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How is PTP going to be wealthy enough to pay its MPs a salary without its filthy rich owner?
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1 minute ago, yellowboat said:
I said he "asserted". Assertion: a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason. Most wise people would be keeping quiet if they do not know the facts, but not your junta. They make assertions day and night as there are no repercussions for what they say or do. You really prefer marshal law over a flawed, direct democracy ?
Yes they would be much better having one spokesman who only deals in fact, but asserting a belief is not stating what happened, only what he believes happened. He could state at the same time he believes in god, reincarnation and fairies at the bottom of the garden, and some people will accept that as true.
The word is martial, and Thailand did not have a "direct democracy" where the people vote on policy. It allegedly had a representative democracy where elected representatives decide policy. In fact, those representatives took payment from a fugitive criminal and allowed him to dictate policy.
Yes, I find a military government more acceptable, until I find them paying billion baht commissions to cronies or similarly corrupt acts.
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49 minutes ago, yellowboat said:
Runaway ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra is believed to have been secretly driven by car to the border province of Sa Kaew before sneaking out of the country through casinos, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said Friday.
http://news.thaivisa.com/article/9983/thailand-live-saturday-23-september-2017
Try to work out the difference between what people believe and what is known to be true. You are allowed to believe anything you like no matter how ridiculous - that doesn't make it true.
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6 hours ago, Krataiboy said:
How did Yingluk see her "alleged fellow conspirator get a huge jail sentence" prompting her to skip bail when it happened 2 days after she left the country? Fortune teller, crystal ball perhaps?
No crystal ball required. She failed to attend court (for what her lawyer said were "medical reasons") later on the same day (Friday, August 25) that five of her fellow accused were handed swingeing jail sentences.
Whose job is it to ensure those on bail don't skip the country, the government, the military, or the police?
Academic, but if I had as much egg on my face as the generals I would definitely be looking to pass the buck.
Let's be honest. From the government's viewpoint, Yingluk's vanishing trick - however embarrassing it may be in the short term - is the ideal solution. Instead of becoming a martyr, she has ended up a criminal fugitive like her elder brother, leaving her party divided and in disarray at a time when they should be gearing up for next year's general election.Listen carefully and you'll probably hear champagne corks popping in Government House.
BS. She was due in court the same time as Boonsong, 9am on the 25th, his verdict wasn't delivered until some time later that day. She left the country on the 23rd, sneaking out of the country like the common criminal she is.
Your accusation of involvement because of some alledged advantage is similarly ridiculous. Try and come up with some facts instead of biased opinion.
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23 minutes ago, yellowboat said:
The good deputy prime made the casino assertion. How are there more than two choices : complicit or incompetent ? Perhaps a cunning plan similar to a bad George Clooney / Dean Martin movie ?
We all know the gorgeous ex prime minister disappeared and the junta is going through the motions to figure out how. There are some believable touches of buffoonery such as fake license plates and confessions that ring credible.
No, he didn't. "Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan on Friday said he believed that former PM Yingluck Shinawatra had fled the country via the Aranyaprathet border in Sa Kaew province."
Of course, you may have a definite statement made since Friday evening??
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1 minute ago, Jingthing said:
I never said you were a theocracy. I said you were not. So justifying a no vote or homophobia expressed in government policy doesn't make sense in any nation that is not a theocracy. Yes, I am asserting a no vote is a yes vote for intolerance, homophobia, and bigotry.
While most Australians believe in a "fair go" a concept somewhat similar to equal rights for all, and I personally would vote Yes if in Oz at the time, being called names by a Yank will not persuade people to your cause. We get enough of your (American) religious zealots knocking on doors, we don't need you pushing your views on "equal rights" on us. It is our decision, it will be made by us in our own sweet time, and their may even be enough pressure for politicians to take a conscience vote. As a referendum it would almost certainly fail.
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26 minutes ago, Jingthing said:
What a load of codswallop!
