GeorgeO

"Every September 22 people the world over are encouraged to get around without cars and instead ride a bike, bus, train or walk ... [and] tomorrow is no exception"...

...except that tomorrow is 21st September...!!

52% brainwashed by UK propaganda machine vs. 48% brave highlanders. Elections is a fake grab your axes and spikes show new Stirling bridge to the occupants!

I wonder what if it happened opposite and UK used SiS to arrest a bunch of Scotland leaders.

I think your response is somewhat emotionally grounded.

52% (or more) Scots have researched what Scotland would become as an independent state; the other 48% have accepted what Alex Salmond has told them, which isn't a lot...!!

I will NEVER put anything on anyone's cloud.

An external hard drive costs around $100 for 2 TB. It is a one-time cost - not monthly or annually.

Learn to use any free backup software (I use EaseUS ToDo Backup - free version) and you'll never lose data.

FYI: I have 18 external drives in use and 16 more that are backups of those external drives. Plus one that is dedicated to backups of online drives - every few months I do a complete clone of my 'C' drive and well as backing up individual files as needed.

Exactly the point I was going to make before seeing your comment.

The recent disclosure of the private information/photographs of high profile stars having been compromised is sufficient to let everyone know that cloud storage is not secure...!

My storage comprises only of written works, so it will take me quite some time to fill a 2TB hard drive, but when it is full I will simply buy another, and since I only attach the hard drive to my computer when transferring documents, even the best hackers cannot access my files.

However they are still in deep denial over any wrong doing in 2010 in spite of the increasing proof.

Thanawut Wichaidit, spokesman for the red-shirt United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, said the red shirts were confident there were no "men in black" among their protesters during the unrest of 2010.

"We fight peacefully, and the red shirts had nothing to do" with the violent attack, he said.

I thought that yesterday the MIB had confessed to attacking the redshirts and the military?

...No, they confessed to attacking civilians and the military.

More "inactive posts" as a penalty for corruption, which I'm sure was a real deterrent . . .

I prefer to look at these inactive posts as holding cells for the suspects until sufficient evidence is collected to prosecute...!

Deserve it

Nonsense. The death penalty is always wrong.

If you are well advised in advance that to engage in drug peddling in China is punishable by the death penalty, and you then go ahead and do it anyway, what other outcome can you expect...?! That's tantamount to saying to the Chinese authorities "Oh yeah, well let's see you try it..."!

waiting for Fab4 to chime in any minute now...lol

I have no doubt he will have been hovering over his keyboard for several hours, but simply can't think of any convincing spin to put on this one....!!

Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik said that Thailand:

"has long been a popular destination for retirees, thanks to advantageous exchange rates that ensure pensions and savings have always gone a lot further here than in more expensive nations".

Really....?!

well I'm pretty sure I recall getting 76 baht to the Pound when I came here 11 years ago, but now it's 52:1. Has someone been ripping me off all these years...?!

Let's also not forget that it went as low as 45:1 at one point...!

The suggestion is that we must provide a copy of the 'Arrival Card', both front and back, but that portion of the card is removed when we come into Thailand, so we do not have access to it.

The only portion that we retain in our passports is the 'Departure Card', which is blank on the reverse.

Are there still dreamers out there who belive in "Secure Data Storage?" "The Cloud" - the ultimate dream of all intelligence services in the world, and the people present all their personal information to them, voluntarily, and in masses...

Not me. Never have and never will.

A 3 terabyte external hard drive costs between THB 2,000 and THB 2,500 and that's more than enough space to keep all my files secure.

What's more, for most of the time, my external hard drive is not even hooked up to my computer (only when I'm copying items to it) so the vast majority of my files are not even accessible to potential hackers.

What baffles me is why anyone would put their more intimate stuff on a Cloud...?!

This guy almost got reelected this year. The Patong voting base is very small and he's been manipulating those people for years and years. He had to have been paying off people to stay in power, all the Phuket politicians above him. More to come on this story and where all his money is.

... more to the point, interested to know where he and sons are...I'm guessing it's not Thailand...!!

Soi 11 is worst than any place in BKK. I volunteer to be one of the UNDERCOVER FOREIGN OPERATIVES as I am sure every member of TVF would also. Let us help fix all the broken parts. We live here and could be of so much help.

I would wager that the worst place of all is Silom, and yet it gets no mention here...!

...what reason would the authorities have to change the terms of a retirement extension?

Retirees are, generally, a trouble-free group of people who simply spend money on their choice of pursuits, in my case, golf. I bring sufficient funds in from the UK each year to meet the requirements (which, as we know, are about ten times the average expenditure of mainstream Thais) and always do the 90-day report on time.

If anything, the authorities might decide to look at us as a valuable group and decide to drop the need for the 90-day reporting, given that we still have to go through the hoops of renewal each year.

To make any negative changes to a very substantial source of spending in Thailand would be tantamount to economic suicide on the part of the authorities.

What do the Americans need special security considerations for?

They've set themselves up as the ''worlds police force'' thus they should be able to contain any threats real or imaginary.

Could they be one of the most disliked races nowadays and therefore under threat at times?

Americans are not a race. In fact, America has one of the most diverse racial profiles of any country. America has whites, blacks, asians, etc.

...and cops who don't hesitate one second to beat the sh1t out of any of them ... and then spray them with noxious chemicals...!!

Clearly aiming to follow the Taiwan model, which was of course a huge success because of perfect timing; but Thailand has a lot of catching up to do, not least in education...!!

How does one of the busiest stations not warrant those fancy advertising / safety doors meanwhile less busy stations have them already?

Unfortunately, there are many occasions at stations, like Siam, where the doors remain open at all times; okay so there is still a substantial barrier to prevent people from falling, but there are holes in it every few yards...!!

Personally, I think it is anywhere but Thailand. Which is where I plan to be for Songktran 2015... anywhere but Thailand.

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