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Study history. It works until it doesn't. Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

How will the billionaire-class get by if the commoner-classes make a livable wage? All of their money should be hoovered up by Larry Fink and friends and the commoner-rentees can just eat flour mixed with grass.

My city car with an ICE engine gets over 50 mpg. Why do I need a hybrid? If you really are an ecophile who believe that the earth's population will become extinct in 1995 2000 2007 2016 2023 2030 as the polar ice caps melt and floods Martha Vineyard or Rehoboth Beach or other beach-front properties where the Obamas, Bidens, Gores and other "greenie" live, well then, try driving something other than a status symbol. And for the Gores and Obamas and the like? Fly commercial. Hypocrites one and all. "Do as we say, not as we do - commoner serfs."

Try this simple thought experiment. First: What type of password do you use for Internet banking? Generally (if you are smart) a password the is relatively complex containing upper/lower case letters, numbers, and special characters - or - you use a six to eight word phrase generated by following a protocol like Diceware. What type of password protects your Android/iPhone app? A 6 digit numerical pin or possibly a passcode pattern. Basically - no protection at all. Second: Where do you enter your password for Internet banking on your computer? Generally, in the privacy of your own home unless your on the road with a laptop. Putting a towel over your keyboard (and head) may look stupid in public, but it is secure. it just depends how risk adverse you are. Where do you enter your weak-ass pin or passcode pattern on your Andriod of iPhone? Maybe at home. But if you are one of those who extol "the convenience of going cashless" you enter both your phone's passcode as well as your banking apps passcode in public. Now - look around you in a public setting - how many camera do you see? How many camera don't you see. Get the picture? (pun intended). Third: If you have any security consciousness at all, you strive to keep you home computer as secure as possible. Using open-source operating systems and keeping your OS and apps updated, paying attention to physical and computational security and the like. Granted - anything that isn't "air-gapped" from the Internet can be hacked, but for the average Joe Public who isn't in the cross-hairs of a state security agency, you can probably keep your computer and apps well protected. On an Android or iPhone? <laughs> These OS were developed to harvest user data, and as such, the OS allows application developers to harvest data as well. Example. I saw an Android "flashlight" program once that was about 20 MB is size (it takes a few Kb of code to turn the bloody light on). When you install it, it wants access to just about everything on your phone: files, pictures, contacts, location, yada yada yada - i.e., it essentially spyware as well as bloatware. Yes - you can find an occasional Android app that will allow you to place a "real" password on your banking app, but its a poor design that often requires making a copy of the application. It's obfuscation, not security - it's not a secure solution and the design can be easily hacked. Then you also don't know what access you've granted to all those "useful" apps you've loaded on your Android/iPhone which have access to wayyyyy too much of your phone's capabilities. So no - using a banking app (or any app that you need to have a modicum of security) on a phone is at best not a very secure option. And that, I'm afraid, is by design.

Run VirtualBox in Linux and then set up a virtual machine instance in VirtualBox to run Win10 so you can run the few Windows apps that you may need like Adobe Acrobat. Plenty of tutorials on Youtube to help you along. https://youtu.be/OWmD8obq4eQ

If he was a "commoner" he'd be in prison by now.

Interpol will probably issue a "Red Bull Notice" (translated: do nothing)

April's Fools Big Joke. "pssst - are you still in the UK?"

bob smith

Soon to be a "Kicked-Out and Black-listed Streamer."

It reminds me of Lily Tomlin on SNL as Ernestine the Telephone Operator. "We don't care. We don't have to." That's about right.

The DNC should simple ditch Biden and Harris and run two Millenials who are compos mentis. Me personally? I'm writing in Taylor Swift for Pres.

Write "Welcome" on your shirt and lie on the floor next to the door. Now you know your place.

Went to CM today. I've seen it much worse although it is bad. Lamphun is much better. I love the way that the AQI is averaged out to make it look not so bad when there are readings out there in the 300s. But "Shhhh" dont' say anything. It might affect tourism. In the meanwhile Big Ag gets a pass and villagers keep burning the forests down to clear out underbrush in order to collect mushroom when the rain beings. A token villager or two gets arrest and a hand-slap. Wash, rinse, repeat forever. Given the plans to increase sugar cane production for ethanol it will only get worse. In the meanwhile certain high ranking officials jet-set to cleaner air elsewhere on the globe. "Sucks to be you commoners."

The "tell." The dude's "weak-heart" is in his neck. 🤔 Hummm.

Really simple: drive the speed limit.

Up next: Thailand House of Representatives voices concern over precipitous drop in Thai birth rates

See ya next week bob.

What did the family of the cop that Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya killed? 100K THB I believe. Here in Thailand the state is happy to separate the haves from the have nots again (as the Thaksin fiasco exemplifies). Nobodies get next to nothing in compensation; somebodies get lavish compensation. And if the prep is a somebody? They skate. If the prep is a nobody? Throw the book at them. Here in Thailand that is called equity and justice.

Nope. Not based on licensing although you may get nag-ware.

See ya next week bob.

Teflon Tony is untouchable.

Here's some links. Don't see it on AN world news but it is news worthy. Videos on X and other platform. https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=Baltimore+François+key+bridge+collapsed&atb=v317-1&ia=web

Advice for tourists? Don't go to Lopburi. As far as gaurs and bears? Where. In most of Thailand they have been shot and eaten. They exist in a handful of National parks, and even there they are being poached into extinction. The average plod is more likely to get mauled by a soi dog or there neighbors pit-bull. Compensation for getting mauled by a soi dog? "Sucks to be you plod."