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3 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

If you like the single motor, you are going to love the dual motor!

Yes indeed. I was talking to a friend last week who has one and he says it is absolutely unbelievable.  

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10 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

So no one has ever lost control of an extremely high performance ICE?  Should I show some videos of ICE cars losing it and crashing?  My God you are a bore. What are you trying to prove? I don't get it.

5 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Actually that is forward slash and represents 5 out of 10 and not divide at all.

 

Apple accept that the divide by or division symbol is absent and used the foreward slash symbol as their text replacement example in Apple Support Community.

 

 

To be fair, the "/" symbol is mathematically standard for "divided by" and has been for as long as I remember on any computer. Same as "*" is "timesed by".

5/10 = 0.5.

8 hours ago, HugoFastor said:

It has the Emporium logo on the tablecloth in your photo. There was an Asia Books there by the back escalator. Don't know if it is still there as I haven't been to Emporium in years, but I suspect it's gone. In the nineties I used to mainly buy books at either the Asia Books branch in The Landmark Hotel or the one on Sukhumvit Road close to Robinsons between Soi 15 and Soi 17. Both those branches are gone now too I think. 

Asia books is long gone. They used to have a big store which is the one you refer to, now they have a tiny one but nothing of interest (and even that may be gone now, been a few weeks since I was in Emporium).

1 hour ago, saintdomingo said:

Great little place, easy, relaxed, nice bar atmosphere. Then they went to Ekamai and started a "minimalist" place with the same name and zero else going for it.

Nitpicking but it was Thonglor, not Ekamai. Thonglor soi 13 which runs from Thonglor to Soi 49.

Agree it didn't have a lot going for it although they did spend some money on the interior. 

On 3/25/2024 at 12:48 PM, josephbloggs said:

Yeah, the last few times I've been on it I've noticed the Express ones now have seating in all four carriages. Unless maybe they've only done one and I've just happened to get that one each time, not sure.

Yesterday I was got on a red express train and it had four carriages of seating. At the same time one pulled in opposite and it had four carriages of seating, so they have definitely converted all of them and think it's been done for a few months.

Thinking about it I haven't noticed a toilet on any express train for a while so maybe they also took them out at the same time (therefore no more loud clang).

1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

That is an opportunity we can't miss. The floor is open for bids on March 7th (April 7th, right?) sales numbers 🎰. 

Wild guesses from my side.

BYD = 1,888

Vinfast = 222

Vinfast = 0. They are not selling at the show, merely testing the waters and putting their vehicles out there for a later launch in Thailand.

8 hours ago, alex8912 said:

How many times in Paragon or at 7/11 I've had to explain this to people and they are completely baffled! 

Well done for explaining it to minimum wage workers who are just doing their jobs and have absolutely no influence on the laws. What a joy you must be.

6 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Absolutely correct.

 

And if I can't charge it at home, then I have a very expensive flat useless battery.

 

Come back and tell us all how much a new battery will cost when it needs replacing.

 

Tell us all what the second hand value of your EV is worth at 5 or 6 years old.

 

You keep plugging the virtues of EV but never mention what happens if it breaks down.

 

How many garages can actually repair them, and where are those garages in relation to your home?

 

 

Ah, the old "what ifs". Gotta love them.

1 hour ago, dhupverg said:

When it comes time to replace the batteries, what's the cost?  When it's time to sell, how much are people willing to pay for a used EV?  I've seen a number of news reports about buying batteries costing quite a bit of money, as well as resale markets for EV's basically in the crapper. Parts, how much are spare parts and panels?  I've seen some outrageous prices on fixing vehicles after an accident. 

Only the 197th time these questions have come up in these threads, and always from anti-Evers, it is never a genuine question. (Not saying that's true of you but it is true of everyone else who has asked).

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Interesting that one of the big car rental companies in the US went all in on EV's for rental cars, and the public aren't wanting them.  Now said company has a lot of unused inventory that they are taking a huge loss on.

