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If your condo is wired for fiber optic internet, you can go online and make an appointment to have the representative of the company of your choice come and install it for no charge. You will probably have to sign at least a six month contract to begin with (they might ask for a year but legally only six months is required) and pay upfront but after the contract expires, you can go to a month-to-month basis.. You can also ask at the juristic office. Some condo buildings have preferred internet suppliers and they can inform you if that's the case. That doesn't mean you can't use somebody else but you have to find out if the company will serve your building. You shouldn't have to wait long to have it installed, a few days at most.

Give me a break While the rich in Thailand avoid paying hardly any tax at all, foreigners should rejoice that they're going to be double or triple taxed? Ask Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and all the other rich guys how they feel about that. But I guess you would say they lack "public spirit."

I like it as well. Action, ethics, romance, a little bit of everything. I had trouble getting it from EZTV and TGX, but it was a quick download on 1337x

When I was young, I found them endlessly fascinating. Now, I have very little interest. Blame it on the lack of testosterone. What I have realized is how so much of my behavior was determined by forces I had no control over. I was in the grip of my genes and my instincts.

You might want to ask about table top restorations. Like a crown but cheaper and less invasive. I think the girlfriend's cost 12000

It seems Mr. Anti-Corruption bends whichever way the wind blows

Easier said that done. And there have been a few assassinations and disappearances in recent years, including that guy who was disappeared in Cambodia. Also a few beatihngs of dissidents in public. Not that I'm pointing any fingers.

The other solution is to decrease the scale of the display. If you currently have it set at 125%, reduce it to 100 and that will solve the problem. Of course, you might not be able to read the text and icons will proportionately smaller. You could then increase the font size through the accessibility settings but that will also increase the size of Chrome's menu bar. So it's a cache-22 as far as Chrome is concerned. That's why I use Firefox. There's a hack so you can increase the size of the the text without increasing the size of the menu bar.

Go to zoom and reduce the screen size. Chrome aligns the menu bar with the scale of the display. If you increase the display scale to, say, 125 percent, the Chrome menu bar will increase accordingly. So zoom out until you can see the top of the box.

That's the position of the CDC but it's unproven since no controlled studies have been done. Rather, they base their assumption on antigen levels. In actual practice, there seems to be little evidence that extra boosters provie greater protection except to high-risk populations. Paul Offit discusses this in his podcast

I suppose you also think the Earth is flat and nobody ever landed on the moon?

Yes, so if you've already had two shots and a booster then even if it was some time ago, you're probably sufficiently protected. The antibodies decrease but your t-cells will still remember how to fight the virus.

IgG4 antibodies have both strengths and weaknesses. Because of their structure, they'll bind to the spike protein but they often lack the capacity to ramp up the immune response. A heightened immune response results in a high level of inflammation (fever, chills, aches, etc.) So if igG4 antibodies are being substittued for other types, there will be lower levels of inflammation but perhaps a weaker immune response. So it's misleading to say it makes you "more likely" to get covid. More likely compared to what? You're not more likely to get covid than an unvaccinated person. Quite the opposite in fact. Also, breakthrough infections, when you get Covid more than once, exhibit the same tendency, so this seems to be response to repeated infections, whether vaccinated or not. It's also important to note that two shots and a booster are going to provide you with all the protection you need probably. Getting five or six boosters isn't going to add much protection. There is even no solid evidence that the bivalent booster is really helping all that much.

Much has been made of the admission that the vaccine wasn't tested for transmission effects. The reason for that wasn't nefarious, it's just that it would have taken up to six more months of testing and health authorities didn't want to wait. The objective was to reduce hospitalization and death so hospitals and ICUs could begin functioning normally again. As it turned out, the original vaccine did reduce transmission in various ways, i.e. by preventing people from catching the virus, by reducing the time they were sick with it, reducing hospital admissions (where much of the transmission occured), etc. Respitory viruses are notoriously hard to control, however, as they mutate frequently, which makes developing an effective vaccine difficult.

While it's true that the vaccines were developed in a short amount of time, their safety has been monitored continuously for the past 3 years. That's how the issue of blood clots in the Johnson and Johnson (since taken off the market) and Astra Zeneca vaccines was discovered as well as the myocarditis/pericarditis issue. In fact, this has already been the most studied vaccine in history. So what it boils down to is whether you trust the mainstream science or the conspiracy theorists. And that depends on your psychology.

There are no more cheap places in the U.S. I have a friend who was looking for a tenant for a prefab house in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, population 6000. She was asing $775 for 80 sq meters, which she claimed made it a bargain because the going market rate was $1000. And this was a couple of years ago. The median rent for all of the US surpassed $2000 this year. So, yeah, more and more people are living in RV's, vans, their cars, etc. There was a book called Nomadland (also a movie) that chronicled the lives of some of these people.

And you only get it if you've paid enough into the system. If you've lived most of your life abroad, you don't qualify.

At 60. you'd have to take an early retirement and wait five years for social security to kick in. And it's still going to be difficult. If you've lived your whole life in your home country, trying to adapt to a foreign culture at that age is very stressful, particularly if you don't have much money. Loneliness is a killer too.

Pretty decent? Yes, if at 70 or 80 you want to live in a 30 sq meter studio with roads that flood during the rainy season, bake during the hot season, cut off from all your former friends and relatives, and out of touch with the society around you. That's not for most people. There are expat enclaves in places like Mexico but, still, I think it's very hard for elderly people to pick up and move to a completely foreign culture. If you've been living abroad since you were young, it's a different matter. But most people want to die in their home country.

But it's not a question of just wanting to live longer. There's the important issue of remaining healthy as you age. When you're young your body can take a lot of abuse but as you get older you have to work a lot harder to remain healthy. Look at these old geezers like the Rolling Stones. Now they all have strict diets, personal trainers, constant medical supervision. If you want to be old and a broken-down wreck then go for it.

Yes, I'm sure Koreans and Japanese are willing to pay more without complaint and of course they have smaller genitalia.

I second the motion. I would appreciate a forum where civil conversations about investments could take place. For example, is it time to invest in bonds? What about the Hong Kong Stock market? Are Alibaba and Baidu dead money or dirt cheap stocks ready to break out? Things of that sort.

Lower sukhimvit is back to normal. All the vendors were booted out when the army took charge, but they're back selling knock-offs, sex toys, and a lot of overpriced weed. It's mainly an Arab enclave now, though, at least up to around soi 11. Even Foodland offers a greeting in Arabic when you enter. Most of the old shops selling luggage and cheap bags are gone, replaced by crummy open-air seafood places, pizza shops, and arab restaurants. There are literally dozens of weed shops, though most don't seem to have many customers, which, given the prices, is no surprise. On the plus side, Arabs don't drink alcohol for the most part. so in the bars on soi 7 I'm sure you'll receive a lot of attention.

If it's still sore, it's probably infected. The dentist should have given you antibiotics -- amoxicillin is most commonly used.

We have a dentist on this forum who refuted the need for bone grafts most of the time. He claimed they don't integrated properly. I went to a dentist who also wanted to do a major bone graft. It would have cost 50,000. I went to another dentist who assured me a bone graft wasn't needed. I went with him and the implant has been fine so far (over 2 years) but it was a difficult decision.