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7 hours ago, Wandr said:
Unfortunately, none of the above applies. <------>
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I only can confirm what @Pib has written here in this thread. The ATM-VISA-exchange rates are identic with the VISA (EUROPE) rates booked on my account. 100%.
If you compare both rates you have to consider the ATM fees here in Thailand and those in the country of the card issuing bank. For this reason check the details of these withdrawals.
To end the contradictory discussion, please give us the following datas of one of these "dubious" ATM withdrawals:
- the exact (Thai) date of the withdrawal = hour + minutes, day, month, year - all printed on your ATM receipt.
- the country of the issuing card
- the amount of the withdrawal (Thai Baht) from your bank account (in the currency of your bank account)
- The fees of your card issuing bank. Consider: the THAI-ATM fee (220 THB i.e.) normally is contained in the booked amount.
- please tell us exactly how you do the calculation? Consider: in the Visa-exchange table you have to start with the currency of the card issuing bank (= My card is in .... USD, EUR, GBP i.e.)
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On 30/4/2560 at 3:13 AM, humqdpf said:
The issue was never with overbooking - overbooking is standard and it is a seldom event when there are not enough seats for everyone on the plane.
The problem was appalling management, that the airline could not properly manage the transfer of staff and filling of a plane.First mistake, they decided that the staff were far more important than customers and that it was OK to get staff to take up paid-for and booked seats (staff had not booked any seats - otherwise there would not be this problem);
Second mistake, they did not perform the bumping BEFORE seating everyone on the plane. By that stage, passengers have already notified their relatives/lovers/colleagues/taxi drivers that they are on their way and it is very difficult to reverse out of that both from a personal management point of view and psychologically. Much easier to do it at check-in.
Third mistake, if it was so damn important or crucial that the staff be moved, then the airline did not properly auction the seats as an incentive. If it was worth $10,000 per seat to move the staff, then continue to increase the offer up to that figure. The airline did not do so. If no one takes any offer up to $10,000, then you know that the cost of moving the staff is going to be much more than the value of moving them on that plane.
Fourth mistake: use violence against your law abiding passengers.
Farang Hunter - +1; for 4 mistakes
I understand that the airlines have an overbooking standard what works properly in general.
To solve problems by violence - as in this case - that is what I condemn. Did we ever hear about the same action from Thai Airways, British Airways, SAS, Lufthansa, ANA, JAL, etc. ?
The problem originates from the United Airlines. Therefore they are responsible for the (violent) consequences.
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Trump doesn't want that the people of his country spend their money anywhere else, maybe the reason for this travel alert. In the US much more people are killed by guns than than Europeans killed by terrorists.
The EU should answer:
EU issues travel alert for USA because of the danger of gun attacks (since Trump opened the door for the gun lobby).
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1 hour ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
It is time for President Trump to quit his campaigning and for the next 100 days
act and do the job of being the President of the United States of America.
Time for the American press to do their work as well and adopt to President Trump
and his new ways.
Geezer
The US journalists should adopt to
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be lazy bums (complaning about their „hard“ job)?
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abundantly telling and reporting lies ?
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not fulfilling promises ?
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be extremly egomanic ?
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be far araway from reality ?
In nearly all civilized democracies this man would stay in a nuthouse, in the USA he is „qualified„ for president.
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On 03.03.2017 at 2:26 AM, Chicog said:
How come there isn't a topic for Sessions' perjury?
Surely this is the most pressing issue at the moment, or is lying under oath considered par for the course these days?Lying ???
No, it's alternative truth,.... ehm
, modern rightwing style.
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Nobody refers to the best post in this thread.
We all appreciate her flawless knowledge and the quality of her inputs to health related questions. So let's read it again and think about what is in a strong contrast to the „fears of the conservatives“, kindergarden-conservatives.
On 23.02.2017 at 5:01 PM, Sheryl said:
Bear in mind that transgenders who have undergone sex reassignment surgery will in fact have the genitalia of the sex opposite to that on their birth certificate.
So this law based on birth certificate, if enforced, would actually be mandating penises in the ladies' room and vice versa.
Speaking as a woman I would be uncomfortable having a person who looks male, acts male and identifies as male in the rest room I used.....irrespective of what is on their birth certificate. Similarly I feel fine sharing the facilities with anyone who looks, acts and identifies female regardless of what is in their birth certificate.
People don't carry their birth certificates around. There is no feasible way of screening people's gender at birth at rest room entrances.
Most transgender people will naturally use the rest room where they feel more comfortable and safe, which in turn will be the one where they don't stand out or attract unwanted attention. Which that will be, will depend on where they are in their transition.
A transgender woman who has completed transition or is well into it using a male rest room is at great risk of attack. Even a transgender who has not transitioned but is dressed as a woman, is unsafe doing this. Somehow I don't think showing a male birth certificate will pacify assailants.
