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I think the cops back home can arrest someone if they catch them in the act, but not 2 or 3 months later, like this case. On the evening of April 13 last year, during Thailand’s New Year celebrations, the teenage victim was enticed by the suspect... ...after obtaining an arrest warrant issued by Thonburi Criminal Court on July 11, 2023,

Though I get where the OP is coming from, I think I'll let that cloud float by without yelling at it.

Who's programming the AI, and to what purpose? To identify criminals, or to identify political opponents and look for the crimes? (Google "3 felonies a day").

It's social extortion. Had they found OJ guilty, there would have been rioting in the streets. Works both ways... If they had found Chauvin not guilty, there would have been rioting in the streets. In spite of the fact that Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl in him, which would have given any fair jury reasonable doubt. I wouldn't have wanted to be on either of those juries, and felt responsible for causing rioting by doing the honest thing. They'd have both been hung juries... And the mayhem would have started.

I'll confess ignorance... How is a condo allocated to the "foreign quota"? Does the developer declare it when he first offers them for sale? Is it first come, first served, closing when 49% are bought by foreigners? Or are they pre-allocated? If I own a "foreign quota" condo, can I sell it to a Thai? If I do sell to a Thai, is it still in the foreign quota? Once a condo is part of the foreign quota, is that cast in stone, or can the status change? I can see where being in the foreign quota may make a condo easier to sell (perhaps at a higher price), but I'm not clear on how that works if a Thai person wants to buy a condo from a foreigner. Does that then open the possibility for another condo in the project to be bought by a foreigner if it results in less than 49% foreign ownership?

I've owned quite a few leather golf gloves and a few pairs of leather driving gloves. Any time I put one up for awhile, they dry out and shrink and putting them back on requires re-hydrating them to get them back up to size. That's the nature of the leather. I saw the videos. I could have gotten the glove on. I've done it hundreds of times with gloves that shrank even more. But he obviously didn't want to...

I guess I should have known better than to expect a philosophical discussion on the march of time, seconds, priorities, and the important things in our lives.

Almost a month later and no cause of death, autopsy results, or even a blood test?

It's part of a growing tend in the MSM to redefine "mass shooting" and change the methods that even the FBI use to compile crime statistics. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/understanding-fbis-2021-crime-data Cop shops around the country are noticing that their internal crime stats don't match the stats for the same city and time period from recent FBI reports. Not surprisingly in an election year, the FBI is painting a rosier picture...

And I would give you ten to one odds that you are wrong. On a per capita basis, most of the countries to the south of the USA are much worse than the USA. And that's where most of the unvetted illegals are coming from. And though Trump's claim that Venezuela's emptying their prisons has been fact checked as inaccurate (as if fact checkers are reliable), the fact check itself is pretty revealing. So I doubt Americans will be more willing to give up their 2nd Amendment rights in the near future. From 2022 to 2023, there was a 25% drop in violent deaths, homicides, deaths resulting from police intervention and deaths under investigation, according to the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Violence. Criminologists in Venezuela said the decline is because of the country’s poor economy, mass migration and the government's extrajudicial killings, not the government emptying prisons. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/apr/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-exaggerates-venezuelan-crime-drop-and/ https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-from-firearms Back to the OP... Big guns for self defense are stoopid. Too big to conceal, too big to pull out quickly, too powerful to shoot straight, and way too much risk of collateral damage. I bought my first gun in Texas at college in 1980, of the dozen or so I own. I can count on one hand the number of times I've carried in public. That's just not in my nature. Maybe half a dozen times, I've pulled one out of the closet at home for strangers in the fenced back yard. Never pointed on at anyone. I don't begrudge legal owners when I see them carrying out in public, but I'm 100% in favor of coming down hard on felons and kids who already aren't allowed to carry.

Anyone else curious whether he got his money back, given the thread was started over a year ago? And ressurected by someone's first post that was taken down as defamatory?

Just for clarification, does that mean they looked at your "not unlocked" phone and handed it back to you without asking you to unlock it?

