General Reports

[Barko]

planning a trip to bkk and pattaya. not wanting to bring back pictures on a disc stick or stored on my laptop or cameras hard drive. anyone use a website to upload pics to before heading home?

use winzip or winrar to compress multiple amounts of media files, you can password protect the zipped files as you create them.

you say you don't own your own ftp? ("free" ftp sucks, as does buggy gspace. not recommended.) you can just email your files to yourself via gmail, 25mb at a time. it's totally free. (my pics are normally 3-4mb each, so gmail isn't really practical at all for me at all though.)

better yet, get an account at "hotfile-dot-com" $9usd/1month or $35/6mo. then, you can create zips that are 100mb (or a lot more depending on the speed of your internet connection in thailand) and upload to your heart's content. (you aren't strapped to any contracts or anything, just one month you can store 100 gb. simply pay with paypal.)

either way, you can just download at your leisure when you get home (without worries.)

[Run Mann]

agree with that, except that sending an email with a sizable (> 1 gb) attachment or upliading same to flickr will take a looong time, given the low upload speeds of your (hotel) internet connection.
the other alternative is to use a usb stick.
take care to encrypt the file using pgp or truecrypt.
caveat: us customs have been known to confirep001e encrypted material, including the complete laptop! there are reports on that in this forum.

he did say he did not want store his pictures on a (disk) stick but if you email or upload about 10 pics per email instead of 1gig at a time it will turn out to be faster. i've been using yahoo and hotmail email accounts to store my pictures for years now, never had a problem with them.

[Daddy San]

flickr, friendster or just create an email account to store them.

agree with that, except that sending an email with a sizable (> 1 gb) attachment or upliading same to flickr will take a looong time, given the low upload speeds of your (hotel) internet connection.
the other alternative is to use a usb stick.
take care to encrypt the file using pgp or truecrypt.
caveat: us customs have been known to confirep001e encrypted material, including the complete laptop! there are reports on that in this forum.

[Run Mann]

Planning a trip to BKK and Pattaya. Not wanting to bring back pictures on a disc stick or stored on my laptop or cameras hard drive. Anyone use a website to upload pics to before heading home?

Flickr, friendster or just create an email account to store them.

[Sleepy Head]

Planning a trip to BKK and Pattaya. Not wanting to bring back pictures on a disc stick or stored on my laptop or cameras hard drive. Anyone use a website to upload pics to before heading home?

If you have a Yahoo! Mail account, you'll have a ZumoDrive.com account (otherwise, signup is a snap). ZD gives you up to 2GB of free space.

Cheers

[Figures]

Planning a trip to BKK and Pattaya. Not wanting to bring back pictures on a disc stick or stored on my laptop or cameras hard drive. Anyone use a website to upload pics to before heading home?

[LittleBigMan]

Although not the same situation.... just take a look at the situation with the three hikers that are still being held by Iran! In which one of them is a women. These days certainly aren't the same when we were growing up! Nowadays it not safe unless you are armed to the teeth, even then there is always someone else with a bigger gun. Women as independent as they are today unless they are superwomen is no match or has enough strength if a guy wants to do harm to them. Just my manly opinion!


LBM

[Angus Magee]

Angus, check out the movie "TAKEN", with Liam Neeson.

Yes, it's a hollywood movie, but very scary stuff. If I had a teenage daughter, I would sit her down in front of that movie, and ask her to watch it 10 times.

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks good and I will check it out.

5 years ago, my teenage niece thought it would be great fun to hitch hike from France, to Asia. I strongly suggested she was crazy. she decided against it.

I had a good chuckle at this, then a cringe and then admire the young ladies perhaps misguided spirit. If she has the impulse again send her to talk with Old Angus who himself hitched from Amsterdam to India back in the '70s. I could tell her a few stories about Turkish truckers trying to get into the pants of the young Aussie girl, with whom I travelled for a while, as he tried to convince me to hide his porn collection in my backpack as we travelled through then Yugoslavia. And he was one of the tamer characters I met.

Definitely not a good idea for anyone, especially a young lady, to try this now a days.

AM

[Denom]

She knows that many of us are decent law abiding perverts

That's a good one, LOL :-)-)-)

[Angus Magee]

Yes, it is scary? remember when we were young we thought we knew everything! How do we explain to them times have really change? In the movie and I heard something like this before the father had 24/48 hours after that his daughter was gone forever and only because he was trained CIA? that he had the resources to find her.

