Glaswegian2

Dog Whistle.

The message they want to convey is that the new cases are discovered as a result of government assiduity. Which is not true.

God help us all if these people stay in power.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Tourism minister: Foreigners will start returning in second half of the year

Dog Whistle. The real message is that they will not start returning until July so hold on to yer hat and don't even think of firing him before then (should be OK for gratitude envelopes for another 5 months anyway).

Paranoia, fear of making a mistake.

Right. Jam tomorrow. Gotcha.

9 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

They having a laugh ? 

No. they stopped laughing at the audacity a while beck.

They've now moved into the 'Pretending to be doing domething about it' mode.

Were you expecting something bona fide? Not the Thai way.

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Just another hair-brained scheme which will probably curl up and "dye" when your hair waves goodbye!

Yep, sounds about right. Thank Gawd there's a few left on here that refuse to bow down and pray before the Thai intellect. Made my day, cheerz.

1 hour ago, Misterwhisper said:

I have seen a lot of absurd, mind-boggling things in my 30 years living in Thailand. But this bizarre ceremony - which by its very set-up is as far removed from Buddhist teachings as it can possibly get - always has been among my top favorites.

 

The only "fresh start" those "devotees" get in their lives is that they're leaving the temple with 100 baht less in their pockets. I am sure that's going to help them immeasurably when they're reflecting on their screwed-up situation like an adult.

 

Oh, they still will have to die one day, of course. And out the window flies the entire notion of "tricking death".  

Well, it's not that surprising when measured against the much beloved Thai habit of bestowing a 'nickname' on children almost as soon as they depart their host uterus. I was surprised to hear recently that the logic behind this is that the devil is waiting at every single birth so he can capture the soul of the newborn child which requires him to know the name. So they give the real name and then the nickname, confident in the knowledge that they are confusing  the devil.

They obviously think the devil is a Thai and isn't very smart.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The department advised farmers to plow farmland to cover agricultural waste by using machines that it is supplying.

So it's not a Public Service Announcement it's an advertisement?

6 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Well, at least we know that Governor Yutthasak Suphasorn didn't get this position based on merit.

 

 

 Did any of them?  I can't think of any offhand.

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

 

Ahh, interesting - I didnt know that, thanks. I will be in the market for a M1 iMac when released.

 

I'm just took the plunge and bought a load of unifi kit, Im really impressed, most of my kit is hardwired anyway so im more excited about a 10GB internal network, but in the future it should be a matter of swapping out the access points to Wifi6. I dont think unifi have rolled out the wifi6 kit yet.

 

I haven't been paying so much attention to wifi6 routers, are they still way expensive?

Couldn't tell you, 3BB installed a new one but took it back when I insisted. Bloody cheek, install a new router which does exactly what the old router did unless I buy a new wifi card with all the compatibility issues that brings with it. Didn't even ask - just showed up at the front door with the new one. Typical Thai way of doing things.

On 1/22/2021 at 3:12 PM, gamb00ler said:

I just tested my home setup with 2.4GHz, 5GHz and ethernet cable.  The 5GHz throughput pretty much matched that of the ethernet cable.  The 2.4GHz connection was about 60% less.  My desktop is in a separate room 6m from the router but almost line-of-sight through a doorway.  Very little competition for bandwidth in our home.

 

So make sure you're using the 5GHz unless a couple of concrete/brick walls separate router from computer.  In that case you should test both 5 and 2.4 and pick the best.

On my router. the 5ghz network is nowhere near the 1Gb ethernet.- even running all the family phones (and half the neighbours too I suspect) on the 2.4Ghz circuit and putting in a repeater only gets me about 500Mb *sigh*. Anyone want to buy a repeater? In my miscellany box ATM, together with a nifty UPS box small enough for the router (works amazingly well for a Chinese product - I swear by the Chinese products, they will lead the world in the next 10 years). And the ethernet connection consistently gets me 800Mb - close enough for rock 'n' roll.

2 hours ago, recom273 said:

Wifi6 is a long way off isn't it? .. The routers are way more expensive, and we dont have the hardware to deal with it - there is plenty of life in a well set up, quality enterprise wifi system. 

 

 

No, it's here now. The M1 Macs have wifi cards which are compatible. The only reasons I didn't get a wifi6 card is my machine runs another OS, not Windows and I need to be careful of compatibility. I also want to transfer the boot partition to a NVME drive, installed on a PCIe card and I only have 1 PCI slot on my mobo. Not entirely trouble-free I will grant, but I will get there.

