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Of course the best lawyers are not exclusive to the USA, I would say the best lawyers are in Japan, but regardless the vast majority of major financial produts and techniques, such as modern securitization, CDOs, CDS, CLOs, ABS, MBS were INVENTED in the USA. So the knowledge flowed from the US to the UK and then other law firms. JP Morgan invented the Credit Default Swap in 1994. The vast majority of cutting edge financial techniques and capital markets products were invented in the US and the greatest source of knowledge for all of them is in New York, not London or Tokyo or Frankfurt. Besides, if you have an investment fund whose target investors are in the US you simply HAVE to use a US law firm. There is no way around it. Not because you could not use a UK law firm with a US office, but because the best funds law firms are in New York, ie US firms. Nobody ever, EVER, chose a lawyer because of "compliance issues", lawyers are chosen based on reputation and expertise. Of course every now and then you can see a small law firm or accountancy firm used on a big deal, mostly because of personal relationships. If you think Deutsche Bank are now going to start using non US firms for their investment funds you really live in La La world.

They certainly are if you get that big police Maglite. Personally I rely on a machete next to the nighttable, but that could work.

Your best bet is to work out in the gym and then offer services as a sex worker at Nana. You will need a sex change of course, but hospitals here are cheap and good quality.

My two air quality monitors inside this Chiang Mai house say "good air quality". Not even running the air purifiers. Wh

If you're not interested in a maglite torch you're not human.

It is an inescapable law of the Universe that you will reap what you sow. You cannot take from someone without consequence. You cannot exploit the good without cost. What they took unjustly will be their burden. What you gave out of kindness and love, what you sacrificed may not have stopped your betrayal at the time. Life has a way of teaching lessons. Call it Karma, call it divine justice. Betrayal is never left unanswered. The universe keeps score. They will be haunted by the emptiness of their own betrayal. The comfort they crave, they will not find. Their downfall will happen. No act of betrayal escapes the eyes of justice.

The USA is the most attractive market in the world. Still. There is nothing Canada, Mexico or Zimbabwe can do about it. Just accept it. American market, American rules.

Sure. The Maglite. Wonderful torch. The Leatherman multitool. Often copied, never equalled. Wilson and Spalding basketballs. The Waring Blender Kitchen Aid mixers. Pyrex glassware. Gibson guitars. The Zippo lighter. Igloo coolers. Levis 501 jeans. New Balance sneakers.

Trump is honoring a woman's rights leader? What? What a betrayal of my vote!!!!

Oh no, will Thailand rename the Americano into "Thalandiano"? Like Canada did with the Canadiano? How will the US survive?

I couldn't agree more, why didn't you just rent a house then? I live in a 4 bed house and am loving it.

True enough. But their win is only temporary. Betrayal, lies and selfishness are seeds that grow terrible fruit for the perpetrator. The silence and suffering they will reap, for you reap what you sow, will be the price they will have to pay. The universe doesn't forget the heart they drained without gratitude.

Have you been to Pattaya? You'd think you're in downtown Moscow. Even the shops have Cyrillic signs. Even the bargirls are turning Russian.

Thais don't even like Big Macs! If the price of Som Tom increases to 1000 baht, there'd be a revolution. But Big Macs?

Eastern Europeans, including Ukrainians and Russians, should not be allowed to travel. They should be behind some iron curtain queuing for bread. There, I said it.

We are going to see a future filled with Chinese nobel prize winners, with a run that will make the run of jewish nobel prize winners look second best. In academia the Chinese will triumph, because 1) their IQ is above that of any others and 2) their work ethic is unique. This will naturally translate into excellence in technology. Culturally also the Chinese take a long term approach, politically too, whereas the democracies of the West are myopic short term bunglers in the worst case (Europe) or dependent on once in a generation genius (the US).

Thais don't even know where America is. Less still what the economic policies are. I doubt they even noticed what is happening.

This statement betrays massive ignorance of how the world actually works. The reality is that US law firms and US investment banks have expertise which other investment banks and law firms simply do not have. If a major bank wants to do a securitization they want the BEST lawyer and the best team doing it. They know who is the best lawyer, who has the best team and the best expertise. They are NOT going to say oh well, we want to do a 900 million securitization but we won't engage Chris McBride from Mayer Brown because we don't like the politics of the US White House. I mean that's just massively ignorant thinking. This is why the US do not need to worry. They have expertise others do not have. In addition they have a massively attractive market. No matter what politics is happening companies will want to be in that market making money from Americans. There are Chinese firms in America now, sitting it out, while they hate Trump, they know they still need to be in the US market. It's ludicrous to think or hope otherwise.

Only a brain-amputated mentally retarded blind man who has never looked at the resources of Russia, history or its arms arsenal could possibly have believed that Ukraine's invasion of Russia was a good idea. The gambit has failed. Ukraine is being defeated on all fronts. Zelensky imploring defence, no more serious Ukrainian advances.

He was a terrible Batman. Truly abominable. Kilmer's reputation for being difficult on set had reportedly exploded into open warfare with the director, Joel Schumacher, normally the most temperate of men, who called his leading man's behaviour "difficult and childish". John Frankenheimer, who directed Kilmer in The Island of Dr Moreau, was even blunter. "I don't like Val Kilmer," he said. "I don't like his work ethic and I don't want to be associated with him ever again." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n7xy3ew8mo

Definitely not the girls. I've never been asked for money for free.

This is better than ZZ Top:

Nazi Germany expressly abolished press freedom. Did Trump do that as well? After 1933 German newspapers were made into public service entities, and thus overseen by state officials. Did Trump do this? Eventually only those with an Aryan pass could become journalists. Did Trump do this? In Nazi Germany the newspapers of opposition parties were appropriated by the Nazis. Did Trump do this? Sorry, but your analogy is massively and utterly falling short of reality.

I don't know. It's complicated. You wish you had none, but you're happy you have them and wouldn't not to want to have them. I think people who don't have kids miss out.

Thais love to party. When they do they like to go all out, costs be damned.