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Prime Minister Considers Hosting Formula One Race in Bangkok
kwonitoy replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
It's not a cheap thing to put on, lots of setup and lots of money involved https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/04/29/is-hosting-an-f1-race-financially-feasible/ To answer that question, it is important to start at the beginning of the business operation track owners embark on in hosting. And from the beginning they are already losing money. If they do not already have one, they must design and build a track typically costing upwards of $270 million, with yearly maintenance fees averaging $18.5 million (Balla, 2023). Moreover, these costs do not even include the necessary track additions for races such as grandstands (~$14 million), safety barriers and fencing (~$8 million), race pits, offices, parking lots etc., (Sylt, 2017). But if miraculously, owners already have all this, they do not avoid paying up. After a track is in place and Liberty Media, the owner of Formula One, has completed its necessary track inspections, track hosts must pay a hosting/race promotion fee to Liberty Media. This fee must be paid for every single race hosted and is estimated to be between $15-50 million and upwards for prime time races like the Qatar Grand Prix towards the end of the season (Bodsworth, 2023). -
Then you have to do what I did, get a family lawyer, he submits the paperwork to Family Social Services I had to go for a lengthy interview with a social worker, bring a translator. Had to have 2 supporting witnesses to verify what I had said. These documents get sent to the family court About 3 months later I stood in front of a judge and was granted 100% Parental Powers. When my son and I moved back to my home country these documents were gone over and copied before my son (10yo) got a stamp in his Thai passport saying all documents had been seen/read and he was good to go. Didn't get this amount of scrutiny for a vacation previously but for emigrating they were quite thorough.
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
It warms my heart to see occupier refineries ablaze -
Remembering your V8 Muscle car........
kwonitoy replied to transam's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
A Different sort of Pontiac. 1969 Pontiac Beaumont, made for the Canadian market, it's a Chevelle with a different grill and some bits inside. Mine had a 350ci/350hp stock engine Worst decision I ever made, in 1980 I had the chance to buy a 1969 Camaro factory stock 427CI 4 speed for 8,000 dollars. It still had the dealer stickers in the back window. I said no way and bought a new Harley Davidson Sturgis twin belt. -
Was working on the Yadana Pipeline for PTT in 97, getting paid in USD so our money effectively doubled. Was some worry about banks collapsing but our advice was to use the purple bank, I was told it was at that time majority owned by the King and that the country would have to be in flames before that bank would go under. Looking at condos in Pattaya for my boss, Royal Cliff had some amazing fire sale prices Food was cheap, living was cheap, life was good.
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
How can this be? Ukraine has been crushed s/ -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
But sanctions don't work, according to the bots -
Illegal Bitcoin Mining Operations Busted in Thailand
kwonitoy replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The PEA noticed evidence of electricity meter manipulation, with readings showing lower power usage than the actual amount consumed. That's what's illegal -
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/opinion-medicine-use-outside-EU/human/mosquirix Mosquirix is a vaccine that is given to children aged 6 weeks to 17 months to help protect against malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. 25.9% in infants 6–12 weeks of age, and 36.3% efficacy over median 48 months in children 5–17 months of age. Limited in the age range and not that effective in the target group, so useless for the AN crowd
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
The accuracy of the HIMARS system -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
For all those that think the US is delivering cash to a bank account in Ukraine -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Hit the refineries, next hit the storage depots -
House approves $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
kwonitoy replied to Amethyst's topic in World News
Since your not capable of using Google but rely on the old, "I'm Republican and I'm outraged", here's a link What Zelensky wears on a day to day basis ranks right up there with Obamas tan suit, but yeah, your outraged https://www.aei.org/op-eds/most-of-the-money-in-the-foreign-aid-bill-would-stay-in-the-u-s/ -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Longer range ATACMS is what they needed last year, better late than never. Add F 16 to be coming later this summer -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
kwonitoy replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Another ship out of action -
Thai-Chinese high-speed railway agreements near completion
kwonitoy replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
14 meticulously crafted contracts, Said with a straight face -
I've done this when I lived in Udon Thani PM level of say 150 outside, very visible Air conditioner has to be set on recirculation mode, not fresh air intake PM level of 5 - 10 driving a Ford WT model, I was quite surprised