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5 hours ago, couchpotato said:

Lots of advice here, but you have a huge amount of work to do on the house, with the cracking and termite damage (mostly unseen). And from your initial questions you don't know much about construction or house builds, so unless you get the house for a fantastically cheap price, then my suggestion is don't buy, because these type of problems can cause tears.????

Agree with couchpotato.  Find a house that doesn't have these problems.

Saw this in the hood.  Thought of this thread

I've noticed the attention that the Russian vaccine has garnered from our fearless leader and others, me included.  While the Russians have been transparent as a brick some publications like "The Lancet" have been able to obtain enough information to say the vaccine creates an antibody reaction.  I do hope they are correct and that the vaccine is highly efficacious.

An odd thought crossed my mind (damm all odd thoughts) that a country that had an efficacious vaccine and no anti vaxxer problem should be doing very well in controlling the disease.  Russia has a lot more cases and continued growth than I anticipated.  I was expecting better results since they are telling other countries (Asia) how effective it is.  Am I expecting too much??

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countries-where-coronavirus-has-spread/

41 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The gauntlet has been laid down. One of our posters who months ago wanted precise dates and numbers will be happy you have given a date. Standby...

This isn't a gauntlet.  I pray to all the gods I don't believe in that it never reaches that level.  I just can't overcome the deep sadness that overcomes me when I think of how this could have been handled.  

1 hour ago, Laughing Gravy said:

As I predicted last week 20,000 was coming. It didn't take much intellect. The question next is when will it hit 30,000? By the end of Next week or August?

 

Either way it isn't good for Thailand or the people.

August 18

9 hours ago, seajae said:

really have to wonder where the pfizer vaccines are going and if someone  is enriching themselves from them

IF?  IF?  Look at past actions and you are only at wonder?

Hmmm.  Just off the top of my head it seems that Thailand may have more vaccine websites than it does vaccines.   Is this another for a specific spot on a certain day??

I'd rather see an announcement that a certain section of the population can now receive their vaccine and here is the list of  (X) number of places where one can receive it in each province.

I came across this article that indicates that recovering from covid is trickier than we realized.  I thought the anti vaxxers were cognitively challenged before they caught the disease.

TORONTO -- Individuals who recovered from COVID-19, including those who no longer had symptoms, exhibited significant “cognitive deficits,” according to a large study out of the U.K.

The research, conducted by academics from Imperial College London, Kings College and the Universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Chicago, aimed to find out how COVID-19 affected mental health and cognition.

For the study, researchers analyzed data from 81,337 participants of the Great British Intelligence Test from January to December 2020. Of those participants, nearly 13,000 reported they had contracted the novel coronavirus.

 

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Importantly, the study said that only 275 participants had completed the intelligence test both before and after contracting COVID-19.

For the rest of the participants, the researchers said they employed a linear model to predict general cognitive performance, or premorbid intelligence, based on age (to the third order), sex, handedness, ethnicity, first language, country of residence, occupational status, and earnings.

“Predicted and observed general performance correlated substantially, providing a proxy measure of premorbid intelligence of comparable performance to common explicit tests such as the National Adult Reading Test,” the study stated.

What’s more, the academics also found that their intelligence estimates for individuals pre-illness indicated that those who contracted COVID-19 were actually likely to have had a “somewhat higher as opposed to lower cognitive ability” before they were sick.

After controlling for those factors, they found that those who had COVID-19 underperformed when compared to those who never contracted the disease.

The cognitive deficits were particularly pronounced for test tasks that involved reasoning, problem solving, spatial planning and target detection, while those who had COVID-19 fared better when they were asked to complete simpler tasks, such as working memory span and emotional processing.

“These results accord with reports of long-COVID, where ‘brain fog’, trouble concentrating and difficulty finding the correct words are common,” the authors noted. “Recovery from COVID-19 infection may be associated with particularly pronounced problems in aspects of higher cognitive or ‘executive’ function.”

The authors said their results appear to show that COVID-19 infection is associated with cognitive deficits that can persist into the recovery phase, such as in cases of long COVID in which symptoms can last for weeks or months after the initial illness.

The level of underperformance was also dependent on the severity of illness in the group who had COVID-19 during the pandemic. The study said those who had been placed on a ventilator during the pandemic exhibited the greatest cognitive deficits, so much so that it equated to a seven-point drop in IQ in a classic intelligence test.

The drop in intelligence among those who had been ventilated was also larger than the deficits observed in patients who had previously suffered a stroke or who reported learning disabilities, according to the paper.

The authors cautioned against drawing firm conclusions about the neurobiological or psychological basis for the intelligence deficits without brain imaging data; however, they said the results should serve as a clarion call for further research on the subject.

