wolf5370

wolf5370, on 2012-04-03 22:07:46, said:

Another good post, wolf... keep it up. It's always nice to hear the success stories. Unfortunately, the happy success stories usually draw the fewest responses and quickly drop off the board. Controversy always attracts the most attention.

Im not a vindictive person but if I thought I might lose my daughters I would have done the same thing, I don't know the guy or the daughter but the kid is lucky to have a dad who would put him neck out like that. That takes balls.

mr78, on 2012-03-02 18:51:37, said:

Heck I am from middle Europe and think there is no difference between a Swede and a Dane.....

Nasty man said something I don't like, sue him, true or not, sue him, make him go away, sue him, me no likee........

Bunch of spoilt children.

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What is the official charge, 'minor symbolic act', 'throwing grenades without a license', 'causing harm and damage through irresponsible acts', 'being bad men' ?

Start with the sequence for live syllables (no tone, mai ek etc.) with mid tone-class initial - mid, low, falling, high, rising.

Mai tri and mai chattawa should only occur in Standard Thai with mid tone-class initial.  (When you see them elsewhere, they have the same meaning as for live syllables with mid tone-class initial.)

With high tone-class initial. substitute rising for mid - that is the only difference between the two tone classes.

For low class initial, omit low from the sequence - so mai ek yields falling not low, and mai tho yields high.  (Actually. mai tri and mai chattawa have the same values as for the mid class, but should not occur on with low or high class initials in Standard Thai.)

Dead syllables are treated as mai ek, except that you should think that low class initial consonant plus short vowel does not allow long enough to fall, so low class initial, dead syllable, short vowel yields high, not falling.

I make that ten rules.

You can supplement them with the backup mnemonic that low class initial and low tone do not occur together, and a high class initial and a high tone do not occur together.

surangw, on 2012-01-02 22:57:01, said:

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society. But, a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier, works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply would not work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation--and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

Marko Kloos

I'm amazed at some of the anti comments on here, this will only effect those who overstay deliberately long term and lets be honest,  for those who do so unintentionally for a few days are very few and wont be affected by this, most of us try to live by the law.

I don't even think this is a 'new' law, imprisonment has always been part of the overstay penalty, just not used that often by immigration.
Remember it's always been that if caught outside the airport on overstay you would most certainly be arrested and imprisoned.

Thailand has every right to set its own visa conditions and enforce them as they see fit. all we have to do is comply, hardly rocket science, but as in most countries there are those who abuse and not comply making life more difficult for the rest of us and it is those who force the changes thereby making life more restrictive for those who do comply. Maybe with the penalty a little harsh, it may make some people sit up and consider their options....though I doubt it!!

IanForbes, on 2010-09-09 22:44:55, said:

Whoever said anything about banning or weeding out disagreements... This thread has got so distorted by comments and replies by a minority of posters, that the whole thing becomes muddied, and nobody seems to know what they are talking about any more.

I am only referring to the members who read through what starts as a serious question and all its replies, and then spot maybe someone who mentions their gf, or wife or mother, as an example, then they like to poke in with an insult about the said poster's girlfriend, and maybe will insinuate something vile or perverted.... as a deliberate insult to get the blood up. then it is usually followed by a retaliation, and then followed by more idiot comments, and before you know it, the original topic is way gone.

Let's face it.... we have all seen many a thread go down the tubes this way.

philw, on 2010-09-09 22:16:07, said:

Indeed.. then one day you will click on your bookmark link for TV and  you will see a totally white screen, apart from the following message.

"ขออภัยในความไม่สะดวก

กระทรวงเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสาร ได้มีคำสั่งให้ระงับการเผยแพร่เว็บไซด์ที่ท่านต้องการเข้าชม

เนื่องจากมีรูปภาพ ข้อความ และ เนื้อหาบางส่วนที่ไม่เหมาะสม สอบถามรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมได้ที่

กระทรวงเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสาร โทร 0 2141 6950"


Because that is what happens here when a website gets out of control, and who will you blame for that?

