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Invest in high speed rail?

Just have a look around the world where high speed rail exists.

Then see nearly all are state owned.

Then also see that making a return on investment is, ehhhhh, problematic.

Also take into account those high speed lines take away business from the existing lines, and making both lossmaking.

Forget it.

And the Chinese setup in Thailand is not open for private investment, being a Chinese government thing with strategic military background.

3 hours ago, james512 said:

 

It is from a dashcam - video running on a PC you can see the windows taskbar at the start.  They just videoed the computer screen on a cell phone.

 

Either way, shocking video.  Hope they catch the scumbag.

Anybody noticed the man probably is a southpaw?

6 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Nice little  BIG earner,for someone,how many people will they

have viewing the 367,000 feeds.

regards Worgeordie

The digital ones might be on special software only needing human intervention or attention if something happens needing attention.

52 minutes ago, farcanell said:

Ballistic experts.... excellent.... now all they need to do is round up all the guns in the area for comparison testing.... 

Might become a bit difficult to read shotgun pellets or a tumbling 5.56 bullet.

2 hours ago, robblok said:

Quite probably.. but i doubt there are many. There are always exceptions. 

 

I was joking a bit, about taking army buddies with you when complaining about internet. I know your quite sensitive to jokes and quite rude yourself with others. So i won't take offense i know you well. 

But the fact you are rather free dishing out rude and insensitive comments about older people still stands, whatever you might throw into the discussion.

Once, I hope for you, you might be "an old doddering fart" yourself.

Happy Enough.

It is quite clear you don't belong to that favoured group of girls/boys in muslim gear.

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Thailand 4.0: redefining democracy. 

Western style "democracy" is a hollow hole nowadays, and it doesn't work any more in the west.

Countries are run by big companies, the people have no real power.

Why should western style democracy work in Asia?

Depending on what is included in democracy in the Thai style who knows?

31 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

If it were to be gold my experience is that anything less than 18k is considered cheap skate territory ( am I showin my cards here). I learned that after buying a gold ring back home for a Thai Lady.

Gold, money, or both.

Will make her very happy.

A car is better.

A house is the best

2 hours ago, Old Croc said:

There are far too many members here who find it easier to ask on the forum about any word of phrase that didn't originate in their little part of the world. A troll on another thread recently asked about the meaning of "skin in the game". Their attitudes often seem to be that as they don't know the word, it shouldn't exist.

They fit into the same category as some old farts who proudly proclaim they have never heard of some celebrity or other and therefore that person can't have that title.

I will always first check google, wiki or similar to increase my knowledge rather than display a lack of it. 

Oh dear, oh dear....

Never heard of xxx, may also mean the speaker isn't interested.

Sorry, I am rather oldish, and yes I fart regularly.

Thank you, very relieving and relaxing, farting.

I presume "hooning" and "skin on the game" is a newfangled word and a saying both born in the US, so again, never heard of it.

And don't want to know.

Edit:

I stand corrected.

Hooning is not a US born word.

Australian/New Zealand.

OK, I am slightly more interested.

2 hours ago, sanemax said:

Although we dont have to compare everything to how it is in the USA

Indeed!

On 9/16/2017 at 1:52 PM, sinbin said:

Not true. Just refuse to pay. They'll back down. You haven't broken a law.

If you are a tourist, yes, you have broken the law.

36 minutes ago, Raymonddiaz said:

most pedophiles living in Thailand are white westerners. If the RTP catches them all Thailand will be safer.

Nonsense

Thailand has70 million people, say 32 million men.

I dare to bet there will be more pedos in that group as in the non-Thai expat/tourist group, which is much smaller, and in the case of tourists spending only a short time in Thailand.

I really think you have wrong ideas, besides, who probably are the suppliers of this filth?

Maybe you are not up to scratch about the news in Thailand

Don't think Europe is at stake.

The EU on the other hand, may hopefully be so.

The German-French hegemony of the EU is frightening, at least. 

Why isn't all that time and trouble spent on, for example, traffic?

May one wonder when the agencies will go after the suppliers?

Of course it is much easier to go after the end users.

3 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

People get so hung up about nudity. If your child has never seen a naked butt before then you are far too sheltering.

Right!

On the TV, not this TV, violence, bloodshed, shooting, killing, all very much viewable for children.

But a view of the female "forms", a bottle of beer, a glass of alcoholic beverage, nononono.

3 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

 They had heard her cries for help as an argument ensued but no one dared intervene.

 

That says all that needs to be said. Shameful, cowardly but expected in a country where the abuse of women is accepted and encouraged by far too many men.

Face.

Privacy

Those are the problem.

20 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Trite and completely oblivious to the issue.

 

These tourism ministers are all alike.

The real problem is the silly rent prices charged by the airports.

Or by shopping mall or centre owners.

1 hour ago, Mickmouse1 said:

Maybe many will be released for wrong imprisonment ?

Quite so.

4 hours ago, rodney earl said:

If this is such a problem and I have got no doubt that it is why doesn't the government do something about making condoms more accessible to the general population and teaching them about what they are for but then they would not be able to be new defence weapons ha ha

You think the missing children have something to do with condoms?

Or with buying arms?

But of course, all the disappearing children are blamable on the government, present and former.

49 minutes ago, ebean001 said:

they seldom go to the bars/nightlife which is very ok with me. good time for hotels to make some money. it is all ok with me. I just have to remind myself not to drive in highly Chinese tourist areas like west Chiang Mai near the Maya Mall area.  they walk in the streets and they drive bikes/motorbikes very dangerously. I suggest to be ready for dangerous drivers and try not to hit one.

You think the hotels will get a good price for their services?

How very interesting!

10 hours ago, Basil B said:

If this was in the UK, Elf & Safety would crucify all involved...

Yes.

But this is Thailand.

Anyway, don't you think the safety rules in the UK are going a bit over the top?

1 hour ago, SABloke said:

Who cares what tier he's moving to - he is moving UP in his career which is what most of us strive for, Hell, even Chumphon FC (A 2nd tier Thai team) has players from Ivory Coast, because compared to where they come from, the money is much better. 

But would he have gotten this place if his father would not have owned the club?

5 hours ago, kotsak said:

The top head's mia noi's have been salivating since the beginning of the whole shabang. Let's not kid ourselves..

I have the idea it will all go rather well, simply because too much attention is centered on this.