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Eureka, what an idea!  Someone should have thought of this long ago!  Let's have the banks use this thing called an ID card to visually identify the person opening a bank account!!!  Hey, they can even match the ID photo with the face of the person holding the card!!!  WOW, BRILLIANT idea!  And if the photo ID does not show a person wearing a face mask then the person using it needs to remove any face mask!!  

They're truly on to something here in the land of new and creative ideas!  This concept could really catch on throughout the rest of the world!  Thanks Thailand, you're an innovative hub without peer.

Ahh, the benefits of having 19+ dead friends who let you borrow their expensive watches!  

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

Can our college students think? Or, to be more precise, are they being taught to think? Even more important, can their teachers and instructors think?

No . . . and, no . . . and, NOOOOOOO !   

Thinking requires work so, NFW!

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

The case of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan’s luxury watches, for instance, has caught the public’s attention, not only over what appears to be a case of one of the junta’s most powerful figures seemingly having unusual wealth, but also in terms of the how NACC president Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, who once worked closely with Prawit, will deal with the investigation.

Definitely need a watchdog to watch the Watch Dog who has too many watches! 

45 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The new Minister for Tourism and Sports Weerasak Kowsurat has spoken of his desire to lower accidents and crime directed at tourists in Thailand.

"if wishes were horses then beggars would ride"

Thailand is so fortunate to have such a concerned "wisher".  Seriously, I'm amazed at how each of then many people standing with him were able to keep from grinning or outright laughing.

But, TIT!

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

When a driver has lost all points, they would be banned for driving for a certain period of time

Since so many Thai driver don't bother with a license anyway I don't see this as being a tremendous advantage.  Thailand still needs a real police force to enforce laws in the first place.  If anything, it will only serve to encourage larger bribes to the BIB to turn the other way.  Certainly Thai driving is a problem but lack of effective, honest policing is a worse issue since it lets the reckless Thai drivers go unchecked.

This sounds like a blatant threat that should his sidekick get the boot, then Adolf Prayut will make life miserable for those who cross him.  The true colors are beginning to show very vividly.  Very scary!

Does this mean that the world can not trust Thailands' integrity.  Please say it isn't so.  I always trusted Thai to keep their word, to be honest and above reproach.  Now I'm beginning to have doubts about the existence of Santa Claus.  My world is crumbling!  

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thais not yet in the habit of driving safely

Oh really! ! ! !   I am shocked by this startling revelation!  I just thought that they were more suicidal than the rest of the known world.  

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

THE NATIONAL Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has given Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan 30 days to explain how he obtained a flamboyant Richard Mille wristwatch and diamond ring

Thirty days!  I guess they figure it would take that long to train this guy to make up a plausible BS story that the NACC could save face with.  Surely, it does not take this long to ask a few simple questions and get to this guy's response on record.  I have to think one can remember how one came into possession of assets that are that expensive.  It's not like they are asking when and how he purchased his last package of toilet paper! ! ! !  One has to wonder, are there any honest officials at all in Thailand?  How is the public to believe anything that this administration has to say?  There is absolutely no accountability or transparency!  

7 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

A simple question.

Just how difficult could it be for the Thai police and military assigned to these operations, to surreptitiously follow these suspects until they reach their final destination?

Can they not do covert operations using unmarked vehicles and plain clothes officers that are not obviously cops or soldiers?

 

Well let's see . . . The police had Yingluck's house staked out and she drove right out of the place . . . !

I'd say pretty damn difficult for these meatheads!

Maybe it was her cooking that attracted men because it sure wasn't her looks!!!!! Definitely a two bagger.

Enforcement of the law is an essential factor, yet too often it is ignored

This has to go into the Guinness Book of records as the greatest understatement of all time!  When has anyone here ever come upon a vehicle that was being cited by police for a moving violation apart from the standard city corner stops of motorcycles for the purpose of raising beer money?

How did they keep it from melting?!?!?!? 

Come on!!!!  It's so much less trouble just to make excuses than it is to devise a constructive course of action.  Besides, all the Thai engineers were playing with their cell phones for the entire 10 minutes that they taught disaster prevention and warning systems in the university.

But . . . I never read anywhere that being a passport forger or vendor was a job that was prohibited for foreigners?!?!?!?!?  Foreigners just can't catch a break in Thailand.  

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“In order to develop our STEM education, we cannot work alone to achieve this goal,” Teerakiat said. “We need help from outside and to work together.

Of course they do.  They need people from outside Thailand who are actually educated and capable of creative and innovative thinking from whom they can copy or plagiarize from.  

I just wish Thailand was just as eager to prosecute criminals as they are to grab their money but it's hard to overcome the inbred money-first nature of this country.

Just goes to show what happens when a nation of "me first" is allowed to operate motor vehicles. 

The monks should learn to behave like government officials.  Oh, wait a minute . . . they are.  So much for the pot calling the kettle black!  

Talk, talk, talk!  I remember the old advertising slogan, 'Where's the beef?'  Let's see even the smallest amount of improvement amid all this non-stop rhetoric.  Talk is cheap and in Thailand, cheap is always number one.

They discovered the simple truth:

If you take a teacher aptitude level of zero and multiply it by 5 years the result is zero.  Therefore, multiplying it by four years is still zero and you save the cost of one additional year.  

So yeah, it makes perfect sense.  

Now if they can raise incoming teacher aptitude level to a value greater than zero, well then maybe there will be some progress.  It seems that it all starts in the foundational years.

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Efforts should also be 

undertaken to make honest police officers proud about what they do . . .

That's easy just give the two or three of them an award and promote them to be in charge of all the other clowns.

Will probably be a two-faced coin!