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Even if he 'won' in some international court (after many years) he will be blacklisted by immigration which would break off his access to his seastead... via Thailand.
 
This is bleeding edge stuff.  However, just like few envisioned Bitcoin, even fewer probably see the future in sovereign seastead communities.  But my guess is that as statists become more and more authoritarian, and as principles of Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality along with rule of law are trampled underfoot, there will be a subset of the population who will take to the new frontier.  Those people will be maligned, reviled, cursed, critized, condemned, and called 'crazies' and 'loons' by those who can only envision their reality as being one in which their actions are controlled, cradle to grave, by The State.  But - it's here.  A new paradigm.  A new frontier.

So this is the first of the birth pangs.  New and novel ideas are seldom born of complacency.  And just as frontiersmen and frontierswomen faced hardships and the unknown, so will these new travelers who journey to edge of the last frontier - The Sea - and seek to carve out independent lives.  

Thank you for a well thought out and forward looking post. Current con formative thinking and policies cause most people to immediately dismiss this concept. This concept is in its infancy, and may flourish or may be regulated out of existence.
There are logistical problems that have yet to been solved. ie: supply to the installation, trash disposal, medical emergencies or natural disaster response.
During the last 100 (+/-20) years, mankind has invented: Flight, air conditioning, computers, internet, mass transit, space flight, nuclear energy, heart transplant, lung transplant........and many ,more inventions innovations.
With the current and anticipated increase in computing power, no one can accurately guess what the future may hold, and this could easily include human habitation under or on the seas.
This seasteader could easily be to water habitation what the Wright brothers were to space travel. A very primitive start. The first step could lead to major scientific and practical applications within the next 100 years that no one alive today can comprehend.
I personally do not believe humanity today is at the pinnacle of its civilization.
All journeys start with a single step.


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Removing that "structure" isn't going to be cheap or easy, I would guess that it is "driven" into the seabed, when it is removed it should be cut five feet below the sea bed to prevent nets getting hung up. Wonder who will pay? 

The “structure” is a SPAR (Single Point Anchor Reservoir) design. A floating anchored structure. It can simply be towed away.


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He needs a multiple re-entry permit and report to the immigration every time he goes ashore, guess that could take a day each time, another day to process the TM30. 
 
Ohh, sorry you left Thailand but didn't enter another country, sorry no stamp for you. 
 

I am not sure what Thai immigration rules are for this. I do know that if you fly out to any oil installation, even outside the 12 mile limit, you are not required to exit and enter through immigration. Perhaps this is satisfied by the transport company ( boat or helicopter) passenger manifests.


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Ridiculous post,  the money savings was not the topic, it was scheme that should not bar any customer,  OR the poster was Joking, or he couldn't think of a more silly answer.   FACT
The topic was being informative, but we always get the keyboard tinkler that cannot resist being OFF the point
 
 

Keyboard tinkled? Your response is to make up names??? Quite humorous actually.


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7/11?
 
They won't exactly go bankrupt.

So you condone theft from profitable businesses?


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Firstly a Visa is obtained at a Thai Embassy or Consulate outside the country.
An Extension is obtained in country at an Immigration office.
 
There isn't, per-se, a Retirement Visa, but a group of Visas (Non ImmO categories OA, OX etc) are used by retirees to stay long term in Thailand.
 
Sadly, Extensions of Stay based on retirement (obtained at Immigration Offices) are frequently referred to as Retirement Visas, by many people, including Visa Agents and Immigration Officer too. It causes occasional confusion.

I have never really understood with whom this causes confusion. Whenever someone mentions marriage visa, or retirement visa, I and those I talk to have always fully understood what was meant.


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Probably because TVF crowd has had to deal with Thais in real life and knows of their preference to bend the truth whenever they feels like it. Handle with extreme prejudice, guilty until proven innocent and even then forever on probation. A clear case of somnamnaa.

You are right. Fortunately, the TVF crowd does not represent the majority of expats living in Thailand.


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Hopefully you are old enough to decide for yourself.

Hopefully you will refrain from personal comments / attacks and share your correspondence with the Director General?


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I doubt the stats can be verified by anyone. Or anything. So many layers of Thai massages before they arrive upon our eyes.

You may be right. However, a blanket dismissal of data supplied to the authorities is incorrect unless one has identical data and has interpreted it differently. The common theme on TVF is to disparage Thais and anything that the Thai government may publish, from road safety statistics to tourist arrivals. Unless someone has any information proving the authorities are incorrect, why is the default that they are wrong?


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Not true.Public hospitals are much better and cheaper choice for us with same or even better service!

Then there should be no complaint. People who prefer public hospitals are welcome to go there. People who prefer private hospitals at a higher cost should be able to go there. This is fee enterprise. It is like the argument that Apple charges too much for their phones, while various other manufacturers supply an equal product at a lower cost. Let the consumer decide. Like Beta vs VHS. Let the consumer decide.


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Can these stats be verified by anyone outside the TVF ?

