Dean answers:

You don’t love her. You sound weak-minded and thin-skinned. Good luck with that

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You sound very jealous…..find a single man… Period!!

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Totally avoid tourist places or you will have a hooker or a bar girl. Thats sure even if you dont beleave it.
Learn the language and culture.
Get used to the heat.
And stay and live there for a very long time.
Very long.
And be extremly interesting and nice.

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I really don’t know of any bad things, since it’s open source. The only complaints I have are that cut and paste could be done a little better; and it should allow shortcuts like Internet Explorer. I really don’t like bookmarks.

On the plus side of things, it allows Java and Javascript.

Microsoft tried to set the standard for both programming languages, but Sun Microsystems wouldn’t put up with any of that, so Microsoft purposely crippled all future versions of it’s browser – and as a result – Internet Explorer will no longer enable Java or JavaScript. Also, Dynamic HTML is disabled. That was supposed to be one of the next steps, in the evolution of the internet.

Microsoft and it’s monoploy have done more to cripple the internet, than all of the spammers, virus writers, adware / malware writers, software pirates, and hackers combined.

Dean answers:

Firefox IS a browser, published by Mozilla, that has been competing with Internet Explorer for the past couple years. It’s actually a pretty cool browser that has turned out to nab more of the market than I think most people anticipated.

Good features:
Great pop-up and spyware protection. This is also partly due to the fact that the vast majority of viruses and spyware are written FOR Explorer, which most people are running.
Probably the best feature of Firefox is tabbed browsing, which opens up multiple windows within a single window so that your taskbar doesn’t get crowded with all of the webpages you’re navigating between.
Also, from their website…I think this is pretty cool: “Firefox 1.5 delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud.”

Bad features:
The only one so far is that since most webpages are meant to be viewed with Explorer, I had limited accessibility to some web applications. For example, when Yahoo! Introduced PhotoMail, I wasn’t able to download the upgraded e-mail application because the service was built for certain versions of Explorer only. But as Firefox gets more popular (they just released an upgrade) I expect this to happen less.

So the people recommending this browser were absolutely correct! I have used it for almost a year now and love it.

Dean answers:

Tools – Clear private data or CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE

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Well…It’s not that they’re not open to dating black men…but Asians are very traditional and prefer to date someone within their own race..so yea…but if it seems like she’s interested…and your confident enufff might as well go for it right? =]

Dean answers:

Your right, but for the sake of argument, stereotypically speaking, it’s probably a sexual thing..

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FYI most asian guys woudln’t be happy seeing a hot asian girl with a black guy

Their kids would look something like Tiger Woods, the rapper Ann Marie or Kimora Lee Simons (they are all half black half asian)

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There is a lot of information on Wikipedia, did you already read that?

General:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philippines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines

History:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines

From the above history page you can reach the history sub-pages:
- Before 1521
- 1521-1898
- 1898-1946
- 1946-1965
- 1965-1986
- 1986-present
- Philippine Revolution
- Katipunan
- First Philippine Republic
- Timeline
- Military history
- Communications history
- Demographic history
- Transportation history

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Was there only 3? I think it goes:

-Pre Spanish Period
-Spanish Period
-American Period
-Japanese Period (WW II)
-Independent Philippines

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Probably an Archeology website that specializes in that area since before colonization there wasn’t really any recorded history of that area. It was all “word of mouth” and the story-tellers for the region probably don’t have anything to back up their stories.

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Nang Nual Seafood is pretty good.
Situated towards the end of Walking Street, Nang Nual has two branches that face each other. If possible, choose the open-air one that has a seating area facing the sea.
The menu provides Chinese ,Japanese, as well as the staple Thai seafood.
Sauteed fish fillet with green peppers (120 baht), sukiyaki seafood (65 baht), sauteed squid with curry powder (120 baht) and fried rice with green curry paste and shrimp (80 baht).

Dean answers:

1200 BHT is average going rate right now at beer bars in bangkok, near nana.

Low as 800 for not so pretty lady, or early (6pm) or late (1am) when their business is slow.

2000 BHT will get you a very pretty lady.

If you go to a club / lady bar then you will need to pay 300-500 BHT to the bar owner to take the girl. If you find her on the street or in a beer bar then there is no barfine.

I have not been to Pattaya but I did go to Phuket and prices were about the same as Bangkok, so I would assume similar in Pattaya.

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Right now until a couple weeks from now many of the budget hotels are full and even a little higher priced. If your trip is a few months from now some of these places will be cheaper and with more vacancies.

Sawasdee Hotel Chain (look for the Pattaya section on this link:)

http://www.sawasdee-hotels.com/index.html

Apex Hotel. You can also eat at their “all you can eat” breakfast buffet for only 110 baht even if you do not stay there. Right on Pattaya 2nd Road, not far from the Ice Inn which also has some cheap rooms.

Http://www.apexhotelpattaya.com/

The Cheena House on Soi Skawbeach is not expensive. There are several other places to stay on this same soi. Florida Hotel is cheap and has free wifi.

Http://www.pattayacheenahouse.com/

Captain’s Bar (and Hotel) is on Soi Honey Inn. Other hotels in that same price range available on this same soi.

