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'Time to start taking out launch sites when these tests occur. If you think that sounds hard core, just wait until fatboy finally gets his EMP bomb. Putting half (or even the entire) U.S. power grid out-of-commission with a single high-altitude detonation, and it's going to be awfully hard to NOT retaliate with nukes, at which point you'll have your full-on global nuclear conflict looming.
Pay now or pay later... The ante just keeps going higher.
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24 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:
Right. 100% democratic. You've lost your credibility.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2017/05/iran-election-explainer-170503114917157.html
The Guardian Council, which is an appointed body, is responsible for vetting all nominees for the presidential election and allowing only those that it sees as acceptable to run. They have so far held to the opinion that the word "rejal" in the constitution refers only to men.
Exactly. 'No different than communism in that respect. Conflating "disrespect for the people" with "disrespect for absolute theocratic rule" is a cheap shyster tactic. 'Something you might hear on CNN or PBS. It's just a gimmick - don't take it seriously. Kim Jong Un's thug-loving sympathizers employ the same shtick around here all the time.
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13 hours ago, sevenhills said:
"The Hawthorne, California-based company also has also outlined plans for a trip to Mars in 2022, to be followed by a manned mission to the red planet by 2024.". Never going to happen.
Echoes of the early aviation age... "Man will never fly."
But have it happen in the next 7 years; and investors actually making any money? Now that could be a horse race.
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Such a requirement is unworkable in Thailand, and will only result in another source of corruption and graft, not to mention a new addition to the already long & growing list of travel disincentives. Can you just imagine requiring those hordes of Chinese to show proof of medical insurance? LOL Yeah, great idea...
The solution is much simpler. Any foreigner who incurs a hospital bill they can't pay is immediately handed over to Immigration, permanently blacklisted, and deported. (Blacklisting to be lifted if the deadbeat subsequently forks over the amount owed, plus interest and reasonable fees.) "Immediately" as in direct, do not pass GO, frog walk from the hospital to the IDC, even if has property, GF, etc., etc., etc., etc. There'll still be the inevitable few slow-learners, but once the word gets out, foreigners will begin to think twice about deadbeating in Thailand. Require hospitals to only provide necessary emergency care and not long-term treatments (life-saving or not) when foreigner can't show means to pay.
I understand and sympathize with the neediness of some, inability to get health insurance due to age, etc. Keep these problems at home; no justification for importing them to Thailand.
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'Don't really care where they're from. ATM crimes need to be dealt with more harshly. Sentence should consistently include at least 30d in the slammer. Then photograph, fingerprint, deport & permanently blacklist with report to applicable embassy. Even any subsequent attempt to enter the country should then be a jailable offense.
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On 11/26/2017 at 9:12 PM, billd766 said:
You sound as though you are one.
Please tell me what qualifies you to rubbish my post and makes YOU an expert?
Are YOU a military expert? What makes you think that I have no idea what is going on in the world?
Have you ever served in any military?
You betcha'. Mostly on carriers.
Any other questions there, genius?
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Mankind can't MAKE an elevator that'll be "Chinese-proof"! If staying in a hotel with lots of Chinese and can ever manage to get ON an elevator, you'll need Delta Force to help force your way off of it again against the onrushing swarm of Chinese.
It's no wonder they fired the Tourism minister...
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On 11/21/2017 at 9:02 AM, LaoPo said:
Seen it hundreds of times in the west...with western parents and western kids; nothing special.
How old was the toddler.....18 ?
BS
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18 hours ago, billd766 said:
Actually the USA has 20 aircraft carriers available and the carrier strike groups were here on August 4th 2017. https://southfront.org/us-carrier-strike-groups-locations-map-august-4-2017/
They were here on 23rd November
https://worldview.stratfor.com/topic/tracking-us-naval-power
Your post is not quite correct as there are more than 3 US carrier groups available.
