tomazbodner

Et tu, Br... Crossy?

It is large, very expensive, and not really worth it. There are other options out there that do the same for a lot less. But, of course, there are also more expensive options out there. I would recommend you go see the real one at a Dyson shop (Central and The Mall usually have them), and read some reviews. Dyson is very good for some things, but nothing special for others. Air purifiers fall into the second group.

Something interesting about Melania and Barron... When I was inquiring about dual citizenship of Slovenia and Thailand back in the day, I was told that I can have dual citizenship as long as both of them are EU countries. Thailand isn't. But then again, neither is the US. So, rightfully, according to those rules, both of them should be stripped of Slovenian citizenship by law anyway... as it can't be that Slovenian government isn't aware of it...

And who do you think flies the plane now? Autopilot? Airbus provides flight assistance just like Boeing or Embraer or any other modern jet maker. The problem is that like pilots, the flight computer gets information from the sensors and that can lead to undesired effects if data is flawed. Those planes have a safe envelope, or limits of parameters within which plane can help offset the tasks of pilot, there's extended envelope where plane can be flown manually, and then there are edges of that, which, if crossed, could cause aircraft for example to stall or break apart. That is where the Airbus planes take over and get the plane back within the safe envelope. Kind of like safety systems in your car, which are a copy of what's in the aircraft. Another thing which is copied to cars now from aircraft is fly by wire, but that has not much if anything to do with the issue above. Fly by wire simply means that the flight controls are not physically connected to the flight surfaces, but rather operate like a computer game - you move joystick, to tell computer which way you want to go, and flight computer moves those surfaces for you to make plane go where you want it to go. But this has nothing to do with faulty inputs from ELAC.

There are Left, Centre and Right. And then there are brainwashed extremes on both left and right. Difference between the 3 categories and their extremes is that those in traditional categories evaluate positions and ideas from both sides, and judge them for what they are, whether from their viewpoint they are good or bad or meh... While the extremes don't care what anything is, sticking to the loyalty instead, so anything that comes from their side is written by God himself, anything from the other side is garbage. There's no thinking going into analysing what anything means, because it's irrelevant, All that matters is loyalty. No brain cells are needed for that. Any many at the extreme ends are loved by those controlling them, as that's the people that will do anything without any questions, regardless of consequences, even to themselves. I count myself significantly more on the right side than the left side, but acknowledge that some of the programs on the left side are overall beneficial to many people and to the countries as a whole. Actually, I think that most people who grew up in socialist/communist countries and left them later, are far more aligned with the right than left. I'm one of those. Therefore, yes, I'm for real. Now ask yourself the same question.

Don't know, I'm on the right. And same could be said for this side.

Oh man... please take a look at who is POTUS right now and his criminal history... Sideline: Kelly quoted CONSTITUTIONAL rights. Trump threatened to have him executed for upholding constitution. Are you for real?

More ironic part of this is that mother of White House press secretary's nephew just got arrested by ICE... Looking forward to see how this tests her loyalty to her boss.

John, can I get your advice, please? Sure, shoot! I can't make up my mind. Should I date a rich widow who I don't find attractive, or a penniless hot young student? Date the student. Money isn't everything! Thank you so much, John. You're a life saver. Anytime, mate. Now, where does that rich widow live?

Amazing Thailand, We wash your bags for free?

Location reveal party 🎉

Sure she did, she promoted it so hard it's difficult to imagine anyone wanting to have any similar event in Thailand after this.

He didn't need to. Had oral work delivered to the Oval Office...

So, they made wet lease illegal? That is an option many airlines use when short on airplanes. Like "Emirates" crash in Hong Kong recently - it was another airline from Turkey operating wet lease for Emirates. Banning this arrangement puts Thai airlines into a less competitive position given long wait times for new aircraft and limited supply of models their own pilots are trained on... EDIT: actually... this is only for domestic flights. Foreign airlines don't compete on domestic flights so all it would do is make it more difficult to start a new airline and decrease number of available seats, pushing up prices on domestic flights. It's not for international flights where such arrangements usually exist.

Used this one and it's excellent, even though a bit far from Pattaya, about... 30? km north: 13°17'23.95" N 100°56'30.99" E Right on the main road, between Chonburi and Nong Mon Market...

Apologies for no link to fake news NBC claim. Ah you mean they deported 7 million people, not they've done it 7 million times: Not the same thing, but I get the logic. It is one thing to find and detain those who illegally entered the country, and a very different one to revoke visa of someone who legally entered but disagrees with the President, doing so without informing that individual, then arresting them for being in country illegally and deporting them. Can you imagine immigration cancelled your visa today. Tomorrow they knock you down in the middle of the street, and throw you in jail for being illegally in the country before deporting you to Papua New Guinea? Regardless, I believe my stand on legal/illegal immigration is clear from a few posts up. Those who illegally entered the country, any country, should be arrested and deported.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. You go on to 7 million, please put in link to proof for each of them. Thank you.

