Manarak3

damn, that's a crapshoot! Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan ??

Malta

actually, what is shocking, is that in spite of being illegal, banned drugs do some much damage compared to legal alcohol.

0.05 is really easy to get to. How the people were allegedly treated is no good news IMO. But the story rings somehow untrue. Too much details, as if someone wanted to make it seem true. Gut feeling.

ok, here's another one... nothing to do with the LOS or LBs, and it was a loooooooooong time ago in a country where most people can spell "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte" correctly. I worked in a sausage factory (grin) for some months to get some dosh and it was time for the summer festival party. The factory invites everybody for a party with its products (excellent sausage products) and beer. lots of beer. I drank about 4.5 to 5 liters in 3 hours. Needless to say, I was completely pissed. I made it back to my place on the bicycle, I think I fell about a dozen times (judging from my general state, that of my clothes and of the bicycle), even the police asked if they could help, luckily I had just 200 meters more to cover when they took notice. I was staying at a friend's place, and luckily the friend was asleep when I came back at about 2am. I sneaked in, straight to the bathroom and started puking into the toilet... and fell asleep! (in hindsight, I suspect I passed out into ethylic coma). I woke up at around 6am, and had made a big big big mess in my sleep! The problem was, the mess didn't go into the toilet, as the other end of my body (the head) was already inside while I slept! I was panicked, and hoped my friend did not get up in the night to pee or something, LOL. Still totally drunk and sick, I cleaned the rug and the ground and everything. If he saw something, he never mentioned it. My intoxication was so bad, that during the next six month even a small gulp of beer would make me sick, and only after one year I was able to drink a full glass of beer without feeling nauseated.

I can chip in my "Nam Pla Story" from almost 3 years ago (part of my july 2009 trip report)

I haven't noticed a significant amount of posts anywhere that were deliberately damaging or conspiring against the ladyboys and partial for the bros. I'd like to think about some examples, but I have none. One topic that is recurring are the so-called 'heroes', but in my opinion this has nothing to do with bros before hoes. Nobody gains anything by revealing to a ladyboy that someone posted their pic somewhere, even the hero himself is only imagining he acquires face with the LB. Sticking to some forum rules isn't so difficult and has nothing to do with putting LBs down.

sad, yes. but the watchers of that show probably thought "som nom na". and I think they are right

let's hope she will be remembered as an example not to follow.

Several areas in the bar, one for old farts playing classics, one for younger guys playing disco/dance style music, music not too loud, more than one free pool table, maybe darts too, lounge area, free wifi, beer 50 baht, LD 100 baht, cardboard glass rests (or reversible bottle rubbers) working similarly like in beer garden: red means you want to be left alone. Some dark corners with couches to get a "feel" for the staff. Central stage where girls take turn dancing. Clean toilets with paper and clean towel or electric hand dryer. Nearby restaurant to order food, some proper tables where customers and girls can sit and have food. No stinking animals.

I think I got it for the 2 boxes problem. The thing is, to calculate probabilities, you need to know in which game you are playing in. But in this case, you don't know. You cannot consider the probabilities to have A/2 or 2A together, because these values are not part of the same universe, these cases are mutually exclusive. we need to pose the game as follows: 2 boxes, containing X and 2X. Then we open a box and assign the value A to the box. p(A=X) = 1/2 p(A=2X) = 1/2 Esperance of A is (X+2X)/2 Let's calculate the Esperance of the other box, let's call it B p(B=X) = 1/2 p(B=2X) = 1/2 Esperance of B is (X+2X)/2 Since we don't know the universe we are playing in, I don't see any reason or even possibility to use the value of A to determine B's esperance, it just doesn't compute. QED.

addendum: try applying logic on the "unexpected tiger" problem

In the first case, PigDogg got it right, a switch brings nothing. But proving it is a bit more complex than I thought at the beginning... The problem seems to stem from the self-referencing, i.e. Box B contains either half or double of box A. I'll research a bit and come up with something. About the game show, the answer is yes, people should switch. The reason will become apparent to anyone if you change the number of doors to 1000. You pick one and the game master opens 998 doors with the goats. So do you think you picked the correct gate from 1000, or do you think there is a higher chance that the Ferrari was behind one of the 999 other gates?

classy, Dipthroat!

that's quite some news... very unexpected after what I had been told the other day. But TiT, anything can happen!