Led Lolly Yellow Lolly

True story: My sister in law drives a Fortuner. She just drives it and drives it. If any lights come on, she just drives and drives. Whatever happens, she just drives and drives and drives. Eventually the engine falls apart and it's taken to the Toyota dealership. It stays there for a couple of weeks while they rebuild the engine. Last time it was ~50,000 Baht (not much damage I guess). . . She gets it back, and drives and drives and drives, and the process repeats ad infinitum. I don't understand it, I just don't understand it, but you know about Thais and red lights right?. . . she just drives and drives and drives, and drives. . . Moral of the story, don't buy a used car in Thailand.

No, really?!!

What surprises me more than anything, other than the fact I never once visited this 'Stickboy' website (I spend A LOT of time online, data is my business, and my memory of Thailand goes back a looooooong way) is that this topic made it to 5 pages already. Now, if you want to know which websites are lamentably lost, for example, Mango Sauce, Not The Nation and some other 'unmentionables'. I can't see the website of this topic ever making it into the annals of Thai website legend. Nope, I just can't see it. . .

By 'difficult' this poster means 'proper'.

You see, this is why I hate the internet, it exposes me to shjt like this. The only thing to do is post a useless comment. Ergo. . .

Meh, if you build it they'll come. . . No really!. . .

As with anything of this nature, it'll take at least a few months for the details to settle into place. If there is a writing test in the Thai script, this is going to hamstring my application even though I have reasonable spoken Thai. It's not clear to me at this time if I'm going to have to get my son to teach me to read write as a matter of urgency.

I find it a little jarring that a certain group of people were exempted from the language requirement. How can anyone in all conscience apply for citizenship when they can't even communicate in the national language.

I bet you were the first person to update your phone so you could make use of 20 Gbps, you just never know when you need to watch 8 16K movies on a 5 inch screen at the same time, you just never know (snigger)

Ditto that. I'm fresh off the place compared to you, I've only been here a couple of decades, but in that time I've whittled down the farang friendships to one or two. Thai friends two or three, one of them calls me his big brother. He was educated in Australia though so he has a clear concept of farangism.

Krungsri must be getting serious about fraud protection because last night my Krungsri credit card got temporarily suspended. They sent me an automated email asking if the transactions were genuine, "Just answer yes or no to the email". I answered 'yes' and my credit card was working again in 10 minutes. I have a lot of asymmetric routing on my network and the transaction appeared to Krunsri to have come from Singapore and the UK at the same time via my networking in those countries, even though I was in my office in Thailand. This was the cause of the temporary block, the IPs were listed in the email they sent me. I was actually very impressed.

YEAH< IT"S LIKE THOSE JERKS THAT TELL YOU NOT TO TALK WITH FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH< LIKE SOME KIND OF ARROGANT SOCIAL ETIQUETTE JERKS> LIKE SHOUTING IN SOMEONE"S FACE> WHY CAN"T I JUST SHOUT IN THEIR FACES LIKE I CAN BEHIND A KEYBOARD RIGHT? IDIOTS>>>IFTHEYCAN"TREEDMYRITINGIT"STHEIRFOLT

. . . . a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. . . .

I married into money. A ha ha ha. Idiots. I guess I'm the only one here with a real marriage. A ha ha. A ha ha ha ha ha. . . . . A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. . .

Plenty of Thai registered vessels in Thai waters second hand from China, still with Chinese written all over them. Most if not all the ferries to Samui and Phangan are ex-China (I'm pretty sure most of those are ready to sink too).

Amazing, the ship has likely been adrift for weeks, months, years, and they manage to sink it four days after discovering it. Incompetence or deliberate, not sure which. . .

^^^ I'm pretty sure the above applies anywhere in the world. Obviously you need more in Switzerland.

I'll add something about ISPs and speedtest. I'm a networking guy, I know all the tricks. It's trivial for the ISP to falsify your speedtest results, they just burst your speed whenever you do a speed test (they know the IPs of the speed test servers). The only customers getting the speeds they actually pay for are leased line customers. Everyone else is having their speed faked or using burst bandwidth. They never notice because they never need or use anything more than a hundred Mbps in reality. The ISPs know this. You're all getting the same package on the same terms, on an over-subscription model, just with a different marketing stunt.

My main site has a couple of kilometres of 6 core armoured fibre, I just threw it up onto power poles (private system). Each core capable of 10 Gbps with lower end SFP+ modules. I'm only using two cores, each with 1 Gbps modules in a LAGG aggregation group to give 2 Gbps between buildings. I don't expect I'll need to upgrade the SFPs for another 10 years at least, and the fibres should last decades after I've retired, this is even with supplying IPTV to all the rooms

Hardly. I can barely keep up with my workload. . . and a key consulting skill is saving money for clients i.e. you only pay for what you need. Even if the ISP did give you 2.5 Gbps (they won't) most if not all web based services wouldn't even be able to supply you with such speeds (even speedtest.net servers usually only have a 1000BASE-T connection). It's ridiculous, and so are you for even trying to argue the point with someone with my background.

In what way actually? I follow the rules. Nobody makes that hard for me. No really, in what way?

Actually they're helping you, although it may not feel like it. It doesn't help them (or you) if they keep sending faulty applications up the line to their superiors for inspection and signature.

I'm an IT consultant and I take my connectivity pretty seriously. We also run a large hotel (where my home office is located). Even when we're full, over 200 rooms, I don't think I ever saw usage peak over 1 Gbps. I have 4 fibre lines for redundancy and a 4G backup gateway of last resort. The aggregate speed of all these connections is something like 4 Gbps. Even when the hotel is full and I'm moving massive files over the network between offices, I struggle to saturate the lines. . . I'll say it again, anyone that thinks they need 2.5 Gbps at home needs their head examining. It's bonkers stupid.

I did it myself in my office because any noise really pj$#es me off. It's pretty quiet here, we're surrounded by fields and the village is at least 500 metres away, but as already pointed out, bass is the problem and it travels miles. The lower the frequency, the more room space you're going to lose to stop the sound with soundproofing. Bass frequencies need air gaps of several feet to collapse the sound wave and absorb it due to the long wavelength. The gap also needs to be above the ceiling and below the floor otherwise you achieve nothing. It's extremely expensive and it's an enormously complicated field of expertise and I actually really enjoyed researching it.