josephbloggs

Normal Pit bull owner in Thailand.

It is not RFID technology. They use cameras and number plate recognition. With M-Flow you don't have an RFID device in your car. M-Pass is RFID but that's a different thing altogether and if you have no credit the gates don't open so you can't have unpaid tolls.

What's gloomy about it? The Japanese executive admitted they brought old technology to countries like Thailand as they thought they could get away with it. Too complacent as they had almost total market control. Even the president of Saha group has a Seal. The consumer is getting much better value, better technology. The employees that are moving to Chinese EV makers are getting paid 50-80% more than they were getting paid at Japanese factories. Where's the gloom? It's all good. Good for consumers, good for workers. Sad if beloved old brands die but that happens. Nokia, Kodak, Blockbuster etc. The consumers now have iPhones, Netflix: better products. If you don't keep up to date with developments and adapt in business you die. Even worse is if you spend millions and millions on anti EV propaganda whilst closing your eyes and hoping people will buy it and the competition will have gone away when you open them again then you deserve to die. Exciting times, not gloomy ones.

I don't think so. Priority delivery just means you pay extra so that driver will only take one delivery at a time. So even if everyone pays it your driver will only take your order directly to you so it would still be better. It's the multiple deliveries on a single run that cause all the issues.

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The population of where???? Most people I know think he is a loud mouthed, self serving, grifting buffoon who is only out for himself.

Ah, that's a shame.

You should crowd source the money - you'd get that in a heartbeat for such a good cause.

They are sheep to conspiracy theory loons and will believe anything they're told by them - far more sheep-like.

Ok Mr Tough Streets, let's leave it there as you keep moving the goalposts and twisting words. I initially replied to you when you implied it was wrong what Penny "had to go through". My point was absolutely he should have to go through that. Someone died at his hands. It is called a trial. And they reached a verdict. And now everyone moves on (apart from the guy who is dead, obviously). It wasn't premeditated murder and he wasn't charged with it. Love the "not violent until they are" comment. So he was killed because he might have become violent but hadn't? I don't think he intended to kill him. I think he stepped in to do a duty. I also think he used unnecessary, excessive and prolonged force when the man was already subdued and there was no threat to the public and it resulted in a man's death. He rightly went to trial and the jury made their verdict, end of story. Your initial post implied he shouldn't have had to go through that, but absolutely he should.

Where did I say he intended to kill him? But the fact is he did kill him. If somebody kills someone it deserves to be looked at. In this case he was acquitted. So I ask you again where's the problem with that? Why do you think "Penny" suffered? (You keep referring to what he "went through" like it shouldn't have happened. What about what his victim went through? And no, I wasn't in the carriage as I am here, in Bangkok. I read the same reports as you as I assume you weren't there either. Reports say Jordan was acting erratically and shouting. There were no reports of him being violent. So, again, I ask you, if you kill someone you shouldn't go to trial??

You wouldn't help because a man killed someone who wasn't being violent but was shouting at people, and the man went to trial and got acquitted. There was no reason to kill him at all. If you kill someone you shouldn't go to trial??

It's not broadcast on free-to-air terrestrial TV but Thais love it. Mark Webber did a few runs up and down Ratchadamnoen in 2010 and there were an estimated 150,000 people there. I was one of them and it was so packed they had to delay the start by quite a while to control the crowds - the Thais absolutely loved it.

OK then Hank, enlighten me. How is a digital copy of an ID card - which all Thais already have - that can be used at airports instead of a physical ID card and makes the whole process a bit faster, enslavement?? I must be missing something really obvious. No doubt you have THE TRUTH. as you are so enlightened and wise. So explain the enslavement please.

Yeah, left leaning people who believe in equality and equal justice and opportunities are not going to condemn somebody setting an innocent person on fire. What is wrong with you???? Why bring politics in to this? A horrible crime and a horrible horrible death. Take your petty attempt at political point scoring and shove it where it belongs. Sick.

The level of paranoia among a certain section of the AN crowd is truly laughable.

They are all closed. Gone. No first hand experience but it is something I looked in to recently. Obviously the country is dry but apparently all flights destined for Saudi have to be dry even if they are non Saudi airlines. So if you are flying there on Emirates for example the last time you can get a drink is in Dubai airport.

Let's imagine something that didn't happen and then dream up how people would react to the thing that didn't happen because that is very relevant and important.

Hilarious, surely that's a spoof account??

Most alcoholics probably started with a glass of shandy. Ban shandy! Some of them had a glass of cider first. Ban cider!! Damn gateway drinks....

Never been a fan of Mandelson but you can't argue that what he said is wrong in any way. The UK has been America's nodding little lapdog for too long so it's nice we now have a leader who won't just roll over to have his tummy tickled.

Most Thais don't. But yeah, just greed. Yawn. If you mean commercially, it is common everywhere. Indonesia, UAE, Christmas is all the rage in the department stores. Damn Indonesian and UAE greed....

Fair enough. I look forward to his return. (Never thought I'd say that)

Sigh. My point was that the posters such as @JonnyF who have refused to participate in this thread (wonder why?) have polluted numerous threads saying these people are not being charged because they are Muslim/brown and "two tier Kier" blah blah blah whilst white Southport rioters were charged. Apples and oranges. It was explained to them many times that the case was under investigation and was complicated by the fact there were complaints against the police of excessive force as there is CCTV of an officer stamping on one of the offenders heads. The fact is the investigation is now complete, the police have been cleared and charges have been filed against the Muslim people which @JonnyF and others said would never happen because the police force and UK justice is biased against white people. I'm sure they'll be along soon to apologise and acknowledge they were wrong. Any minute.

Really, you're offended by it? I am just saying what the people who make these claims are too scared to say - they use dehumanising terms like "immigrants" when we all know they mean "brown people" as white immigrants don't seem to bother them. I also find it amusing that the right wing are so easily triggered by hurty words.