7 minutes ago, Stoker58 said:

So how would that be “national security” if you are just using an app? I mean, you could be anywhere in the world and do that.

No exactly your IP connection see where you are, if you don't want a squad team that breaks your door at 4 am to send you to prison, it's not worth giving false indications

I still haven't figured out what the TM30 is for, do you really think anyone Io is interested in knowing if I have returned home ?

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Prison.......????

Yes same, I travel with bodyguards all the time.

31 minutes ago, donnacha said:

Yeah, absolutely. That's something I really enjoy when I'm there. Not something you'd imagine would be important, but it is somehow.

 

 

Everyone talks about his own experiences, for me the Filipinos are the last country that you will go for the lack of security and the chronic predisposition to lie about everything, difficulty receiving a menu in English in the best restaurants, extremely hot and humid 50 C ° , if you are not with someone who speaks one of their dialects you are completely lost. Truly a bad experience.

58 minutes ago, Artisi said:

That could also be in doubt. 

Buying with tax money I assure you that it is very easy to be efficient, for the results purchased is another story. See the construction of the new railway lines that will serve for the logistics of armoured vehicles.

1 hour ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

Funded by a 50 baht rise AOT fee on taxis...

Yes after waiting An hour and a half to Don Muang to enter the smile country I have to wait another 10 minutes and pay 50 baths for have the right to take the taxi, a really brilliant idea to attract more tourists

20 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I would like to know is that beach really in Thailand if so where?

Chumpong last year after tempest is same this, all garbage on the roads and land around Chumpong go on the beach, natural cleaning land and dirty see,  a garbage island had  also formed on the see, Gov send soldiers for cleaning beach and sea after few days.

18 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

Yinn I respect you but there is no "reason" or excuse for this. This is on the side of the road dumped into the water of a large pond. 

The Thai people who did this saw the pond. They know it was there and what they were doing. They just don't care. 

and you know and I know EVERYWHERE you go in Thailand you will see the same.

I hike in the mountains above Hua Hin and west to the border. Garbage everywhere you look.  

 

I agree, To stay healthy every morning I walk 3/4 km in Hua Hin to breathe in fragrant air of garbage

Did Einstein say “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

When I have to wait to verify the Einstein theory ?

Every year the same photo changes only the actors, but this year they have also put the empty packaging boxes, good progress

3 hours ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said:

You are miss informed. Thailand has an aging population and in most rural areas there are very few people around that are willing to pull weeds. At present we are paying B 500 per day for people to spray herbicide. No one we asked was prepared to pull weeds, not even at B 600 per day. As for productivity 1 person can spray about 7 to 10 rai per day. If you pull weeds it will take about 10 mandays to do the same work (B 500 x 10 = B 5000) vs chemicals (B 500 + B 1500 = B 2000). Do this 3 times a year and the cost of production increases by B 600 per rai. If you only net B 3000 per rai this increase is massive.
The other major problem is that many herbicides thats available in the US, UK and EU is not available here. Due to the extensive use of glyphosate and paraquat the chemical companies never registered these alternatives here. If these 2 herbicides are banned very few alternatives exists.
Lets go through a few alternatives. On rice and corn farmers will go from paraquat to 2,4d, MCPA and/or Diquat. Farmers will replace the use of glyphosate with Basta, 2,4d and a host of other products. Unfortunately many products named here are already banned in many other countries.
We farm with fruit trees and have been trying out alternatives. It is a nightmare. We will have to go from using 1 chemical to using 2 and from spraying once every 3 to 4 months to every 2 months. Many alternatives also leach into groundwater which we cannot allow as we rely on it for household consumption.
For city folks it looks simple but with available chemicals in the country is has become very complicated. Unfortunately the civil servants are clueless and are of no help to farmers.
The correct way to handle this ban would have been to indentify acceptable alternatives first and then register them for use inside the country. When sufficient stock are inside the country and farmers have been trained about the new products the ban can be effected. As things are going now it is a disaster in the making.

 

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For fruit trees the Thai have a natural and very simple solution for free, to my knowledge for lemons tree, I don't know if it also works for other fruit trees or maybe other solutions it will be lost in the Thai collective memory, one thing and certain that before these products so easy to spread they have damaged Thai farmers in the first place.

21 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

I have an old gf in Isaan. Talking with her the other day and she says she has done a switcheroo and changed over to Catholic. She says she got sick of the grasping monks. All take and no give.

She has not yet understood how Catholic priests work, travel Pope is Thai catholic pay

""Thailand will use the warship to conduct naval transport missions, boosting the country’s troop deployment capability in the high seas. """

What country landing ???

2 hours ago, Mac98 said:

1) Every foreign resident must own an operational cell phone.

2) The cell phone must be on your person at all times, including in the shower.

3) Your location will be monitored continuously.

4) If you do not take our random robot calls within 3 rings your bank account will be reduced by 5000 baht for each missed call. 

IO thank you for so smart suggestions

Who so naive as the BBC journalist to believe that now the situation improves for the Farang because they talked to the big boss.

This denotes a profound lack of knowledge of the methods of power control in Thailand

33 minutes ago, Joinaman said:

I agree with this ban on plastic, but how are they going to get the mom and pop stores and the yokels to stop offering them

we have a small shop and i get told off when i complain that if people buy more than one small item, they are put in a plastic bag

Same with drinks, plastic cup, plastic top, plastic straw, plastic spoon, plastic holder

I get funny looks at Tesco and 7-11 when i refuse a plastic bag, when all i have bought is either some milk, which has a carry handle built in, or a sandwich

I provide a large waste bin for our customers, and most of the waste is plastic, but with an awful lot just thrown on the road as they walk away too

it would be a good thing if at school there was a teaching program on the protection of one's own territory. Education is the only road that will still be long for a........ few centuries maybe.

15 minutes ago, Myshkin said:

I would chose Thai over Swiss hospitals anytime. There's more compassion for animals than for humans in Switzerland. 

I don't think Prawit search compassion Hospital Switzerland, he have so many Swiss watch problems for buy. ( compulsive purchases )

And I will have to wait a month more to receive my express letter.

7 minutes ago, Petchou said:

Farang specialty is criminal rings, drug trafficking and pedophilia.   No one is competing with them.  

I see you work on IO

2 hours ago, DavisH said:

Friends from Austraila are in Puket at the moment. The beach is empty....nice!

They did the TM30 ? they look rather suspicious so alone

How many days or months he needed to make such a brilliant idea ?

1 hour ago, Pluto56 said:

I get it that plastic bags can result in damage to the environment but in my experience here in Bangkok, I shudder to think of what I would do without them.  Trash disposal would be a nightmare without plastic bags. If you think the smell, rat and roach problem is bad now, just wait until trash is put out in paper bags. I would gladly pay extra at the counter for a biodegradable plastic bag.

Biodegradable plastic bag is not really biodegradable, only scam pub. Paper bag is strong and real bio

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Lots of places in Korea still have this system. Long bench with lots of boxes folded flat and rolls of tape/string etc but it's DIY. Trolleys have coin operated locks as well, you return it, stick the chain end in and get your coin back so you can park without having to move carts out of the way.

Like many countries Europe for many years