radiochaser

The article stated, "Downloads are also limited to just one phone or tablet. ".   My assumption is that the downloads, if allowed, can also be done using a computer, and the author of the article left that device out.

Can anyone advise if my assumption is correct?   I do not have netflix but have considered getting it in Thailand if I have any extended stays of 3 months or longer.      

10 hours ago, wileycoyote said:

Thank you 

Where is  the Condotel?

10 hours ago, charliebadenhop said:

There is a fantastic new massage shop opened on the 2nd. floor of the Condotel.  B300 for one hour, B500 for two hours (which is my preference). The owner is one of the very best massage people in Thailand....

 

 

I think a more accurate question is, which Condotel. 
I used google to search for "Condotel Chiang Mai" and had several responses of different condo's that provide a hotel function.   

https://www.google.com/search?q=Condotel+Chiang+Mai&client=opera&sxsrf=APwXEdfNMP8goIDNzSBa8vG6p7NmgA_ViA%3A1685034589312&ei=XZZvZLXbEpSA0PEP-dK94A8&ved=0ahUKEwj1_YSB-5D_AhUUADQIHXlpD_wQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Condotel+Chiang+Mai&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

4 hours ago, placeholder said:

That you call the overwhelming scientific consensus propaganda says it all.

Sure, you can believe whatever you like. You can believe that the moon landing didn't take place. You can believe that evolution is a fraud and the universe and everything in it was created about 6000 years ago. But such opinions are based entirely on belief and not on valid evidence.

Are you claiming that I believe the moon landing did not occur?  That I believe evolution did not happen? 
Now, who is giving out opinions that are not based on valid evidence?  

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

so, because you're not allowed to post links to BS we have to endure repeated insistence that there is science but without links? You're likewise not permitted to claim a fact (that there is science supporting your theory) without posting any links. And since you can't / won't, don't post BS claims.

Again, we have been down that road before!   

Are the final arbiter that has the authority to say what is and is not BS?

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

Of course, you didn't deny that there is  "global warming/cooling/ climate change" Denialists just claim that the current rapid warming trend isn't tied to the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Because the climate is always changing. This is a typical denialist ploy. They believe that semantics trumps science.

Newtonian physics and relativity creep in because denialists claim that the science isn't settled. It is settled. The public only has the impression that it isn't settled because the fossil fuel industry has been doing its best to propagandize otherwise.

Why the continual labeling of "denialists"?   
Why the rationalization of who or what I believe to fit your narrative? 
Is it because I don't want to buy into the general propaganda?  I won't go along to get along?  I should believe as you believe? 
I cannot have beliefs, thoughts, or ideas of my own? 
When did I say that there is no green house gases?    
And are you not using semantics of your own, to fit your own narrative?
Did Newton define the final science and nothing has been discovered, explained, defined, developed, etc. since his death?
You mentioned Pluto.   Wasn't that a planet at one time and was down graded to a lessor body?  I remember that upset some people.  But, it is what it is. 


 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

You can find support for virtually any belief you hold on the internet and accept it thanks to something called confirmation bias. The fact is that, as the simultaneous cooling of the upper atmosphere and warming of the troposphere shows, the science is settled on this question. And please spare us the cliche that the science is never settled. The example that denialists routinely introduce is Newton's theory of gravitation vs. relativity. The fact is that Newton's theory is accurate enough to steer a spaceship to Pluto. And no one is retreating to pre-Newtonin physics to explain the motion of heavenly bodies.

Confirmation bias goes both ways, right?   
Please spare us the cliché that the science is settled.  
I never denied that there is or is not global warming/cooling/ climate change.   
When did gravity and relativity creep in?
Is the conversation going to move to the argument of the earth is flat, no it isn't?

2 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Why won't you share any of these numerous sources so us uneducated people can learn.

We have been through that before. 