Even in Thailand, I worry about my young son, they raise them so different here and I watch him like a hawk and he is eleven now and I'm having a hard time letting him go? Just last week, a the newly open park a few months ago lots of adults and kids and a small boy was kidnapped! Now park empty! As a regular person how do we begin to find them once they are gone? We aren't Saints but we come here to monger but many come here to monger for small boys and girls!

LBM

I feel one really has to practice what I call fear management. That is, yes these things happen, and it is possible that they happen to you. But really, how likely is it? Fear breeds fear. This is a fact. One need only look at the over all fear climate in the USA to see the truth in this. To me the worse sort of criminal is the one who would use this fear to feather their own nests. Let's face it, Hollywood is great at doing this. (The TV show "24" is a great example of this with regard to international terrorism)

Having not seen this particular film I can not comment on it. But I think in telling such a tale one treads a very thin line between making it a sensationalistic tale that breeds further fear, and making a good film that educates and entertains. One really has to look at why do we as a species look to such tales for entertainment? My guess is that on some level we enjoy the identification with such tragedy and learn a little from it without having to go through it ourselves. I hope this is the case.

In practical terms I think all one can do,if one has children, I try to speak openly about these things. First manage your own fears about it (get a grip on them so you do not scare the hell out of the kids) then speak openly with the kids about the actual danger, not your imagined scenarios. Stay involved with them everyday and keep an eye on their on line activity.

I am sure it is not easy.

If one has no children then one need simply to care for them and look after them in what ever way one can-as if they were your own. Be alert to the situation (at a playground for instance) without giving into fears or paranoid flights of fancy.

Again, not easy but doable.

AM

[Angus Magee]

Thanks guys for the info. I have also found some pretty interesting stuff with my own search. It is kind of shocking really. In fact one report I have read dealt with the buying and selling of girls in Haiti (pre earthquake but it could only get worse) and found that the price of buying a human being has dropped considerably since the days of the slave trade from Africa. That is, in those days a slave was a pretty hefty investment for a person to make. There was also a certain amount of responsibility, perhaps due to the high investment, in ownership. These days it is possible to buy a human for as little as $50 US!

This planet can be a brutal place. I guess that all one can do really is take care of one's own relationship with these things. I have for a long time felt that a more open attitude with regard the buying and selling of sexual services helps to discourage trafficking. That is, if there is less criminality involved the girls will be more fairly treated and end up with the cash in their own pockets and bank accounts. But I also know it is not as simple as this. For it to be open, the girls themselves must be open and this is not always possible.

Anyway, thanks again for the info.

AM

[LittleBigMan]

Thanks for the advice. I saw it awhile back. I think I will show it to my 13 year old daughter who is trying to run a muck right now.

Although this is only a movie and fiction, the story line is true and it's not only the Russians doing things like this! Google you will find the Japanese, Chinese, Mala, Cambodia, Mafia etc...very similar. Human trafficing! and they love that white meat!

Yes, it is scary? remember when we were young we thought we knew everything! How do we explain to them times have really change? In the movie and I heard something like this before the father had 24/48 hours after that his daughter was gone forever and only because he was trained CIA? that he had the resources to find her.

Even in Thailand, I worry about my young son, they raise them so different here and I watch him like a hawk and he is eleven now and I'm having a hard time letting him go? Just last week, a the newly open park a few months ago lots of adults and kids and a small boy was kidnapped! Now park empty! As a regular person how do we begin to find them once they are gone? We aren't Saints but we come here to monger but many come here to monger for small boys and girls!

LBM

[Mr Enternational]

Angus, check out the movie "TAKEN", with Liam Neeson.

Yes, it's a hollywood movie, but very scary stuff. If I had a teenage daughter, I would sit her down in front of that movie, and ask her to watch it 10 times.

5 years ago, my teenage niece thought it would be great fun to hitch hike from France, to Asia. I strongly suggested she was crazy. she decided against it.

Thanks for the advice. I saw it awhile back. I think I will show it to my 13 year old daughter who is trying to run a muck right now.

[Fast Eddie 48]

How often does it run?

To Amjeck,

I think every 10-15 min from airport to phaya thai station take about 25 min about 6 stop very fast and 5 min walk to BTS station .

Fast eddie 48

[Mr Enternational]

I read some stories on CNN about the Dutch guy, name escapes me right now, that murdered the girl is South America and is suspected of the murder in Aruba, that he was involved in trafficking. There were some details in there about it.

Johan Van Der Sloot. He is in prison in Peru awaiting a trial right now.