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Thank you for the link.

Silly video, with no information at all.

I am not impressed with Copy. It does not synchronise files and folders. It does not let me view JPG images within the application, only offers me to download them. Now I hope that Google will increase my free storage to 15GB soon.

Google has not yet upgraded me to 15GB, so I signed up with Copy today after seeing this video on Youtube:

Got 15 MB free storage plus 5MB extra for installing the app on my mobile phone. I haven't looked at it in detail yet, plan to see tomorrow how it works. Wonder how its functionality compares with Google Drive.

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First you'd need to setup a Bitcoin wallet on your computer, and the person you intended sending the money to would also need a Bitcoin wallet on their computer.

Then you'd need to buy some bitcoins in your home country, let's say you are in the USA you could use:

http://bitinstant.com or https://localbitcoins.com/ to buy $10 worth (as per your example). Let's say you use bitinstant which charges you 3.99% fee. So you could get about 0.079 bitcoins (at current market price).

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You then send this .079 bitcoins to your friend in Thailand (this is the part that is instant). And your friends sells the bitcoins on a website such as the ones mentioned by Buckaroo. At the current rate they would be able to sell the .079 bitcoins for 260 THB, which would be transferred to their Thai bank account.

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Just like with real currencies there are of course fluctuations in the exchange rate. Based on historical rates I would have received 0.0376 bitcoins for $10.00 on 10 April 2013 and the following day my friend in Thailand could have sold it for $4.14

Nothing in this whole thread about bitcoin mining. Can somebody explain what bitcoin mining is? I have seen some impressive racks of hardware and people claim to be making hundreds of dollars per month mining bitcoins.

You mine a bitcoin by using a computer or many computers to solve a difficult problem:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-mine-bitcoins-2013-3?op=1

I suspect that the mining pools mentioned in the above linked article use trojans or other malware to highjack the computers of unsuspecting people to help them mine bitcoins:

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2459

Another method mentioned in the first link in this post is to include a particular script on a web page and every time somebody goes to that page his computer is helping you to mine bitcoins. This works especially well of course if your web page is a porn site, a gambling site, a popular blog or forum. For all you know, while you are reading this your computer is helping someone mine a bitcoin.

Happy mining!

I did not see this topic before I started my topic Elvis Lives – As A Monkey In Myanmar in the Southeast Asia Forum, otherwise I would have posted here.

Anybody who would like to read the WWF report on which the AFP article in the OP is based can find it here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.panda.org%2Fdownloads%2Fgreater_mekong_species_report_web_ready_version_nov_14_2011_1.pdf&ei=_r7lTvrxG6eg4gSEuPisBQ&usg=AFQjCNGBtD1juX8VNIgQhH7I7smim2ZK8w&sig2=QpIVcaoWiBXmDyzADq3W-A

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“Elvis lives – as a monkey in Burma” is the translation of the headline of an article in today’s issue of a German-language daily newspaper. A search in the English-language press does not go that far but news articles based on a WWF report liken the monkey’s hairstyle to that of Elvis, the King of Rock’n’Roll. One example:

… Then there is a black and white snub-nosed monkey whose head sports an Elvis-like hairstyle, found in Myanmar's mountainous Kachin state. Locals say the animal can be spotted with its head between its knees in rainy weather as it tries to keep rain from running into its upturned nose…

WWF report: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.panda.org%2Fdownloads%2Fgreater_mekong_species_report_web_ready_version_nov_14_2011_1.pdf&ei=_r7lTvrxG6eg4gSEuPisBQ&usg=AFQjCNGBtD1juX8VNIgQhH7I7smim2ZK8w&sig2=QpIVcaoWiBXmDyzADq3W-A

The WWF report is about the discovery of hitherto undocumented species of flora and fauna in the Mekong region and the concern that many rare species may become extinct if insufficient efforts are made to preserve them.

"Mekong governments have to stop thinking about biodiversity protection as a cost and recognise it as an investment to ensure long-term stability," says Chapman [Conservation Director of WWF Greater Mekong].

Perhaps all the Thai language schools were also counted.

MY wife stood naked in front of the mirror and said: "Look at me - my boobs are sagging, my stomach's fat, my bum is huge. Can you compliment me on something?"

I said: "There's nothing wrong with your eyesight."

my family decided to get a kitten, we contacted scad…

Is this the same bloke that's been asking TV members to carry their animals to Germany, the US and Canada? Hmmmm....

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Thirdeyedmt, toybits may be referring to this thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Urgent-Travelers-t271948.html

It's hard to deny the attractions of Phuket...

She is all strung up. Did you untie her strings after taking that picture?

...If he did not get it here, he is no longer here, and there are no related cases how is this news?

Does the Gazette not get that we are in an economic downturn and we need every advantage we can to survive it - such irresponsible reporting only harms the island...

Shooting the messenger, aren't you? I have seen other posters other posters in other threads ask why Phuket Gazette did not print some negative news about Phuket that were published elsewhere. You see, they are damned either way. But please, don't be shy and write to the editor of Phuket Gazette with your suggestion.

...I have become rather interested though in how doctors in places like Thailand, once they are qualified, get their information about new or improved methods of treatment, and in this case, pharmaceuticals...

The salesmen (medical representatives) of pharmaceutical companies or importers/distributors talk the doctors into prescribing/selling the latest, most expensive products.

I consult w3schools when I try to do something in html and found this about blinking text:

www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_blink.asp

However, I understand that Microsoft Internet Explorer has been designed not to comply with the international standard and therefore a workaround is needed for certain things, and I guess this is what the code posted by bino is about.

The problem exists between the keyboard and the user's chair...

You have such a subtle way of putting it but I recognise myself in that description. After all these years of using Windows at work I lack the courage even to try Linux. If Linux had been around in the early 1970s when I first started using computers I probably would have used it and never looked at Windows for my personal computers.

hhiser, you may not have to re-invent the wheel. I believe there already is a consumer protection organisation in Thailand:

old.consumerthai.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1465&Itemid=37

I also believe that Thailand has consumer protection laws:

www.amchamthailand.org/asp/view_doc.asp?DocCID=1055

From the Letter of Confirmation: "We [foreign husband and Thai wife] together confirm that the money which [Thai wife] shall expend on the purchase of land...is wholly Sin Tua or the personal property of [Thai wife] alone, not Sin Som Ros or the matrimonial property between husband and wife."

This leads to the question: how does money, or property in general, become Sin Tuan, ie the personal property of one of the spouses?

1. Property owned before marriage.

2. Property received as inheritance.

3. Property received as a gift???

Does money that a Thai wife receives as a gift, regardless from whom, become Sin Tuan?

...this has been told by the immigration on the cambodian border on the 01jun2009

At which border post were you given this information?

“Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.” _ Jeff Foxworthy

...l felt l was wrongly denial entry because of my nationality and skin colour...

Perhaps the Polish immigration officer has never before seen a Red Indian with Brunei nationality. What I am trying to say is that it is impossible to comment on your above-mentioned feeling because you indicated neither your nationality nor your skin colour.

The Thai phrase "far from the noon-time cannon" is ไกลปืนเที่ยง. Literally, it means living in the boondocks, but figuratively, it means being clueless or not in the know, because you live in the boondocks, far away from the happenings of the city. Or so I understand.

Thank you, Rikker, for the Thai text. It enabled me to look it up on Thai2English. My visitor, it appears, was too polite to tell me about its figurative meaning.

I believe chances are very high that the curry paste will get confiscated and immediately incinerated upon arrival in Australia.