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27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:No asset bubble in Thailand, says state think-tank
Following on from the way 'top people' in Thailand deny things, then they happen: Next week's news - Asset bubble bursts in Thailand.
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3 minutes ago, CharlieH said:Took you long enough to realize what we have all been feeling for months !
The only thing is, for months no one higher in government gave a toss about it. Now they do, the BOT Governor is 'very worried' - that he might lose his job.
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2 minutes ago, JAG said:8 hours ago, Longcut said:
Was he there to greet the Japanese when they arrived during WWII?
"Right out of the same playbook"
If he had been, I suspect he would have suffered one if his infamous sudden medical emergencies!
That's what must have happened to the PM at the time Phibun Songkhram who 'went missing' for hours - he suffered a medical emergency. I suppose it was enough to make him sh!t his pants.
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5 minutes ago, JustAnotherFarang said:There is a touch of the old Bernard Trink to your posts, its fun to read between the lines
Is that perhaps because he might be the night owl (who) sees all?
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Just now, Destiny1990 said:How did the conned victims find out that the she was a he?
They asked 'her' to cough?
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2 minutes ago, Don Mega said:
I don't know mate, can ask my friend but maybe Use a VPN to make it think you are in AUS and set it up.
Thanks. I'd be interested to see what your friend suggests, if he has a Sonos.
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Just now, ThomasThBKK said:
Go to account settings, change country to US, should turn up then afaik
Thanks, but he had it set to US already.
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3 hours ago, Don Mega said:
A friend brought his sonos over from Australia, works fine
My friend has just been round to show me the problem.
It works fine on my router and his router - it plays music OK. Realised now it's another issue:
He has the Sonos app for Android V10.5.1
He bought his Sonos One in Oz, but only unpacked here in Thailand, so he's only ever had it working here.
What is missing is the "voice services" option on his app.
In the attached image, it should show "Music & Content, Voice Services"
He cannot download/find a list of 'voice services' to add Google Voice Assistant or any other voice service.
Clicking "Add a Service" doesn't list any voice services whatsoever.
Someone else said they found out that the government here won't allow it to be used for some reason, but that was apparently a reply someone came back with elsewhere, so it seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Is there a Sonos user here that has the "voice services" working on Android?
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8 minutes ago, JustAnotherFarang said:11 minutes ago, colinneil said:Fully agree mate, amazing Issan, never stops amazing me.
Yet there will be no leg over for you, not bowing to the monks, tut, tut, that is a serious offence, you naughty farang you.
I think you mean diary of a farang though, not dairy.
He might mean what he said.........just wants to get things of his tits
Or he's milking it for what he can.
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As the OP, I've found out that it's the 'voice control assistants' that are 'blocked'.
Looking at the Sonos help, it says some countries don't have everything available due to language issues at the moment.
Makes me wonder if you can change your setup to an English-speaking country, would it work in Thailand and avoid the issue?
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11 minutes ago, Vacuum said:1 hour ago, webfact said:a man called Beer.
Do you think he's taking the p!ss?
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22 minutes ago, Langsuan Man said:
I can't determine from you post if the Sonos speaker is blocked or the service he is trying to access is blocked. Sonos makes it very clear in their advertising that there are geographical restrictions but don't make it clear if it is the speaker or the content that is blocked
Thanks for posting that.
I can't so far find the page you've pasted above. Is it possible to list the url to that page, so I could then try the 'Learn more' option?
Thanks.
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I saw a documentary recently on this made by ITV (UK): Undercover: Inside China’’s Digital Gulag
There was a lot of footage showing the enormous amount of video surveillance going on in the area, using state-of-the-art facial recognition to track the population.
The Uighur/Uyghur Muslims in North-west China are being held in concentration camps. There are estimated to be a million people.
Some have escaped to the west, too scared to return to their own country.
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My friend has bought a Sonos 'speaker'.
I hasten to add I've never seen one, and also know very little about them. They connect directly to the internet via your router and you can select what you want to play via your smartphone?
He couldn't get it working. He asked someone 'in the know' who tried and couldn't get to to work either. Then he googled and found they are apparently blocked in Thailand?
Is this correct, and if so - why?
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2 minutes ago, essox essox said:
or triang !!!
It's nowhere near Trang.
(sorry!)
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2 hours ago, webfact said:Thailand hopes to have bullet trains running by 2023
2 hours ago, webfact said:"This is going to be a big change for Thailand," says Thanet Sorat, an adviser to Thailand's Senate Committee on Transportation, vice president of shipping company, V-Serve, and president of the Thai Authorized Customs Brokers Association. He hopes to see sleek trains pinballing around the country at 155 mph (250 kph) within five years.
