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http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars Easier to re-find than I thought.

There's a good article written by a US military man about why Arabs cannot win wars, or do much at all in fact, though he focuses on the military angle much of what he says is very transferable. I'll dig it out.

Unfortunately, like many "rules" here, it's most likely not enforced. Caveat emptor!

Hi to you. WTTB I'm sure you've noticed we're all a bit mad here, though mostly harmless I think. So what about you? Visiting, moving, living? You one of these 'Merican' chappies, an EU sort, or...? Cheers

Check em all out http://worldobserver...gh-cry-and-gag/ 1. Welcome, leadies and jents!

Not something the Baccara girls would easily identify with methinks.

What about the guy who had/has the restaurant in Patpong, does the Sarika steaks from the local grain fed cattle? I'd heard he was a stay behind. Okay, maybe they were just talking about those who walked of the job, perhaps this guy was known. Pretty sure there were more than a few who stayed behind.

It's time he did. Getting near(ish) now. We should be hearing about all the interesting stuff he's preparing and getting ready for the all important questions, where is Thermae, how much for nom yai girls, what is ST etc.

Not really a joke but certainly funny enough to warrant inclusion here methinks. Now it seems she of the righteous bosom is a big fan of Columbian marching powder, who'da guessed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtS2Ikk7A9I

Paul Walker, actor in Fast and Furious series amongst others, aged 40, in, ironic really, a car crash.

But presumably they will not issue a clearance certificate for visa transfer, say Non-Imm B to O? Or will they?

(Shameless copy/paste from elsewhere). The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating the bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent. 6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

With apologies to my Irish friends! Oh sod it, they'll think they're true Ah, to be shure! The Oirish. Bloke at a horse race whispers to Paddy next to him "Do you want the winner of the next race ?" Paddy replies "No tanks, I've only got a small garden." A coach load of paddys on a mystery tour decided to run a sweepstake to guess where they were going. The driver won £52 ! Paddy's racing snail is not winning races anymore. So he decided to take it's shell off to reduce it's weight and make him more aerodynamic. It didn't work, if anything it made him more sluggish. Paddy finds a sandwich with two wires stickin out of it. He phones the police and says " I've just found a sandwich dat looks like a bomb." The operator asks, "is it tickin ?" Paddy says "No I tink it's beef" The Irish have solved their own fuel problems. They imported 50 million tonnes of sand from the Arabs and they're going to drill for their own oil. Paddy says to Mick "Christmas is on a Friday this year" Mick says "Let's hope it's not the 13th." Paddy's in the bathroom and Murphy shouts to him. "Did you find the shampoo?" Paddy says "Yes but it's for dry hair and I've just wet mine." Paddy and Mick found three hand grenades and decided to take them to the police station. Mick says "What if one explodes before we get there ?" Paddy replies "We'll lie and say we only found two !" Paddy goes to the vet with his goldfish. "I think it's got epilepsy" he tells the vet. Vet takes a look and says "It seems calm enough to me." Paddy says "I haven't taken it out of the bowl yet." Paddy spies a letter lying on the doormat. It says on the envelope 'DO NOT BEND '. Paddy spends the next two hours trying to figure out how to pick the letter up. Paddy's dog goes missing and he's inconsolable. His wife says "Why don't you put an advert in the paper". He does but two weeks later the dog is still missing. "What did you put in the paper" his wife asks. "Here Boy" he replies. Paddy's in jail. The Guard looks in and sees him hanging by his feet. "What the hell are you doing" he asks. "Hanging myself" Paddy replies. "It should be round your neck" says the Guard. "I know" says Paddy "But I couldn't breathe". Mick asks Paddy "Why do scuba divers always fall backwards off their boat ?". Paddy replies 'If they fell forward, they'd still be in the boat".

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VyprVPN gives me access to 25 VPN servers in different countries, actually about 4 are in US, others are more widely spread, EU and a couple in Asia. It's a no brainer to select as necessary. Software is a cold plate to me and all that I've done over the years has been low level stuff or proprietary, assembler and PLC stuff. These days either PIC or Arduino based. I'm a hardware man and mostly RF but usually low power stuff, 20kW and down.

Ok thanks, think I'm a bit further ahead with this now. I don't quite get the "excess of 40 vpn's", I need only 1 at a time, a tunnel from me to the country in which I wish to establish an IP address, That really means one in the UK and one in the US as a maybe. I really have no beef with the Apple ecosystem, one way or the other. This post is being written in Chrome running in OSX 10.8.3 on an HP Intel Xeon workstation, with lots of all the good bits and 4 very different bootable OS's.

Thanks, that link is useful. But... Comes back to the same thing, you need to set the vpn on the router or use another device, still not seeing this being done in the ATV. Maybe the jailbreaking fixes that but the article does not go into that. Here's a practical application that I would hope to achieve. With an apartment WiFi connection I can access BBC iPlayer using my laptop, the vpn connection is established on the laptop and the router simply passes it through. Note that the apartment WiFi is a provided service and is not directly configurable (or changeable) Using a streaming tv device I want to connect it to the apartment tv, it has HDMI ports and is accessible, and from there have it connect to the apartment WiFi (it's an unlimited connection setup). What I don't want is to have to use my laptop as a part of this setup. Do you think this is do-able?

Yeah, I understand but I'm still dumb here. Here's what I know. BBC iPlayer wants you to have a UK IP address, ok, no problem my vpn provides a uk ip address and BBC iPlayer works, on a device where I can configure a vpn connection. From all that I can find I see no way that this is possible on the Apple TV device. Are you saying that this is possible on the device after jailbreaking, or does it still require to be streamed through another vpn enabling device?

That's interesting and I very much need to look into this. The need to jailbreak is to my mind a bit of a pain, and unfortunate but if I can make the device work such that I can watch BBC iPlayer in Thailand, or elsewhere, see you tube videos and essentially any online video content streamed direct to the device without needing to have other hardware (laptop, desktop, phone) in the loop then I think I will be satisfied. 1080p is not an issue. Google doesn't make much sense of APV.

That's what I use, works very good, hopefully more devices will add direct vpn support in due course but if I can find a router that allows to set it in the configuration that would solve it for everything.

Sounds like you are using VyprVPN.

How are you streaming the VPN stuff? Does the ATV let you configure the tunnel in the device itself or does it need to stream through another device? I'm looking into this now but don't want to rely on other devices, want the streaming straight from the router to the tv. I have a question on this in the Tech section, looking for a modem/router with built in VPN so I don't need any other device.