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They are talking about hotels changing ownership, not new hotels projected to be built.

In the future however, with EEC and Utapao expansion, newly built hotels could be a factor..

1 hour ago, howbri said:

I'm one of the "oldies" at 78 and I agree with Mr. Coleman. The covid  hysteria has killed many more than the virus itself with lockdowns,  loss of income and business. How many people are able to survive their current status without income for 9-12 months (and much longer it appears). Governments ARE to blame, at least the swamp dwellers and globalists who are in fact socialists and communist. Their only goal is control, control, control. Well soon these freaks won't have anything to control.

Don't worry...

At 78 you won't be "controlled" for long.

3 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Wow, that is a cheap premium.  Could you share with us the name of this wonderful insurance company.  I for one wish to sign up!

My coverage is from Dhipaya Insurance Pcl.. It's not easy to remember the spelling so I checked Google. I saw that Roojai (broker) also offers same coverage for 850 Baht/year.

30 minutes ago, MartinL said:

 

How about if they've been infected by a Thai national while in Thailand, e.g. a foreigner that hasn't been outside Thailand for, say, 2 years?

This.

I'm surprised we got to the 2nd page before this was mentioned. It's not only about the few incoming tourists who will all have the $100,000 Covid insurance. What about all of us who have been here for longer than than Covid emerged? After the Thais have become so desperate for tourist income that they loosen restrictions sufficiently to have 1,000's of foreign tourists wandering about.. That's when it gets dicey.

I bought the internal Thai insurance coverage of Baht 100,000 000 (medical costs), 1,000,000 (Death) at a cost of less than 1,000/year but that will go very quickly in isolation at a private hospital.

21 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Crime is going to skyrocket and guess what? Foreigners will be a prime target.

 

I have just hired a local ex-military driver/bodyguard and I will keep him around for the next year or until the economy improves as I expect things to get really bad in the coming months.

He will be the guy to keep an eye on..

19 hours ago, nomad2019 said:

I believe that trump and Biden are both elite globalist puppets

new World Order controls everything no matter if your left or right,

if it is not trump or Baden it will be at just another muppet.

 Google agenda 21,        170 odd countries signed up to the UN agreement now they are calling it not agenda 21 but sustainable development,      top of the list of priorities is population control and reduction, totalitarian state States/ in all countries of the world,      I fear we cannot escape this it is now set in stone and unavoidable,      even if you google agenda 21 Google has taken a lot of stuff down which cannot be seen mainstream Media is also hiding a lot of Truth in the world

Baloney!!

Just this morning a friend "warned" me about this grave threat to humanity, urging me to Google and learn.. Then I saw your post.

So I just did Google it. Seems like you, and unfortunately my friend, are paid up members of the Tinfoil Brigade.

Yes, I saw the same for the first time in 3 years yesterday...

I just Googled Xiaomi Fastboot and it allows writing to the phone directly from PC. But you also need to ask Xiaomi for permission to unlock phone to allow custom roms etc.

I won't be playing with it. I just pressed "back" and exited.

Timely question..

I recently got shunted out of an alcove area in the car parking area (not big enough for a car) after parking there for several years. Management got quite annoyed when I questioned this.. Somebody had made a big fuss.

Here is where it gets interesting..

I own 2 units conjoined, so not a renter. I'm also a past Chairman of the Co-Owners Committee. (that did not seem to help). But as a consequence, I have copies of the Condominium Act 2008 and also "Articles of Association and Rules and Regulations", which is a template document and exactly the same for every Condominium in Thailand.. The only differences are the bylaws adopted by a particular Condominium. My Condo has adopted no bylaws (which must be vetted for legality by the Land Office officials)

The Condo Act does not even mention parking, so can be ignored. The AARR only mentions parking to say that each unit shall receive 2 parking stickers, regardless of how many actual spaces there are attached. Nothing about dividing areas into car and motorbike. What it does say is this..

Article 40 sub 4 Adjusting the regulations about use and management of common areas

Article 40 sub 6 Construction that will change, add or improve the common areas (After I complained about having to move my bike they chained off the alcove)

Article 40 sub 7 Making use of common Areas

All three ( and others) require the approval of no less than 51% of the total votes of the entire Condominium. Not 51% of the attendees of an AGM.

I can pretty much guarantee that this has not taken place. This is because it relates to fundamental issues of ownership and use of property in which co-owners have an ownership stake.

I confirmed this reasoning in a free initial consultation (555 get what you pay for) with a lawyer.

His advise.. 1. negotiate or 2. Send legal notice to respect my ownership rights as per AARR ($). or lastly  3. Sue the Juristic for redress.. ($$$)

Of course there is option 4. Live with it

I'm still deciding what to do..

4 minutes ago, NRGF said:

We all know he will never come to any harm but what about the loss of face, not only to him but the whole family, that would be painful.

 

When I said take one for the team, it's the family that I'm talking about..

There is loss of face and Big loss of face. When it looked like the pay-offs would suffice, the extended family was ok with the status quo. Now that it's becoming a cause celebre (sp) it is starting to hurt.

He has to fall on his sword.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Why would I care about anything else?

Life is a gamble, I'm betting I'll be in the 99.935% of the world population that doesn't die from it.

 

STOP,

There's a new disease out guaranteed to kill 1 in every 10,000,000. Lock yourself in a room alone forever so you don't get it ..... No thanks, I'll take my chance of being in the 9,999,999 that don't die from it.

 

Back in the good old days, women would have been handing guys like you a white feather.

Time to take a break from the bong bro..

Just because they both start with a C doesn't mean Caution equals Cowardice..

Remember that old saying.. "if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem"

Sounds like you didn't practice social distancing too well...

