General Reports

Member #2041,

you again completely miss the point.

I never said or did believe that anything I say in here may reduce or may have any other impact at all on the risks I face.

What I said was, that YOUR behaviour does in fact influence MY risk as everybody else's risk as shown below. You aren't alone in the world and if you, Opebo or others spread diseases then it will have an effect for all others as a bigger number of infected people increases the likelihood of running into one of them.

Maybe you haven't realized that life is too complex to control every tiny part of it, condoms may break or you simply may have bad luck. It's also absolutely unimportant what kind of risk I am willing to take, since you are a part of the same world you do have an impact on that risk too.

All your talking about lecturing and the like is nothing but an attempt to distract from that fact.
It's not about what I think or do, it's only about people who go bareback and if such behaviour has an influence on the residual risk of all others.

[QUOTE=The Traveler]Member #2041,

you again completely miss the point.

I never said or did believe that anything I say in here may reduce or have any other impact at all on the risks I face.[/QUOTE]

OK, then given that I have already established that I couldn't care less about your opinion and I entirely disregard it, why do you continue to try to "educate me" in this matter? You continue to cling to the statement that I am altering YOUR risks, and you continue to argue that I ought to alter my behavior. Given that I have already made it quite clear that I give your views no credence whatsoever, wouldn't it be more efficient for you not to waste your time attempting to preach to me, and to others who have made it equally clear that we do not agree with you.

So what exactly IS your point? Since we already know that you cannot have any hope of altering my behavior, or my own opinion of you - I am curious what YOU hope to accomplish. As for me, what I am accomplishing is demonstrating how obtuse you are, and each of your continued responses in this thread contributes in that effort.

BTW, unlike yourself - I'm going to have to declare victory here, and make it clear that I won't bother reading nor replying to any further posts of yours from this point forward. Fortunately, I see that we have a control panel option to ignore that makes it possible for me to not bother seeing your posts any more. You're now on mine.

Member #2041,

that's your mistake from the beginning.
You take for granted that I try to alter your behaviour, but I don't.

I simply discuss the question if people who go bareback do have an influence on the residual risk of others.

The fact that you haven't understood it, clearly shows that you aren't as smart as you pretend. You lack the ability of listening to your opponent or to understand what has been said. Maybe you are too egocentric and self-absobed to listen to others and think it's always all about you. But you only stand as a placeholder for all others who go bareback. That's why your argumentation is always missing the point.

I am well aware that someone with your ego and attitude will never ever alter his behaviour or admit a mistake. Don't take yourself too important.
You don't like to be criticized or lectured, but just tried to do that to me. You failed miserably with this attempt and now the lecturer (you) got lectured that it isn't wise to do such thing with the wrong person. Funny, isn't it ? :)

P.S. You constantly modify your posts afterwards, nevertheless adding a declared victory doesn't mean to have actually won, seems you rather ran out of arguments and don't have answers to the raised questions.

And why so emotional, but I am happy to be on your ignore list as it will save me your endless beating about the bush.

Finally, do you remember where we started ?
So who is pulling who's strings and who should admit being a defeated marionette instead of claiming victory :D

Yawn.

Is it [blue]over[/blue] now :( ?


Giotto

[QUOTE=Giotto]Yawn.

Is it [blue]over[/blue] now :( ?


Giotto[/QUOTE]

2 Yawns :)

I've got a Motorola V551 and my current carrier is Cingular. I'd like to be able to use this phone while I'm in Bangkok. From what I've read, the easist thing to do is to buy a temporary SIM card for the phone.

There are a few things I'm trying to figure out. First off is my phone locked? Will it work outside of the US? Is there any way to check it or tell besides buying a card and trying?

Does anyone have any recommendations on which card to get? I assume there are various network providers in Bangkok. Is one better or worse than the others? Where is the best place to get a card the airport, 7/11 or is it better to go someplace else? And about how much will just the SIM card cost? I know I have to buy minutes for the SIM card once the card is installed.

Last problem is what do I do about charging the phone? The battery won't last a full week without charging. Will I need to get a converter before charging my phone so I don't fry it?

[QUOTE=Giotto]Yawn. Is it [blue]over[/blue] now :( ?Giotto[/QUOTE]Not yet. ;)[QUOTE=Member #2041] ... it's statistics - and I DO understand it, even though YOU clearly do not. A single data point/observation has asymptotically zero impact on a probability distribution drawn from a large population. [/QUOTE]Ah, but 2041, have you taken account the biased sample, partly due to self-selection of the subjects, which could result in homoscedascity of the data? Not to mention possible heterogeneity. I suggest you do a box-test followed by a log-linear transformation of the data before assuming that the results of the MANOVA F-test are valid.

