I wouldn't at all categorise the GP as being "brainwashed", unless this and lots of similar info (feel free to use the Google) is really quite wrong.
Saudi nationals have indeed been executed for their religious beliefs, and foreigners there are subject to arbitrary and potentially severe penalties for making any public display of theirs.
I was on holiday on Koh Lanta (down on the peninsula) when it happened, and was a bit nervous about returning to Bangkok. However, things have been pretty much normal, and at least 2/3 of the people I've talked to here (in both Bangkok and Krabi) think it's an improvement over the Thaksin government.
Personally, I think certain news organisations and Western governments need to STFU and let the Thais sort this out for themselves, at least for now.
"What this country needs is a cheaper 5-cent cigar." ~Walt Kelly
BTW, the country in which I'm currently staying just had its government overthrown by the military, and one of the first things that the new ruling junta did was to ban wiretapping.
If I remember correctly, a few years ago there was an African country which had hunger-epidemic going on and the US offered to help them, the help was refused because american help was GE-food. I just can't understand their rational[e]...
The problem was that they didn't want their food supply coming under corporate control.
15 Euros a day? It's not that hard in Bangkok to find a nice-ish hotel that provides free wired and/or wireless broadband. I've stayed at a couple of them there that had both.
...if you can't create a site using remote scripting without suppressing the urge to advertise to the world that you're doing so, chances are you're abusing the technology. Why should your user base care what the hell technology you're using? It should just work.
Spot on. The coolest apps are those that *don't* waste the user's time by singing and dancing and shouting, "Look at me! I'm a cool app!"
...when people lose their jobs and, say, private health care benefits, they turn to the government for unemployment handouts and public healthcare... That's assuming that these things even exist. I can think of one well-known North American country where the former is minimal at best, and the latter is practically nonexistent.
That's not something that "major website admins" do. That's something that 12 year olds, and crazy W3C/OSS zealots do.
Oh, it's the "major website admins" who block non-IE browsers, then? I could have sworn that was opnly something 12-year-olds, and deluded MS fanbois do.
It took me a couple years to figure out what.NET actually is/does (hint: it's a marketing term for a whole bunch of unrelated or at best loosely-related products and marketing campaigns...)
It's heaps cheaper for me to ring my gf in Thailand on my mobile than it is on the land line, especially if I'm ringing her mobile.
(I'm in Australia, BTW.)
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I find it interesting that Plan 9 doesn't seem to work as a Live CD under VMWare, and that the developers complain that VMWare won't make the necessary info available when tonnes of Linux, BSD, and even Solaris live CDs work just fine.
I did find out via a couple of posts at OSNews that it might be possible to install Plan 9 under VMWare, but I've not yet had time to give that a try (need to clean up my hard disk first).
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Me either, which is why I downloaded it and started playing with it about 3 weeks ago. In fact, I've got it running off the CD on my spare workstation right now.
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I wouldn't at all categorise the GP as being "brainwashed", unless
this and lots of similar info (feel free to use the Google) is really quite wrong.
Saudi nationals have indeed been executed for their religious beliefs, and foreigners there are subject to arbitrary and potentially severe penalties for making any public display of theirs.
Funny, I feel the same way about my copy of Windows 2000.
(Well, on *that* machine, at least... on the other 6, I run Linux.)
Followup - it seems that Bangkok taxi drivers don't approve of the coup.
Yes, Thailand.
I was on holiday on Koh Lanta (down on the peninsula) when it happened, and was a bit nervous about returning to Bangkok. However, things have been pretty much normal, and at least 2/3 of the people I've talked to here (in both Bangkok and Krabi) think it's an improvement over the Thaksin government.
Personally, I think certain news organisations and Western governments need to STFU and let the Thais sort this out for themselves, at least for now.
"What this country needs is a cheaper 5-cent cigar." ~Walt Kelly
BTW, the country in which I'm currently staying just had its government overthrown by the military, and one of the first things that the new ruling junta did was to ban wiretapping.
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
The problem was that they didn't want their food supply coming under corporate control.
Get back to me when we have Open Source genetic engineering, then.
The parent poster is not exaggerating.
Worked just great for me all the times I've used it on various runs between Southeast Asia and Westen Europe.
15 Euros a day? It's not that hard in Bangkok to find a nice-ish hotel that provides free wired and/or wireless broadband. I've stayed at a couple of them there that had both.
I'm nervous when people are nervous about standing up for themselves and saying, "Go fuck yourself, I'll read whatever I damned well like."
Spot on. The coolest apps are those that *don't* waste the user's time by singing and dancing and shouting, "Look at me! I'm a cool app!"
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I've always thought that the Stainless Steel Rat series were just waiting to be turned into films.
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Slippery Jim rocks.
It looks like we've got the Immunity Syndrome.
...when people lose their jobs and, say, private health care benefits, they turn to the government for unemployment handouts and public healthcare...
That's assuming that these things even exist. I can think of one well-known North American country where the former is minimal at best, and the latter is practically nonexistent.
Apparently someone's never heard of "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
Oh, it's the "major website admins" who block non-IE browsers, then? I could have sworn that was opnly something 12-year-olds, and deluded MS fanbois do.
So it's like "Web 2.0", then? Thanks!
I've decided that Hell must be very much like Ikea on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
It's heaps cheaper for me to ring my gf in Thailand on my mobile than it is on the land line, especially if I'm ringing her mobile.
(I'm in Australia, BTW.)
I find it interesting that Plan 9 doesn't seem to work as a Live CD under VMWare, and that the developers complain that VMWare won't make the necessary info available when tonnes of Linux, BSD, and even Solaris live CDs work just fine.
I did find out via a couple of posts at OSNews that it might be possible to install Plan 9 under VMWare, but I've not yet had time to give that a try (need to clean up my hard disk first).
Me either, which is why I downloaded it and started playing with it about 3 weeks ago. In fact, I've got it running off the CD on my spare workstation right now.