29 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

1 Million deaths, world population 8 billion.

If it's only managed to kill 1 million in 8 months, it isn't significant.

Any serious pandemic would have already killed 400 million or more.

(Spanish Flu got 5% of the world population, Black Death got 50% of the world population)

 

As for the 'serious impacts later' you've gotta be really stupid to believe that nonsense.

I'm impressed (not) with your ability to confuse facts..

Why would you reach the conclusion that world population is relevant? It's the percentage of deaths from total infections that has any meaning.

Logic 101.

And you have irrefutable facts to back up your assertion that there are no on-going health impacts on survivors?

Got to have your ducks in a row before you label an assertion Stupid..

16 minutes ago, Elkski said:

Let's get back on topic.  Why only 2 hotels in Krabi will accept foreigners?  Because the other  hotels worry they will hurt

their new growing thai busines?

This is the topic..

Why only 2 hotels willing to accept foreigners? Because their staff will not show up for work if they care for themselves and their families..

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Highly contagious pandemic = 80% of infected dead IMHO (not .065% dead).

This is a trivial illness that everyone will get, and hardly anyone would normally worry about.

Same as colds, flu, herpes, HPV ............... et al.

Not true, BritManToo.. .065%? where do you get that figure? 30 million+ cases worldwide. 1 million deaths. 3+%?. USA 5million+ cases. Approx. 200,000 deaths. 4%? Canada 90,000 cases. 9,000 deaths. 10%?

Death is not the only negative outcome from infection.. Many follow-on impacts on health for those not dying.

Over-counts? Under-counts? The Law of Large Numbers tells the tale,

2 hours ago, jerolamo said:

sure, there is variable level. As there is variable level of corruption or variable level of criminality.

But it is still dictatorship as long as the majority of the population doesn't want this authority to drive the country.

Very simple to understand.

 

And the point of view that a population is not ready to embrace democracy is the argument of a dictator leader. It is exactly this argument to think that what we are thinking is better for the other and that we should drive the life of people even if they don't want this to be.

Also, an argument you can read and can help to understand the human life is that:

human learn by theory when they can paid for school or when a social law paid for them to learn good at school, but it is not enough, human learn by its own experience of life.

If you force human to obey and never let him his own choices to assume, then this human will stay a child. And that is the situation in all countries where a lot of forbid things exists... this cancel responsibility required for human to grow, it delete ability for them to choose there life by implicate themselves in social decisions.

 

So if you want a population to be able to be in democracy and to rich a good destiny, the only one way is to let them democracy and let them experimented there own history. It will have difficulties for sure because as you might think (same i think), they have a very low level of study comparatively to the world study level (who is going down by the time).

But the way to learn democracy and live it best, is to practice democracy.

 

Obviously you are not a native English speaker. The words do not flow as well as they could, but with a little effort you are perfectly understandable.

In your conversations with Morch, it seems that you are a little idealistic but that is not a bad thing. It's aspirational thinking.

Morch is quite a keen observer of politics and rightly skeptical of the political jockeying for influence, and one of my favorite posters because of this.. These current protests are still a little light-weight compared to previous versions but the fact that they are happening at all is noteworthy. The incumbents will not change unless pushed.

Anyway, I like what you are saying.. The Thai people, all people, need to be able to move forward towards a more equitable life.

1 hour ago, micmichd said:

Depends on your marriage contract.  

 

In Germany where I come from you can state whatever you want in your marriage contract. If you lovely ex refuses to work and claims welfare instead, then the welfare office can and will void anything in this contract. And off you go, they even let you sleep under a bridge in the West. 

We are not talking about "pre-nuptual agreement/contracts".  We are talking about Thai divorce law.

I'm betting that German law regarding divorce is similar when it comes to dividing communal assets,

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

still,  8 years in a Thai prison would be like a lifetime of hell.  It's better than him getting off scott free.

I highly doubt that he will be doing hard time..

8 years for kidnap and murder(s)? So the original sentence was 16 years.. with the 50% discount for pleading guilty,

1 hour ago, Don Chance said:

Unfortunately humans are weak. Drugs are not an answer to life. Drug addiction is not an answer to life. So drug laws are a way of communicating this. However putting people in jail because they are addicts is not the way either.

The solution is keep drugs illegal but turn a blind eye to it. Be soft on drug user, tough on dealers.  Canada has legalized marijuana and there even more people addicted to it. They have normalized marijuana addiction so to get tax revenues. Now that's immoral.

Your solution is a demonstrably failed policy..

Yes, Canada legalized recreational use of marijuana two years ago. The government addressed concern that young people would have easy access by pointing out that they already had easy, unregulated access to the "black" market. More people probably are using it. There was a large percentage afraid of legal penalties. No longer.

After the US elections, where 4 more states have recreational pot use on the ballot, there will be 100,000,000 Americans with a legal marketplace.

In these Covid and post Covid times, more and more Governments will see the economic imperative to generate tax revenue from legalization. The other recreational drugs should be decriminalized so as to stop throwing money to law enforcement and prison systems, which incur more damage to society that the "ills" they claim to be suppressing.

I also got a call this afternoon from the Land Transport Office. Asking if I wanted to move my appointment from November 4 to Monday at 10 am. I accepted.

9 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I think it's Cute the way non Americans take an active interest in the US. 

You think it's Cute that non-Americans take an active interest in the USA?

Cute is not the word that I would use..

Anyone who is aware of the current state of American politics would consider it mandatory to take a keen interest in American politics. America has not been so polarized since the Civil War. If we were talking about Liechtenstein your bemusement would be understandable...

Nope... who's gonna fight for us?

"They" would be constantly invading my space...