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Police asked to probe Move Forward MP

Ha-ha, oh-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha!  Whew, that's a good one!

8 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

No changes unless your local office has something new. I was referring to the original change in December of 2018 allowing transfers if you cannot get proof of income from your embassy.

Hi @ubonjoe/All,

Here is the latest list (attached link) from the Roi Et City Immigration Office for "Support Thai Wife", or Non-O Married.  The local office phone number is listed on the bottom and is valid and working.  We do call them any time we have questions and they are very helpful and patient.  My wife usually does the talking but they also speak pretty good english.

We have visited the local office twice to confirm requirements and obtain the list.

Due to Covid, I switched to retirement visa last year, but will now switch to the Married Visa this year in hopes of being able to travel and to reduce the amount of money held in the bank for these purposes (800k down to 400k).  The Roi Et Immigration Office facilitated my switch to retirement visa last year and will facilitate the change to Married Visa next month.

They have advised us to come in 1 week prior to the expiry of my current visa and that will be sufficient time for them to issue the new Married Visa.

Lastly, the Roi Et City Immigration office has moved from downtown to a new location just West of the city, which can be found at this Google Maps link:

https://goo.gl/maps/vsHPNrxZqspXRaQT8

Hope this helps

Regards

Dan

Non O Married List of Requirements.pdf

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

I've seen it being sold by a number of the coffee growers in the north - you can find some on Lazada or Shopee - but it isn't very popular. (I haven't tried it, either.)

I buy dark roast coffee beans from Red Cliff Coffee, online.  They are located up north in the Chiang Rai/Chiang Mai mountains area.  Great coffee with good prices and service.  Been using them for a number of years now.

17 hours ago, rwill said:

There are certain drugs that only hospitals are allowed to give out.  If by major pharmacy you mean Watsons or Boots you are still better off going to a local pharmacy for better prices.  As someone else mentioned a government hospital is way cheaper than a private hospital but they may not have all the same drugs a private hospital has either.  Even if you know what drugs you wanted a government hospital would still have you see a doctor first.  But even that can be very cheap.  My local government hospital charges me 50 baht for a doctors visit.

No, not Watson's or Boots.  I almost never go to those.

In Roi Et City there is what I would call a big, major local pharmacy downtown that normally has the stuff none of the smaller ones do. 

Like I said, I will check there and the government hospital.

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Some are already getting them here in Isaan.

Did you register for one on this site to get one. https://expatvac.consular.go.th/

Hi @ubonjoe

Is that confirmed?  I registered as soon as that link was provided here a few weeks ago and have not heard a peep from them since.  I am 58 but have Cardiovascular disease, etc., so I expected to be contacted before now.  Any info is welcomed.  Thanks.

13 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Government hospital will supply the drugs even cheaper.

20 minutes ago, topt said:

Almost certainly as long as you can find the same or equivalent at the pharmacy and depending on how competitive the pharmacy is.

Take your current meds to a couple and ask them if they have and how much. You don't have to buy but at least you will know.

Good idea(s).  I will check with our main/big pharmacist here in Roi Et City and the local public hospital.  Then, thinking ahead, if any new prescriptions are added to the mix we can call the local pharmacy before leaving the hospital to make sure they can supply.

Compared to drug costs back in the U.S., these are much cheaper already, but they still amount to hundreds of US$$ per 90 days, and it looks like I will be on most of them for some years to come.  It is worth looking into and being as much of an informed consumer as possible.

15 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

I never get drugs from the hospital - complete rip off. Just get a prescription and take it to the nearest pharmacy for a fraction of the cost

What about this?  I have to go back to the hospital for blood tests and prescription adjustments/refills every 3 months, and the wife and I have been led to believe that we can only get my meds at the hospital pharmacy.  I'm currently taking about 22 tabs a day.  The hospital is Srinagarend in Khon Kaen.

Can/should I get my prescriptions filled outside at any major pharmacy for cheaper?

