thaibeachlovers

If real AI is ever created, it's more likely that 100% of jobs will be impacted in some way. Even less than full AI is likely to see millions ( ?billions ) of labour intensive and even white collar work become human devoid. The effects of the machine are already wide spread from less bank tellers to automated factories.

Roll on the Society for the prevention of cruelty to plants!

There are IMO plenty of former presidents that should have been in jail- Nixon for a start, but it's not been the American way to do so, till now. I doubt the Dems care what he's eliminated from standing for, just as long as he can't, which, IMO is what it's always been about.

Good point. However nothing these days surprises me anymore. I half expect to see Hillary trying again.

Your trying to convince me that there are people in the US that don't have an opinion on Trump? I assume the case will be held in New York, so even less chance of that, IMO. I can see any conviction being set aside on appeal for being unsafe.

It's exactly that sort of comment that makes me doubt they will be able to find an unbiased jury.

On Al Jazeera it was mentioned that he might have been investigating the Wagner group, which, if true, in the present situation would have been a bit risky.

It's the rampant desire to physically destroy Trump that causes some of us to support Trump against such undemocratic attitudes.

Whatever my opinion on the election, that's in the past and is irrelevant now.

LOL. If the anti Trumpers on here were to be on the jury, they'd vote to convict even if there was no poof at all IMO. Doesn't matter what the judge instructs jury on, in the jury room they are the deciders. If they weren't, don't need juries. I'm sure that if any Trump supporters were on the jury they'd be voting not guilty whatever the proof. Problem for the lawyers is that there is probably no American that has no opinion on Trump.

Getting ahead of yourself there. He's not a criminal till convicted. Innocent till proven, or do you disagree with that?

Now the "entertainment" begins. This will be keeping CCN in business for a while anyway. Assuming the case even gets to court, just trying to find an unbiased juror will be a major problem, and a biased jury is an appeal guarantee right there. However, win or lose this is IMO the Dems dream case as voters will probably be unlikely to vote for a man that is facing a court case, and it may not go to court for years, if the American "justice" system is anything to go by. Job done for the Dems.

As have many, many men. Not being content with being burned once, I went and did it again, but I thought she was different being Thai. Was I stupid then, or what! Britman has got it right IMO.

Which seems to be a common attribute of humans.

Couple of things about that. Yes, the Thais have loads of different smiles, and one has to grow up in the culture to understand them, so farangs tend to misinterpret their smiles, eg a farang might think a girl smiling at him is because she likes him, when she is actually thinking that the farang is a revoltingly gross fat b'tard with bad breath and no hair. Thailand is NOT a poor country. It's very, very wealthy, but most of the wealth ( as always ) is concentrated in few hands.

The obvious response to that is "do do-gooders actually do good?"

I take it you are from a country that has many male nurses, but in my country when I started nursing male nurses were a rarity. I trained in the largest hospital in the country with about 800 nurses and there were only 6 male nurses. It's still not something boys grow up wanting to become. Such attitudes were not uncommon back then. It was quite unusual for me to work in the UK with loads of them, but still a significant minority.

They'd probably sell granny before they'd sell their phones.

Errrr. The point I was making is that the smile has vanished all over. Sure, people make polite smiles when greeted, but the genuine from the heart smile that they used to have, IMO has vanished from Thai society. A Thai girlfriend I had long ago had a smile that was like seeing the sun shine out of her face. I haven't seen a smile like that for a very long time.

Nice try but no cigar.

By all means, but you go first.

If most people were smart, we'd live in a better world than the <deleted> we find ourselves in today.

I gave that post a thumbs up.

I've said it before, but IMO it's a different culture that makes the difference, not the availability of weapons. A double barreled shotgun could be used in a mass shooting- it doesn't have to be a semi automatic weapon. It could even be a machete- they were used in Rawanda to commit mass murder.

You could have just posted that and avoided the confusion. Yes, it's a bit off topic but isn't that what a forum like this is about? If we were restricted from any conversation that deviates from the OP most threads would last for about 10 replies.