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42 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Global house,Thai Watsadu also do it. The point is loss minimisation, also known as shoplifting or theft.

I've never been to Global House..but my local Thai Watsadu  don't do it  nor do Homemart,Homepro,Hardwarehouse,Tesco,BigC,7/11,Family Mart  etc etc..Makro in London don't do it   but apparently Walmart in the US do.

2 hours ago, 1Gringo said:

I don't think motorcycles can run on it, either.

Of course it will run..the problem is that maybe  certain parts of the fuel system will be effected by the ethanol  plastic and rubber parts might fail, if/when they do just replace those parts with ethanol resistant parts..can't see how  ethanol its self could destroy exhaust valves maybe if the mixture is too lean ?

1 minute ago, NCC1701A said:

a security person who has come in contact with every person's receipt who shops there and then hands your receipt back to you. 

Never understood that..no where else does it..what is the point ?

11 minutes ago, RobertL said:

Isn’t torrent like a virus magnet?

No...but a lot of the sites where you can obtain the torrent links from  contain tons of dodgy ads and pop up c_rA_p leading to infections   so  run a  ad blocker   like "U block origin"  and run a modified hosts file  https://hosts-file.net/

and run a virus checker and have your firewall turned on and configured correctly then its pretty safe   unless you download cracked software,games and key generators and don't download "drivers" from anywhere other than official sites.

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I couldn't possibly condone such behaviour though.

Me too..... ????

47 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Not that I can recall. It might depend upon what the seminar was about.

5 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Not sure a work permit would be required.

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYhf0Xt6ktzXVILU1G7Kxuo3RKop00k8/view

Yes but...wasn't there a couple of news items recently about "seminars" being raided and shutdown whilst in progress ?

12 minutes ago, NoBrainer said:

I hope that Fogger was not supplied by the same group that supplied those GT200 bomb detectors, they were using.

No that bloke did eventually go to jail,unfortunately some of those who bought the device and vouched for their effectiveness are now running the country !!!

Just now, Pedrogaz said:

What on earth is a type 2 woman? 

Maybe a little bit like a brother from another mother ?  ????

Type 2 women = Ladyboy  AKA a transexual but in this case he seems to be a transvestite.

1 hour ago, nausea said:

bread and butter time for you Somchai.

Probably "Somtam" time same as ever.

In my case it was 30% of the declared value on the customs form , which was declared correctly, now if the declared value had been something totally out of line low..they might have used some other method ?

Also in the tuning menu of the TV  there is often a choice to choose  between  scanning for digital or analogue channels

if no choice then it may well only be an analogue tuner.

3 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Make sure you actually need such a box

Yes good point  most recent-ish TV's do now include a "Digital tuner"   

but there are still some being sold that only have an analogue tuner.

if the TV or box it came in has this logo then it should have a "Digital tuner built in"

3 minutes ago, mrjohn said:

Thanks for that detailed reply. The map shows 16.3km distance to transmitter. What sort of antenna would give good reception for that distance?

The bigger the better..something like this

https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=BETA+Digital+TV+Antenna+(HD-37E)

Unless you live very close to the transmitter then that small Ariel/antenna won't be much good,

check for your nearest transmitter  at this site

https://dtvservicearea.nbtc.go.th/webpeople/

I would recommend not letting it find your location automatically as it most often is inaccurate,instead zoom in on the map to your exact location then  left mouse click on the blue teardrop symbol at top right of the screen  then place mouse pointer on your location on the map and left click again  then you should get some info about the  distance to nearest transmitter,frequencies and compass pointing direction.

most of the DVB T2 boxes sold here are much the same ( they conform to set  standards) there is not much to choose between them   but I would choose one with a bigger sized remote control unit.

Nope adds happen for me  with Android,WinXP,Win 7 and Debian Linux..unless steps are taken.