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13 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Sometimes you have to wonder...."what were they thinking"  quite often.

regards Worgeordie

words fail me

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Baht is best performer globally against dollar over five years

why do they keep saying this, it's like saying I outperformed everyone by jumping without a parachute - yes I will hit the ground first suckers

"best performing" is when the currency is supporting the economy, right now it is being heavily manipulated because Thailand is allowing that to happen, just wait until they have to do something drastic to stop it - mass exit

3 hours ago, Tomahawk21 said:

agreed so whats the answer ????????????????????????

 

buy 3x submarines

we that will be incentive for him to make sure the vehicle he is responsible for is road worthy in the future - he doesn't want another hefty fine like that again 

How many thousands of baht damage did he cause ? not to mention the extreme risk to life

well done Thailand everyone feels much safer now ………………………….NOT

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Eastern Economic Corridor Policy Committee (EECPC) plans to set up a management committee of the EEC Development Fund, which will monitor and make compensations to local communities affected by the mega project, in line with government policy.

and how many of these people are suitability qualified to do so ?

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A privy councilor has told a seminar, on the occasion of Anti-Corruption Day on Friday, that he is sick of the seemingly endless talking about the scourge of corruption, stressing that it was high time for action, not just words.

start with Immigration and also sort out the rules so it isn't so easy

Many expats are now either leaving or resorting to bribes through agents to get stuff approved mostly because of the new rules introduced earlier this year

what issue are you having

but, anyone using an agent to bypass the rules are currently exempt from any further checks

Only those doing everything by the book within the law are being scrutinized 

go figure

2 hours ago, anterian said:

If you have reactive loads, motors and transformers, then PF correction can save you money. However the correction has to be immediate to the device, not a some remote location. 

https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2013/10/advantages-of-power-factor-improvement-and-correction.html

 

if you limit the efficiency of something that uses electricity then this could very easily have the opposite effect, this comes down to how good a design the appliance has in the first place

Everything you do with electricity uses energy - how efficient that energy is used depends on a lot of factors, domestic appliances are tested under a controlled environment - where you place your fridge in your house may not be the most efficient use of that device but that has nothing to do with the actual electricity usage the appliance uses when active 

2 hours ago, Mises said:

These small LEDs use less than 0.02W so even if you had 20 on all month it would cost less than 2 baht.  That is the beauty of LED lighting, it is almost free, a typical 5W LED on 12 hours a day will only cost 9 baht a month compared to a 50W halogen that will cost 90 baht a month and heat the room, not a good thing here.  However, all the devices with the red stand-by LEDs will have a transformer running so the cost will actually be more but it is still insignificant.

correct, so the original comment I call rubbish was in fact just that - total rubbish

On 9/5/2019 at 2:18 PM, Just Weird said:

It's not rubbish, do you think that they do not use any electricity?  He did say "If you have enough of them..."

enough of them ? 

 5 room house with 5 modern Tv's and say 4 other various appliances for an average house all on standby for 50% of 30 days

how must electric did they use and cost in baht at government rate on standby

and for myself I have 2x large tv's and a couple of other items that go on standby, not even worth considering their usage it is so small

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I've been wanting to ask if anybody has bought one of them internet boosters whatever they are called

another scam, if you have 50mbs connection that is what you get, if you have a really weak signal in some remote part of your house you can connect an extender via LAN cable

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

When my wife gets home i will have to get her to read the above.

Silly <deleted> paid 1200 baht for 1 of these damn things, as much as i tried to tell her waste of money, wont work, all i got was Thai man say i save more 25% on electric bills.

yes it's absolute nonsense, in fact your bill will go up because the device itself uses electricity lol - electric is produced and used,  it is not something you can use less of unless you generate it yourself, this device is a scam of the highest order, if something uses 1kwh - that is what it uses, if you want to use less electric in a bulb the brightness will go down - simple as that

I have a device that measures and logs my usage - real time - daily - weekly - monthly that is entirely different and useful just to verify what items are actually using and also good if I leave something on that I should have turned off, like an aircon unit in another room that I have left (who hasn't done that lol)

1 hour ago, mushroomdave said:

Their stand is that you are still responsible for the person you loaned it to as it is in many countries.  Also, just like you, the driver, is responsible for seat-belts to be on all persons in your car. 

completely different, the driver is in control of the vehicle and those in it

It's similar in the UK regarding speeding tickets - if the evidence is unclear who was driving (photo evidence) and the owner of the vehicle says he was not driving and can prove it - in law he cannot be fined - it is the driver of the vehicle that is responsible for the offence not the vehicle. 

the rider of a motorbike isn't always the registered owner