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I have never tried checking in for a local flight with my driving licence and wonder if they would accept it with my photo of 40 years ago which I hardly resemble any more ( I started driving at the age of 18). The licences of those days have no expiration date.

Try it. I never take my passport when flying only within Thailand. In the US, I used my European DL and they accepted it. (The TSA officer asked, "What is this, a driver's licence?" and he was satisfied when I confirmed.) Next time, I shall try my Thai DL over there.

You may get on the flight using a drivers license but the place you stay at, hotel, guest house or even privat recidense, at your destination are required by law to send your passport information (expiry date, visa type, TM number...) to the local police or immigration.

Villa Market, on the ice cream fridge near the cashiers

The official sign posted at ALL crossings where you are allowed to turn left on red is this:

The new, confusing, signs at some of the crossings where you are NOT allowed to turn left looks like this:

So they've got signs saying you can turn and others saying you cannot.

If there is a traffic law forbidding left hand turn on red unless it is indicated that you can, why the signs?

Where are these blue signs? Bangkok or Pattaya?

The blue signs are all over Thailand and is the official way of indicating if you can turn left on red light. Blue sign you can turn, no sign you can not turn.

I guess that the new signs is a way Pattaya police are trying to make people aware of where you can or can not turn left on red. Unfortunately they have only confused the situation.

In the end TIT, no one gives a sh..t and turn left anyway.

The official sign for turning left att red light is this:

ZZZ is correct.

I don't think so. The only ones you cannot turn left at have a sign stating you cannot.

If he were right, then please explain why they have put up new signs at many intersections stating you cannot turn on red.

What I find very annoying is that cars which turn left on red often don't bother to give way to through traffic.

Many of the junctions where you CAN turn left have a sign saying you can.

The official sign posted at ALL crossings where you are allowed to turn left on red is this:

The new, confusing, signs at some of the crossings where you are NOT allowed to turn left looks like this:

In the US you can turn on red at all crossings unless there is a sign saying the opposite.

In Thailand it's the other way around. It's illegal to turn at all crossings unless there is a sign saying that you can. The official sign is a blue rectangular sign, portrait orientation, with a white arrow indicating a left turn.

It's illegal to turn at red at most crossings in Pattaya as only a few of the crossings have this sign.

Over the last year some new un-official signs have appeared to confuse the situation.

As another poster said most side cars are illegal. There is only on type approved sidecar in Thailand, don't know the brand and have never seen it as all looks home made.

Even if approved you are not allowed to carry any passengers in the side car, only one passenger on the bike seat.

The helmet law, as far as I know, only applies to 2 weel motorised vehicles.

If you only need one you could buy blank iron-on transfers. These come in A4 size and you can print a picture on it with a normal printer and then iron on. Works fine but maybe not as nice as a professional screen print.

Easy fix:

Make it compulsory for the main owners and people resposible for the safety at these estates to have their offices at these estates and compulsory to spend most of their time there.

There is also a law protecting customers that would support a site like this if the information given on the site is correct:

The protection of consumers in Thailand is regulated by the Consumer Protection Act, which calls for the protection of the rights of consumers and aims to prevent businesses from deceiving consumers. According to the law, consumers have the rights to full knowledge about the goods that they are purchasing, or the services they are obtaining, so that they will be provided with full protection.

Even a simple thing like repainting the bike requires you to go to LTA and have the changes entered in the green book.

A mod like increasing fuel capacity will most likely require testing and re-certification by the athorities to make it legal. It will most likely void the waranty as well.

But as this is Thailand I guess this will not stop anyone

The 14 point plan as presented 4 years ago:

1. Community council with feedback from the 27 communities

2. 24 hour security inside the city and in rural areas

3. Sufficient water and electricity supplies

4. Resolve flooding problems

5. Trolley-car project

6. Easing traffic flow, parking lots at beach areas and Sukhumvit underpasses

7. Support for school children; lunches, transport and better skills training

8. Free home medical care for people unable to visit clinics.

9. More greenery planted in the city

10. Ban on digging up five key roads

11. Housing security project

12. Firm policy on sports development

13. World Tourism Festival in Pattaya

14. Clean beaches, public restrooms and a clean environment to promote tourism

Acknowledging the ambitious quality of this extensive program, the new mayor said that most of these problems impact tourism, which is the lifeblood of the city, and that to ignore or delay any of them would have a detrimental effect on Pattaya, its image, its economy and the quality of life of its inhabitants.

why doing it the hard way when aircon units with DC compressors (called "inverters") are available? every Tom, Dick and Harry aircon guy and builders market are promoting and selling them.

no insulated tanks, circulation pumps, etc. required. the problem is not a technical one but a capital intensive one which does not provide a reasonable rate of return when compared with the cost of energy from the public grid.