Result: More problems than before and in strong contrast to common sense. A typical Trump problem. And very urgent
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Experts have said the Pentagon could request additional forces, beyond the less than 6,000 American troops now deployed to both Iraq and Syria, helping the U.S. military go farther and do more in the fight.
They also said the Pentagon may focus on smaller-scale options like increasing the number of attack helicopters and air strikes as well as bringing in more artillery. The military may also seek more authority to make battlefield decisions.When will these military bletherers ever learn that you cannot stop even idiotic ideas or religion by weapons. Maybe they believe they are able to shoot them out of their brains. Did they already forget the war against the Taliban?
Why doesn't he start in the oval office of the White House?
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Trump has branded some news outlets as "the enemy of the people" butBush said: "I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy, that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account," he said.
"It's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power."Compared with Trump the former POTUS and war initiator GW Bush now seems to me as likeable as an angel.
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2 hours ago, sweatalot said:
Probably a terrorist act.
The "authorities" have lost all their credibility.
The first thing they claim after a terrorist act is always "it was no terrorist act" and they keep quite of the Arab origin of the terrorist and his muslim religion.
In this case
The suspect had a knife. They do not mention his ethnic origin nor his religion.
Logic conclusion: He is of Arab origin and his religion is muslim
1 hour ago, hottrader77 said:angela mercel wont want to admit her policy of letting immigrants come to germany is lunacy , people with half a brain including cameron wanted them to set up safe zones inside syria but as usual they do nothing and this is the result
Here you see a modern habit promoted by the new USA government: open your mouth before knowing some facts and close your brain, if existing at all.
It seems this new and „modern“ style has already imitators in TVF.
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Trump later said he was talking about
a Fox News programme highlighting allegedly surging crime statistics in Sweden and linking them to rising immigrant numbers, after a record 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in 2015. ...Regardless whether the content of Trump's comment is true, half-true(5555) or wrong, for me it's unbelievable and at the same time terrifying that the president of the USA refers to an unofficial, extreme and very biased source of information, the Fox news. That's the same as if Boeing would rely on the technical skills of some right-wing TV-members.
Horrible and unbelivable at the same time. Assuming this „information“as a reality is already astonishing. But twittering - this means officially acknowleding that he, Trump, is the most unfit president, a symbol of a complete stupidity. Everybody with a little bit of intelligence would be ashamed giving such an excuse. Imagine these chanel would show a (fabricated) story about a Chinese plan to attack the US. Then this psychopath wouldn't hesitate to press the „A-“bottom.
One day later the POTUS would argue “I saw it on FOX.“
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1 hour ago, thai3 said:
They never let the truth get in the way of a Trump bashing opportunity
Yes we learnt that there are "alternative" facts/truths. Guess from whom?
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2 hours ago, thai3 said:
Time Sweden officially changed it's name to Swedistan, might calm the rioters down at least
This will happen when the USA is named the Gun-Crime-Heaven-Land
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30 minutes ago, mike324 said:
Trump would be better of not opening his mouth or just read from a prepared script so he doesn't make silly mistakes and citing wrong facts and the constant need to clarify himself after every speech.
If I were a cartoonist I would paint him sitting in a lunatic asylum watching Fox News and shouting "terrific, great," and some of his never changing always repeated favorite words, when watching war scenes on the TV screen, his left thumb and forefinger building an O, his mouth open like a rectangle.
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On 17.02.2017 at 11:18 AM, jpinx said:
If the US and some allies hadn't made unlawful fabricated wars they wouldn't need so much money of the GDP.
BTW, Trumps hidden idea: make the US-weapon industry stronger ! A very nice idea to trick other countries into contributing to this idea.
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59 minutes ago, xylophone said:
Trump is the Clown in Chief in an administration full of them............
By naming Trump a clown you insult the professional honour of a real clown.
Judging his character and his uncontrolled behavior - he should be passed on to a psychologist, far away of his current job as POTUS. My deep respect to Mr. McCain for not going with the (sheepish Rep) flow.
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Let's have a sense of humor.
If, yes if ...., Trump should dare to visit Germany let's play : "US, US über alles ...". Just Trumps own words (=America first). I would like to see his face and the reaction of right-wingers.
BTW, why do we need national anthems in sport events? In some sports - after singing the hymn - the so-called sportsmen don't mind to grab some parts of your body. Or even kick their feet or hands at your body. And this all in the name of their country?
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27 minutes ago, Grouse said:
Tosh! Hitler was elected democratically
And Trump, too.
It seems they have something in common. Trump has very "nice words" for all who don't agree with him, a typical Hitler reaction. The USA now on the same way? The future will tell us. Der Spiegel gave only a warning, and so many rightists are embarrassed!
Somebody told me the people of the USA - except Trump and his cronies - like and defend the free speech.
