Narratio

They were there to mount marshalling boxes for telephone wiring.

Note the concrete covers on the non-road side?

There are ducts that drop down out of those brickwork platforms into those underground voids so that cables, running underground, come up into metal cabinets, get joined together and then drop back down and go on their merry way. But then, as was noted, times changed and the cabinets were not used and removed.

Most of that money is not in the 5 + 1 missiles themselves, it's in all that other stuff.

These things are nastily smart. It's almost like "Turn it on, point it at the target, press the red button, go have lunch while shrapnel falls around you". So the big bucks are most probably in training of people to push the button, trainers to show them how buttons are pushed. Maintenance procedures for keeping the button clean and untarnished. That sort of thing. Very important to know which button is which.

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

Hint. Not all rural schools are non airconditioned wooden shacks. Most are brick buildings and many have full or part a/c but don't let little things like facts get in the way.

My apologies, you are correct.

My point was that the better educated teachers appear to only want to work in the better appointed schools per the original post. Which appears to be a mind set more in line with "I put in more hours of learning, at a higher cost, therefore I deserve more appreciation", rather than a person who wants to be a teacher for the joy of teaching. Assuming that there are still such feelings. But I'm probably wrong in my reading between the lines of the original post.

"...that new-generation teachers lacked patience and were unable to cope with the actual work environment at schools because they were trained to teach at well-equipped schools..."

Hint, hint - none of them want to leave the big cities and big schools for the un-air conditioned wooden shacks out in the countryside.

That photo tells an interesting story.

In the middle is some really nice relief work. Carved cement, very stylish.

At front left and immediately behind, some poor to rubbish looking brickwork, poorly laid out and uneven.

And then, far right at the back, some ghastly breeze block and cement work.

It shows crafts skills in decline

Oh FredNL, you ninny! That's the regular railroad engineer test. Go back and find the High Speed railroad engineer test. It'll look similar but with Ferrari red color and possibly a 'go-fast' stripe.

6 hours ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said:

Politicians and prostitutes are the same, one is just legal here and the other not.

It's not legal to be a politician? I ask there are obviously way more prostitutes in this country that politicians. And with the acceptance that the majority must be in the right... 

<NURSE! More Lao Kow, no ice!>

What is a "CBD area"? I saw no explanation in the text, 

Nah, needs at least one other person to place the paper under the stamp, to make sure it goes in the right location.

<Bartender! Hit me again, make it a treble!>

So, they can spend 10-11 years investigating a corruption case and have this one case stay open. But the statutes of limitations on something like... oh, I don't know... say something to do with driving dangerously say can be closed with a shoulder shrug and an "Oops, ran out of time."

TIT

No, say it ain't so! How can they throw away being  "The HUB of Defamation Law Suits!" Are they mad?

On 2017-5-13 at 8:32 AM, JAG said:

As Attorney General of San Marino ( and at one time Defense Minister of Lichtenstein) I must expose you as an imposter sir!

As the ex-Head of Public Works of San Marino, I fully agree with your actions. Expose him I cry!

<NURSE!> More medication please!

And gain you lot miss the point. 

It's a new HUB!

Of what greater worth can something be? Now if only there was a picture of the Governor pointing...

And the newest in vogue word appears to be  'Scion'. 

I wonder who started this, somebody addicted to Game of Thrones perhaps?

About time we gained a new Hub , the old ones are wearing thin.

30 minutes ago, clockman said:

As the last finance minister said. White lies are ok!

I think that only applies to little ones. Steaming great big ones... maybe not.

An acting deputy rector... darn but that's a good title.

So, who do they hire as deputy rectors, what is teh job description, what does a rector actually do?

I normally use Snopes to do my news checking but then this morning I realised it's got nothing on Thai news...

But guys... Thailand is about to become the Hub of Egg Consumption withing ASEAN. That's got to be a win!

<cue photo op' for old men in suits standing in front of 300 eggs all pointing and smiling.>

Must be said, the Thai banks are huge employers of paper pushers. Just watching some young girl taking slips of paper from desk to desk for some wannabe Khunying to initial and rubber stamp... it is a mysterious and wonderful thing to behold. Won't digitising the business put all these women out of a job? Oh the humanity!

So, 3.5 billion USD per year, and about 300,000 monks (Wow! That many?) works out as an average of almost 12,000 USD per monk per year in donations. Does that level of income count as "middle class"?

On 10/03/2017 at 2:32 PM, darksidedog said:

I also don't get the logic of 120,000 people applying for a Social Security number suposedly used as evidence of employment.

Getting the number and getting a job are two entirely different things.

Agreed. Likewise Industry investing 103 billion doesn't equal additional jobs, it just means that cash was spent. Could have been for all new automated manufacturing equipment, meaning there are probably less jobs. Could have been for buying licenses to make proprietary brand ed consumer goods (    sorry, couldn't help myself), whatever, it doesn't directly create jobs.

But Thailand IS a democracy! One man, one vote, the basic concept of democracy is in force here.

Unfortunately, what with translation issues and such, here in Thailand, they understood that to mean that the PM is the man and he has the vote.

This is why he still refers to himself as always being in favor of democracy.

Agreed. If they don't ask for information, they won't get information. And, with no information, they're cannot answer questions from inquisitive people. Which means that face is saved and the Thai world can continue on its merry way.

It's all good.

I'm still puzzling over the temple having an "...office of corporate communication."