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You can legally change your name, but not your date and place of birth. If this obnoxious individual has been deported from Thailand before then his date and place of birth needs to be registered in immigration records so that if he arrives back in the country again, that data along with his photo can be used to identify him.

Also, immigration should contact the UK sex offenders register in order to determine what the terms of that are. If he's been banned from coming within a certain distance of any children then immigration can contact the UK police and have him extradited back to the UK for sentencing.

I'm surprised so many women voted for Trump given #4 in this list: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34903577

Also, take note of #13 since Trump seems to admire a dictator who invaded and subsequently annexed another country's sovereign territory. http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/trump-crimea/493280/

Not only that, one of Putin's missiles was transported from Russia and was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 resulting in the death of 283 passengers and 15 crew. https://www.theguardian.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17

No doubt Trump will condone Russia's bombing of civilians in Aleppo as well shortly. https://www.theguardian.com/world/syria

This is presumably for the benefit of international passengers who will be taking an onward domestic flight with either Air Asia or Nok Air after clearing immigration. That implies that they'll have to take their luggage from the international terminal to the domestic one as well. So are the shuttle buses big enough to transport both passengers and luggage?

I hope the vehicles aren't the same type as they use on the free shuttle between DMK and BKK. Passengers have to load their luggage into the seating area on those buses which is no joke when you have to lug a 23kg case up two or three steps in addition to your hand luggage and then find a seat somewhere.

If NK is going to attack anyone it's going to be its southern neighbour. All this talk about attacking the US is just so much rhetoric for the benefit of his own downtrodden army to keep them in check and to strengthen his own position internally. There are far more important issues for the next POTUS to contend with than to have to worry about than the imbecile running NK. 

13 minutes ago, Asiang said:

and nobody talking about the victim lack of ballls ?

 

the day when i will let anyone his me without giving him the correct butthead has not yet come...

 

 

It's easy to say that but the victim probably felt intimidated by a well-known actor shouting and swearing at him. Also, he presumably did fail to stop after an accident and didn't want to escalate the situation which would have resulted in the police being called.

54 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Like lots of compulsive moralists you seem to be under the impression that Spain belongs in the same basket as Portugal and Greece. It doesn't.  Spain, like Ireland, was not deeply in debt at all. In the cases of Spain and Ireland, banks foolishly lent money to the private sector mostly for overbuilding. When that market crashed it was not a case of loans to the government, but of the Spanish and Irish governments being forced by the Eurozone to socialize private debts in order to bail out the big banks.  

As for Greece and Portugal, banks foolishly lent to them.  When a bank acts foolishly it should be punished by losing its money. That way, in the future, banks won't do such foolish things.  

As for it not being possible to expell a nation from the Eurozone, I don't know the exact nature of the laws, but if a nation wanted out, and the other members wanted to let it out, laws can be changed. We're not talking about the 10 Commandments here. And Barroso was a great champion of the Eurozone. I wouldn't take his word for what the laws say.

Anyway, in the case of Greece it wasn't a matter of them being expelled, they wanted to leave. But the Eurozone members, Germany particularly, did their best to make that prospect as painful as possible.

Governments will never allow large banks to go to the wall so there's no prospect of any of them being punished for inappropriate lending. http://uk.reuters.com/article/europe-banks-bailouts-idUKL5N10W0XJ20150821

As for Greece leaving the eurozone I don't think it can afford that precarious step quite frankly. To begin with it would have to print its own currency (probably the Drachma again) which would immediately be devalued vis-a-vis the euro which would trigger massive inflation making imports very expensive. Since Greece imports 48% of its food and 80% of its energy, staying in the eurozone would likely present a better prospect for the future than being on the outside and subjected to market forces.

8 hours ago, connda said:

Unfortunately Nong Boy didn't know Aikido, otherwise Khun Not would have had his arm in a cast up to his dislocated shoulder.  God I detest bullies.

The victim was probably unaware that the incident was being filmed and didn't resist because the thug was a well-known actor and tv host. Can't blame him for that.

9 hours ago, GarryP said:

I hope the report is accurate.

Seems to be: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30299351

22 hours ago, ilostmypassword said:

 Given the level of its debt, it is impossible for Greece ever to pay it back. So your recommendation for how Greece is to solve its problems is servitude and grinding poverty forever. The obvious solution is to expel Greece from the Eurozone and let governments openly bail out their banks if they want to instead of mislabeling it a bailout of Greece. It's nothing of the sort.                                    

So what are you advocating then? Debt forgiveness for Greece with a slap on the wrist and watch out you don't do it again? If that was allowed to happen other countries like Spain and Portugal would be queuing up with their own grubby little begging bowls.

The best thing to happen now would be for the IMF/ECB to extend the period within which Greece has to repay back its debts to something a little more realistic. But debt forgiveness is definitely off the cards.