4 minutes ago, couchpotato said:

Don't know where you reside, but the 'Fascino Pharmacy' in Pattaya North Rd has a very good range.

Thank you.  Had a look at their website, but only see wheelchairs.  I'm thinking about a mobility "scooter".

Where does one purchase mobility scooters in Thailand?

11 hours ago, impulse said:

I suspect that's what you'll get at the 60,000 baht end of the pricing scale.

 

 

Quite possible!

6 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Off topic but I wish they would make motorcycles run quieter too, where are the electric versions of them? Probably not sell well here and they would be confused as to why it wasn't noisy with a special exhaust pipe fitted.

There are actually quite a few "E" bikes available now, although I don't know if any are for sale in Thailand at this time.  One would imagine the local riders of such machines here could/would attach one of those WOMPING BIG speakers to their back for extra sound effects.  Like they do on the back of pickups for just about any reason at 6 o'clock in the morning in every village across the country?

Check out this article which showcases some really nice E-bikes:

https://luxe.digital/lifestyle/cars/best-electric-motorcycles/

5 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Not surprised that more you still subscribe to false memes.

Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming

Climate change doubters have a favorite target: climate models. They claim that computer simulations conducted decades ago didn’t accurately predict current warming, so the public should be wary of the predictive power of newer models. Now, the most sweeping evaluation of these older models—some half a century old—shows most of them were indeed accurate.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming

Nice article.  Cleared everything up.  Do continue your search, and good luck.

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

That you can cite wattsupwiththat as a reliable source shows where your true sentiments lie. And it's ridiculous to project a linear one for one relationship between temperature rise and sea level. If this is the standard of scholarship you find acceptable, no wonder your attitude toward climate change is so blasé

Touche'!  You win!

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Typical right wing nonsense. This was done by the world's leading climatologists and a huge amount of studies were synthesized. Where's you evidence that this report is substandard? 

In fact, your approach typifies how denialism has mutated into acknowledging the problem but downplaying its seriousness. Climatologists overwhelmingly have been warning about the grave dangers posed by climate change. The IPCC just has wrapped  up all that scientific endeavor into one big and extremely well researched package.

Yes they have been warning about the "grave dangers" posed by climate change, and yet their track record of predicting climate change has not been too good so far.

But you and I both know we won't come to any agreement on these predictions, right?  No discussion or skepticism allowed, right?

I'll leave it with you.  Good luck saving humanity!

6 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Yes, that was my mistake. But this one was yours...

"Predictions of the last 50 years have not come to be, and it's a good thing too or New York would be under water,"

And the IPCC clearly disagrees with your relative complacency about threats coming from anthropogenic climate change.

 

And then there's this, since you brought up the original interview with Mr. Hansen:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/

(Excerpt)

Source: this update on Dr. Hansen’s personal web page at Columbia University.

In my story, below, I quoted from Reiss here in the Salon interview.

So I’m happy to make the correction for Dr. Hansen in my original article, since Mr. Reiss reports on his original error in conflating 40 years with 20 years. But let’s look at how this changes the situation with forty years versus twenty.

Per Dr. Hansen’s prediction in 1988, now in 2011, 23 years later, we’re a bit over halfway there … so the sea level rise should be about halfway up the side of Manhattan Island by now.

How’s that going? Are the predictions coming true? Let’s find out. Let’s look at the tide gauge in New York and see what it says.

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Yes, that was my mistake. But this one was yours...

"Predictions of the last 50 years have not come to be, and it's a good thing too or New York would be under water,"

And the IPCC clearly disagrees with your relative complacency about threats coming from anthropogenic climate change.

 

You won't be surprised that I don't take panels formed by the United Nations too awfully seriously.  All the rest of the work by the U.N. being so stellar.....

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

To take last things first, that prediction of NY being underwater was no such thing. James Hansen was asked given a certain level of CO2 in the atmosphere, what would happen to NY. He never said that such a level would be attained.

And as for predictions not being attained...actually renewable development is way ahead of what predictions claimed would be the case. Way ahead.