Who  exactly will be blamed for that??... Me???.. or all the bad, useless  and insulting posters who claim that this is an open forum, so they have  a god given right to inject whatever crap they want 'openly'.
Truth  is, I am a webmaster and i have run lots of sites I have developed until  i make them profitable, then i sell them. i can assure you, this is a  very, very profitable website. The more popular it is, the more  profitable it is and the more it has to be controlled.... Don't spoil it  for everyone else. this is a great place to get serious and accurate  answers to a question, until the fools spot the thread, and destroy it  by nit-picking the replies and the posters, then all the idiots come out  to play. Then the topic is lost... what sort of contribution is that?  That is why the idiots need to be gone, no matter how many posts they  have, or how long they lived in Thailand.

For the benefit of those who cannot read Thai, the message translates to English as:

"Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Ministry of Information and communication

has an order to suspend the release site that you want to visit.

Because it may contain text or images that it deems to be inappropriate.

For more information visit www.amd.com.

Ministry of Information and Communication Tel: 0 2141 6950.

I  have built and run websites it Thailand. (for the benefit of the member  who tried to educate me on that point). I know what is acceptable  legislation governing content on public websites.
The insulting and  criticism of Thai culture and the Kingdom and its people will only be  tolerated up to a point, then it is removed.

So, before you have  your few too many Changs, and come on here for a bit of sport fishing,  remember..Someone is paying for this website to serve you, so don't take  the p**s out of them.

This was started and in the main, is run as an information site. The idiot webboards are the other way.

Im really amazed at the disbelievers here, that wolf stated profit before wages is a fine indication if your a one man operation. In my country no wages are calculated for the owner of small businesses so its always profit before wages. I guess most people here are not business owners or have never worked as accountants. Here in Thailand its a good indication too for small businesses. Because the salary you take out of it is not neccesarily the salary it should be.

With this I mean you can give your wife a higher salary then a normal employee and so the profit would be off. I think he just wanted to show what they got out of it compared to someone working in service of a employer. Remember he said he did not get any money from it so in fact then its the business of the wife and her sister. So its perfectly normal to use profit before wages to make something clear.

However if he were to sell his business wages should be included (reasonable wages) to see if it turns a profit. The kind of profit you use depends on what you want to make clear.

kenallday, on 2010-09-09 09:59:42, said:

Your an idiot you should read more newspapers.

http://www.hs.fi/eng... /1135259055298

BillR, on 2010-09-09 09:49:45, said:

i believe sir.

can you give me address.


i want to watch how one person cooks, gets drinks, clears table, cashiers, takes orders................and the operation makes money to boot!   when most places all i see is too much darn staff.

This can't be true, how can she pick fruit there are no pineapples in Finland sure she is not going there for S/T - L/T
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Blueberries I think,  they are farmed (I don't think they grown there naturally ???) - she gets something like 1000B for a bucket full (they use some sort of weaved basket which they use to fill large buckets - she can fill up three to four buckets a day. I did have some photos, but can't find them at the moment. She emailed to say not a very good year this year and they are not paying as much either - so maybe this will be the last year she does it. In two months she can earn over a years average salary here - that's why she does it (she has to pay for her flight and visa though - which usually her sister pays and she pays back from her earnings).

No idea what S/T or L/T is??? I guess its inferring she's a hooker or something, she's my sister-inlaw, so wouldn't care is it was true, but as she is with family over there (two uncles, two aunts and an older sister - and at the moment her gran who is visiting too) I doubt it somewhat.
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so who runs the place when sis is doing the fruit thing?
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Doing the fruit thing in Finland - LOL have you ever heard of a Thai woman going to a western country to pick fruit (illegally) - Maybe what she does involves a banana but its got f**k all to do with  picking fruit HA HA so funny

timekeeper, on 2010-09-06 08:00:47, said:

Perhaps you should get up to speed on what happened -- Saudi officials and businessmen murdered in Thailand, Sino-Thai jeweler's wife and son murdered by the police due to inquiries into who really stole the jewels.

That strikes me as a more than a bit barbaric.

If this guy was part of the bald-faced cover-up of the theft or the murders, he should be in prison or on the gallows, not getting some promotion.