>>No details about the particulars of those cases.

>>>So we don't really know the details of just whom COVID is making seriously ill in Thailand. 

So just keep pushing fear than, well done.  Makes sense that those who passed away were elderly and in poor health, also makes sense that those who are seriously affected are also elderly and in ill health.  What doesn't make sense is that those who are seriously affected are young and heatlhy, but nevermind that, keep pushing fear.

19 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Think he's just trying to give you a heads up, and quite the courtesy.   May take his advice and you wouldn't come off as completely ignorant, arrogant, or simply a troll.

 

Could have simply reported all your posts as 'off topic' and had them removed ...

.... hmm ... actually not a bad idea in the future.

 

So you may want to actually join the discussion, or leave the discussion.   But attempting to disrupt or troll the discussion doesn't shine well on you.

 

Just a thought

Let me get right on that!  The discussion is about EV's of which every post has been about EV's.  Not sure what you're on about, but I was simply pointing out some of the negatives to all the rose coloured glass wearing EV loving posters.  But go ahead, drive around in your Chinese EV, doesn't bother me a bit.

22 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

Who are these people?

 

They jump into a 6,000+ comment discussion without reading any previous posts, totally ignoring the title of the discussion or the OPs opening remarks about what the discussion is about.

 

Then post a link to a racist anti-China video. Announce that EVs from China are unsafe without the first bloody clue what they are talking about

 

How many Chinese do you own? None obviously.

 

How many have you driven? None obviously.

 

So how the hell does that make you an objective arbiter on the safety of Chinese EVs.

 

I own 2 Chinese EVs and have driven several more. Why do they get 5* euro NCAP ratings because they are unsafe?

 

You might think you are welcome to you own (uniformed) opinions but you’re not welcome here until you have read my opening post, where you find links to anti china and anti EV discussions where you be welcomed with open arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who are you again? Are you the new owner of the forum and thus can dictate what can or can't be said in a thread.  Pardon me guv.

Speaking of video, here's an interesting video about how unsafe Chinese EV's are.  One case in this video is about the new super luxury chinese suv which ran into the back of a truck. The doors could not be opened, the airbags did not work, and every died inside the vehicle.  There was then a big censorship push by the government to deny these things, until the car company came out and basically admitted the story was true.  Another incident in Malaysia where the rear suspension breaks for no apparent reason.  

Good luck in these quality built vehicles!

On 4/27/2024 at 10:19 AM, Roo Island said:

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/theres-something-seriously-wrong-with-donald-trump/55708/

 

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times has documented the impact of Donald Trump’s observably stark mental and physical decline in the course of his criminal election interference trial. She describes him as looking haggard and rumpled, with an unsteady gait and a vacant expression.

 

Trump’s aides and handlers are tacitly confessing that which we have known all along: Donald Trump is not fit — physically, mentally or humanly — to lead the nation.

How is this an accredited/aceeptable source? Looks dodgy and sketchy with a huge bias.  I guess bias left leaning from a random publication is acceptable though.  If I put up a zeroheadge article it will get the "unapproved source" treatment.  Nice.

22 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO you have got that wrong. People know that climate is changing, it's pretty obvious, really. What people ( including myself ) don't believe is that it's all because of human pollution. Perhaps human pollution caused part of it, but that's all, and because the noisy scientists are aligned with the money makers/ tax makers, people rightly don't believe them.

 

When Al Gore and De Caprio, despite being at the forefront of "it's all our fault" still fly private jet, some of us realise it's just BS.

 

BTW, whatever the reason for it, buying an Elon car only makes Elon richer, and isn't going to change the weather to something else. Likewise with windmills and taxes.

Indeed, follow the money and where all the grant funds are going on this issue.  Speak out against it, your funds are cut off.  Run around like the sky is falling, the money flows in.

Interesting to hear about Tesla and why their profits were down. "Tesla profits drop 55%, company says EV sales ‘under pressure’ from hybrids"

"“The EV adoption rate globally is under pressure and a lot of other auto manufacturers are pulling back on EVs and pursuing plug in hybrids instead,”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/tesla-profits-drop-55-company-says-ev-sales-under-pressure-from-hybrids/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKMkJvVQllV6pq8pqUPzWu5Ael96S7EEum-pfjem38gCqcCZIh5CEOrgKLsDJL8OE2dbMt7tqQvmIKcFt9ytEoEUJh40illH_z0dTp4pXs97gLTl7ns3zG03xtNKjUqk2OWBob3eELrBgD5Tl4Hm5TqTW_jJd-T26GPlUaEFJsRE

19 hours ago, placeholder said:

Fact Check: Drop in climate-related disaster deaths not evidence against climate ‘emergency’

 

Social media posts are recirculating a bar chart that depicts falling numbers of deaths due to weather-related disasters over the last century alongside comments suggesting that the significance of climate-driven weather changes is exaggerated.

Mortality, however, is not a useful measure of the number or severity of weather-related events including the floods, droughts, storms, wildfire, and extreme temperatures listed in the graph, experts told Reuters.

Although deaths from these disasters have decreased, due in part to better forecasting and preparedness, the number, intensity, and cost of climatic and meteorological hazards have all increased over the last hundred years.

https://archive.ph/EYKCu

 

 

 

When facts stand in the way of a narrative, always good to break out paid fact checkers to run off on a tangent and using such vague terms as "due in part" right after admitting the truth "Although deaths from these disasters have decreased".