Hertz, and it was an incredibly stupid business decision to buy 100,000 Teslas. They are a rental company, people generally rent in towns they are visiting and don't live in. If you're staying in hotels or travelling it is likely you don't have your own charger so an EV is an inconvenience. When you're renting you just want to take off and go where you want to go.

As said a gazillion times, EV's work if you have home charging. If you don't have home charging then they are not really fit for you. EV rentals just don't make sense for most people.

21 minutes ago, Amfita said:

Yes, this happened to me just yesterday. We sat on the terrace of the hostel at the Pratamnak and tried to talk. We tried because for the second night in a row there was loud music playing in the laundry "Amporn" next door, making it hard to hear each other. At half past eleven I decided to go and ask the music to be turned down a little so that we could talk normally. When I approached the table, it became clear that the guys were drinking. I spoke calmly and respectfully, but suddenly the Thai woman very rudely told me to get out. I have already noticed a couple of times that in situations when Thai women don’t like something, they immediately raise their tone and begin to speak in a commanding tone. At that moment, I still calmly asked why she was talking to me like that)) She behaved as if I should obey her unquestioningly, although she was very rude at that moment. I don’t know what would really be better to do in that situation, but I joined the conflict and also raised my voice. In fact, it all took less than a minute. She stood up so that the chair fell over. After a couple of sentences, she tried to attack me, but her European husband grabbed her and began to hold her. At that moment she was so mad that she twisted around, grabbed a chair and tried to bring it down on my head. Then I realized that it wasn’t worth it and ran away from her. At this time, women from the hostel, with whom we were trying to talk, came up to me, the administrator guy and the man from the table. He didn’t speak English, but he started poking himself in the chest and I saw that he had a badge on his T-shirt. The hostel administrator explained to me that he was a policeman, this was his sister, and this was not the first such situation. She attacked the hostel owner when he came to talk about the same situation. And EVERYONE around began to convince me that I shouldn’t go to the police, because in the end they would blame me, and her friends would say that I attacked her first. And the people at the table really supported her. Her husband high-fived her, even though what she did was drunken animal madness. I would like to understand whether it is true that in the police a Thai will always be more right-wing than a foreigner? What is the best thing to do in such a situation? 

Can you try paragraphs? No one can read this.

33 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

Xiaomi SU7 was introduce with prices this evening, and they rock! Converted from Chinese prices to THB: 'official price in China for the starting model 1.16 million baht, and Pro and Max models will be 1.24 - 1.52 million baht. 50,000 orders in 27 minutes after accepting orders.

 

https://carnewschina.com/2024/03/28/xiaomi-su7-launched-with-830-km-range-starts-at-29900-usd/

Wow, if those prices reflect accurately in Thailand then it is a huge shakeup.

3 hours ago, nauseus said:

 

Full of it. He didn't even have a PC for most of his career - makes cut and paste a bit tricky.

Jeez, another fanboy picking up on a word or two and missing the meaning, deliberately.

Maybe he didn't use ctrl c + ctrl v on a computer, but his column was a mish mash of copied bits of readers submissions, "jokes", and other circulars.

He might have received them by morse code or smoke signal for all I care, then he bashed away at his typewriter and copied them. There, make sense now?

Willing to debate his merits as a columnist or journalist, willing to debate his contributions to society (er, none, other than the dangerous spreading of incorrect and totally irresponsible HIV information), but stop picking on individual words when my meaning is clear.

Hopefully you've got it now. The previous poster decided he could only pick on my timing of email (since corroborated by another poster that it was widespread in Thailand in the mid 90s as I suggested) and not deny that he just copied stuff - his thing was just "email didn't exist".  Now you are doing the same about the technicalities of copying and pasting at the time. Tiresome.

You loved him, we get it. You were a monger, nothing wrong with that at all. But I stick by my guns that he was talentless, arrogant and irresponsible and it is amazing he lasted as long as he did.

