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He's a worthless bag of excrement who the dynasty simply wants to run to keep skin in the game. Hell, run Cheney's daughter instead. She'd appeal to the bizzaro faction that seems to keep the Inner Beltway in a constant state of debauchery.

I guess it's time for the airlines to hire Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) octagon fighters to be the first line of offense so that the Air Marshal's don't have to blow holes in the cabin and depressurize that whole shabang!. Da*m customers -- who needs them. Maybe they should walk or take a train.

Why has the THB/GOLD ratio been rock solid?

What am I missing? Why not just say, deflation?

I've heard of golf tragics and cricket tragics. Sounds like there are Windows tragics as well. Seriously, why do you guys keep shelling out hard cash for a product which seems to give the majority of users major headaches, when you can get free Linux-based OS for the asking?

A comparison:

Laptop with Ubuntu installed. Bootup time 35 seconds, system updates take about a minute, get them about every two months. Have not had a virus in five years.

Laptop with Windows Vista ( vomit ) upgraded RAM, installed Windows 7. Bootup time 3 minutes 10 seconds. System updates and patches anything up to 30 minutes, get them more than once a week. Three virus infections in 4 years. One was so virulent the only cure was to buy a new hard drive.

I t baffles me how apparently intelligent people persist with a product that has been complete s##t for more than a decade. It reminds of the quote from Santayana,

"Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it".

35 seconds.. wow id shoot myself if my win10 was so slow. My desktop with windows 10 starts in under 10 seconds. I guess if I had a crap computer i might use Ubuntu too.

I have multiple computers. And I use to run server farms. It ain't about the hardware sunshine.

I've heard of golf tragics and cricket tragics. Sounds like there are Windows tragics as well. Seriously, why do you guys keep shelling out hard cash for a product which seems to give the majority of users major headaches, when you can get free Linux-based OS for the asking?

A comparison:

Laptop with Ubuntu installed. Bootup time 35 seconds, system updates take about a minute, get them about every two months. Have not had a virus in five years.

Laptop with Windows Vista ( vomit ) upgraded RAM, installed Windows 7. Bootup time 3 minutes 10 seconds. System updates and patches anything up to 30 minutes, get them more than once a week. Three virus infections in 4 years. One was so virulent the only cure was to buy a new hard drive.

I t baffles me how apparently intelligent people persist with a product that has been complete s##t for more than a decade. It reminds of the quote from Santayana,

"Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it".

35 seconds.. wow id shoot myself if my win10 was so slow. My desktop with windows 10 starts in under 10 seconds. I guess if I had a crap computer i might use Ubuntu too.

To update my Windows system can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour.

To update my Ubuntu based systems takes 5 minutes.

There is no comparison. MS is a piece of ....nevermind. If you want your Microsoft product, you can keep your Microsoft product. Just like you could keep your doctor and your insurance plan with ObummerCare.

Go to an internet cafe, download GWX Control Panel from Ultimate Outsider (http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/), download and install on your system. RTFM (read the manual!!!)

That's your last resort.

Your first resort should have been backing up you system regularly, and creating a disk image of you system drive (usually your C drive if windows) on a monthly basis and creating restore points prior to letting Windows hose your system.

Invest in Norton Ghost 15 (costs money) or try PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) which does disk/partition images and restores. Or look for another disk/partition image open source free program to image your system. If Win 10 hoses your system, you can always restores back using a disk/partition image. The Windows Update service is your friend, and yet with Windows 10 being forced down you throat, it now isn't your friend. Can't live with it, can't live without it. If you install GWX Control Panel, the software will do it's best to stop the Microsoft Machine from Hell from infecting your computer with an unwanted and undesired upgrade. Then start learning how to become your own system administrator on your own computer. Ignorance of your operating system will screw you. MS is not your friend. Start considering Apple (if you are not computer savvy, or Linux if you're willing to learn. Microsoft has become the IBM of the present era. Read up on IBM to find why they lost their market share in the pre-PC era.

windows has a very free perfectly functional backup image creator built in, no need for norton anything

It works until it doesn't. I do not trust Microsoft, especially now. I'll use a third party program.

open CMD as administrator then run: sfc /scannow

It will find and correct and issues you may have. Alternatively run chkdsk /f and see if it solves your problems

sfc /scannow? That's a 'hail mary' pass. You shouldn't have to go there.

Latest update on mine ( yesterday) resulted in Google Chrome being destroyed. Tried removal and re-install, but it just refuses to run.

