On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Peter Yee wrote: > >> Central Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi Airport (the international airport) >> is more like 35 minutes when traffic isn't bad. Three hours would >> be a horrific traffic jam. IEEE 802 held a successful meeting in >> Bangkok in 2015 and taxis were plentiful and easy. >> >> It's really not that adventurous of a destination unless you want to >> make it one. The IEEE 802 meeting was held at the Centara Grand >> Hotel attached to the CentralWorld mall. If you never left the >> hotel and mall, you could almost imagine yourself in the US - lots >> of familiar chain stores and brands in sparkling clean environment. >> I ventured out and never once regretted it. Bangkok is a wonderous >> city to explore and is a fine destination for a meeting. >> >> -Peter >> > > Just to add to Peter's points: > > * The IEEE 802.11 Group is meeting at the same venue the week > following IETF 103, see: > http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html > > * With respect to terror attacks, I'd consider London more dangerous > these days, not that your gov.uk site would tell you so. > > * With respect to political speech, criticism of the King and other > related matters, I think that probably falls into the category of > "outside the scope of normal IETF discourse," but it might be worth > checking this out before departing for London: > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.htm > > .... I particularly love: "No person shall, in the course of a > business, import into England, potatoes which he knows, or has > reasonable cause to suspect, are from Poland." > > You have been warned. Tom Scott and Matt Gray (who always make me giggle like a maniac) decided to do 10 illegal things in London - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJGifTou5FE&t=6s This included the infamous "handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances", but, sadly, not the importation of Polish potatoes (which had a good reason originally). W > > Ole > -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf