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  1. 6 hours ago, candide said:

    Thanks for clarifying I thought malagateddy  posts here are misleading and see it is so. 

    6 hours ago, candide said:

    Thanks I was wondering if malagateddy  posts here are misleading and see it is so. 

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  2. On 4/25/2019 at 6:34 PM, smutcakes said:

    Unless the Democrats can find someone with a bit more panache and charisma than the current nominees then they are not going to get anywhere against Trump. Biden, a nice gentleman (maybe) dignified etc but about as exciting and inspirational as dog turd.

    All polls show Biden beating tRump all the time. A president who has and never has or will reach a positive approval will lose hands down.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html#polls

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  3. On 5/3/2019 at 10:08 AM, mogandave said:

     


    It didn’t disqualify President Clinton.

     

    Well, Clinton, Trump, Biden, Cheney, and Romney all received student deferments while in college.

    • Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford when he might have been drafted, and so was not drafted. There has been conjecture about how induction was delayed until his matriculation at Oxford.
    • Trump had a series of student deferments. When these expired, a doctor certified that he had bad feet, leading to a 4F exemption (“unfit”). There has been suspicion about the validity of that certification.
    • Biden had a series of deferments. When the student deferments ran out, his pre-induction physical resulted in a 4F classification because of childhood asthma.
    • Cheney, by the time his series of student deferments ended, had married and was soon to become a father. He applied for and received a 3A (hardship) classification.
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  4. 23 hours ago, connda said:

    Doi Khun Than  

    GPS: 18.495367, 99.269717

    Take any of the trains from Chiang Mai.  All trains stop at the Doi Khun Tan train station which is about 1h 15m for CM rail station.  From the train station either walk the road or take the marked shortcut through the forest up the hill to the Doi Khun Tan National Park entrance.  ฿100 THB for foreigners.  If you walk around you'll notice that the park has bungalow for overnight stays.  This is not farang country.  The surrounding villages lay about 7 km from the park entrance in the valley and the park entrance in reached by a sometimes one lane mountain road.  It's rural Thailand, but it's also what I call home.  It's not as remote as places in the mountains of Chiang Rai, but it's remote enough.  Interesting day trip with a rail tour thrown in to boot.  Or overnight it and it's about as cool as you're going to get in this region at night.  

    I have camped there and as a farang was the only park visitor. Hiked one time to the waterfall and thought the trail was one I blazed. lol

  5. 6 hours ago, suzannegoh said:

    Anti-trust law and Net Neutrality are two separate issues.  Net Neutrality regulates the mechanics of the internet (for instance, prioritization of one type of traffic over another) and gave the FCC jurisdiction over that.  Without Net Neutrality, anti-trust laws still apply and the FTC has primary jurisdiction; with Net Neutrality anti-trust laws still apply but there is an additional layer of regulation imposed by the FCC. 

     

    Where I disagree with Net Neutrality is not over its stated intent (which is basically to require ISPs to be more fair) but over the practicality & need to regulate a commodity (bandwidth) whose supply has been doubling every 18 months for the past 20 years as if it's a scarce commodity.

     

    I too thought that to be true. Undecided about any other underlining points to deside. 

  6. 4 hours ago, ballpoint said:

    A year old, but still perfectly valid:

     

    "It is hardly a coincidence that so many greedy people have filled the administration’s ranks. Trump’s ostentatious crudeness and misogyny are a kind of human-resources strategy...  ...Trump is legitimately excellent at cultivating an inner circle unburdened by legal or moral scruples. These are the only kind of people who want to work for Trump, and the only kind Trump wants to work for him".

     

    http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/corruption-is-trumps-greatest-political-liability.html

    Starting to realize that those are the real reason the were so easilyfallen for the con

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  7. I transferred the month I was granted the extension in January. February I transfered again into BB. IRS direct deposit in BB NYC effective in March. I did this because I was told the quarterly transfers were no no longer acceptable. Personally I think you should have an additional transfer for the missing month and believe that is more acceptable.

  8. On 4/1/2019 at 8:36 PM, khunpa said:

    The Thai people I know here are all pissed off about the smoke. But they also deep down know that nothing will be done, due to useless and incompetent officials.

     

    Personally I am leaving Chiang Mai tomorrow with my family and will not return before the smoke is gone. That is also the time when all Thais will quickly forget about the smoke...... until next year, when it all repeats.

     

    I'm heading to Bali.

     

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