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They would be the Russian warmongers, beating Russian war drums.

And me. Jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft. Definitely not in my skill set.

Not correct. Edited to include the link. Example Calculations: At t = 1 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (1 s)2 = 4.9 m At t = 2 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (2 s)2 = 19.6 m At t = 5 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (5 s)2 = 123 m (rounded from 122.5 m)

AFAIK, base jumpers, freefall and sport parachutists pack their own. If it doesn't work you can't take it back and ask for another. In addition the 29th floor of a condo is perhaps a little higher than 100 metres which doesn't give your parachute doesn't give your parachute much time to open and fully deploy to bring you to a safe landing. You initially reach a speed of 9.8 metres in the first second and then it sort of goes like this. https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/1DKin/Lesson-5/How-Fast-and-How-Far#:~:text=d %3D 0.5 * g * t2&text=where g is the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m%2Fs,two seconds are shown below. vf = g * t Example Calculations: At t = 1 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (1 s)2 = 4.9 m At t = 2 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (2 s)2 = 19.6 m At t = 5 s d = (0.5) * (9.8 m/s2) * (5 s)2 = 123 m (rounded from 122.5 m) So he had less than 5 seconds from jumping to hitting the tree and the ground, In those 5 seconds his parachute has to open and fully deploy for him to have a safe landing. Personally, I have no sympathy for him. For his family, friends and bystanders I do have sympathy. I assume that he did all his calculations but he either got them wrong, he didn't believe them, or the parachute that he packed malfunctioned.

I used to make ham with a hind leg of a pig. The problem I have is that I am the only one that eats ham, and 5 or 6kg is a bit too much for one person.

What Biden bucks would they be?

Many decades ago when I was in the RAF, in the back section of the Form 700 (the aircraft logbook) was a section of the aircraft faults. If the faults were written in green ink (green lined) the aircraft was flyable, but the performance was limited to the next service, a certain amount of flying hours etc, depending on the fault. If the faults were written in red ink (red lined) the aircraft was grounded until the fault was repaired, and was not up on the board as available. I had always thought that civilian aircraft were subject to similar regulations, but it seems more and more nowadays, that some things are more important than safety, such as profit. Personally If I couldn't fix the problem I certainly would not sign off on the job. My supervisor , or his supervisor, or perhaps HIS supervisor would have to make that decision. Perhaps the airline did not have a spare aircraft, either locally or near enough to be called in to replace the unserviceable (IMHO) aircraft. The good news is that they (belatedly) traced the fault and it went back as far as either faulty manufacture by Boeing or the sub contractor who supplied the door, or not enough thought went into the servicing instructions. Alaska were lucky that nobody was seriously injured or killed, or that the aircraft didn't crash, and that they had a top notch flight and cabin crew on board.

There used to be a couple of phrases used in bad weather. "Batten down the hatches", another one was, "Close all watertight doors". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porthole A porthole on a ship may also be called a sidescuttle or side scuttle (side hole), as officially termed in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. This term is used in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.[3] It is also used in related rules and regulations for the construction of ships.[4] The use of the word "sidescuttle" instead of "porthole" is meant to be broad, including any covered or uncovered hole in the side of the vessel. A deadlight is a hinged metal cover which can be clamped over the porthole to secure it in heavy weather.

Yesterday I made some wholemeal bread in the air fryer. Today it was raisin bread in the air fryer. last week I made some pasties with pork, onion, carrot, some garlic, a Thai vegetable similar in size and shape to a carrot (I cannot remember the name of it), but it is white. I made the pastry at home as well. The problem I have with my air fryer is that it doesn't cook the bottom of what I am cooking, so after the top is done, I turn it over to cook the bottom.

Smarter people than you on the juries believed her. The judge believed her. They heard and discussed the evidence and found against Trump. What make you think that they are wrong and you are right?

What I did hear was somebody babbling against the wind and claiming something ridiculous about Trump once again. To reach the conclusion that you have posted, you must have reached out and interviewed over 2oo million voters since the news broke yesterday. I am impressed. Could you tell us all how many questions you asked and what they were? BTW, did you personally interview President Biden as well? Or perhaps you used the same machine that TAT uses to calculate the number of tourists who will visit Thailand every month for the next 6 months. The alternative. is that your response is simply a guess with nothing to back it up at all.

