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Another problem is the amount of electricity generating when all these dams actually do run dry.

They will have to rotate on a load shedding basis and imported electricity is going to push up everyone's bills.

Here we have less than 20% water in the reservoir (Korat town)., The local water authority have already warned no more than 2 more months of water for the entire city center and this is Thailand's second biggest city.

I have been stocking up on drinking water for the past 2 months. People took the piss when I started doing it, now they are not laughing so loud

You reap what you saw, you mismanage water resources and plant crop after crop and than

when you have a drought you dig wells, what will happened next time when there will be drought

again and these well are dry? dig more wells? where dose it end?

Farmers of Thailand, learn to use, mange and conserve your water resources....

I would normally agree, but it is not those in charge of the water management fiasco that are reaping what they sowed, the farmers are.

I am still to this day seeing farang asking questions about 7/11 90 day reporting.

I actually wonder how many have walked into a 7/11 with their passport

Thought I would bring this up as a lot of farang seem to enjoy pointing fingers at the Thai for being a bit strange.

If the fish is fresh then it will no smell. I kept under ice the same condition applies but only for few hours. So, the question is: How long has the "offending" fish been exposed before it became offensive?

What a non-sensible type of topic to be brought to our flagging senses.

They did tests on it and would be looking for contamanents but also excessive bacteria. If the fish were indeed foul they would have failed the test.

But she passed the test..... so your new accusation holds no water.

I do not agree with the make parents responsible thing.... Yes, if they are under 16 but I have seen racers well into their 30s and you can not make parents responsible for an adult.

I have been telling the wife they should either crush the bikes of all riders who break EVERY road law, or confiscate the bikes and auction them off if they are worth any money for years now. But road racers it must be mandatory.

Last Friday night me and the wife were having some food at a roadside food place and there was a bunch of about 50 racers roaring up and down the duel carriageway constantly on their noisy bikes with drilled out exhausts, and they were pissing everyone off. There were a couple deliberately riding the wrong way up the carriageway in the fast lane with their lighhts off... That was the last straw for me and I told the wife to call the police.

She called them and they said they would send someone, half an hour later still no police, then we left..... There is a very large police station literally 3 minutes drive away from where this was happening.

The thing is.... They can make all the laws they want, if the police have no desire to enforce them, then they are wasting their time and money.

Huge fines and confiscation of bikes or if they are not worth much, then crush them.

Judging by the vast volume of anti-semitic post on this thread. Just tells me that most Thai expats are stupid.

The kids would not have been killed if it were not for the actions of Hamas, which furthermore actually sought Palestian casualties so the whole UN ICC circus could come about.

Wow, i've heard everything now.

Thats like saying if the Jews weren't in Germany there would not have been a holocaust, so its their own fault.

There are just no depths some of you will stoop. Innocent kids murdered by Israel and its always someone elses fault.

The Jews in Germany were not busy lobbing rockets at or trying to kill the Germans. Nor might I add did they use their own children as human shields or cannon fodder in order to make the Germans look bad.

Next.

What mattered was the Germans considered they had enough reason to do it. Much like you saying It was perfectly reasonable for Israel to murder children, its always someone elses fault.

Next

Another bleeding heart who has received his entire middle east education via the liberal western mainstream media.

You opinion counts for nowt.... That is so obvious.

Hamas use schools, hospitals, the elderly and children as sheilds to fire their rockets from to feed the western propaganda machine.

The real genocide will happen to the Isrealis if they were to lay down their arms and ask for peace.

They would be murdered.

It's not an issue to "find common ground between international creditors and Greece.."

It's already exists: Greece owes the international creditors and needs to pay.

The lenders have nothing to fix.

It is the Greeks who must decide if their nation's sovereignty is worth the price to pay its debts. It looks like it may revert back to its original city-states and cease being a nation.

I wonder if Macedonia might be willing to absorb it into its own to capitalize the debt. Call it Macegrekistan.

No way is that ever going to happen.

The Greek people will fight to the death to save their sovereignty.

They will default and get into bed with the mughty bear.

With A Grexit, A Lot Of Politicians And Bankers Would Lose Their Job... So This Must Be Avoided By All Means

http://www.talkmarkets.com/content/us-markets/with-a-grexit-a-lot-of-politicians-and-bankers-would-lose-their-job-so-this-must-be-avoided-by-all-means?post=66794&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=referral

Echo's my own thoughts.

Another reason to speed up the Grexit.

I doubt it will be allowed to happen.

Germany and France have too much to lose.

A Grexit is already very much a done deal. Moscow with be Greece's future lenders.

Tsipras and Sryza will be gone before Christmas if they cave in to the troika, and that same troika is not going to give in to Tsipras and set a precedent which will encourage the other bailed out states Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain who are eaually suffering horrendously from Austerity rules and in some cases suspension oif democracy and almost loss of all sovereignty (Italy) who will insist on the same kid glove treatment, and that will be a real problem for not only the Eurozone but also the entire EU project.