And your post is completely uninformed. You stumble across an article somewhere and think that makes you an expert. Yes, thank-you. I realize any bozo can look up carrier status online. Did you happen to notice how many were actually IN PORT somewhere? Do you have any clue as to WHY they might be in port? Actually, the USA does not have 20 aircraft carriers "available". Only three or at most four usually and under normal circumstances. You should learn a little about your subject before broadcasting rubbish. Carriers are not simply built, commissioned, and then "good to go" for the duration of their service lives. And neither are their aircraft. They require regular maintenance availabilities without which they degrade and become less & less capable of fulfilling the taskings for which they were designed. Crews are not continuously deployable either. They require leave, training, reassignments (temporary & permanent), time with their families after the long (and becoming longer) deployments, and have medical issues, legal issues, etc., just like everybody else. Carriers and their ships company, like most combatant ships, go through a 3-phase work-up/deployment/standdown cycle which essentially means that AT BEST, only one third of the total carrier force is deployable at any given time. The rest of the time they are pierside in their homeports or locations where they are undergoing their upkeep periods. And some that are actually underway are actually only working-up, undergoing trials and certifications, providing a ready deck for pilots who are working up, etc., and not on deployment. Throw in an upgrade (fairly frequent for carriers), refueling (yeap, even nukes require refueling, and when that happens, it's a lengthy yard period), unscheduled maintenance, funding cuts (which cut short and cut corners on the maintenance availabilities and impact readiness in other ways far too numerous to mention; can you say se-ques-tra'-tion?), contingency (unplanned) deployments or repairs into the mix and that 1-in-3 availability suffers accordingly. I know. I've been there and have the coffee cups, ballcaps, t-shirts, patches, missed birthdays & soccer games, etc., to prove it. And you obviously haven't.
You just gotta LOVE the military "experts" here on TV.
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22 minutes ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:
North Korea will soon be neutralized and Iran is next. The failures of liberalism and appeasement are ancient history and America is fortunate to finally have a POTENT leader who will no longer allow rouge states to terrorize the world with weapons of mass destruction.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI wish I could share your optimism. The can has been kicked too far down the road for far too long by far less competent predecessors. Trump has the big picture, but I'm not sure he's been left in any position to undo all the previous damage and restore enough of the lost credibility. And then there's the deplorable state into which the armed forces have descended. It's like trying to herd cats.
Yeah. There were 3 carriers in the Sea of Japan to participate in an international show of force for N. Korea's benefit (Reagan, Nimitz & Roosevelt), but in order to do that there were NO deployed carriers anywhere else (i.e., Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, N. Arabian Sea), circumstances of which you can be sure Iran was well aware!
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10 minutes ago, jippytum said:
Not true you need permission from the condo juristic person to sell a condo
'Mostly as a formality or for purposes of documentation. But you're nitpicking. A share certificate and a title deed are simply not the same thing and do not confer the same rights.
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Isn't a co-op a mutual ownership construct where everyone owns shares in the entire collective object, whatever it is? Farm; crop storage facility (e.g., grain elevator); utility; etc. How does private ownership of the units in a condominium complex fit that definition at all? There is a "co-operational" aspect to overall facility governance and maintenance of the common areas, etc., but it's no more a "co-op" than an HOA (Homeowners Assn) in the states. I'm trying to imagine why OP even thinks of this as a "co-op" . Some detailed info here.
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3 hours ago, Jonah Tenner said:
The US is already doing that, I don-t think they have noticed any downturn in tourism...
Really? The non-citizens go through a different line going through immigration, but I can certainly see them. I don't see any of that going on. Maybe the few being pulled aside and sent into secondary (who knows), but that's not even a small fraction of them. Or are you just potting at the "evil mercuns"?
Now people who go online with their real names spewing anti-American hate and misinformation might have something to be concerned about at the visa application stage...
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Am aware (from a distance) of a situation in which the girl was pure gold but the mom was a demon from hell. But even in the absence of that awareness, I can't fathom REALLY wanting to move in with mom (I can't even imagine wanting to set up housekeeping within less than a day's drive!). Then again, I can't imagine contemplating marriage in any situation where there's an element of doubt causing me to want to go online to see what strangers think. It sounds like money isn't really much of a concern for you at this time, but I'm going to suggest that a year or two down the road, after the marriage is underway and "contemplation" has turned to a daily reality, non-concerns involving money (as well as others, including the in-laws) can easily morph into something that transforms the relationship, not in a good way...
You know how when you go into a job interview, the interviewer might ask you where you see yourself in 5 years and 10 years? You might take that approach to this marriage you're thinking about, taking all the things you're asking about here into account. And go about it objectively and as detached as you can. Try and think past the warm glow of this courtship period. As an outsider, my instincts lie with those advising you to run, but you're the first person and only your assessment counts for anything. If you were to go through with it and come to regret it, or walk away and come to eventually regret THAT, the misery would be yours, not ours.
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1 hour ago, Destiny1990 said:
seems u approve sentencing based on ur nationality? Which is racist btw.
Chauvinist, maybe. But racist, no (btw). People just luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv to play the race card...
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4 hours ago, Oziex1 said:
Nothing wrong with a bit of idealism, maybe she wanted to do better and was scoffed at by those who dont care about the welfare of tourists.
