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I also take Aspirin as well as several other meds on a daily basis. But I have no problem obtaining the Aspirin and the local store.

If it upset you so much that you posted here then maybe her assessment of you was pretty close to the mark.

Wrong Mr Nesbitt, the OP is right to ask about a 15% increase.

Dear Bass Playing Member;

While it may be OK for him to ask about the increase (politely of course) she certainly does not have to offer an explanation. It's her shop/business. As said many times on this thread her shop/business her prices. Not happy shop elsewhere.

First you didn't mention what is was you were buying, so who is really to say that the costs for it did not increase. You also did not mention/or are unaware if that was an across the board increase or an increase just for foreign buyers.

The Thai food vendor is probably the toughest to make a living at. That's why you see so many start up today and in two weeks they are gone.

My wife and I also had a Thai restaurant in NY, I really only managed the finances she did most of the day to day operations. When we arrived here she wanted to open a little restaurant here, she gave me a prospective menu, we found a little place to rent for the business (yes it needed some work) so after running the numbers I said OK. I broke things down for here and priced out the menu for her. She insisted that my prices were to high that everyone else around didn't charge that much (we live up north on Khon Kaen) I told her OK charge what you want and I would help for a bit (yes I paid for the first rent, security, food purchases etc...) but told her it had to be self sustaining within four months. 5 months later she closed it. Working from dawn to dusk for minimal profit was not what she had in mind.

The baht against the dollar is not very good right now, the Thai economy is in the crapper, oil prices are again on the increase as OPEC has agreed to slow production, the rate for electric in Thailand has gone up a bit. As a former computer business owner in the US I often avoided trying to increase prices but sometimes due to circumstances beyond your control, to maintain profitability you must. Perhaps she simply could not afford to absorb her increased costs any longer and still maintain profitability.

Your post is far to vague to possibly comment on with any degree of certainty.

No dual citizenship in Thailand is not allowed. A child may have dual citizenship if one of the parents is foreign born but at 18 must choose. Check with an immigration lawyer.

Strange he could not exit on time with his old visa. Normally your Embassy would not keep your visa that is about to expire until the new one arrives. Then the old one is punched and returned to you.

This reply is purely about the bank account and may not be relevant to anyone else. But when I opened my bank account which was several years ago I was here on a tourist visa, simply went to Siam bank and opened a savings account with a thousand baht. No problem, no forms or questions. Last year though I'm no longer on a tourist visa I opened another account at KrungThai bank and again no problem or questions so I am not sure why some people have trouble opening accounts and some do not.

But it's OK for Thais to drive around with a machete hanging from their belt right?

Depending on your American bank and credit card terms, you may be better off getting a cash advance of 7000 dollars rather than the dealer surcharge

facebook - just lie with name and date of birth, George Orwell was correct

They really don't care what your name or D.O.B is. If your using the computer they get your browsing habbits and history, IP address some say they even get your MAC address, not sure if that's true though. But if your using a mobile device forget it, they and your phone provider get everything, addresses, stored emails, phone lists, location. There is absolutely NO PRIVACY on a mobile device.

Fishing contest - February 21 2015

For information and directions

Frank's Red Hot

Example class:

A very easy and simple way to remove baidu and all it's registry entries is to go to

1. ninite.com

2. download and install the "Revo" it's under the "utilities" section. It is a very good uninstaller and will scan and remove all associated registry entries.

3. After that is complete reboot your system

4. Again go to ninite.com and download on of the mailware removal tools, personally I like the "Spybot 2" but "Malewarebytes" and "Ad Aware" are also very good

5. Do a system scan for maleware and do the fix for any that is found.

That should fix you up nicely

Does anyone know if and where I could buy "Frank's Redhot Sauce" in Thailand. I've looked at many many places and even emailed the company (no response of course) . If anyone know please post, I would be most grateful.

HUBBUB

1. Car manufacturing hub

2. Economic hub

3. Foreign surgery hub

4. Sports hub

5. Medical hub

6. etc...etc... etc...etc...

Now a vaccine hub, really. I'm constantly reading about Thailand's want to be the "-------" hub of something.

Before they can be the hubbub of anything they have to get the rest of the world to think that a military takeover of a democratically elected govt. is OK

The easiest way to download a complete playlist from Youtube without downloading each video individually is:

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UPDATE:

UN Rejects Thailand From Rights Council

By Khaosod English

A delegate casts his country's ballot in the election of members for the Human Rights Council. [Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider]

BANGKOK – Junta-ruled Thailand failed to secure enough votes to join the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday, losing to four other Asian nations that applied for the seats.

Thailand, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Qatar were vying for four seats allotted to countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the UN rights group. Thailand was the only country not to make the cut, receiving 136 votes from members of the UN General Assembly, compared to 162 votes for India, 152 for Indonesia, 149 for Bangladesh, and 142 for Qatar.

Those four Asian nations will now join eleven other countries as new members of the UN Human Rights Council. They will serve a 3-year term starting on 1 January 2015.

There is no immediate reaction from Thai authorities.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1413954464

-- Khaosod English 2014-10-22

Sorry for the lengthy reply but;

The UN as an oversight body on anything, is nothing more than a joke. Something that once was perceived as a great world stabilizing force has morphed into nothing more than a humanitarian aid group. That’s all that they can seem to accomplish anymore. When it comes to sanctions or actions against any country for anything it only takes one permanent member to veto and poof nothing get accomplished.

