OneMoreFarang

It seems to me Phuket is a lot worse than the rest of Thailand. There is another infamous island which is maybe worse than Phuket...

How many people knew what he was doing? How many people pretended they didn't see it? How many profited? How many influential people want that all those who profited in above case will be exposed? And if they are exposed and be punished, what will they expose in return? I am sure many of those influential people will somehow make arrangements that not too many of them will be exposed. Imagine business as usual would be disrupted? Where should the money for the luxury cars and mia nois come from?

When will the majority, or at least a good part, of Thai people wake up and protest against double standards? Why would any official be honest if they can be corrupt and get rich and don't get punished? Letting Thaksin and Yingluck getting away with their crimes is exactly the wrong signal. Obviously, there are others. But the Shinawatra cases are so obvious in your face - we can do whatever we want. Sad.

What do you expect from a place full of mad people? 😉

I can't imagine a good future for Phuket. It is full of mafia and corrupt officials - some people would say they are the same group. Everybody is greedy and nobody wants to spend money. Tourists will be milked as long as possible. The taxi mafia is a great example. It should be easy to enforce taxi-meter with decent prices. It should be easy to have public transport with decent prices. When I visited Phuket 30 years ago that problem was already well known. Was it ever solved? No. Why not? See above. As far as I see the amazing thing is that still so many tourists visit that place.

20k is definitely not unusual. I think I paid more in a good clinic in Bangkok. As far as I know there are big differences in the quality of the crown and the work. But that is obviously difficult for most of us to judge. My dentist also quoted me 60k for a transplant. She told me it is possible to get transplants for <30k, in low quality and by doctors who learned how to do that over a weekend. Is it true? I don't know. But I see my dentist since over 10 years and never had any problems with her work. So at least I won't try a cheaper doctor and/or supplier. It should be noticed that hospitals with dentists are a lot more expensive, with many doctors working part in hospitals and part in (maybe their own) clinics.

I agree with you. I just wanted to write something similar. Nobody should click on an attachment if they don't know from whom it is and what it does! The rest of the above story is irrelevant. I understand that some scammers are convincing, and they are able to convince especially inexperienced people to click on things. But that doesn't change the rules: Don't click on a possibly risky attachment! Don't ignore warnings! And I like to add: Read warnings! I work with computers and when people call me with problems, they often say something like: There was a message and I clicked ok. I ask them what did the message say? The answer: I don't know, I didn't read it. There could be a message "If you click ok, we will hack your device and steal all your money" and many people would still click OK...

Thanks for the reply. Such APK file is similar to an exe file for Windows. And by now everybody learned not to click on exe files if you don't know exactly where they come from and what they do. Clicking on anything from anybody who you don't know is definitely a bad idea.

One very important habit is lunch at 12:00. Try to continue any office meeting just a little after 12:00 and it is a failure. They must go for lunch at 12:00. 12:05 is definitely way too late.

I like to hear how the scam actually works. Adding a new contact to LINE is definitely not enough to get money from someone.

It's always amazing to read the marketing blabla. It would be interesting to know the real story.

I think it is always interesting to see when some people think they know some details about some secret deals. Really? Who told you? If you know the details, then add some facts like she will come back on date x and she won't go to jail because y and z.

I think I read here some time ago that such movers did basically have no insurance or liability if they destroy any of your things. I am sure packing and unpacking is a big deal if done right.

That reminds me that the USA wants to possibly ban TikTok...

I understand that you want that the moderators delete your post. But then, I guess it tells us a lot about you and your "thinking".

It's obviously also a question of priorities. Did he tell the cops in a calm voice that some guys with weapons are in front of the temple? Or did he whine that someone splashed him with water and life is so unfair?

I am not surprised at all. It seems all the advertising for such cars is somewhere in beautiful nature drifting, jumping, speeding, etc.

The WLAN might have the same SSID (name of the WLAN network), or it can be a different name and also a different password. It is a question of how it is configured by whoever installed that box. If you have the knowledge and the username/password, then look at the "router" settings.

Here is an interesting interview with her. Enjoy!

One big problem is that people who make such decision may not act rationally. I saw recently below interview. It is scary how a nuclear war could happen, maybe by accident.

That is one of those problems. How do you know that off is actually off? It's like that red light at the recording camera. The fact that there is no light doesn't mean the camera is off. I forgot where I read it, but I am pretty sure one of those big companies, maybe it was Google, was fined for exactly something like that. The user switched something off, and the company showed it was off, but in reality, it was still on. They just didn't tell the user. Personally, I think it is only possible to protect our privacy if we don't use mobile phones, no credit cards, no bank accounts, nothing like that. There is only one problem with that. If we do that, then the authorities will know that we try to stay anonymous. And that in itself is a sign "why does this person do that"? All in all, I think it would be nice to have privacy, but I don't think it will ever happen again. I don't like it. But I do not hate it enough to fight it. It's like that. I accept it and don't try to think about it too much. Because what would be the point of thinking about something which we can't change?

Think about the alternatives

What is the western model? Blame Russia and China and somehow forget that the USA has probably the most sophisticated surveillance on earth? Remember Edward Snowden...

555 I guess when the meat is already 18 years old, and it still looks fresh, then the risk to get a bad stomach is not too high.

Maybe they will use them. Or maybe any other power with nuclear weapons will use their weapons. That's the whole idea. Don't let the others think you will never use those weapons.