An inverter compressor is using an AC motor. The input AC is converted to DC and then again converted to AC at different frequences to adjust the compressor speed. So that will not really work out of the box but could maybe be done if you bypassed the step where the input AC was converted to DC.

Anyway, I did say to use an efficient freezer unit and that could maybe be an inverter unit.

The point of a large refrigiant tank was to cool this down during daytime when you have sunlight to power solar cells. The stored cool refrigiant could then be used during night time, when most people use their aircon, to cool down the two rooms. This would not be possible without the large tank or a massive battery bank, even if you are using an inverter aircon.

The thing with the tank is that it would probably be a lot cheaper to store the energy this way than using batteries and once it is built there are no replacement costs to think about.

If you could build the tank yourself the only real additional cost would be for the solar panels and they are getting cheaper by the day.

Someone withknowledge could maybe calculate how this would work out:

Solar panels directly connected to an efficient freezer unit where the AC motor has been exchanged for an efficient 12 or 48V DC motor.

The freezer unit is cooling a big insulated tank with an efficient liquid (saline solution??) to store the cold.

In the rooms you have the standard wall units with a fan and a heat exchanger.

The fans in the units are powered with the normal AC power.

AC powered circulation pumps will bring the coold liquid from the holding tank to the wall units. The circulation pumps will be controlled by the thermostat in the wall unit.

Blue Seas Marine

www.bluewavewatersports.com

and ASAP Marine

www.asap-marine.com/

Located at Ocean Marina, 20 min drive south of Pattaya, both stock GPS and fish finders.

www.oceanmarinayachtclub.com

Rocketproducts at Ocean Marina is a North Sail authorized loft. They also make sail shades, awnings and all sorts of specialized sewing.

Google rocketproducts pattaya for contact info.

Vodka is normally about 40% ethanol and 60% water and will freeze solid at around 30-35 deg Centigrade. If it's a weak vodka, around 30% ethanol then it will freeze at around 20-25 deg C. It should say on the bottle how much alcohol there is.

Can buy from here:

http://www.healthfoodthailand.com

It never ceases to amaze me that when this subject arises from time to time, they always hurl the accusations at the purchasers of land and never the sellers.

Please note if you purchased your land using a Thai company, this company will have gone through an approval process. If approved it will have been stamped as approved by an agent of the Thai government and they will have accepted the fee.

Then when the purchase was carried through, the process would be stamped and approved by an agent of the Thai Govt. and they will have accepted the fee and any taxes due.

People who "mouth off" like this particular individual should start looking inwards at their own culpability in this matter and consider the can of worms they might stir up for themselves if they decide to do anything about it.

If they want to change the law now to affect future purchases that's up to them but they should not look retrospectively at past aquisitions where they have clearly been complicite by approval.

I used to in the past get upset by the fact that so many foreigners owned so much of England. Then I thought about it and recognized that they couldn't pack it in a suitcase and take it away. It's still England and they are just taking care of part of it for a while and paying for the privelege.

Cheers.

Ah sanity.

No sanity.

If you have actually read the documents you sign when you form a company and use a company to buy land you will know that you sign and promise that you have followed all the applicable laws. There is no signature by the government or their agents saying that they have checked and confirmed that all laws have been followed!! The government may or may not check that some conditions have been followed but it's up to you to make sure that everything is legal.

If you have used nominees and not real investors to form a company and this is found out at a later stage you will be responsible for the consequences.

So if all political campaigning is illegal from 6pm 2nd July to midnight 3rd July does that mean that all candidates that has not removed all their election posters littering the road sides will be red carded and banned from this election???

Probably a stupid question but do you get any benefits at all paying this tax here in Thailand???

To drive a jet ski in Thailand you need to have a helmsman certificate, same as you need a drivers license driving a motorbike.

The police are checking the motorbike drivers but I have never seen any checks on the jet ski drivers.

As probably 99.99% of the people renting these jet skis do not have a license to whole business is promoting an illegal activity and should be banned.

DusitD2 Baraquda Sunset Lounge, next to Avenue shopping mall at second road.

How much you can compress depends entirely on what kind of information you have in the file.

If you take a picture with your camera of a subject with a lot of different colors, shades and shapes the camera will compress that to a .jpg file. If you then take a picture in a completely dark room the camera will do the same but the resulting file size will be much smaller as there is much less less information in that picture.

Same if you compress a text file with a lot of different characters the resulting zip file will be much larger than if you compress a text file where you have typed in the same character again and again.

Compression will just remove all the redundant information in the file.

Could not find the Beach Index in English but here is a complete listing translated by Google:

Beach Index 2009.pdf