Yes, this thread DOES include the Australian marriage equality yes/no mail in vote debate.
Yes, it is about civil rights.
The current scheme is NOT equality!
Thus, the gay people of Australia are indeed now having their civil rights suppressed.
They aren't even as well off as "separate but equal" because they are not equal under the law --
Read the article for details on WHY that isn't true.
Australian have the simple choice. Either for civil rights for a minority or against. If against, don't be surprised or shocked if many people think that is a homophobic position. Yes, it's often justified by religious dogma. That doesn't cut it. Australia is not a theocracy.
The Christmas thing? Sorry, you don't follow the news from your own country. Let this septic fill you in --
I have visited Australia but whether I have or haven't is irrelevant to this thread. All nationalities are welcome to post on these threads. I get it that Australians would devalue non-Australians opinions. That's human nature. I feel the same way about the comments of Australians supporting trump when it's clear they don't have a clue about what trump really is.
As an Australian, let me fill you in with a few facts about the country. We are a conservative lot, we just don't much like change.
http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/referendums/Referendum_Dates_and_Results.htm
We are nowhere near a theocracy, most of us that declare a religion don't bother attending, or do so infrequently. We even elect atheists and agnostics, and don't even bother asking our politicians that which we consider irrelevant. When your country elects an atheist, get back to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Australia
We are not by large homophobic, but the pushy antics of the yes side will put some off an issue that really doesn't seem to be a concern to most. This is because we don't have drummed into us our 'rights', and probably why we have far fewer lawyers.
Margaret Court is a 74yo tennis player, something she did quite well. Most Australians would have a vague idea, if any, of who she is. We don't extrapolate excellence at sport (or acting, or singing) into some depth of insight on other matters. We did elect Peter Garrett, and learned from the mistake.
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3 hours ago, Ossy said:
And 1,861 'good but needy' Isan students receive scholarships from Gen. Prem on this premise.
Where do they go from here, for their 'goodness' to be more valuable to the country than their 'smartness'?
" Gen Prem said the late King also stressed the need to instil morality and ethics into children and said he wanted to see new graduates to go back to work in their home provinces for at least two years."
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1 hour ago, chrisinth said:
Please forgive me for being a bit skeptical about all this, but even if it was proved that Police Colonel Chairit Anurit did in fact drive the car, how many would believe that he took it on his own back to hatch the plan, address the logistics and approach Yingluk to talk her into the journey?
K. Chairit is the member of an organization that runs through a tier system of authority. In other words, the organization exists because the members follow orders.
Using him as a scrapegoat and ending the story there is BS IMO
He has claimed he was ordered by a senior officer. Some of the rankings mentioned seem to fit Priewpan Damapong, her BIL and member of yet another linked corrupt family, but I have been unable to ascertain his current position/location.
You may remember that it was illegally shuffling others around so that he could be promoted that led to her dismissal.
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9 minutes ago, Si Thea01 said:
Come on Halloween. You know how many times you jump in. Remember, the old saying, it's an open forum. If one wants to respond or contribute, they can, not against any rules last time I checked.
Right, I jump in, but you can respond or contribute. So now we have wasted 4 posts on what you consider an irrelevance. As I said, if you found it irrelevant, ignore it.
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3 hours ago, yellowboat said:
Did not expect such an easy escape though. Walking through casinos in Cambodia. Don't the Thaksin hating elite own them ? Don't most casinos have functioning surveillance ? If your piece of the puzzle is, in fact, the whole puzzle, your junta's ineptitude has now entered uncharted waters. On the other hand, if they looked the other way, it is the first smart thing they have done in over three years.
Has it been proven yet that she exited via a casino? My comment was revealed, as in up to now, I prefer not to speculate on the unknown. Of course her supporters will claim the junta is either complicit or incompetent, if only as a distraction from the fact that their favourite corrupt politician did a runner, aided and abetted by corrupt police. Plus a few distortions involving chronology, such as who can blame her after Boonsong's big sentence.
