billd766

Thank you. I was proud to have served and still proud of it some 39 years later.

The very last thing that Thailand needs is yet another 4 or more years of the current coup government. For all their promises back in 2014 they have succeeded in taking Thailand back at least 20 years into the past. If they get the chance, they will do the same again.

Me too. However I did do my bit for the Queen and country with 25 years in the RAF, followed in the late 1980s by helping to build the 1G mobile phone systems for both Vodafone and Celnet.

Of course they can pursue any criminal charges towards the coup leaders as they have written their own amnesty in the constitution. Simply tear up the constitution as ALL the coup governments have done and either get the Thai people to write a new one, or use the 1997 constitution and update it. That will rid the country of the UNELECTED senate, and make sure the every general involved (along with Suthep and his cronies) gets jailed for life with NO time off.

Convicted by whom? The army backed courts of the illegal coup that overthrew the legally elected government. If the coup was illegal, then the convictions certainly are.

Brought by an illegal coup government. If the military coup was illegal, then so are the warrants.

i just opened Google Earth and asked my 18 year old son where Thailand was, and he went straight to it. I then asked him where I was born without mentioning the name and he went to the UK on Google Earth.

When I worked for Motorola and DTAC in the 1990s I used to have 3 paper map books in the car. 1 in English for me and 2 in Thai for my driver. I also carried ordinance Survey maps in Thai and English. We also had a book for hotels in Thailand. Suchart would get us close to the site by maps and then ask the way for the last km or so. He would also book a hotel for me and one for himself. No internet or GPS then back in the 1990s

St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland St David is the patron saint of Wales St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland I learned that before I left school in 1959 along with history which I enjoyed. I picked up most of the rest of my history knowledge from books, or being in the region where conflicts were taking place. And a fat lot of good it has done me since.

Not completely true. When I divorced in the UK, my ex-wife got the house which didn't matter as I was working offshore and found my own places to live. Our son was 20 and working. And I kept my pensions. YMMV

And how are you doing working for the UK economy?

But he IS my king, and that of millions of other ordinary people. I wish him all the best, as he will need it with all the whiners and moaners coming out of the woodwork.

And that ONLY if the military, EC, CC and the other alphabet soup agencies don't interfere. If they do, then as the old Chinese saying comes to mind, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times#:~:text="May you live in interesting,of a traditional Chinese curse. "May you We may live in interesting times" is an English expression that is claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. While seemingly a blessing, the expression is normally used ironically; life is better in "uninteresting times" of peace and tranquility than in "interesting" ones, which are usually times of trouble.

It doesn't contradict anything that you wrote. It simply points out, which you didn't, who controls the media now. It is the military which controls the radio, TV and newspapers in Thailand which is where many of the older Thais get their information from. The younger and more tech savvy Thais use their computers, mobile phones etc to gather information from the internet and the social media which is outside (at present) military control. This is what is terrifying the military. They don't understand it, they cannot control or censor it, as the youth are far smarter than the military.

They may not get the choice of conceding or not.

But only IF you believe that "Super Poll". There will be more and different polls along later, and you can choose the one you like from them.

And what about the non tourist areas of Thailand? Should they not be supported as well as the greedy Pattaya hoteliers?

That he did, and I was also one of them. One of the really good guys.

Nor did they mention what the blood alcohol was in the pedestrians, but carefully crossing the road at 2 AM after drinking in a bar does not always work in Thailand. Perhaps the Germans were tourists and expected the traffic rules to be the same as in Germany, This is only my thoughts as I wasn't there.

I was replying to @Adumbration who seems to want the government to tax ALL incoming money transfers. If you are going to use my post, then please use all of it.

And who controls the media in Thailand now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_Thailand Television Main article: Television in Thailand Television is by far the most popular medium in Thailand. Almost 80 percent of Thais are estimated to rely on television as their primary source of news.[9] Major television stations are owned and controlled by the Royal Thai Army, MCOT and government. Radio Thailand has 204 AM stations, 334 FM stations, and six shortwave broadcasters (as of 2011). As is the case with television, radio broadcasting is supposed to be regulated by the Broadcasting Commission (NBC). However, because there were delays in establishing the NBC (now NBTC), radio frequencies had remained in the hands of several governmental agencies, including the military, police, state universities, The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, The Government Public Relations Department (PRD) (National Broadcasting Services of Thailand), and MCOT Public Company Limited. These agencies operate several stations directly while the remainder are leased out to private content providers

Tell that to the youths who are already in jail under the LM 112 section and see if they are already free and independent. Tell that to the 6 million voters of the FFP who were disenfranchised 4 years ago. They may have a different answers than your flippant one, and there are far more of them.

Why will it always will be? There is a force in the world called progress, and it changes things.

Why should they tax inbound funds which have already been taxed at source? Have you not heard of the dual taxation agreements between countries? https://www.rd.go.th/english/766.html

My C drive and the D drive are a total of about 1 tB on the computer and any other drives are external. My C drive is 565 gB with 477 gB free and the D drive is 365 gB with 299 gB free, so I have plenty of space available. Yes, I think that the internal C and D drives on your pc are a bit on the small side.