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[quote] ... Also a gold band was within 5% tolerance, silver within 10% and no colour was within 20% tolerance. Totally useless nowadays. ... [/quote] Bill, as an 'old skool' shortwave radio ham, I use the resistor colour code almost everyday 🙂

No problem, but completely wrong lol 🙂 . Resistors in parallel always have a combined value that is less than the value of the lowest-value resistor. So 100 and 250 ohms in parallel will have a total value less than 100 ohms. Anyway, this is not a Physics class! Perhaps Bob (I mean Barboy) could remind us of some of the topics from his BSEE course, since his lecturers seem to have forgotten to teach basic resistor circuit theory 🙂

Every time! (But both dogs and humans think I'm crazy!)

I avoid dog attacks by chasing them... True, if an aggressive dog comes towards me then I run straight at it screaming blue murder, and continue to chase it as far as I can (I have been known to chase dogs right into their owner's house, and I once chased an aggressive dog for more than 2Km!). The dogs are completely scared witless by this rather surprising behaviour. Because of this, I find that aggressive dogs leave me well alone after the first encounter, and Thai people have a habit of running into their houses and locking their doors! Anyway, I have yet to be bitten, but it does take some courage to chase an aggressive dog....

Lol, not sure why he didn't give the answer, since it was a simple series/parallel resistance calculation that even a first year electronics student could calculate. Anyway, a quick calculation gives about 198.7 ohms and so using I=V/R, we get a current of about 0.12A (hope I haven't made any maths errors!!) But I'm sure you didn't know the answer, did you Bob?

You haven't replied to my simple electronics question yet....

Congratulations on graduating with a major in electronics. Please tell me the total resistance of this circuit and the current:

When I started teaching in Burma around 2012, I found that the best hotel in Yangon (Trader's Hotel), was fully booked up by staff from Oxfam, Save The Children etc,who would occasionally pop out in their brand new, 4-wheel drive off-road landrovers to visit the local markets. In disgust, and unwilling to donate any money to them I established my own (miniscule) educational charity in Burma, where every penny/cent/yen etc is used for the benefit of young students).

[quote] what can i do? [/quote] What can you do?? You can go and troll some other forum! Another (no probably the same) shill from Thaiger and I'm getting sick of it!!

Rocket scientist.... Seriously, I worked in the space industry as a designer and also integrations manager/testing of radio frequency (RF) equipments and antennas, especially for space-borne satellites, but also for ground stations. These were mostly commercial and scientific satellites. When ill-health forced me to move to a warmer climate than the UK, it was no surprise that there were no jobs for me in the space sector. (Well there was, but as a non-Thai I was barred from these jobs). So I started building and running small hotels instead. I did that for about 14 years, then moved into the teaching sector, mostly in Myanmar and Laos, but now solely online, teaching Science, English, Geography, World History, Thai language and Computing/STEM.

In answer to your question about other countries, I took a brand new bike that I bought in Thailand on the plane to Myanmar and no problems with Myanmar customs.

It's great to be poor. I never have to worry about paying tax ANYWHERE! (and I have not paid tax in any country for more than 22 years because I legally haven't had to pay tax!). 5 flags theory etc... Anyway, I'm off to do some more street-begging. Have a nice day 🙂

I never iron, nor indeed need to iron my clothes. They are all non-crease...

Does he have a valid work permit? 'Fight fire with fire'

When I wrote my SMS AI chat app way back around the year 2,000, I deliberately put spelling mistakes and slang in the replies to fool people into thinking that they were chatting with a real person. You know, something like "Cor luv a duck, you're a rite one ain't you?" 🙂

Well, they did shoot out the tyres, but that didn't stop the driver...

What's a gender neutral partner? Is that some kind of sex doll or mechanical sex gadget?

I bet the filth had a challenge to pronounce his name 🙂 Probably booked him under the name "Mr Ky". Seem that Phangan is having a real crackdown on the 'illegals'. Many reports of foreigners falling foul of the law.

A telltale sign that you have been living in Thailand too long, is when your reaction to the position of this pole is 'Huh? So what?!' 🙂

I bought a licence key for Windows 10 from Microsoft. It didn't work! It displayed a message telling me to completely re-install Windows 10 OS, AND THEN my licence key would work.....

Same here! I bought my laptop in Laos and (as usual), it had a pirated copy of Windows 10, which always displayed the 'activate now' text. So I bought a genuine licence key for about $30. It didn't work!! I just followed this hack and now my Windows 10 is activated 🙂

Presumably only 1 of the 3 was driving. The other 2 might have been screaming 'slow down!!'

Best thing I ever did was to buy a Chinese sex doll...

Launching a satellite from a launch site near the equator can save rocket fuel, but it all depends on the desired orbit of the satellite. Take low-earth orbit (LEO) weather satellites for example. They are launched into a polar orbit, ie flying around the Earth from top to bottom, so that as the Earth spins beneath them, they can take images of every point on Earth. A launch site close to the poles is preferable in this case. In fact, I would say most LEO birds are not placed in an orbit around the equator, because then they are not able to observe the Earth other than in a narrow band around the Equator. As a radio ham, I receive signals from various weather and scientific satellites, and polar birds are generally much easier to receive as they pass over my location. Geostationary satellites usually do benefit from an equatorial launch site. China has such a site on Hainan island, which is on about the same latitude as Chiang Rai.

You not understand. Thai injuries not same as farang injuries 🙂