Led Lolly Yellow Lolly

7 hours ago, connda said:

Actually this explains a lot.  My guess is that less than 5% of the population has every had formal driver training and most have never learned the rules of the road.
 

I think they're all well aware of the rules but the enforcement just doesn't exist in any meaningful way. Case in point: In any sane mind, a red light is a mandatory stop. In Thailand, it's just seen as a suggestion.

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

There really is no reason for your wife not to enter on her Thai passport. 

 

Yet so many Thai nationals enter on a foreign passport. I really scratch my head about that. I think they get a kick out of showing their friends a 30 day stamp, like some kind of badge of honour that they have to get out soon or be in trouble. Morons.

It's difficult to argue, the pink ID is morphing from being a useless curiosity to a must have.

This week my wife went to do some kind of paperwork regarding my social security. They insisted my SS ID be changed to the number on my pink ID card. My old SS card can now be tossed in the bin apparently.

Scheduling and cashflow skimming are de rigueur in big projects anywhere. You ever heard of HS2 or the Boston Big Dig? Crooked to the core.

Without wishing to appear supportive of military governance, it's difficult to argue things don't get done now. No one can argue the country's trunk roads aren't in an infinitely superior state in recent years.

2 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

If the Bangkok-Korat high speed line is anything to go by - don't expect to see completion in your lifetime.

I don't think Thailand is the same country it was that resulted in the Hopewell debacle. I've seen a number of Thai transportation mega projects started and completed in my lifetime.

There were high tension lines buried under our land when we took it over. There were four plinth mounted transformers connected to those cables. My SiL didn't know where the cables were until she ordered someone with a backhoe to go dig some holes and the magic smoke and BOOM came out of the ground. No one hurt fortunately, but the cost to splice the cable was astronomical.

This system has since been replaced with overhead lines on poles and transformers on poles. The problem is that buried cables are out of sight and out of mind and no one bothers keeping records of where they are, and if there are records, no one bothers looking at them. 22,000 volts is not something to just forget about. I hate the fact that the lines and poles are there, but this is how they do it here, generally speaking i.e. as cheap as possible, no other considerations. As another poster said, don't let it ruin you.

Den Chai

Yes

You guessed wrong.

How does pool depth change evaporation rate? This is surely a surface area factor. Sincere question.

Just in case anyone doubts this is happening, anyone using the 1232 road between the city and Wiang Chai town will have noticed the road widening work already underway and all the problems that is causing (broken internet cables etc etc).

It's happening. . .

I can't respond to this archived topic so I'll start a new one.

I have the plans for the new line on my desk. I'll post the part that goes to the east of CR City, a few kilos to the east of superhighway through the centre of town and skirting the west side of Wiang Chai District, I guess this'll be affecting a lot of people. Work begins next month. . .

No it's evaporation. This is a large pool, circumference is 60 or 70 metres, the evaporative losses are huge. We did all the leak tests, there is no leak. Right now there is so much rain, the ball valve is off, the rain out paces the evaporation. High humidity also slows the evaporation rate.

It's getting weirder. A couple of days ago I went to make a complaint to the police about a robbery. The police weren't interested in my passport for their report, they wanted my pink ID card. It's like some switch has been flicked and everyone wants me to show it now. Got to admit I'm scratching my head.

Edit: Nevermind, you're not worth it. You can read it yourself in the post edit history. Rules are meaningless when mods edit legitimate posts to satiate their own views.

I sometimes wonder if there's a fine for driving the right way up a one way street.

We have absolutely loads of Kukris with lateral stripes here, I nearly step on them almost daily... but I never saw a banded one like that. Interesting! What part of Thailand?

She's probably making assumptions about the cabled LAN speed on your notebook i.e. 100BASE-TX as opposed to 1000BASE-T or it's variants, or a limitation on the WiFi throughput. For example, if you have a Gigabit package, you'll never see it if you're only connecting with a 100BASE-TX network card. Stupid really, modern notebooks will do gigabit speeds... but really, as already highlighted above, there are just so many variables end to end and you need a pretty high level of expertise to pin it down for an individual link.

This is in my field of expertise (IT Consultant). Without boring everyone to death, we don't touch anything closed source and any encryption we need to do is done with GPG for static files, and out inter-office networks are secured with OpenVPN tunnels using open source ciphers. . . All Microsoft products are banned on our network.

You can make whatever you want of that. This factoid is shared FoC.

On 3/6/2021 at 3:09 PM, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said:

I have the Tabien Baan, Work Permit, Social Security card, Pink ID, everything you can think of I have it. . . I never used the Pink ID once, for anything. The only thing I can think of where it MIGHT be used it for getting out of some kind of translation hole. In any case, it took 30 minutes to get and cost nothing, so why not have it? IIRC, I believe there is some law that states you are SUPPOSED to get it anyways if you're on a Tabien Baan.

Oddly, since I said that just a few months ago, I've had cause to use my pink ID a number of times and it's started proving very useful. For example. . .

• It was accepted by AIS as ID for registering a SIM card (didn't have my passport with me)
• When ordering a new True internet package yesterday, they told me foreigners have to pay 1 year in advance, but showing pink ID got me treated like a Thai and only pay first month in advance
• A number of other use cases which I can't remember just now, but all in the last few months. Strange that I had it for so many years but all of a sudden it became useful in a flurry of incidents

On 5/6/2021 at 5:08 PM, Pilotman said:

yes, far too much of it goes on, ignored by the Police,  and its a recipe for a crash.  I have only narrowly missed colliding with several motorbikes on the wrong side of the road. It feels like only a matter of time and luck. 

I've got two separate camera systems in my car, one is a normal forward facing dashcam (the backup). . . the other is my own design, it has forward facing, rear and interior cameras, and the video feed is streamed over 4G to a server in Singapore, which is also mirrored to another server in my office for redundancy. . .

If I ever kill one of these morons, I'll be able to prove who's fault it was, and if anyone tries to tamper with the cameras after the fact, I'll have of a video of that too.

There are no commercially available systems that do this, but I'm an IT consultant and have the skills to make it all work. It was costly to set this arrangement up, but it gives me great peace of mind. I can also see the kids getting picked up from school, live from my office, and it makes my wife feel safe too.

PM me if you want the schematics.

On 5/6/2021 at 10:52 AM, bankruatsteve said:

Did the electric supply not include ground wire?  If it didn't, it should have and they should have connected per standard practice.

'Standard practice' in my experience, where they DO bother with a ground, is to use a scrap 8 inches piece of copper coolant pipe from the install, ram it into the nearest patch of soil, wrap a piece of scrap wire around it (any colour will do) and then poke it under a screw of the compressor case.