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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:

From YoutubeSoft:

This software supports video playlist and music playlist download in multi-threading mode, just copy and paste the playlist URL and all the videos of the playlist will be added to download queue . The downloaded videos can be easily saved to any folder of your choice. The main panel shows all videos with status and progress bar, so you can easily see which one is completed and which one is still in the downloading process.

The software is easy to use, just copy and paste the URL for the video you want to download, sit back and wait for the download to complete in 4x faster speed. With this software, you can quickly download high-quality, high-definition and full HD videos or music from YouTube and enjoy them offline on other media players - TV, iPhone, iPad, MP4 Players, or MP3 players.

This software has built-in download accelerator to make use of your full internet bandwidth, up to 4 times faster or even more. Save, organize and manage downloaded videos for easy & offline access. Support major video format - mp4, mp3, flash(flv), WebM, 3gp for better viewing experience on other devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod, Galaxy, Kindle, Laptop, Touchpad, Smart TV, and many more. All these features are provided to you by this simple program with NO malware, NO spyware, NO Adware, NO Popups.

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...

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@DoDoey

The US is a Constitutional Republic. It is not 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

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...

No there is no need to format.

You can do a repair install, here is a step by step guide for a Windows 7 repair install. This is probably better because it will remove any mailware installed by your computer guy. But as " thedemon " you will most likely have to call MS when you try to activate it. When MS asks just tell them you replaced the motherboard.

Hope he doesn't run into friends of the slain Italian photo journalist

They will give you your old passport after you apply. They will not stamp your passport cancelled.

They will not cancel your passport until you pick up your new one. It will take less than two weeks to get your new one.

Info here on embassy website: http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/passports.html

ubonjoe;

Thanks for such a quick reply, the answer was very helpful.

I know I have to make the appointment on line and all but do they take or hold my old passport until new one arrives? is old one canceled once I apply for a new one?

Discovered?

This solution is at least as old as my grandmother.

Flour, gipsum and water keeps mice at bay.

Tomorrow, some clever Thai kid will discover America.

Yeah well she didn't know your grandmother and she thought this up on her own, big thumbs up for creativity. As for you, well enough said I guess

October is incorrect. But that is just for new features anyway. So don't panic your good until 2020

No more new features for Windows 7 after January 2015.

This week, Microsoft issued a reminder to consumers that Windows 7 will exit Mainstream Support and enter the Extended Support phase on January 13, 2015. That means Windows 7 customers will still obtain security fixes until 2020, but the platform will no longer receive cool new features. This change affects all ten versions of the Windows 7 platform.

"Extended Support lasts for 5 years and includes security updates at no cost, and paid hotfix support. Additionally, Microsoft will not accept requests for design changes or new features during the Extended Support phase," states the support page.

Versions of Windows 7 going into Extended Support include Enterprise, Enterprise N, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Professional N, Starter, Starter N, Ultimate and Ultimate N. Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 will also enter Extended Support on January 13, 2015.

See these two Microsoft articles here:

http://support2.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=windows+7

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-update-extended-mainstream-support,27220.html

Article from J and S computers

We do love our toys and we certainly can't live without them. But All the Tablets and the Mobile Phones have 1 drawback...storage. Yes they use the new solid state devices which prolongs our battery life and almost completely prevents data loss, but what about our stuff? With the tablets and the phones we only accumulate more of it.. So where do you put it all?
Fortunately I have some good answers. With the app's below you can store well over 1 Terabyte of data on line for free. That's right. Some of these app's like Google Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive also allow some simple editing (separate app required for Google) and creation of documents on line; some are just folder syncing tools, while others allow you to store your stuff on line so you have access to anywhere anytime. So peruse the app's, sign up for one or all.

If you want to check out all the best Free office app's look here.

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A while ago, the new Flickr was born. First, the good news: Every free account holder gets one terabyte of storage. That is an insane, historic, vast amount of space. That’s enough room for about 600,000 typical photos, enough to last you the next couple of birthday parties, at least.
That’s 70 times the free space of the next closest competitor, Bitcasa. And those are full resolution photos, too — the originals. Flickr doesn’t compress photos, degrading their quality, the way Facebook and others do. Read the full review here

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A big part of the problem lies in the dissemination of information.  Many companies and schools have no idea of the paperwork or how to even go about hiring a foreign worker in the first place.

Just a quick example here: 

I recently did a job for one of the local govt. offices here.  It was teaching their staff and some local province leaders some rudimentary English skills.  It was a short term assignment English language development for their ASEAN preparation.  A teacher's license was not needed as I was not teaching in a school.  But still the correct visa and work permit were required.  It took them more than five months to get it together. 

Granted some of it may be due to the different govt. in place between the time they offered me the job and when the job was to actually start.  The money was part of some type of grant or something put in place by the previous govt.  The local office was not actually paying me. 

They had no idea of how to actually hire me after they came and asked me if I would teach the staff.  They finally went to the school I had worked for and had to ask them how to obtain my permit and what paperwork was needed. 

In my case I had to cancel one permit and obtain another.  As I already had a contract and permit for another school.  Yes they talked to the school about letting me teach for them for a short term.

Even when all was said and done it was still a cluster f*/k.  Now keep in mind I was teaching late afternoons and evenings to adults at 2 different local govt. offices not a school.

But the contract they gave me was a standard teacher contract.  It had all the standard teacher stuff like arriving at 7:30, Greeting students, staying until 3:45, reside on the school grounds in the school provided house and if one was not available I would be given additional compensation for rent, etc... etc... 

The amount of paperwork for such a short term assignment was ludicrous and unnecessary but I complied anyway, the pay was good and it was an nice 3 months.

They wound up with 6 passport photos, 4 complete copies of every page in my passport, 4 copies of the contract, several copies of house book, copies of bank statements, marriage license and more.  And yes of course I had to sign every copy of everything.  I never submitted so much paperwork before, and don’t know what it was all for, didn’t need it all to obtain the visa or work permit.  Who knows what they do with it or where it winds up.