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I completely agree. There is so much here going on that one person. I am sure his money backing has helped to create the mess. But, at least there are those who realize that they are not destined to be poor and uneducated. IMHO the best way out of this is to educate the entire country. But, those in power do not want an intelligent electorate.

I find the older I get the more the details become irrelevant to me. (Or, I just like to reinvent history the way it was meant to be).

He is a charlatan. The new one is no better. The Generals are no better. In fact, there is no one that is ruling the country that has clean hands. That being said, Thaskin had one thing going for him, he got the poor of the country to realize they were getting screwed. Sure, he had his hands in the till. But, until then the poor were under the impression that being poor was the way it had to be. No hope and no chance. Thai politics are horrible. It is a deeply divided country. The current Prime Minister was supposed to call for new elections. Now, he is saying, the country is too fragile to vote. Why? He knows he will be ousted. So, the red shirts protest. When they get back in office (and they will), then the yellow shirts will protest. A never ending cycle. UNLESS, they have a miracle politician that can bridge the 2 divides. It is not anyone I know in power.

We started an ad on Facebook and have been getting many new members to the site. How to convert those members to posters in the forum is a much harder area to conquer but we will continue to try to bring "new blood" into the site and the forum. We thank you for all the suggestions you are giving. It is appreciated and we welcome them and hope that you keep communicating ways to improve the site and the forum.

Yes, temporary. They can only work 10 hours a day. They are working on this. The solution for the short term, log in from the home page of the site. I didn't notice this but I'll have them check. Throwing axes. It is better to have one site with logins that are the same. If not, we would have to have 2 sites and the names on both would be different. Maybe easier to manage, but not a good idea and thus why we are willing to spend the money to get it right. And, why we asked for a bit of patience and we will work on it. We always try our best to fix items that are brought to our attention. Thus, I appreciate you bringing this up. I log in from the front page each day. I keep my browser open. I never have log in issues. So, when others do, they need to tell me exactly what they are doing so I can tell the programmers to work on it. Again, I apologize for the frustration this is causing you. It is causing me more. And, the fucking tabs are back again even after I told the programmers if I saw them on the forum, I'll take 200 off their salary.

Investigations into the dealings of several Thai websites have uncovered a suspected child prostitution ring operating in Thailand recently. Police discovered the illegal operations following the June arrest of an internet gaming business owner in Pattaya. Thailand, the 6th of September 2010 [PDN]: Following the arrest of Mr. Traiphop Bunphasong, implicated in a Pattaya child prostitution racket, Children and Women Protection Center Police successfully uncovered a larger 'parent' operation, which had been running in Thailand for the last 10-years. Mr. Bunphasong's arrest was directly related to the later arrest of famed Russian musician Mikhail Pletnev. Initially, police investigating the case of Mr. Bunphasong linked the offender with several homosexual websites (poochai69.com and dekchai.com). The websites were found to be openly selling images, videos and DVD's of explicit gay pornography including material believed to involve underage boys. Progressing the case to a national level, Major General Rungsap Sunsap (Children & Women Protection Center Region 2 Deputy Commissioner) and Major General Kittiphong Ngaomuk (Police Region 2 Commissioner) begun investigations into the matters, finding that sites were operated by a Mr. Kanphon Chinchayaphorn [48] (AKA, Lung Mo, Lung Max (uncle Max)). Mr. Chinchayaphorn is known to be a prominent figure in Thai gay social scene and was subsequently linked to at least seven other illegal pornographic websites (gaymorply.com, unzenzer.com, vdostation.com, gooogay.com, seeguy.com, thaiboyx.com, and loongmax.com). Click here for rest of story: http://www.pattayada...ations-stifled/

It should be set to 1 hour. I'll make sure this is correct.

From the programmers: We have common top file so all pages shows login link. Actually when we upgraded the forum much of the customized code was removed from forum files. And there are lot of files we have made changes for customization. We had missed to add this code so you were getting login issues. Now it will work fine. I have made it proper.

