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I am personally amazed at the high quality of diplomat the USA has sent to Thailand. This guy is a professional, not the debutante political appointee that was here before as a reward for spending money on the reelection of POTUS.

His entire talk, and questions afterwards, is now up on youtube. He begins his Thailand remarks at about 14:50 and the 'controversy' happens at 24:30.

Showing off a piece of military hardware with a 'pretty' to pose by it. Only in Thailand.

I showed this ( http://board.postjung.com/916800.html ) to a Thai friend of mine and she explained that the problem Prayuth's people might have with the (long) caption is that it described the pictures as merely a 'photo opportunity' courtesy that Obama was extending to a number of foreign leaders. The caption implied Prayuth was no more than just among the many who had effectively been waiting in line for an Obama handshake and photo. This would seemingly go strongly against how the Thai govt would want the pictures described, i.e. as a highest level greeting and inferred understanding/endorsement of Prayuth by the U.S.

Also no where to be found on the Shanghai Rankings ( http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2015.html ) released last month. Top 100 below:

1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 Princeton University
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
10 University of Oxford
11 Yale University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Cornell University
14 University of California, San Diego
15 University of Washington
16 Johns Hopkins University
17 University of Pennsylvania
18 University College London
18 University of California, San Francisco
20 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
21 The University of Tokyo
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
23 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
24 University of Wisconsin - Madison
25 University of Toronto
26 Kyoto University
27 New York University
27 Northwestern University
29 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
30 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
31 Duke University
32 Washington University in St. Louis
33 Rockefeller University
34 University of Colorado at Boulder
35 University of Copenhagen
36 Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
37 The University of Texas at Austin
38 University of California, Santa Barbara
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
40 University of British Columbia
41 The University of Manchester
41 University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)
43 University of Maryland, College Park
44 The University of Melbourne
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
46 Heidelberg University
47 The University of Edinburgh
48 Karolinska Institute
49 University of Southern California
50 University of California, Irvine
51 Technical University Munich
52 University of Munich
53 Vanderbilt University
54 University of Zurich
55 King's College London
56 Utrecht University
57 University of California, Davis
58 University of Geneva
58 University of Oslo
60 Pennsylvania State University - University Park
61 Carnegie Mellon University
61 Purdue University - West Lafayette
61 Uppsala University
64 McGill University
64 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
66 University of Bristol
67 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
67 The Ohio State University - Columbus
67 University of Helsinki
70 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus
71 Ghent University
72 Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris
73 Aarhus University
73 Boston University
75 Brown University
75 University of Groningen
77 Nagoya University
77 Stockholm University
77 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
77 The Australian National University
77 The University of Queensland
82 Leiden University
83 University of Florida
84 Rice University
85 Osaka University
86 Moscow State University
87 The University of Western Australia
87 University of Basel
87 University of Strasbourg
90 KU Leuven
90 University of Arizona
92 University of Warwick
93 Arizona State University
93 University of California, Santa Cruz
93 University of Utah
96 McMaster University
97 University of Bonn
98 VU University Amsterdam
99 Michigan State University
100 Texas A&M University

could you please let us know what System and OS Version you're using, and what True service (adsl, vdsl, Cable DOCSIS, Fiber).

Am using "trueonline" (what it says on my router along with the brand nlink) over a dedicated 02 line so I believe it's ADSL. Browsing through Google Chrome on a Windows 7 machine.

We are always monitoring the servers and as soon we get alerted that users having problems of some sort our techs are on it, around 80% of these problems is True related.

Never use True name servers, use Google's public dns:

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4

After that, reboot your modem and restart your computer/device.

Your milage will vary, bit give it a try! You will be surprised.

Cheers, please let me know how it goes.

I tried this (including Google's v6 DNS) and perhaps have noticed some improvement with other sites, but not thaivisa.com. My experience (again with the latest Chrome and True Online) is that I get quick, responsive behavior for 12 hours or so after reboot and then the TV page loading problems begin to return and get worse and worse. VPN (zenMate plugin for Chrome) then becomes necessary -- it's what I'm using now just to be able to type in this reply.

Thanks for the information. I'm using a Windows phone (Nokia Lumia 920, denim update) and have not been able to find a wifi analyzer for it. Also the phone's wifi settings don't include the ability to change the channel.

