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They were already forcing them to remove the umbrellas and chairs every week.  I think it was Wednesdays. Then it seemed to stop after awhile, around the time high season started to kick in.

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Gawd. Boomer perchance? When it rains, people get wet. When you pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, what happens?

They complain about their aircon bill of course, blaming the gov't or woke culture or anything else they can think of besides climate change.

12 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The full transcripts have already been published.

There is absolutely no need for the recordings, though I’m sure the Republicans would like to get ahold of them to  cut, splice to place comments and statements out of context.

 

Transcripts are means by which recorded testimony is presented in courts and depositions.

 

There is absolutely no case for the the Republicans to be given the recordings.

 

 

 

Deep fake is a Republican wet dream.  They can now actually create the alternate reality they have been talking about all these years.  Once the more bleeding edge stuff becomes easy enough for the MAGA juice drinkers to create their own hard-to-spot fakes from the comfort of their trailer parks you will see this stuff popping up all over the place.

35 minutes ago, Liquorice said:

No such visa type exists.

You can apply to change ones Immigration status inside Thailand, but not a visa per se.

You're totally winning the internet bro.  

https://www.siam-legal.com/thailand-visa/thailand-visa.php

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Applying for a Retirement Visa Thailand. 
You will have to apply to acquire a Thailand Retirement Visa. As an applicant, you have the choice to apply either inside Thailand or from abroad.

On 6/5/2024 at 9:11 AM, Liquorice said:

Other than the Elite visa, name any other valid visa you can apply for to enter Thailand from within Thailand.

The retirement visa.  There is one that you can apply for outside of the country and one you can apply for inside.  Saying "to enter Thailand" is irrelevant when you are already in Thailand.  In that case it would be used to re-enter.  

5 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

In his defense, MAGA-world and reality are two vastly different universes. And never the twain shall meet….

MAGA juice is a hell of a drug.

11 hours ago, transam said:

I can install 6 hard drives in my PC if I want, I can replace EVERY part in my PC myself if I want as soon as I source the part.

I can even solve overheating probs in my PC with little effort.

Can you with your laptop........? 🤔

You still use hard drives?  Do you also continue adding to your vinyl record collection and communicate via ham radio instead of the internet?   

22 minutes ago, Mike Teavee said:

So your vote is for 180 days (+ 1 extension) over the 5 year period? 

 

My vote is for a 180 days each calendar year (+ max of 1 extension). 

 

Time will tell 🙂 

No, I am saying exactly the same thing you are saying.

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Ghetto..... It's got the most beautiful Gogo bar girls living there. 

 

That's the difference between Nirun and Flybird, similar in appearance but Flybird has the chicky babes, Nirun has the aged pensioners. 

 

Nurun reminds me of a prison but its like a luxury condo compared to Flybird.

18 hours ago, Mike Teavee said:

Obviously we don't know the full rules yet but as the Visa is valid for 5 years & as you cannot have 2 valid visas at the same time getting a new one would seem to be dependant upon them cancelling the existing one. 

 

I think you can use it for 180 days every year & an extra 180 days in one of the 5 years or for an extra 180 days after the 5 years.  

 

It's a 5-year multi-entry visa that gets you a 180-day stamp in your passport.  That is probably all there is to it. 

I would assume it will also say that you cannot use it more than once in a 360-day period, except for a one-time 180-day extension, in that 5-year period.

15 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

I often think about the ones they may have left behind.

Not only that but the people witnessing it.  If someone wants to do that it's one thing.  To selfishly make your last act something that traumatizes other people is something else.

25 minutes ago, BigStar said:

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This might be argued in context of needs. Where's the laptop with a 32-inch monitor? Oh--that'll be extra. (For just ONE example.) Repairs, maintenance, upgrades also come into the picture. 

 

Well, let's hear now from our hipsters who only need phones, not desktops OR laptops, yawn. "People still use laptops???"

 

 

You are throwing out ridiculous arguments that don't even makes sense.  Like the fact you need separate desktop screens no matter what you do.   My bad trying to have a reasonable discussion with anyone on this forum.  Have a nice day.

32 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

It would seem so.

 

 

I understand. I've built or rebuilt so many that it's just boring. JIB will build one for you, and if I were buying a totally new machine, I'd let 'em do it, too, and just go behind and improve the cable management.

 

I only use a laptop for traveling. I'm glad to get home to my desktop, among other things. 

 

 

I took all my desktops to the computer recycler.  They were still quite capable so hopefully someone in Africa is making good use of them.  Laptops today are quite a bit more powerful than desktops of only a few years ago, and use a lot less power.  There is no price advantage anymore.  Dual screens and the lack of a high speed USB-C interface were the only thing that held me back from using a laptop as my home computer before.  It's no big deal now. Almost all computer screens have HDMI and all laptops have HDMI + USB-C. I just use a $20 USB-C to HDMI converter for the 2nd screen.

I use my newest laptop at home as my desktop, and an older one for travelling as well as a 3rd laptop as a backup.  That 3rd laptop is over 10 years old but still works perfectly.  It will be the next to go to the recycler when I buy my 4th laptop.

9 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

if obama ran you would have the most vicious political slaughter in american history. 

It was.  Remember the convicted felon dog-whistling "where's the birth certificate" nonstop, with his mob of other losers dutifully following along?  Now he's saying he wants to lock everyone up including Obama, because it's always projection and deflection with these losers.   They need to clog up the media news cycle so that there are less negative stories about him.  The media falls for it every single time.  Steven Bannon, former political strategist to the world's biggest loser and now a convicted criminal himself, called it "flooding the zone with s**t".

16 minutes ago, Gknrd said:

Honestly anyone with two brain cells knew the direction of Thailand years ago. Everyone else pay up or leave. Simple.

Anyone from the US that went and invested? Unless you have some serious income and reservers get ready to go back to the US and rent an apartment for 2K / mo... haha. Or Strart border hopping. To try and keep your live in, or spouse and property you spent your life savings on...  Hoping she doesn't kick you to the curb and keep your property.. 

 

 

None of the whiners are going anywhere.  They just like to huff and puff (and whine) about everything. They have nowhere else go because if they did they would have left a long time ago.  I remember many years ago everyone was saying they were going to Cambodia because Thailand was getting too expensive and visa hassles blah blah.  Same old same old.  I would say less than 1% actually did and of those, probably 99% moved back.

The convicted felon has given losers everywhere someone to look up to.

People still use desktops?  I've always built my own desktops.  I don't even bother anymore and buy laptops now.  Even if you are a gamer I think you can get some pretty powerful graphics in laptops now.  I don't care about games myself. A standard laptop does everything I need.  I was even able to add a 2TB NvME card as a second storage device.  With a USB-C/Thunderbolt port I can connect just about anything to it.  I can even power the laptop from that port.