Tsipras alreasdy has a great escape plan in Putin who will be loving sticking one on the EU.... He owes them big time for their interference with Ukraine and their US colluded sancions.

Putin and tsipras are not stupid people.... They have the troika in a very difficult position.

Even if they do strike a deal and the final 7.2 Bn euros is released to them, how long is that goiung to last Greece in their current position????..... They will be back in the same by September at the latest with nowhere else to go. They will be back at looking to default again.... This charade is just delaying the inevitable.

It is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. So appeasment from the troika is not an option because the ripple effect it will have across the other bailout nations will be just too much for them.

The Euro and the EU has been one big failure from the start when they threw vastly varying economies into a single monetary union.

Hello fat cats people of the UN, while you're buy condemning Israel for protecting it self against being wiped out for the face of the earth, there is this little issue over at Syria and Iraq called genocide, where millions of people are loosing everything, including their lives...

Another round of espresso and croissants any one?

Don't be silly. UN is putting in a huge effort to assist the millions of Syrian & Iraqi refugees and where possible IDPs. UN is stymied in coming up with policy to address the conflict in the area due to veto votes in the Security Council. In any case it's the USA led coalition that has the main role is addressing the conflict, not the UN.

To mimic a quote from Stalin 'The UN! How many divisions have they got'

The Muslim states of the middle east should be the ones responsible for addressing these problems if they want to maintain the big porky pie that Islam is the reliion of peace.

Yet they have little desire to do so.

Al Jazera conducted a poll on its Arabic language website asking if you support ISIS and what they are doing in the middle east, the result was 83% support ISIS from a total of 87,000 polled. Give you some idea of how the religion of peace really has its morals.

I say international forces to fortifiy the border with Europe, stop all miugration out of the middle east and just let them destroy themselves and just maybe there will be peace. When they are all dead.

I have had enough of the lot of them, they bring trouble to every place they taint with their very presence.

If there was no invasion of Iraq and no western support of terrorists that wanted to fight against Assad then there would be no ISIS.

I agree.

But a look at the past 1200 years of the history of this death cult called Islam and everyone can see that their agenda of world domination of islam in it purest and most brutal form has never gone away. So it would have been only a matter of time before there would have been another rising up and attempt at domination.

Even without the helping hand of the USA in creating both Al Qaida and ISIS in the first place.

Hello fat cats people of the UN, while you're buy condemning Israel for protecting it self against being wiped out for the face of the earth, there is this little issue over at Syria and Iraq called genocide, where millions of people are loosing everything, including their lives...

Another round of espresso and croissants any one?

Don't be silly. UN is putting in a huge effort to assist the millions of Syrian & Iraqi refugees and where possible IDPs. UN is stymied in coming up with policy to address the conflict in the area due to veto votes in the Security Council. In any case it's the USA led coalition that has the main role is addressing the conflict, not the UN.

To mimic a quote from Stalin 'The UN! How many divisions have they got'

The Muslim states of the middle east should be the ones responsible for addressing these problems if they want to maintain the big porky pie that Islam is the reliion of peace.

Yet they have little desire to do so.

Al Jazera conducted a poll on its Arabic language website asking if you support ISIS and what they are doing in the middle east, the result was 83% support ISIS from a total of 87,000 polled. Give you some idea of how the religion of peace really has its morals.

I say international forces to fortifiy the border with Europe, stop all miugration out of the middle east and just let them destroy themselves and just maybe there will be peace. When they are all dead.

I have had enough of the lot of them, they bring trouble to every place they taint with their very presence.

"there were no U.S. personnel on the ground for the assault."

Likely there was a drone on duty near the target though. Same-same.

How is a drone in the air the same as personnel on the ground?

The USA are not stupid, they can see this is knee jerk reactionary action prior to a review.

They are going to want to see at least a few years of consistent positive results.

They know this is just window dressing.

Here is the irony.........

Had there never been a six month protest and a coup in the first place, then there would have been an election this year anyway.

If there had just been a series of weekly protests against corruption and the rice scheme etc instead of one big long grinding protest the PTP government and rice scheme along with all their 2011 populist policies would have laid in tatters and it would have been very very difficult for Yingluck and Co to be voted back into power.

Could you imagine the state of the rice scheme had it still been running now?.... It would be in hoc for probably a trillion baht and another 10 million tonnes laid rotting in the warehouses. Farmes would not have been paid, unless more money was borrowed to throw at them and the banks would either be going bust or refusing loans to the government.

One could assume the Democrats would have had a very good chance of getting that shower of crap out of power naturally through their mass incompetence and failure in all aspects of government.

The UK's EU referendum will come before the next Thai election, and many people sid we would never see one of those.

Heavy rainfall in Korat yesterday but ground bone dry this morning and river still very very low.

Need at least a month of the same on a daily basis just to get the ground water back up enough to start the klongs and rivers flowing to the reservoirs.

Lamtakong at about 17% capacity with not much of a wet season forecast, so what it will be like here say next January is anyone's guess.

