Lacessit

Incorrect. Gold has industrial uses, the computer or smartphone you made your post on has quite a few gold contacts, because gold is immune to corrosion. Its use in electronics of all kinds is widespread. Mining companies used to turn their noses up at anything assaying less than 20g/tonne of gold, now 5 g/tonne is profitable and they are reaching for 1-2 g/tonne. They are doing that for a reason. I have never lost money buying and selling gold, I am damn sure I could never say the same about crypto. IMO a Ponzi scheme, the proof of which is the number of scams surrounding it. No one knows what will happen to bitcoin in a EMP event, I don't intend to find out the hard way.

If power is lost at location A when I am in location B, why should I care? The only scenario I can think of is a refrigerator full of food at location A.

Permit me to doubt a tech company only does copper, that's a commodity.

What if I am? The settings menu on a smartphone will tell me if I am connected via a provider, or in a WiFi hotspot. If I am missing the OP's point. make it a double, because I am also missing yours.

Do you use canola oil when you are cooking? The odds are 99% in favor of it coming from a genetically-modified plant.

If you can leave it, why do you choose to drink 2-4 cans of beer every day? When was the last day with no beer?

I seem to remember one poster and crypto enthusiast on ASEAN who bought $200,000 worth, then went very quiet. I wonder if he/she has their head above water yet.

You must have seen some pretty hard drinkers.

IMO once we hit 70, reduce or give it away entirely. There are a select few who can drink into their 80's and 90's, statistical outliers.

I have found Chiang Rai to be more laidback than Chiang Mai, cheaper COL. I lived in CM for ten years, the traffic congestion has got worse every year.

Exactly. In the top or bottom toolbar, there is usually a WiFi symbol )))) turned upwards. If it is black, the internet is connected. If it is grayscale, it is not. That's on a desktop, tablet or laptop. I can look up the status in the Settings icon on a smartphone. There's some complicated solutions to a simple problem on this thread.

Read my post again. What does the term "extremely pure" mean to you?

It makes sense to put solar panels on farmland that requires 25 acres to support one sheep, or 100 acres to support a single cow. There's plenty of that land and worse in Australia.

Yes, it has fat as well. What else?

The poll is to determine the status of retired Australians living here. It is not intended to be judgmental of anyone, call it curiosity if you will, based on another long running thread.

I doubt glass fibre goes back that far, and certainly not to the rigid specifications required for relaying light 100 km. The glass has to be extremely pure, which makes it high tech. As I worked in the glass industry in a technical capacity for four years, I think I know more about the subject than you do.

Protein is protein. The two consumer attributes lab protein would have to satisfy are taste, and competitiveness on price.

AFAIK fibre optic cables are.

Somehow, the business owners always seem to be able to hang on to their mansions, holiday condos, and flash cars.

Alcohol does not react with stomach acids, nor is it broken down there.. Alcohol is detoxified in the liver by various enzymes, the metabolism steps are alcohol - acetaldehyde - acetate - water and CO2. Acetaldehyde is highly toxic, and a known human carcinogen. "In the liver, alcohol is metabolized by the oxidative and non-oxidative pathway. In the oxidative pathway, the major pathway of alcohol digestion, alcohol is oxidized to acetaldehyde by various enzymes including alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1), and catalase" Source: National Institute of Health.

AFAIK high tech has always been high risk, which is why I have never invested in the sector. Some people have made a lot, others have lost out. OTOH, I have never lost money buying and selling precious metals - gold, silver, and platinum.

Actually , he does not. He says the question of tax residency is dependent on individual circumstances, as determined by the Commissioner of Taxation. Pensioners should not be paying non-resident tax if they are still classed as resident in Australia. Permit me to doubt the ATO is interested in chasing pensioners who have used the non-lodgment advice available on the ATO website, as they are below the taxable threshold. I know one guy on an OAP who has been residing in Thailand for ten years full time, and put in a non-lodgment advice nine years ago. He's heard nothing from the ATO since. The non-residency rules were intended to tax affluent people living overseas full-time, who are deriving their income in Australia. Much as you wish it to happen, for reasons best known to yourself, it hasn't. Probably because the return with pensioners is not worth it.

I've had one claim with Roojai after my GF had a fender bender. 3000 baht excess, cost was 4500 baht. Fixed in 4 days, no problem.

Half the time, the Brits and Yanks can't even see it.

The paper would identify me with my real name, that's why i have a nom-de-plume here.