JackGats

What enrages me about Trump's tariff ideology is its dishonesty and cherry-picking. Take Europe. It leaves out of equation the fact that Europe buys Google, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon ... products, indeed even leaves those firms' profits untaxed. Europe is being "badly treated" by the US, not the reverse. Not to mention regular racketeering by US courts aimed at crippling successful European companies with astronomical fines (Bayer/Monsanto, Deutsche Bank, BNP, BP ...). I'm sure the US courts will soon find a way to fine Airbus in order to protect killer airliner Boeing. The disnonesty of it all!

It doesn't matter one little bit if you can use your remaing credit within Skype or within Teams. Main thing is, you can still place phone calls.

Cheap breakfasts (below 200 baht) are not worth the money. Better spend the 200 baht at a 7/11. The only ok breakfasts for me are the 300-400 baht buffet breakfasts of some hotels. They're not gorgeous breakfasts though, this is Thailand.

Well actually they care about farmers much too much. Farming is a holy cow in Thailand. This is also to a lesser extend the case in the EU. In the EU farmers additionally have the right to blockade and paralyse the country. Some Margaret Thatcher would be needed to break the farmers' stranglehold as she did the miners'.

You mean I do understand how jurisprudence works in the UK. A male person is presumed guilty as per the court of the lynching circuit (public opinion). In the old days when good sense and good justice prevailed, 20-year-old allegations would not only be thrown out of court, they would not even be considered by police or the prosecution. Even nowadays, when there's no male sex involved (no gold-digging wymmyn), you get rebuffed if you lodge a complaint with the police 20 years after your house was broken into.

Alas no, the prosectution hardly has to prove anything. It will be "victim should be believed", period.

Karma is not real but it is easier and more soothing for people to understand than quantum physics.

Everyone knows such charges are bogus if rape is still to mean what it should mean and not be defined as "what the woman says". Still, the charade must go on.

I'd much prefer Thailand stopped overtaxing foreign (US) food so that eating Western food didn't cost me an eye and a leg. I have no use for military equipment thank you.

You mean they should put you in prison before putting you down.

Sure, but it seems call.com only want 23 euro or so per year flat rate, which shouldn't break the bank. I am also hoping Teams will allow me to use up my remaining credit. I've got 63 euro credit left so it may be enough for quite a long time calling banks and govt agencies. Provided Microsoft keep their promise regarding the dialing pad in Teams for members with credit remaining.

Someone suggested call.com. There's a yearly fee of 23 euro for which you get a virtual number. Then calls to landlines would typically cost 1.8 cents/minute.

Quote from the post above: "a true woman out there in Thailand who meets your dream". There's no such woman, neiter in Thailand nor elsewhere. There are just women whose expectation you meet with respect to age, looks, wealth etc. You have a certain SMV (sexual market value) and the market is increasingly globalized.

I think I was optimistic. What will happen is that you can use your remaining credit in Teams, which does not allow phone calls.

I still have 60 euros in Skype credit. Does this mean I can still be using Skype for many months to come as I typically use up a few euros per months on average? From ChatGPT: "However, automatic top-up services for Skype Credit will no longer be available starting April 3, 2025. Additionally, please note that remaining Skype Credit cannot be refunded."

I was in Jakarta when the 2004 tsunami killed 170000 people in Indonesia. The streets filled with all kinds of fake donations collectors. On the flippant side, a blue-coloured exstasy tablet named "tsunami" came on the market.

Ok thanks, so any detrimental feedback would be one step removed from my foreign bank, thank God. P.S. I just had a chat with ChatGPT about this and this is ChatGPT's conclusion in the case of the foreign bank account being a German one: Officially, CRS does not include an automatic feedback mechanism where a receiving country (Thailand) directly informs the sending country (Germany) that a person is not actually tax resident. However, tax authorities may conduct further inquiries or bilateral exchanges. If Thailand finds your residency status questionable, they could raise the issue through spontaneous exchange of information (EOI) or upon request by Germany. So my question would then become "would Thailand embark upon a spontaneous EOI ?". The question is rather rethorical at this stage of course, especially since Thailand already have their work cut out for them with their recent taxation shake-up.

What I'm wondering about is what happens if a Western bank sends the CRS statements based on your Thai TIN to Thailand, and you happen not to have lived in Thailand for the required 180 days. Does Thailand send a feedback saying "this guy is not a tax resident here". If the foreign bank receives such a feedback from Thailand, the foreign bank would be tempted to cancel your account immediately because you provided it with a fake tax residence. That's where the <deleted> could hit the fan. Any ideas whether Thailand is that advanced in its handling of CRS?

Tell her you'll give her money when you meet again and in exchange for the same services. In that way you get off the hook and don't really lose her unless she wants to.

This is from the leaflet of an "AIS Lucky Tourist SIM". I have no idea whether my AIS number belongs to this caterogy. Anyway, it seems people needing to call a German landline have little to worry about. Calls to the US are 2.5/minutes for both landline and mobile. Calls to the UK (5/minute) are on the expensive side. P.S. I now realize AIS have made it impossible to find out online how much such a call will cost with the particular SIM I happen to own. I'm in for another queuing session at the overcrowded AIS shop.

Airports should be equipped with charging facilities that work. That would take away much of the need for powerbanks.

Tell me then how calling my airline's or my foreign bank's customer service is "decided and solved" already. I'll now have to place expensive SIM card calls to customer services that claim "all our phone lines are unusually busy" all day every day. Of course such customer services are themselves part of the problem, but up to now the waiting game could be taken care of by Skype.

As long as I'm born a handsome boy or a pretty girl, I'm fine, never mind the country.

Good attitude. Then next time let the Europeans buy cheap Russian gas and not your gas, and refrain from blowing up the gas pipeline of another NATO country.

Alas, you can now replace "white woman" with "Thai woman" and the above sentence holds.