hotels in this part of town want to be in this part of town.

I've always managed to clear blockages by pouring various types of chemicals down there,and using a plunger an never really had a problem.

I posted something about this as recent as a few weeks ago in another thread somewhere on this forum.

This must have been some kind of bad omen because within days of making that post I got a serious blockage that would not be cleared using any of the previous methods.

I know the pipework where I live is adequate for wads of toilet paper as I've been here with only minor issues for just over a year now. At one point I had a cold and must have blew my nose dozens of times and I flushed it all and it all went down no problem.

I rapidly came to a conclusion about the recent blockage : I blame the girlfriend.

You can put any amount of toilet paper down the toilet without causing a serious blockage but one sanitary pad can potantially cause a block so bad physical action will need to be taken.

First we called someone out to empty the septic tank at the request of the guy who was going to do the unblocking.

There are two toilets in the house and they appear to have separate pipes which then join into a single pipe which goes into the tank - the blockage was in the single pipe after the individual pipes join as one so it was quite deep. I could tell this as when I plunged one of the toilets air bubbles came up into the other so the blockage was stronger than the pressure created by the plunger so the displaced water I plunged sent the air in the pipe by the route of least resistance which was back up the other toilet.

The guy with the electric snake came out, wasted his time trying to clear it with the small manual snake which is only good for blockages within about 60cm of the toilet.

This didn't work as the blockage was deeper.

So then he got his heavy duty electric snake thing out - this is an impressive piece of kit with reels of reasonably wide coiled metal. The coils were 5 Meters long and they were extendable by attaching another coil to the end of it. This is not something that's going to make it aound the u-bend in the toilet so you need direct access to the pipe in the floor.

He removed the toilet whch took a couple of minues then fed this thing down there, extended it and it cleared the pipe all the way into the tank.

Had he just removed the coil there would have been crap all over the bathroom but obviously this guy knows what he's doing as before he turned the machine into reverse to withdraw the pipe he stuck a hosepipe pumping water down the toilet pipe and used it to wash the coil as it came out.

Result : clean bathroom, unblocked pipe and both toilets working again. A professional job well done.

He put the toilet back in place with some sealant around the base and said don't use it for about 5 hours while the seal dries.

Sanitary pads were responsible for the cause of this serious blockage. It was working fine until she stuffed a few of those things down there.

I have avoided WD for the last 5 years - had a 50% failure rate within the first 6 months (10 drives failed out of 20).

I have 20 (estimate) WD drives and every month or every 2 month I go to the shop for a warranty claim.

This is interesting, it's the complete opposite to wht I've found. I've been using mainly Western Digital RE 4 Enterprise drives and I very rarely have any problem with them. Between myself and the guy who handles the hardware side of things in Europe we've been using WD for probably around 10 years now.

For backup servers I recently added 2 x 9 drive RAID6 arrays using the WD Red drives and it's been ok now for a few months. I have a 'hot spare' inside the machine for when one of them inevitably goes down. With these a light starts flashing when one drops out of the array and you just insert a fresh one as it rebuilds using the hot spare.

i'm American, so sorry for feeling the need to comment on all this. But why, if you live in Thailand would you even worry about UK health insurance? Covering yourself here under the best BUPA policy here is dirt cheap, certainly as cheap, if not cheaper than an airfare back to LHR. Private Thai hospitals rank up there with the best I've experienced back in the States. Out patient care is equally cheap as are prescription drugs. So maybe you guys have some emotional attachment to be treated in a British hospital, but I'm in a cultural befuddlement!

Well that all depends on how old you are when you first take out the policy doesn't it.

SWIFT commission, are you sure ?

There is a small fee at the sending and receiving banks but I've never paid a commission, in my experience SWIFT transfers are exchanged at the proper market rate.

The fee is normally pretty small (20 - 30 pounds or the equivalent depending on the bank).

One will be extremely hard pressed to get the Thai police to do such an investigation and/or sign their name to it.

This is a standard service offered by the Thai Police.

Foreign applicants residing in Thailand or having previously worked or resided in Thailand, can apply for Thai Police Clearance Certificates at the Police Clearance Service Center, Special Branch, Royal Thai

Police at the following address:

Police Clearance Service Center, Special Branch, Royal Thai Police

Building 24, Royal Thai Police Headquarters,

Rama 1, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

The office is open Monday to Friday (except public holidays) from

08.30 AM - 16.30 PM

Phone: 0066 2 205 2168-9

Fax: 0066 2 205 1295

Website: http://www.pcscenter.sb.police.go.th/

E-mail: [email protected]

From here : http://www.thaiembassyuk.org.uk/?q=node/150

Check with the airline in advance. If there is a problem you will probably be able to sort it out with them.

You must check as being denied boarding can be very annoying and lots of airlines will do anything to claw back a couple of seats on a full flight that they can then sell at a much greater price to standby passengers who are waiting.

@mickjn: The items were already seized when the offer was made. To refuse to say anything could be interpreted as a reason for suspicion. FACT is, these officers apparently believe they are above the law. It remains to be seen if it is so,

I've flat out told them it's none of their business what I've been doing or who I've been meeting when abroad and to 'do what you must' and shoved my bags in their general direction. This particular case was after a short flight from Amsterdam to Birmingham. I have no time for these people.

The OP will probably never get his laptop or other equipment back and if he does there's a good chance it will be broken as it will most likely have been physically dismantled during their inspections.

Forensic data services will likely take months to examine your computer and due to the evidence regulations they're not meant to turn the device on if it's already turned off as files could and will be modified merely by booting the device - instead they must access the hard drives directly and 'image' them before performaing any analysis. This is why they will take it apart. There is no obligation to return it to you in the same state it was seized in. You will probably receive a bag of hastily dismantled components back - ie - they will rip the hard drive out with to thought to it being carefully reassembled at a later date.

It looks like you need a government stamp of approval to get almost any job in the UK these days.

This Big Brother 'creep' as I'd call it is now extending it's way into ever increasing aspects of the workplace in the UK.

First it was introduced to stop sex offenders working with children, you now need full background checks to become a janitor in a office building.

All of this legislation has of course been introduced by the previous Labour government during their long term in office.

You sometimes get what you pay for, other times not so much

If you're away for years you shouldn't really be on the electoral roll anyway.