Each country, US included, should protect borders from unwanted entries, and make a significant separation between legal and illegal entries, with legal immigrants given path to living, working and, if desired, becoming citizens, while nothing other than immediate deportation and blacklisting should be on the table for the illegal arrivals. Someone moving legally to another country has to go through hell of paperwork and processes to get permission to set foot there. Illegals just bypass all that and cross a shallow river or take a dinghy. It is not fair to all those who went through the process that someone completely ignorant to the laws and order gets the same treatment once on the other side. True, there are real asylum seekers, fleeing for their lives, and those can be handled differently. But economic migrants should be dealt with in some other way. Challenge is that illegals are seen by business owners as a cheap and easy to exploit workforce as well. A problem widely spread in Thailand as well.

Rich coming from you, given the President of the United States you are so fiercely defending, in interview with NBC said he doesn't know if he has to uphold the constitution of the USA.

Yes and no. 1. There are some vinyls that were never uploaded anywhere as they are very limited runs. Heck, my dad's band had one when I was a kid. Surely you would not find that anywhere. 2. But even for those available... there's a catch. When CDs came out with vastly superior dynamic range to that of cassette tape and vinyl, instead of using that to its advantage, there seems to have been a race among record labels to make CDs louder by compressing the sound. While that made them a lot louder than any other media, it also crushed the sound, literally destroying it. I think the worst offender was Metallica's Death Magnetic album. Unfortunately, CDs are often used as source for the digital streaming services for music from yesteryears, and this loudness war just made this music sound terrible. An old vinyl will sound way better than those CDs or anything ripped off them. Above is from Wired article discussing compression (https://www.wired.com/2008/09/does-metallicas/) - top is the original, bottom is compressed version (for illustration). A Thai comparison would be when village festival music volume is pumped up so high speakers start distorting. You get the idea. I won't test you on getting some obscure album that had only a handful of copies made as I agree that for mainstream music, you're absolutely right. The time and effort to digitize vinyls is a total waste when you can download the same thing.

When I first came to Thailand, I remember McDonald's Cheeseburger was 19 Baht... Haven't had it in decades, but I'm sure it would be at least a few times more expensive now.

Come on, people. It works perfectly! It was modeled after a Russian man, who, while training, had a few bottles of Vodka too many...

This topic reminds me of a joke... John was in charge of a grass field in city park, and put up the sign "No walking on grass! Penalty 1$!" On visiting, his friend remarks that 1$ is a very low fine. Why not make it a lot higher? "Because then nobody will walk on grass!" If Thailand wanted to crack down on overstayers and visa abuse, they could do that instantly. And whoever says their systems aren't capable is unaware that entire history of at least 20 years is digitized and can be pulled out by push of a button. I was surprised when I had missing stamp (the officer stamped my PR booklet but forgot to stamp passport) and went back to Swampy to get that corrected, and after taking my passport to their office inside, I was presented with a paper printout of all my entries dating back to 1994, despite several passport changes in between... Don't assume they lack information.

It depends on what kind of quality you're looking for. Vinyl doesn't have particularly good dynamic range and lacks bass due to the amount of space it would take to incorporate it, so it's using a curve to boost it on playback. There's a massive difference in sound depending on the pre-amp and especially the cartridge you use. So, if you are that kind of audiophile, USB turntables will not achieve anything near the quality you are looking for. If your turntable is properly maintained and has direct output (no built-in pre-amp or can bypass it) and your favourite cartridge, you can use direct output into external pre-amp, like Hegel V10, and use XLR cables to a digitizer like Tascam DA-3000 at 192 kHz 24 bit WAV. Most of these digitizers support SDXC or CF cards. Assuming you already have a turntable with cartridge and no preamp, this semi professional setup will still set you back about 100,000 THB. If you are not looking for particularly high quality transfer, simply use USB output from the turntable (if it has it), else pre-amped RCA output into a quality sound card, open sound recording application on your computer and select your sound card input, press record. Either way, you might want to open files in Cubase or similar audio editor to remove the annoying pops and tone the audio to your liking once you're done. Really depends on what level of quality you're looking for. EDIT: And I just saw OP is asking for conversion to MP3... forget all the above and just get a cheap modern turntable with either USB output to plug into your computer or one that has USB-host socket for USB-stick or SD card to record to.