Interesting. I had the same issue. I uninstalled Chrome, ran CCleaner, and then did a search for any thing related to Chrome (watch it, many non-Google Chrome reg entries have a 'Chrome label', searched and deleted all Chrome references in the file system, rebooted, researched for Chrome related tags, and then reinstalled the newest download that I verified using https://www.virustotal.com.

Back up and in business. Not sure what that was about.

Go to an internet cafe, download GWX Control Panel from Ultimate Outsider (http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/), download and install on your system. RTFM (read the manual!!!)

That's your last resort.

Your first resort should have been backing up you system regularly, and creating a disk image of you system drive (usually your C drive if windows) on a monthly basis and creating restore points prior to letting Windows hose your system.

Invest in Norton Ghost 15 (costs money) or try PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) which does disk/partition images and restores. Or look for another disk/partition image open source free program to image your system. If Win 10 hoses your system, you can always restores back using a disk/partition image. The Windows Update service is your friend, and yet with Windows 10 being forced down you throat, it now isn't your friend. Can't live with it, can't live without it. If you install GWX Control Panel, the software will do it's best to stop the Microsoft Machine from Hell from infecting your computer with an unwanted and undesired upgrade. Then start learning how to become your own system administrator on your own computer. Ignorance of your operating system will screw you. MS is not your friend. Start considering Apple (if you are not computer savvy, or Linux if you're willing to learn. Microsoft has become the IBM of the present era. Read up on IBM to find why they lost their market share in the pre-PC era.

So are the social media platforms giving the Thai government open-access to their databases and real-time data?

I have a solution for that: Boycott them all, or, post nothing but 'fluff' and misinformation.

To add, gleaned from the British show Trust Me I'm A Doctor.

They did a credible study on this show and came up with this interesting result.

For MEN ... you burn more fat when exercising on a empty stomach.

For WOMEN ... you burn more fat when exercise AFTER eating.

When you exercise, you burn carbs and hopefully fat. If you're only burning carbs that's of course not ideal if you're trying to lose some fat.

The results were pretty convincing and consistent, but on the other hand, I wouldn't assume it would apply to ALL men and women, but it's worth considering anyway.

You always burn more fat on an empty stomach.. or fasted. This is something I have known (and many other fitness freaks) for ages. The reason being you have burned all glycogen in your sleep your totally empty so once you start exercising you burn fat. The only problem with it its that you cant exercise at the same intensity.

Just look a it this way.. say you can burn 200 calories from exercise fasted and its all fat or you burn 500 cals with carbs in your body but 50% is fat.. you still burn more with carbs in your system.

Same goes for the ideal fat burning range (heartbeat) you might burn more percentage wise but its not 100% sure its overall that way.

Anyway fasted training has it place if you want to loose the last bit of fat.. take some cafeine and do fasted training.. sure that helps.

I have done it in the past it works but its real hard (and hard for me as I am not in the mood to exercise early in the morning)

Good info, I'll add to it. Losing weight isn't an event. It's a process that takes dedication and will power, and above all, time. Unlearning years of bad habits and then replacing them with healthy habits restructures you as an individual. It ain't easy, as breaking any bad habit is not easy. But it can be rewarding if you find the motivation to jump on that horse and ride.

The plus of living in the The Land of Smile. Native foods are generally a well-balance combination of vegetables, fruits, and small amounts of meats, and limited carbohydrates. Eaten in moderation, as in three meals a day, and maybe a couple of snacks (I personally like fruit smoothies that are delicious and easy to digest), add a low impact exercise program, as simple as walking for 1/2 hour a day, your baseline weight should stabilize. Add additional exercise, especially exercise to build muscle that we tend to lose as we get older, and your metabolism will increase and you will burn energy more efficiently.

If you're overweight and don't like it, take pictures of yourself with a local newpaper to validate time. Work diligently over time. Take pictures at least every 8 weeks. Throw them in a box. After a year, take them out and look at them. Then go have a nice dinner and don't feel guilty. You'll probably feel bloated after over-indulging in food and sweets. It's your body telling you to get back to the program that was working for you.

Here's a little tip or trick:

Stop eating so much you fat pig

Stop drinking all that booze you screwed up lush

Get off your lard ass and get out for some exercise you blob of useless flesh

Remind ourselves each day with these gentle suggestions and perhaps a change will come about

Fat shaming abuse as above is not welcome on this health forum.

Why not. If you're obese and can't control yourself, and you're eating yourself into your grave at an early age, maybe you need a wake-up call. I could care less if you're politically correct. I'm not. Stop killing yourself with food.