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

I guess I should be flattered that you would ask me, an anonymous member of aseannow.co for the answer to this question rather than consult the numerous resources that are available on the internet. Still, rather than have you be possibly misinformed by me,  I decided for the sake of your education to google for an answer to this question: What causes ice ages? I came up with an authoritative link that explains what causes ice ages. (And just to be precise, we are still in an ice age.)

https://gml.noaa.gov/education/info_activities/pdfs/PSA_ice_ages.pdf

 

However, the fact that we are in an interglacial period of the current Ice Age, has nothing to do with current accelerated rate of change. An issue which you addressed with one word: "Still"

I have consulted numerous resources on the internet and one thing that I find in doing so is, that despite the claim that it is "settled science", the science is not settled.   

What I do find is that there are numerous claims that seem to blame human kind as the primary cause of global warming, or climate change or what ever is the favored term of today. 

Yet I also find accounts written by climatologist that say there are no one reason for global cooling/global warming/climate change.  

And that link, I read that one too, before you posted it.    But, I wanted your opinion on the reason.  

13 hours ago, rumeaug said:

I feel him. Everyone is very "Handsome" there, if you've got the dough...Once you run out of it, it's "Go Home Kway/Buffalo!" ... once the "smokescreen" dissipates and you get the crude reality's fist  painfully shattering your front teeth. 

My Thai wife of over 30 years once told me, the more money you make, the more hansum you are!  ???? 

13 hours ago, placeholder said:

What is it about human-caused climate change denialists that apparently makes them incapable of understand the concept of rates. If you were offered 2 equally safe savings accounts, one that offerd 1% interest and another that offered 10% interest, I guess it would be a matter of indifference to you which account you would chose. After all, both are increasing, so rates are irrelevant. John Paulos, a mathematician, coined the word "innumeracy". Basically it's the equivalent of illiteracy but applied to math. The rates at which glaciers are melting and global average temperature is rising are unprecedented for hundreds of thousand of years. What is so difficult to understand about this?

Still, what caused the global climate changed that caused the ice age to disappear?   

For that matter, what was it that caused the global temperature to drop so low, that there was a Glacial period in which ice in the northern pole migrated down south into Canada and the northern part of the United States?   

 

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I've had some pretty krappy brewed coffee over the years, and some 3/1 would have been better.  M 3/1 in a pinch or even feeling lazy at the house, it's a quick Cappuccino, though not sure I'd call any instant 'real coffee'.

I have a jar of some kind of instant coffee at one of the condo's there in Bangkok that is not too bad for instant coffee.   I bought it in one of the high end Thai super markets.   But it is better than that 3 in 1. 

8 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

A few brands are OK, but the Nescafe brand, that's some vile stuff.

15 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Not sure what she buys me......a gold and light brown sachets.......must be well on the road to type 2 diabetes now.

I would rather drink coffee from a Black Canyon (correct name?) coffee shop than that 3 in 1 stuff.   

1 minute ago, Will B Good said:

My wife introduced me to Thai 3 in 1 coffee??.......I have never been a coffee drinker.

 

It is atrocious stuff.......I am now hooked and drink three or four a day.

Are you a masochist?  ????  That stuff is horrible!   

36 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I use the drip funnel, as they all taste about the same, or can be made to, and the drip thingy w/paper filter is so much easier to use & clean.

 

Wife likes the machine, as enjoys the crema it produces.

 Does a good job, gives a good yield, though not sure about 'better'.  More efficient, as takes less coffee for a better yield.

 

If going Moka pot, highly recommend SS over the other metals, for a 'cleaner' taste.

 

Yes, that's from personal experience ???? 

 

I also have a stainless steel espresso maker.   No better than the aluminum one suggested. 

I don't know why the Luxa made such good coffee but I have some hope now though.  I found one of the luxa's on ebay for sale nearby (about 1.25 hour round trip) from where I live.  Made an offer on it.  The seller was not asking over $80.00 for it, or it was cheap but in another country.   
 

