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Michael W

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  1. Why do we want to use MS Office 2007, 99 percent of all MS Office will never use the new functions introduced in MS Office 2007.

    Second and one of the most important new function introduced in MS Office 2007 is the that this new MS Office release will stop working. After Microsoft finds out that the MS Office installation is illegal, it is not longer possible to create or save documents, printing and on screen reading of MS Word documents will always be possible. This new security is similar to the upcoming release of MS Windows Vista, only difference MS Windows security key is much more strong then the MS Office key which is only 128 bit in strength.

    See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927921

    Q9: Does the product stop working if I do not activate it?

    A9: No. When the full functionality of the program and the number of program starts are exhausted, the product runs in reduced-functionality mode.

    Wonder if it's just a registry entry where they keep count? Wonder what would happen if you just initialized the counter with a larger negative number, or used a startup script to keep it set back? :o
  2. Has anyone applied for the 30 day extention post 1 October? If so, what happened?
    Just did exactly this in the afternoon two days ago (17 Oct), no problem at all. I was getting the 1900 baht 30 day extension on the second entry of my triple entry tourist visa. Maybe took five minutes longer than I remember for getting my first entry extended but other than that essentially an identical experience (with the exception of being asked to paste my photo on the application form -- a writing table near the window has a jar of glue and brush).
  3. If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

    If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data are corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

    If the label on the cable on the table at your house says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

    When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instruction's causing unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

    http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists...17/2048437.html

  4. Just back from an early (1230-2am) latenight round and can largely confirm what's been said. Many fewer street bars set up on lower Sukhumvit -- a light, drizzly rain may've also played a factor -- and those that were seemed to have their trollies stocked exclusively with soft drinks. I did see a rare bottle of Heineken or Singha out on a table but that was about it.

    Oh, and as a public service I also visited Soi Cowboy and can report that the usual bars are still, as Trink used to say, "showing."

  5. I also wear a USA size 13 and had the same problem finding shoes in Bangkok. I finally gave in and bought a 12 1/2. It only took about three weeks and a few blisters to break them in but now they fit fine. Next time you're in Singapore, stock up. Easy to find 13s there and the prices are better than Thailand.

  6. The idea is to let both sides speak and the viewers decide which side has merit. A news chanel should NOT be deciding if a viewpoint has merit. I have at times found positions that sounded absolutely idiotic on the surface to be interesting when debated. I have also seen ideas that sounded reasonable completely fall apart when questioned. The media should not be filtering ideas because they deem them to have less merit or credibility. I can decide for myself.
    Sure, equal time for flat earthers and holocaust deniers. After all why should editorial judgement enter into it.
  7. During the power outage last night in Pratunam a friend of my girlfriend dropped a bombshell: she's two months pregnant and wants to terminate it. She's 26 years old, has a thin almost frail build, smokes and drinks, is unmarried, and has never had children. She had been on a daily birth control pill but for reasons unclear to my girlfriend missed a day or two. The guy who knocked her up is unemployed, married with two kids (his wife has a government job), and supposedly is some kind of 'mafia type.'

    She of course swore my girlfriend to secrecy which is why it took an entire day for me to hear about it. But unless she soon takes action she'll start showing and it'll become public knowledge anyway.

    So to finally get to the point, does anyway know a safe place in Bangkok where this can be taken care of? Thanks.

  8. I am still getting the US version of Fox on my Pattaya cable channel. It is so superior to CNN/BBC because it presents, analyses & criticises both sides of a case - Dem/Rep, left/right whatever.
    I'm not a regular Fox News viewer -- in fact, it's been over a year, when I was last in the U.S. -- so maybe you might have a better chance of explaining how something like this could happen:

    FoxOReilly_MarkFoleyDEM_100306.jpg

  9. Her option is to marry a young Thai guy who will earn 14,000b a month, piss that against a wall, treat her like crap and then piss off when she falls pregnant.
    I would also add that since she was a virgin when she met you and lost her virginity to you (assuming she's being truthful) that that might up the sin sot a bit. And I also just talked to a Thai and the current Isaan rice farmer level sin sot (at least in Khon Kaen) is indeed in the 50K-100K range. Oh, and don't forget one or two baht of gold. :o
  10. For arguments sake, let's say an early 20's virgin (or was before me) from an Isaan farming family with a clerical job.
    I would say you should try to keep it in the 50k to 100k range, for that specific case.

