Scott Tracy

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Pakorn, 7, the son of Sirilak and Rattasat, 10

Has me thinking that Pakorn was the son of Rattasat and Sirilak. Comma please, after Sirilak.

1 hour ago, Paul Henry said:

The main people to blame for these horrific statistics is the Government. All talk no action.

Horse manure. The main people to blame for this carnage are the drivers/riders. The government does not drive drunk, speed, not wear seat belts or helmets, ghost ride, run red lights,  crash on straight roads. Drivers and riders do.

The media will call it, just like they do with the presidential election. They seem to know before anyone else.

We set such store by politics, ensuring every valid vote counts. Double and triple check. Observers to ensure things are done correctly, but the parties involved still don't seem to agree on the results. 

Disheartening. 

Face it. It's all politics. Saudi hates Iran, others hate each other. The US ends up telling countries that they cannot do business with it unless they comply with its rules. These countries get caught in the middle. Same old story, do it our way, or we'll find ways to make you. Gunboat diplomacy by another name. Perhaps this why the US has been at war or in conflict during 93% of its existence.

As an outsider, I find this whole issue about the Presidential elections both comical and worrying. 

I look at the incumbent, desperate to cling to power and those who follow him will do almost anything to keep him in power. Those people are so virulently against the President elect and his team. Even to the point where the President elect is not the President elect, according to them.

The election seems to take forever. It always seems to be part of the news, years before it happens and months after. Such a circus I have rarely seen.The

As for the possibility that the United States military machine has some role to play in the outcome of an election,this is unthinkable to me.

And there was me thinking the Probation Department dealt with people on probation.

'the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behaviour under supervision.'

Small wonder the figures are so small if that is the case.

It seems to matter not who is in power. The issues are the same. 

A culture change is needed at grass roots and I suspect that ain't never gonna happen.

3 hours ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Yes and No, if the companies in the west would skip those suppliers who abuse their workers, they could not be held responsible.

And ultimately, the responsibility is yours. You buy stuff, made by companies  who, by certain standards, exploit their workers or other people.

If companies can skip those suppliers, you can skip those companies. This would then incentivise them to improve the workers lot.

11 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

same as the UK.  Civil Servants there can have a whole career and never achieve anything, except a nice fat pension at the  end of it.  I  suspect that most Civil Servants the world over are just 'drop outs' that have a life time job, where nothing much is expected of them.   Embassy and Diplomatic  staff come from the same mould.  Motto for them all, don't make waves, keep things simple, don't change anything, don't show initiative, go home early. 

And you know this how?

George IV of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...not just England...

Barbaric.

Failed to inform the boys in blue and come up with the requisite brown envelope.

20 hours ago, Thomas J said:

While it may not be your fault to catch Covid, it is also not the fault of accident victims who have their lives ripped away from them.  Many of them could be alive today if the government took as aggressive a posture on drunk/and under the influence driving as they have with Covid. 

This, to me, is a gross over simplification. It can be the fault of the accident victim who have their lives ripped away, as you put it. Running red lights, driving too fast for the conditions, driving faulty vehicles. Why is it always the responsibility of government that people drink and then drive? Is it governments that get in vehicles that have faulty brakes, is it governments that have micro-sleeps, run red lights, not wear crash helmets? Ride 4 up, let kids ride bikes? No. Personal responsibility has to start somewhere, and that's at home and school.

A culture change is needed. That comes hard in any country.

This is all wrong...

Illegal migrants getting health insurance, free 2 year right to stay and work.

Some of these (legal) migrants, who are waiting to enter the country to work, are in debt having paid brokers or employers various fees to secure jobs," he said.... Word in brackets is mine.

So those who already have work permits can't get in and work, while illegals are feted. Free this, free that, free other stuff. Dang. Ass backwards if you ask me.

There's a road safety centre? Committee? Wow...

But breath testing has been curtailed...yes?

The poo Yai ban plays here...deputy Or por dtor... Everyone gambles. 

Take the plates off. No one seems to care...

There is no cure. The headline is misleading at best, fake news at worst....This is appalling. 

Goodness me. Does that mean they then become legal migrant workers? 

How does one go about getting one of these pink cards? I think I would like to become a legal illegal migrant. Must be cheaper than 800,000 baht stuck in a bank doing <deleted> all, or 65,000 a month and 1900 baht a year for a renewal, plus health insurance....plus plus p!us...

How can you compare the Christian calendar, which states 01 Jan each year with the Chinese calendar, which is lunar based?

2021 starts 00:00:01 on 01 Jan 2021, anywhere in the world. Year of the Ox starts 13 Feb 2021, 05:02 UTC and corresponding times in each time zone.

Stop it.

We have so many checkpoints springing up locally. Insufficient manpower to place the required 12 coppers at each one for breath tests. Not sure what reasons the cops will find to pull cars over, other than drunk driving. No masks? Inside cars? I was signalled quite recently by a rozzer that I had no mask on inside my sealed pickup. I thought he was quite observant, but I nonchalantly bimbled on by...

Tuesday 29th Dec 2020, 15:57 Thai time, Oanda says USD is 30.10 baht. Top end of prediction.

12 hours ago, geovalin said:

conserve and develop

Not mutually exclusive...?

Bloody cheek. Putting up signs on someone else's land. Illegal crossing of the border. Defacing Cambodian land. Were I the Cambodians, it would be a diplomatic incident and clear violation of sovereignty.