The study, “Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19,” was published in the journal The Lancet last week. 

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192 so far this week.  Interesting.  The medical advice was to shut the sandbox down when the infections reached 90 per week.  The govenator has decided that he has more expertise than the medical advisors. 

I'm curious what the govenator's public reasons for remaining open will be.  I think looking behind those reasons might start to show which power blocks actually control Phuket

I suspect that the Sandbox will remain active until the tourists stop or enough people are killed to scare even the power blocks with the fear of retribution.

The dripping valve is most likely the gasket at the bottom of the valve.  You should be able to change that out quickly.  Simply unscrew it and pop in a new one.

P.S.     If you have a cartridge system ignore the line above and think "Daft <deleted> doesn't know what he's talking about".  Replace the whole damm cartridge

Construction or plumbing supply house should have the gaskets.

Separate bedrooms here.  The major problem with this is that my bedroom is in Canada. ☹️

How about something like (in no particular order) the Yamaha Tricity, Gilera Fuoco 500,  Can-Am Ryker, Polaris Slingshot.

I'm not a fan of trykes in general but if forced to I'd take dual front single rear over the traditional tryke configuration.

Just stability and the fact I don't want to go to any more funerals of traditional tryke riders.

Just saying.

Have fun with your investigations and choices.

10 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Anyone. Anyone with a pulse could do better. Justin Bieber comes to mind. Or Sorn the plumber. If someone was making an intentional effort to sabotage this nation, and blow every opportunity they had to improve things for the common man, they could not do a better job than Prayuth, who is a complete failure at everything he does, and always has been. 

You can't do just anyone .... but I'll admit that the bar is reallllllly low.

19 minutes ago, Crossy said:

My opinion only.

 

An all-in-one has all the disadvantages of a desktop (not portable) AND all the disadvantages of a laptop (expensive to repair).

 

I would go and buy a decent monitor and stick a NUC or similar unlta-small computer on the VESA mounts on the back of the monitor (make sure you get a monitor with them of course). Same outline as an all-in-one.

 

Screen fails or need a bigger screen, just buy a new one and move the computer over.

I tend to agree with Crossy.  I do like and am using the Acer Swift.  Small enough to be handy for travelling but while I'm stuck in Canada I use it to stream and cast it to whatever I want. It hasn't moved for a couple of months, just streaming internet.

Which processor and how much ram has the one you are considering?

I note with interest that the ADB (Asian Development Bank)  has lowered this years forecast for Thailand from 3% to 2%..  That makes it the lowest forecast for any Asean country. 

Also next years forecast rising to the dizzying heights of second from bottom is conditional on a successful vaccine rollout and the effective staged opening of the various parts of the economy including tourism.

Yeah, I think I'll hold off on buying Baht for a bit

I think a trifle grumpy but hope for understanding and a sober conversation later.. 

When you find you've irritated the hell out of a Blood princess who is quite handy with a rifle and a skinning knife we can chat.

????

Hold on here, I seem to have missed a few things.

Last I heard vaccine manufacture in Thailand had been consolidated.  I hadn't heard any of the local vaccines actually being made and passing the international quality control standards.  J & J ran afoul of that in the USA and had to discard 60 million doses.

AFAIK Anutin is telling our few friends that they are getting a smaller percentage of  .....  nothing.  ????

On 7/14/2021 at 10:58 AM, chickenslegs said:

Eat your vegetables. There's children starving in Africa.

I got to go to my room when I said "name three" I'll mail the Brussel sprouts to them

On 3/4/2019 at 1:45 AM, NCC1701A said:

there is zero chance of me riding my motorcycle ALONE all over anywhere south of the USA border.

 

Travel Thailand alone no problems anywhere. 32,000 kilometers worth of motorcycle road trips.

 

and i know Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador. Personal security is a constant issue.   

I agree with Captain Kirk.  While I like certain places in say Mexico (Puerto Escondido) I wouldn't give myself high odds of being able to travel safely.  I have meandered alone about the Baja a while back. I understand unmarked mass graves have now been found outside of San Jose de Capo.  Looks like the Sinaloa cartel made it through the army roadblocks

Me just writing shy3te like this should clearly explain why I prefer Thailand.

Unchained Melody ... Rightous Brothers 1965.

On 6/29/2021 at 7:40 PM, TKDfella said:

Got hit by one of these?

This sounds pretty dumb to me but I think I recognise that meteor.   Northern Arizona??

Sorry,   You've already done this.  

This is individual to you, mine seems to work just like I set it up

Good luck

Might try erasing and reloading.

Just a thought

Another stupid thought ... Did you hit the SAVE button after you set up the currency?

I always forget.  Once tried to ship something from Seattle to Vancouver and tried to pay in Baht