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Must be my connection.

I am on Thong Lor.

Oh by the way... the blood pressure is ok and I have lived here for 14 years.

I can get cable tv from True (even though it's semi illegat-_-) but still can't get Internet.

It worked well until True did their maintenance.

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True Ultra High Speed has been down today from 10.00 - 17.30 because of maintenance. Fair enough...I can live with that as long as it doesn't happen too often.

Well at 18.45 I thought I would give them a call as I still didn't have Internet. I had tried to reset the modem several times.

Anyway their technical support was good as usual and the guy could see that I wasn't connected.

He said that he would send a technician round to look at my connection. As soon as he said that I felt the anger rise inside me. I kept calm and told him that the last three times they said that to me nothing ever happened except the last time where I was contacted one week later by a technician who told me that he "had been to my condo today and fix Internet so now it was ok".

What a load of bullshit ... the Internet worked the day after I complained and I don't live in a condo I live in a house.

Anyway, I am now without Internet and let's see for how long.

Does anyone else use Cable....Ultra High Speed and if so does your Internet work now?

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I thought about making a new thread yesterday about fake banknotes and now this one appears today.

Is it legal in Thailand to photcopy or scan banknotes?

I know where I lived before it was highly illegal. My company bought a colour copier many years ago and the supplier stressed that was illegal to copy banknotes or to scan them.

I ask because yesterday I was in a shopping center and the copy shop had scanned a 1000 Baht bank note into the computer. They had left the screen on and the bank note was carefully lined up and scanned on both sides.

Will it even matter when this guy gets a suspended sentence anyway. If you have enough $$$ anything can be bought. We've seen it time and time again.

I agree with you entirely but wasn't only yesterday we saw this headline?

Wouldn't this be a great place to start?

If only all Thai Motosai´s were good and honest people like him. Just a few weeks ago, a Thai Motosai driver tried to rip me off in full daylight in Sukhumvit soi 23/2, where I have been at least 100 times before. As always, I confirmed the price before jumping on, but this time the driver asked for the double of the standard rate for this soi. When I refused to pay the double price as normal, he just said "Farang pay more". Luckily I had small change, so after this short trip, I only paid him the standard price for this soi and walked away into Interchange Tower. Maybe it would have been a quite different scenario, if there had not been many people around, at the time of this incident?

I agree that the motorsais on Sukhumvit 23 are some of the worst. It's normally 10 baht from Sukhumvit Road to SWU but I have been asked for as much as 50 baht and threatened when I refused to pay.

Similarily sometimes if it is very hot I will take a motorbike from MRT Petchaburi to SWU on Asoke. It costs 10 baht but I get so many excuses for 20 or 30 Baht. "After 4 pm" , "After 5 pm" "lunch time" "rot tit mak" even though I always ask the price before jumping on.

Don't forget to have a good data package.

I find using the laptop tethered to my smartphone uses a lot of data.

Yes, it's strange they are wearing face masks. I thought the fumigation of rice wasn't supposed to be dangerous.

Also is that a boot just behind the policeman?

I predicted that something like this would happen in one of my earlier postings although I mentioned the EU.

I hope for Thailand's sake that they don't find any contaminated rice or mold as this would really hit the Thai rice export market for years to come.

I am surprised to read that AIS 3G is crappy in Pattaya.

I upgraded to the 2100 a few weeks ago and wasn't really impressed until I went to Pattaya (area between Jomtien and Pattaya). I did a speed test and was amazed at the results. I was getting from 7000 kbps to 9000 kbps.I returned to Bangkok and went back to 3000 kbps.

I am seriously thinking of changing to True or DTAC because of the better coverage. Also my bill jumped last time from around the usual 1300 baht a month to 3500 baht. I complained to AIS and was told that because 3G was faster I was downloading more. I haven't changed my Internet habits and basically use Internet for checking emails and reading Thai Visa of course.

I don't think it is possible to show telephone numbers next to the names in the contact list. I remember searching a couple of years back and didn't find a solution.

The only place I can see names and phones numbers displayed together are in the log.

The Op is surprised that so many Thais are "addicted" to Facebook.

Yes I use Facebook sometimes (maybe 30 minutes a day) and so do most of the people I know. I think it's also OK to sit on the BTS or MRT and read FB but what really annoys me is the number of people who really are addicted to it.

You see tham walking along the busy streets, up and down escalators and running around in shopping malls with their heads glued to their iPads, smartphones and they have absolutely no idea of what is happening around them.

I have lost count of the number of people who have bumped into me because they had their heads down looking at the phones.

I don't understand that they can't put the phone or tab down for five minutes.

Is it possible to buy rice from outside Thailand in the shops here?