Http://captainsbar.com/1.htm

Winner Inn on Soi Bukhow is not expensive. Many cheap hotels on this street.

Http://www.winner-inn.com/Rooms-and-Rates.html

Find a place for a night or two and then look around for something cheaper or just different. Lots of choices once you get away from the Christmas – New Years Holidays.

Map of Pattaya. A hotel on or near Pattaya 2nd Road (Pattaya Sai Song on map) will allow you to walk to many places like malls, street vendors, nightlife, Seven Eleven stores, travel agencies for tours and lots of restaurants.

Http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/pattaya_map/pattaya_map_pattaya.html

Happy New Year.

Dean answers:

Contact Mio company,http://service.mio.com/M0100/MainFrame.aspx
they have a C320b model with Thai maps, so maybe you could get it from them and load it in your system.

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Asia, just above Malaysia, right of India and left of vietnam, below china.

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See below, click on english version if you don’t understand thai.

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It takes off from Singapore’s Changi Airport at 8:00am Singapore time, thats 2:00 CET, 10:00 am in Sydney, 17: 00 in LA, 20:00 in New York and 1:00 am in the UK. I’m not sure about the take off time from Sydney to Singapore.

Dean answers:

1. Orderly city
2. Clockwork public services and transports
3. Low discrimination
4. Controlled freedom
5. Clean environment
6. Fair working conditions
7. Low taxation

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Oh dear. I really, really don’t like the sound of a “pet farm”. I believe this must be a euphemism for “puppy mill” – which is where pet shops get their puppies. You do NOT want a dog from one of these places.

Http://www.stoppuppymills.org/inside_a_puppy_mill.html

The words “puppy” and “cheap” do not go together. A “cheap” puppy is a sick puppy who will cost you a lot at the vet. Please think carefully about why you want a puppy and get a clear idea of the expenses involved before you get a dog.

Dean answers:

Donate them to any charity of of your choice. $100 USD can go a long way for needy poor. Thank you in advance

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Well, if memory serves everything is cheap in Thailand. If you need cash, sell that sweet @ss, you’ll come home a millionaire.

Dean answers:

It doesn’t matter what bank issues the Visa, if it has the Visa logo, it’s acceptable on Ebay.

In short…YES.

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I think so it changed for a little a few episodes ago but I think it’s the usual again^_^

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Http://www.veoh.com/

http://www.hulu.com/

http://www.tv.com/

http://www.sidereel.com/

http://www.casttv.com/

http://www.tvduck.com/

http://www.sling.com/

http://boxee.tv/

http://www.tvloop.com/

http://www.channels.com/

http://feedmytorrents.com/

http://www.testcard.tv/

http://ftwtv.com/

Dean answers:

Try. Http://rawranime.com/
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The problem with the non-crazy Muslims is that they are too busy making up excuses for the totally whacked out, psychopathic kind that they don’t realize that ALL of you look bad.

The non-crazy Muslims are nice, normal people… Like any Jew or Christian… You believe what you believe and don’t try to cram your religion down anyone’s throat.

The non-crazy kind of Muslim needs to start either outright fighting against their nut-job cousins or, literally, make a totally new religion to break free from what the nut-jobs are doing to your public image.

The same way that Mormons have been saying “WE ARE NOTHING LIKE THOSE TARDS THAT RAPE KIDS AND MARRY 14 YEAR OLDS TO THEIR 55 YEAR OLD UNCLE! THAT IS NOT US! THEY ARE A CULT!”

Unfortunately, Islam is a nutty religion as a whole… And since the whole middle east is one massive, evil theocracy, I seriously doubt that it would be possible to distinguish between the nut-jobs and the non-nut-jobs.

Just knowing what you do to your women in non-theocratic countries makes me sick… So it is very hard for me not to lump you all together in the ‘mentally ill and/or stupid and/or evil’ category.

You lucid people REALLY need to make a stand and get the fu*k away from your whack’a'doo, bomb throwing, woman raping, slow hanging, beheading nut-job brothers.

As for the African Muslims… They are the people that still routinely do Female Genital Mutilation.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_Genital_Mutilation

I.E. They take a young girl, hold her down, and cut off either just her clitoris OR they may remove ALL EXTERIOR PINK SKIN from the vagina then sew it shut so that there is only 1 hole to urinate from and one hole to menstruate from. The most extreme versions of this actually need to be cut open on her wedding night so that her husband can do sex TO HER, right through the open wound.

The idea that women should have all pleasure from sex stopped to make her a “Good Woman” is the most disgusting thing I have seen in a long while.

You guys REALLY need to figure out that it is the 21st century and that you need to learn to respect your fellow humans… That goes for ALL Muslims… Christians… Jews… Atheists… EVERYONE!

