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59 minutes ago, khunken said:

I know that. Don't be so lazy  - read all the posts between Nauseas & me and you'll find out that we were agruing about refugees & migrants coming into the EU from all around the ME and N. Africa.

I have read what you wrote:

It was triggered by the US, UK & France (main culprits) destroying the Libyan government of Ghaddafi thereby opening the door (removing the cork from the bottle as he said) to huge swathes of migrants & refugees departing for Europe. 

You accused some countries that destroyed the Libyan government and blamed them. Which is not fair. It is even a lie.

7 hours ago, khunken said:

It was triggered by the US, UK & France (main culprits) destroying the Libyan government of Ghaddafi thereby opening the door (removing the cork from the bottle as he said) to huge swathes of migrants & refugees departing for Europe.

 

Blaming these countries is not honest. The same was already happening before. Not from Libya but from other countries. Now Libya gets more difficult so they moved their smuggling operations to Tunesia. 

If you read the article it also says:  "The ship, which had set sail from Tunisia"   NOT Libya.

3 hours ago, giddyup said:

Not sure I follow. You say plug a USB drive into the router, then what? How am I going to access that from anywhere? And if I have to also buy a Android box, seems like it's not getting any easier than plugging a USB into my PC, downloading movies onto it, and then plugging into my TV, can't get much simpler than that.

For movies maybe yes. But a Chromecast/Android box can also be used to watch television like Netflix and others.

2 hours ago, carlyai said:

When I use my Samsung android phone with CC it won't cast, but will mirror the Samsung screen.

I used it yesterday with my Microsoft computer and the tv shows cast icon, but it wouldn't cast. Haven't investigated.
 

These are things that work fine with my Android phone and also with my Windows laptop.  

Always make sure that your phone/laptop and the Chromecast are on the same Wifi network.  The signal should also be strong enough. Streaming takes some bandwidth, and if your Wifi is bad or if you are in a place with a lot of other Wifi networks you can get problems.  The Chromecast only works if both your phone and Chromecast have a good Wifi signal.  This is probably also why it didn't work in your hotel.

33 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

He said he never accepted kickbacks from anyone.

I didn't eat the cookies!  ????????????

18 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Legal action might be taken against motorists or owners of vehicles which emit black smoke and such vehicles might taken off the road. In the case of public transport, passengers may inform the authorities of those vehicles emitting black smoke.

I never saw a public bus in Bangkok not emitting black smoke.  Did this general ever walk outside on the street?

22 hours ago, soalbundy said:

They can look at the US documents. I get a German pension (I worked as a British citizen in Germany for 40 years) the German embassy certifies my German pension and my small British pension at the same time. They needed the original British letter informing me of my pension, they can apparently tell if the document is genuine because the first time I did this I brought a copy instead of the original and that was refused, I had to go all the way back to Surin to get the original.

If you read what you wrote here...  You get different kinds of income from different countries. And you expect that embassies understand all different kinds of documents declaring all the different types of income?   They must be able to recognize documents from many different countries, and also guarantee that they are genuine ?

>> They needed the original British letter informing me of my pension, they can apparently tell if the document is genuine because the first time I did this I brought a copy instead of the original and that was refused

You brought a copy. Usually it is easy to see that something is a copy. Next time you brought the original which was accepted. And based on that you make the conclusion that the embassy can say that the original you brought wasn't fake ?

On 10/1/2019 at 7:02 AM, Libai said:

The EU has borders with Belarus, The Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey and Albania. Nobody is ever, ever, going to convince me that the Irish border, compared to all these others, is so problematic. It has been exploited purely for political reasons, to make Brexit as difficult, and irreversible, as is possible.

Yes. Borders. Something with fences and police, customs. It is something they didn't want in Ireland.

13 minutes ago, couchpotato said:

Thanks for your input, but I am specifically asking about Thailand, not most countries.

Ok. For Thailand it is the same. They can throw you out.  And this:

(1) the penalties for working without a work permit under Decree No.1 was an imprisonment for a term not exceeded five years or a fine ranging from B2,000 to B100,000, or both. But under Decree No. 2 that has been reduced to a fine ranging from B5,000 to B50,000 and the imprisonment penalty has been repealed; and

(2) the penalties for employing a non-Thai employee without a work permit under Decree No. 1 was a fine ranging from B400,000 to B800,000 for each employee so employed. Under Decree No. 2 this has been changed to a fine ranging from B10,000 to B100,000.

The fines are a joke. But getting banned not.

>> We never seem to hear much about that side of it.

That sounds scary enough already. 

Working without a permit is a violation of your visa. Most countries will revoke your visa, deport you, and ban you for coming back for a period of x years. 10 or so...

It is not allowed to rent out with airbnb for periods shorter than 1 month. If you do they will see it as a hotel business.

Expecting to make money with airbnb is probably a bad idea.  Unless you are willing to break the rules.

And if you lease the apartment you probably also need permission from the owner to rent it out to others.

I think the visa requirement is the last thing to worry about.

8 hours ago, Old Croc said:

Look at this webcam to get a live view of a clean  beach.

https://www.marinaphuket.com/live3.php

 

 

 

The webcam doesn't show the waste in the water...

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

I'm not your secretary, google the details if you want to know.

 

I googled. And made the conclusion that the UK could not get a better deal.

Now tell me...  Why do you think that the UK will get a better deal with the US and China ?  They already don't have enough power to negotiate anything better with something small like South Korea.

6 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

South Korea for example.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49430207

 

Quote: "The agreement is roughly in line with the terms of the existing Korea-EU free trade deal."

Where's the better deal?

Kamela beach is nice. From there you can also take a boat (5 minutes) to Laem Sing beach, which is really wonderful.

I was in Patong some months ago. The sea was very dirty. You cannot not swim there. There is too much plastic waste in the sea.

I don't understand why the difference between these 2 beaches is so big. They are not so far away from each other.

1 hour ago, phungo said:

They said I cannot open a bank account unless i have a letter from embassy.

 

I needed a copy of my passport with a couple of stamps from my embassy confirming that the copy was made of a real passport. 

This is from the surveillance camera. You can see that he was driving very fast and tried to pass other cars. Really bad driving:

https://video.sanook.com/player/1332137

How can a Greek embassy can give you a certificate of income if that income comes from the US ?

The idea was that the US embassy checked your income from the US and issued some kind of statement that you received that money every month. When it became clear that they didn't check anything but just issued some papers and the Thai immigration office started to complain they stopped with issuing these letters.

Some people are angry with the embassies. But in reality most of them do not have the ability to control income.