No, the omniscient TVF members receive all pertinent data from all sources in all regions. All others only operate on their personal opinions an prejudices.

 

 

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I know its an incredibly technical subject and is clearly just too difficult for some to get their head around, I'll try to put it in simple words....
 
These other countries mentioned offer residents of any nationality a residents rate.
 
If you are unable to understand the difference between a National and a Resident - then I'd agree, just sit back, enjoy the ignorance of a simple life and keep the blood pressure under control. 
 
 

And also understand the difference between a residence visa and a non- immigrant visa


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What is really sad, apart from the dual pricing based on race/nationality, is that some people are apparently happy with the dual pricing.
If you people have money to throw away, why don't you donate to orphan children, or some in real need ?

Many of us already do donate


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Also the huge increase of arrivals that TOT claim year on year, that many of us dispute and doubt, should be a factor.
If these numbers was to be believed
(and was actually for real),
it should be a market for new hotels and restaurants. So why isn't it?
 
Songkran has outplayed its role as attraction, since it became mayhem years ago.
Common knowledge also about problems at airports point of entry, it isn't a surprise that hotel bookings are way down.

Those “many of you” who dispute and doubt TOT numbers have not yet come up with any proof that TOT numbers are incorrect. Anecdotal evidence of beer bares and your favorite drinking spits having a low number of customers is not evidence of a decline in tourist numbers. There are many more families, non-sexpat tourists, etc. visiting Thailand. They will tend to frequent areas of the country that do not include beer bars et al. TOT takes their numbers from border arrival statistics. Until anyone can prove them wrong, they are the entity with the most reliable data.


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150 posts and counting. We can all let off steam here as much as we like but it won't achieve anything. Therefore I have written to the man whose name is mentioned in the article at the start of this thread. If 150 of us wrote we might just achieve something.
 

Khun Wichai Pochanakit

Director General

Ministry of Commerce

Internal Trade Department 

563 Nonthaburi Rd. Bang Krasor, Nonthaburi 11000

 

Website

https://www.dit.go.th/en/

 

e mail

[email protected]

and

[email protected]

 

Hopefully you explained you are only speaking for yourself?


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Nobody brings their membercard to Tops...they have to tell it to the cashier, make some mistakes in it (long number), try it again and finally YES it works...in the meantime there's a long queue at every cashier wasting the customers' time.
 
I really hate TOPS...you also have to check the expiry date of every single product or you'll buy eggs which are almost expired.

How many days do eggs have before they expire?


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Now the Japanese authorities should find out why the boy disappeared and died. Then trade the results of their investigation in case the RTP manages to get their thumbs out and solve the 2007 Wat Saphan Hin, Sukhothai murder of Tomoko Kawashita - before the 20 year statutory expiry...

Is every crime committed in your country solved? No cold cases at all?


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Unfettered capitalism is not so good.

It absolutely is


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why are you being nice about isaan ladies ( hmm lady is a loose term) i would call all isaan things gutter skanks, ( my son married one he wishes he hadnt but they have a beautiful 3 y/o daughter) and live in australia now. the isaan thing is the nastiest dirty smelly thing ive known, oh yeh and lazy. all it does is eat (non stop) sleep long hours, picks its nose etc etc

Sounds like a serious lack of parenting skills. Who raised the son?


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I had a chest x-ray showing an abnormality in my lung. I had not previously been ill or shown any signs of illness that I recall.

 

The doctor performed some blood analysis and determined a presence of TB anti-bodies. He was unable to determine if I had TB at the present time, but prescribed a 6 month series of antibiotics. 3 monthly x-rays performed over the next year did not show any change from to the size / density of the spot on my lung. The doctor concluded that at some time in the past I had most likely had TB, but the disease was no longer present. I am not a medical person, and do not claim to understand all the nuances of the doctor’s comments.

 

I was informed that it was the doctor’s opinion that the spot on my lung was most likely a scar from a previous TB infection. Just mentioning what was told to me.

 

A single chest x-ray will not determine the presence of active TB. It will take a series of x-rays over a period of time to determine “active”.

 

 

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or brake failure !!

What an original comment. I imagine you contemplated long and hard on this news release prior to sharing your insights with us.


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"they can always go to a government run establishment".  Really?? What if in an emergency, the nearest hospital is a money grabbing private one.

So if it became financially unviable for private hospitals to make a profit, would you prefer all private hospitals closed, leaving only government price controlled hospitals? Allow the free market to determine what private enterprises can exist.

 

 

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There is something immoral to the overcharging when in an emergency situation the only choice is to go to the closest hospital.
 
That said - you do pay for what you get. We were told that as he had stabilized and was ok, if we took him to Siriraj they wouldn't admit him as it was no longer an emergency case and wouldn't be treated as so. However, they could keep him overnight at Samitivej for observation as they'd admitted him as an ER case (and I'm sure they were happy to get paid for it - business model). 
My FiL refused to stay in over night anyway. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I have heard anecdotal evidence of both good and poor service from both private and government hospitals. Everyone has a story, and that does not invalidate opposing opinions.


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