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As far as automobiles are concerned producing cars abroad, eg. Thailand, was a necessity in order to avoid crippling import tariffs, these CKD (completely knocked down where the car is assembled from parts sent from Japan, Germany etc) agreements lowered the import tariffs, the more certain parts could be locally produced the lower the tariffs would be. In fact despite the low wages in Thailand the locally produced parts were more expensive than those from Germany because of the high labour intensity and relatively low production numbers. This all benefited Thailand because there was a technological knowledge transfer and enabled many firm start ups producing spare parts which of course was the reason for the high tariffs in the first place. As far as cars are concerned there is no extra monetary gain in producing abroad, just the opposite, it requires huge investments but without this you wouldn't be able to sell cars there at all which is why Japanese and German companies also produce in high wage countries such as the USA.

gotta pick a pocket or twoooooo.

Anything for a PC quiet life, as long as they don't have to walk with a monster parade.

I always use the same PC to log into WISE and have had this notice (suspicious) several times, same with google but it was easily solved.

I asked about this law some time ago at Surin IO. It seems they don't take it too seriously, I asked hypothetically if I went to BK for the weekend would I have to report this, he hummed and haahed, ''how many nights''? "Just two" "No that will be OK" "What about three nights"? " I don't think it would be necessary, it concerns longer absences" "How long"? He threw up his hands and just said 'it depends' with a facial expression of 'leave me alone, I don't care'.

Why rant? It is as it is, nothing lasts forever, the world is always in flux so change is inevitable. When the British empire waned the British sensibly bowed out gracefully but I doubt such behaviour can be expected of the Americans, they tend not to solve problems but instead try to overwhelm them. It was Churchill who said, "Americans always makes the right decisions.....after they have tried everything else." It would be wise for the number one American sycophant, the UK, to join Brics if they really intend not to rejoin the EU. The individual states in the EU are going to have to spring over their shadow and agree to a European central bank with a mandatory Euro currency eventually backed by gold. I suspect all those countries not in a block and with independent central banks will have to join the Brics as the only powerful financial entity. America can become self sufficient, especially with energy, but hard times for 'the land of the free' are coming with internal and geopolitical unrest being the order of the day. America's demise will affect us all negatively in the short term but if Brics are wise the future could be bright.

But not good for expats as the Baht will soar.

He did control it, only one died.

San Francisco obviously doesn't have enough weirdos.

ingenuity verses the cops......the cops lost, could have been a scene from 'Dad's Army'

Well they still can't find that Malaysian passenger plane and no satellite saw it go down.

They only show themselves at 'pride' events.

Yet but it is in the making and a lot of progress has been made, even India and China are prepared to bury their differences in this and the gold backed Brics currency, that's how urgent this project has become. If the Euro is to survive it will, in the future, also have to be gold backed after reducing sufficient debt reduction. For the US it will be impossible to do considering their enormous pile of debt, something has to give, hopefully without a series of wars.

what a coarse fellow.

The beauty of the coming new Brics currency is that it will be backed by gold, which is why especially China and Russia are buying so much gold. This will make it a powerful currency against fiat currencies, this will be dangerous for America as there will be no need or desire to buy America's debt. Having said that the Brics countries cant have any desire to see America fail since they export so much to the US. There is going to be a huge geopolitical reset in the next 20 years and the US will have a lot less influence, in fact that is already happening. The CIA will no doubt employ its 'dirty tricks department' to try to hinder Brics but that will fail, all empires fail in the end.

Do I take that as a compliment or are you taking the pi$$? I have merely shown a small amount of knowledge that I have assimilated over 30 years of study, obviously none of it stems from me but from great enlightened men or from those who have put a great deal of work and money into their hypothesis's and who have tried to underline the work of gurus and holy men with scientific fact. I am not what one could call enlightened, that comes from grace not from study because the intellect has no way of fully grasping the concepts so I can only stroke the surface but I truly believe what they have taught. I have however meditated on Ramana Maharshi's "who am I" method, 'neti neti' not that, not that, with some success.

Some adults shouldn't be allowed to leave the house alone. Their own immoral acts and stupidity led to their demise, I have no sympathy.

Hopefully the worm is turning and the fad of 'woke' will soon be buried.

No, we are not in control. Things happen due to causality and there is your reaction to causal events. Reactions are predetermined by genetics, your upbringing as a child, past experiences as an adult, your country of birth, education, religion, society, etc. There are certain religions and philosophies that try to mitigate and alter the afore mentioned properties, to build a new house on the foundations of the old with some success. Zen Buddhism, the dissertations in Hinduism (Bagavat Gita, Advaita Vedanta etc.) then there are individuals who try to produce a life's map to overcome the pattern into which you have been stamped, Meister Eckhart the 14th century German Christian Monk, Buddha, the gurus Ramana Maharshi and Nisargatta, Markus Aurelius the Roman emperor and philosopher to name but a few. Unfortunately those predetermined properties that I mentioned will determine whether you are open to such teachings and causality will play a role whether you come into contact with them. Modern spiritual teachings, leaning on the old teachings and to some extent on modern physicists such as Tom Campbell and Donald Hoffman and several others consider that all that exists in reality is consciousness controlling the avatar that we call a body existing in a self evolving illusory field produced by consciousness that we call the universe, which is merely an interface for consciousness to reduce its entropy as it too evolves, some call it God, Brahman, Atman, the absolute, it has many names. As Nisargadatta said "That which changes is not real, that which is real does not change", Buddha's dissertations on "No Self" and "The World is Empty" is the same idea. Your true self is eternal undifferentiated consciousness which was there at the birth of the avatar and will witness its death.

Divorce was too complicated? Killing him and going to prison was easier.

Perhaps they should have sought mental health treatment before obeying this monk. Why go to study Dharma when many of Buddha's teachings can be read online or in books. It was Buddha himself who said, don't believe anything you hear or read, even if it is from me, if it doesn't correspond to your own experience. The monk is an opportunistic pervert who needs serious prison time, even Catholic priests don't go this far.

"A distinguished officer"?? What did he do, eat all his dinner?

Teens can be difficult, they aren't adults and they aren't children. I know the difference from when my son was 10 to his present age of 16, changing moods, a sense of entitlement, distancing himself from family, introverted, rebellious etc. He was so respectful, nice and polite when he returned from 2 weeks of army training but that only lasted 10 days or so, my wife and I are looking forward to when he goes again at years end. The only time we hear him laughing is when he contacts friends in Denmark, Finland, Holland etc. countries where they speak good English via his laptop, behind the locked door of his room. My wife says we should be grateful he isn't in a clique drinking and taking drugs.

Never say never. The state is mightier than the individual. "Yes sir, I appreciate what you are saying but we need official confirmation, until such time we will tax you on that amount and you can apply to have the money returned at a later date."

I consider myself left of the center but liberalism has gone too far, it's turned our politicians into woke cowards, anyone in the public eye, be it police, comedians, editors, teachers, politicians etc. are scared of putting a foot wrong, our legal systems are becoming impotent. So despite my political leanings I would now welcome right wing governments. I can see that geopolitical concerns wouldn't allow us to ban Muslims from entering Europe even though that would be desirable.