halloween

8 hours ago, baboon said:

I don't really see how there could be, any more than a law that could prosecute Thai nationals from gambling outside the country in territories where gambling is legal.

And yet, those same PTP members go to great lengths to deny any influence on the party they represent, a lie made obvious by the party slogan.

While consorting may not be a crime, Surapong delivering a passport to Thaksin would be considered aiding and abetting of a fugitive in any court.

16 hours ago, YetAnother said:

what does that mean? ; they are all junta stooges; it is like me going into a hardware store and saying :' i have 7 dogs'

As he wa speaking to PTP members it is quite clear that it means "Do as you are told or the money stops."

BTW I can only assume you are lying about the dogs.

18 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

I dont think that's correct halloween...(although they certainly can not tell if you just defaced the vote paper, when you have entered the booth.)

The compulsory vote as I am sure you know is for a reason that has nothing to do with representation or with Democracy....Just with the amount of money each vote is worth.

 

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Yes, that is what they tell you, but after having your name crossed off and being handed a ballot paper(s) there is no compulsion to fill it out correctly or deposit it. Compare this to Thailand, where destroying or defacing your ballot paper is an offence that could have (and has) the voter

arrested and charged.

9 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

You don't know what you are talking about.

You are making it up as you go along.

 

I would guestimate an average of 20-25% of individual members of most back patch clubs are "individually" up to illegal activity.

I would further guestimate, if you include D&D, theft, assault, gbh and other "minor" crimes, that probably 35- 50% of members have a criminal record.

As you can see in the above figures, some people in the club may be up to no good, whilst others hold down jobs, and whilst others are self employed, and many (up to half) may have a criminal record (not difficult), none of these figures prove it is a "criminal organization". Hence why I can't think off the top of my head that a complete chapter, anywhere, has been prosecuted in such a manner. Successfully. Individual members yes, whole club, no.

Having an occupation, even minimum wage employment, makes it much more difficult to prove income was gained from illegal activity. Self employment in cash businesses (such as tattoo parlours) is preferred, you can even "employ" a few of your mates.

On 2/18/2018 at 2:01 AM, thaiguzzi said:

So it would be fine if he wore a long sleeved shirt? Then you could not see them, and he would have a "very high mentality"....

 

Believe me, the safest neighborhoods in any city in any country are the ones that have a back patch mc clubhouse there.

Ask any normal 9-5 family who lives near a mc clubhouse in an inner city area - no street crime - happy neighbors.

And if you have a complaint about late night exhaust noise, occasional drive by shootings, drunken brawls and drug dealing to your children, just knock on the clubhouse door for a warm reception.

On 2/18/2018 at 1:50 AM, frank0424 said:

Also says he has been working for the same company for the last 35 years

But in what position? Failing to upgrade his citizenship shows a definite lack of ambition.

On 2/17/2018 at 8:28 PM, car720 said:

I have had PR for 65 years and no citizenship.

You have to vote if you are a citizen and I don't believe a basically honest man should have to choose between 2 proven liars.

If you were a citizen you would know there is no compulsion to vote, only to have your name crossed off at the polling station. Good luck on your next o/s trip.

7 hours ago, overherebc said:

I do have quite a bit of sympathy for the lady even if the reaction was a bit OTT. A very sharp knife in two tyres would have been a better solution, one front, one rear would have worked even better. Then insurance doesn't cover it. ?

Done on the QT then watch the effort to get it fixed.

A smarter method is to cut rhe rubber valve stem on the tyre, which deflates just as effectively without causing expensive damage which you may end up paying for.

7 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Prostitution is illegal in Haiti, so a crime has been committed - although usually not pursued by the police there.

 

In other articles there are suggestions of under age girls, even paedophilia.

 

Also, seems there is plenty of evidence of aid workers using their position and donations to buy sex, which is disgraceful.

 

This is from Wiki -

 

 

So by the UN count, about one a week. I'm sure that caused a spike in the crime statistics.

Ex-husband says "Why am I not surprised?"

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The source said its executives and politicians were aware of the law and would never allow intervention by an outsider.

Un-named source - I wouldn't put my name to such a blatant lie either.

12 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Egat argued that it cannot add more transmission lines to the south because of the narrow gap along the route. Hence it must build a power plant in Krabi. Yet, it does run an existing transmission line there now as you recognize. It doesn't take much to add another line through the gap for additional energy backup.

Now Energy Minister Siri Jirapongphan admits that it is not necessary that coal-fired power plants must be located in southern provinces. That's also an implicit admission that another transmission line can be run through the gap to serve the south.

So it appears that the people were right to protest the inadequacy of the EIA. That's no BS.

 

There are 2 lines to the south, does that mean there must be room for 3? How about 4 ? the transmission lines aren't for backup, they are continually in use and near maximum load. Your implicit admission is BS.