I always wonder what the girls thought when they say him coming in to the bar again.........oh God, who's turn is it this time?

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

 

Are you saying Thailand had e mails since mid 90s? I didn't even see mobile phones back then.

 

You seem to have a personal grudge against Trink to despise him so much. To myself and thousands, he was an informative and interesting source about Bkk night life to read weekly.

 

 

Google is not my friend on finding out when internet became commonplace in Thailand, so the best I can do is this

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/09/04/thseries-mapping-thailands-past-present-and-future-internet/

 

“Back then there were no commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Thailand. The first [Internet Thailand Company] was established in 1995; it deployed a 512 Kbps leased line to UUNET in the USA.

 

So not exactly commonplace then.

 

Another major change in the history of Thailand’s Internet (noted on the map) happened in 2001 following the passing of the Telecommunications Business Act (B.E. 2544). This made getting a license to operate a telecommunications business a lot easier, as previously ISPs were required to be a joint venture with the Communications Authority of Thailand.

 

Which fits with my memories that internet cafes didn't start in Thailand till this century.

Even in London, the first internet cafe I was able to use was very late last century.

 

If you can provide proof that Trink may have been able to use the internet in the mid 90s and the use of e mails in Thailand was commonplace then, I'll bow to your superior knowledge.

Jeez, give it up. Why are you fixating on the email thing? It was one word in several paragraphs I write about it and that's what you pounce on and want to keep wibbling on about. His column was full of cut and pasted nonsense, it doesn't matter whether it was emails, letters, telegrams or carrier pigeons, it is irrelevant!

I remember signing up for my first email account (Yahoo) at work at a Thai company I worked at from 1995 to 1998, I don't remember the exact date for some weird reason, but like I said (many times) it is irrelevant to the point I was making. Can you let go of your fixation now?

 

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

 

When the poster you quoted comes out with garbage like the below quote, one knows he's full of it, as e mails didn't exist when I was reading Trink's column.

 

I was an avid reader of his column, and there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, it was more an information column than an opinion piece. I guess some allow their obvious dislike for the farang Bar scene in Thailand to taint their opinion of the man that reported on it.

 

So you say I am full of it because I said he cut and pasted from emails. He did. His column was killed (put out of its misery) in December 2003. I don't know about you but I have been using email since the mid 90's. Would you have preferred me to write "it was cut and pasted rubbish from emails and letters"? Happy to make that change for you.

And I see you're one of those people that attacks those with a different opinion saying I am obviously against the farang bar scene if I don't like Trink. It's like saying if I don't like Thaksin then I must love the military. It is possible to dislike both, just as it is possible to enjoy the bar scene but still think Trink was a poor writer, egotistical, and in his latter years dangerous as he constantly banged on about HIV not being passed on by unprotected sex, therefore condoms with hookers are only necessary if you want to avoid pregnancy or other STDs, but not to worry about HIV.

I can reverse it and say because you loved the bar scene you also loved Trink and can't look at what he wrote objectively, because by any objective measure his writing was abysmal, and like I said, misleading and dangerous.

Talentless creep, nothing more, nothing less.

7 hours ago, expat_4_life said:

Nobody wants advanced tech falling into China hands.  Of course the naive high tech moguls that have moved their production to China and elsewhere (chips, phones, etc) have fallen victim to the lure of low cost production though it seems they did not think about the long term consequences.

How long do you think the domestic Swedish defense industry will last, now that they have become a NATO member?  Is the Gripen destined to become a relic of days past as NATO countries (Sweden just joined) slowly and inexorably get pushed to buy US military equipment?  F-35s anyone?
 

NATO members can buy or sell whatever military equipment they want. Obviously restrictions on who they can to sell to (although the US usually finds a way to sell to juntas or whoever they like).

Why would the Gripen have to be retired because they joined NATO?