23 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Another Thai news report that fails to fully convey what's really been going on lately with COVID in Thailand. While the latest single week hospitalization numbers reported by Thai PBS are correct as far as they go...

 

What they fail to report is that new weekly COVID hospitalizations in Thailand had been rising steadily since well before Song Kran, and in fact have DOUBLED in the past six weeks since mid-March, as shown below from the MoPH's weekly COVID reports:

 

March 16 -- 501

March 23 -- 630

March 30 -- 728

April 6 -- 774

April 13 -- 849

April 20 -- 1,004

 

Links to all of those weekly reports have been posted here:

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1311049-weekly-thai-ministry-of-public-health-covid-reports/?do=findComment&comment=18783819

 

and also are available directly from the MoPH here:

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

What the Thai PBS report also doesn't tell you is that the latest weekly total of 1,004 new COVID hospitalizations is Thailand's highest weekly tally of those since early July 2023, almost a year ago, when the number hit 1,193.

 

 

 

And, that Thailand experienced a similar seasonal COVID hospitalizations spike a year ago, starting in mid-April 2023 and continuing thru mid-July 2023 that saw new weekly COVID hospitalizations peak at 3,085 by early June 2023. So the numbers this year may well continue rising in the weeks ahead.

 

 

Should we put these fear mongering numbers in context?  Out of 72,000,000 people , 1000/week are hospitalized.  What's that percentage wise?  Oh, it's 1.3888888E-5  In other words, it's basically nothing............................................

1 hour ago, tomazbodner said:

If this is still original body, you have serial number printed at the bottom plate, although very small. Alternative is to find HP System Information in All Apps. That lists all details of computer including serial number.

 

Hotkey for it is holding Ctrl and Alt keys together first, then pressing S key.

 

From information above, this seems to be ,. Is that correct? Not sure if this would fit: https://www.ebay.com/itm/364844380360?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&var=634391659182&srsltid=AfmBOooluSlsOuJ8DZGXPjbsd7ke_Z8kTBQqP2yW3EcUK6e-jIPOIblFoC0

 

Thanks.  It is indeed a pavillion 17 in, but not sure of the model number, but looks to be quite similar in the hp product page  https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05177219.  ctrl alt s didn't work for me and there's nothing on the bottom of unit now that is visible.  I'll ping that seller on ebay, thank you.

Dr Vinay Prasad, a professor from Stanford weighs in on this  https://www.drvinayprasad.com/p/it-is-disappointing-that-the-cdchttps://www.drvinayprasad.com/p/it-is-disappointing-that-the-cdc

"It is disappointing that the CDC is dishonest

A new study exonerating mRNA vaccines in young men is inconclusive; the CDC is shredding its own credibility"

Here's a couple points he raises

"At one point in the paper, the authors actually admit the truth, the “small population size made it less likely that Oregon would see a rare event such as sudden cardiac death among adolescents and young adults.”

"With these facts, almost surely, the vaccine does increase death from cardiac reasons (as some people get myocarditis and some of these people will die), though this signal will be small, and too small to see in a single, low population state (Oregon)"

On 4/17/2024 at 1:29 PM, tomazbodner said:

Is this ZBook from HP? I didn't try to replace body of 17" ZBook but I did replace body for a friend who dropped it for the 14" Firefly model. It requires taking entire notebook into pieces and putting it back together, but the body was purchased from Lazada from a parts seller in China. I can attest that the parts were identical to original ones (minus the dents), including being made from metal, not plastic.

 

Maybe I can help some more if you pass on the actual laptop model.

I've got a product id, device id, but finding the actual serial number is proving illusive.  I've run the command prompt wmic bios get serialnumber  which did give me a serial number, but going to hp support's website, they don't have anything even when including the device name.   I've also tried the fn + esc keys and that also gives me nothing.  

12 minutes ago, Mark Nothing said:

The validity of data provided by the cdc has just fallen below the credibility of a used car salesmen with a lot full of lemons.

Please don't insult all of the good and credible used car salesmen out there, even if they are selling lemons. I'd rather buy from them then buy the lies and propoganda spit out by 3 letter government agencies.

7 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

It’s so crazy given all the recent news on vaccines how much this particular forum leans in favor of vaccines. 

Cult like, almost as if there are shills.  "Stops transmission" "you won't get covid if you get the jab"  propoganda that was spread and has proven to be false.  Go against this narrative, it's at best misinformation, disinformation or malinformation, and at worst get a time out. Wonderful job.

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

How about giving us the exact model of the "powerhouse."

 

It was custom made.

Thanks for the ideas/suggestions.  I am in Phuket if someone happens to know of something besides the basement of big C.

I have a laptop where the body/frame is starting to fall apart.  It is literally being held together by tape and clips.  I was just in the US and a shop said they could replace the whole thing, but I didn't have the time.  It is a 17 inch  hp powerhouse with 32 gbs of ram, 1gb ssd and 3 gb of HDD.  I already bought a cheap new laptop, but I would like to keep this high end spec laptop with a new body.

Does anyone have a recommendation for doing this?

On 3/28/2024 at 8:03 PM, 3NUMBAS said:

nobodys talking about the extra weight on roads and causing potholes and multi story car parks cant take the extra weight and collapsing

Tire manufacturers love EV's.  The price of the tires are  more to handle the weight, and the tires wear out  faster.

This is an interesting video from CNBC.