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lujanit

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  1. I wouldn't get too excited by BYD. If Warren Buffet is reducing his stake and the company is hundreds of millions of USD in debt things may not be as rosy as they seem. Have a look at this video and see the real state of electric vehicles in China.
  2. Especially when they use pirated copies of Windows XP.
  3. What! Has Thai time changed? I thought there were only 24 hours in each day that Thais could be on the phone. Thais must have changed the time space continuum and added several more hours to each day. This is the only way possible Thais could spend longer on the phone.
  4. This has become a farce. Everyone already knows the decision of the Court.
  5. I know someone who put one million Baht into a Long Term Fund with a major bank here. In a few months it was worth 60,000 baht less. Of course the fund invested heavily in the Chinese property market. The money was promptly withdrawn. This was before the ills of Evergrande and company was fully known. Now it would be nearly worthless.
  6. Another choice is Dr. Paragon at St. Louis hospital (Surasak on the BTS line). He gives a full eye examination and a prescription that can be used anywhere. St. Louis hospital does not sell glasses.
  7. I am really surprised that the salaries paid are so low.
  8. Until the driver and the teacher in each and every case are charged with manslaughter and convicted with lengthy jail terms will this sad state of affairs will continue.
  9. IMHO Tuk Tuk drivers are worse than taxi drivers. They rarely have a meter and quote an excessive price to anyone who looks like a tourist. Added to that Tuk Tuks are as uncomfortable as sh!t if you are tall. I avoid them.
  10. The BIB will do nothing unless you pay them. Years ago a Brit stole my wallet and stole a hire car. Both the Thai owner of the car and I went to report the the thefts to the cops. They even charged us for a copy of the report. A simple thing they could have done was notify Immigration so when this criminal tried to leave he was caught. The BIB couldn't even be bothered to pick up the telephone and call Immigration. A copy of his passport was provided to the cops so they knew exactly who was responsible. And you wonder why I hate the local cops so much?
  11. After digging into the subject it seems that the HDD's were originally formatted to FAT32. I read one interesting comment that the cause can be switching the HDD between a Mac and a PC. I was guilty of that. I was trying to format the HDD into two partitions (one NTFS, one Mac) to backup photos and pics. Most of these external HDD's cannot be formatted to NTFS and while trying to do so revert to RAW. There are plenty of how to format RAW drives instructions (including videos); none of them worked for me. A Windows program (free) from Diskpart.com seems to work sometimes. I took the latest Seagate drive to a computer shop at Seacon and he got the same results that I did on a Windows PC. Tried the using the free version of Tuxera for Mac. No good. https://ntfsformac.tuxera.com/ At least Lazada accept returns within seven days. Getting a refund takes much longer (15 to 30 days).
  12. Wasn't there an article here that the figure was 4 million 'tourists' had arrived so far this year recently? My memory must be going as I can't keep up with the ever changing figures of 'tourists'.
  13. Been raining heavily about every second day here in Mahasawat (NW Bangkok). This morning heavy rain from about 0400 to 0600. No surprise as it's the rainy season.
  14. Talk is far easier than action. The only action Prayuth, Prawit, Anutin and their cohorts have excelled at is stealing the Thai taxpayers money.
  15. Never heard of them until now. I did a comparison with Zenni. Exactly the same specifications, even with their discount they were USD80 more expensive. Their frames are nearly twice as expensive. USD90 compared to USD45.95 for titanium frames.
  16. Rudolph Diesel first ran his engine on peanut oil. I know a diesel engine is not a jet engine. There must be a way of refining used cooking oil to something akin to aviation fuel.
  17. The BIB and the army are the biggest mafia organizations in Thailand. They would never let an opportunity like this to profit pass them by. Who checked that the actual drugs were incinerated? The BIB and the army of course.
  18. Like the Thailand 'Ebola vaccine' a homegrown covid vaccine will never see the light of day.
  19. The 'non' criminals you are referring to wouldn't happen to be the RTP?
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