Your suggestion that Greece be expelled from the eurozone so that it can get its house in order isn't possible since there's there's no mechanism in place which would allow that to happen: https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-priorities-2020/news/barroso-no-country-can-be-expelled-from-euro-zone/

17 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

I think he meant individual withdrawals, and not just stopping at one ATM and using 7 ATM cards each time.  What I want to know is how did he get the ATM Pin codes?  Assuming he got the cards as the story says from a Cambodian guy, where did he get the PIN codes from?  Online hacking of some data center that centrally process ATM card transactions?  hacking Kasikorn bank data?  Just where and how are ATM PIN codes recorded or transferred?  Maybe they got the PIN codes from a skimmer device and were saving up the PIN codes to use them in a short term spree and get the money out before multiple people could report their bad transactions?  The details are more important than the ATM theft.  Oh and we shouldn't assume from the article that he only used those 7 ATM cards that were found on him.  There could have been other cards used.  Otherwise, the thieves had the good fortune to get 7 accounts that had an average of close to 1 Million Baht in each.  That is good fishing.

People can be careless when withdrawing cash from an ATM by not covering the keypad with their hand when punching in their pincode. Somebody loitering nearby can memorize the pincode the intended victim has just punched in or thieves can install a skimmer which not only records the pincode but also sends it as a SMS to the thief: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/06/sophisticated-atm-skimmer-transmits-stolen-data-via-text-message/

16 hours ago, Pattaya28 said:

Luxury  Car ? Where ?

Prostrate ? I don't think so.

Again inaccurate  reporting.

"Prostrate" has more than one meaning with reduced to being submissive being one of them and therefore its use in the OP is appropriate in my opinion:  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prostrate?s=t

40 minutes ago, sandyf said:

On todays BBC News at 11 am, Teresa May stood at the bottom of the aircraft steps and said she would ensure the best deal for Britain "operating within the single market".

So she's decided to accept free movement of people after all has she?

44 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Currency fluctuations aren't a bad thing; they're a good thing.  If nation x's economy is weakening, it's currency gets devalued, which makes it harder to purchase stuff from other countries and helps put lid on financial irresponsibility. It also helps boost the competitiveness of its exports.  Germany right now is still enjoying a huge competitive advantage and hurting the weaker nations of the Eurozone precisely because there is no currency fluctuation between members of the Eurozone.

And no, Goldman Sachs didn't help fiddle the books to get Greece into the EU as you said. It fiddled the books to get Greece into the Eurozone. And the big European banks who lent Greece money didn't do their due diligence and got bailed out by the EU.  It wasn't a bailout of Greece but of the big banks.

I wouldn't describe currency fluctuations as a good thing. If the value of the euro FX rate drops suddenly just when I'm planning to arrive in Thailand then it means that I have to find some extra cash from somewhere to pay for the same amount of goods I was intending to buy or go without. If the Netherlands and Thailand had the same currency regardless of whether that was the Baht or Euro, then that problem would be eliminated.

Germany does have an advantage it's true, but then the weaker economies need to get their fingers out of their backsides and get to work to reform themselves. Greece is now into its third bailout and why? Because the lazy parasites don't want to pay taxes and just want to live the cushy life at someone else's expense. So a few more years of hardship are needed to wean them off their reliance on other countries to come bail them out whenever it suits them.

On 11/4/2016 at 7:27 AM, Thechook said:

Convicted in the past for fraud and drugs.  where is the part that makes him dangerous

15 years for fraud offences and three years for drugs, but he's been in the nick for 22 years all told. So I guess something in those unaccounted for four years took place which makes him dangerous.

19 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Who cares how strong it is as a currency?  It's how it affects the economies of member nations of the Eurozone that counts.

Of course the Euro is a disaster. It's a monetary union without a fiscal union. So what happens in a case like this is that because the Euro is the currency for weak economies and strong economies, it depresses the value of the currency in relation to the strong economy and raises it in value for the weak economy.  In the Eurozone that means the euro is weak in relation to the Germany currency which gives it a big advantage in competing not just for exports outside the Eurozone but against companies within the Eurozone. In effect the economically distressed  countries have to go through a very slow and grinding process of deflation to become compettive again. In other words, the Euro works in exactly the opposite way you would want a currency to work in the face of a financial crisis.

If they had their own currencies, their economies would adjust more quickly through devaluation. 

And Goldman Sachs didn't fiddle with Greece when it had its own currency. It's only when it joined the Eurozone in 2001 that the shenanigans began.

There's nothing wrong with the euro as a currency and to reiterate, it serves the purpose of allowing EU member states to trade with each other without having to worry about fluctuations in the FX rate.

Germany does benefit from a weak euro, but it's the ECB's current QE policy which is driving the low value of the currency at the moment in a effort to stimulate growth. Banks aren't happy with it since they can't raise interest rates when lending to clients, but it does make borrowing cheaper.