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9 minutes ago, Si Thea01 said:
Why are you forever going off topic. This isn't about religion or what else you have listed. Tell me how this is relevant to the thread, "Abbot gets headbutted?" Has no bearing at all.
The question was asked of somebody else who is attributing the majority of violence to a specific group. If you found it irrelevant, you could simply have ignored it.
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2 hours ago, Krataiboy said:
Oh, come on! These silly stories being put out from official sources and dutifully retailed by the tame Thai media really are getting beyond a joke.
The woman was on 30 million baht bail, for Pete's sake, and on the brink of being sentenced.
Is the regime seriously expecting an incredulous world to believe that, having seen her alleged fellow conspirator get a huge jail sentence, Yingluck might well have wished to escape? And that, with all the hi-tech security apparatus at their disposal, her movements weren't being minutely monitored around the clock to thwart this possibility"
If she really did slip through their fingers, the junta deserves to go down as one of the most incompetent in the nation's history.
Small wonder the international media continues to speculate about them looking the other way to get rid of major thorn in their side without making Yingluck martyr and possibly sparking a peasants' uprising.
There are still a few stones yet to be turned as the halfhearted "hunt" for the fugitive ex-PM rambles on.
A month after her vanishing act, we have not heard a peep from Yingluck's 10-year old son and his father, whom I gather are still in Thailand. It is hard to believe that neither of them have been left for over a month with no idea where Mummy has gone or how she got there. Has anybody thought to ask them the obvious questions?
In the West, reporters would have been doorstepping Yingluck's family and splashing heartbreaking stories about the loved ones she left behind and their take on her disappearance. Yet all we get here is a succession of conflicting official stories about as hard to swallow as week-old somtam. What a pathetic farce.
How did Yingluk see her "alleged fellow conspirator get a huge jail sentence" prompting her to skip bail when it happened 2 days after she left the country? Fortune teller, crystal ball perhaps?
Whose job is it to ensure those on bail don't skip the country, the government, the military, or the police? Your concept of a "peasant's uprising" is interesting, if rather fanciful, but the martyr decided she wouldn't risk 10 years of her life on it being a non-event.
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34 minutes ago, simple1 said:
As you're Australian I am sure you are well aware of the aggression and extreme POV by a number of Australian right wing groups. You would capable of recalling your own posts and other members supporting right wing propaganda memes.
So would those threatening to kill people for insulting allah be considered right or left wing?
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19 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:
Current gauge is 1 meter but intention is to upgrade to International gauge during implementation of the projects
No it is not. The plan is to have separate systems on different gauges.
"The programme includes 14 new routes of one-metre-gauge railways with a total length of 2,352km..........There are also eight standard-gauge railway projects with a total length of 2,457km..."
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As the push to reduce CO2 emissions intensifies, don't be surprised if these people are remembered as irresponsible fools. At 4700GWh this dam's output will replace 4 million tons of CO2 emissions each year, it is 20 times the output of the 250ha Nyngan solar farm, its energy is available 24/7, and its output can be used to replace hot standby fossil fueled generation needed for system control of solar and wind generation (with almost zero cost).
I would not be surprised if in the future the dams on the Mekong are not linked with pumps and pipelines to reverse much of the flow (as they do with the Snowy scheme in Oz) during the hours when solar energy is plentiful.
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Despite all the claims of government involvement, so far the plot revealed is corrupt politician is assisted by corrupt police to skip bail and flee the country. Who would have expected that?
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36 minutes ago, joeyg said:
Analyze this...
Red Sea Pedestrians.
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7 minutes ago, silent said:
Quite the mismatch. He misses her with a shotgun, but she pings him with a 357. Someone like that needs life insurance.
Not any more.
