cmsally

Golden tree snake. Not dangerous but stubborn.

4 hours ago, neeray said:

Thanks cmsally. I've been reading each post carefully trying to sleuth out the justification for using the word "hybrid" by the army chief. (thought that might mean guns and digital propaganda)

But your suggestion of "hydra" might be more correct. I had to do a Wiki on "hydra".

Hydra is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Well personally I prefer the version from Greek mythology !

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According to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.^[3] It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly.^[4] The Hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.^[5] Heracles required the assistance of his nephew Iolaus to cut off all of the monster's heads and burn the neck using sword and fire.

Strangely when I first read the title , I automatically inserted "hydra" for "hybrid". I had to go and reread to realise it was hybrid. This often happens when I skim read and brings up some interesting results such as this one.

You need to replace "hybrid" with "hydra" for it to make sense.

Call me a cynic; but is it just a coincidence that Somkid's son has founded a big data company which seems to deal in stuff just as this.

http://www.siametrics.com/en/

15 minutes ago, toenail said:

Example:  “Fire! Fire” .... a Thai will most likely sit and wait to be told what to do ( or lack the “preparedness of what to do); meanwhile a “Westerner will take action upon him/ herself on what to do.  

Yes, I am generalizing but I think you get the point. 

Totally get your point on this one. In the past 10 years had at least half a dozen fires break out in our area (mostly electrical on the street). I have had to put out every single one. Left me wondering why none of the Thais could just deal with it; I'm sure they have some idea of how to work a fire extinguisher. But its like they just shut down !

So each person has to log in with ID? Otherwise how can you detect which log file goes back to which customer. Or are they going to rely on the device details linking the person to the IPs.

Might be possible for phones but more tricky for laptops etc.

25 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Many posters have made good points.

 

As hard as I am on Thais, I do NOT think they are incapable. Surely, they have similar potential to us all. 

 

I truly belive the biggest issue facing them is that the Thai (mostly Chinese) elites do not want the country to grow at the expense of their power and authority. 

 

The Thai Chinese have done an absolutely marvelous job of coaxing the country into their personal playground. Who would give up that status? Not me. 

Excellent analogy ! Only problem is, it will take me at least a few hours before I can get the images of Chucky Dolls, barbed wire and locked gates out of my very vivid imagination!

37 minutes ago, Yinn said:

I critical this “paper”. How he know???? Is not science. Opinion.

If you think critical about what really this paper is, you know that.

 

nobody ask Yinn. I am genius.

some people are lazy brain, so people think to much.

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Assistant Professor Wilert Puriwat, dean of the Chulalongkorn Business School, which is allied with the WEF, said that, If Thailand wants to improve its ranking, labour skills must be improved. 

Well the research seems to be at least partly in conjunction with Chula , so maybe take it up with them.

PS Anyone who really is a genius, does not say they are.

2 hours ago, topt said:

Just curious Is this a separate piece of software you have put on her phone?

You could do all that by using their gmail account.

2 hours ago, Airbagwill said:

As said, I think not.

As I said to another optimistic person; how many years in the Thai tourism business ??

I can understand how from the outside it may all look rosy, but most in the tourism sector think otherwise.

1 hour ago, Airbagwill said:

for suers on this forum there have been hundreds of posts forecasting "the end is nigh" for Thailand - all this says is that the posters don't understand that isn't how it works. 

There may be dips, even crashes but they isn't the end of it.

Yes Thailand is riven with incompetence, lack of democracy and corruption ut it doesn't spell disaster - all it says is that at the moment they have got it wrong and failed to anticipate. When the "disaster" does happen, these people won't recognise it

That could be interpreted as not being able to decipher what is happening at the present moment. Personally I think we are already in the disaster, although beginning stages.

The dips and crashes were things of the past, such as bird flu, coup etc. The balance is way against Thai tourism at present.

Of course some people will be OK but I think Thailand is heading for a very severe recession/depression. In the past Thailand has still had an environment and culture that was in tact enough to draw in a sizeable amount of tourists. This is now stacked against it too.

Pretty much all the new build hotels are Chinese funded. So yes you have pretty much no cheap accommodation left .

Next year a drastic increase in local taxes is anticipated with very little information forthcoming in order for people to prepare. It looks like the perfect storm. Govt says we want money, business owners say we don't have any , govt says we still want money. What could possibly go wrong!