PS, TT - sorry about the color joke that started all this. I'm actually color-blind. :D

[QUOTE=Piper1]
PS, TT - sorry about the color joke that started all this. I'm actually color-blind. :D[/QUOTE]
Piper,

your color 'joke' has nothing to do with it.

Member #2041 just used it as a smoke screen to criticize and lecture others.
Strange enough he doesn't like to be criticized and lectured himself.

Additionally it's simply "[i]not his damn business[/i]" if and how people respond to posts and "[i]it's utterly laughable for him to believe that his lecturing might in any way, shape or form, actually serve to influence my behavior or that of others on if and how to respond to posts, by the action of his lecturing others on an anonymous forum.[/i]".

That's why he failed so miserably in his attempt.

There is a huge difference between having an opinion and posting it or trying to tell other people what they have to do.

I tried to explain the statistical principles to rubbery little Bengali Girl while we were in the Jacuzzi - it's my form of foreplay. She found it very stimulating. In fact, I couldn't control her.

Piper,

she looks indeed very interested and ethusiastic :D

[QUOTE=Piper1]I tried to explain the statistical principles to rubbery little Bengali Girl while we were in the Jacuzzi - it's my form of foreplay. She found it very stimulating. In fact, I couldn't control her.[/QUOTE]

I'm sure that in fact she was exausted after her mind blowing sessions with yourself. You're being far too modest Mr Piper :)

Yeah, back to reality and Piper's photo this is something that constantly amazes me about Thai's - at drop of a hat they can be fast asleep. Turn around to get some ice for the drinks and... WTF!!!

[QUOTE=Piper1]I tried to explain the statistical principles to rubbery little Bengali Girl while we were in the Jacuzzi - it's my form of foreplay. She found it very stimulating. In fact, I couldn't control her.[/QUOTE]

Since she's sleeping in water, and she probably tasted like fish, I would conclude that she is an example of the Poisson distribution.

2041 - I love it when you talk French. ;)

Okay - enough fun. Time we got back to serious business, gents. No?

PS - FunTimes - Bengali Girl fell asleep *before* the action with Jungle Girl (but she woke up later for lots of fun).

[QUOTE=Member #3060]I've got a Motorola V551 and my current carrier is Cingular. I'd like to be able to use this phone while I'm in Bangkok. From what I've read, the easist thing to do is to buy a temporary SIM card for the phone.

There are a few things I'm trying to figure out. First off is my phone locked? Will it work outside of the US? Is there any way to check it or tell besides buying a card and trying?

Does anyone have any recommendations on which card to get? I assume there are various network providers in Bangkok. Is one better or worse than the others? Where is the best place to get a card the airport, 7/11 or is it better to go someplace else? And about how much will just the SIM card cost? I know I have to buy minutes for the SIM card once the card is installed.

Last problem is what do I do about charging the phone? The battery won't last a full week without charging. Will I need to get a converter before charging my phone so I don't fry it?[/QUOTE]

Your phone might be locked. The easest way to tell is to go to the forth (I think, or fifth) floor of MBK Shopping Mall. MBK is the last stop (National Stadium) of the Sky Train. Buy a cheap sim card (1 2 call is probably the best because you can get recharges at any 7-11 convience store), put it in your phone and see it it works. If it doesn't, take it to one of the phone repair places in MBK and ask to have it unlocked. It should cost about 500THB. I think the cheapest card is 150 THB which includes about 50 THB of air time.

[QUOTE=Member #3060]I've got a Motorola V551 and my current carrier is Cingular. I
There are a few things I'm trying to figure out. First off is my phone locked? Will it work outside of the US? Is there any way to check it or tell besides buying a card and trying?

Last problem is what do I do about charging the phone? The battery won't last a full week without charging. Will I need to get a converter before charging my phone so I don't fry it?[/QUOTE]

Cingular branded phones are always lock - if you're customer of sufficient length, they'll unlock; call CMS.

If it is tri-band or quad band, it will work in Asia; I don't know the V551 but just check your manual. As far as charging, not an issue. Only think you would need is adaptor - US plugs don't always work in Bkk. A good one to buy is what is sold in duty free magazine/in-flight or airport, swiss made, fat round, dark brown color.

Prepaid sim 1-2 brand is B$99 and then you need to purchase minutes, buy B$300 and get 330 minutes, then ask them to access international roaming (just in case you want to use it outside of bkk).