3 hours ago, Srikcir said:

How about combined cycle gas turbine power plants?

• Gas turbines are found to be more efficient than coal power plants at full load and at minimum complaint load.
• Start-up times in gas turbines range between 4–45 min in hot starts and 4–250 min in cold starts, while start-up times in coal power plants range between 100–300 min in hot starts and 450–900 min in cold starts. (better operational efficiency)
• At full load, NOx, CO and CO2 emissions are on average 50 to 100% higher in coal plants than in gas plants. (lower emission control costs)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032117309206

Estimates of power plant overnight capital costs ($/kw) in 2016:

• Ultra Supercritical Coal (USC)    3,636
• Natural Gas Combined Cycle         978

compared to

• Biomass                                          4,985
• Tracking Photovoltaic                   2,644

(Table 1)

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost/pdf/capcost_assumption.pdf

 

 

All very nice. Where does the gas come from? What is the fuel price differential?

BTW we have a combined cycle unit in the south, near Hat Yai.

2 hours ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

If the leaders want these dirty power plants so much, why don't they build them next to their own houses?

They were to be built in the south because southern Thailand has an energy deficit, importing much of its power from the north by transmission cables. When they fail due to overloading, we sit around in the dark  because of this lack of generating capacity, a situation which will continue because green activists feed ignorant villagers BS about the dangers of coal-fired generation.

Of course those same villagers are happy to have far more polluting brown coal stations in the north supplying their electricity needs, and I'm sure they don't complain when their lights go out.

On 2/8/2018 at 4:43 PM, HerbalEd said:

Many articles on the pharmacology and medical use of vincamine in the treatment of leukemia and other cancers are easily found with a simple Google search. You obviously didn't look.

I did look, and leukemia had very mentions, and not once did I see the word cure. But I'm sure you have links??

2 hours ago, HerbalEd said:

As if you guys actually know anything about this herbalist's success rate.

 

Conventional medicine doesn't exactly have great success treating cancer -- some times they do, and sometimes they don't. I've seen way too many people who died of cancer therapy (e.g., chemo and radiation) before the cancer killed them. I've also seen many cancer patients either cured or greatly improved with the use of medicinal herbs, natural whole-foods diet, immuno-modulation, etc. But to be fair, I've seen many die in spite of using natural therapies -- same as conventional medicine. 

 

BTW,  every year tens-of-thousands of children world-wide are cured of leukemia by the use of the natural chemical, vincamine, which is extracted from the Madagascar Periwinkle (Vinca rosea). 

BTW you might think your miracle cure might get a mention on the internet if it cures tens of thousands. Well kept secret?

27 minutes ago, dexterm said:

Oh, sorry.

I'd imprison foreign criminals.

..except of course people who flee war, torture, starvation and terror seeking protection and asylum and register as refugees are not foreign criminals.

Question for you: Do you regard the millions of Jews who fled the Holocaust foreign criminals, who deserved to be locked up and deported back to where they came from?

 

The only criminals in this instance are the Israeli government, who are breaking international and Israeli law.

Until they are exposed as not being genuine refugees, but seeking material gain, when they become illegal immigrants - the epitome of foreign criminals.

Answer, yes. Where is the holocaust that the millions of Africans are fleeing, or did just want to throw in a straw argument?

Many countries are facing a huge influx of illegal immigrants posing as refugees, causing the host countries huge expense and social upheaval. Should we allow that to happen?

Even if we don't get snow, we still have snowdroppers.

2 hours ago, dexterm said:

"Though it is a signatory to the convention, Israel has only recognised eight Eritrean and two Sudanese asylum seekers as refugees since 2009, according to UNHCR. Two hundred Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region were also granted humanitarian status.

 

Israel has pressured asylum seekers and refugees to leave the country for years, through a series of restrictive laws, the threat of arrest and detention at the Holot prison [contrary to Israel's own Supreme court ruling], and limits on their movement and access to employment and education.

 

According to Rozen, the government has maintained a policy that aims to make life in Israel so unbearable for asylum seekers that they choose to leave on their own."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/israel-pushes-deport-asylum-seekers-rwanda-171121125548203.html

 

I assumed you were using the generic, impersonal pronoun "you" in your question "what else would you do with foreign criminals?", so I replied in similar vein. Maybe better if you use the pronoun "one" in future to avoid confusion and hurt sensitivities.

When I used the pronoun "you" I did so accurately, asking you a question, which you declined to answer. From your indiscriminate use of it, I can only assume you are American.

4 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

You're a very confused person. Genetic selection operates on the individual level. You're using the word "selection" in a way that has nothing to do with genetics. Words used in a scientific way have a specific circumscribed meaning. What you're doing here has nothing to do with the scientific meaning of selection natural or otherwise.

55555. Yeah right. So you reject that civilisation has changed Homo sapiens. It is a form of directed selection, that makes some of us different from the beasts.