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Mike, Cleanup in isle 3 please. Denial is not a river in Egypt.

Of course I do. If you live in Thailand so do you. As I said, direct experience.

Almost everything readily available in Thailand is made in China. That's how I have formed my opinion of chinese product quality. I have no reason to believe that they make cars any better than their other junk. It's called direct experience.

I regret that I could only give you one trophy icon. You nailed it right on the head. I agree with all you said except the last sentence. I'll do my best to never own an EV and with the time I've got left I will probably succeed!

I don't know about their electric cars but I know for sure Chinese batteries suck out loud. As an electronic engineer starting with vacuum tubes I've been waiting all my career for the promised 'perfect battery technology '. I'm retired now and still waiting. FWIW, I want no part of electric cars at this point in their technology curve. I've worked with electronics and computers long enough to cure me of being an early adopter.

Actually cobras (which yours wasn't) are one of most shy snakes here. It is usually much faster and easier to just use a broom to sweep them outside. They don't really want to be there either. But if it makes you feel like a man......

All you need then is another passport. Without one you can't even leave the USA.

Just do it. I had one done at San Paulo hospital in hua hin a few months ago. Procedure was quick and professional.About $600USD.

The cost is insane. I did it once the first time I came here. Never again. Ditto for using a foreign credit card for cash at an ATM. It's legalized rape!

After living in Thailand for 6 years coming from the US I'm quite happy to stay here and I'm going home next month to sell my house and leave nothing there but a mailing address and a bank account. I'll be looking up old friends and telling them goodbye because I don't plan to ever come back there. There's just no appeal to living there anymore and prices are just way too high.

Front load washers must use a rotating seal to keep the water from dumping out. If the seal really works washer is more expensive than a top loading model and more trouble to deal with. If the seal isn't top quality it still wears and fails sooner. Top load washers need no such seal.

The laws may have changed since I submitted the TM 30 several years ago when I was renting a house in chaham. The immigration officer in told me to fill out the form the bottom part of the form myself and submitted and I didn't need any signatures or paperwork from my landlord. So I did that successfully several times and I've now since bought a house so I can use the Blue Book. I suggest going to your immigration office and asking explicitly if you can fill the forms yourself. Good luck and I hope it works out for you.

Unfortunately democracy as we know it in the west is also diminishing, with the possibility of being ravaged and defiled grossly come this November. Perilous times for democracy globally.

InsurDgents? Try again guys. Maybe I'm being a stickler, but spell checkers work pretty well IF they are used.

Thank you. I abandon more and more articles now when the replies descend into juvenile bickering and ad hominem attacks. Just replace them with ads for all I care. It's better to see ads than idiots making incoherent noise, satisfying nobody but themselves.

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Everybody has to choose their battles. Maybe for him this is a fight he wants to pursue. It's people like him that fight for their principles that make life better for the rest of us.

Why not? His work is more relevant than ever before.

It's not how deep you fish, it's how you wiggle the worm.

Yeah, but really he's such an easy target.

That's true but it usually takes the form of the small white levered directly beneath the ice dispenser chute

Not really. It makes us both look like fools. Telling somebody how smart you are will always lead to well deserved abuse.

This is not really true. You can always confront the establishment face to face. It's when you publish things that you incur risk.

Me too. I cant help myself.

I am so much smarter than you that I don't bother to read your columns.