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Not really. Kayak is a flight aggregator and it promotes the flights where it is compensated. Kayak is part of the sales group that includes; Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, and Momondo IMO as a frequent flyer, Google flights is a more reliable search engine. I find a fare on Google and book direct with the airline.

Nothing new, except the laughs. with worries mounting over how such incidents might tarnish the reputation of this popular holiday spot. Patong's reputation was in the gutter long before this event.

There were 3 camps at Auschwitz. Camps 1 & 2 are what people visit. Auschwitz 1 was a detention camp. Auschwitz 2 which is called Birkenau was an extermination center and was built specifically for the mass murder of european jews. Auschwitz 3 was called Monowitz and was a slave labour camp in partnership with IG Farben. People died of abuse, disease and starvation at all facilities, but the extermination was specific to only one camp at Auschwitz. There was a difference between concentration camps and extermination camps.

Cute. It's all about respecting the law. The Trump administration tried to apply a law outside of what it stated. They can appeal the ruling. Respecting the rule of law does not mean that someone is supporting gangs. US foreign policy? This is a domestic issue, not a foreign policy issue. Funny that you mention shopping for a judge and jurisdiction, because that is exactly what the Trump administration is doing. When it arrests and detains people, it immediately sends them to a detention center in another jurisdiction like Louisiana where the detainee cannot access legal counsel or family. Why are people being arrested in NY, VT being sent to LA or TX? There are immigration detention centers in the states where people are arrested.

The taliban requires males to have beards. Shaving is deemed western and subject to punishment.

The Korean models and entertainers have spurned his advances? Or maybe someone was watching one too many netflix kdramas.

Why shouldn't old age pensioners be taxed?

Why don't you just open with an honest statement "I hate Israel" and leave it at that. No need to try and conceal your visceral hatred in obtuse references. The needless attack on the pride of Tennessee, Quentin Tarantino speaks to you sickness.

None of the above is relevant. The issue and the ONLY issue is that Trump wants a military parade for his birthday. It is wrong. W .R.O.N.G. This is not what US leaders do. It is what despot dictators in third world countries do. It is what the Chinese and Russian dictatorships do. It is Unamerican and contrary to the very principles upon which the USA was founded. George Washington And Thomas Jefferson would have a fit. President and WWII veteran, General Dwight Eisenhower would have been disgusted and most likely thrashed Trump over the very suggestion of a birthday parade. It isn't just about making the USA a bigger laughing stock, but is all about betraying the separation of the military and civilian governments. The military is not the tool or toy of a sitting US President.

60 day visa has nothing to do with this. There is an easy solution. Ask him to leave the country within 48-72 hours

I believe the OP is referring to the people who are very inked up, and have the neck and face decor. And yes, they seem to be heavily concentrated in some areas of Thailand. And yes, the heavily inked people do demonstrate a series of characteristics that sets them apart, like walking about with no shirt in public places. The heavy inking accompanied body piercing and the giant holes in ears. Some people want to be noticed. Tattoos are one of the most regrettable fashion trends of the past 20 years. They are cool at 19, 20 even 25. They are creepy and depressing when the ink starts to drift and the flesh sags at age 50 and older. The biggest trend now, is the introduction of tattoo removal lasers at tattoo parlors.

And so the circle begins anew. Hub designations every 6 months, dual pricing promises every 18-24 months, BKK Airport solutions every 8-12 months, a crackdown on something - every quarter.

I would hope and expect that the impacted countries would have engaged with the USA to address US concerns and to protect their own national interests. This does not mean that there are new trade deals. Nor does it mean that the USA will get what it wants. The US strategy has harmed the US economy and inflicted needless damage. Much of the western world was already moving to more localized supply chains. The problem is with the US population itself. It wants the cheap products. Walmart and Costco are filled with low cost, low quality items because that is what the US consumer and US investor demands. There was a time when the USA made products that were long lasting and repairable. The US consumer wanted disposables and low priced items, which US factories could not or would not produce. US investors are fixated on immediate returns. Production was offshored because the invest funds wanted higher returns. Those investment funds pay the annuities, pensions and income for US citizens. No US investment fund has ever said, stay in Ohio, and give us a lower rate of return. One of the most misleading and self deceiving assumptions the pro-tariff group has is that China only produces high labour low tech products that the USA does not need. China's production factories are often automated and it has a cadre of engineers and production technicians that dwarf what the USA can muster. While the USA was investing in wars, highways to nowhere, underused airport subsidies, refusing to close hundreds of redundant military bases etc. China was investing in its infrastructure and education. China has modernized and while it still has a way to go, much of its population has the benefits of a technically advanced society. Meanwhile, urban USA is a war zone with drugged out zombies wandering about and crazies shooting up schools.

You will go to an early grave with a diet like that.

Not just heat, but cold then heat. It's the rapid heating that produces the oscillations.If you look at the temperatures for that period, they were quite cool overnight and into the morning, but then there was heating.