Time reporter blames Israel and the West for Muslim intolerance

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Ignoring_the_Real_Causes_of_Christian_Exodus_.asp

Spiralling violence targets minorities

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Spiralling-violence-targets-minorities/articleshow/4531720.cms

Exclusive: Saudi Rape Victim Tells Her Story

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3899920&page=1

Saudi court ups punishment for gang-rape victim

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/17/saudi.rape.victim/

Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378314145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Saudi Arabia Rape Victims Punished + Punishment Doubled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIDl00j-fE

Saudi Arabia holds female American citizens in white slavery: an act of war

http://www.omdurman.org/whitslav.html

Saudi Arabia defends sentence for rape victim

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1570495/Saudi-Arabia-defends-sentence-for-rape-victim.html

Saudi Arabia: Rape Victim Punished for Speaking Out

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/11/15/saudi-arabia-rape-victim-punished-speaking-out

Rape Victim’s Lawyer Refuses to Give In

http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/articles/2007/ioi/071119-rape-victim.html

Report: Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim

http://cbs2chicago.com/national/saudi.arabia.rape.2.612299.html

How Ahmad Batebi Survived Torture In Iran

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/03/60minutes/main4917310.shtml

Egypt rights group wants ‘wife rape’ outlawed
29% said husbands forced them to have sex

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/09/17/39242.html

Muslim Women Are Told to “Laugh Off” rape:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/01/australian-muslim-clerick-wives-to-laugh-off-rape.html

Critics: New Afghan Law Allows Men To Rape Wives

http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=10666

Men Allowed to Rape Their Wives

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/04/05/karzai_seeks_review_of_law_critics_say_lets_men_rape_their_wives/

Women Protesting Rape Laws are Stoned:

http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/04/15/afghan-women-protesting-rape-law-get-stoned.htm

Jeddah, gang-raped woman sentenced to prison, one hundred lashes

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14486&geo=1&size=A

Woman beaten on J’lem bus for refusing to move to rear seat

http://haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801449&contrassID=19

Saudi Barbarity: Gang Raped Woman Sentenced To Prison, 40 Lashes

http://paxalles.blogs.com/paxalles/2009/02/saudi-barbarity-gang-raped-woman-sentenced-to-prison-40-lashes.html

Saudi gang rape sentence ‘unjust’

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7098480.stm

A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law. “My client is the victim of this abhorrent crime. I believe her sentence contravenes the Islamic Sharia law and violates the pertinent international conventions,” he said.

“The judicial bodies should have dealt with this girl as the victim rather than the culprit.”

Norway: Muslim girls beaten for not wearing the hijab

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/03/norway-muslim-girls-beaten-for-not.html

Abu Dhabi: no divorce for woman beaten, cheated on and deserted

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/011416.php

Evil Islamic Woman: Had women raped, shamed, then forced to commit suicide bombing

http://shawarmamayor.blogspot.com/2009/02/evil-islamic-woman-had-women-raped.html

Pakistan: Woman Raped for Leaving Islam

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/011966.php

An 18-year-old Christian woman raped and forced to convert to Islam

http://digg.com/d1GqPc

PAKISTAN: WOMAN RAPED FOR LEAVING ISLAM

http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news?=en&length=long&idelement=4421

http://www.rawa.org/beating.htm

These photos are caught from a video film that has been filmed by RAWA on August 26, 2001 in Kabul using a hidden camera. It shows two Taliban from department of Amro bil mahroof (Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Taliban religious police) beating a woman in public because she has dared to remove her burqa in public.

Dean answers:

They call their fans “Easy Money” or “ATM-san.”

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Tea on the floor with huge cushions would appeal to (most) kids that age. If you’ve an Asian rug, use that as the starting place. A mill end outlet may have material in bright colours and appropriate synthetic silk/satin to cover other cushions to protect against stains and match the rug colours. Machine embroider fun Asian motifs on them, or fabric paint.
There are 56 different recognized regions (though culinary terms most commonly refer to the 8 main) so a variety of foods shouldn’t be a problem. Choose some that won’t be too strongly flavoured for them to enjoy and include plenty of the fruits grown in Asia such as pomegranate, Asian pears and oranges.Have chopsticks enough for all to try using and a roll of paper towelling handy.
Check into renting kimonos and face painting for girls; karate uniforms and a demonstration for boys. Sword crafting with heavy cardboard or foamboard and faux jewels, metallic toned cording and a couple cans of spray paint could be an activity; or getting some plain white paper fans and acrylic paints to decorate them. Rent a Wii and explain where it originated on their level. Play pin the flag on the capitals of Asian countries on a world map. Make paper lanterns for them to take home. Make a game out of determining their zodiac sign and make masks depiciting whatever they fall under (monkey, rat, etc.).
If you’ve lots of time ahead, make a dragon and explain the New Year rituals, serving traditional food and drink. Check your city ordinances regarding fireworks and have a small show if you can.
Use native Asian flowers to decorate. See if the nursery has or can get small plants to encourage little gardeners and pick up some dollar store plant holders. Stencil dragons, elephants or zodiac signs on them with acrylics. Don’t forget to include care directions.
Talk to a pottery painting shop or art supply store with classes and decorate plates, incorporating a history lesson without the kids knowing it. Pick up the plateware when it’s done and let them have a memento to keep.
Get some brass beads, chinese coins, faux jade, etc. And findings and make jewelry. If it is a small number of children, consider miniature tea sets.
Emphasize the traditional aspects and be ready to answer questions about any of it. Kids that age are curious. Have fun!