radioman

Not sure what the downside is here. Seems the army got free publicity to make their point, defy an order and face the consequences. I'm sure if anyone else wants to defy them and hold a press conference they will happily do the same. What's the negative in this?

Figure I might have missed something here. Anyone have a pointer to this economic roadmap?

So I guess all the prices are up

It's just the way the word is being so often used. Detaining people to "avoid confusion", it's very sort of "my way or the highway". I'm going to suspect the new constitution will probably use that of Burma for a yardstick. Not surprisingly I'd say. Even their statements to the foreign diplomats seem to imply they feel democracy doesn't work in Thailand, "We tried it and it's a mess". Then that absolute almighty of all blunders, "Thailand is different"

So now we understand the word confusion to simply mean a point of view or opinion that differs from the NCPO, or in any case a comment or intention they are unhappy about about?

And the free flow of unreliable inaccurate trouble making rabble rousing "journalism" is the price that must be paid?

They've had long enough. Once they got Suthep organised and understood the reactions I'm sure the plan went full bore. It's been months.

Are there any published statistics for Thailand births? I'd say its somewhat likely that with no TV the last 24 hours until who knows when about 9 months from now will see quite a spike!

All tv, as in True Vision, or just the Thai channels?

Despite the military budget any visit to a Thai military facility is like a step back in time, almost everything is so antiquated it's more working museum than working military.

Just had a chat with GF, she says the local 7 was out of water before it closed. I guess people getting a little edgy, planning for a different few days I suppose.

Internet is still up though obviously

Cambodia has good shopping?

What seems funny is that after months with various warrants issued, people sought, claims to immediately detain certain people all with no action, not that any was expected. All of a sudden and in relatively no time many of the "names" are in custody, of some sort. Who'd a guessed it'd be that simple.

It's all very gay?

Selfie

Yes but it's done in English. Not sure that Energiser bunny or pneumatic translate well to Thai.

Which rather begs the question as to what sort of wordplay would a Thai lady find amusing?

Wonder how the ticket sales to Dubai are right now?

And then Suthep goes back to the democrat party so he can contest the election which the dems will likely not boycott a second time if there is at least some reform ahead of the poll.

Toe prints

So, has a deal been done?

In a related but not exactly on topic vein a BBC television documentary series from a good few years back is worth watching. Connections presented by James Burke explores the way scientific developments are connected and how to reach one level of invention others must have come first. There are 3 series and I think the first is from the late 70's so quite old but well worth the download time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29 A torrent search should produce results.

Currently its all about scaling. Getting a small amount of energy from one place to another is possible, heck I was doing this 35 years ago when a mate lived in the shadow of a large medium wave transmitter. There was enough energy on his property that with a decent wire antenna and a suitably robust detector we could charge a 1.5 volt cell. But a multi thousand dollar transmitter with a 150 foot transmitting antenna mast laid out on several acres of land is a rather inefficient battery charger, there are better ways. In the electromagnetic field(sic) radiation follows an inverse square law characteristic so to maintain a given level of signal when the distance doubles requires 4 times as much power. Triple the distance and you need 9 times the power. to get more signal at a given distance requires similar increases. Induction may be a frog of a different flavour, can't comment, but to do meaningful transmission of power using electromagnetic radiation would seem to be a wasted effort with our current understanding of physics and the materials available to make it work. Advances will likely come, possibly even so far as a practical capability to some extent but don't hold your breath. That journey from the wired telegraph to the mobile phone took over a hundred years.

http://www.stage2omega.com/wireless-electricity-to-be-launched-in-bangkok/ Clearly somebody taking the wee wee , but seems maybe some thought it real.