radioman

Not a joke, as such, but of little to no practical relevance at this point in time. Small amounts of power transferred to low power devices, think mobile phones etc, is becoming practical now. So far as domestic power transmission systems are concerned I'd say there might be some major bits of physics missing from the human knowledge bank right now so it's unlikely to be a proposition in the next few generations. If candidates for elected positions start espousing this in their manifestos I'd worry.

That is just soooo bad. and totally incomprehensible without the subtitles. If they had done it in Chinese I would have understood more!

What is the activation period? I'm sure it would be more than a week or two, or ask for it to be at least. Sounds fine to me, maybe a lot will start doing that and TAT will proclaim Thailand the hub of condo buying so spurring even more of a housing bubble leading to a crash so we can all really buy condos

Hm, Nana car park after sunrise, figures.

You can get a 2 month tourist visa, exit as you would on a visa run and come back on a 30 day visa exempt entry making 3 months, I guess that's a few months. If you need more I think you could make a case at an embassy and show how you intend to live and why you want to stay that long. I've known people get 1 year multi entry visas just to stay and not really do anything. Guess it's all about how you make the case for why you should be permitted to remain. UK certainly wants to know that stuff if a Thai wants a visa. Strikes me Thailand gives more than it gets.

I've woken up with a few

I fail to recognise either of the two latter statements as being a "downside" rather I feel they are yet more positives in favour of education.

I'd tell him to go fish.

I dated a real fox once 😄

The notice posted last Thursday explained that any foreigner who completed even one “visa run†in order to re-enter the country on visa-exemption status was to have his passport stamped “O-Iâ€, indicting they had already been “out and in†from/to Thailand. Any foreigner attempting to re-enter Thailand after August 12 with a passport stamped “O-I†is to be refused re-entry, the notice warned. This might have been the cause of some confusion since there are a couple of things unclear. First I believe the word consecutive, used elsewhere in the statement, is missing from this part. I'm not surprised given the generally crap level of English Thais have. Further it does not validate what is considered a "visa run". To suggest anyone entering Thailand on a visa exempt stamp will get their passport marked O-I leading to future refusal of entry would kill a big portion of the tourist business, those who come for 2 weeks a year every year. They would need a new passport every year to remove the O-I stamp. Again, if it's stamped and entry refused on first "re-entry" we would need to have explained what "re-entry' is? Same day, next day, week, month, year? I still maintain this will affect those entering Thailand 3 times CONSECUTIVELY (That is to say without a reasonable break in between) or passing the 90 days in 180 days rule, (I'm not sure it's a law per se)

So you are not doing back to back runs out of Thailand and staying in country more than 90 days per 180. Guess you have the proper Lao visa in any case. Currently I'm doing about 10 days in Thailand every 6-7 weeks, no need for a visa since it will not cross the 90 days per 180 threshold, not are any of the entries out and in.

Because it's been sussed we are a bunch of boring old farts who respond to trivial crap and pointless discourse.

The path of least resistance maybe the path of least effort, it's rarely the path of greatest reward.

I'm sure most westerners would expect it normal for the female of a couple to be served first and I'm always a little annoyed when pretty much without exception in simpler Thai places it's me they serve first. Since we usually eat family style that rarely happens with the food though it does if they serve individual rice. Often we share a big bottle of beer and it's always me who gets served first. I then usually pass the glass to her. There's obviously something going on as it seems to confuse the server somewhat. Okay, so it seems there really is a lack of gender discrimination here in some respects so what makes it seemingly, man first, or is it foreigner first. Do the less well educated restaurant server types still view Thai women with foreigners as a lesser breed? Are they being judgmental in some way?

What would people be doing in such a building at 2am?

The hole must be guilty, that guy's pointing at it!

I feel naked without a watch and though I don't wear fancy multi mega buck things I want it to be reliable and long lasting, I own 4 and regularly wear one of 2. Following on from this leads me to a question. I was told a long time ago not to give a watch as a gift. Chinese based superstition suggests it indicates or leads to the end of a friendship and that Thai people observe this custom. I've heard it from 3 Non Chinese Thai girls over maybe 15 years. Anyone else heard the same?

Hmm, Sunday's a workin day fer some!

As is the way of these things he may well not disappear and could well find himself elevated by his selfless action. After a suitable period of reflection he may well resurface. People who act in this way, unlike those who resign for more 'personal' reasons, and even sometimes those as well, often do.

Denny's moved into one of the Holiday Inn places but I've not been yet and will not get a chance for about a month.

It happens in the UK, usually only after some bizarre scandal or another, Profumo et-al. Though PM Macmillan resigned on health grounds the consensus seems to be that the Profumo affair played a large part in it.

Wrong Email A Minnesota couple decided to vacation to Florida during the winter. They planned to stay at the very same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday. His wife would fly down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her e-mail address, and without realizing his error, he sent the e-mail. Meanwhile.....somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who was called home to glory following a sudden heart attack. The widow decided to check her e-mail, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she fainted. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read: To: My Loving Wife Subject: I've Arrived Date: 16 May 2003 I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones. I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is not as uneventful as mine was. P.S. Sure is hot down here!

Peaches Geldof, age 25. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26931337

It's usually recorded. RTAF has on site recorders that record all voice and radar plot data, they might also do screen recording. All the radars are connected to the SOC's, one in Surat the other in BKK (actually think there is another in CM or Udon but not sure). The traffic can be seen on overall displays so controllers in the SOC's can see what's going on from all radars fed in to the SOC on a common display. All this traffic is recorded at the SOC as well. The southernmost primary radars, that I know about, are at Hat Yai, civil and military but given they are referring to one in Surat Thani I'm guessing the Hat Yai radars were off, not at all uncommon in Thailand. The radar plot data is easily transferred, usually on a 9600 baud leased line modem connection. There's not a lot of data to transfer just updating the individual targets as they transit the coverage area.

I'm amazed they would have radar on at that time of day, all the ones I've ever been at they always shut down after 4pm. Nakhon Si Thammarat is about the most southerly part of Surat Thani. 200 nautical miles, about the maximum for a radar that RTAF has will see, is just about over Penang but to see at that range would need the plane to be at 26000 feet or more. So not impossible, but it's still a bloody mystery either way.