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billd766

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  1. Are you jealous that his family is rich? Trump's family is rich too, at least on paper.
  2. For what? If I need to know anything like that I can do a search of the internet. Do you know the March 2023 price of rice in China? https://www.globalproductprices.com/China/rice_prices/ China - Rice - price, March 2023 CNY 8.360 USD 1.212 EUR 1.097 The price is 1.21 USD. The average price for all countries is 1.92 USD. The database includes 81 countries. International price data (USD / 1 kg, Source: GlobalProductPrices.com. ) I had no idea and am not interested either, but a simple search brings it up.
  3. Vote for Prayuth. He is obviously your hero.
  4. And the saddest thing is that there are posters on here who truly believe that they know more than the investigators who have been working the case from the beginning.
  5. I bought one but my wife nobbled it and she is the one that uses it.
  6. I don't know at all, as nobody has dared poke their head over the parapet, but they would do it to stop the war IF they have any sense.
  7. But more people benefitted from that constitution than ANY constitution that ANY coup government ever made. Of course it wasn't perfect but it was workable and of far more use to the Thai people than the current one.. There was no real time to work the anomalies out of it properly.
  8. And how about the physical side of being onsite to do the actual work? Other than that I have no idea as I retired 13 years ago. Somebody has to decide where to put a cell site. Somebody has to go out and do a physical site survey, somebody has to contact the owner of the site and sign a contract, somebody has to build the site, somebody has to commission the site and its links, somebody has to climb the tower to run the feeder cables to the antennas. Somebody has to ensure that the site frequencies don't interfere with anybody else in the vicinity, especially airports, hospitals, emergency services etc. Mobile sites don't build themselves. Before it comes on air and working can take 2 or 3 months, perhaps more if no decent site is available. Apps are fine IF everything is there and connected up but are useless before that point.
  9. 25 years with the RAF, a few years in the UK and then 3 years in the UK and 7 years offshore with Motorola international building mobile phone systems. I followed that by 10 years work as a contractor doing the same thing. The biggest problem I found was when I stayed in an international chain of hotels, waking up and wondering which country I was in. The rooms were decorated the same.
  10. Are they Immigration police, or ordinary police. Different jobs.
  11. IMHO it would be better if the water splashing at Songkran was banned completely to save the billions of litres of wasted water.
  12. You reap what you sow. Perhaps it is getting through to him what he has done and how well he is liked within his own family. Maybe in a few years time, if he gets dumped, he will have to earn his way back into the family.
  13. If the PTP win an overall majority and 376 seats, with or without a coalition, they can simply tear up the current constitution, go back to the 1997 constitution and amend it. That would solve the senate problem, just dissolve the senate and sack ALL the senators. If that should happen, I wonder what the self granted amnesty to the coup leaders would be worth? After all that is what happens with every coup.
  14. We had thunder and lightning coming from the south yesterday afternoon and some very welcome rain as well out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet next to the Mae Wong national park. About 9pm last night there was a lightning strike on a coconut tree in the front garden. A flash and the bang together. Then a bit more rain and today has been cooler, thank goodness.
  15. But I don't live in the UK and have not lived there since 1992, so why would I need to know or care about the price on electricity there?
  16. I am from the UK but I have lived and worked in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Gibraltar, not to mention around 30 od other countries across the world. Those 5 countries I have mentioned have different attitudes, food, culture and even languages from each other. Even in the UK there are many regional differences from north to south, and east to west.
  17. Apart from 7/11s which are franchise from CP I think, plus the gas stations which are also owned by big business, most of rural Thailand depend on the mom and pop shops and the food cars. So the money will go to the smaller people, which is where it should go.
  18. Why shame on the west? The shame is on ASEAN who sit and do nothing but talk whilst Myanmar indiscriminately kills its own men women and children. The Tatmadaw only understand violence whilst the rest of ASEAN abhor. it. IMHO the only way to fix the problem is for a combined ASEAN force to invade Myanmar, destroy the Tatmadaw and publicly execute ALL the Tatmadaw leadership down to major or captain level. This won't happen of course as there are too many ASEAN countries in a similar position. It is an ASEAN problem and not a western problem. Myanmar has the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea as its coastline. It is bounded by Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos and China. Only Bangladesh may help the west, and there is no 100% guarantee of that. There is no other way for the west to enter Myanmar. In addition Myanmar is supported by both Russia and China, and there is no way that they would allow any western support to the Myanmar "rebels".
  19. Alternatively it could not come next. Could, perhaps, maybe. More whataboutery. quote from the link "But delivering chem-bio weapons is difficult and dangerous even for well-trained professional soldiers. There is little to suggest Russian troops would be successful." There are many variables in using chemical and biological warfare and the biggest problem is the weather. If the wind speed increases or changes direction the weapon is less useful and far ore indiscriminate and you may get it back on yourself. NATO countries also have nuclear, chemical and biological (NBC) weapons and are regularly trained in their use as a defensive weapon.
  20. Mine was running fine until I turned it on one lunchtime and while the fan blew the compressor didn't run and no cold air came out. I am still waiting for the gut to come and clean it, fix it or tell us we need a new one. A/c is not one of my skill sets.
  21. Mine went from 4,959 in March to 7,183 for April up about 45%. I run 2 freezers, 2 fridge freezers, my bedroom a/c about 14 hours a day and the lounge about 19 hours a day. Sadly the lounge a/c died 5 days ago and all the a/c guys are working flat out on new installations and repairing exist customers a/c. My meter is of the 1125 type.
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