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swifty5x5

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  1. Is it just me, or is this somewhat confusing?

    The DNA on the hoe would most likely be the victims,no?

    The article seems to insinuate there is unknown DNA on it,

    yet it doesnt go as far as to say the DNA doesnt belong to the victims either.

    It also doesnt state that the DNA was sourced from blood or otherwise

    Logic would have it, if the DNA wasnt blood based, it could be DNA from the gardener or anyone that used the hoe for gardening or whatever innocent purpose.

    But surely they would already have taken the DNA of the gardener to exclude from the evidence pool?

    You can get DNA off of sweat from palms nowadays.

  2. The PM says he will respect the report however I see a lot of BUT's coming as in :

    BUT we are doing out best

    BUT the US doesn't understand

    BUT everybody else does it and we get punished, and on and on.

    The PM should check the music archives for a pop song from the '50s, regret the name escapes me, with a rebellious teenager singing about the problems in his life and includes the line

    " why is everybody always picking on me ? "

    The Coasters song Charlie Brown

  3. As a firm believer in doing things the cheaper way, I wonder whether it might be better to start off, with a port-rail-port fast-link across the isthmus ?

    This would be less-expensive to construct, and would show whether the demand for the expensive Kra Canal is real, or not. It would also avoid the political problem of losing part of southern-Thailand to Malaysia, under that old treaty, with the British ?

    One wonders why a link doesn't already exist, say Songkla & then by-truck to Satun (or Pak Bara ?), and onto ships again ?

    Surely not because the brown-envelopes might be of a different order-of-magnitude, for the proposed Canal ? whistling.gif

    You mean unload a ship's entire cargo on one side ... then train it overland for a few hours ... and then load it all back onto a different ship??? I doubt many would do that.

    Yes, it's called a land bridge. This was already started years ago with construction of route 44 with the aim of linking a port near Surit Thani with a port in the Krabi area. Anyone ever drove route 44 and wondered why the 2 carriageways are so far apart? This was done as rail and pipeline links were proposed to be built in between. The project, like so many in the country, never came to fruition. A land bridge, or a canal for that matter, would be an absolute disaster for the port of Singapore. Draw from that what you like.

    I don't care what you call it. Container ships carry about 16,000 containers and long trains about 200 containers so 1 container ship 80 trains. There is no way this is a good idea.

  4. As a firm believer in doing things the cheaper way, I wonder whether it might be better to start off, with a port-rail-port fast-link across the isthmus ?

    This would be less-expensive to construct, and would show whether the demand for the expensive Kra Canal is real, or not. It would also avoid the political problem of losing part of southern-Thailand to Malaysia, under that old treaty, with the British ?

    One wonders why a link doesn't already exist, say Songkla & then by-truck to Satun (or Pak Bara ?), and onto ships again ?

    Surely not because the brown-envelopes might be of a different order-of-magnitude, for the proposed Canal ? whistling.gif

    That is a bad idea. Unload a ship then reload on a train then unload the train and reload a ship. This would take longer and more expensive than going around.

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