pelagicpete

There is a parallel in the gemological world, where plain and ordinary stones, such as sapphires, that have a value but that value can be seriously increased by heat treatment. Hence a clear stone after heat treatment may turn permanently into a beautiful coloured stone. The key here is 'permanently'. It has developed into an officially acceptable treatment now, after it was proved impossible to stop it, being so widespread. The difference is marked now by price and heat treated stones have to be labelled as such and they can be tested to prove that they are treated, although the difference to the non professional eye is not obvious. The system now deals with such 'declared' artificially changed stones in two ways: one is the price, they have their own price bands normally and two is that untreated stones can be declared as such and they command a higher price. So the possible relevance to AI is that when used it should be declared as such and when a customer is being charged for an AI product he should expect to pay less for it. This is probably not a definitive solution but may go some way to protect original work and make the new product accepted in the market. I would like to hear opinions on this!

Another disasterous episode by our Government du jour. Will they ever have the global strategic nous that we had 100 years ago?

For great European and Thai food try YUPINS Restaurant in Jomtien Complex. there are plenty of bars there too, to choose from. Yupins has been there for 12 years and has a great reputation for quality.

So, following this argument, the police are now advised to ignore the culture that my family possesses and passed onto me, which goes back over 1000 years, and the police are now advised to regard my opinions as "white fragility"? I think we should be told who promoted, wrote and advised the police on this matter. Moi? White fragility?? How rude.

At the beginning of 2024 Amazon were advertising the sale with large discounts of many items, including shipping. I bought around 8 different items, such as laptops, and the money was taken from my account. I never received anything. It was reported that year that the volume of items to be dispatched caused big delays, so I waited, still nothing. I will be taking this further with Amazon as I have copied the adverts and documents to prove the money was paid. I am now hoping to get to the bottom of this fraud.

Failure to act on this initiative to bring her home is a National Disgrace to be hung on the nose of the Labour Party.

So, am I right in thinking that there is a benefit to having the Shingrix shots even if you have shingles over several years? will it help?

I understand that the Casinos in Australia are very successful in raising money for the local governments. It may be a good idea for a Thai delegation to request a visit to these areas to learn the good things and bad things that have resulted from large scale Casinos. And their methods of operation. then of course there is Vegas to learn from also~!~

How often in sports do women trans to men and compete against men? has it ever happened?

The strongest dog will be nominated the leader of the pack.

A clever move by Thaksin right now would be to throw in his lot with Pita. Work together and clean up.

Very little mention here of the events of October 7th and the likely fact that all the hostages have been murdered, following rape and torture. Apply the facts to your own existence and see how you would react if you were the victims of Hamas insanity. Hamas and Houthi and Hezbollah are all financed by Iran. This is where the focus must lie. There is the problem, that extremists of that colour demand the total annihilation of Israel and the people that live there.

I think time is of the essence. It plays a very important part in the core of my existence. On many occasions I have deeply considered the effect on my life if it were possible to alter time, either way, negatively or positively. And I think I am not alone. People all around the world are troubled by the obtruding value of time itself, as it so frequently appears when one least expects it to. This seems to be a most regular occurrence that can be observed at or near 1100 pm on most days in the Western World. The Cry goes up "TIME PLEASE" in hundreds of thousands of public houses and ones life instantly changes. A tinge of sadness creeps in, along with a steady reduction of fluid intake, and an immediate dispersal of like minded human beings to God knows where. Time is not an unknown factor to many of us.

3 days ago, the 18th March, I got a pink bill. Never had a pink one before. No idea if it is real or fake.

I am sorry, I cannot let this go unanswered. Shame on the Independent for publishing this load of old cobblers. This has been written by a republican journalist, it has no standing and not an ounce of truth where the beliefs hopes and fears of the mass of general public in the UK are concerned. There have always been a hard core of republicans who like to make a name for themselves by attempting to reduce the value and social importance of our Royal family. This is not new. But for a large national newspaper to put out a story attempting to 'gentrify' this opinion is a shame and tells us much about the editorship of today's modern Independent newspaper, nothing else. Maybe it is the opinion of a few of their metro friends and they felt the need to virtue polish their obviously shaky place in the rankings. Well, I call BS and shame on them for this wanton attempt at destruction of our Royal family, a beloved institution that does a lot of good around the World. Bless them, in a hard world they are a ray of light.