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?

Had quite a few in the garden over the years. Last one was a chain viper, not nice! On a job on top of the big hill on Samui years back I went in early morning to do some outside work. Mount some tactical link antennas and a GPS antenna on one of the towers. Now the towers were square section and had square hollow cross arms supporting the antennas. On top of one I found what I first thought was a length of unused cable sheathing, we used to use some grey woven type, inspection showed it was actually a snake skin, about 1.5m long. Hmm I think wonder where the snake went, my second thought was maybe it was still on the tower. I came down rather quicker than I went up and sure enough I'd woken it from sleeping inside the hollow tube. A couple of the RTAF guys on site advised that if a trip to the hospital had been needed they 'might' have been able to make it in time

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

The problem with Apple stores is they sell a limited spec range and you can't get the special order stuff like engraving, er, I think. Not sure how they ship, presume they insure themselves and it has to be signed for on delivery.

They may ship within 24 hours, delivery another matter. I was thinking to buy a MacBook Air online since they don't do the spec I wanted in the shops, Shipping in 24 hours but delivery was estimated at 10 days 😟

Such commissions are rarely more than a front to show international observers and aid providers/investors that they have a vehicle in place, they are not meant to achieve anything or disturb the political peace. To achieve that would be simple, make it a Royal commission, with a Royal warrant such that anyone challenging their work would be directly challenging the monarchy with all that means.

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!

I'm going to visit soon, whilst it seems we now know what will happen of course the when is a very open question. The last few years I've spent time with my parents, usually just me there with the two of them for a couple of days at a time. Last time was just a couple of months ago so we're okay but obviously I'm anxious to go again soon. Agreed that technology has been a fantastic help over the last 10 years and now that we, mostly, have decent bandwidth to make it work well we can teleconference pretty much at will. Certainly it's given my parents a window on my life and their grandchildren that they would otherwise not have had and yes, made it easier for them to accept in a way, really has shrunk the miles.

Your mail could hardly be more timely mate. My own father, 87, who I usually see a couple of times a year has recently been given some very bad news. Accordingly I'm on notice to visit immediately it's considered appropriate, could be a few weeks, could be a few months. We get on well and Skype regularly, indeed just today, but the notice is out.

They must disappear, or there really are not that many of them. Honestly cannot think of more than half a dozen Thais I've met who could put down more than a sentence of decent English without furkin it up somehow. Not to say they don't exist of course just that they would seem to be a minute minority. I'm glad some would agree that American is not English