YouTube's blocked here, but I watched the original video yesterday. He didn't even make an effort to get the glove on. And while the latex gloves may be thin, they completely change the coefficient of friction, especially dry. Had the prosecution been on the ball, they would have found a new pair of gloves of the same model and size and had him try to put one on, without the latex. My experience with golf gloves and driving gloves... I'd have gotten that glove on. May have taken a soak or just more effort. But I'd have done it to save $10-15 on a new glove. (Of course, being evidence, I can understand why they wouldn't have allowed soaking the glove, and being on trial for his life, I can understand why his efforts weren't sincere) What I don't understand is anyone not seeing through the charade.

...this is, by far, the weakest criminal case I have ever seen in my 60 years. There is nothing here. There is no misdemeanor, there is no felony, there is no federal crime. The feds refused to prosecute — even Bragg refused to prosecute until some of his young progressive woke prosecutors demanded that he prosecute,” Dershowitz stated. “I have a challenge: name any case in the history of America where anybody was ever prosecuted for failing to disclose a hush money payment on some kind of business form. It’s never happened in the history of this country. And to use an unprecedented jerry-rigged case against the man running against your president, your Democrats, is such an abuse of the legal system, we ought to change our motto from ‘E pluribus unum’ to ‘double standard hypocrisy,'” Dershowitz continued. https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/13/alan-dershowitz-slams-alvin-bragg-hush-money-case-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-sean-hannity-new-york/

Hell, it could have been me. I was living in Huntington Beach at the time. Anyone who's ever tried to put on a dried leather golf glove knows that it's not going to fit unless you either soak it again, or force it on. They're meant to be snug. So are leather driving gloves.

Given the racially charged atmosphere of the time (especially in So Cal), I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be on that jury and exposed myself to retribution had there been a guilty verdict, or even a hung jury. There would have been entire city blocks burned down had he been convicted. Just like the Rodney King riots and the Summer of Love (and mostly peaceful city burnings). As I recall, they had whittled it down to Bigfoot, space aliens, or OJ did it... Apparently, the jury figured that was enough reasonable doubt. It may have been Bigfoot or aliens...

So, it happened before the 2016 election, but they waited until the 2024 election to drag him into court. Like the 199? sexual assault trials... Decades later, and just in time for an election year. Election interference much?

OP may want to specify what city he's in. If it's Bangkok, my first stop would be Fortune Town at MRT Phra Ram 9 station. Then it would be a matter of looking for a shop that repairs HP's, and hope they have (or can order) that particular shell. Edit: I'd also check the benchmark speed of the CPU before I'd dump a bunch of money into it. My "top of the line" I7 laptop from just a few years ago benchmarks slower than a new I3 laptop that costs today 1/2 or less than mine did when I bought it.

While I don't favor vandalism, one of the guys in the audience should have gone out to the parking lot and let the air out of their tires, just to see how redundant men really are.

On 7600 bus trips with (mostly) non-drunk drivers, vs 50,000 private car trips (for the 148,000 passengers), with a lot of those drivers being drunk... Or worse, 100,000 scooters. With a lot of them being drunk or high for the holiday.

Crafty bustard... But a good reminder. Always keep a throwdown ID, just in case.

You place a lot of trust that Iran was living up to their part of the treaty and not feverishly working in secret. The other way to go would be to starve them of the funds to develop the bombs and finance Houthi missiles, by sanctioning their oil trade. Instead, they have $$ billions of Bidenbucks, and the Houthis have missiles and Iran has the money to attack Israel. Way to go, Joe!

OP may want to provide some more details, like how big, self propelled or pulled behind (or pushed by hand). Maybe a picture of what you have in mind... Plenty of images available in a Google or Bing search. I've seen some that would probably be cheap as chips, but not big enough to make decent money, and others that look like they'd cost quite a bit.

WW3 incoming, but thank God we don't have mean tweets. Those were so much worse than a European or Middle East war.

Good point, but I was thinking more along these lines: Raw fish with spiced salad koi pla is a favourite dish in Thailand. But each year, thousands of people are infected with Opisthorchis viverrini, a liver fluke parasite transmitted to humans through raw or undercooked fish. Thailand has the world's highest incidence of cholangiocarcinoma a fatal form of liver cancer associated with O. viverrini. In some areas, nearly 85% of the population hosts the parasite. https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/research-in-action/reducing-liver-fluke-transmission-northeastern-thailand 85% sounds pretty scary... And I doubt foreigners are immune. Edit: And IIRC, there's another nasty disease that's associated with the raw freshwater crabs that you see at a lot of street vendors.