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Companies have been doing that for decades and have been receiving ever increasing tax discounts - why should it change now?

Where is the money for this supposed to come from? Governments always complain that they haven't got enough to solve the problems of their poor. Does the new-fangled digital money conjuring from nothing just need the hoops to be jumped through developed to their liking?

Our residence is low-so and cheap, so, full, but with younger Thais that would die without a smart phone in their hot and sweaty.....

Here in Chiang Mai Bangkok Bank has closed their mini branches at the original BigC and what was Tesco Lotus, Hangdong Rd, now called Lotus's (what's with the superfluous 's?). Luckily there are ATMs if you know where to look. A few years back we printed paper bills for our residential customers, who all paid with cash. Now we upload web-based bills and send a link via LINE with only the tuk-tuk driver paying with cash.

Doubt he has a licence as he is not supposed to drive, but the vehicle will have been insured, as it is required by law, however not for the damage that he caused even if it is a higher level than basic, as he is not legally supposed to drive. He is an abbot, of course he got preferential treatment. 200,000 baht is not a difficult sum for an abbot of a reasonably sized temple to lay his hands on. It seems a call was made and wheels were put in motion. The police said they tested him for alcohol. The incident happened at 7am, allegedly as he was visiting family. If you have a relationship, through whatever means, with a high enough rank of police officer, or other influential people, sure you could.

Are you privy to some of the sordid happenings at your temple? As example, our abbot has a thing for young boys, and had to pay off the parents after a nipple tweaking incident recently. He was gambling 20,000+ baht every lottery 10 years ago, I dread to think how much it is now. Of course he sleeps in an air-conned room, and there are always donations required for parties (it's his birthday soon) and additional building, but he is obviously cleverer than this one in knowing not to drive.

Assuming you are married to a Thai, how often does your wife 'make merit' with your hard earned?

He didn't get rich on his own - research William L Monson

When did the rules change so that it is OK for monks to drive vehicles?

I said apparently - what does that mean in your world?

Money - we are conditioned to think life revolves around using money, when in reality your happiness is dependent upon your awareness and the personal values that you decide to live by. Once needs are met, what is in your head is the important thing, not material trappings and surroundings.

I use MyTello, which sets up a Bangkok based number that is directed through the internet to wherever you want. 0.4 baht per minute plus local call charge depending on your provider deal. https://app.mytello.com/en/

Apparently MEG (anti-freeze) soaked food permanently removes pigeons.....

Something like this:- https://shopee.co.th/⚡️ส่งด่วนใน1ชม.ทักแชท⚡️UPS-SKD-Protech-900-900VA-380W(306)-อุปกรณ์สำรองไฟ-Onsite-ทั่วไทย-รับประกัน-2-ปี-i.53549820.2002389994?sp_atk=6c083694-5fd1-42e9-9838-90dc01ce3a20&xptdk=6c083694-5fd1-42e9-9838-90dc01ce3a20 As you are using a PC, it will only last for 20 minutes or so (and less over time as the battery degrades). Enough to ride out the short outages and surges leaving enough time to shutdown. Did you try replacing the battery in your original UPS?

Getting officially married in Thailand is just a visit, with the correct paperwork, to an Amphur office

The permanent solution would be to ditch Windoze and install a Linux OS.

About 6 years ago one of our stainless steel tanks, then 10 years old, developed a couple of leaks as a result of degradation due to welding damage at time of install. I drained below the holes, applied PU sealant and a thin metal sheet patch fixed with alloy wire wrapped around the tank.

Just a mobile phone? https://shopee.co.th/โทรศัพท์มือถือซัมซุง-Samsung-Hero-E1205-(สีดำ)-ฮีโร่-รองรับ3G-4G-โทรศัพท์ปุ่มกด-i.299530624.5648184934?sp_atk=27038a8d-5688-4390-8f87-7f33c67ad7d9&xptdk=27038a8d-5688-4390-8f87-7f33c67ad7d9

The requirements do say every used page in the bank book.

The Op said he was 24x7 torrenting. Some torrent sites operate on seeding quotas. Some torrenters need to seed, or else the torrenting model of sharing wouldn't work!

Yes, the initial boot sequence needed to run from the sd-card, which points to the actual system on whatever usb device you want. The pi 4 can boot direct from usb now, so no sd-card required. A Pi 4 would be perfect as a 24x7 torrenting device. I have a pi3 doing that as well as hosting and processing the pictures from the 12 motion triggered ip cams.

Not if it is only a boot partition....

Did I recommend? I have been using raspberry Pis for 10 years, with the only failure (apart from sd-cards) being the hdmi output not producing a picture after running Kodi 24x7 for 8 years (3 Pi 1s). They are now re-purposed as ip cams and working well. The newer Pi 3s and 4s have heatsinks and fans to cope with the extra heat dissipation.

I do everything you do on a few raspberry pis.

Removing heat from a roof space is a fight against radiated heat. Air is not a good convector of heat, which explains why fans have a limited effect. If it is not possible to reduce the amount of heat getting in (an extra insulated metal sheet roof works well), the most effective way to reduce the heat radiating down through the ceiling is insulation. Modern build Thai houses don't have even the basic high up louvered vents and sofit vents to allow passive air movement, let alone insulation, apart from maybe the ceiling having a silver film, which becomes useless as the inevitable dust collects on it. I put insulation in an older house that didn't even have the silver film on the suspended ceiling. It made a dramatic difference - no need for air-con even. The roof steel was so hot during the day I could not touch it - it will be even hotter now given all the reflected heat.......