dr_lucas

On 10/9/2023 at 11:47 AM, Muhendis said:

I doubt there will be a Gaza after this.

The Israelis have been looking to take that land for years.

Lies.

They conquered it from Egypt in 1967 in the 6 days war, wanted to return it (with the conquered Sinai peninsula) to Egypt in 1979, but Egypt refused to take it back.

They withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005. They blocked Gaza with the Gaza–Israel security barrier (which sadly didn't help them at all on October 7th).

They want absolutely nothing to do with Gaza.

"Killed" is an pretty word. I watched some of the videos showing what they did to those poor, innocent Thai workers and can't get those images out of my head.
Brutally slaughtered, decapitated, raped, burnt and desecrated.

The world must see these atrocities. Wish it was possible to share those uncensored videos here.

Based on my own personal experience - while there is a very vocal minority of crappy Israeli tourists, the majority of them are very nice and friendly.

https://www.escape.com.au/experiences/adventure/who-are-the-worlds-worst-tourists/image-gallery/1565d6ebdb5aa9b0ebd6752a2e5e1309

10 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

IF the Israeli government abided by international law regarding the Gaza Strip, the reason for Israeli people wanting to leave Israel right now wouldn’t exist.
 

Incidentally, blockading the Gaza Strip and preventing food and water is a war crime according to the United Nations.

Which international law regarding the Gaza strip?

And intentionally targetting and blood-cold burning, murdering and kidnapping hundreds innocent civilians, babies, women, children, elders and threathing to execute them while being captives is very much aligned with international laws, right?
 

47 minutes ago, rbkk said:

The reports yesterday, and also spoken by the new Prime Minister of Thailand, were that Thai repatriation flights were not allowed access to Israeli airspace at that point in time. Perhaps things are different today? I still haven't read any reports though of any Thai airlifts of civilians or collection of dead bodies. Sadly, just reports of Israeli's coming on holiday to Thailand.

Then this was fake news yesterday and still is fake news today.

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

They wouldn’t have this problem if they obeyed international law.

Care to elaborate?

A friend just asked me about it, but nothing on the news. Anywhere.

Update: The mirror just posted something about it:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-thailand-shooting-mall-live-31090957

What about capital gain from abroad? Such as profits from stock market and/or commodities investments in other countries? 

7 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

You can transfer the amount of money that's had the taxes paid for it at the land office without any problem.

Land office will give you a receipt for taxes paid amount and take that to the bank.

 

Agents in Thailand will report a lower number of sales price to the land office to pay less tax, but it's a double edged sword when trying to transfer the money out.

 

Not only that declaring lower sale price is a double edged sword, but it's also usually a tiny savings when the major taxes are based on appraisal value anyway. Illegal and not worth it for most sellers IMHO. 

Is it possible for a foreigner to transfer money out of Thailand that was gained when the foreigner sold a condo he previously purchased?

eg. Condo purchased for 10m baht (original 10m amount came from abroad obviously) and sold for 20m. Is it ok to TT all the 20m or only 10m baht?

On 4/4/2023 at 4:16 PM, topt said:

Really relevant in a Pattaya forum and specific Pattaya thread..........

Hence YMMV. But actually, afaik, it may be relevant since each of these providers use the same datacenter and NOC regardless of where they are deployed in Thailand.

Is it legal to use the money paid for a condo a foreigner sold to buy a new condo or the money must be transferred abroad first and re-sent back to Thailand to get a new FET?

On 12/23/2022 at 3:55 PM, tomazbodner said:

I've had True (hated them), then 3BB (to get away from True), then AIS (because of Playbox, to get away from TrueVisions), and now... well, True again as they are the only ones that provide high speed (that means over 1Gbps up/down) connection at this condo.

 

While True was pathetic 15 years ago, and 3BB such a breeze to deal with I actually didn't want to cancel their line for nearly a year although I already had AIS fiber... I should say that I have not had much problems with them. A couple of issues when the data center for the area had outage that lasted an hour or so, that's once a year maybe. During that time they gave 5 GB or 10 GB of additional data by code to mobile phone's internet plan... which I never used. But overall, they are responsive, clear in answers, and provide a very fast service. One annoying thing is all in one router (doesn't have that external fiber modem) from Huawei. While it's fast and LAN very reliable, it has drop-outs on WiFi. After True did all they could to bring it down to 1-2 times a day, 10-20 seconds outage (very annoying when it was happening often), I've eventually given up, and got another Wifi router. Absolutely no complaints since.

AIS was very good, much cheaper (in package with Platinum TV package) and also very good to deal with. It's just pity they max out at 250 Mbps at my place, else I'd stay with them. Their ZTE router was very fast and reliable. In many years of using their service I've never had a single problem with it.

3BB at least was great years back but no idea how they are now. They did make it easy to return router and cancel the subscription though.

ToT was... terrible. Speed was awful internationally, and even locally it never came anywhere near the agreed speed package. CAT not bad at all. Reliable and quite fast. I don't know how this works now that the 2 merged for new customers, but those who were on CAT from before merger, it's actually very fast and reliable.... BUT... they are government company. Meaning, they don't do anything remotely, have to go to their branch during office hours only for ANYTHING. Which is a real pain. Taking a day off just to go talk to your telecom... Don't know if it's any different in Bangkok, but while True/3BB/AIS/True again are in Bangkok, the CAT is not at this place but a bit south. Though... to cancel TOT (True sold my fixed line to TOT some years back, which I never bothered to cancel despite not using it... for that 107 baht a month it wasn't worth a hassle) I had to go to TOT office. That was in Bangkok 2 years back.

 

Never had any other, so can't comment.

Don't know about other provinces, but here in Bangkok I am using True 1gbit + 3BB 1gbit at my office and AIS 1gbit + TOT 1gbit at home and TOT (now NT) is hands down the best for international connections/downloads. I guess YMMV.

3 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

here's something for you    https://www.healtheuropa.com/health-benefits-of-cannabis/92499/  plenty more on google for you too "dr"

No doubt that cannabis has significant health benefits. 

No doubt smoking marijuana can cause some serious and permanent health issues.

No contradiction here. 

2 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

heres a cut and paste from your  authoritative article..........I stopped reading it after seeing that.....utter rubbish, 

 

 It may be that people who use marijuana also tend to engage in risky sexual behavior or intravenous drug use

 

  It sounds more like reefer madness than serious scientific research  

OK. Here is something more thorough for you:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182105/

And again, there is a lot more up to date info on Google. 

6 hours ago, starky said:

Can we see the studies relating to recreational use of marijuana as a danger to public health?.

You can start from here and google for more, especially the terrible effect it has on young people's brain development and other effects

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK224396/#:~:text=Compared with nonsmokers%2C habitual marijuana,of the cells as nonsmokers.

Other top scientists totally disagree:

https://coronavirus.quora.com/Gosia-Kasperowicz-Three-incorrect-narratives-that-justify-inaction-and-hence-pave-the-path-for-Omicron-spread-Al?ch=10&oid=57648752&share=b8d4dae6&srid=pA9Z&target_type=post

What's the TL;DR? 

15 hours ago, tgw said:

what I've heard so far is that omicron causes mild symptoms - if this is true, couldn't that be a chance to instead spread it as much as possible, achieving herd immunity?

Please stop repeating anecdotes that physicians have seen mild cases of Omicron The VAST majority of COVID cases of all variants are mild.

The problem is a fraction are not, and when cases pile up, the fraction adds to a lot of hospitalization, death, and long-COVID.

Plus the more infections mean more mutations and variants that may be much worse than the current ones.