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You so harsh

Any lads in a village read this board?

I liked it when the seafood restaurant was on the corner near there.

Quite, without naming names, who would you get to regain control of the country, if the Troglodytes were running amok and behaving in a most peasant like manner ? Once done, of course, one would require notification, of a change in approach, to that, which you'd laid out earlier.

"I will show wonders in the heavens" I'll get some popcorn and beers OR

Unless you're a spy, or constantly doing banking etc on public wireless networks, I wouldn't worry too much. JMHO, your mileage may vary.

A Most Violent Year 2014 - Very nicely crafted mobster but at the same time anti mobster movie. Oscar Isaac should have been in the Godfather, Jessica Chastain shines, not fast paced but a good movie. Worth a watch. Mr Turner 2014 - Engrossing, fantastic detail, really good character portrayals, Timothy Spall should get a prize. Well worth a watch. Runaway Jury 2003 - In which a Jury is rigged, from two different directions. Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz and John Cusack, all good performances. Worth a watch.

Apparently there's a red moon tonight, eclipse and what not, should be worth a look, see your news outlets for details. And Joel 2:30-31 reads "The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." So look out all you sinners, only me and my ma will escape the divine retribution about to be leavened (an element that produces an altering or transforming influence) upon you...

What happened was, I was doing video at a time when I couldn't afford the speeds and disks available today, I had a firewire set up for the actual working rig and a RAID0 to back up to, using USB 2 external drives. Then an identical RAID0 to back up to from the 1st RAID0, using USB 2 external drives. All because I needed speed. After completing a back up I would then back up the back up. When the 1st RAID0 failed from one of the disks going stage left, I found that the second RAID0 was lying when it said it had the files. I even went back to the importer of the enclosures and discovered, that the controller's software was being found to be, at best, dodgy, with Mac OS 9, I think it was back then. And they suggested that it was all due to some inferior software coming out of China, these were the days when people only thought, that perhaps China would become a force in the tech world and we were just getting used to the idea that Thailand, could make serviceable Hdds without bits of Som Tam flying out of them when you fired them up. 4K? 16K? makes my thoughts about getting back into video, daunting.

Pleasure troupe, the next generation: Kim Jong-un wants a new harem of young women Kim Jong-un inspects a catering unit of the Korean People's Army. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered a new "pleasure troupe" of young women to entertain him. Kim, 32, whose country is notorious for its allegedly widespread and horrific human rights abuses, is reportedly drawing up lists of a new generation of female companions, The Daily Telegraph reports. Despite being married to a former singer with whom he has a baby daughter, the dictator is drawing on a tradition established by his father - Kim Jong-iI - that saw government officials scour the countryside and select girls for the leader. The previous "pleasure troupe" was disbanded on the death of the old dictator in December 2011, but with the official three-year mourning period now over, Kim is free to start his own. The "pleasure troupes" were a practise introduced by Kim's grandfather, North Korea's founding father, the 'Eternal President' Kim Il-sung. Government officials would conduct searches of the countryside for the most attractive young women, typically taking 30 to 40 every year, who would become maids, singers, or dancers following an interview with the leader. The prettiest would be expected to become the leader's concubines, eventually passed on - or "retired" - to high ranking military or government officials after they reached their mid-20s. "This has been going on under three generations of the Kim family ruling North Korea and it has become a tradition that is also a demonstration of the leader's power over the people and his sexual power," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, told The Daily Telegraph. It is thought that the previous "pleasure troupe" were paid-off following Kim Jong-il's death. South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo claimed the women were given approximately $4,000 (a huge sum in North Korea) and various household appliances. Last November the United Nations voted overwhelming to try the North Korean leadership on charges of human rights abuses. As yet, there has been little tangible effect. Approximately 120,000 political prisoners still languish in camps, known as kwan-li-so, according to a UN report last year. Link

To address your original post You have something there, in 20 years the Thai Sanuk scene has hardened and become much more like that in the west, it's "business" now, used to be "fun" Also, it's not just us male board members, my ex Thai wife of 20 years and others that I know, now resident in NZ are completely disillusioned with LOS and have no plans to return.

