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On 3/3/2025 at 9:28 AM, blazes said:
No way the debt-ridden West could risk war with China. Those in Taiwan who favour government from Beijing will yield up the country and, like the West, preserve their own economy.
It will be just like the takeover of one corporation by another. Some takeovers are hostile, some friendly. Eva Air will be taken over by Air China (perhaps not even with a change of name.) Not a drop of blood spilt....
China is not debt-ridden?
Yes, it is.
So they face the same choice usa does.
An international naval blockade of the China Sea out of range of their missiles will shut China off from the world. They have cloudsv of dumb missiles but they can't guide them over the horizon and using satellites and operators fir each missile is impossible. Ships on the other hand can constantly move.
China's navy is not a true Blue Water navy and most of their ships have limited range because of fuel. China cannot wage war at sea. Japan's Blue Water navy is larger than china's.
Without import or export China goes down and her citizens rebel since the CCP has broken the unspoken agreement with its citizens: give us a better life and we will accept your tyranny.
China spends billions in propaganda trying to convince the world it is invulnerable and it just ain't true.
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On 3/3/2025 at 4:21 AM, Everyman said:
Have you ever heard the expression “no good deed goes unpunished?”
I think you’re making a hassle for yourself for no good reason.
That's my reaction as well. If you go asking questions and looking for trouble someone will accommodate you.
I'll assume the OP has his reasons and move on.
I have studied the Thai tax rules, don't owe tax, so I keep records every year to prove such and I won't go looking for a TIN number.
Note that those who have and posted here were told the same thing or met with bewilderment from the tax office.
Let sleeping authorities alone.
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Does anybody know a way to auto-block news updates concerning Pattaya? Similar to the way I can block anything from certain members.
Like some AN members, this is getting terribly redundant and predictable.
Nothing new, just continual chaos.
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On 3/4/2025 at 7:25 PM, johng said:
I suppose its also difficult when you are blamed (unjustly) for the death of children ?
If and when, as he said he wanted to do, "proper" safety studies reveal their conclusions I wonder if those "experts" will change their tune or just keep singing from the same hymn sheet ?
Well........
I guess it depends on the results. Assuming they aren't tampered with.
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On 3/1/2025 at 11:47 AM, PomPolo said:Viber, Google Voice, Zoom and Line to name a few. Haven't tried them all but fairly sure I have seen options to purchase calling credits on them all the same as Skype.
And if you only want to talk or video other people without a landline but whatsapp/line/viber/fb messenger installed can't beat these apps for free messaging and calls it's very rare these days people don't have a mobile and at least one of these apps installed!
That is probably why Skype is shutting down who talks on Landlines anymore!USA banks, gov,business, all use landlines. That's mainly what I used skype for the last few years.
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On 3/1/2025 at 6:21 AM, Lancelot01 said:
Except for the fact that, for several decades, the US has a strategic base there in the Indian Ocean.
'Facts' are generally unknown and obviously of no value to Trump.
Either that or he knowingly and repeatedly lies without remorse.
OR
and most likely, BOTH.
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On 2/27/2025 at 8:57 PM, lordgrinz said:
Most Thai's view their environment as a toilet, look at the waterways and empty lots full of trash. Wonderful "Culture"!
"Most" is a dangerous word to throw around.
Most people should avoid using it casually.
(I think 'Thai' is the plural of Thai. Most people would agree)
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On 2/15/2025 at 4:56 PM, CallumWK said:
Thanks I checked with them already.
Amorn Pattaya look more like a candy shop the last few years, and even many years ago they directed me to a shop in Naklua for a simialr job. That shop today said their spot welder is in heaven now.
I called Amorn SriRacha, and they said they had no such machine.
Cheap and readily available on lazada. Very little energy actually needed for battery pack spot welds.
Pm me if you can't find one.
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On 2/28/2025 at 7:36 AM, daveAustin said:
Gawd, what a thread. All the dolts are out.
I was thinking the same thing. Most of them don't even make sense.
Who knows what triggers some of these wackos.
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6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
First up good reply.
Now to your first Non O-A in 2917.
That visa would have been applied for in home country.
There is not proof regarding funds in Thai bank.
In fact the funds can be in home country bank.
As I stated earlier the funds using money in bank method for extensions does not require proof of where funds came from.
By way of contrast...if someone obtains a Non O in Thailand from visa exempt or tourist visa entry then the 800k needs to be shown to have come from abroad.
You had a harsh deal at your immigration office as most offices given your application for Non O would have accepted that the funds had been in Thailand "for some time"
A matter of several months would be sufficient.
