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zaphod reborn
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Cambidge Analytica nka Emerdata is licking its chops.
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4 hours ago, webfact said:
Volatility has also prevented the spread of bitcoin as a method of payments, its intended purpose.
Its intended purpose was money laundering, specifically to allow transfer of funds out of Russia. It's no surprise that the scam is coming to an end as it became mainstream and financial institutions blocked the contagion.
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15 hours ago, hotchilli said:
Ok nice try but I'll have to correct you on something...
Thais drive on the left hand side of the road so the "front right wheel" would be central on the road...
not on the curb-side as you mention that would be the left hand wheel !!
No, I have to correct you. Look at the photo. The left front tire was intact, so by deduction, the right front tire failed.
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Odds are that the driver fell asleep and the right front tire burst as a result of impacting a rock or something on the roadside. I doubt RTP even looked at the tires for excessive wear or inspected the right front tire that burst for sidewall tears or other defects.
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58 minutes ago, kkerry said:
To be fair, it can get frustrating when Family Mart does not stock what you want... should have gone to seven-eleven like everyone else ????
Sometimes I also get frustrated when a store has hundreds of items I don't need, and then is completely out of the item I want to buy. For instance, 1x2 coffee filters, when 1x4 coffee filters are the standard. I will toss their display around in protest. Product sourcing and properly stocking shelves are not skills Thais seem to understand. Tops is particularly guilty of this offense. They can arrest me and throw me in a jail cell if they want.
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Although his sentence was light, the lack of a proper license had nothing to do with the natural event of a lightening strike. Ridiculous use of the administrative licensure system to make an example of a relatively nocuous offense.
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3 hours ago, HappyAndRich said:
Doesn´t matter if they meet or not meet. They are too incompetent to agree on something on a daily basis anyway. What´s the reason to meet?
Plenty of reason to meet, but Trump realizes now that he has to keep it secret. After all, when you exchange cash for allowing Russia to annex Ukraine and Armenia (Giuliani already visited Russia, Ukraine and Armenia as a precursor), you need to try to somehow keep it mysterious. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine
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1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:The motorcyclist ran into the back of a stationary vehicle object... it cost him his life.
When riding a motorcycle any such responsibility is 100% your own, if you don't ride with this responsibility you will have an accident.
That said, it is not know (obvious to the reader here) whether or not the Truck stopped in a sensible area, the modification clearly exacerbated injury (decapitation). As another poster already mentioned, emergency lights may have been turned on after the event.
Truck driver may be partially responsible - but if he was pulled over to the side of the road in the early hours and a motorcycle rode into him, you have to wonder what state the motorcyclist was in when driving into the back of the truck.
There should be some charge for the driver for driving a modified truck and for the owners of the truck for modifying it and allowing the driver to use it on a public highway.
I'd like to see this used as a preventative measure for all others who modify their vehicles with dangerous results / potential.
A statutory violation is negligence per se under Thai law. Yes, the motorcyclist was negligent, but the truck driver/owner's failure to comply with the law was the proximate cause of the collision, because the motorcyclist may have misjudged stopping distance due to the failure to properly flag the extended truck bed.
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Truck driver or owner of truck bears most of the responsibility. If the bed of the truck was extended, it has to be red flagged to warn motorists in the rear. Thai investigation however is whoever can pay the most money to RTP gets the favorable decision on fault.
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5 hours ago, bristolboy said:
Why do you think the Republicans want to improve processing at the border?
Because it is required by both federal and international law, that's why. Yes, I know. For the Trumpites it's all about winning, and if they break the law in the process, all the better.
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Pattaya City Council was too interested in their kickbacks to require the developer to use its property for cut-out lanes for entry and exit onto North Road, and also to require installation of rain-protected escaltors and an overhead walkway to get pedestrians across this heavily trafficked roadway. Planning is non-existent in Thialand. I worked with a Thai Cambridge-educated Ph.D. who blamed the lack of planning on the fact that the Thai people never had to plan for winters, as food is abundant year-round.
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On 11/2/2018 at 9:33 AM, webfact said:He said 42 of them were arrested for overstaying their visas, 277 for sneaking into the country without a visa, 83 for not doing their 90-day residential reports to immigration officials, 62 for staying in places other than the one reported to the immigration, 69 for working in professions reserved for Thais and 76 for various other offences.
This is sounding more and more like just a money-making operation for RTP, with Big Joke cashing out the biggest check.
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1 hour ago, biggles45 said:
"who have left poverty and violence at home and are heading slowly through Mexico toward the U.S. border"
So once they reached Mexico they were safe so why didn't they just stay there?
Mexico safe? Do you even pay attention to real news sources?
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In theory, this is a reasonable approach. However, Trump has shown no ability to get a spending bill to increase the resources necessary to process asylum applicants at the border entry points (judges, immigration lawyers, translators, processing clerks and proper housing (not tent cities)). Therefore, it is a total fail. There will only be miniscule and insignificant legislation for the next 2 years, as the GOP loses control of the House so no chance of improving the asylum application process for refugees and that will mean illegal border crossings will continue.
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6 hours ago, webfact said:
He cited the example of the Erawan bombing in Bangkok as an error in the past
You mean the immigration officers at the Cambodian borders who allowed Uighurs to be trafficked through Thailand without passports for 10,000 baht each?
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8 hours ago, webfact said:
Taxis turning away passengers would no longer be an issue
Yeah, right. I can hear the refusenik cabbies now:
"Solly, no fuel."
"Traffic, traffic"
"I go home now."
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9 hours ago, suzannegoh said:
Trump can't change it with an executive order but whether or not birth right citizenship is appropriate is a legitimate issue.
Sure it is. Go ahead and start a constitutional amendment drive. Good luck with that.
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OK, give them leniency and require Trump to serve the balance of their reduced sentences.
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This isn't even an issue. It requires a constitutional amendment or a Supreme Court decision overturning precedent. Regardless, Trump has no power over these governmental processes and this he is just drumming up his anti-immigration base.
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2 hours ago, yogavnture said:
TRUMP will sick mad dog maddis on him
Trump will pardon him.
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56 minutes ago, webfact said:An investigation is underway after an "unscheduled" raid on a recycling factory in the central Thai city. Singburi immigration were not meant to be visiting the factory in Thapya sub-district of Inburi district. Daily News said that an investigation committee has been set up to see if this was a simple error or a case of corruption.
Maybe "Big Joke" doesn't know that all factories in Thailand are inspected on an annual basis by MOL, so an immigration raid is not surprising. I wonder what "Big Joke" inhaled that caused "smoke to come out of his ears"?
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I don't know how they can expect 7-11 clerks to handle banking and postal transactions. The bank clerks and postal clerks barely are able to complete these transactions.
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Rap is abominable. In 1987, I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn, Run DMC and ZZ Top at Aloha Stadium. The military yahoos beat up all the rap lovers during Run DMC's set. One of the best concerts I have attended. 'nuff said.
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22 minutes ago, JestSetter said:
I wonder if M. L. King could not be one example? J. Lennon perhaps, in a more indirect way?
James Earl Ray was a lifelong criminal, a fugitive who had escaped from prison, and a white supremacist. No political motive.
Mark Chapman said he was angered by Lennon's statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Religious motive.
Care for strike three?
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