    If age, job, and virginity status were the same and she came from a 'Hi-So' family, and maybe a grad of a big Thai Uni, then sin sod could easily be triple or more.

    If she were older and had had a few boyfriends before you, particularly if she'd been married, then sin sot goes down.

    And if in the worse case she already has kids, then I wouldn't pay any sin sot at all -- but then it would be very unlikely for me personally to consider marrying a Thai lady who already has children.

  11. I'm amazed that so many people still use IE. It's not just risky, its also CRAP! I just cringe when I use it now. Urgh...
    I mostly agree. I use Firefox about 99% of the time but there still remains the one percent of Web sites I occasionally visit (typically corporate ones) that still only work properly with IE. However, I would fully apply what you said, and more, to Outlook. Anyone who uses that for e-mail is quite simply a drooling, mouth breathing, ******.
  12. How do you guys communicate and form a relationship if both of you are unable to transverse in the others language? :o
    We're able to understand each other on a wide variety of subjects just fine thank you, and probably with enough effort even the subject at hand. In this case, though, apparently the announcer was talking in a form of Thai bureaucratise sufficient enough to confuse her.
  13. My Thai girlfriend's English is unfortunately not good enough to explain to me. I heard 'torasop' said a couple of times, so I was at least able to confirm that part of it was to say that laws against non-court-ordered phone tapping would be strictly enforced, but he said a great deal more that I'd like to know about.

    TV-Announcement.jpg

    BTW, I know it was neither intended nor with any basis in truth, but the guy's whole demeaner and presentation really had an Orwellian Big Brother quality to it. A bit of a smile occasionally would help him come across a little more reassuringly. Just a friendly tip. :o

  14. It is deeply offensive to our hosts and completely untrue to claim that "most Thais are corrupt by nature".

    Corruption is very much a consequence of Thailand being a "society of relationships" rather than a society of laws, at least in the view of the excerpt below:

    4.2. Flexibility and Corruption

    Since the Thai are not principle oriented, and with the high value for personal relationships, they also appear not to be strictly law-oriented. In practice, principles and laws are ever-adjustable to fit persons and situations. In other words, laws are rules laid out in papers; but what is wrong or right depends not on the rules, but instead on who the person is or whom the person knows. A prominent Thai businessman ironically described this phenomenon in a seminar:

    We Thai are not a society of law; we are a society of relationship.... It is not what a person has done that's wrong; it's who he is.... If he is your cousin, or your friend, then what he has done is not wrong. But if another person does the same thing, and it's somebody you don't like, then what he has done is wrong...

    This is the reason why law enforcement in Thailand hardly works. If it does, it is selectively enforced on those who are either nobody or do not know anybody, or who have no money to ease their wrong-doings or buy their way out of problems. As a society of relationship, it is easy and common for an officer, upon request from even friends of friends, to pull out, cross out or destroy a traffic citation issued. For the sake of a smooth relationship, officers would overlook, turn a blind eye, or keep silent. The point here is that, while the basic Thai value system should not be blamed as the major factor for corruption, it definitely does not help to inhibit corruption either.

    In general, this characteristic "Flexibility and Adjustment" value orientation has perhaps accounted for varieties of behavioral patterns, ranging from the facilitation of ethnic assimilation process, to the tendency of being corruption prone. In addition, it provides a deeper understanding to the various existing interpretations of the Thai being "unpredictable", "non-committing", "irresponsible" or even "selfish" and "opportunistic", by foreigners.

    Taken from a rather long but I think worthwhile article entitled: The Thai National Character

  15. The coup significantly comes against the backdrop of a hotly contested scheduled military reshuffle, in which Thaksin had controversially vied to elevate army officials loyal to him from his pre-Cadet Class 10 to the pivotal First Army Division. That reshuffle list reportedly brought Thaksin into conflict with senior members of the top brass and the Privy Council, and his refusal to back down from the proposed personnel changes appears to have been a major factor behind the coup.

    According to sources familiar with the matter, Thaksin had attempted to elevate Major General Prin Suwanthat to commander of the First Army Division, which crucially is charged with overseeing security in Bangkok. Thaksin also reportedly pushed to promote Prin’s ally, Major General Daopong Ratanasuwan, to take over the First Infantry. With assistant army commander Pornchai Kranlert in place, the reshuffle, if accomplished, would have given Thaksin an unbroken chain of command over crack troops responsible for Bangkok’s security.

    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HI21Ae01.html
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