Frenske

Just one question. Do you as a renter have to pay for the service charge /maintenance fee or is it usually included in the rent?

12 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Since when have the police been responsible for wires/internet/phone cables?   Isn't that the BMA's purview?

Isn't public safety a responsibility of the rtp and they'd have to take appropriate measures? I guess only if there's enough money involved.

My wife saw a program on tv about new CCTV regulations starting June 1^st.

Now it seems that you need a sign well visual to the public that they’re in a CCTV area for the camera outside of your home. You even need a sticker or sign in your car when you have a dash cam. Not sure what to do with the action cam on my helmet, maybe put a sign at the back of my helmet? Sharing images of people without their consent is not allowed any more, especially the ones of police that screw you over for tea money. Does any one have more information and will Thai people care a F%#k about this?

https://www.antaresgroup.com/thailand-personal-data-protection-act-pdpa/

Should sue the hotel for 6 million for extortion

Warning message from edge that the website is not safe (What a surprise) if you manage to get there you get te "opening soon" message. QR scan gets you right to the website.

On 2/5/2021 at 2:55 PM, kotsak said:

Well, there was an attempt ages ago.. didn't go well ????

 

 

The Dutch came actually years ago with a reort/plan on how to keep Bangkok dry. I think it was the Taksin government that said, "No thanks, we can do it our selves." Yeah right!

Great that you had a good experience. I got ripped off twice. The very first time I got there and when I needed a residence certificate. thb 500 and no reciept. I's not about the money, it just p###es me off.

20 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

most foreigners that come to Thailand are tourists and this requirement is covered by the hotel that they stay at...for any IO to require a foreigner with a yearly marriage or retirement extension of stay (for which there is an extensive and intrusive application process) to report simply reveals themself as a dolt or a corrupt and malicious individual who abuses his power...

Prayuth’s crackdown on corruption is obviously working, now immigration is enforcing ridiculous laws so they can steel our money legally as these laws have no influence on keeping the bad guys out but they’re just harassing the good guys.

Thank you for your reply and help.

I found out what the problem caused, at home I use USB tethering with my mobile phone, no problems what so ever.

At school, I use wifi and the network there must have been setup badly, because when I use USB thetering again the links open normally. I tried to talk with the computer teacher who's responsible for the network, but he doesn't speak a word of english. No problem, I was about to format my notebook and reinstall windows, fortunately now I know there is no need to do that, because the problem is not with me.

Thanks, Frans

Thank you for your reply. I installed google Chrome to see if the links would work in there, even copy and paste do not work and leave a blank page, so it's not a browser problem but probably something that went wrong in the register, or in the windows system. Not being able to open these links is more of an inconvenience than a problem, and only happens with thaivisa links. The links in "Best of Thailand forum" work just fine. I will mess around with it for a while to see if I can find a solution, and in the worst case just reinstall windows.

Thank you for your time.

Frans

After automatic updating of windows XP, yes I know, but it still works great on this old notebook, I can't open the links in mails from "Breaking News" of Thai visa in Fire fox any more, and they look like this,

"http://newsletter.thaivisa.com/l/5Kvb7sP6OvPC5P0xT9L5YQ/vO3XkjTwN7634GoCZtFR1DgQ/UAMkFG1QpadarlkJ763bqW2w"

At home I use a similar notebook with the same windows version, XP SP3 with Firefox as the default browser and that doesn't have the problem after the same updates. It are only the links in the breaking news mails, links in other mails still work. Does anyone have an idea what happened and how to solve it?

I did virus checks and restored it to an earlier date from before the updates, all without positive results. I also tried the online version of outlook.com, but those links also don't open in this computer. In the past I had a problem with e-mail links because Chrome hijacked the links without being the default browser but that is not the case any more.

What date is today??????

Taxi with meter was last time I went 234 THB + 70 THB for the tollway, taxi bumbs that want to take you without the use of the meter often try to charge you over 500THB

TOT in Chon Buri sucks, I'm trying to download some CSI series but nothing comes in, but the Thaivisa speed test shows good results.

For the new type of dl you don't need to bring any photos, they make now digital photos of you in the office and copy them into the dl

The 3g modems from cat are now on sale and still cost 6500thb. The speed over the past one and a half year that I'm using the loader subscrption, is very variable, but an everage of 250 kilobyte downspeed is not enough for the 840thb, tax included. Unfortunately I have no other choice at the moment. I have to admit that the connection is quite reliable, no problems getting connected.

Every year the farmers here in the village are told at local meetings not to burn down their rice fields or to start fires in the mountains, but they just don’t listen and they don’t care. They do what they always did and that is to burn down everything and never take responsibility.

As long as you do your thing and don’t bother the villagers they don’t really care what you do. I occasionally work with them on the rice fields, pick the Lamljei and cut the weeds in my tree farm. The villagers and the local police appreciate me for not being a typical lazy Farang ass.

According to a mechanic the valve clearance for Kawasaki Boss is 0,10mm (for both valves). I'll have a go and see what happens. If the bike runs fine or gets destroyed i'll let you know.

I've also been searching for a manual but there's no English version available, I guess because the Kawasaki boss is typical Thai made, and was only meant for the Thai market, if there's a manual it'll be in Thai. Due to very bad experiences with Thai mechanics I prefer to do as much as possible myself and if you ask one of these mechanics about the valve clearance specs, all of a sudden they don't understand you anymore.

They also checked bikes in the tiny district of Pa-det (Changrai)and fined quite a few people, mostly Thai and at least one farang. The fines for Thai were about THB 25000 and the Farang had to pay THB 80.000. They weren't interested in my Kawasaki Boss though!

Yes, Garro should definitely be proud of himself. From reading his posts it's obvious that he is serious about teaching and cares about his students. But being qualified does not always guarantee this, there are many qualified people out there who are teaching just because they are qualified, not because they can teach!

I fully agree with you, there are many qualified teachers out there who miss the motivation to do a good job.

(Hey Im not native English and not a teacher)

Well done, be proud at yourself and you deserve it. There are many people out there who shouldn't be teaching because they are not qualified, make a mess of teaching and give the real teachers a bad name.