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Well for the love of god, further to my above post, I just had an email from paypal to let me know the awesome news that my original 15 year old account can continue to be used after all. . . so I interpret that as me completely wasting WEEKS of my life setting up the new account. You know, I learned the hard way over 20 years here that sometimes you've just got to be zen and take this stuff on the chin, but for phuk's sake this one has made my p!$s boil! Reading deeper, it's still better for me to use the new account. They still have 'migrations' to do from old accounts, so I'll still ditch the old one, but it's really been handled dreadfully.

At best this will get you started and moving, but a fully discharged lead acid battery should be replaced as a matter of routine. Fully discharging a lead acid battery severely and irreparably damages them.

There's no doubt that it's been handled badly. However, the comments from supposedly reputable news sources suggesting that Paypal has effectively given up in Thailand are simply not true. They've just accepted the fact they will have to downsize considerably in order to comply with the new regulations and focus on B2B customers. About me, a considerable volume of my customers pay with credit card via Paypal and I finally completed the new verification process this week (I have DBD registered business) but the paperwork for that was a complete pain in the rear and it took months. I wouldn't want to have to do it again.

I fear it's too late for that, it's won the battle for hearts and minds with my wife and kids and I believe it knows that fact. It can't speak any Ingrish, but I know what it's saying when it locks eyes with me: "I ain't going NOWHERE mate". In all seriousness though, it makes me pretty angry how irresponsible pet owners can be. If, as I am assuming, it was raised in captivity, I doubt it would survive. It was clearly dehydrated when it found us. Thanks, but I realise I'm not looking my best right now, I've been in here for days!

Spare a thought for the Russians. They're banned from the Eurovision Song Contest. That's gonna smart.

Should I get my cat involved? I feel I might be injured in the crossfire.

Hello forum. Something really nice happened a couple of days ago. I was walking around our expansive gardens here in the north with my young son, when out of the blue, quite literally, a Sun Conure swooped down and landed on my boy. I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing but there it was. Later it attached itself to me. We took it back to the office, fed it, watered it, and it seemed very friendly. What a nice surprise, everyone was delighted, and the Conure apparently happy to have found a nice family to be around. It has a ring on one of it's legs, so it's either escaped or been set free. It was extremely thirsty. Such a lovely thing to happen to us. . . Fast forward a few days. I'm now trapped and terrorised. Every time I try to leave the office, it goes crazy and tries to bite my ear off. If I try to take it off my shoulder, it tries to bite my fingers off. If I sit and do nothing, it cuddles up to me and seems to show love. . . but I need food and water myself now. I'm scared of the damn thing. I feel like it could tear my jugular open if I try to escape. There is a pile of excrement building up on my shoulder and it's slowly pulling my shirt to pieces. I dare not move. I believe the bird to be some kind of psychopath. I've managed to move the keyboard within arms reach so I can type this out, but the phone is just out of reach. What should I do?! . . .

I think it's clear Putin is insane. Personally I think he's doing a General Ripper and wants to go down in history. He's finished, either by some illness or by someone else's hand, it's just a question of how much damage he's willing to do on his way out. . . In any case, if someone close to the mutha<deleted> doesn't execute him and fast, we're in for a new Cold War at least, and I dare not even think about the worst. I'm old enough to remember life in Europe with the threat of Armageddon.

Guests are presently limited to 30 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up. . . So like most people that don't have a clue how it all works you'd class ours as 'bad wifi'. The internet is fast and responsive for all of them. Most of the hotels that have 'bad wifi' have bad wifi because they're NOT imposing any limits on speed or traffic segregation, so some 15 year old in the next room uploading all their snapshots to some iCloud all night is bringing everyone else down. Or, you're clinging onto some WiFi signal 50 metres away through 5 walls because the 'hotel' read on the box that the AP "works up to 200 metres away". The only QoS we are doing is VoIP and video, video being on a tier below VoIP. We also run our own DNS resolver and NAT all guest queries to our own resolver. Gusts may think they're using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or whatever, but they only think they are, they're not, they're getting NATted to my resolver. This enables me to spy on people's DNS queries and impose blocklists. I also run a trip wire on any DNS over HTTPS canary domains to make them gracefully failover to standard DNS, making any attempts to circumvent these NATs fail. This helps keep my network free from malware traffic (guests ALWAYS bring their own malware). I also do a little Layer 7 DPI to keep torrents off the network. . . "Oh no, I can't torrent on this free hotel wifi. . . BAD HOTEL WIFI!"

Not a problem, USA got John McClane.

She could have shot him if she wanted.

My brother in law used to operate a cock fighting farm. Some of those chickens sold for half a million. Crazy.

I live in Chiang Rai, possibly the epicentre of the annual smoke armageddon, which in the decades I've lived here has been getting worse year on year. . . and now we have 2022, in which the 'dry season', ordinarily tinder dry without a drop until April, has given us so much rain the smoke season is going to be skipped altogether this year. It's clear to me something is wrong with the weather. Don't get me wrong, no one is as happy as me to skip the smoke, and I love the rain, but something is out of kilter.

The temple pictured in the OP is clearly out of plumb.

When I read the word children in the headline I honestly though it was in reference to the adults.

I'm horrified by what I'm reading here. You should realise that you are all lucky to be alive.

No one. To be clear, if what you describe is accurate and things have been botched in the way I suspect they've been botched, you are in mortal danger, and I do not say this without careful thought. Switching off the mains at the CU will not help. Due to the nature of the system in Thailand, your neutral/ground may be directly connected to the PEA transformer phase, unfused, if things have been reversed in just the wrong place. Just pulling the ground wire from the rod could potentially expose you to a dangerous arc flash. Just the act of disconnecting the ground rod could raise any exposed metal surfaces up to mains voltage. It's a REALLY hazardous situation. I'm really alarmed by this topic. . . Not in the least bit surprised, but alarmed anyway.

NO!!! This could kill you instantly if what I suspect is going on. Don't touch anything.

... and FWIW, most of these PEA 'technicians' aren't actually PEA. They just did some grunt work for the PEA (digging holes), once, years and years ago. Anyone that reads my posts in the electrical forum will know I don't joke around here. You may be in danger.

He's wrong. It's hazardous, extremely so if you have LN reversed with a bonded NG. All ground must go through the CU to a single ground rod.

W, w w w, w wait wait WHAT??!!!! You need to seek some professional electrical advice and fast. Stay out of the shower until this is sorted. I'm not joking, you seem to have serious issues here, stuff that could burn your house down, kill you in the shower, kill you when you switch on the washing machine etc etc. I wouldn't normally sound the alarm in a forum topic like this but I think you may really be in peril. Talk to me. . .

Reversed live and neutral on a TNCS-MEN system will do this. Is your meter spinning around like a centrifuge?

It amuses me that this is one of the things nearly everyone says when they make the decision to live in Thailand. I wonder if you were one of them. . .

A ha ha ha, noob.

In Thailand it's called Power of Administration (this is the translation I think) and it's enormously powerful if one parent has it. My wife has power of adminstration over my stepdaughter (now an adult). Many years ago when she was 7 we needed to go to the UK for a while. Her biological father tried to prevent us from getting her a passport, but he was powerless to prevent that. So we got her a passport and left. From my basic understanding of things, it's nearly impossible for anyone to reverse if it goes against them. If both parties are consenting for the change in custody arrangements, it will be very interesting to read what you find out. . .