Also no way a new bank account would have been required.
Agreed on all Jack.
It's a jungle out there and knowledge is our only weapon.
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On 2/21/2025 at 3:24 PM, Muhendis said:
Whilst looking for something on Youtube I stumbled upon this.
If you are of delicate disposition don't open the link.
Make sure you have a good dashcam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b6MA88ZurY&t=395s
Something like these is seen about every tenth time we go to run errands. I count myself lucky I don't see it more often because it certainly happens multiple times every day in the Kingdom.
Keep your head on a swivel and pretend that every vehicle you see is on a kamikaze mission to wipe you out.
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5 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
Don't know why you thought the io was in the wrong (she wasn't)
You were obtaining a new visa.
Namely Non O retirement and for that you need to show funds came from abroad.
Note for ongoing 12 month extension the funds do not need to be shown to come from abroad using money in bank method.
Yes but understand you are converting nothing.
You killed off your Non O-A and from visa exempt entry obtained a Non O.
Nothing to do with your previous Non O-A.
You are right. Semantics and I forgot. From my perspective I traded in one for the other but not from theirs.
I studied the forum intently before I left to get sure I had all my ducks in a row for return. Somehow I never saw the catch.
However please note that the underling person that reviews paper before they let you go into the office told me that under no circumstances could I use the 'same' money again. I would have to open a new account and COULD NOT simply transfer the 'old' money to the new account. She was wrong of course.
I knew this could not be right so I did the bank things and then went back the the IO and marched right past her into the office and got it done.
Thanks for the assurance about this years extension in September. But I never touch my fixed account and because I have ALL the bank docs in stunning detail of the provenance of the account balance, except for the interest earned, I am sure I won't take that merry go round ride again.
So you are correct, and I didn't know about it, but she too was definitely wrong. It was NOT a language issue as my Thai GF engaged her at length after I claimed it made no sense.
These folks can definitely steer you wrong either through malice or ignorance or both.
I must dispute you on one point. I got my first OA visa in 2017. I extended it every year after that until last year's and nobody ever questioned me about the funding source. Maybe I was lucky or maybe things have changed. On my first OA application the officer suggested I put the 800k in a fixed deposit account so would never worry about it again. She even met me at the bank and helped me open the account.
Knowing the laws and being armed with the correct information is necessary to success but as my story proves, is not always sufficient to win.
I have never used an agent and never will because I treat each IO visit as a learning experience.
In any event the OP has a full picture now that I didn't have.
Thanks for your help.
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On 2/24/2025 at 5:57 PM, CanadaJoe said:
Thanks. Yeah, I didn't think it was possible to renew an OA from within Thailand and don't really want to do that anyway. I wanted to just transition over to the O which I was under the impression I could do. I already have the 800,000 in a Thai bank and comprehensive health insurance with another company. When I got my original OA in Canada I again had to waste $350 CDN on a throw-away policy because it seemed like no insurance company would sign the "Foreign Insurance Certificate" that This government insists on. Is it just me, or is it crazy that the Thai government was the insurance company to sign a letter saying they have sold you a policy when you can show the policy itself? Doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway, thanks for your advice.
I renewed my OA visa several times here until last May when I let the OA expire on a trip to america. Maybe the law has changed but to my knowledge OA can still be extended every year as me and thousands have been doing for years.
But I came back on visa exempt, applied for a 90 day O visa the waited a short time and applied for the 1 year O visa. Just as your first two replies said.
THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS SOME DRONE WITCH AT HUA HIN IMMIGRATION TOLD ME MY BANK ACCOUNT USED FOR THE OA VISA COULD NOT BE USED AGAIN FOR O.
So I had to go to the bank and spend an hour getting proof that the funds for my 4 years of fixed deposit account 800k had ALL come from America. She claimed i had to open a new account and fund it with new 800k. I still don't believe that though.
i got and kept those records in case this nonsense happens again. I duly reported all this on the forum so you can probably still find my post from about early June last year.
Then it was renewed quickly after I showed the bank records.
Just be ready for something like this to happen. Otherwise I know for a fact that converting from OA to O is done by lots of folks without a hitch every year.
Good luck.
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On 6/12/2023 at 7:10 PM, SomeFarang said:
I'm not posting my photo on here, I never said I am the best looking guy.
There is such a thing as trying too hard.
Hard to believe but some Thai women don't engage on dating apps.You speak Thai so when
you see or meet an attractive person anywhere, on the street, a store, a restaurant, etc. Ask them out for coffee.
