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John Drake

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  1. If he owns a home and a car in Texas, those are exempt from bankruptcy liquidation. He gets to keep them. Here is a pdf: https://tiagotx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/The-Texas-Homestead.pdf
  2. Members of the Biden coalition fighting each other in the streets.
  3. I probably should have replied to lordgrinz directly, as he is the one who brought up the subject. But I had already scrolled past him and got lazy.
  4. The very first sentence of your reply to lordgrinz was "That is my fear also." And what lordgrinz had said was "Inching closer to a Civil War, to tell you the truth, I think it's inevitable......but needed."
  5. Pretty much what I thought. I'm beginning to wonder if on the visa issue they might just go in the opposite direction, making things easier or even lower cost. They've still got time to bury the tax stuff. But the visa "reform" is now two months away.
  6. Seems to alter the condition of sale, doesn't it? You had one, now you have 2/3rds? I'd want my money back.
  7. Which is why they don't mind paying inflated prices. They do this wherever in the world they go, Canada, US, UK, you name it. They launder money through property purchases and at the same time make homeownership or property ownership costs so fantastically high that it is impossible for native citizens to buy.
  8. There is not going to be a civil war in Thailand. This is white man's old age fantasy.
  9. Prayuth was better. And, as it now turns out, more fair and democratic.
  10. The major skill needed for AI is to outwit and circumvent the algorithmic filters when asking for information. Pretty soon there will not need anyone with AI skills to create AIs, because the AIs will be able to do that themselves. Google Gemini told me so when I asked.
  11. The establishment in both the US and we see now in the UK will come together to smear and destroy any alternative to their power structure.
  12. Hold a lottery among the offenders every six months. 3rd runner up gets the five year ban. 2nd runner up get a ten year ban 1st runner up gets a lifetime ban grand prize winner gets the death penalty.
  13. As usual, Trump and his own campaign team are his worst enemies. There is every chance Biden makes him look silly (there is also the chance Biden malfunctions and goes into blue screen mode). Trump gains nothing with a debate. He actually gains nothing and in fact loses whenever he opens his mouth. He had a golden chance to avoid the debate, with all the conditions the Democrats put on it. But he's stepping right in. Same way the judge gagging him only increased his poll numbers, because people didn't actually hear him mouthing off and embarrassing himself constantly. The man is a fool.
  14. Allow foreigners to buy land and property and most of the participants in this forum will be priced out of the country along with Thais who have poor or average income.
  15. Thailand will not be the next Singapore. It'll be the next Sihanoukville.
  16. And Arabs will get their hands on those 99 year land leases.
  17. Likely to be true if you're over 65 and the girl is in her twenties. But it's that way everywhere. Not just Thailand. Just the relative "wealth" ratio is lower.
  18. When I taught at Mahidol, the students enrolled there almost exclusively came from these schools and a few others not mentioned. Their oral and written preparedness was solid enough, mostly. But they had virtually no other academic qualifications. That is, their knowledge base was shallow, reasoning and research skills non-existent. At least three quarters had never been to a library. All written assignments had to be carried out in class. Otherwise, they simply would cut and paste from Wikipedia. Whatever the salary is in these schools, it is too high. Parents paying too much. They wuz robbed.
  19. The tea incident was a prelude to a revolution. Burning down the White House was the result of an invasion. Not just "making a point." I suspect the people involved in these antics want something similar.
  20. Depends on the AI. I wouldn't want to be governed by Zuckerberg's AI or Google's AI. But I'm probably okay with Elon's AI.
  21. Each time one of these events takes place, I bet they get Nigel Farage another 50,000 or 60,000 votes.
  22. This article is basically a conspiracy theory complaining about conspiracy theories. I used to attend lots o Democratic conventions as a delegate back in the 1970s. The sort of things this topic describes are routine convention politics. And frankly it would be a good thing to see Trump ousted at the Republican convention through whatever the rules allow. As for the Democrats, their party has its separate strands now fighting each other in the street. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-807411 I wouldn't be surprised to see Biden's antifa, Jews, and Muslims go after each other with guns in the street by convention time. The Democrats are becoming increasingly violent.
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