Actually, as an example of possible corruption in NZ, read this, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11427447 Not so much evidence of corruption, as it's all relatively legal, the arguments are over who gets the profit, maybe there are wrong doers, but they would have done wrong, according to accepted legal processes...

What you need is four of those, like a big quadcopter, a seat in the middle, a parachute and a bottle of Song Sam

Then I hope you'll accept, the yapping at Thailand's heels, of nippy little dogs, from countries like NZ. NZ and Denmark. In NZ I would struggle to find even an isolated instance of corruption. There is crime, but no corruption that you can see. The only corrupt processes we find are favours and even they are rare.

I'm with Bust, and my iPhone 4 hasn't needed a battery yet, touch wood...

Quite right, the near annihilation of the 'Aborigines in Aus, was nothing to do with being accepting or accommodating, it was all down to the Brits (Queen Vic) attempting to wipe them out. WWI was Queen Vics cousins/progeny having a turf war. Your post came across like this - That Aborigines in Aus may have been not accepting of foreigners and it got them all but annihilated, but that Thais in being not accepting of foreigners, have somehow done something good. This may not have been what you meant and I for one don't subscribe to this view, but that's how you post read.

Whom are you quoting? and relax It can be a hard board, but that's part of it's appeal, more often than not, real discussion can be had here, posts and posters that fall short of the mark, can be addressed or ignored. Throwing one's toys out of the cot (and I've done this too) isn't productive.

mmmm... RAID..... this was my problem in the first great data loss, all my dodgy USB drives were in a RAID set up and when they all died, so did the RAID I lost about 3 years of sporadic footage in Thailand and Cambodia and Laos that I was planning to make into a Docco, I eventually did make a little 45 minute thing, but the lost footage would have made a series. Not to mention personal photos of my family etc etc etc Then they all get stolen, is what happened to me Xmas 2013/14, fortunately they missed the one Hdd, that had the back up of my laptop on it, so I bought a new laptop and got back into the digital world. Before I discovered this back up had not been stolen, I was seriously thinking about giving up on the digital world, going back to cash and a small black (paper) notebook. I don't know if I've posted this before, but Munchie will know of the Temple just down the road from my land, whereon I was walking past one day shortly after the theft, and the head Monk called me in, he'd obviously heard of the theft, it being a small community, he spoke reasonable English being foreign educated and he gave me a talk on the impermanence of physical possessions, and then he gave me an amulet, a real blessed one, so I'm on the road to Nirvana, cured, if you will, of the lust for possessions. Subsequently I passed on the Amulet and the merit contained therein to a 6 year old in the family, it was like she'd been given a new personality, so radiant she became. I digress. I think I'll investigate solid state drives and see what their life span is, like Radioman, I don't have too much faith in consumer grade HDDs. Any comments on solid state drives apart from expense?

Who would a thunk?

I've been using an iPhone 4 for the last decade, seems to work anywhere.

Ifixit do a teardown of the Apple Watch Link

I had a look at Hive and it's pernickety, you have to copy and paste each file individually to move and organise them. Since I'm thinking of storing clones of my HDDs, I think I'll forget the cloud as a back up solution. One HDD backup on site and one, off site will have to be the answer. The cloud seems suitable for document management and more feckless uses, like sharing photos of my breakfast.

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But there are reports from all sorts of international new organs see link

Hellodio, those who may know, could help me please. I am considering making the move to the cloud. I've been a steadfast, back 'em up to a hard drive, kind a guy up until now. Which strategy, has curiously, failed twice over the years. First time was when the USB controllers in the all the external hard drives I was using, failed catastrophically, on account of them being cheap drives and the controller software being written by a Chinese guy with a fag hanging out of his mouth in the backroom of a duck slaughterhouse south east of Kunming. Second time, was when the thieving scum who don't subscribe to the Gloriousness of the People's Republic, came round and stole all my external drives on Xmas day a couple of years ago. So I don't need to be convinced of the benefits of the Cloud. What I'd like to ask, is what do people think of the 'Hive'. Specifically are they reputable and will they be around for long? Here is a comparison I found, http://freebies.about.com/od/free-cloud-storage/fl/free-cloud-storage-comparison.htm I could hazard a guess that Google and Apple will be around for a while, what about the Hive? Cheers