On 1/22/2021 at 9:59 AM, Tanoshi said:

My internet provider is True.

I pay for the 300/100 download upload service.

 

I recently had issues with the internet, which resulted in a technician visiting my home.

After he finished, I did a speed test resulting in 124/100, far from the 300 speed I pay for.

I'm told by True that's because I'm using wi-fi and not a ethernet cable.

Indeed if I connect an ethernet cable from the router I obtain the 300 download speed.

 

I did a little internet research which did not agree with the information given by True.

The router is approx 10' away from my PC, but in an adjacent room, although it's open plan (no doors in-between).

I asked a local techie who stated in his opinion the wi-fi output from the router was at fault.

 

What kind of drop should you expect when using wi-fi as opposed to an ethernet cable.

300 down to 124 seems excessive.

It's not my PC, I get the same speed results using my new 5G phone.

 

Are True trying to make excuses, or am I expecting to much.

Opinions appreciated.

 If True are making excuses, then 3BB are as well. When they arranged to sell me a Wi-Fi router they didn't  tell me I could expect only half the bandwidth. Neither did they tell me that Wi-Fi six is just round the corner and I would need a new wifi card. Thais always seem to have acute communication problems; I guess it's a function of living in the Third World, where very few people actually seem to give  a damn, especially if you're not  another Thai. Anyway after accepting a new router to cope with the 1 Gb speed, and not able to get it, I told them to take it back and reinstall the old Router, which had 4x1Gb ethernet ports.  I then installed my own cat7 ethernet cable. Functioning pretty well now and it only cost about 700THB. I regularly get more than 800 Mb and sometimes get more than 1GB.

 I know it sounds a bit gloomy, but my advice to anybody would be do not listen to "Tech support" people if they are in the pay of a company which is trying to make money out of you; they will inevitably see you in the  context of increasing their revenue rather than increasing your throughput. I'm not a skilled IT person but I found it more  beneficial to learn a little bit about the subject before talking to 3BB, I imagine you will be in the same boat with True; what you know doesn't have to be super duper detailed. Of course, then, you will have committed the unpardonable sin of not being a good little foreigner and doing as you're told. Heads they win tails you lose, I suppose, That seems to be the common refrain.

 Good luck, PM me if you think I can be of any more help.

On 1/26/2021 at 10:27 AM, webfact said:

Chettha added that the Navy would investigate this matter straightforwardly and would enforce disciplinary and legal actions against the offenders if they were found guilty.

Right. Gotcha. Of course it will, the history of the armed forces in Thailand instils huge confidence that it will do exactly that.

Not.

11 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 

You mean you have been driving in a foreign country and something happened that you weren't expecting because you expect drivers in a foreign country to behave the same way they do in your native, or a different country?

Perhaps yes in the case you comment upon, but not in my case. In my case, I expect Thais to comply with what is their own law; imperfect and roundly abused though it may be.  I expect that makes me a very silly Billy.

11 hours ago, TKDfella said:

Excluding the 'me first' syndrome etc. on the roads, Thais 'behaving badly' is relative, isn't it. Perhaps from their perspective it's natural and could be that they see western behaviour as too strict, serious etc. So called 'loss of face' seems to be their most troublesome trait which appears to affect every aspect of their lives and historically is probably rooted in the past.

A thoughtful post, thanks. Yes you probably right "behaving badly" probably is a relative thing. But there are many aspects of Thai behaviour which would be rightly frowned upon in most cultures that I've had any contact with. For example a young lad kicking an elderly woman pensioner in the head would be considered bad behaviour pretty much anywhere; the theft, deception and fraud which is so endemic in Thai culture is not appreciated in most other cultures that I know of and then (as you rightly point out) the dependence of Thais upon their ‘face’ is both annoying and counter-productive. It's the hallmark of an immature culture and an immature people.