Drop all your other criteria and open the field. Some will say yes and some no. Then go to coffee with an open mind and see what happens.
At this point what do you have to lose?
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On 2/25/2025 at 3:16 AM, Lorry said:We miss them badly
So so true!
Makes me wonder how easy it would be to stage fake kidnapping every few months.
Sorry. Can't help it. At my age the mind wanders.
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On 2/24/2025 at 4:17 PM, lordgrinz said:
Lord Buddha would be completely disgusted with what constitutes Thai Buddhism, this is the least of the offenses.
You can speak for Buddha?
Was he a close friend before he passed?
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3 hours ago, CallumWK said:I believe you will receive Thai baht at the exchange rate of the day
Probably correct and then they rape you on the forex rate.
Too much trouble for a few months of higher interest.
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8 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
We can accept what our mentors and peers teach us, or question it.
My father hated Jews. He said Hitler had the right idea about them. I can only assume sometime in the past, a Jew bested him or cheated him in a business deal.
When I was in secondary school, there were a few Jewish kids in the class i was in. As far as I was concerned, they were the same as everyone else.
OTOH, I don't have any time for Arabs. That is based on my experiences working with them.
Well, you got me there.
In university in Austin Texas the arab engineering students were most of the ones who wanted to copy homework and cheat on the exams.
Intellectually I know that not all Arabs are alike but direct personal experience cannot help but color our perspective somewhat. To this day I simply avoid them when I can.
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Caught implies the perpetrators were trying to conceal their horrendous 'crime'.
I think the title should be amended:
Tourists observed Engaging in Sex on Bang Lamung Beach
Note that the reporter took video first and THEN asked them to stop.
I know who the pervert in this story is. Personally of the three folks involved I think he got the short end of the stick.
Thankfully it all ended well though as God washed the sinners out to sea and observer was left to glumly steep in his righteousness.🤔
TBH I have myself committed this very sin in several rivers and oceans with great delight. Fortunately I was never washed away in retribution and neither was my partner.
Luck or a clean soul?
Trust me, pure luck.🤪
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On 2/22/2025 at 9:31 PM, Lacessit said:
I remember the book " Black like Me" by John Howard Griffin.
He was a white American journalist and author who, in 1959, darkened his skin and traveled through the Deep South for six weeks, posing as a Black man. The book is his account of his experiences with racial prejudice and segregation during that time.
In Thailand, dark skin means you are in the lowest socio-economic class, working in the rice fields.
To me, black skin means a beneficial genetic inheritance. People with it are far less likely to develop skin cancers.
It's like the epicanthic fold in Asian eyes, which originally developed to prevent snow blindness.
Note : Black people suffer almost exclusively from sickle cell anemia. Not a beneficial genetic inheritance.
I read that book too. The drug he took to keep his skin black actually made him very sick. Not sure but I think it finally killed him.
I was about 16 living in south Texas and the book was a real enlightenment because there were very few blacks there and my parents both totally failed in telling me who I should hate without reason.
When I moved to new jersey at 18 all my friends there gave me the whole list of derogatory names and who I should hate. A real education.
I wonder if we would learn to hate if we didn't have such teachers. We will never know because such exist in abundance in every society globally.
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On 2/20/2025 at 6:38 PM, Denim said:
I agree with your observations. All the troll and aI posters are driving people into posting less. It is not surprising that the value and traffic of the site has declined since its hey day.
Another thing that is really driving traffic away is all the threads about the doings of Donald Chump. Why they cannot be collated into one thread I don't know. Any new person coming accross the site for the first time probably thinks it is a site about American politics.
However , I would continue coming here just for the visa and legal threads. They really are useful and all that keeps people coming.
SO TRUE!
I let 10-15 editions accumulate and then review them all at once stopping only for something germane or useful.
Takes about 15 minutes
LOL
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21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:
Can this be true?
Evidence, if any, please...
It was in the news a few months back. Study done.
Look it up.
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6 hours ago, Thingamabob said:Oh dear. A difficult issue for the simple-minded. Just settle for 'several billions', then calm down, and then enjoy the rest of your day.
Sure.
Just what I expected from the sharp-minded who have arithmetic issues.
For the rest of us 200B is a lot of money.
Have a great day!
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7 hours ago, Harrisfan said:A lot of military spend is general in nature
Did you make a pun? LOL
But 200billion?I think not.
I realize this must be embarrassing for fans of the Great Leader so your non-answer is acceptable.
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Would this offend you?
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He does serm to create posts for the sake of stirring the pot doesn't he.