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6 hours ago, steven100 said:

I think the headline is incorrect ...

 

' lend ' is not appropriate ....    ' leased '   is more fitting.

 

you lend your neighbor your screwdriver in the hope you'll get it back ...

A lot will depend I suppose on whether it is a 'dry' lease which is where (in this case Thai) only get the aircraft, or a 'wet' lease, where in this case the owners of the aircraft In this case (Aercap) supply the aircraft, crews, servicing etc to Thai.

A dry lease is cheaper initially until the cost of servicing etc kicks in and only works, IF you have your own crews etc and have previously operated that model of aircraft.

On 2/22/2024 at 12:19 PM, John Drake said:

Take three or four cold showers when the days are hot. That helps a great deal, and it's what many Thais do to cope.

A great plan but the government water was cut off last week and my wife tells me that it "should" come back on in the next 2 or 3 weeks.

18 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Was it a case of;

Can I screw you and then she bolted 

or

I'd be nuts to be screwed by you?

 

Any more nuts and bolts suggestions or am I screwed?

Carrying on the theme of nut, there is a different version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgLLjTkA9A

6 minutes ago, retarius said:

Sounds like they can hack in like they were Air Traffic Control. 

There is no need to 'hack' in. All it takes is some person or country that is aware of the radio frequencies used in any area world wide, (and they are not secret), a radio transmitter with enough power and a a receiver and you can listen and talk to anybody in the world whose radio is open and tuned to the frequency you want to listen to.

All you need to do is to listen to the calls for a few days and you can work out who is on the other end. Indeed if you use (I think Flightradar24) with your computer you can track any civil flight worldwide 24/7.

Military flights are a bit harder to track, but given the right equipment there is no reason why they cannot be tracked also.

Is the PM suggesting giving funds to the UN that Thailand doesn't have without borrowing, or suggesting that Thailand should be one of the lower income countries that will be the recipient of funds from richer countries?

Perhaps the PM should consider cleaning up Thailand and enforcing existing current pollution laws first, using Thailand's own funds.

2 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Fully agree.

 

See I am not the only one that find others annoying.55555

 

Have a good day.

I am still trying to find decent posts worth reading that small children on the forumdon't constantly trying to disrupt.

Thank you for your good wish for the day.

Mine is going downhill for the next hour or so as it is time for my daily exercises.

17 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Rip..probably suicide as the police always say. No further investigations need to be done case closed.... Feel sorry his family

Absolute BS Inspector Clouseau.

We used to have outdoor cats for years until about 4 years ago when the last one went walkabout.

Last week a young cat turned up from somewhere and looked hungry. So my wife gave it some fish and now the cat seems to have adopted her, probably because she feeds it and it tolerates me. 

It has made its home on top of an old chiller cabinet and is not happy with our neighbours dogs.

I am quite happy for it to live here, provided that it knows that its job will be to kill rats and hopefully to kill all the pigeons that live in my MIL old house.

3 hours ago, Zab1e said:

You don’t  trade stocks  do you ? She makes huge money on insider information… every stock trader knows it. 
 

 

And your problem with that is what exactly?

If you are accusing her of insider trading, all you have to do is prove it.

Without proof, then it is simply an allegation, and meaningless.

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Discounting the orangutang theory I'm quite certain citizen Trump is indeed a human being. But I'm also convinced he is among the absolute worst human beings ever to come out of the American culture in all its history.

Neanderthal man or Cro-Magnon man?

2 hours ago, JackGats said:

Indeed. This woman was after the man's money. This time however the man was first to pull the trigger. 

What a load of codswallop.

If he is so honest, why has HE disappeared?

Honest and trustworthy men don't taper off a relationship and vanish?

Why did she go to the police and complain about being scammed, and not him?

Why did he gave the widow an ATM card saying that she could get her 50,000 baht when there was only 85 baht in the account?

Why did HE borrow money from her, and not she from him?

1 minute ago, Dolf said:

You support a known racist who also bullies women. That's how boring you are.

Go away you silly little boy and come back when you know what you are talking about.

1 minute ago, Dolf said:

But not racist like your favourite TV star.

There you go once again assuming that Clarkson is MY favourite TV star.

A stupid thing to say as you know nothing about me.

It is about par for your abysmal posting level though.

5 minutes ago, Dolf said:

So you are saying most Brits like watching racists on tv? Interesting theory you have.

Not only are you incredibly boring and repetitive you seem to have acquired the habit of putting YOUR words into other people mouths when they haven't said anything like that at. Just as you have done to me.

14 hours ago, Dolf said:

https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-hates-jeremy-clarkson-unchecked-wealth-and-privilege-2015-3

And the best that you can offer up is a nearly 9 year old report from March 12th 2015?

Can you not find anything newer than that?

According tp the report, ' many Brits hate Clarkson', but the report fails to give any percentage that amounts to.

So please tell all us Clarkson non-haters how many Brits as a percentage actually "hate" Clarkson and if you find the link, please make sure it is less than a couple of years old, otherwise it will be as useless and meaningless as this link you gave.

On 2/19/2024 at 5:15 PM, JBChiangRai said:

Yes, Hydrogen (H2) is great.

 

It cost five times more per kilometer than a battery electric car.
 

You take your electricity and instead of putting it straight in your battery car, you electrolyze water to make hydrogen and oxygen, you then use electricity to compress that so you can put it into tankers. Then you drive the tankers to your local fuel station using hydrogen in the process. Then you use more electricity to transfer into the fuel station tanks. Then you use more electricity to pump it into your car. then your car probably uses a fuel cell which is about 50% efficient as it wastes a lot in heat reducing the whole thing to 20% of the efficiency of having a battery electric car in the first place.

 

So consumers will love the hydrogen car because it cost five times more to run.

 

Where do I order one?

OTOH owners will not be faced with either having to spend half the price of the EV to replace the battery or having to scrap a perfectly good vehicle because they cannot afford to buy a new battery.

When you talk about putting electricity straight into your EV battery you carefully omitted to mention how much electricity is used to actually build the battery in the first place, nor how much electricity will be used to scrap and salvage the battery at the end of its working life.

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

The god of don't believe anyone or anything in Thailand ...

Oh, that god. Just a minor one I think and not as powerful as Thor or Odin.

8 hours ago, digger70 said:

They, (the ones in Power ) are trying to keep Thaksin on a Leash.

He's been getting away with a lot But maybe he can't Buy Everting, Let's hope for the best and see him in jail or back in his holiday Hospital If he gets Convicted.

IMHO, Thaksin has a friend in the highest place and all the yappers should remember that.