No, she was scoffed at for her continuous lack of credibility. I'm sure she wanted to do better. Furthermore I haven't any doubt that she wanted to improve the tourist industry. It was however the methods employed in going about her business - 'you could say an "emperor's new clothes" thing. Form without substance.
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14 hours ago, observer90210 said:
Nobody can change things alone.
But maybe if she pointed out certain points "higher up"...who knows ?
No finger pointing here...my fingers are better off elsewhere
She's not accused of not being able to change things, or of being in charge of the country's policies. What HAS been mentioned, frequently, around here are the fanciful, purely propagandistic, over-the-top public announcements and absurd claims & tourist statistics intended to beat the drum. I've no desire to know where your "
" fingers might be able to give you more satisfaction than they apparently already are, but the vast majority not so pleasurably occupied belong pointed right where they are.
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18 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:
Having lived, worked and commuted here for 13 years, I can assure you it's no worse than any other major capital city. And the BTS/MRT is generally excellent but might now be showing its age.
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Gee, isn't that why they invented "maintenance"???
"No worse than any other major capital city"? Your "assurances"?? Lol. Ah, yeah, OK. Hey Barkeep! Bring this guy another pint!
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19 hours ago, JAG said:
It's a "catch all", with this ( and several other "catch alls" already on the books) they can arrest and imprison practically anyone they want whenever they want.
Exactly. Amazing how few get this.
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12 hours ago, OmarZaid said:
Get out ... NOW!
'Can't even imagine why he needs to come and hear this advice here. But not the first time for such stories, and certainly won't be the last.
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13 hours ago, ezzra said:
In order to clear out more over stayers, they should over amnesty
to all who surrender of their own will and be either re apply or
deported, that way, they can get many more and it will be done
in a nice way with the famous Thai smile....
In the U.S. they've learned the hard way that amnesty ('86 and again in '94) sends entirely the wrong message, and just brings new illegals swarming in by the million, who now have the temerity to "demand their rights" (which would be, of course, to another amnesty...). Nope. Really bad idea. It's a gift that just keeps on giving...
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Bring in only what you need when you need it. If you do any digging at all on this, you'll find prevailing opinion on this overwhelming. Ignore the ever-present apologists & deniers; that's just a case of over-invested expats seeking validation.
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Can you just imagine what a nuclear incident response team might find in N. Korea? I'm surprised nothing's drifted across the border into China as yet.
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18 hours ago, Ulic said:
I don't understand. The TAT reports large and steady increase in
both tourist numbers and dollars spent. Why does the government
have to further stimulate domestic tourism. I read 80% hotel
occupancy rates, record revenues from international travelers. Surely
they are better off using the tax revenues to subsidize the rubber
farmers.
Yes, why do you have to incentivize something that's already "booming"?
N KOREAN ENVOY: We want peace but ready for war with US
in Thailand News
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1. You need to learn what the word "pre-emptive" means.
2. See #1
3. You also need to add words like "BMD" and "Aegis" and "THAAD" to your vocabulary. 'Imperfect and marginally reliable to be sure, but improving capability virtually by the day. The one aspect of all this where time actually IS on our side.
4. Time to stop letting N. Korea AND China intimidate the rest of the world with their bullying and their threats. That said, 'no reason why the U.S. should or would "go nuclear" first, and THAT'S what China was talking about.
5. 'Get much past a few high-yield nukes from all the players, and the consequences for the planet & the human species are pretty much apocalyptic whether 100, 1000 or 10,000. Your fixation on the numbers is charming & quaint, but not all that pertinent.
6. See #3.
7. The U.S. Navy has had a bad habit of bumping into other ships with its Aegis destroyers, which takes them offline until they're repaired, but that's being dealt with, and they can be parked in Japanese or S. Korean waters as easily as anywhere else. But what you're REALLY MISSING is that fatboy's insanity is going to drive S. Korea & Japan to nuclear programs of their own. 'Not sure about S. Korea, but Japan's technology is such that they could develop theirs practically overnight. And China is not so stupid that they don't realize that. If they want to avoid that outcome (trust me, they do), then they'd better get busy muy pronto with N. Korea...
8. Totally agree. So we should prevent N. Korea from continuing to develop and deploy this capability at all costs rather than pretend we don't know where this is all heading. Obviously.
9. Incorrect. They agreed to LIMIT defenses. But BMD is the next chapter, which you apparently have yet to read.
I don't know about you, but I want the part of this war where N. Korea is PRECLUDED from having these weapons. And if I can't have that, then I want the part of this war where they are successfully prevented from using them. Both of these require some hard decisions,,,, And thanks in no small part to boy statesman (2008-2016), they are required pretty much N-O-W!