In thinking about it a little more I think it probably is the maturity of the culture and the maturity of the people that rankles most severely. I wish it were otherwise but it isn't. Not for me anyway, And there are many good and clear examples of where this has been infectious.  In other words, some of the posters in this very forum are either accepting to a ridiculous degree  (perhaps falling under the heading of "demonstrating their woke-ness") or, even worse, accommodating the worst instincts of Thais  when the government gets on the phone and starts laying the law down in respect of posts with which they do not happen to agree. We all know who are most guilty of this. But it's a short-term policy; Thais will never show appreciation  of being accommodated and the foreigners who refuse to accommodate it  will gradually drift away, as many have in the past to pastures at least newer if not greener.

 in 10 years however, the cycle  will have turned again and  foreigners will once again be appreciated but they will remember the forums which were unreasonably accommodating and which demonstrated poor judgement in their choice of management, and turn their back on them. Som nam na. I can sympathise a bit; a lot of money was paid for a pig in the poke, and a lot of money has been lost, but this is because of the bad judgement of some foreigners. In this particular case it had nothing to do with Thais. It seems foreigners can behave badly as well on occasion.

21 hours ago, WineOh said:

repeating the same old rhetoric time after time does not make it so.

What's the point in announcing these fines if there is nobody on the streets that will enforce them?

 

 

You're right, there isn't any point, except to create the (false) impression that the government is doing their job, which they are not.

23 hours ago, Toany said:

well it has not worked the farmers are still burning the sugar cane tonight.  Easy way is to ban the sugar cane factories from processing burnt sugar cane.  If they cant sell it, they wont burn it before they harvest it

Most of the cash yards around here have already stopped buying burnt cane, and the quota yards (Mitr Phon in our case) don't really care what the government says. So the government has already taken it's best shot. Particulate content not too bad around here though - can't really complain.

The biggest fire I've seen close to here though, was on government land on the mountain foothills. Looks like the government itself might be the biggest offenders locally...

 Jam tomorrow. Let's wait and see if the vaccinations do indeed start as predicted. Right now, given the already hopeless track record with predictions like this I'd be inclined to say that I view it with a certain amount of scepticism.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't.  Fingers crossed.

On 1/24/2021 at 7:52 PM, TKDfella said:

Thai bashing. Now maybe it's because I don't read ALL the articles that TV puts out but certainly those I do read don't really come under Thai Bashing. Having been on the receiving end of bad Thai driving (several times) I can tell that words and phrases that other forum members used is not only well founded but well deserved too. Definitely not Thai Bashing. Certain 'ministerial' depts. come out with all sorts unrealistic figures, given the world's current situation, that it can only come under the heading of fake news...well okay, fake predictions????. Definitely not Thai Bashing. However, how many articles have there been on TV, where 'Ex hubby kills ex wife/boyfriend/both' or other similar crime? I haven't checked but if someone does check back I think they will find it happens on what seems a regular basis. Doesn't give a good impression does it, and so provokes certain comments which I suppose might be deemed 'Thai Bashing'. The solution is obvious! Don't print such articles on a forum such as this.

The media is such a powerful method of control of communication and manipulation thereof that it must take at least some of the responsibility, for content interpretation.

“Thai-bashing” is a term which has no real meaning at all, and should therefore be ignored. It is only ever used by people who feel the need to express their ‘wokeness’, or who wish to appear enlightened. The reality is that Thais are a primitive society which behaves primitively (no surprise there), and which has very great difficulty when called upon to examine their own behaviour, especially if they called upon by foreigners.

Yes Thai Visa frowns upon "Thai bashing" but not because of any altruistic leaning, but because the government watches carefully a number of forums and complains and belly-aches like merry hell if someone does not think the same way that they think or are paid to think and has the temerity to say so. The motivation is financial not altruistic and for what it's worth, in my view the best way that Thais can stop criticism of their behaviour is to stop behaving badly. Which they do a lot, if not exclusively.

Well, here is Issan, and according to my car meter (which admittedly is Chinese, displayed valued varied between 9 and 29 on todays shopping junket.

If it's accurate, then I am content with that.

10 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The vaccine is effective for a certain percentage of those who take it, be that 70% or whatever and as a result you should not get any symptoms. However what is not fully gauged yet in any studies is whether even if you've had the vaccine you go on then to get the virus albeit without symptoms and still pass it onto others. Similar to those covid carriers who are asymptomatic and have not had the vaccine.

Yes, I think the  whole debate is moot. A vaccination prevents infection by killing the virus or preventing it from running amok in the body. If it did not prevent transmission but only suppressed symptoms then it has no long-term benefit at all except concealing symptoms whilst retaining transmission. Which would be not only foolhardy but dangerous because it would conceal who is infected (depending on which symptoms were masked). Worst of all worlds.

A test-denier's wet dream.