Way to many examples of the UN’s ineffectiveness to go into here so I’ll just give 2 quick examples:

China and The Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989

The world criticized and complained the UN met and debated, China (a permanent member of the UN Security Council) objected and vetoed any and all attempts at sanctions or “punishment” if you will and nothing was done.

Russia and its current incursion in Ukraine

Russia (a permanent member of the UN Security Council) has objected and vetoed any and all UN attempt to sanction or punish Russia and poof they have annexed Crimea. Leaving but a handful of countries putting meager sanctions on them.

Not really pertaining to the UN but: The latest of the many Thai Coup’s. The US and a few other countries complained but no real pressure has been brought to bear. The USA’s response was a mere $3,000. Cut in military aid, which in reality is like saying “OK we’re going to cut 1 tank from your delivery this year” The EU has brought only slightly more pressure but no real sanctions with teeth.

Is it any wonder why many Americans think that it is time for the US to withdraw from the UN?

Newly Elected 21/10/14

Albania

Bangladesh

El Salvador

Ghana

Latvia

Netherlands

Nigeria

Paraguay

Portugal

Qatar

Re-Elected to a second three year term

Bolivia, Botswana, Congo, India and Indonesia

Current members with their term expiration.

Algeria (2016) France (2016) Mexico (2016)

Argentina (2015) Gabon (2015) Montenegro (2015)

Brazil (2015) Germany (2015) Morocco (2016)

China (2016) Ireland (2015) Namibia (2016)

Côte d’Ivoire (2015) Japan (2015) Pakistan (2015)

Cuba (2016) Kazakhstan (2015) Republic of Korea (2015)

Estonia (2015) Kenya (2015) Russia (2016)

Ethiopia (2015) Maldives (2016) Saud Arabia (2016)

Sierra Leone (2015) South Africa (2016)

former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2016)

United Arab Emirates (2015)

United Kingdom (2016) United States (2015)

Venezuela (2015) Viet Nam (2016)

Members of the Council serve for a period of three years and are not eligible for immediate re-election after serving two consecutive terms.

You can attempt to repair bad sectors using chkdsk. In order to run this click 'start' and type the word 'command' in the search field. Click on 'command prompt'. Once you have done this enter the following into the black dos window

chkdsk /f /r

This will attempt to repair any bad sectors it finds. If you complete this, we can see the log and tell you what the status of your drive is.

You would have to go to the "log viewer" to see the log and then it will give you only cryptic information on what is wrong with the drive. If you actually have bad sectors chkdsk /R is only a short term solution for a long term problem. My favorite utility for checking the integrity of a hard drive is: HD Tune it not only check IDE and SATA drives but also will check SSD drives. You can download the free version here

Had a similar experience recently though only for a much shorter time.

The Thai embassy in Laos entered one date for my visa, but when I went through Immigration in Nong Kha they stamped a different date. I never looked at their stamp only the Visa stamp. But when I went for my extension the immigration officer told me and my wife that I had overstayed by a considerable amount of time. I of course said that I didn't and showed the Visa, he then showed me the immigration stamp. I was of course stupefied. He then said no problem, he has had many problems with that particular immigration officer recently and he should go back to school to learn to read. He then crossed out that immigration stamp, wrote in a new one, signed stamped and initialed everything, gave me my extension. No fine, no hassle very polite and wonderful experience.

Try Hard Disk Sentinal it will tell you the state of your disk

either allaying or confirming your suspicions

There is a trial version.

Also I think there may be a problem with W7 at the moment (I run the 64bit version)

Programmes can take for ever to load

but after a reboot all is well, for a while.

I've got the full pro version and it tells me that I've got some bad sectors, health down to 64% It doesn't change after a reboot.

Got also a PC , no problem with Google. Drive C's already backed up with Acronis, still don't know if I should buy a Hitachi, for 1,500 baht with a one year warranty ( seems to be made in Japan), or a Western Digital for 1,900 baht, both 500 GB, with a three year warranty. ( Made in Thailand).

My advice, go with the Hitachi, but my personal preference for HD is Samsung. I have had excellent track record with them over the years and a horrible one with WD Hard drives.

Also look at solid state disks for better performance

Solid state drives are great for the installation of your OS, but are very cost prohibitive as a storage solution, as well as you have to make sure that your motherboard and CMOS will accomodate booting from a SSD

A bad hard drive can cause many weird problems. As you have stated you have bad sectors, so it is certainly time for a replacement. Though I would suggest a clean install of your operating system and programs and then just restore your needed data from your current backup. It sounds like you may also have some maleware or virus issues.

If you don't have the original OS CD or know your installation key see this article to find out where to download any version of Windows installation CD and how to retrieve your installation key.

jandscomp.com/site/index.php/tips-and-tricks/7-things-pc-owners-should-do

Hope this helps

@DoDoey

The US is a Constitutional Republic. It is not a Democracy!

The USA is a democracy.

Abolutely true.. the USA is not actually a Democracy but a Republic based on Democratic principals. Just to prove a point we have had 4 Presidents who had not won the poplular vote, 1 of which won neither the popular vore nor the Electorial vote

In 1824 John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84. Despite his victories, Jackson didn’t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president. In fact, neither candidate did. The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House.

In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden.

In 1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.

In 2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.

We are governed by people we supposedly elect to perform in our best interest but it is painfully obvious to everyone that this is not really the case. We have just as much corruption as any other country and maybe more than some. We just call it political contributions, super pacs etc...