retarius

Hitler still causing trouble after 80 years!

Why would a genius Thai girl want to date a total loser like you? No wonder you don't have a gf.

He should be enjoying his retirement from the comfort of a prison cell in Bangkok Central for his role in the coup and for the travesty of government he has put the Thai people through in the past 9 years.

'Hope is not a strategy' as is widely quoted. TAT, TCT and THA are filled with hopers, not strategists. In business one should always anticipate bad things and plan so that it does not kill off your business, because bad things do happen from time to time. Demand is clearly not what it was for Thai tourism. The causes for this need to be researched and understood, not simply pulled out your <deleted> or imagined by the elite. Saying I want more Indians to come, or like Thaksin (everybody's favourite politician) used to say, he wants wealthy tourists. You have to do more than 'want' something to happen. You have to make it happen. Now I'm no expert at all in tourism, but I have been to many tourist hot spots and wouldn't dream of going back because of reasons we are all familiar with, like getting ripped off, dirty hotel rooms, poor local transport, dirty sea water, hawkers on the beach etc etc. but do some research and see if staff training, for example, could improve the tourists' experience of Thailand for is it really 'they would love to come but don't have the money'?

New technology and Thailand don't usually mix very well. I wonder what the rake off is? 20% 30%. Nice little earner on the procurement.

Seems like they have put a blithering idiot in charge of defence.

Fatigue and stress? I thought he had a hypertensive crisis? Everybody has fatigue and stress and is no reason to be in hospital imho. He needs to go back to jail, stress is normal in new inmates. I do hope he isn't trying to con his public that he is sick to get sympathy.

Soren Kierkegaard is very good on this sort of stuff and worth a read. It's sane stuff not mumbo jumbo. It explained clearly the difference between knowledge and belief, and how some people confuse the two and think that their belief is actual knowledge when it is only an unfounded belief.

Hogwash yourself.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, my mum used to send me to the shops sometimes in an evening to buy 'a quarter of boiled ham'. I got on my bike and would pedal like fury downhill to the shops to escape the packs of dogs roaming free on the streets. In this days people used to kick their dogs out in the morning like they do with cats. Anyway, having bought the ham, and I swear those dogs could smell the ham, it was uphill and I couldn't ride as fast and I would get chased home to our driveway with about 20 dogs chasing me. I was bitten a few times, but they didn't make a huge deal about it in those days and there was no rabies in the UK anyway. Great times, what a compassionate mum.

I'm quite sure, but I'm guessing and could, of course be wrong. I live my life as though there is no god, no last judgement, no heaven or hell and no soul. But to our knowledge there is absolutely no evidence for any such things a s soul. It is merely an act of misguided faith, and I have no problem with people's belief, but the problem I have is that the most activist of belief espousers do not act out their beliefs.

Not an issue, you can keep the heart, lungs and other functions alive by mechanical means. You cannot keep the brain alive by mechanical means after it is dead....when your brain is dead everything else stops unless there is mechanical support. There is no such thing a soul.

No I don't, and stop trying to put words in my mouth that I have never uttered in my life. I do think that 5 or so decades of losing with actually the problem worsening, an adequate time to evaluate that the strategy isn't working. People want to get high. Besides that, drugs harm the user, thieving rape and murder harm the victim.

I don't think the tourism numbers being down has much to do with Thai owned airlines. Cost of flights, crappy immigration rules, scams all over the place even by the government with dual pricing for everything from hospital costs to price of admissions to parks. I don't think there are too many returnees from the West. Maybe should focus on Korea and Japan instead of India and the muslim world. At leats these folk have money.

Exactly, how long has the war on drugs been losing....maybe 5 decades. As Einstein supposedly said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It is high to to try a different strategy. It is not irrevocable if it doesn't work. But instead of locking millions of people up world wide and having criminals make massive fortunes, why not try legalisation.

Sorry, anything you read in the Washington Post, like all things that come out of the US ir a biased, slanted, or an outright lie.

I'm totally porsche and speak Etonian.

I don't know what saving cooperatives are exactly....I imagine like in the old days the building societies, if you had a savings account with them, they would give you a mortgage.

BTS fares at 20 baht seems like an insanity. Good for poor people BUT will BTS go insolvent at this level of fare? Can they handle increased passengers if the reduced fare beings many more riders? Can BTS afford investments at this price to make more trains available (somehow I doubt it).

Not very convincing imho, and unscientific. The patients he describes (as reading about) have a stopped heart and it is well known that you can be revived for a short period of time afterwards. As a scientist, I would want to know, after brain death can you be revived? And what do brain death NDEs stories tell us? In clinical studies which have death as a possible outcome, death is usually defined as brain death with zero electrical activity, and not as a temporary heart stoppage.

Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. So, assuming that enough hydrogen is burned to make a difference, then other things being equal, humidity might increase globally beyond current levels? And maybe, other things being equal, it might rain more? So although the atmosphere may not actually get any hotter, but it will feel hotter because of higher humidity? Is that correct reasoning? Overall good for grass but maybe not so great for crops (excess rain and flooding). Small note that doesn't affect your reasoning, given earths usual temperature: water's state depends on temperature, as does that of methane and CO2. All can can be solid, liquid or gas.

Perhaps, but then again it might be true.

Another miss? Is the "end nigh"? Unsurprising after 9 years of military misrule. I can't think of a military regime that boosted a country's economy after a coup. There must be some examples of good generals ruling wisely, can anyone help? Myanmar is definitely out.

This is going to be interesting. If Pita is the real deal and is not just another self serving political hack, then he might have made a difference as opposition leader. The PT government with another 13 or so coalition members stand a high chance of being in disarray, which a canny politician, maybe like Pita can take advantage of. But the Dems are a really feeble and spent force and may well prove totally ineffective in opposition. Seeing them take on PT may well end up looking like a Sunday League football game with two weak teams on a muddy field.

Same mosquito also carries the dengue virus. Given the recent increases in dengue, an increase in Zika virus infections is not unexpected.