I have had True online in my apartment for about four years over a dedicated 02 number and an nlink "Router 1 port" router that came with the service. My PC is connected by ethernet to the router and has a stable connection. My phone, though, connects through the WiFi signal coming out of the router's antenna. On an almost daily basis my phone is losing the router's WiFi signal (usually when trying to reconnect after being out for the day) and I have to reboot my router in order to get it back. Is there anything I can do so this stops happening or is my only option buying a new router? Thanks.

Also fücked up for me. Am on True using the latest Chrome (Version 44.0.2403.157 m) with flash disabled and get the same behavior. If I use VPN performance improves. With Firefox and flash, more than five tabs open hangs the browser entirely. Like others, I get this WITH NO OTHER SITE. You need to program your page loading to prioritize thaivisa.com content so that the page is readable whether the ads load or not. Ad loading should have a timeout set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mGoGYHA4-0

Hub of liver flukes.

A Thai cancer doctor told me that liver cancer is one of the three most common cancers she treats (the other two being breast and cervical) and that most was traced to the liver fluke parasites in pla ra somtam. Here's a somewhat recent NY Times story on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/world/asia/26iht-thailand.html

I had no idea going through a solid object (the roof) can be ignored when calculating a bullet's acceleration and final velocity. The things you learn reading ThaiVisa...

police set up a checkpoint in tambon Ban Chan following a tip-off

the driver fled.

And then likely money changed hands for another successful drug "seizure."

...Lt Gen Preecha Chan-o-cha, a younger brother of Prime Minister Gen Prayut,with more than Bt79 million.

So Prayuth's younger brother, only a three star general, has assets of more that US$2.4 million. I wonder how much Prayuth himself has, and for that matter how an army general happens to be a multi-millionaire?

today shaking down tourists a few hundred baht for littering. Swept away by the coup?

The greatest cover band in rock n roll history.

It was all about personal and national pride, to show that one guy alone with the expertise and experience was smart enough to fool the entire world and create the perfect crime that could never be solved.

Is there some reason the French girl wasn't stripped naked for the photograph?

USA number 5? I through you Brits hate us Americans and are "we are number 1" attitude.

Christ I don't hate you, you've given us Breaking Bad and now True Detective

14 straight hours of staring at DBs,

these are the things you think of.

You ever done that? Hmm?

You look in their eyes,

even in a picture.

Doesn't matter if they're dead or alive.

You can still read them,

and you know what you see?

They welcomed it,

mm-hmm, not at first,

but right there

in the last instant.

It's an unmistakable relief,

see, because they were afraid

and now they saw

for the very first time

how easy it was to just let go,

and they saw--

In that last nanosecond,

they saw what they were,

that you, yourself,

this whole big drama,

it was never anything

but a jerry-rig

of presumption and dumb will

and you could just let go

finally now that you didn't have

to hold on so tight...

to realize that

all your life--

you know, all your love,

all your hate,

all your memory, all your pain--

it was all the same thing.

It was all the same dream,

a dream that you had

inside a locked room,

a dream about being a person...

and like a lot of dreams...

there's a monster

at the end of it.

One of the most striking commentaries on the crisis in recent days was offered by Veerapong Ramangura, an economist who has served many governments, including the present one and those installed after military coups.

Mr. Veerapong, who rarely appears on television, lashed out at the protest movement during an hourlong interview, calling the leaders’ plans “nonsensical.” Without mentioning names, Mr. Veerapong said that there had been “an agreement to stage a coup d'état” and install a former general as leader, but that the plan had been scrapped because the head of the army had refused to go ahead with it.

“The protest leaders are now stuck,” he said. “They don’t know how to back out of this.”

The comments were especially notable because Mr. Veerapong has worked closely with the military and other establishment figures over the years, and because, while he has advised the current government, he has also been sharply critical of it, especially its management of the rice subsidy program.

Mr. Veerapong said he believed that some judges and members of state agencies were now hoping to remove the government and install their own government.

“It’s not doable because these organizations cannot tear up the Constitution,” he said.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/world/asia/petition-to-nullify-thai-election-is-rejected-in-setback-for-opposition.html