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/12/9510879/iea-underestimate-renewables

https://memoori.com/conservative-forecasting-is-hiding-the-speed-of-the-energy-storage-revolution/

See how you do that?  You either didn't read my words, or didn't comprehend them, or chose not to address them.  Did you seriously think I was talking about development predictions?

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Any figures on how many kilometers a tuk-tuk can attain on a lead acid battery? And if a lead acid battery can be recharged with the current infrastructure, why can't a lithium ion battery also be recharged via that infrastructure? And by infrastructure I mean a plug in a home or a garage.

We're way past lead acid for these applications.

14 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

A lot of the naysayers on this forum are showing their age and how out of touch they are with the real world.

News flash - internal combustion engines will be phased out (!) over the next couple of decades, even with the US Conservatives fighting to the very end.

 

Electric vehicles are available in Thailand right now and have been for years.

BTS (Thailand) Public Company Limited - evthai

 

There are a number of other companies in the same business. 

Nobody has said ICE won't be phased out, or shouldn't be.  Liberals, since you brought it up, when offered a discussion of compromise, hear only "it can't be done". 

I am well aware of the incredible advances in renewable energy tech, and I am hopeful.  But I am also pragmatic.   Wind and solar can and should be used, and they are and will be, but we are not at the point where they can replace existing energy systems.  Not yet.  But we are in luck: we are moving in that direction, and we have time. 

Predictions of the last 50 years have not come to be, and it's a good thing too or New York would be under water, and I have my doubts that all these dire predictions of the next 50 years will either.   And finally, one ought to have a little more faith in mankind to solve problems as they arise, pragmatically.

48 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Both true. 

 

But...

 

NG is probably worse environmentally than oil.

And natural gas is literally flowing out of the earth all the time as it is.  In some/many parts of the world it is being burned off 24/7 and is a total waste, while polluting unfiltered.  We need to capture and use it, filtered of course to reduce its impact even more.

46 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Both true. 

 

But...

 

NG is probably worse environmentally than oil.

Not hardly. 

3 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Where are the charging stations

Oh come now.  Really?  Everyone in Bangkok has a plug out by the curb, right by their reserved parking spot.  ???? 

3 minutes ago, Nojohndoe said:

To be honest I do not understand your comment.

Yes LPG is a clean burning fuel other than  co2 output. But in an internal combustion engine is still inefficient . A constant burn electric generation plant is somewhat more efficient in conversion to electric . But either one adds to the atmospheric  build of carbon emissions.

Solar or other alternatives have their own environmental pollution issues but dramatically  less in terms of the demon atmospheric carbon problem.

The best long term solution IMO is to eliminate as much as possible the  private automobile proliferation and provide efficient mass public transport.

I do believe that eventually the world will be forced to that one way or another on a scale most  would consider impossible. That is if in the longer term humanity has not reduced itself to a primitive state of simple survival in much smaller numbers.

 

Sorry you can't understand.

Demons?  Proliferation?  Forced?  Humanity reducing itself to a primitive state of simple survival in much smaller numbers?!!?!!  Wow!

Take it easy, big fella.  We'll get there eventually and harness all that mother nature has to offer.  Just try not to bankrupt and starve those that you presume to be helping.  Then we can all get along.  Unless the temperature goes up another 1.5 degrees, of course.  Then we're screwed, right?

5 minutes ago, djayz said:

This I've got to see with my own eyes before I buy one. 

Here's one from the U.S.:

Put 4, ahem, "healthy" Americans (I'm American, so..) in there plus a driver and you're tipping the scales at a ton.  And that model is for sale in the U.S.  Here's a good link to that reality:

https://www.treehugger.com/wheeled-electric-tuk-tuks-offer-clean-silent-shuttle-delivery-option-4857674

Like I say, that's probably fine and Thailand may be able to handle it with some relatively affordable shifts to the grid.  If so, more power to them.  But in the meantime they can simply go with natural gas while moving in that direction.