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At least the rats jump out themselves...

9 minutes ago, Ebumbu said:

Thanks for this useful info. In that case, maybe we go for O, not OA. Or Elite. Will check all avenues. 

Perhaps worth talking to consulate/embassy staff about it; it seems like the introduction of the insurance requirement has made getting visas quite a bit more difficult for older people, particularly with pre-existing health problems.

This group of tourists must, by far, cause the least problems, so it's not clear this was intended/thought through.

[Waits for reports of roid-addled nonogenarian farang sexpat scooter rage/bar brawl/yaba dealing incidents to flood the thread.]

12 minutes ago, rbkk said:

No. An example Soundcloud used was of an artist that had 124,000 fans on their platform. Previously he would have earned 120 ($/Eur ?) per month but from April this would rise to 600. A 500% increase. 10% of the total "Pro Rata" royalties is given to just 10 artists at the top of the food chain. This seems a lot fairer and will hopefully allow for more musical diversity.

I think I need this in equations to understand it ????

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Some disinfectant added to the water

Or even a little detergent...

SOAPY Songkran for SEXY tourism!

On 2/21/2021 at 7:50 PM, Jingthing said:

Well it turns out that in the earlier phases anyway Thailand will be offering a Chinese vaccine, Sinovac.

Apparently that's the company name, the vaccine is "CoronaVac" (this was confusing me).

There are other Chinese companies with (more effective?) vaccines out/due out: CanSino (adenovirus vector like AZ, but single dose) & Sinopharm (deactivated virus).

There may not be info about their available in Thailand yet, but I think in a couple of months getting vaccines in many places will get a lot easier.

On 3/2/2021 at 6:49 AM, webfact said:

The fan was on, there was a phone by her knee and an iPad under her right armpit was connected by a cord to the plug.

 

She had burns on her arm and police believe she was electrocuted after she had taken a shower. 

Seems like these details also didn't help?

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

One of the most hotly-debated concepts in the modern music rights business is user-centric licensing. This model sees streaming royalties paid out based on individual subscriber behavior – with a percentage of each subscriber’s subscription fee being distributed only to the artists/labels they have individually listened to that month.

 

This model is in contrast to the current ‘pro rata’ streaming payout system, which sees all royalties on a service like Spotify pooled at the end of each payment period… after which recorded music rights-holders are paid according to their market share of total plays across the platform.

Don't both these processes result in similar payments??

And now:

Europe's unified vaccination strategy is splintering as countries turn to Israel, China and Russia for help

2 minutes ago, Salerno said:

I thought they loved them, although perhaps that was Oxford.

That'd explain the "dreaming spires".

6 minutes ago, Salerno said:

Given it's not a word in common usage really nowadays and bearing in mind the multicultural demographic of TV, perhaps a definition is in order:

 

fornicator

noun [ C ]

formal disapproving old-fashioned

UK  /ˈfɔː.nɪ.keɪ.tər/ US  /ˈfɔːr.nə.keɪ.t̬ɚ/

 

a person who has sex with someone who they are not married to:

• I have no sympathy for liars or fornicators.
• The apostle declares that no fornicator can enter into the kingdom of God.

 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fornicator

Don't remember Cambridge being so tough on fornicators...

3 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

Nope, was just having a laugh at Google translate; thread isn't really about the condo itself.

Ah, ok...

When Google Translate becomes self aware, I hope it doesn't bear grudges ????

(Or it's The Terminator, coming to a theater (of war) near you...)

2 hours ago, Fromas said:

 

Round and round we go, back to where we were.

Round and round the burning bush...

Is there supposed to be a link?

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Many European countries have advised that the vaccine should not be given to over-65s due to a lack of clinical trial data on its efficacy in that age group, and a significant proportion of doses of the vaccine that they have acquired have gone unused.

...

“The strength of evidence that we’re now seeing... all of that is being accessed by scientific committees in different countries, and I’m sure will help support their decision-making,” he told BBC radio.

However, since the EU failed to order enough AZ vaccine, politicians in several countries have done such an excellent job dissing it that they've effectively eliminated a cheap, effective, easy to distribute vaccine, with large production coming on stream (due to licensing).

Shoot yourself in the foot twice, double shame on you?

6 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I bet the envelopes were from Manila not Pattaya.

Manila, Pattaya, all the same to Plod.

59 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

I agree but, this suggestion is to consider data from the successful vaccination programme.

The other UK covid success being... the variant!

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The mystery individual tested positive more than two weeks ago but failed to give proper contact details.

 

“Our search has narrowed from the whole country down to 379 households in the southeast of England, and we’re contacting each one,” Hancock told parliament.

And has failed to respond to multiple public appeals. Hope they throw the book at "the sixth Brazilian".

19 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

He's wrong, you already have the visa, a US account is fine.

Does anyone know if it has to be in the country you're applying from?

Filled with what I hereby dub  "superspreader balls".

(Why should the sexpats get all the best tunes?)

1 hour ago, BostonRob2 said:

These people are not infectious , not something that a covid vaccine passport holder could ever claim to be true.

They could on the basis of periodic testing - which is exactly what confirms low viral load in people on HAART, whose viral load would increase if they go off their meds for a while.

55 minutes ago, rucker4012 said:

Has facial recognition to preclude impostors.

That's going to be interesting because a recent NIST study found that:

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For one-to-one matching, most systems had a higher rate of false positive matches for Asian and African-American faces over Caucasian faces, sometimes by a factor of 10 or even 100.

34 minutes ago, apetryxx said:

Israelis know how to get things done efficiently and a vast majority of their population is already inoculated. They enforce laws, have an orderly society

Not sure where you're getting this from, there have been multiple reports of mass of lockdown violations (religious funerals and secular parties) and the initial vaccinations were so badly handled epidemiologists didn't understand why the data showed infection risk increasing for the first few days after vaccination :

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Here we extract the primary data from the Israeli paper and then estimate the incidence per day for each day after the first injection and also estimate vaccine effectiveness for each day from day 13 to day 24. ... After initial injection case numbers increased to day 8 before declining to low levels by day 21. ... The cause of the initial surge in infection risk is unknown but may be related to people being less cautious about maintaining protective behaviours as soon as they have the injection.

The government (& populace) severely mishandled the non-pharmaceutical interventions & relied on mass vaccination with basically a single vaccine (based on a 'platform' or drug delivery system with a very short safety record) to pull their iron out of the fire.

Sure, it's now paying off. But turning your entire population into subjects of a Phase III clinical trial was quite a gamble, I were an Israeli with an inkling of this, I'd be extremely peed off.

15 minutes ago, RR2020 said:

Currently there is no evidence that the vaccine stops the spread of the virus. 

Yes there is.

‘Immunity Island’... wasn't that a tv series?