carstenp

24 minutes ago, bartender100 said:

Keep propping up billions to Greece,Spain Italy and Portugal, the UK has had enough

As i know it was the Germany there payed. Not the UK :D

16 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

More Bull from the EU propaganda machine. Is that why Poland and Hungary etc are stopping immigrants and giving the fingers to the EU. Most People and not stupid and know the EU for what it is. A boys club that you must do as we say.

I dont agree with you. Cause if you don't like the rules, then you need to  have negotiation of the EU agreement, Simple as that :)

13 minutes ago, bartender100 said:

Lets hear from Danish "man in the street", its not what i am hearing from the Danes I know

Well im danish and think the EU is great for Denmark and you have to remember, you properly speak with the 31% there is against it  :)

Denmark has done much to prevent foreigners from ruining our labor market with cheap hourly wages.

Our unions have been working successfully, with our government, even though we are facing small problems.

Foreigners can not get social support, before they are approved to stay in our country, speak our language, been on the labor marked etc.

This was some of the big issues i hear UK people talk about.

I do think Denmark get more benefit from EU, even there can be small issues sometimes, but we danish people like to complain

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They should also keep their operating system and other software updated

Well time for Win XP to end in thailand then, and welcome to win 10

6 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

No chance of any compensation there, unless a certain plane flies in

Im not so sure

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From another newspaper: PTT Exploration and Production Plc (PTTEP) will take responsibility for any proven damage to Indonesia's environment and marine life caused by an oil spill in 2009.

 

7 minutes ago, manarak said:

 

more mysterious:

I checked what domains are hosted on the final server, and it appears not to be youtube.com

 

there are sites like:

1882678.com

1880678.com
1890678.com
1883678.com
1891678.com
1893678.com
1892678.com
yuanpass.com
twinkledeals.org
k121.com

starting to wonder if this might be a hack

 

I do agree something is bad.

Domain Name: 1882678.COM
Registrar: BEIJING INNOVATIVE LINKAGE TECHNOLOGY LTD. DBA DNS.COM.CN
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 633
Whois Server: whois.dns.com.cn
Referral URL: http://www.dns.com.cn
Name Server: NS1.HALADE.COM
Name Server: NS2.HALADE.COM
Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Updated Date: 22-oct-2016
Creation Date: 29-jun-2015
Expiration Date: 29-jun-2017

just make a tracert to Denmark.

For me there is something wrong. Look at all the hops it has to go intern before outbound server/routers

Tracing route to tv2.dk [91.224.211.71]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    71 ms    29 ms    28 ms  10.121.41.213
  3    25 ms    26 ms    26 ms  10.121.41.214
  4    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  10.33.34.233
  5    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  10.254.254.51
  6    34 ms    34 ms    34 ms  10.254.254.20
  7    34 ms    34 ms    34 ms  10.254.253.27
  8    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  10.33.35.47
  9    33 ms    34 ms    33 ms  10.33.35.14
 10    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  mx-ll-110.164.1-19.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.1.19]
 11    33 ms    33 ms    34 ms  mx-ll-110.164.1-129.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.1.129]
 12    59 ms    59 ms    59 ms  mx-ll-110.164.0-103.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.0.103]
 13   431 ms   250 ms   249 ms  mx-ll-110.164.0-83.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.0.83]
 14   246 ms   246 ms   246 ms  prs-b5-link.telia.net [213.248.81.93]
 15   229 ms   230 ms   230 ms  prs-bb3-link.telia.net [213.155.137.234]
 16   235 ms   235 ms   235 ms  ffm-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.123.14]
 17   291 ms   386 ms   262 ms  hbg-bb1-link.telia.net [62.115.123.117]
 18   249 ms     *      248 ms  kbn-bb3-link.telia.net [80.91.254.1]
 19   269 ms   268 ms   248 ms  kbn-b3-link.telia.net [62.115.121.15]
 20   251 ms   250 ms   249 ms  nianet-ic-317437-kbn-b3.c.telia.net [213.248.74.47]
 21   332 ms   335 ms   333 ms  93.176.95.169
 22   367 ms   332 ms   332 ms  tv2.cust.ip.nianet.dk [130.185.140.58]
 23   328 ms   331 ms   330 ms  web-lb.pool.public.tv2net.dk [91.224.211.71]

Trace complete.

18 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

(from another thread)

3 hours ago I got the above ping result (I am on ToT fibre).

 

Now I get:

ping  google.com 8 ms  (203.113.48.55)

 

8 ms means the response comes from a server in Bangkok.

The 203.. address is registered for ToT.

 

What does that mean?

Google opening a new "mirror" in Thailand?

Here is the trace for it. Think you are right. something is changed

Tracing route to google.com [110.164.16.88]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    48 ms    25 ms    25 ms  10.121.41.209
  3   121 ms    25 ms    25 ms  10.121.41.214
  4    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  10.33.34.233
  5    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  10.254.254.51
  6    34 ms    33 ms    34 ms  10.254.254.20
  7    33 ms    34 ms    33 ms  10.254.253.27
  8    43 ms    35 ms    35 ms  10.255.255.204
  9    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  192.168.254.21
 10   144 ms    55 ms    54 ms  192.168.255.68
 11    33 ms    34 ms    33 ms  mx-ll-110.164.16-88.static.3bb.co.th [110.164.16.88]

1 minute ago, toenail said:

Can Thailand sue Indonesia over their annual "slash & burn" air pollution that clouds over Malaysia, Singapore, & south Thailand every September-October? 

short answer No

3 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Note to the millions of people with pickup trucks in Thailand. Please purchase a van by next week. We hope this will not be an inconvenience.

 

I did it on day 1 of the news. When i read about it, we went down to buy new car, before the prices on the truck goes down :D

3 hours ago, chiang mai said:

IF what you claim is true, that foreign currency reserves have been used to keep THB artificially strong, that would involve BOT selling THB and buying USD, consequently a massive depletion of THB would be seen - please point to it.

 

AND, please also explain why, when exports are in decline, would BOT want a stronger currency which would further cripple exports.

I will love to tell more about this and why.. But not like it is now in thailand. Hope you understand

1 hour ago, rreddin said:

It has been apparent for some time that the THB simply could not have sustained itself at the level that it was without some kind of support. Now we know, assuming the article is essentially correct, that the reserves were used to maintain the THB at a level that was not economically justifiable.

 

Between 30th June 2014 and 31st January 2017 the international value of the USD in percentage terms has increased as these US Dollar Indices show: DTWEXM (22.96%), DTWEXB (23.15%), and DTWEXO (23.20%). The average of these indices is 23.10%. Whereas, the THB to USD exchange rate rose by only 8.15% over exactly the same period, which is slightly more than a third of the amount that the international value of the USD actually increased. That means, at least theoretically, the THB to USD rate should be 40 or above.

I do agree with you on this one. Got this explanation from another place. They Guy is called JimboPSM

He writes the follow.

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While I have a few reservations caused by a lack of detail in the article, the fall in the reserves comes as absolutely no surprise as it helps to explain the divergence between the nominal USD/THB exchange rate and the international value of the USD when expressed through the US Dollar Index.

This “latest” divergence became apparent at the beginning of July 2014 and continues today thus broadly fitting the timeline in the article.

It has been apparent for some time that the THB simply could not have sustained itself at the level that it was without some kind of intervention and/or support - we now know, assuming the article is essentially correct, that the reserves were squandered maintaining the THB at a level that was not economically justifiable.


While the following chart may appear overly complex, it clearly demonstrates the marked divergence between the nominal USD/THB exchange rate and the international value of the US Dollar.

It shows just how much in percentage terms that the international value of the USD has increased since 30th June 2014 through US Dollar Indexes - DTWEXM (22.96%), DTWEXB (23.15%) & DTWEXO (23.20%).

It also shows the relatively paltry 8.15% that the USD/THB exchange rate rose over exactly the same period – or only slightly more than a third of the amount that the international value of the USD actually increased.

 

This will help many people down here. but of cause expensive 2 adults and 2 kids is around 40000. Hope the price will go down

Side effects

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Most of the reported side effects occurred within 3 days after the injection of the vaccine: Very Common (may affect more than 1 user in 10): Headache, muscle pain (myalgia), generally feeling unwell (malaise), feeling of weakness (asthenia), injection site pain, fever.

Vaccine Efficacy

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Vaccine efficacy against confirmed dengue pooled across both trials was 59.2% in the year following the primary series (per protocol analysis). During this initial time period, pooled vaccine efficacy against severe dengue was 79.1%. Efficacy varied by serotype: vaccine efficacy was higher against serotypes 3 and 4 (71.6% and 76.9%, respectively) than for serotypes 1 and 2 (54.7% and 43.0%). Vaccine efficacy also varied by age at vaccination and serostatus at baseline (i.e., previous exposure to dengue prior to vaccination).

More info here http://www.who.int/immunization/research/development/dengue_q_and_a/en/

Good news, so i hope i Can get it up here in isaan. anyone  knows if there is any side effects 

Well, I just sit here and think, is the government out of money, since the need for donations. 

Normally the government just act and pay later 

https://www.investing.com/news/forex-news/dollar-lower-as-trump-disappoints-on-policy-details-452652

This cant be true. bt40 billion! They told us yesterday it will not exceed 15 billion baht and no harm on the economy

1 hour ago, gamini said:

One can certainly believe the WB. So Thailand is doing pretty well compared with most other countries, certainly better than the UK

Thailand is doing well in this circumstance with this government.

But on the other hand, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says

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"There are no investors, investors do not dare invest, exports are not good. Autos are the only good thing...for the whole year 2016 growth should be around 3.2%,"

I think it says it all

Agree there must be something about the number is up ,  im in bkk airport. So many tourists down here. 

On 10/12/2016 at 2:15 PM, carstenp said:

Okay, i was sure it was a taxi driver, there will be in the news, returning BIG money

 

But we can all get surprised

 

 

Okay there it was.

Okay, i was sure it was a taxi driver, there will be in the news, returning BIG money

But we can all get surprised

1 hour ago, quandow said:

Do I smell desperation?

Not at all

In BP today you can read that Bookings see 30% surge and  reflecting the country's strong tourism recovery.

 

Properly have been answered before. But has they being talking about the 1 year extension, like the most of us get down here Non 0 + 1 Year extension as many call retirement visa.

I was thinking about the old 2* 60 days TV suddenly become 1 Time only (60+ 30 days Extension), after implantation of the new 6 month TV

I thinks its funny , stories like this is popping up everywhere , before EU meeting about the fishing industry and properly Yellow or a red card, in Thailand :D

1 hour ago, Generalchaos said:

Loads of KNEE JERK reactions yet again.

 

From the original post, there is nothing there that suggests that there is going to be any changes to the normal 1 year extensions. This looks more like some sort of scheme to promote the Gold / Elite Card scheme rather than any change to the existing marriage and retirement extensions.

Hmm Read again

 

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It would replace one-year renewable visas and come in two installments of five years each, Athisit said. It was not immediately clear when the plan would be implemented.