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  1. Thanks. Downloaded pimsleur two days ago.

    It is quite good for vocabulary building.

    What is nice is to put two lessons on a cd

    so 15 cd's in all or if your car takes a USB stick better yet as

    you can put them all on it.

    Then listen while driving it is interactive & leaves space for you to answer.

    All in all worth the the effort....

    In the end though I would suggest getting to reading & writing ASAP

    It will have the biggest effect on your learning.

  2. Yes, the IS about gun control and why it isn't possible. Like I said: the U.S. has become dysfunctional.

    Sensationalism

    The US has over 300 million citizens

    Sensationalize a nut job & call 300 million dysfunctional?

    Your idea of Gun Control is like demanding AID's control

    The genie is out of the bottle

    You may punish people for committing a crime with a gun, a knife, a barrel of fertilizer..take your pick

    Ban each one & then the next & the next & the next

    Because no matter what you *think*....You cannot remove every device from the face of the earth or the US in this case.

    You CAN enforce laws against nut jobs though.

    You CAN kill them & let those who may follow know what their punishment will be for such acts.

    You may be interested in looking at where the largest delivery of illegal arms recently came from & where they went.

    I believe it involved your favorite Presidents side kick Eric Holder

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  3. Revolver is not semi-auto. Semi auto loads the next round and cocks the hammer, revolver does not. Man does.

    Bit off topic & not really important but.......Look up double action revolvers it will fit your description

    Double action means the trigger performs two actions....cocking/loading ( in the case of a revolver) & firing

    Yes trigger pull is heavier as you are pulling through but still....one shot per pull of the trigger

    Not important except as i pointed out in my initial post about banning all semi autos

    Is this as fast as any semi auto?......Yes

  4. Again I know nothing about guns and I don't want to know anything about guns. However, it's clear something is rotten in a country where politicians can't even have a serious discussion about measures that could be taken to reduce gun related crimes without risking their entire careers.

    No they are free to do that & the NRA has always said....Commit a felony with a gun....Lock them up & throw away the key.

    It is the justice system that is broken.

    The man who did this needs no trial period.

    It is a waste of taxpayers money & will only afford him some sick/slick plea of insanity.

    Yet no sane person kills.....So all cold blooded murderers are insane

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  5. They can determine whether automatic or semi-automatic weapons are permitted.

    Any gun that fires one bullet at a time is semi auto

    If you ban semi auto you need to ban everything even western six shooters

    A revolver is not semi-auto. It requires man to do the next shot.

    Technically your describing single action vs double action

    All guns require a man to pull a trigger

    But as an aside a six shooter can be shot as fast as anything available.

    Just watch Bob Munden on you tube

  6. As I said before I have many friends with AKs, ARs, M4s and etc. Most of them are fully auto and I have shot one of the AKs several times.

    Yep, I have a lot of eccentric friends. I don't discriminate.

    I doubt criminals and drug dealers care much about registering their automatic weapons so I am not surprised that criminals are using unregistered automatic weapons. They don't want the guns traced back to them . . .

    Sorry but your full of it.

    Your pal with the AK may have illegally modified it but it was not sold that way...period

    I have shot competitively all my life & in many States at many levels.

    Full auto are not common as you say.

    Full auto cannot even be bought they may be transferred but only after a high fee &

    much more thorough background check

    IF your State allows it at all.

  7. Up to 20 kg. you can send a postparcel airmail or surface mail, more then that minimum a cubic meter up to a container, every forwarding, packing agent can help you with that.

    I think that you better check very well, about foodstuf to the US

    Thanks

    That is basically what I thought as far as the smaller trial package no problem.

    Yes on food stuff the FDA site has been helpful

    Dried fruit should not pose a problem.

    But of course packaging has to state certain info.

    Thanks I guess I will check with an agent as to prices/weights on

    larger amounts

  8. Your question is so broad that it is impossible to summarize. Unless, that is, you want the answer to be the length of a book.

    Please specify your question. Ideas are:

    - How to register a Thai company with Thai customs.

    - Modes of transport from Thailand to USA.

    - Import regulations for certain goods to USA (may be out of the scope of this forum)

    - Other specific questions. I think you know the answers to the above already, otherwise you wouldn't be playing with the idea.

    Yes sorry for the broad question

    At this time not looking to register a company but as I said a trial of a few goods.

    Basically my sister back in the USA would like some sample products. Thinking that if they

    are acceptable to her to sell there then she would want to do something in larger quantities.

    But for now just sample products

    Some of the things she is interested in are

    ladies bags...Not designer types but more along the lines of hill tribe smaller sling/shoulder bags.

    dried fruits...mango, salted plums/lemons etc

    Other small goods like house slippers etc.

    So to that end just a smaller box for now maybe 20 lbs tops.

    But with a view to future sales if she should decide to go forward

    the shipping costs on larger quantities have to be estimated before hand

    Also rules/paper work etc.

    Again sorry for the broad question.

  9. Looking for info on shipping items from Thailand to USA

    Various methods/costs vs weight/times/ legal forms etc.

    I am sure this has been asked but my searches are turning up

    poor info.

    Can anyone summarize or point me to the info?

    Initially it would be just some trial goods so not large quantities...just a mixed box of sample products.

    Also as an aside...One item could be dried fruit which I imagine may be a bit more involved?

    Any info/help much appreciated

  10. Thanks flying.

    As for the concrete, I was originally looking at polished concrete for the floors, as you know, you can also put acid etc on and it colours the concrete and looks great. The difficulty was finding someone in the area with the correct machines and knowledge.

    Maybe another time for floors but as for furniture, my imagination is well and truly opened up. The kitchen counters and the dining table will be tiled, I've seen some pretty good styles for tiles already, so I'll get them from Pattaya and take them up with me. I will hopefully also finish the "floating" bed when I get back as well.

    Yes folks are getting very creative with concrete

    Like you say etched/colored etc.

    They also do stamped now....Create shapes with a stamp while not quite dry.

    I also some one guy use a tight line to snap lines into the setting concrete + powder dye

    It did end up looking a lot like reddish brick floors

    Chok Dee

  11. good report! unfortunately containing the fairy tale of Rossi's "e-cat" saai.gif

    I am not up to date on that but remember first seeing info about it here when someone posted it.

    As to the whole search for fossil fuel replacement....I cannot help but feel like they are blindly charging forward

    in search of it when they should instead stop. Go back to square one & look for alternative forms of propulsion.

    Instead of continuing to search for food for the beast that drained us.....

    I often thought the same when I use to watch NASA launches.

    It just seemed barbaric that they blast their way into space.

    I guess I thought (even as a kid) that we as a race would be much further along by 2012

  12. Is there any app to make fonts bigger or stretchable for Android based phones?

    I have the Samsung Galaxy Cooper

    It is not a problem making notes in English but now I try to

    do notes in Thai to help speed learning & find the Thai fonts tough to read

    at normal size in my memo app ( which also does not have font sizing )

    I did find one app called Font Manager & it helps a little but only in messaging

    Anything else available that would help Thai script fonts in memo type apps

    appear larger?

    Thanks

  13. Hey , I'm still on 3.5.17 !

    From 3.6 , I had bugs , and I don't like the tabs placement in the newer versions.

    Sure it crashes sometimes , but it always has to do something with flash on some sites.

    I read that this hasn't changed much , even in v14 with new flash plug inn.

    Yeah if the freezing keeps up I will probably revert

    On that tabs deal I also got use to tabs on bottom

    But in view -> Toolbars you can un-check tabs on top & have them on the bottom

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