Polls are back to working. Sorry it took a few days.

Working on it.

We can do this for you. Are you suggesting sub-forums of the Gay Asia forum? If so, I have added the forums to that area. Check it out. We can also copy any relevant threads to the correct forum to make it easy to find the information.

When the site is organized, we are considering doing a weekly Gay Thailand Newsletter. We would do this to promote events throughout Thailand. It would be similar to the old Pattaya Gay Report. Is there a need for this to be done? Is it overkill? Are we stepping on anyone's toes? We would do it though an organized e-mail provider like Constant Contact and it would be opt in for only those interested. We would not be sending spam mail to every gay person in Thailand. We would appreciate any thoughts and comments you may have. Hugs,

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One of the reason many choose Asia is the low cost of hotels. Many will stay at places much better than the Atlantico for around 40 US per night. For a long stay, that make a big difference. Are there no gay Bad and Breakfast hotels in Rio? I thought there was one near 117?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/technology/06craigslist.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Fascinating article on why some think this is a ploy and that Craig's List is going to come back with a vengeance. Attached article: SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, by shutting off its “adult services” section and slapping a “censored” label in its place, may be engaging in a high-stakes stunt to influence public opinion, some analysts say. Since blocking access to the ads as the Labor Day weekend began — and suspending a revenue stream that could bring in an estimated $44 million this year — Craigslist has refused to discuss its motivations. But using the word “censored” suggests that the increasingly combative company is trying to draw attention to its fight with state attorneys general over sex ads and to issues of free speech on the Internet. The law has been on Craigslist’s side. The federal Communications Decency Act protects Web sites against liability for what their users post on the sites. And last year, the efforts of attorneys general were stymied when a federal judge blocked South Carolina’s attorney general from prosecuting Craigslist executives for listings that resulted in prostitution arrests. “It certainly appears to be a statement about how they feel about being judged in the court of public opinion,” said Thomas R. Burke, a First Amendment lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine who specializes in Internet law and does not work for Craigslist. “It’s certainly the law that they’re not liable for it, but it’s another matter if the attorneys general are saying change your ways.” Attorneys general and advocacy groups have continued to pressure the company to remove the “adult services” section. A letter from 17 state attorneys general dated Aug. 24 demanded that Craigslist close the section, contending that it helped facilitate prostitution and the trafficking of women and children. The “adult services” section of Craigslist was still blocked in the United States on Sunday evening. “Sorry, no statement,” Susan MacTavish Best, Craigslist’s spokeswoman, wrote on Sunday in response to an e-mail message. Analysts said that if the block was a temporary statement of protest, it could backfire because of the avalanche of news coverage that the site had received for taking down the ads. “I’m very convinced that this is permanent, even if it was not their intention to make it permanent,” said Peter M. Zollman, founding principal of the Advanced Interactive Media Group, a consulting firm that follows Craigslist closely. “I think it will be difficult, if not impossible, for them to go back and reopen that section without really running into a buzzsaw of negative publicity and reaction.” Attorneys general in several states said they had so far been unable to get any information from Craigslist. “If this announcement is a stunt or a ploy, it will only redouble our determination to pursue this issue with Craigslist, because they would be in a sense be thumbing their nose at the public interest,” Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general who has headed the campaign against Craigslist, said in an interview by phone on Sunday. Mr. Blumenthal said Craigslist’s outside lawyer had been in touch with his office, but that the lawyer had not clarified whether the shutdown of the section was permanent, or said when Craigslist might make a statement. Even though courts have said that Craigslist is protected under federal law, Mr. Blumenthal said part of his mission was to rally public support to change federal law. “Raising public awareness is extraordinarily important, because it increases support for changes in the law that will hold them accountable,” he said. “Their view of the law, which is blanket immunity for every site on the Internet, never has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court, and I think there is some serious doubt.” Richard Cordray, the Ohio attorney general, said in an interview by phone on Sunday: “We’re taking it at face value. I think it’s a step forward, maybe grudging, in response to the efforts of the attorneys general.” But Lisa Madigan, the attorney general of Illinois, was more skeptical about Craigslist’s intentions. “Certainly because of the way they did it,” she said, “it leaves an open question as to whether this is truly the end of adult services on Craigslist or if this is just a continuing battle.” For a site that prides itself on being a neighborly town square, Craigslist has been increasingly pugnacious in response to its critics. Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist’s chief executive, has written screeds on the company blog explaining and defending Craigslist’s efforts to combat sex crimes, including manually screening sex ads and meeting with advocacy groups. “Craigslist is committed to being socially responsible, and when it comes to adult services ads, that includes aggressively combating violent crime and human rights violations, including human trafficking and the exploitation of minors,” he wrote last month. But he also uses the blog to lash out at eBay, an investor and a competitor that also has a sex ads service, and Craigslist critics and reporters who question Craigslist’s actions on sex ads. Last month, Amber Lyon of CNN reported about sex ads on Craigslist and questioned Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and who is no longer a manager at the company, outside a conference where he spoke about a different topic. In a blog post addressed to Ms. Lyon, Mr. Buckmaster responded: “There is a class of ‘journalists’ known for gratuitously trashing respected organizations and individuals, ignoring readily available facts in favor of rank sensationalism and self-promotion. They work for tabloid media.” And he wrote a sarcastic post titled “Advocate Indeed” in response to a television appearance by Malika Saada Saar, executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, a nonprofit group that has urged Craigslist to shut the sex ads section. Though sex ads on Craigslist are the most salacious example of the debate over free speech on the Internet, it is a battle being waged across the Web. Yelp, the review site for local businesses, has been repeatedly sued by small businesses for what its users write. The suits have been dismissed by courts citing the Communications Decency Act or withdrawn by defendants once they learned about Web sites’ immunity, said Vince Sollitto, a Yelp spokesman. Some Internet law experts say the issue strikes at the heart of free speech. “For the government to intervene in Internet communication, it has to do that very carefully,” said Margaret M. Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University in California. “The ultimate goal, public safety, is really important, but these are venues of free speech communication. They’re not conspirators in crimes.” The erotic services categories are still accessible on Craigslist sites outside the United States, and the personals section of the site is still active. Craigslist has said that if it takes down the “adult services” section, sex ads will simply migrate to other parts of the site. Doubts about whether the block on the sex ads section is permanent are fueled by the prospect of Craigslist losing a significant amount of money. The ads, which cost $10 to post and $5 to repost, are expected to bring in $44.4 million this year, about a third of Craigslist’s annual revenue, according to the Advanced Interactive Media Group. Still, it is difficult to predict the motives of the company, which employs about 30 people and operates in a quirky, opaque and at times petulant manner. “It would surprise me if they didn’t try to find a workable solution to reintroduce some of that income,” said M. Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. “Although, that said, Craigslist is not your typical company in the sense that it doesn’t seem to be exclusively motivated by profit.”

For me, hands down Jeff Stryker. I saw all of his videos before I ever came out and was in lust with him. Brent Everett is also up there. Always had a hard on for him.

Working on it. Long post. Let me read it again. OK. Now, let me think on this. OK. Now, let me send this to the programmers and see what they can do. I will tell you that the hardest thing to do with this site is the interaction between the login for the main site and the forum. It has given 4 different programming teams problems. Why? It is not an easy task if one does not log into the main part of the site first. If one logs in there first then, the rest should be easy. We get issues when this does not happen. But, I'll present this to them again to see if they can tweak it. I think this will happen only with the people who went to the forum DURING the upgrade. To test this, clear your cache and try the site again. I think again a cache issue. Try it again if you clear your cache. Thanks. I will ask them. Not sure this is possible, but I sent a note to the company who makes the software to ask them.

I don't understand why they just didn't move out of the USA. Seems like it would have been a wiser move for them. Would that have protected them? Or, requiring people that post the ads to have verification? I am sure there were other options they didn't pursue. Why I wonder?