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9 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said:And it is a fact that renditioning has occurred in most European countries, as well as all around the world.
And that US stated years ago that no border would stop any action anywhere on earth in relation to perceived US security.
I don't need to troll you, you always reply to my facts with something not even relevant.
Sweden wants Assange extradited to face alleged rape charges.
Sweden has failed to say conclusively that they would rule out an extradition request by the US, should be be in Sweden.
Either way, Assange will not be free to walk out of his coal bunker in the Equador Embassy. He will be nabbed by someone.
At the time that Mr Assange's made his very public entry into the Ecuador Embassy he was on bail in the UK whilst appealling extradition to Sweden, who wished to question him over allegations of offences unrelated to Wikileaks. One of his demands/excuses for jumping bail was that Sweden would not guarantee that he would not be extradited from Sweden to the USA. The Swedish Government could give no such assurances because Sweden has an independent court system, which would have decided in the event of Mr Assange's extradition being requested and appealed. In exactly the same way that any such decision in the UK would be decided by the courts, not the government.
All that was forgotten in the heady excitement of addressing the world from that little balcony...
By making sure that he was a very high profile bail jumper, and doing his very best to keep his profile up, Mr Assange has made sure that his bail jumping is not going to be ignored or quietly forgotten.
Silly chap. I am sure that his legal advisors will have explained all that. I am sure that he decided that he knew better.
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6 hours ago, pegman said:Obviously the people of your country are getting gouged. They are either too stupid or weak realize it to do anything about it.
Or, just possibly, the medical insurance, pharmaceutical and medical industries have some sort of hold over the elected "representatives"?
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7 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:How many bail jumpers have been treated this way?
It might be more pertinent to ask: how many bail jumpers have very publicly jumped bail to take "asylum" in an embassy, and then appeared on a balcony of that embassy to taunt the judicial system which granted them bail? If nothing else, Mr Assange's rather poor impression of the Monty Python North Minehead by election sketch has ensured that he remains firmly in the sights of the judicial system.
Bail jumpers who evade arrest and prosecution normally do so because they do not attract the attention of the judicial system. Something which Mr Assange either hasn't realised, or has ignored because it conflicts with his irrisistable desire to grandstand.
I wonder how long it will be before the Ecuador ambassador finally gets fed up with sharing his Ferrero Roche chocolate, and shows him the door. Undoubtedly Mr Assange, rather than just melting away into the crowd, will call a press conference on the doorstep, which will end up with him being pinched.
As others have said, I do hope his cat is going to be OK.
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50 minutes ago, Crossy said:
Yeah, there have been reports both ways about NW, some like you have had no issues, others have been fine until new cards were needed, "pick your card up at a branch of your choosing". I have an address I can use so, until I can't any longer I'll keep them in the relative dark.
They are quite happy to send cards to my Thai address. They don't activate them until I contact them on their secure messaging system ( part of online banking) to declare that I have received them.
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20 hours ago, johng said:I always understood it was ok to turn left on red if its clear to do so and no signs prohibiting it ?
If you are driving the local bus from Chiang Rai to Wiang Chiang Rung, you must ensure that the lady who collects the fares hangs out of the doorway and shouts a warning to any nearby motorcycles, you can then engage the clutch and lurch onwards and leftwards, secured from interception or identification by a smokescreen which would do credit to a second world war destroyer attempting to hide a convoy from the "Bismark"!
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3 hours ago, Ebumbu said:
They should have 10,000 (or 100,000) Assange look-alikes all converge on the embassy at once (flash mob) and call taxis and Ubers. A bold plan is required. He can then attach himself to a man-sized drone and fly to a nearby safe house to replace his face and fingerprints with perfect latex replicas of Steve Martin, Lex Luthor, or Edgar Winter. It would be child's play to create a new passport.
As inventive and plausible a scheme as many of Mr Assange's claims to be at risk of kidnapping by the United States should he venture out of the embassy!
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I seem to remember something remarkably similar happened last year?
Obviously no culture of learning from past mistakes then...
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4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:
Thailand may have 100,000 conscripts yearly but just how many are military reservists. There are vast difference in the role of conscripts and reservists. Singapore has 35,000 conscripts every year and almost 1 million reservists who can be activated and join their units in less than a day. Thailand has no such system. Conscripts contribute very little in supporting the military except for being servants and gardeners for the senior officers.
Thailand has shedloads of reservists - all those schoolboys who do Army Cadets in M4 to M6 (to avoid the call up) are actually on the reserve for years - to age 40 I think! So are all the conscripts.
Of course, they have no weapons, kit, organisation for them, continuation training or system for calling them up...
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11 minutes ago, Spidey said:
Easy enough to check.
Go to your account settings, recently used devices, and you'll find a list of devices, browsers and locations that you've logged in from. Good of TV to allow us to check the security of our VPNs.
Mine all show UK. Haven't been there for a year.
Well, you've just blown your cover!
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1 hour ago, Lucky mike said:
I still struggle, why do teachers require uniforms with military style ribbons ?
All the (Thai) teachers in my school now turn up on a Monday resplendent in black trousers/skirt and white paramilitary style shirts, all with the same badges of rank (two gold bars on each shoulder) and the same six medal ribbons, arranged in two rows. I observed that they looked like drivers for "Sombat Tour". The younger ones thought that very funny, one or two of the older ones were a bit old fashioned about it. The senior lady who is the supervisor teacher for P6, and who spends all her time scolding that lively, funny and engaging collection of 12 year olds for not wai-ing to her correctly, complained. Lack of respect I suppose. None of them could tell me what the medals were awarded for! It was suggested that perhaps I would like to wear a uniform - I declined - it would have been embarrassing - I've only got four medals...