Not really. That assumes that every Houthi missile of whatever sort will get shot down every time. Reasonable if the Houthis only send them over 5 or 10 at a time. If they sent 50 or 100 at a time several are bound to get through and either sink or disable a ship or two. It is quite possible to target one ship, even if it is a naval ship and overwhelm the defences. Then both the Houthis and the Iranians will face a big time retaliation. The Houthis will almost certainly be wiped out or at least severely damaged enough to keep them out of it for a while. Iran will be a much harder nut to crack, especially in the Arab Gulf. I believe that the USA has 2 carrier groups in the Gulf and the only way out is via the Strait of Hormuz, which is quite shallow and narrow, and the main deep water channel is not that wide. The Strait of Hormuz is 56 km wide and roughly 90 m deep but for a trough near and around the Musandam Peninsula. Not a large area and not very deep, if you have to launch aircraft from a carrier there.

Thank yo for that information. If it is covered by the DTA, would I have to declare it?

Thank you for those 2 links. For me the Siam-legal link gives a little more (but not enough) information about a person who is retired in Thailand and whose home country (UK) has a DTA with Thailand. I will send them an email on Monday to see if they can clarify whether I have to pay tax on my 3 pensions. I am 79, married for 24 years, and should be entitled to a higher tax allowance here in Thailand, plus I am supporting my 19 year old son, who is in his first year at university. My state pension I pay no UK tax on as it is within my tax free allowance. My military pension I pay some tax on, as combined with my state pension it exceeds the UK tax free allowance. My company pension is taxed at 20%. I read in earlier pages that my UK military is tax exempt in Thailand. Whether that is correct I don't know as it is down to the Thai RD.

IMHO, if you can afford a Bentley convertible in Thailand, and afford 500,000 for an overgrown pussy cat as a pet, then paying for 10 kg of meat per day should not be a problem.

I had to read it twice, before the Toc H light in my head finally woke up.

We also live in a rural village, only 6 km from the bank and 65 km from Kamphaeng Phet. luckily she can drive the pickup, and the house and land is in her name. IF my wife dies before me then it all goes to our son, who has told me that I can stay here until I die. We have had a safe for years, so that isn't a problem, and my marriage extension is on income so there is no 400,000 or 800,000 baht to worry about. I need to contact Wise in the UK on sorting out my bank account there, hopefully into an either/or account as my wife of 24 years (who will be 59 this year) can get my military and company pensions.

Thank you for that information. My wife has a selectively deaf ear when it comes to things like pensions, RD tax and stuff like that. I am not even sure if she knows what to do or who to contact when I die. All the information is on the opening screen of my pc with no password. I have taught her how to transfer money from Wise to BKK bank and from BKK bank to the joint account and she has even done it, but when I turn my toes up it will be her problem, as I won't be here to do it for her.

Yet the military who own many radio and TV stations in Thailand CAN become MP's and hand picked un-elected senators, and in 1 case can also become a PM, and then go on to be a Privy Counsellor.

My biggest problem at the moment is contacting my private pension supplier. They have sent me the online contact form to fill in but I have tried for 3 weeks and failed every time. The response from the robot is that it does not seem to like that I only have 1 phone number and it is a mobile number. After 4 tries yesterday I sent the robot a sarcastic and snotty reply which will take 2 working days (sound of hollow laughter) before it is responded to by a human being.

We do at KBank in the village. However I am sure that it is a joint account and not an either/or account. I will have to talk to the branch ladies and to the call centre to confirm that and make sure that it becomes an either/or account. I wonder if we can keep the same account number, or whether it would have to be closed and a new account opened?

And if you have no assets in your country of origin, it is a little easier. If you are receiving a state pension that dies with you. If you are in receipt of other pensions you need to contact your pension provider and whoever sends your pensions to Thailand (in my case it is Wise UK) to make sure that your widow still gets your pensions. It may mean rerouting the pension to a bank account in your wife's name only, and NOT to a joint account in both your names, just in case the joint account gets frozen, and your wife has no access to any funds.

And it certainly does NOT give the policeman the right to draw his gun and kill someone.

It was my pleasure. I am sorry that I couldn't come up with a proper solution.

Messenger for me comes up in Facebook as a separate icon. I looked this morning in settings under Display, Scale and Layout, selected 100%(recommended), but I still couldn't find the exit button. In the end I simply closed Google and restarted it with something else. I went back to Display, Scale and Layout, and reset mine to 125% where it normally is, I am sorry that I cannot help you better than that.