On 5/20/2023 at 2:46 AM, hotchilli said:

As if they had any choice in the matter... what were they going to do, fine the patients for over-staying?

I thought I read on both Thai Visa and Asean Now, about that very thing happening to tourists, that were in a hospital due to illness or injury, and who were unable to depart Thailand at the end of their visa or visa exempt entry into Thailand. 

Is a new ice age upon us?

Will glaciers flow south from the north pole and scrape my house away from it's foundations?

21 hours ago, placeholder said:

The thing is, your opinion does not account for the fact that the upper layers of the atmosphere are getting cooler while the lowest layer is getting warmer. 

 

Do you think that is why the ice age and the glaciers in the North American continent disappeared?

On 5/20/2023 at 2:55 PM, ozimoron said:

If you had a scintilla of credibility or intention to do anything other then troll you'd explain how the governments are controlling our lives.

Government laws with guns to back them up!

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

A Moka Pot from Lazada produces very good coffee, only 200+ baht, much better than filter, drip things

I have one that looks like that in a kitchen cabinet.  The coffee it makes is not worth the effort to do it. 

This is the one that I think I had before.   

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/998002857/mcm-luxa-express-stove-top-vintage

Oh!   I thought this was about a bar girl who was famous.   

Off topic because this is about my personal experience.   

I bought an Italian made expresso coffee maker at a flea market one day.   I asked the couple why they were selling it.  They said it leaked when they poured the coffee, spilling on the counter top and the side of the coffee cup.  After the 3rd or 4th pour, I found out, you had to lift the lid when pouring to keep it from spilling. 

I had not been using the expresso maker because the gasket that came with it was old and needed replacing.   I had difficulty finding a gasket because it was an odd size.   I finally found the right size and this morning was my first time to use this coffee maker.   I woke up the next day after buying a new gasket, very tired and made coffee without my glasses and made my first cup of coffee with that expresso maker.   Grabbed a bag of coffee out of the cabinet, put the required amount in the expresso basket, and brewed some coffee.   The flavor was excellent!  But, it was better than any of the coffee from the automatic, turn on by itself, drip coffee maker I had been using.   

I stared at the coffee bag wondering why the coffee was so good but could not make out if it was the good tasting coffee I had or the horrible tasting coffee that I had stopped drinking, but did not throw away.  I went to get my glasses and looked at the bag of coffee.   It was the horrible tasting coffee!    The good tasting coffee was still in the cabinet.   I was confused.   How can the coffee that had been horrible tasting taste so good?   

I put the maker in the sink and ran cold water on it to cool it off.  When I could handle the maker, I opened it up, dumped the used coffee grounds out and put in coffee from my good coffee bag, and brewed new coffee.   I tasted the newly brewed cup of coffee.   Best tasting coffee I had ever made or ever tasted!

I bought different brands and types of coffee and it did not matter, all the coffee was good to excellent.   One day I realized I needed new gaskets.  I stopped using the coffee maker until I found some two months later.   I looked through the cabinets for the coffee maker and could not find it.  I asked my wife if she knew where it was.   She told me, you said you could not find gaskets so I threw it away!

I have no idea what temperature the coffee maker worked at, I just put it on the stove top, heated it up until it spewed and sputtered and then took the coffee maker off the stove top.   I added milk to cool it down to a drinkable temperature and enjoyed a good cup of coffee.   

 I miss that expresso coffee maker!

My wife (Thai) questions, only 10K baht?   I spend more than that for dinner with the family!

If my kid disapears, I will put up money that will make people interested in finding him/her!  

British restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand

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15 hours ago, torturedsole said:

No Idea!

 

But, before you write me off, my wife and I previously patronised a restaurant named No Idea on Soi Sukhumvit 22 and very it good it was.

 

Appears that the lease has expired (according to website) and the owners expecting to relocate and reopen in August 2023 and definitely one worth considering.

 

No Idea

That's good to know.  I will leave BKK the second week of August.  Perhaps I can eat there.