Muhendis

My thoughts too but there appears to be quite a complex web of deceit and it is spreading like ripples in a pond. Then again, it is confirmation of just how widespread corruption is including immigration who "forgot" to give me my 100 baht change the other day.

What on earth are they are talking about Degenerative bone disease is simply a posh name for arthritis for which there is no "cure".

Well one would think so but in fact forest fires are in the realm of carbon being neutral. When a forest is living it's normal life it is consuming CO2 by converting it into carbon and oxygen using photosynthesis. When we burn wood from this forest, we are releasing the CO2 that it has captured. It's not a perfect equation because those trees actually produce a bit of CO2 when living, but on balance, considerably more CO2 is consumed than is produced.

Yes but only if someone tells 'em to. Sugar cane refineries already pay more for the un-burnt raw cane. This Is attractive enough to encourage machine harvesting. The harvesters are owned by the factory who charge the farmers for harvesting. Transport lorries are privately owned and paid for by the farmer. So from this, the farmer has to pay for everything including fertilser and weed killer and, as if that wasn't enough, the farmer also pays for ploughing and planting every third year. Advice from the sugar cane refinery to the farmer is that they should burn the residue left after harvesting to kill off fungus on the fields. Note there would be no fungus if crop rotation was employed, but then the farmer would be out of pocket and the sugar refinery would probably point to a clause in their contract about supplying cane annually. Sugar cane growers can make more money than rice growers but the market is limited to sugar refineries whereas a rice grower can sell his rice to whomever he likes I grow rice and some I sell to a rice mill but most I mill myself and sell locally.

Oh Wow. I didn't know that. Not quite what I expect to see in a Miss world (or whatever) contest

This is how the UK helps it's farmers. Funding for farmers, growers and land managers Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-for-farmers Pity Thailand can't do similar.

I think you need to go to specsavers.

Yes but a farmer needs to borrow money to buy fertiliser or to pay for his land to be ploughed etc. The recommended bank being BAAC which is a government bank offering cheap loans to farmers. Hopefully there will be enough profit to repay the bank loan after harvesting. I say hopefully because the farmer generally gets screwed by the company that buys his crop.

The police don't see it as their job. Until someone tells them to get out there and start arresting landowners whose land is on fire, nothing will happen. In national parks the parks department, or whatever it is called, should be made to take responsibility.

That shirt looks a bit tight on him. Whatever ailments he has have not affected his appetite.

Two months is a rough guide. The immigration requirement is 60 days.

Quite so. And a common source of the infection is from the rectum. Personal hygiene of personal parts is the recommended prevention.

You might well be tempted to ask "where does that leave his accusers?" It was some time ago that Big Joke found a few bullet holes where he didn't want them. I suspect he may be clean but he is upsetting the apple cart for everyone else.

And what a shifty looking character he is too.

Yes, there used to be logic in the numbering system but that was long ago when villages were pretty well just one (large) family with only maybe 10 houses. Each Amphoe would have a number of villages and each village would have a number. An address would be the house number followed by the village number followed by the name of the Amphoe. My Amphoe has 22 villages and I am in village number 9. Having said all that my village also has a name which is on Google Maps but the Amphoe village number is not. There are now over 200 houses in the village with numbers randomly scattered about all over the place. Even the local EMS post lady rarely ventures past the end of her street in case she can't find it at the end of her shift.

I have an XPX bought on Shopee and cost 750 Baht. I will be buying a second one. Same model. Same supplier but price has dropped to 650 Baht. I live in a farming area where dust is an issue so my air purifier is making a noticeable difference. I see them advertised on TV for thousands of Baht. That is really profiteering on a grand scale.

This is a problem in rural villages. When a villager builds a new house, it is given a number which bears no relation to other house numbers nearby. Streets don't have names or numbers. There is no logical way to find an address other than go to the village and start making enquiries of the locals. That is why a 'phone number is so important. Reading a map can only be done if land marks are added like a picture of a bank on a corner. My hand drawn map for immigration, is a copy of google maps with a single line drawing of the route added plus a few identifiable buildings and crossroads. There has never been any problem of rejection by immigration.

Yeah but there aren't too many soi dogs in the west. Or pythons in trees for that matter.

Wow! That's 1.5 Billion Baht per Rai. Here in my part of Buriram we are looking at 300,000 Baht per Rai for agricultural land. Just imagine how much you would have to charge for a kilo of rice grown on one Rai in the center of Bangkok.

'cos they want to show off their high levels of intellect.

My PDF viewers all have an "add text" button. Maybe in a sub menu across the top or perhaps if you right click on the document and look at the drop down menu.

Horses for courses indeed. It depends how much space is available. I have a "well house" which contains a surface water well, lots of filters and a couple of big storage tanks as well as the hot water storage and automatic house water pump. The heat exchanger for the hot water is on the roof of the well house. I am fortunate in that I have plenty of space to do what I have done. All my hot water bits are easily located relative to each other. There is a down side. The hot water needs to travel 30 Metres in an underground gulley so a minute of patience is in order and a few litres of cold water is wasted. I would imagine that living in a townhouse, one may not necessarily have things in such a convenient arrangement so routeing cables would generally be easier than plumbing pipes.

I also think that is what the OP means. If the storage tank is higher than the heat collector panel then there can be no reverse convection at night. With my system, the 200 litre storage tank is lower so there is no natural convection circulation. I use a small 7W pump to do that. To get around the reverse nighttime circulation I have an NRV (non-reverse valve or check valve). The system also has a small expansion tank. Total cost in the order of 10k baht and has been in service for over ten years now and always gives hot to scolding hot water. I would not be atall happy with the idea of making electricity to heat water when we can do it more directly from that big fusion power station in the sky.

Governments are really quite stupid. When they see a declining population they see less tax going into their coffers. What they fail to see is a reduced need for spending due to fewer people to spend it on. The problem of taking care of an aging population is currently being addressed by not paying pensions until a few years later. After all, people are generally living longer and healthier lives so should be able to contribute to the community for a few more years.

Spot on. And the rest of the world? Same Same I guess.