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You're conveniently forgetting that there were vast tracts of cheap but farmable land available to be settled in Canada, the US and Australia. The same policies don't work so well where land is expensive.

I'm guilty of the shorthand (laziness) where I leave off the word "unvetted" or "illegal" when discussing the immigration problem. Immigration isn't the problem. It's the way it's being done.

There's another one of those cherries. Perhaps it's the dire conditions brough on by unvetted immigration that's causing the low birthrate? Happy people who are confident of the future are more likely to have more kids. Immigrants that just came from a 3rd world craphole are very confident of their future in the UK. It's much better than where they just were. Native Brits that see depressed wages, housing shortages and more crime aren't all that confident. So fewer kids.

Just relating my real world, been there, done that experience. How many years did you run state of the art, complex computer models for a living?

Yet every condition then mentioned is either directly caused or greatly exacerbated by immigration. Of course people taking a survey aren't going to call out immigration specifically. They'd be risking accusations of racism.

So you don't figure that conditions worsening in the UK is why they chose to emigrate, not just to Thailand? And more will leave in the future? And probably not the ones that the UK can afford to lose... Like California. Losing the ones that can afford to leave. I think they call that swirling down the bowl.

..nd you think you are the only one who knows that? - You need to listen to John Cleese. A) If it was one of the first things I learned, isn't that an indication that a lot of people know that? The more important part of my statement is that running accurate models isn't the way to keep your job, get promoted and get your next "study" funded. Publishing results that the funders like, is. You get those results by tweaking minute variables. B) How many computer models do you figure Cleese has run? c) I'm staying right now where YouTube is blocked. Though I do like John Cleese, alas it will be awhile before I can click the link.

Looks like Google's falling in line: Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order | AP News Who do you think is going to win... An obscure international authority or Google?

Nah. I live for nibbles. And I just got one.

That may all be true. But your suggestion was to do the math on $400K a year. That's what I did.

While I agree with the first part of your post, one way to root out corruption in military spending is to forbid the MIC from having anything to do with retired generals (and their immediate families) for at least 10 years after they retire. Then the MIC can't influence the spending by promising cushy jobs and goodies when the generals leave the gub'ment.

I did the math. It doesn't come out to $20 mil, which is the Hawaii plus the Martha's Vineyard. Both of them waterfront, so he doesn't seem to believe that sea level rise poses a risk. But that's another thread...

Why don't you go back and look at what he really said about that. Not what the MSM spoon feeds us. Get a direct quote. Never mind that they need to revoke the Man Card from whoever divulged what was said in joking with a bunch of guys around, what was it? A campfire I think...

I know the bashers will be along soon, but I don't care. I like Swampy. I don't mind showing up 4 or 5 hours early (just in case) for my international flights. Plenty to do, lots of good eats, and the eye candy is spectacular. And they have really upped their game on both ends of immigration. In my past 21 monthly visits, I don't recall waiting over 20 minutes, and usually it's less than 5 minutes. Even when the arrivals queue looks slammed, it moves fast. And the security and departure immigration queues have really improved. My only suggestion is to increase seating at the departure gates or require the airlines to open up their ramps to downstairs seating earlier. Too many people sitting along the walls and against the glass.

What name did I call you? I asked for some information that would help people steer you in the right direction. And where did I say I used any of the workarounds? I said they exist. I also said my old laptop (this one) is still running Win10. That's because I didn't risk trying to fool Microsoft. I know just enough about Windows to stay out of trouble. Most of the time. When you post up questions, you're not the only one that's benefitting from the answers. The more information you provide, the more value the responses are to the community. Along those lines, thanks to Mutt Daeng for some really useful info!

That's a good catch, but there's still conflicting information from the OP. First, he's claiming Microsoft wants him to BUY a new version. They're actually asking him to GET a new version. For me, there was no charge updating from 22H2 to 24H2. He also shows a message superimposed on his PC Health Check screenshot that his PC doesn't meet the requirements for Win11. Rather than guess and speculate, it would be handy to know his actual configuration.

Those words should be put on a big poster and put up in every public place. I wonder if the current fad will be called Canutism in years to come. I'd disagree with JonnyF, but only slightly. What we can do is build robust economies to be ready for whatever happens. Regardless of what it is, and whether it's man made or a natural cycle, it's going to cost a lot of money (and a lot of energy) to be ready.

Why kidnap the guy when they can just wait for his book to come out?

Without this glass house guy casting any stones, I wonder if the OP can post back what version of Windows he's actually on, and if it is Win11, which update? As stated, he's getting the same message I got when I looked into updating from Win10 to Win11. Though my first message was that my version was soon going beyond the service period. That was a few years back. I think Win10 is beyond that now...

Seems to me that the OP's problem is that he's not even on Win11 yet. He's getting the same message I got when I tried to update from Win10 to Win11. There's a ton of workarounds all over YouTube and other places on the interwebs to install Win11 on a system for which Microsoft hasn't bestowed its blessings. My old laptop (that I'm typing this on) is one of those and I'm still using Win10. My new laptop came with an already aged version of Win11 and it's been automatically updated to 24H2. Eezy peezy. And when they release the next update, I expect I'll get updated to that one. Until they release Win12.

Gotta love the new White House spokeslady: “The past four years, we’ve seen the Biden administration spend money like drunken sailors. It’s a big reason we’ve had an inflation crisis in this country,” Leavitt said. Leavitt highlighted examples of what the Trump administration considers excessive spending under Biden. These include $37 million earmarked for the World Health Organization (WHO) and $50 million for condom distribution programs in Gaza. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money,” she added. The freeze, she noted, reflects the administration’s commitment to responsible use of public funds. Edit: Seems to me like people in the region should be sponsoring the condom initiatives.

Yup. You caught me. I made a flippant comment about an amusing but trivial subject. But a smarter scientist would have done the whole 17 hours of diligence before publishing.

That the guy who pays the piper gets to call the tune?

One of the first things I learned out of college doing modeling on one of the fastest supercomputers of the day is that tweaking even minute variables can make a huge swing in the results. I also learned that modelers don't get to keep their jobs if their results don't meet the funders' wishes, and that most jobs and promotions went not to the most accurate modelers, but the most convincing. If cold deaths today outstrip heat deaths by 10:1, I don't think that warming things up a few degrees will result in more net deaths. That doesn't pass the sniff test.

I'm with OMF above. If you're month to month, why are they keeping you on the lower rate? You may want to offer them 2000 baht more to see if that's the real issue. If you do move elsewhere, you may not get that sweetheart rate. Fighting the eviction in court would be rather Quixotic.