Ha ha ha! "He hopes to see sleek trains pinballing around the country at 155 mph (250 kph) within five years."
He's behind the times. Didn't he know the hi-speed train will be up and running in a year's time?
22 December 2017:
"THE government has set a new target to call for construction bids for the Bt179-billion, 252-kilometre Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed railway by the end of next year, according to Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittay-apaisith.
Arkhom said a total of 13 construction contracts for the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima route would be open for bidding in 2018 so that construction could be completed and the system become operational in 2021."
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3 hours ago, webfact said:The department estimated that there will be 150 tonnes of expired solar panels per year during the next five years.
3 hours ago, webfact said:An expired solar panel is composed of 0.06 per cent of silver. A panel weighing one tonne will yield around 300 grams of pure silver after the extraction process. The extracted silver is valued at Bt20 per gram
The above works out as 900,000 Baht's worth of silver per year.
For some reason I'm struggling to imagine how they could make much profit on that, taking into account the cost of the equipment to process 150 tonnes of panels and to extract the silver?
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1 hour ago, webfact said:Gen Prawit lauded the joint effort by ASEAN and China to reach conclusions on the South China Sea Code of Conduct last July, which was designed to promote mutual trust and turn the South China Sea into a sea of peace, stability and sustainable development
"promote mutual trust and turn the South China Sea into a sea of peace, stability"
What?
This is while the Chinese continue to create islands in the South China Sea and claim they own the whole area, intimidating all the neighbouring countries.
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1 hour ago, steven100 said:Well done Khun Prayut Chan O Cha. Thailand continues to move forward with infrastructure and many other projects ongoing. As I have said before, more have been done in the past 4 years than the previous 10yrs.
"Thailand continues to move forward with infrastructure"
Hmm, from 22 December 2017:
"THE government has set a new target to call for construction bids for the Bt179-billion, 252-kilometre Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed railway by the end of next year, according to Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittay-apaisith.
Arkhom said a total of 13 construction contracts for the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima route would be open for bidding in 2018 so that construction could be completed and the system become operational in 2021."
So that's only a year before the complete railway is up and running!
How much track has been completed so far? I think it's less than 3km.
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Although Thais do add an awful lot of sugar to their cooked food, they're not the only ones.
I'd recommend this book: Salt Sugar Fat - How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss (2013)
Moss explains that for many decades now in the USA the food giants have spent billions of dollars in research working out what to add to food to keep consumer interest in their products.
The three magic items have been various combinations of salt, sugar and fat. So it's not just a conscious decision to add sugar, the companies are doing it purely for financial self-interest to continue selling, deliberately ignoring the health consequences for consumers.
That's why Coke has so much sugar in - purely to keep people buying it.
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19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:
Kind hearted or barking? Thai man offers to sell his kidney to feed his pets
'or barking?' Definitely - his kidney wouldn't even feed one of them.
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9 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:Jesus .. The geeza wants counselling if he was considering a triumvirate with a pair of widow Twankeys who've maxed out on the back to black hair dye ..
A triumvirate (Latin: triumvirātus) is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (Latin: triumviri).The arrangement can be formal or informal. Though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality. The term can also be used to describe a state with three different military leaders who all claim to be the sole leader.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumvirate
'notionally equal' - apart from the knockers that is.
Or did you choose 'triumvirate' because it rhymes with 'copulate'?
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1 minute ago, fforest1 said:
The Smart Meter is heavily tied in with 5G they will both work together to monitor and regulate energy usage from everybody...So make of this what you will....
5G?
From what I have seen so far, the spectrum that 5G will operate over in Thailand has only very recently been announced?
Did you perhaps mean Wi-Fi?
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50 minutes ago, essox essox said:
READ THIS.....
Unofficial Translation ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, B.E. 2522 (1979 ...
http://web.krisdika.go.th/data/outsitedata/outsite21/file/Road_Traffic_Act_BE_2522_(1979).pdf
10 Jul 2019 ... the Council of State of Thailand's Law for ASEAN project. ... (12) “Pedestrian crossing” means the area provided for pedestrians to walk across ...Yes, that's the same version I've been searching.
It still doesn't state (from what I can find) anything about vehicles having to give way to pedestrians on, or waiting to cross at a pedestrian (zebra) crossing.
Word Association (2018)
in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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Eileen