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1 hour ago, ezzra said:
The German people has to shut up and sit very quietly when talking about
killing democracy, although it has been 70 years since, the world hasn't
forgotten how they massacred democracy, literally.....
Shut up for ever ??? If you think so, a lot of nations should shut up because of their previous history, especially within the last 7 decades.... .
It seems you won't recognise that there is a difference between the German democracy of today and the dictatorship of 70 years ago. If you open your eyes without mindcuffs you will detect signs the USA are going into the direction where Germany has been 70 years ago.
Do you need examples? Read all the Trump TV threads unbiasedly.
This image above symbolises the potential and danger of the actual situation in the USA and that of the near future under Trump and his cronies. That is not a reason to play the old Nazi-game. The world would like the USA to have the same rules as Germany to avoid such a sick character as Trump.
BTW, is that a real democracy when the President is not chosen by the majority of the votes?
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19 hours ago, doctormann said:
Allegedly, Mark Twain had something to do with the quote as well. Seems to be attributed to several people.
To get back on topic though, I think that problem is that there is evidence that cyclical climate shifts have been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. The evidence for that is locked in the antarctic ice cores and elsewhere. I don't believe that there is too much disagreement that the global climate, overall, is currently in a warming phase. The issue really is in deciding if the man-made contribution to this is significant and, if it is, whether we can do anything about it. I suspect that the answers are 'not really' and 'very little, if anything'.
I don't have any problem with trying to reduce man-made pollution levels - must be awful in China - but we shouldn't assume that by so doing we are going to cure 'global warming' or have any significant effect on 'climate change'.
19 hours ago, jpinx said:Climate Change is NOT Global Warming -- and therein lies the confusion. Of course the climate is changing, but whether it is heading for some catastrophe is not predictable. Man likes to think he is in control of his world, but that has been disproved so many times now it's laughable that people believe the 1% or so that man is adding makes any significant difference...
The USA has some religious, science denying groups still believing the earth is not older than 7.000 years or so. In the middle ages scientists have been blistered by the Roman Church for their believe that the earth is not the center of the world. Nowadays people with a childish IQ deny global warming although there are strong signs for it.
Cyclical climate shifts!? Maybe.
But was the last cyclical climate shift (– at that time -) caused by human activities
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sending large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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burning fossil fuels to produce energy, from which the majority of greenhouse gases come from
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from deforestation,
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industrial processes,
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some agricultural practices also emitting gases into the atmosphere.
or by an asteroid????????
There have been different reasons for a shift. For example, when an asteroid has hit the planet earth. Was the last one a cyclical one?
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10 hours ago, funandsuninbangkok said:
In fiscal 2016 the US apprehended 530,000 illegal immigrants entering the US. A majority were from countries OTHER than Mexico, including Iraq, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries.
Thanks for for the offer of help Mexico but I think we'll take over now.
Any other county on the planet would have build it long ago.
You are right.
The former communist DDR (= German "Democratic" Republic) did it to protect itself against the "enemy".
Trump does it now to protect his trumpis(s)m.
His schizoide character is going to become obvious day by day. Only one example. These before tolerated illegal immigrants are only a tiny part involved in US crimes. If he would be consequent in fighting crimes he initially had to fight the gun crimes in the USA, the absolutely highest in the world.
BTW, why does he not mind all illegal immigrants? The not-criminal immigrants seem to be very useful for the US economy, although they are illegal. Schizo-demeanor, illegal immigration is legal, if useful. What did we hear from Trump's underlings: there is an alternativ truth. The USA will need a new dictionary under Trump.
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A wonderful Dutch satire about Trump's Mexican wall and more. Don't mind the few introducing Dutch words
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Trump has the 100% quality of a narcissist --->
"too much interest in and admiration for your own physical appearance and/or your own abilities"
Why?
The number of the people in the inauguration crowd is more important for him than the more important subjects.
I would like to use his (dumb) style of speech: he is a 1.000% narcissist.
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2 minutes ago, SaintLouisBlues said:
Some of us prefer to think of it as the Year of the Cock
Thank you for the correction.
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1 hour ago, robertthesculptor said:
I apologise to Thailand and the world. We Americans have made a dire choice. This jerk speaks with the words of a Dictator. Not with the intelligence of a President. We will all suffer for this choice.
Sent from my GEM-702L using Thaivisa Connect mobile app
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Next week, the Chinese start the year of the rooster. The USA have already started the year of the Idi@t.
Visa Exchange Rate - Not Always Given?
in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
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Although "one mayor bank in Switzerland" sets its own rates, the general rule is that the banks (of the issuing VISA-Card) refer to the exchange rates of VISA, re.Visa Europe.
Because @Wandr doesn't want to write details of the "not always given Visa rate" it's completely useless to go on with the discussion.
He seems to be too lazy to look into the visa-card-conditions of his bank. I, i.e., can read that my bank uses the exchange rates (in advance) published by VISA.