Scott Tracy

Doesn't Thailand have conscription too?

All of them?

They'll be landless again within months, Mark my words....

So government departments don't talk to each other...?

You're kidding, right?

Saint Cyril day? Saint Andrew, George, David...? Why just Saint Patrick...? Nicolas Bunkerd Kitbamrung day parade...?

Soothsayers and charlatans deliver forecasts. UK 'expectation' was inflation would tick up. Lo and behold it held steady. Why any one gives credence to these highly paid Crystal ball gazers is beyond me.

Taxpayers elsewhere do exactly the same.

An excellent cover band. I saw them over a period of 4 years,

Does this start right at the very top? I mean, the VERY top....

It'll be interesting to see what the CAAT has to say about it when the RTAF no longer protects it as a military facility and it come under civilian control.

Who is Bill Maher?

I So there's a difference between mechanically locking the doors on the ground and in the air? How does a door 'automatically' lock in the air? When you say 'locked', what does that mean? Is a key inserted and turned like a deadlock? A bolt thrown from the door into the frame?

The blown slide would be removed and a serviceable slide installed. It would be sent for inspection and repacking for later use. looking at the picture, without the miscreant.... further info: airlines have contingency plans and options when things go south with aircraft. It's possible passenger loads allowed the operator to despatch the aircraft with the affected door locked out. Some airlines have spare aircraft for use in emergencies, some may decide to cancel the flight.

This has wondered so far off topic. We all have our opinions on world events, but we should all be able to agree that the systematic killing of 6 million people for no other reason than some one didn't like them, should be remembered. It's a great shame, in my view, that little or nothing was done, said or put in place for the huge numbers killed in pogroms and other mass killings, like in Cambodia... One asks the question, does humanity learn nothing?

We have? Who is 'we'? Don't get me started on National Aviation regulatory requirements and oversight....

I wonder why you would think American regulations would apply in Thailand or Australia.

So many meanings for the word flux. A flux detector or is fitted to aircraft. It drives a compass...

Thus is opened a whole new can of worms....

Ah, clever play on words. Clever Australians.

Does anywhere accept Amex? Good grief. Cash is king in Makro, as in most places in Thailand.

So, calling for the release of hostages, as a point of principle, is to be opposed? Each government of a national held as a hostage should negotiate with the hostage takers, individually? What happened to: we don't negotiate with terrorists? I think I'm missing something here.

Since when has there been such an entity?

Where did you get your prints taken? I wrote to Thames Valley police a few months ago and got bugger all response.

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