Cant remember seeing any but it would certainly be my choice.

I doubt it. I think any rice imported from outside would end up under the rice pledging scheme.

I read just five minutes ago that police have seized a truck with 30 tons of smuggled rice from Cambodia.

As someone mentioned if the spraying is done correctly then there is no danger to humans but is it done correctly? There are so many lies and cover ups that no one can be trusted.

I read in the other newspaper that a team of reporters were shown around a warehouse in Chachoensao after complaints from local residents of a bad smell. The reporters were shown that the rice was fine and suffered no signs of rotting and that the roof of the building was also OK but as one of the reporters mentioned they were only shown a small area and that he could see further away that the roof was damaged.

I know that exports of rice have fallen drastically because of the price of Thai rice but if any of the western laboratories discover any traces of chemicals over the recommended limits in the rice they import, then they would probably hit Thailand with a total ban. That would do far more damage to the Thai rice industry.

I seem to remember something similar happening to poultry sales a few years ago when we had the bird flu scare.

It's amazing how little has been reported on this rally.

The Bangkok Post had nothing. I haven't seen anything on Thai TV.

It seems the government are practicing their democracy and allowing free speech (to anyone pro government).

he has just notified the white masks that he will tell the red shirts to start killing them if they do not stop the rallies, he will have to accept full responsibility now if anything does happen, this man is a total idiot

Yes the man is a total idiot and says many crazy things but somehow I can't believe he said that.

What is your source?

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I saw the newspaper edition and there was a photo of the icon but it wasn't very clear. I use the AVG app and the icon in the photo looked identical to me. I searched for the online version but couldn't find so i guess they had already removed it.

The article was poorly written and seemed to suggest that it was the free AVG app that was malicious.

I have used the AVG app for nearly two years and have had no problems.

This morning I read a very confusing article in the Bangkok Post about the AVG antivirus app.

According to the writer The Thailand Computer Emergency Response Team (ThaiCeert) have found out the the app is in fact a virus that sends details of secure codes and send an SMS to a number in the UK.

They advise people to unistall immediately and if anyone has conducted online banking by their phone to contact their bank immediately.

I had to check the date twice to see if it was April1.

Does anyone know about this?

I have a feeling that there is something wrong with the report because it says something about the AVG app was made to dupliate the anti virus AVG.

This is a sad story. Comes from having children at work at night. The story doesn't give the age of the little girl, but seems to be around 8 or 9 maybe 10. Sure it's tragic that she was taken. A terrible thing. The idea of putting children to work on the streets because of a sympathy advantage calls in to question the parents.

On the television they said she was nine years old.

They also mentioned that up to 10,000 children go missing in Thailand every year. That is a horrific number if true.

Edit: Just read hgma's post and he says 16,000. Even worse.

Remember this headline from a few days ago?

BANGKOK: -- Justice Minister Pracha Promnok has instructed the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to help people when they're called on to submit luxury cars for inspection.

Someone asked on another thread what he meant by that.

Interesting to se now what happens.

When I was studying at university I worked in a pub in England and always worked out the prices in my head. Sometimes people would by 20 drinks in a round and some time later order the same round. They were impressed that the figure I came to was the same as the first round.

Imagine my surprise when I went to a small vegetable wholesale on Thong lor. The guy there just rambled off the prices .... in English and much faster than I could follow. He does the same in Japanese and Chinese and of course Thai.

No need for a calculator for him.

Shades of the early days of national socialism in Germany eh? Now Thaksin's mobs are showing their support for democracy! Nazi Style! Bring it on!

I was thinking the same thing.

The PM needs to make a statement on this and fast, if only to clarify her position.

I don't know about the PM but according to Bangkok Post today Peu Thai Deputy spokesman Anuson Lamsaat said that the government is concerned about the clashes and that any one causing violence in today's rallies would be punished.

Let's hope that there isn't any violence but it'll be interesting to see in the future (because I am sure there will be more clashes) whether the police deal with the demonstrators in a fair way whether they are red, yellow, white masks or whatever. I think I know the answer.

Get a dash cam.. Will help in the future as you seem to be prone to accidents !

I do have a cam! Very helpful and that was one of my evidence

I have always wondered why people in Thailand don't outfit a beater vehicle with cameras then go ramming into expensive cars that are violating the rules of the road (not hard to find) and then claiming medical against them using video evidence

Iguess the main reason is that the compensation is so low. Just a few thousand baht.

But....... if the driver insults you and damages your reputation you can sue him for millions.

Her idea is a mountain of fois gras and a bottle of Dom.

No worries there.

Ok you're in the same situation as me. Her favourite dish is Fois Gras.

She also loves a good Italian slap up.