Thailand seems to be completely reliant on the annual monsoon. I dread to think what would happen if one year the monsoon failed. I think it is theoretically possible.

It is actually due to be a lot drier across the year due to el nino. So the monsoon season will be short and dry, then they have to get through another dry season with very low water reserves.

The problem is not NOW it is next year that is going to be the REAL problem.

Not again......

Let's make history everyone.... First lady president...

Last tinme it was Let's make history everyone..... First BLAVCK president.

Look how that turned out.

Probably the world's most racist elections based on skin colour and nothing to do with competency or ability. Now you will get more of the same, based on 'making history' and nothing else.

Turned out pretty good in my oppinion

Although Obama has proved to be disappointing, he's been a massive improvement on his predecessor!

Even Yingluck would have been an improvement on his predecssor.

Not again......

Let's make history everyone.... First lady president...

Last tinme it was Let's make history everyone..... First BLAVCK president.

Look how that turned out.

Probably the world's most racist elections based on skin colour and nothing to do with competency or ability. Now you will get more of the same, based on 'making history' and nothing else.

The dollar is tanking based on what measure? Exchange rates , treasury note demand, foreign currency reserves? The dollar has been trending up the last few years. .. not tanking. The us economy is doing well.... Ukraine. .. not sure how the usa created that conflict. Putin has nothing to.do.with that ... isis a world war.... thats a stretch... but back to.the dollar since that is an easily verifiable claim... can you show me a source that the dollar has been tanking the last few years?... soounds like alot conspiracy theory invest in gold stuff to me

Go back to sleep Mr America.

There is no point trying to explain it or open your eyes to what is happening with the USD, US economy and the US State Dept and the way it orchestrated the Ukraine crisis from start to finish. Because you are just not going to listen.

Just do some youtube searches and you will get plenty of info from USA Experts on the matter... It is no big secret, it is just down to your own blind view.

Meanwhile the US are about to put 5000 troops and battle equipment into Eastern European countries...

THE USA ARE ABOUT TO PROVOKE A WAR...... GET IT?

The fact that Thailand has to boirrow a measly $320 million from the Japanese government screams to me that Thailand has no money. That is a tiny amount of money in the scheme of things unless of course you are flat broke.

The Thai people need to be worried about their future economy, if the government can not come up with an amount of cash that is comparable to 0.1% of its GDP to finance a much needed infrastructural project for their country.

I think you will find that's its normal for countries to take out loans for infrastructure projects.

But then you may well be a world class economist experienced in international finance, if so then I would certainly defer to your superior knowledge.

Possibly its not so surprising they would use loan finance considering the annual repayment of the principal and interest of the loans taken out to finance the Yingluck rice pledging scheme since its inception are 64 billion baht per year.

If $320 is measly and a tiny amount to you perhaps you would like to help out with a small gift of say $100 million.

In relation to my bank account it is a lot of money, in relaton to the nation's GDP it is a piffling amount.

If a government needs to borrow 0.1% of it GDP to fund a relatively small project like that, then it is either a retarded third world African banana republic or it is broke. Normally a government builds its external debts with much bigger G2G loans. I have seen foreign aid donations bigger than that.

Put it this way...... If you phone your friend and ask them to lend you 10 baht, are you in good financial shape???????

100k?

For that payday, you and the wife can fly out of the country on a very nice week's holiday, someplace you can also do the transaction legally, and still have money left over. No laws broken.

Hong Kong comes to mind.

Thank you, that is a very clever and helpful answer. I am due a holiday.

I hope we do not infringe any WP laws while we are away.......

Am I assuming ? based on your deflective responses to date, one can only conclude you don't, otherwise you would have said you had one from the offset, and not have to resort to rude responses.

You will make a terrible policeman then.

There seems to be an obsession on this forum with farangs having or not having work permits.

Why come here and ask for advice, if you are not willing listen to the answers??

Soutpeel gave you a sensible reply, telling you to keep a low profile if no WP. And a rude reply from you.

So my advice is: Do what the <deleted> you want, nobody cares....................

the amusing thing occurred to me reading his OP was that if he didn't have a WP, (and hence my question) why would he be worried about the legality of doing a gambling website anyway, it not like they would pull his WP for doing something illegal, as he was already doing something illegal in the first instance...

But the big question that you have failed to answer is

Is it illegal?

Another thig you are only assuming is that I don't have a WP.

Regardless of my response. My WP status is nothing to do with the OP is it? and even less to do with members on here...... I just amusingly pointed out the INFATUATIOON most members have on here about other people's WP status.

To be quite frank, I do not need advice about WPs that is not what I was asking, I was asking if any member knows if it illegal to build a gambling website. I am not even building the <deleted!> thing so my WP has sod all to do with it.

100k baht? Not a huge amount really.

Fly out of Thailand and do the deal if you're that nervous.

I should have said in my original post. I have already made up my mind that I am not working on this myself.

It is my wife who wants to go ahead with it. I am trying to put her off the idea, but if it were to happen I would certaily insist she is no more than a middle man.