Of course, instead of maintaining a farang diet even after leaving your 'homeland', you could try eating like the locals. I lost 20 lbs within the first year of moving to Thailand and maintain my weight at around 180 lbs on a 5'11' frame, and I keep relatively fit. When I've engaged in athletics, that figure will go down to the upper 170s, but I'm comfortable at 180.

Most foreigners I know who are expats simply remain fat. Eat the same junk food, go to the same farang restaurants. Then you wonder why you're still obese. And yet, it so simple to go to a vegetable and fruit based diet,still eat meat if you want, and never feel wanting for food. But go to one of those twice a month, all you can eat, chow-fests held by some of the expat clubs and it's easy to figure out why expats can't lose weight. And of course, gotta go to the local high-fat farang restaurants to boot.

I can't loose weight, boo hoo. Why? Try eating like the locals. But not the fat kids.

I can't believe what I'm reading! Heaters? LOL. We love this weather. It's only for a few days people. Put on some socks and a sweater. No big deal. I loved living in Europe during the winter. Heaters? Never.... The only ones cold in our house are the cats!

The one thing we are bummed about with regards to this cold weather is that almost all of our fish have died from shock; some we've had for 8 years now.

You don't live where I do. Average temps according to Accuweather and other weather hubs that consolidate reading? Dandy, in the teens. In our valley it's in the single digits. That's uncomfortable. I'm neither a masochist nor a hedonist. For the slight bump in cost, I'll plan ahead and be comfortable. For those whom wish to 'fleece up' and brave the cold, that's fine. I'm not you. I respect your decision. For those who wish to forego A/C in the hot season and spray water everywhere, fine. I'm not you. I have A/Cs in both bedrooms. Our energy 'footprint' doesn't even remotely compare to what I use to use in the US, nor what my friends use in the US as we speak. We heat when we're really cold, and we cool when we are really hot. And we only heat/cool small insulated spaces. Overall, our friends in the US would be uncomfortable in our home, but we are acclimatized.

Now, you want to talk stupid. Walk into a bank or mall or hospital or dentist office and ask yourself, why the heck is it 68 F/ 20 C degrees when it's 35 C / 95 F outside. Most people would be comfortable with an indoor temperature of 80 F / 27C I keep my home at 30 C / 86F in the hot months, and I'm very comfortable.

Trouble is the version of the Super Bowl aired here in Thailand doesn't have all the cool commercials that the companies pay a fortune to air. I'll just wait until they're available on YouTube a few hours later. Often they're the best part of the broadcast.

One of the best Super Bowls I've watched was a summary after the fact. The video was nothing except each play with occasional highlights rerun.

Huddle, lineup snap play; huddle, lineup snap play. The entire super bowl in a little over an hour. I prefer to watch the athleticism and plays, and could give a rip about commentary, commercials, and Janet Jackson prop failures or anything else to do with (boring) half-times. Pragmatic to a fault. If I'm with a group it's different. Then I can enjoy camaraderie with my friends between plays.

Sadly accidents do happen, and as Thailand is officially pressing ahead to become the Hub of all Accidents it is only natural that the more educated members of TV suspect something fishy.

'More educated members of TV'

Sorry, but I do not see what part your education plays when you reach whatever assumption you do as to what happened.

We both know and understand that the safety regulation between Western architecture and construction is years ahead in the terms of safety as compared to Thailand. High railings, double railings with with monitored buffer-zones at the building edges (meaning you have to climb to jump), windows that don't fully open to allow a full-grown body the ability to squeeze through the hole, enclosed balconies. It' not impossible to jump from a western constructed building, but you've got to work at it. Here in the LOS, one slip on slick cement, a bump into a top railing that is below your center-of-gravity, and welcome to the Thailand Flying Club. How many are suicides and how many are accidents, and how many are murders - it ain't that hard to push a bloke over a low railing on a high-rise building.

Joyce Cary may have never had the opportunity to make a prediction based on prior knowledge and then corroborate the results to see if she hit the mark.

There is a vast different between being ignorant and acting as though you are knowledgeable (Cary's assertion), and being knowledgeable and using that knowledge as a focused lens to pierce the veil of ignorance.

I know who the stakeholders are in TI. The prediction was easy to discern and accurate based on TI's own data.

However, there is truth in Joyce Cary's quote, but simply not in the manner in which it was presented.

You claim to know who the stakeholders are in TI. Do you know them personally?

More important, do you find fault with the methodology that TI uses to measure corruption? Do you have a better methodology? Can you give us a more credible measure?

Yes I do. Have you done your homework? You have not, have you? Your play is a fools play.