Thailand is making a massive mistake if it cuts the tourist visa from 60 to 30 days. They won't stop being a nuisance if the tourist visa period is reduced anyway. Thailand has a problem with certain nationalities and it refuses to deal with that. Instead it will hurt the honest long stay class of visitors. The cannabis concerns are reasonable. It is pathetic that some foreigners walk around puffing on their blunts. I was having dinner with friends at the Tapas restaurant near the Hilton. across the soi from a cannabis shop. We couldn't eat our dinner in peace because of the thick cloud of skunk stink that kept drifting in. There should have been zoning, restricting the cannabis shops to certain areas. And yes the value proposition has disappeared from many of the larger hospitality brands. One group epitomizes the cheapening of the eating options. This entity has its hand in everything from "steak" to coffee shops, to fast food and every operation offers awful quality overly processed "food". I recently stayed at an alleged 4* hotel at BKK and the room was in terrible shape. Furniture was worn out, the mattress finished, and I paid 6500 baht. The big brand hotel chains have all increased their prices, but the services have been scaled back. The big brand hotels have been moving to checkin times of 3 or 4 pm and checkouts of 11 AM. It's ridiculous. Yes, there is still some good value to be found, but short stay tourists don't want the hassle of having to search for the value. Nor should they have to travel to the armpit of Thailand to find peace and quiet. They want clean air, clean beaches and an accessible opportunity to relax.

it can happen if the transmission line is deteriorated or if circumstances are just right. We'll just have to wait for the investigation. I think alot of the event is related to the protocols that had parts of the grid shut down to prevent damage. As more of the grid shuts down, it takes longer to reboot and re-energize. I expect, that much of the power outage was a result of preventative damage actions. Thailand has power failures and electricity supply interruptions. PEA and the BMA list them on their website. 2 weeks ago, storms brought down transmission lines in parts of ChiangRai and Chiang Mai. It took a day or more to restore power. As an electricity importer, Thailand relies on a diverse supply network, unlike Spain. The transmission lines from Laos are reported as ranging from 22 KV to 115 kV. The Malaysia transmission line is reported at 300 kV. The Spanish transmission lines were reported as 400kV. I expect that with a diverse supply network, and lower volume of electricity transmitted by some of the lines , the loss of 1 or 2 lines would not be catastrophic in Thailand.

As was pointed out above, so what if you have cash. If the power is out, the gas stations can't pump gas. The retailers do not have power to operate, lights and refrigerators go off and the point of sale tills cannot operate, so the retailers close. Black markets do not spring up within hours to sell petrol or groceries. Your attack on renewable systems is unfounded. The USA suffered severe windstorm damage and flooding on its east coast last year. Electricity supply was interrupted. That wasn't renewable energy. The California wildfires knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people. It was not renewable energy. When eastern Canada had its big ice storm, one of North America's largest hydro electric producers went offline for much of its region. The ice collapsed high voltage powers and power lines. Millions of people were without electricity for a week or more. I just took a look at a map of power outages in Canada, a country where there is an excess of electricity and it has some of the newest and most robust transmission lines. There are 100,000+ households and businesses without electricity because of a storm from a day ago. https://poweroutage.com/ca/ Power outages happen every day and it is not because of the use of renewable energy.

I am pretty certain the police were called as he walked about.

You are paying tax on your income earned in the UK. If you were not, you would be obliged to pay that tax to Thailand. The question is, if you add up your NIC contributions between 1959 and 2009, do they cover the amounts that you have received since 2009 and (hopefully) will continue to receive for another decade or more? Have you ever done the calculation? And one of the reasons why state pensions are not unfrozen across the board is that there would a large outflow of funds to countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and others in the middle east with no benefit to the UK.

It is wonderful that you are good friends with important and prestigious engineers. Until such time as there is actual evidence of a cyber attack, one should not claim that it occurred. It is a possibility however, the utility company provided its explanation.The utility even stated that it was the entity which cut the power once the disruption started. It also stated that it delayed the re-energization of the power grid to ensure that there was no overload. The shutdown of a power grid once an event occurs is SOP and is done to prevent further damage. Then as the network comes back up, there is a rebooting process. Unless you can show that the two outages were a direct result of cyber sabotage, the explanation of power disruption through inadequacy of cable stabilization is reasonable. At the very least, let the investigation determine the cause before offering a conspiracy claim. Yes, the power grid in Spain has weakness, and yes it needs investment. That is no secret. It is public knowledge. Whether or not the power disruption was directly caused by the deficiency has to be determined. It may very well have been if the fail safe overload switches failed, but even that is not known yet.

ok. However, nudism is just as taboo in Poland as it is in Thailand, perhaps more so. Polish people do not usually expose their bodies in public places. They don't even jaywalk. It is the land where people do not smile in public, that's how tightly would they are. It takes real arrogance and a disrespectful mentality to do in Thailand what they would dare not do in their homeland. They don't look like respectable people either.

He was drunk. Pickled. Tanked Up. Sauced. Inebriated. Cannabis would put someone to sleep before they did what Mr. Mustafa did.

Poor Pattaya, and I mean that sincerely. I feel for the residents who have watched the place turn into a cesspool because of people like this. No, Belgian. Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, the Baltic nations, Sweden, Greece are all EU members and we do not see their nationals act like this. Take a closer look at the mess. Someone has to clean it up. The wine went onto all the products on the lower shelves, making it impossible to sell. . The staff do not deserve this kind of rude and agressive treatment. 35,000 was a bargain. North Africans emigres typically settle in France, Belgium and Canada. They do not assimilate well. He may very well have been born in Belgium. Armenia is predominately Christian. Criminal records cannot be verified because Thailand is not capable of respecting the confidentiality or cyber security requirements that attach to information sharing agreements.

I am surprised no one has suggested that history is repeating itself. The rice pledging scheme. The same misguided mentality.