But Goldman Sachs was primarily responsible for hiding the true extent of the Greek debt as I've already mentioned: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7294733/Goldman-admits-helping-Greece-fiddle-books-to-conceal-public-debt.html

7 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Five million at twenty thousand a pop must of been about 250 ATM visits; the LB had to of thought something was up when stopping that many times you'd think.

I don't see where you're getting the figure of 250 visits from? The culprit had seven fake ATM cards according to the OP which means he could withdraw 140.000 baht from one machine. So if five million baht was stolen, then only 36 withdrawals were necessary not 250.

1 hour ago, ilostmypassword said:

Yes, the Euro is a disaster. American economists, left, right and center, were all very dubious about it for reasons that are now obvious.  They were told that it wasn't just about money but it was a sign of European unity.   ANd people keep on talking about a Greek bailout. It wasn't a bailout of Greece. It was a bailout of the banks who foolishly lent to Greece.

The euro isn't a disaster at all and has now become the second fallback currency after the US dollar. The original idea behind it was to enable EU member states to trade with each other without having to factor in fluctuations in the FX rate.

As regards Greece Goldman Sachs was employed to fiddle the books so that the country could join the EU. If closer attention had been paid to the figures it would have become obvious that Greece didn't meet the criteria to join, but at that time the EU was all about expansionism and Greece was a considered to be desirable nation to become part of it. Therefore any misgivings about its economy were overlooked and we're now paying the price for those blunders.

Britanny Ferries has a regular catamaran ferry which can carry 835 passengers and 235 cars at speeds of up to 42 knots (77kph) which sounds realistic.

But I can't imagine that there would be that many passengers with vehicles that would want to make the journey from Pattaya to Hua Hin on a regular basis which would make it a viable proposition.

13 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

The air traffic control transponder isn't much use over broad ocean area because there is no ATC signal to interrogate it.  They were lucky they had a little INMARSAT connectivity from which they could reconstruct the probably flight path from the frequency doppler data.  There is still a lot of room for error.  I don't think their conclusion or suggestion about somebody at the controls or not has much meaning.  Somebody could be at the controls and high speed diving it as the case in that german plane crash.  I think the pilot did some things intentionally and then it was a comedy of errors.  The air machine cabin pressurization system failed, rapid decompression, etc.  Hard to imagine a plane flying for hours on crude autopilot but it is possible.

You're correct in what you mentioned about the transponder not being of much use when flying over water. GPS would be a good alternative but hasn't been adopted due to the cost I suspect: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-26544554

But an aircraft can fly on autopilot for hours on end as was illustrated by the Helios Airways Flight 522 which departed Cyprus at 09:07 and subsequently crashed into a Greek mountain at 12:04 when it ran out of fuel. The crew had become incapacitated due to a lack of oxygen.

On 11/3/2016 at 8:56 AM, Cook my sock said:

If there was a slow fire in the hold or under the cockpit(tyre), maybe that's the reason the pilot climbed.
But it doesn't quite explain the lack of mayday, unless systems were knocked out

The pilot most likely climbed to a flight level high enough to incapacitate everyone onboard. The oxygen masks would have dropped down automatically, but they only provide ten minutes of oxygen after which everyone would lose consciousness.

Since the transponder which transmits a signal to identify where the aircraft is located at any given moment was shutdown everything points to pilot suicide which was perpetrated in a carefully controlled manner.

On 11/2/2016 at 11:37 AM, elgordo38 said:

All this bloody hoopla and in this golden age of IT we cannot put a tracker on a plane to follow its flight path just bloody incredible. 

There's one on every aircraft already: it's called a transponder. In the case of MH370 one of the pilots inexplicably shut it down.

9 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

it could be back to the polls again. I wonder how the UK will vote this time?at least the scaremongers won't be able to frighten  the public this time around of how the sky will fall in if they leave the EU

 

Prospect of early general election increases after High Court rules Government cannot trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/03/high-court-to-rule-on-brexit-legal-battle-and-theresa-mays-decis/

There's not much to choose between the parties since Labour is also in favour of Brexit. So whoever you vote for you'll still be heading for that sign which says (BR)EXIT above the door.

11 hours ago, Beats56 said:

There are a.couple of things I don't trust. One is helicopters and wild animals.

I would never take a.ride on either.

 

The only aerodynamic difference between a helicopter and fixed wing aircraft is that the chopper has a rotary wing.

But are you saying that if your life was in danger you'd refuse to be transported in an air ambulance even though it might save your life?

14 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Yes with the next general election only a year away maybe they will get another chance.

The election has already been postponed twice so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it's been postponed for a third time come election day next year.

In any event the new constitution was written by the military and one of the clauses states that the 250 seat senate be wholly appointed by the military government. That in itself will mean that the military will feature prominently in successive Thai elections for years to come.

Criminals apparently use it to dispose of bodies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide#Tissue_digestion