Khutan

Just a thought, and I know different Thai embassies in different countries have different interpretations of rules ..... but .....

when I went and got my "O" visa about one month ago in Sydney, I thought I had forotten my marraige certificate. Although the lady in sydney is helpful and a bit cynical, but has a sence of humour, she almost laughed in my face when she thought I didnt have the big certificate. No certificate and preferablly copy of the wife's ID Card, NO O VISA.

Maybe the rules aren't the same in other parts of the world.

Me I would apply for a "B" visa on the basis you are doing research into opportunities to set up a business with more than 2 million Baht. I would also mention textile/fashion exporting as one of the possibilities. Then you can poke around, look at work, and spend the 50,000 baht with a lawyer, set up yourself as a consultant and do whatever work you like.

After that and you have the certificate, then you can change to an "O" visa.

The only different treatment you get with an "O" visa is half the people like the drivers lisence and others don't really know what an "O" visa is for.....

Good luck

Monty;

Not wanting to get into a argument

but you're not going to cover the pitch of your boat with a bigger dish! The only thing a bigger dish gives you is a higher gain, not a bigger area of reception...In the yacht world they market satellite tracking dishes, they're not bigger in size, but they do track the sattelite you're tuned into by moving the dish around with attenuators...

I was referring to offset of the feed of the dish. You need the tracking to calculate its offsef constantly from the "Theoretical Pivot" point of the boat. Therefore as the boat pitches and rolls you change the angle of the offset. So when the mast is at 15 degrees then the offset fot that .001 of a second would be set to 15 degrees. Then as it rolls back then the offset angle will constantly change. Obviously if the boat was in Dry Dock and the mast is vertical, the offset would be 0. The feed focal point would also be set to the .60cm or 1.2m not at the entire 6m.

If fact as you picked up a bigger dish with no software offset adjustment would be more dificult to work with.

I used to work for a large multinational. The standing rule was Laptops are NEVER to be checked, they MUST be carried. This company also stated if your Laptop was lost or stolen, you would pay a cash penalty.

OK, as a fact of life, the only way you can truly track a sattelite at sea is firstly to inderstand how much your boat is youing to Pitch ect. you need a dish the size to cover the entire area.

so if you have a 1.2 cm dish normally and the boat will move 5 X that area, then you will need about a 6m Dish.

To add to the complexity, you need softaware to calculate the theoretical "Pivot" point" of the boat and some software to calculate hte offset of the disk.

Otherwise the feed from the sattelite at sea will never work to complete satisfaction.

Yes; My connection finally works again, but by my sin-sod calculator, I cannot see if she has worked as a so-pa-nee or not, anh her family's historical ahsievements are not seen, so I only calculate the sin-sod to be 23, 800 Baht....

If you are from "up county" no one really cares too much. Go to the Ampour before and ask what documents you need, take your prospective husband and a few relatives along (adds credability). They will probable take the ฿200 from you as quick as you can.

You must have the certificate from Bangkok (I cannot remember what it is called) but basically it means that your documentation is correct.

My tip go to one of the translation sevices since you need all English documents trnslated and for about ฿2200 they will get the certificate in 24 hours. Alot of the time and normally for about ฿8000 - ฿1000, they will do everything for you and have the marriage registered for you.

You still need to have the wedding party though, regardless of your documentation.

Fair enough, sounds reasonable BUT when I want to go back to Australia or the UK or USA, and drive the commodore, Opel or Chev, who will issue the International permit on the Thai Lisence, since that is an Auto Club who normally does that ???

Marquess;

I have downloaded some Socks Software. However I am not sure yet how it works. Does one have to load one's broswer into the software? What is the best way to set it up???

get all the hummingbird stuff, configure the socks stack, think about getting an account with a provider with a SOCKS box........ Or get an account anywhere in the world with a provider with a SOCKS box.

Then the material you need for a live art painting will be available.

Bronco;

The Liberal Goverment handled things poorly and there were cover ups, nothing unusual in that they are well known for treating the Aussie public like mushrooms. 

Little jonnie, lexie downer and all the rest of those right wing pricks need to be taken to the nearest tree and strung up 

Thank god we will have an honest Labour goverment coming 

Look out jonnie, Latham is gonna kick arse, the people of Queensland just gave you the message big time 

sorry just got a little bit off topic 

They (lib - lab) are both dirty Aรร h0ไes, spend a few dayes on the "Desk" and you will see. some of the identities of both parties make me want to vomit. I will give ou two examples.....

1. William XXXXX (Lib PM after Gorton but before Howard) was a homosexual who had a facination with certain demoraphics in society that would now get himself deported.

2. Certain Defence minister - a senaton not a member from the house of Reps (about 15 years ago) was labelled from the "insiders" as Mr FDS, and that was not Federal Defence Secretary with deferance to the US, it was simply Fat Drunk and Stupid.......

My answer - Don't vote the reason for compulsary voting is simple - each political party in Australia gets paid for every vote....... They all have jobs for life

Ok;

here is some salient advice -:

When somethink is broken, you repair it with glue . .

Yes ??

so if you break mum's christal (whatever the spelling is) you use a special glue like that invisable "super Glue"

Yes ??

So for a broken heart you use "Pygama Glue"

Ok.

off you go

Phazey;

You wont ever need a dish of that size for TV reception, for reference, here is a pic of a 7.2M dish that's installed at the facility I work at. It is indeed huge.

That thing is bigget than my D1cK - It can NEVER be practical....

btw, where can I buy one fom

The Thai officer:"No problem, come back tomorrow, you'll have a three years non-immigrant visa"

Wow, thats faster than Sydney. But there is only one person in Sydney doing the applications.

When I get home (Tomorrow night) I will confirm the place names and I will draw a little map for the location.

and NO its not a map of Tasmania.

Dave;

I was having a good smile at what you said.

Dr Pat;

It is rumoured that the proposed increases may not go ahead, but there is no word or confirmation from Immigration as yet

Sounds good, Since I have a nice new "O" visa issued on Friday, I will have to do the renewal with the 400k rule. So if the 400k rule is not there, wow I have 200k to spend on wine (one) woman ans song.....

Whilst having an enforced holiday in Australia, I have been aboe to go back and look at the Film Noir etc at the Arthouse cinemas in Sydney.

Last night I went and saw "Irreversable", Quite a film and very confronting. If you are interested, there is a reasonable review of the film on the Sydney Morning Herald website http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/08/1076175028649.html

So; bearing in mind the censorship laws, is there anywhere I can go and see Art films ???

When I am in Australia I use my ex-wife's ISP. She has an unlimited dial-up account.

When I am on and she wants to dial in she gets the same problem. This is because the ISP only allows one logon per account at one time......

Are you sure someone is not using your account ????

Ok;

Get on Sukhumvit, go through Bang-Na, and the next shopping complex is at Samrong... Samlong, whatever. Its about Soi 107 or 109. On the right you will see it.

Up on the 3rd of $th floor in the shopping Complex there is play by the hour Table Tennis.

DaveYo;

I think you have been watching Happy Gilmour too much !

Being a resident of Bang-Na, I was chatting to my wife about that subject. She told me all the locals are still having a good laugh at it.

If you look at Thairath (Such quality journalism...) there is an article about a month or two ago about the guy who raped a chicken......

Maybe the guy who went with the dog got scared of chickens.....

besides they dont let katoeys in the Thermae 1 & 2 and never have AFAIK.

Is that what the sign on the door means.......

Normally no, but when she was in HQ, did she hang out with friends etc?

Try to find a provider in the US of the UK who has a SOCKS server.

You can then configure an Secure Socks session all the way from your machine to the outside of the firewall on the socks box.

The only thing the local provider can see is alot of traffic between the your IP address and the Socks server.

One other interesting thing is when you use a SOCKS box, your IP address gets stuffed around with and your IP address can be anything in the range of the socks box.

That is quite interesting, and I agree that Australia may have handled it a bit better, but I feel there also needs to be some context to this.....

East Timor was a Portugese Colony. It never was and never has been Australian Soverign Soil. Unlike the United States, and still reeling from the local issues of the Vietnam war, Australia did not see itself as the Global or even Regional Policeman.

Also I think at that time Fretalin and the other independance from Portugal people were getting close to the communists.... At the time a worrying thing, considering Vietnam etc.

Technically when Australia Invaded East Timor, it was waging war, which is a crime, and the sponsors of such activities can get a free trip to the Hague to stand trial as a War Criminal.

Indonesia invaded the former colony in December 1975, formally annexing it the following year. Indonesia's military is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 Timorese and guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winners Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo have been fighting for East Timor's independence for 25 years.

The invasion was actually in November 1975. I think from memory it was either Nov 12 or 13 1975. Why is this important - If you look at Australian history, Australia had possibly the greatest political upheaval on Nov 11 when the Govenor General, the good old boozy, womanizing Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam Government and installed Malcolm Fraser as the Caretaker Prime Minister.

Until after the general election, it was impossible for Australia to do anything. I find it more curious that Indonesia invaded Portugese East Timor so soon after the dismissal of the government and obviously when Australia's eyes were off that Portugese Colony.

Even more damning is proof that Australia's official diplomatic records on East Timor were "sanitised", and did not accurately record talks between Australia and Indonesia.

This is interesting, since the Australian Cabinet Minutes for this episode will not be removed from the Archive for another year or possibly 2, under the 30-year rule, it is difficult to understand how these records have been "sanitised" if they have never been released.

For a quarter of a century, a central tenet of Australian foreign policy

has been that "friendship" with Indonesia has been more important than the rights and lives of the East Timorese.

mmm, that is a good one, Australia at that time had a population of 13 million and a very small standing army, maybe a bit of polite friendship with a country of over 100 million and a standing army of over 1 million.

I will never appologise for the Australian foreign policy, but please consider what I have just said, and maybe research the situation a bit more.

Dr Pat;

Nope...no chance of that. Some of us can see your IP. 

Not always true - he could be sitting in his hotel room dialing all the way to the UK....

Wouldn't that be clever...

The other side of the coin is "When you turn them up-side down, they are all sisters....."