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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002 - quite good, worth a watch Green Zone - 'merica in Iraq, Baghdad - fist pumping action with guns - oh, and it has a plot

Source Koki Aki is really, really disappointed in his adopted home’s airport, and no one is really disagreeing with him. The Japanese expat’s detailed report of his miserable experiences at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in which he suggests Thais should be ashamed of their national gateway, has been widely read to a stunning lack of outrage or rebuke. "I can say Suvarnabhumi Airport is the disgrace of Thailand," he posted online in both Japanese and Thai. "Thai people show terrible service to foreigners at their national airport, the very first entry point to their country." Aki, who claims to have worked here for over 10 years, listed everything that wrong at the airport, starting with the immigration checkpoint when he stepped off the plane. "There is a long line at the immigration checkpoint, but the airport did not open the empty counters,†he said. “I ended up waiting 30 minutes." Sounds like a fast day at BKK immigration, but Aki wasn’t done yet. After that a taxi driver tried to rip him off by demanding THB700 for a ride to Saphan Kwai. The taxi stand told Aki to get a bigger taxi and gave him a ticket, but instead he asked for the manager. The manager only asked him to return the ticket and told him it was up to him to work something out with a driver. "That's weird. The driver wouldn't use the meter. This is a decision made by one side. It's not a negotiation. You accept this kind of rip-off here? You don't care about these bad drivers?" he complained to staff, who then proceeded to ignore him. "This is Thailand's national airport. This is the taxi stop at the national airport. Passengers are ignored and ripped off. What would foreigners like us do?" Aki wrote. For the high tax charges it demands, Aki said the airport should not suffer from such long lines, broken elevators and terrible service. “When passengers ask for information, staff just keep playing with their smartphones,†he said. “Aren't they a disgrace of this country? They show laziness and lack of generosity to foreigners." The post has been shared more than 11,000 times since yesterday and featured by several Thai media outlets. Soon after it opened eight years ago, Suvarnabhumi proved unable to keep pace with demand and a series of expensive expansions have been under way.

Hang on, are you arguing for or against ?

"something profound and novel about the effect of eye-widening surgery on the oral experience" well on the other hand the 'after' may be more preferable

John Oliver vs Stephen Hawking

Fox News, a joke

I've been told this also, they cost a lot, so if you need to demonstrate your HiSo status they're ideal, they also come in colour, gold, and jewel encrusted these days.

Me too 55555

I'm finding Netanyahu's public utterings offensive, if you took the same words and substituted 'Israel' or 'Jewish' for 'Palestine' or 'Palestinian' you'd be decried as an Anti Semite of the first order. ​And I'm not particularly fond of the Palestinians.

A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014 - mentioned previously I think, Liam Neeson, good movie, worth a watch. The Russia House 1990 - Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, engaging cold war spy story, romance, worth a watch.

It's a dilemma for sure, tell the everyone what you know, as good and sensible citizen of the world, then get whacked on the head. or Live a quiet life and see wrongs that you could do something about.

Hickey and Boggs 1972 - Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, not bad, as previously mentioned - worth a watch. I Origins 2014 - started like a bunch of young girly film students would make a movie, got better, then quite good, then tailed off. Worth a watch if you ever need to have justification to give the director a slap. Pineapple Express 2008 - James Franco and Seth Rogen - pot heads - worth a watch.

Maybe they just want access to future potential markets in LOS and Cambo, who knows. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me...

I liked the 6-7 houses, reminded me of rural Thailand, oh wait...

Hang on, they're screaming doom and gloom (or rather doom and hellfire) on data that shows that 2014 is the warmest year on record since 1880. Gosh, even though the planet has been much warmer in the past (see graph below), before we used petrol, before 1880, we must be doomed because the graph line is pointing up a bit at the moment. " Nasa, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, put 2014's average temperature at 14.7C, which is 0.67C above their average, which they calculate for 1951-1980. Earth broke NOAA records set in 2010 and 2005. The last time the Earth set an annual NOAA cold record was in 1911." Hang on, there's been a record for cold? so in this time frame you can have a "Coldest" ? So in 135 years, there's been a hottest and a coldest, mmmmmm... 135 years of data in a 10,000 (approx) year warm period, that's like basing 24 hours of anything, on 19 minutes of observation. Very thorough. Splendiferous. Magnificent. Got to get a prize for that, oh wait Al Gore already did. What happens if the next 19 minutes of data don't agree with the first 19 minutes?

Looks like you were right all along, http://www.stuff.co....limate-analyses 2014 hottest year recorded on Earth - US climate analyses We're doomed, prepare to fry, flames are already licking at our doors.

The Chinese have negotiated with the Lao Authorities, who, are taking out loans that amount to 80% of GDP to fund the Lao leg. This line seems to provide access to seawater ports for China. Oh and Yingy will get fresh vegetables

Some of the current CO2 increases are caused by burning fossil fuels. Not all. Then the Permafrost contribution argument must be, according to you, untrue.

Citations please...

Meanwhile in Huntly NZ, nothing happened...

http://stablelodge.com a short stagger down Soi 8 nice pool one of my favourites - has been known to accept travelling circus at 3 in the morning

"But you did! You brought up the permafrost reductions as the cause for CO2 increase." I brought up that, as an example of the Egg and Chicken argument. Which one causes the other? I don't know the answer, I just propose an alternate explanation to the perceived status quo. ​And my saying that "CO2 increases with the use of fossil fuels" it does.' is not the same as saying "permafrost reductions are the cause for CO2 increase". One is about fossil fuels - the other is about Permafrost.

Here are some --- Obama’s Top Science Advisor Warned In 1971 that a New Ice Age Was an Imminent Threat … "John Holdren is now not only the “Science Czar†for the United States, but he’s also one of the original leaders of the “alarmist†wing of the Global Warming debate — and he now promotes the notion that the current climate data points to a looming planetary overheating catastrophe of unimaginable dimensions. (He helped make the charts and graphs for Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, for example.)" --- An older one 1958 How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America. --- Newsweek 1975 scan of the page at the link --- A letter to Nixon - In 1972, two scientists – George J. Kukla (of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory) and R. K. Matthews (Chairman, Dept of Geological Sciences, Brown University) – wrote the following "Dear Mr. President: Aware of your deep concern with the future of the world, we feel obliged to inform you on the results of the scientific conference held here recently. The conference dealt with the past and future changes of climate and was attended by 42 top American and European investigators. We enclose the summary report published in Science and further publications are forthcoming in Quaternary Research. The main conclusion of the meeting was that a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experience by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon. The cooling has natural cause and falls within the rank of processes which produced the last ice age. This is a surprising result based largely on recent studies of deep sea sediments. Existing data still do not allow forecast of the precise timing of the predicted development, nor the assessment of the man’s interference with the natural trends. It could not be excluded however that the cooling now under way in the Northern Hemisphere is the start of the expected shift. The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace...................." --- On June 24, 1974, Time Magazine wrote an article entitled “Another Ice Age?†which stated: As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age. Telltale signs are everywhere … Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth’s surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years. --- Science News wrote an article in 1975 called “Chilling Possibilitiesâ€warning of a new ice age. --- A May 21, 1975 article in the New York Times again stated: Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. --- And so on...

This one shows CO2 and warming events, not as linear as most would believe.