JBChiangRai

and the very old British

Mine is the same, close to zero every month because I have solar.

The cases are Antec 1200's which allow 20 drives using 5 in 3 hot swappable drive trays, the 2 parity drives are in the back, Intel i3 board from SuperMicro, I think the 8 port HBA's are an IBM device re-flashed to something generic. I can't remember, I've been running them for about 10 years but smaller drives until about 4/5 years ago. As for heat, I have a small room about 2m x 4m which is air conditioned 24/7 and serves another 2 purposes, it's my wine cellar and it houses all the solar power stuff+batteries. The disks are set to spin down after 30 minutes idle.

I prefer to manage my own backups, desktops to server and important stuff in the cloud too. I couldn't backup to BackBlaze anyway, my 2 servers have 22 of 8TB drives in them with dual parity allowing for any 2 disks to fail without loss of data. Currently rebuilding one after a disk failure.

Probably better than me, I am fairly sure I will be ash by then.

The most important thing to remember with 2" blue waste pipe, is keep it clean! Thai ladies love to wash up oily pans and it coats the pipe until they block. I pour a kettle full of boiling water down every 6 months.

I think my last Flu was about 20 years ago too

Try talking to your postman

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I wouldn't disagree with you on early MG models here, but they have substantially improved their quality and are no different now to any other manufacturer. I would challenge any statement about current MG's. Your wife will not have a clue about MG EV's manufactured in China, I would be surprised if any have been manufactured here, and I will always favour Chinese over Thai assembly..

I think we can safely say that people who own and drive these cars know exactly what goes inside our Chinese EV's. Quality parts, engineering and a motivated workforce. An auto part supplier in Thailand wouldn't have a clue what goes into a Chinese EV.

Toyota are backing both H2 & BEV. Their previous Chairman lost his seat for betting on H2 over BEV. Problem with H2 is going to cost you double per mile because of inefficiencies. I would rather be in a BEV when it catches fire as it is invariably a slow start to the ignition, whereas Hydrogen stored under enormous pressure....

Hopefully you already have it here or don't hold it in a suspicious country (i.e. Saudi Arabia)

My friend went to the hospital last week and was told it was Flu, 2 days in bed then up and about. I don't remember my flu ever lasting that short time.

I guess you're already transferring it in the year it was earned, so the law is no change for you. You should be paying tax here if you stay more than 180 days per tax year if you earn it tax free in SA.

In my experience, the short ones are often early morning and because they are connecting a new meter to the grid. The 1-2 hour outages are usually storms, and the all day to 4pm is usually them trimming trees near power lines.

You don't need to if it was taxed at source.

I know the loophole well, my accountant told me a long time ago it will stop at some time and why. They are in effect giving farangs an exemption, any farang who has paid tax overseas. same exemption to Thais. What they have said is quite clear, you pay tax here if your money has not been taxed overseas, so if you're holding it in a tax haven offshore, get ready to prove you paid tax. A major red flag is going to be incoming transfers from tax havens.

They are not going to sell many at that price, Atto 3 looks far better value.

I don't think you understand what they are trying to do. Their sole intention is to be able to challenge large transfers into the country for that party to prove tax has been paid. They have zero interest in foreigners unless you are transferring huge sums into the country. You are right in saying it's not a loophole, it is enshrined in law, but it leads to a loophole. Let me give you an example, Major shareholder in profitable Thai business transfers (say) 100M baht to a company he owns in the UK which is backed up by a consultancy invoice from that UK Co. to Thai Co. Same major shareholder invoices UK company personally for 100M baht in consultancy fees but UK Co remits the following year to major shareholder. No UK tax is paid as company broke even, No company tax is paid in Thailand because invoice from UK Co. soaked up all the profit. Major shareholder pays no tax in Thailand because it was remitted to him the following year. I deliberately gave the example of a country with a dual taxation agreement though probably most Thai users of this scheme choose a zero tax country with privacy laws which is actually a mistake as it screams "I'm using this loophole". This is most definitely a loophole and it's things like this they want to stop. Tax accountants probably know of another dozen ways to avoid paying tax using this loophole. It's possible that your Thai bank may ask you to sign something on arrival of large funds from overseas for you to state tax was paid in another country. They are opening the doors so they can challenge those they suspect, but we are not the target group. According to the letter of the law, this will also affect those clever Digital Nomads who use this scheme to pay no tax, however in reality, they are unlikely to be challenged as they are not the target group.

We have to trust the Thai Government to plan accordingly, they are attempting to go green. Loxley in Bangkok have invested billions in solar farms subsidised by the government. The charging infrastructure is fine today and will probably match the delivery rate of EV's. I would like to see them open up for domestic solar feed-in without any paperwork, just a few rules and regulations people should be trusted to follow.

I prefer EV's to avoid the fire in your picture which is between 10 and 130 times more likely with ICE. I think and hope you are right. I have had a few large V8's, my first was a British car with a Chrysler 440" V8 with Holley 4 barrel carb (or was it 2 of) and Chrysler Torqueflyte 3 speed Auto. 0-60mph in about 7 or 8 seconds with 11 mpg and we thought that was fast. I wonder if anyone here knows what British cars used this engine/transmission? Rover SD1 with 3.5 V8, fantastic car with dubious build quality. And from the age of 31 a series of British 6.75 litre V8's which were engineered to be quiet. I much prefer an EV, Noise, Vibration & Harshness are not my thing and fuel is no longer tax deductible.

Yes he does.

A dead, irreplaceable battery is often the demise of an otherwise perfectly good piece of equipment, and it can be incredibly frustrating. New research shows, however, that the opposite may be true when it comes to the batteries running electric vehicles. The Globe and Mail reports that a study done in March by Recurrent Motors Inc. — a Seattle-based battery analysis company — showed that overall, EV batteries are actually very reliable and long-lasting. In fact, they may last longer than the vehicles themselves. The study took real-world data from 15,000 EVs of various makes and models in the U.S. By linking to the vehicles’ connectivity systems, the company took several battery readings daily, including charging activity, EV battery level, and estimated range. The data showed that most EVs driven close to 100,000 miles still have at least 90 percent of their original range left. “I was surprised how well batteries are holding up, and how relatively infrequently batteries are being replaced,” Liz Najman, researcher and marketing manager at Recurrent and the study’s author, toldThe Globe and Mail. “That was a shock.” The publication did report, however, that Najman made sure to point out that individual vehicles vary and that Recurrent’s data is constantly evolving. This is mainly because most EVs aren’t that old, with nearly 30 percent currently on the road in the U.S. being sold just last year. The majority of the rest are less than six years old. The cost of replacing an EV battery can range from $5,000 to $22,000, which few people would be willing to pay, especially on a used car whose warranty is up. Data from the study positively showed that, outside of official recalls, only 1.5 percent of cars had batteries replaced. The company hopes this promising data will alleviate people’s concerns and encourage them to comfortably switch to an EV, possibly even a used one. Transportation is the largest contributor of heat-trapping gases. Worldwide, passenger cars produce around 3.3 billion tons of carbon pollution annually. EVs, on the other hand, cut down on heat-trapping air pollution since they produce no exhaust. So, the more companies like Recurrent can alleviate concern, the more likely people will be to switch to an EV, and the more EVs on the road, the better it is for the planet. Taking away the concern of battery longevity is a great place to start. “I don’t think I’m alone in the assumption that modern EV batteries should outlast the cars themselves,” Najman said. https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-surprising-discovery-lifespan-ev-110000330.html

When AN gives you lemons make lemonade, sorry I mean batteries