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On 9/22/2017 at 3:26 PM, Rancid said:
Would seem some have lost the plot on what actual Buddhism is supposed to be all about, even the bible mentions the likelihood of a rich man passing through the eye of a needle being more likely that ascension to heaven. Seems a few F's on the karmic scorecard will be in order.
Mathew 19:24 "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
Try to get it right.
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We have misunderstanding due to using different terms. What you call normal water level, I call maximum working level - there is no such thing as "normal level" it varies day to day. What you call maximum level is not. At that level there is no water flowing over the spillway, for that to happen the level has to be higher, and for significant flow it has to be significantly higher. i referred to this as cresting the spillway, you refer to cresting the dam wall, something the design of the dam tries to prevent. This 'uncontrolled flow' is a safety mechanism built into the dam design, it is not particularly unusual, and is in no way a sign of imminent collapse. Dams are designed to handle levels considerably higher than spillway level, and it takes huge inflows of water to raise that level rapidly in a large dam.
During the 2011 floods, Wivenhoe Dam (near Brisbane) had huge spillway flows but the emergency spillway level was not reached.
"The largest ever recorded inflows for the dam occurred in January 2011.[12] On 11 January 2011, Wivenhoe Dam reached its highest level ever, 191% of normal water supply storage capacity, as it held back floodwater.[13] Because it is an embankment dam, it was not designed to spill over its crest or overtop and there is a risk that if waters spilled over the crest, this could erode the dam wall and potentially cause the dam to fail.[7] In this scenario the water level would need to rise to 225% capacity. To prevent this, the dam was designed and built to include a second emergency spillway.[7] During the peak of the flooding event the dam water level reached 60 centimetres (24 in) below the auxiliary spillway height."
The Thai dam in question is nowhere near spillway height, in no danger of causing floods or collapse.
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12 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:
Well my experience as a passenger , and this guy's experience as a driver suggest that they do not know the destination in advance.
As for bidding, I think that cannot be correct either - I get a price from Uber before they transmit my ride request. They cannot confirm a price prior to requesting a driver if the driver has to bid.
What information do Uber drivers know before they choose to pick up a passenger?
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Your destination is not shown until I arrive and swipe "Arrived".
Not sure which country that is referring to, but it is not how I understand the situation in Australia. OTOH I am not a UBER customer, relying on reports from dissatisfied/rejected by UBER service. What I do understand is that using a marginally cheaper service they are reducing the number of regulated fare taxis on the road, thus increasing the number of "busy" periods when UBERs multiplied fares are applied.
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2 minutes ago, farcanell said:
Me?
scaremongering?
it wasn't me who said the damn was at 100% capacity.... maybe you should look up a definition for "100% capacity"
It will probably say something like.... the maximum allowable level in a container/vessel/damn (whatever).... which should not be exceeded
i would guess that when the design engineers decided (calculated) what the maximum capacity should be, they were thinking about "maximum capacity"... why would you want to work that calculated figure downwards, increasing the risk of damn failure, by exceeding the engineers definition of what they determined to be the "maximum capacity"
Anywho.... as you like.... back to reality (ie... the OP)
from the link, the damn engineers say the level exceeds maximum capacity but it can take more water before the water crests (bursts its banks... erodes external wall and structure... which leads to failure)
anywho.... now back to your reality.
It appears you not only don't understand, you don't want to understand. At crest, water will flow over the spillway, the only failure is your lack of comprehension.
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3 minutes ago, Cadbury said:
No one can ever have as much knowledge about everything as Pumpkin Head. We should be grateful he shares it with us. Seems he is also an expert in electrical engineering as well as water management. As someone once said:
"Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't"
Let me know when I am factually wrong on matters of fact rather than opinion. Do you ever post facts rather than biased slurs?
Pheu Thai dismisses chance of Prayut returning as PM
in Thailand News
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I wonder why he doesn't talk about the corruption, ineptitude, negligence and waste of his party's last government. Best forgotten, right.