Hi dkl165, you speak almost every European language, outstanding, a latter-day Richard Burton (except of course for his non-European languages, unless you also speak Arabic, Hindi...). Do you speak Finnish? Curious, because I've read that it's a distant cousin to Japanese via the Central Asian belt of Altaic languages. The jump from Turkey to Finland is not obvious, so I've also read scholars that debunk the connection. Wondering if you have an opinion.
In the spirit of keeping on topic, I don't speak Thai, but I'm guessing FARE did not subsidize the video. I'll check with my news service friend married to a Thai ambassador.
Also, the new "Prime Minister" is cracking down on moto taxis and tuku tukus ripping off tourists and on Thai organized crime in general. The coup that Suji-kun warned us about (way before it happened) might actually be good for WM. If I were Thai, I would wear yellow. Not that it matters now that the power color is brass.
As long as I'm here, I may as well address the recent messages of blh82. The stupidity of his/her posts strikes me as self-evident, but since Sewer has had the patience to respond, here goes. I went to Thailand last November specifically to see WM's products. They are real. They are impressive, at least to me.
Whether the company can bring them to market remains a question. WM is working on a financial shoestring. If it had ample capital, it could push the things out while it launched a pull marketing campaign. It doesn't have capital, and I have to agree that management has not shown itself to be exemplary in its funding strategy. What we have with WM are a couple of expats working their tails off and making progress. They can't be expert at everything.
How long did it take for Steve Jobs or Michael Dell to go from garage to NASDEQ? The level of whinning by people on this board who apparently know diddly about what it takes to get a manufacturing endeavor up and running is embarrassing.
Preemptive note, I hope, to potential respondents with shallow understanding: Jobs and Dell built products for a nascent market.
Giles and Ziomkowski are trying to create markets (delivery services and taxi meters exist, but not quite as envisioned by WM). There is an enormous difference between serving and creating markets.
