jamesbrock

3 hours ago, Caveat Emptor said:

I am fascinated by the intense look on the face of the lady behind his left shoulder,   makes me think she's about to assassinate him.

Looks like the other lady is onto her as well!

4 minutes ago, HooHaa said:

I'm interested, how do you see someone completely destroy themselves on weed?

 

X box fatigue, listening to too much music or by deciding to spend an afternoon hanging out around the house?

If that hanging around the house lasts for nigh on a decade, say for a person's entire 20's, then one could say that weed definitely had a detrimental effect.

That being said that same person could spend a large amount of his late 30's as a functioning alcoholic, with similar disastrous outcomes, so I still fail to see why weed is singled out as being terrible.

47 minutes ago, robblok said:

Alcohol is legal.. and 10x worse than weed. You got alcohol checks you can check for weed and so on too. Just because things can be misused does not mean you have to ban it you have to go after the misuse.

 

If weed surplaces alcohol we would have a far less violent society. The only thing weed users attack is a pizza unlike alcohol users who tend to be violent. 

I've never understood the reasons why weed is illegal while alcohol is legal (well, I have, but only in the sense of how hypocritical those reasons are). They should both be illegal or both be legal - having it the way it is does not make sense.

People will argue about prohibition of alcohol because it failed so miserably the last time, explaining how it encouraged mafia-like criminality - failing to see the parallels with weed.

46 minutes ago, NongKhaiKid said:

What's in a name,   aren't all these bodies well and truly under control   ?

Pretty much. Whenever I read NCPO/NLA/CDC/NACC/OAG/EC/CC I simply replace the acronym with 'junta'.

I can't tell you what I replace 'junta' with...

Wait, they're intentionally trying to make it more difficult than ever to form a new political party??

Meanwhile, in today's least surprising news: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Prayut-offers-to-serve-again-after-election-30293895.html

7 hours ago, callaway said:

Why?? Is your life that boring you need to know the ins and out of some poor bugger that has been murdered? Comments like this amaze me. Same as "We need to know more". If you were in the position that needed to know more then you would be told. Until then try and find a life for yourself. Go outside and smell the roses.

Why? Because people generally don't read the news hoping to only get half a story... Comments like this amaze me!

10 hours ago, HappyDazed said:

Utter nonsense...

It seems you've taken your time to think about the issues at hand, the complex nature of a culture that, for generations, has not had an effective police force, that has been wracked by successive coups and seen the authorities themselves use mob violence against its own citizenry, and you've approached this issue humbly with empathy and presented a thoughtful and considered argument on a complex and varying problem. Well done. 

1 hour ago, Inn Between said:

More than one would be a good start. And you also admit yourself that there were extreme circumstances where "people are severely injured". I'm talking about the regularity of drivers fleeing the scene here. 

 

I've made my point and will do nothing further to convince anyone away from what they want to think. 

More than one: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-news-instant-justice-mob-kills-bangkok-road-rage-bus-driver-46047.php

Actually, I didn't admit anything; I was using impulse's initial wording that, for some unknown reason, you've chosen to argue.

Now that you've been given "more than one" instance of mobs beating someone to death who's caused traffic accidents (I could give you more, including instances of cops shielding drivers from mob beatings) you'll still find some way to convince yourself that it doesn't occasionally happen. 

And, as for making your point: your point was disbelieving impulse when he said mobs occasionally beat drivers to death - I'm not exactly sure how you've made that point...

As impulse said, it appears to be culturally acceptable here to engage in mob killings (due to accidents, desecrating a shrine, being disabled and mouthing off at youths, etc.), running off at accidents (whether as a hit and run, or the driver simply doing a runner), or to drive blithely past someone injured on the road. Oh, of course the last two happen in any civilised country, but there seems to a special prevalence for them here...

1 minute ago, Inn Between said:

I didn't say it never happens. In this weird world, anything can happen once or twice, but I maintain my stance that to it occasionally happens is wrong. Certainly by anybody's definition, occasional means it's not common but also not terribly uncommon. 

Praytell, how many more examples do I need to post before you accept that Thai people occasionally beat to death drivers who have accidents where people are severely injured? 2? 3? 4? Is there a specific frequency that you also require for multiple events to be accurately termed occasionally?

2 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

Fascinating. 

 

Nobody cared about the girl for about 10 seconds. They were all just interested in the guy on the bonnet.

 

And neither the guy on the bonnet or any of the construction crews thought to get a license number?

Not so fascinating. Watch any of the hundreds of accident compilations on YouTube from Thailand, and one will be staggered by how often people simply drive off/past while someone else is dying on the road.

19 minutes ago, Inn Between said:

Can you show me those instances where people are "occasionally" beat to death by drivers involved in accidents in Thailand. I can't find them.

***WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE***

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=286_1427400882

Ooh! Another hub! 

14 minutes ago, bark said:

So you can seed one rain cloud in the sky to produce 55 % more precipitation.

According to DRRAA Director-General Lersak Rewtarkulpaiboon, yes; according to the general scientific community, “Based upon a rigorous examination of the accumulated results of the numerous experimental tests of the static-mode and dynamic- mode seeding concepts conducted over the past four decades, it has been found that they have not yet provided either the statistical or physical evidence required to establish their scientific validity.”

14 minutes ago, bark said:

But not needed during monsoons.

Yet they do it...

14 minutes ago, bark said:

La Nina does not guarantee more rain for Thailand, and 100 % not where the farmers need it, and not to water Bangkok grass and cars.

While La Niña is associated with heavy rains in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, and the last La Niña episode was a large factor in the 2011–2012 Thailand floods, it is true not all La Niña episodes cause flooding in Thailand.

What is concerning, is that in 2011, the monsoon started in May, and major flooding began as Tropical Storm Nock-ten hit around 31 July, which was exacerbated by heavy rains continuing longer than usual due to the effect of La Niña - and now we have two tropical storms forecast in August to September in conjunction with this La Niña...

1 minute ago, bark said:

But like the other guy said. Why would you seed the clouds during a monsoon season ? And how can they measure ?

Clouds a full of moisture anyway. So why seed clouds and have danger of flooding in the North and Northeast

Cloud seeding increases the chances of precipitation, it does not and can not create precipitation where there otherwise would be none (otherwise Thailand would not have just encountered its worst drought in 50 years).

Why the Thai authorities chose to cloud seed in the monsoon season when a La Nina is building is open to debate... It doesn't seem a very clever idea to me.

How can they measure? Read my post here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/939675-cloud-seeding-operation-replenishes-major-dams-in-the-north/?do=findComment&comment=11086427

10 minutes ago, Romeland said:

How could the wheel be almost level with a passenger window ?  I'm sure you can't see the wheels from your seat in a plane ?

Depends on the type of plane. Yesterday's DD8826 was HS-DQB, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400.

6 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

 

"The story doesn't only refer to Bangkok:"   But my comment did.  And the National Propaganda Network garbage wasn't in the OP.

"But my comment did."  But my comment that you originally quoted didn't. 

The "National Propaganda Network garbage wasn't in the OP" might not have been in the OP, but I was simply providing a sourced reason for my statement that you chose to question.

2 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

No, cloud seeding isn't done over Bangkok. 

The story doesn't only refer to Bangkok: "Meanwhile people in the North, the Northeast, and the Southern west coast of danger are also warned of dangers from flashfloods due to the expected more rains and accumulated water from today.

Warned of floodings are Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Tak, Sukhothai, Kamphaengphet, Uttaradit, Phitsanulok, Nakhon Nayok, Prachinburi, Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang and Satun."

2 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

Why would it be done anyway in the rainy season?

As per the National Propaganda Network story reported 2 hours ago: "DRRAA Director-General Lersak Rewtarkulpaiboon revealed the amount of rainfall triggered by the cloud seeding operations in the North throughout the rainy season was 55% higher than the amount of natural rainfall."

Wouldn't have anything to do with the cloud seeding operations that produced rainfall 55% higher than the amount of natural rainfall, would it? 

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

the amount of rainfall triggered by the cloud seeding operations in the North throughout the rainy season was 55% higher than the amount of natural rainfall

And how do they know this exactly?

According to a study I've linked to previously by the US National Research Council, "the need to predict what would have happened had there been no weather modification (which is especially important in the context of attempts to modify hazardous weather) places an enormous burden on prediction. Predictive numerical models are required to accurately assess what would have occurred in the absence of any intervention, in order to assess both the magnitude and the potential consequences of the change. However, model development and physical understanding are interdependent, thus advances in both are slow and iterative."

Are they trying to claim that Thai scientists have made a breakthrough in the predictive numerical models necessary to make such claims?

The collision happened when driver of the fruit truck tried to overtake another truck but failed ...to allow enough room for the overtaking manoeuvre? ...to notice the huge army truck driving towards him? ...to drive safely and to the conditions?

Yep, I know my expects of journalistic is higher than that displayed in the article in question. 

Meanwhile, Harold is thanking Nong Nat's good surgeon for his happy marriage and the regular deposits that come along with it. 

Again, there is a huge difference between legalisation and decriminalisation - whether this difference is lost in translation or simply beyond Gen Paiboon's comprehension is a matter of conjecture.

What's clear is that no one would expect Thailand to embrace a forward thinking progressive policy—that's proven effective—when there is a backwards, ignorant policy—that for its entire history has been an abject failure—to blindly follow.