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Thank you all for your suggestions. The front end does not work the way we want it to work and that is why we are going to redesign the entire site (except for the forums). This is a big project and it is currently in the 25 percent completion stage. We will update you more when this is moving toward completion.

hehe You are just the epitome of kindness to strangers. LOL If you had been really compassionate, you would have taken 4. ps great photo. cute guys! Jealous in LA!

American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21--or face the consequences including contempt of court. Blackburn, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the Fifth Amendment posed no barrier to his decryption order. The Fifth Amendment says that nobody may be "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," which has become known as the right to avoid self-incrimination. "I find and conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer," Blackburn wrote in a 10-page opinion today. He said the All Writs Act, which dates back to 1789 and has been used to require telephone companies to aid in surveillance, could be invoked in forcing decryption of hard drives as well. Ramona Fricosu, who is accused of being involved in a mortgage scam, has declined to decrypt a laptop encrypted with Symantec's PGP Desktop that the FBI found in her bedroom during a raid of a home she shared with her mother and children (and whether she's even able to do so is not yet clear). See here for Full Article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57364330-281/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-decrypt-their-laptops/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

I saw the first episode and I really really really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to the first season. Plus, I guess I am just a musical queen in the end (or just anything in my end is OK) but it was a well done show.

It worked. He is now my roll model (hope to roll in bed with him).

Tom, if Rio doesn't give you the keys to the city, they are NUTS! Your adventures there encourages so many to go and many others to cry they are not there with you! I love reading your adventures and I thank you for posting. I love the photos you have presented and I know that you are having a blast as you do everywhere. So, until Rio comes through for you, this is from all of us here at MER!

Welcome back to USA. I enjoyed your trip reports immensely. However, I was sick for about a week and didn't get to participate as much as I should have. It doesn't mean they were not read and greatly enjoyed. Thailand is an amazing place and a place that I love to go back to time and time again. I find the boys there are better with long term situations than anywhere else on earth. Yes, the boys in Brazil are hot sex but they are in Thailand as well. But, it is so easy in Thailand to find a guy that truly wants to spend his life pleasing you. In Brazil, I find it easy to find a guy that truly wants to spend his time getting pleased by you. LOL How did you find your experiences this year as compared to previous years? It seems you did get to see a lot and were adventurous and that is great. There is so much to see in LOS and I know I'll never get to see it all. Were you happier with your experience this time than last? When are you going again?

I like Southland but I love Justified. I guess Justified really reminds me of home and all my red neck kin folk. Southland is great writing and I also love the characters. I really like the female roles on this show.

I have been at AVN show in Vegas this week. It is a huge event. I don't know how many booths are set up but it takes up 3 big rooms at the Hard Rock. In all that, there are 2 tiny gay booths. Both were for dvd porn companies and very nice guys but I'd say that is less than 1 percent of the people there. Why? Helix use to go. I think Rentboy was once there. What happened to all the gay sites that use to go to these events?

Gaybutton, don't take my comments the wrong way. LOL I use Firefox as well and I have had no problems with this site. But, the last week, I have had issues with speed. Firefox has been constinently slower than all my other browsers for all sites. There was lag time when typing. There was lag time from page to page. I thought perhaps it was my computer. But, it was only in Firefox. I tried everything to fix it. Finally, I uninstalled ALL my plugins and then the problem stopped. What happens with Firefox and all browsers is that when they update, some sites do not work with the new way they have decided to display things. It is hard for web programmers to keep up with all the browsers. Then, as a user, you must also then keep up with the plugins. All in all, it is always a guessing game to try to find the solution to a problem that others are not having. When I started playing online it was only Internet Explorer. Now, you have that, Firefox, Safair, Opera and others. And, new ones often. Then, everyone of them has plugins. What I learned over the years was to keep up to date with a few browsers in order to be able to enjoy the internet as much as possible. And, there are plugins to help you transfer the bookmarks and passwords from one browser to another. Firefox is great but I much prefer to have a good backup browser. Betas are great but they cause problems until their issues are solved.

Mr. gaybutton has this issue been resolved for you? Or, are you still seeing a blank screen?

Thank you so much for all the input on the website. The only way we can make it better is if we have feedback. We have been in discussions with a programmer about the auto login. They want to study this and try to find a solution. I hope that others post about events in all cities. We welcome those posts and I hope everyone does that. If it will be helpful to others, I can post the events I hear about on the boards. I get newsletters and updates from venues throughout Thailand and will do this more often if that is what the membership wishes to see implemented. I apologize for the contest changing. It was not something we wanted to do but we got a great deal of flack from long term posters that it was destroying the website. We made a decision and tried to make the best one possible. I am sorry that some were offended by the decision and it was not our intention to alienate anyone. The Flirt advertisements bring in revenue for the site. For over one year we had ads for businesses in Thailand but they were not paid ads. They were put up as a courtesy and the businesses we approached said they would not pay for something they can get free on any other site. So, we brought back the Flirt ads. I know they do not have a great deal of Asian guys on them but many of the clients from Asia like them. The site is popular for visits and we have a constant flow of new member profiles. That is one of the main reasons we are going to spend more money to make the profile section better. Currently for the Alexa Rankings: www.gaythailand.com 278,872 www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com 626,517 www.gaybuttonthai.com/ 3,378,009 www.baht-stop.com/ 3,275,852 We have dropped about 100,000 in the ranking since taking over the site but are trying hard to bring the numbers back up. We don’t feel we are in competition with any of those sites as we are a member dating site and not just a forum. We remain popular in that arena. We are lacking in the forums and not sure what to do in order to fix this. We have great moderators and great posters. We also have far too many lurkers who read and never post. For search engine placement and clicks, we are at the top of all the keywords we have been working on. I bring this up only to show we are trying to get new members and new posters. We are always open to suggestions and comments. I hope I answered most questions in this thread. Thank you for reading.

haha. I just talked to the BF and he is ready to buy a 400cc motorbike. I told him that was too much power for him but he said if he got it, he promised not to modify it. I told him to go ahead and get it. I have seen Le Reve and I enjoyed it. I also saw O and that was one of my favorites. My hotel manager came to welcome me to Vegas and gave me front row tickets to Phantom. I have seen it about 20 times in NYC, London and other place but the theater they built here is fantastic. They have really done a fabulous job. Vegas just keeps growing and having fantastic shows. I do miss the Liberace museum but am plannning on seeing Zumanity again as I have friends from NYC in the cast and they got me seats. But, they only gave me one seat as they have set me up on a blind date. I just hope it is not with one of my ex's from NY. LOL

You make me homesick! I so would love to be sitting in one of their chairs in Pattaya watching the time fly by! I am glad it is busy and I hope that the boys are getting offed a great deal as they had a hard low season. I am currently in Vegas right now and I am having a blast with all the hot white boys. But, I miss my Thai guys! I picked up a guy from Hawaii tonight that works in my hotel. I wonder if I am a rice queen? Still, I'd trade Vegas in for Pattaya any day of the week. We all know which one is really the true sin city!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I like massage and no place that does massage has done well in Sunee. Maybe this place wil be different. Why do you think so many in this area fail? Do people really go there for massage? LOL Wonderful! Can I use that?

haha Hey, I am from Alabama, we are a bit slow out of the gate!