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2 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:
Not 100% sure, but I think that is already illegal here...........or is just downloading it that is illegal.......
Next time you pass one of those roadside checkpoint tents why not stop and ask the coppers - that's if you can get them to look up from "pornhub" on their phones...
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3 hours ago, Orton Rd said:
That's illegal as well!
Oh, I think living in California is legal - although there are many US citizens, of the more red-necked persuasion, who hold that the majority of people who do live there, particularly those with more dusky complections are "illegals".
Ah, I see what you mean; silly me, I sometimes am a bear of very little brain!
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As above, I do exactly the same and find no problems.
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2 hours ago, BestB said:When you have a business in Thailand then you might understand.
why would anyone in their right mind pay double for the very same person who is only worth half ?
an engineer will not work as a maid or reception or waiter and waiter gets paid the same no matter which restaurant they work in.
a good waiter makes enough tips a bad waiter keeps changing jobs.
so why would anyone pay double for a bad waiter ?
And you wonder why you can't get people to work for you!
Might I suggest that if you offer, say 20% more than your competitors, you will be able to pick and choose the better waiters. When your business's reputation for good customer service becomes known (because you have a willing happy well-paid staff) then you will get more customers.
But as you say, it is your business, so if you wish to keep on paying the lowest wage you can get away with, expecting your staff to scrape by on tips, then so be it. You can fill the time by posting on here complaining that you can't get anyone to work for you!
I think I understand...
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1 hour ago, sceadugenga said:
Well there's no blue colour on traffic lights is there?
Well, not the ones on the right-hand side of the road anyway...
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9 hours ago, mommysboy said:
I keep reading and hearing the same crap over and over again for the past decade and for the very same time i am short staffed and cannot get staff.
Is it possible in this case that the kind of people you might employ are already in work- possibly with better pay, and that sadly you are left with those that may be deemed unemployable?
minimum wage businesses are short staffed: The reason lays in the statement; I reckon the minimum wage is not enough to live on, hence anyone who is basically competent, qualified, or just has enough about them to honestly want to work won't, or simply can't afford to take the job.
Yes, I suspect you're right.
If you are short of staff, then you need to attract them, and you will only do that by offering better terms of employment (wages) than those you are competing against for staff.
The trouble is that the "minimum wage" is regarded as a "universal wage" by some employers.
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On 2/18/2019 at 9:11 AM, KC 71 said:I had to stick my nose on a block of wood and state what colours i could see.the lady kept shouting ‘look straight,look straight’,so i shouted back’i’m trying,i,m trying’ !
Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa ConnectI'm marginally blue/green colour blind, in my left eye. Without thinking I declared one light as blue.
I quote: "Silly man, is green!"
She gave me my license...
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On 2/26/2019 at 5:25 PM, sceadugenga said:
Still no Royal Project store but I did find the Japanese sounding bakery...Yamazaki? that used to be next to Tops along with the Thai style bakery that was opposite.
They're in the new mall opposite the Tops undercover carpark entrance.
Ah, that's where they have ended up! Every time I have been to Central for the last couple of months a mobile sticky bun shop seems to have set up camp somewhere new!
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LThere is a computer shop called "KVC" or something like that. Start from the main entrance of the Provincial Hospital, where the tuk tuks and songthaws all wait. Head west, turn south (left) onto Sanatbin Rd at the traffic lights. You will pass the new A&E entrance to the hospital on your left, Office of Elementary Education on your right. Turn right at the next lights, the computer shop is on your left about 300 metres up, just before the road bends to the left at a temple. I've always found them very helpful.
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58 minutes ago, deonvz said:
The lamyai industry would collapse from Sakeo to Trat if it was not for Khmer labor.
Surely, Thais can twerk just as much as Khmers?
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1 hour ago, webfact said:Another glaring example of events occurring beyond our borders but nevertheless affecting us significantly is the mass influx of Rohingya boat people from Myanmar that started a decade ago. Thai marine forces were globally portrayed as heartless when they blocked the first wave from landing here. International condemnation forced a change in policy, but severe mistrust lingered over human trafficking along the western coast that has seen bribes paid to local government officials. In the most publicised event, government security officials were among the many people arrested, but in the world’s eyes the damage was already done. And meanwhile no one ever found the courage to point out the source of the problem, which is Myanmar’s brutal treatment of its Muslim minorities including the Rohingya.
The world is fully aware of what has happened to the Rohinga, both within Myanmar and here in Thailand. The blame for what has happened to Rohinga refugees, in Thailand and in it's waters falls squarely on those Thais who took part in it.
You don't have to look very far at all to find the answers. Murder is murder and slavery is slavery.
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It costs B5000 (in Savannakhet). You need to prove that you are formally married - marriage certificate and so on.
Asking about using it to circumvent other requirements is probably not that wise.
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21 hours ago, wgdanson said:
Any Rastafarians standing?
I doubt it, they are normally so stoned/chilled out that they are horizontal...
Man arrested at Manchester Airport had been in Thailand to try and get a film of his life made
in Thailand News
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Porthmadog eh?
I've been there several times ( I enjoy the Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, and as a child my Godfather came from that neck of the woods). I like the place, and the people, but I must say, it is "different"!