Maxxamum

I mean how could an electricity socket covered in water be so dangerous

Power goes to ground.  It probably entered where he touched the outlet box and the electricity traveled to where he touched the ground going through his upper body and heart.  Even small voltages can disrupt the electrical currents of your heart and even if you don't die right away, you can pass in your sleep later that day.
Electricians in America are required to spend the night in the hospital with EKG attached when even the slightest current goes through their upper body.

Sad and totally unnecessary if better safety standards were followed.

ballpoint, on 2011-07-04 12:37:29, said:

This has really been quite interesting dating back to the Red Shirt rallies and campaign stumping all over the North.  I was up in Udon for a few weeks visiting my wife's family who are all Red Shirts.  Regarding Thaksin's conviction for fraud, well since everybody 'eats money' why be so hard on him?  This is the sentiment I found most prevalent...like 99.99% of the time among family members.  But bringing back Thaksin will most assuredly increase the price for Euca because when he was PM the price was higher, and under Abhisit, the price dropped. Never mind the stale worldwide economy and the fact business needs less paper products in support of a less-active business.  And somehow Abhisit got into the street light pole business because when he became PM the cost of those went up costing the government more money every time they buy one.  So Abhisit is 'eating money' too but being a bit more sneaky as to how he does it.  The implication was that he somehow profited from the price increase.  So being a Red Shirt is like being part of a flight of doves.  One turns right, they all turn right...one turns left, they all turn left.  Never mind whether the leader actually knows where he is going, the rest just follow the guy ahead of him.  When the village leader speaks, they all believe and independent thinking seemed pretty much non-existent. Proud to be Red, vote Red, support Red because being Yellow among family members only brings trouble.  And when I compared Red and Yellow to Republicans and Democrats and explained how they attempt to work together to run America, they said "Impossible" because all the Yellows must go and cannot be part of the new ALL RED Thailand.  So the future will be just as interesting to follow.

afarang, on 2011-07-04 11:25:38, said:

Bringing your country forward in the world and working in the International community demands the ability to communicate in English which is the worldwide denominator of communication.  Speaking only in your native tongue promotes isolationism and says a great deal about the depth of knowledge, education, and interest in moving the country to become a contributing member of the global community and global economy.

Considering the people and events that must take place to successfully prosecute someone for fraud, the question I have concerns whether the legal system in Thailand could support the effort.  I just reviewed some of the trial notes and commentary on the Rod Blagojevich Trial and his eventual conviction 5 years later
and wonder if this could, in the best of times, happen in Thailand.  Considering the number of people that were involved in the approval for wire tapping, the time and care it took in gathering the evidence, the number of people involved in the case that kept all this quiet until just before the arrest, the number of witnesses that were interviewed, and the number of Federal attorneys and scribes that were involved in preparing the case all seem substantial.  At the core of this is the public and political intolerance for graft and greed something that Thailand seems to lack.  And even if someone tried to prosecute a case like this, who along the way would 'lose' evidence or pay for witnesses or disrupt the process for personal gain?  Would the effort have the determination to see it through or would it fall apart somewhere along the way?

I am not quite sure if smokers really like smoking and have no desire to quit or are addicted so strongly that they cannot quit thus assert their right to smoke more fervently.  In today's info-world, information about the perils of smoking is everywhere.  A friend of mine sells heart valves etc to heart surgeons and says the symptoms are classic.  Immune system failures, chronic disease, plumbing all going downhill, major organ deterioration all leading to death because of the many years of immune suppression.  People who smoke look older on the outside, can you wonder what they look like on the inside?  Although the lungs are pretty resilient and can recover after a few years of non-smoking, the rest of the body pretty much stays messed up.  I have a family of doctors and nurses and I hear that a lot.  But when you look at the production numbers from Big Tobacco, they are on a steep increase.  Their new target is under-developed countries.  Sure why not?  Hook the stupid, the ignorant, and the poor and kill thousands more in the interest of stock holder dividends.

The history channel did a small video that is now on YouTube about cigarette manufacturing.  1/3 of the content of a cigarette is old tobacco that has passed the shelf life and is returned and ground up again and added to the mix.  1/3 is new tobacco.  And 1/3 is the junk they sweep up off the floor. They mix the old tobacco and the floor-sweepings into a slurry with a bunch of chemicals then spread the liquid onto thin paper.  It passes through a dryer and the dried slurry and paper is chopped up and mixed into the blend.  And in 1990 when slow-burn cigarette paper was mandated here in the USA to keep people from falling asleep and burning themselves up, many more chemicals (around 60 as I read it) were added to the already hundreds of chemicals that are smoked with every cigarette.  I read there are 4,000 chemicals from tobacco. Some you naturally get when you burn organic material and the rest are added in by Big Tobacco. And they are not required by FDA to list the chemicals either.

Hell, if you want to get a buzz, just suck on a tuk tuk exhaust pipe, there are probably fewer chemicals to deal with!