Do your research if you have the intellectual ability to do so. although I've my doubts.

I've done mine.

If you have something to say, say it, source it, and and then provide analysis. Otherwise? Troll elsewhere.

More innuendo, and precious little substance. If you're going to impugn the motive of an organization, you're going to have to go beyond some vague notion of "I know who the stakeholders are in TI" but I'm not going to tell you...you have to do your own research. That is a vacuous argument.

I only hear the pot calling the kettle black. I see no substance in your posts other then lame innuendo. TI.org is in a public domain. Anyone who can get off their lazy duff can validate who the stakeholders are and map out the interconnections between corporate broad members and other industry and governmental entities and NGOs. I'm not doing your homework for you Sunshine, and I'm not explaining what can be found in public records. If you're incapable of understanding, that isn't my problem. Your unwillingness to investigate on your own is itself a vacuous argument. Start here and do your own work: https://www.transparency.org/whoweare/history/. If your next post isn't pointing to specific, substantial issues regarding TI.org and their membership and the connection of their membership to The World Bank , et. al., your doing naught but trolling, and I've no use for lame trolls who have opinions but no education or scholarship.. Anyway, we're done here. Flip your trolling gear into a different pond. You'll get no bites here.

How about the average height railing which hit most average farangs just below the hip joint. One slip, one misstep, over ya go.

Only if 91% of Facebook Users plan to occupy their new home in Thailand jails.

Here's what I'm waiting for: "I hate motorcycles and it's all their fault!!!"

As soon as I hit Chiang Mai in my car, I switch over to my motor cycle and don't look back. What idiot would purposesly ride a car in downtown Chiang Mai.

Well, the only ones who understand that is fellow MC riders. Car drivers? Enjoy you traffic jams.

"Without even looking at the results, I expect"

"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything"

Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary may have never had the opportunity to make a prediction based on prior knowledge and then corroborate the results to see if she hit the mark.

There is a vast different between being ignorant and acting as though you are knowledgeable (Cary's assertion), and being knowledgeable and using that knowledge as a focused lens to pierce the veil of ignorance.

I know who the stakeholders are in TI. The prediction was easy to discern and accurate based on TI's own data.

However, there is truth in Joyce Cary's quote, but simply not in the manner in which it was presented.

You claim to know who the stakeholders are in TI. Do you know them personally?

More important, do you find fault with the methodology that TI uses to measure corruption? Do you have a better methodology? Can you give us a more credible measure?

Yes I do. Have you done your homework? You have not, have you? Your play is a fools play.

Do your research if you have the intellectual ability to do so. although I've my doubts.

I've done mine.

If you have something to say, say it, source it, and and then provide analysis. Otherwise? Troll elsewhere.

I've friend coming into the city Friday Feb 5. They want to watch the Super Bowl. Sorry, I'm not a Super Bowl type of guy, so I just don't follow the stuff.

Where are some places in town that will broadcast the event where we can hunker down, drink beer, and have fun. I can guarantee four warm bodies.

One should first ask, "Who are the stakeholders in the creation of the NGO, Transparency International, and what 'perceptions', implicit, explicit or otherwise, do they seek to manage and for the benefit of whom?"

An analytical reader should really consider this before excepting the published ranking at 'face value', although I expect most readers will blindly parrot the results. C'est la vie.

Without even looking at the results, I expect:

Western nations - above reproach

Nations aligned to Western nations - good

Non-Western nations who challenge Western hegemony - really bad

Nations aligned to Non-Western nations who challenge Western hegemony - really bad

Resource-rich nations not aligned to Western strategic, geo-polictical policy - really bad

Resource-rich nations aligned to Non-Western nations who challenge Western hegemony - gawd awful

That's just based on knowing who the stakeholders of TI are. Just saying. Do your own research; draw your own conclusions. You're mileage may vary. Honestly, I don't really care what anyone else thinks.

Nonsense. Shoot the messenger, by innuendo.

Your closing statement is also nonsensical, and ironic.

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

"Without even looking at the results, I expect"

"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything"

Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary may have never had the opportunity to make a prediction based on prior knowledge and then corroborate the results to see if she hit the mark.

There is a vast different between being ignorant and acting as though you are knowledgeable (Cary's assertion), and being knowledgeable and using that knowledge as a focused lens to pierce the veil of ignorance.

I know who the stakeholders are in TI. The prediction was easy to discern and accurate based on TI's own data.

However, there is truth in Joyce Cary's quote, but simply not in the manner in which it was presented.

That's quite a hot-bed you have there!