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Exactly - Happy Campers abound!

How do you conduct banking without a passport when your passport is sent off for renewal? The US Embassy requires that you mail them your passport for renewal, a process that can take 2 weeks or more. Without a passport, you no longer have valid identification for the purposes of banking, immigration, or any other activity that requires a passport. So - what do you do?

I stand corrected. Which means that any 25 MP can put their own candidate up for the top spot.

In other words, somebody the West can manipulate to the detriment of Thailand and the Thai citizenry. The West has a nasty habit of working to enrich the political elite in their client states and then convincing the now well compensated leaders to take up unnecessary IMF debt and the to privatize public assets to Western stakeholders while the country's citizen's standard of living goes through the floor. Btw - I've no dog in this fight. But I do understand how the world functions, like it or not. Wifey and family are all Thai and they would like to see Pita as PM. I can understand why, however - be careful what you wish for. This is still a 'developing nation' with all of the pitfalls of corruption and malfeasance that tend to plague 'developing nations.' The one thing Thailand has going for it is public nationalism and a healthy distrust of foreigners. That could be brought down by an Ivy League Trojan Horse who covets wealth and decides to work against the best interests of the Thai public. Just saying in a very general sort of way. Examples of this abound historically worldwide.

The voters did not vote Pita into office as a PM, no more than UK voters voted Rishi Sunak in as PM - just as an international comparison. Move Forward did get a large number of votes, but nowhere near the amount to make a Parliamentary majority. They have to form a coalition government by joining parties. And it's a parliamentary majority that puts up a candidate for PM under the current Constitutional rules. As well, there was a clear law on the books about holding media shares prior to the election. Pita could have divested those shares before running - but he chose not to. "We don't like the rules so we'll riot if Pita isn't made PM." Check out how well that worked in the US on Jan 6th 2021. Riot and the same will happen in Thailand. This is what happens when you chose not to play by the rules. Don't like the rules? Gain power and change them.

Have You Turned into Your Dad? Pretty much. Look up "Entropy."

You should relabel the subject line. Yes - you can buy electronics and appliances online - or - at a physical store. And yes - you may get better deals online, although if you shop around you may get better deals 'on sale' at a physical store. The key word here is being a thrifty consumer who is willing to seek out the best prices. Try printing out the Lazada prices and taking them to a retailer and challenge them to beat the price online. Sometimes you can get a bargain. Sometimes you can't.

I've had it as short as a couple of days and as late as three weeks after it was due. In that case I took it to immigration on the last day of the 7 day grace period and did it in person. Two weeks later the approved form showed up in my inbox. Go figure. To do my next 90 day I had to use the due date on the form submitted in person as I now had two approved forms with different dates on them. So the answer is....Only God knows. Best of luck. Expect the unexpected.

You need a minimum of 8GB RAM, and SSD drive, and the equivalent of a Intel i3 processor or it will be almost unusable. Because it more than likely won't run on his 10 year old hardware.

If you like 'strange' this is the show for you. And I like strange. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/

"So they will have to stand up and take power for themselves." And once in power, they rig the system to benefit themselves and their friends while throwing a few scrapes to the commoners, and then the new guard becomes just like the old guard. And they hold on to power just as tenaciously. In with the new boss, same as the old boss. <--- Reality It's a rare political system that works for the benefit of the country's citizens. Pretty much as rare as hen's teeth.

True that, as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy creates a vacuum which allows for the tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy (and the tyranny of other forms of Totalitarianism - even those which govern with a iron-fist or a 'boot stamping on a human face - forever...... but yet call themselves 'democracies.'). DINOs. Democracies In Name Only. A pig wearing lipstick is still a pig. They occur due to the apathy of citizens.

Just as a comparison in 'Farangland:' Truss and Sunak. Was that "The Will Of The People?" Correct answer is "No" as The People, as in the total voting public, didn't have a say. So here in Thailand? For some reason we are suppose to believe that just because one party gets a majority of votes that get to elect the PM? Thailand does have a Constitution (it's a Constitutional Monarchy) and like it or hate it, the current Constitution dictate how the PM is put into office. Wanna change the Constitution (I thinks it's happened a number of times since I moved here) then form a coalition government powerful enough to make the change. Like I stated above: Thai Democracy - whoever gets into office attempts to rig the system in their own favor. The Coup Leaders did a slam-bam job of that by the way. Rigging it in their own favor.

Funny - the thought the exact same thing.

Thai Democracy: Whoever obtains power rigs the system in their favor. <-- Reality

Once you get Linux Mint loaded up check out their forum. They have a Newbie Thread to help newcomers to transition. https://forums.linuxmint.com/ I highly suggest playing around with VirtualBox and instead of dual-booting, allow Linux Mint to run by itself and then use VirtualBox to create a Windows Virtual Machine, and install Windows in the VM. The beauty about using this method is that your hard-drive will contain minimal partitions (EFI, root, and home - if you chose to separate root (/) and home (/home) which I recommend), and you can Clone the Virtual Machine which is just a really simple way to back up your instance of MS Windows. It's more secure as well as the Windows instanced is sandboxed Then, if you need to run Windows on that older computer, you log on to Linux, fire up the VirtualBox VM and let is grind away in the background until the CPU comes back down to a reasonable level. In the meanwhile you can use your computer to do other things. Best of luck. Sounds like you'll get things sorted out.

???????????????????? Look at my post above comparing Ubuntu with Win10 on an older AMD x64 processor. That 'older' computer has a 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD drive. One of the other oddities with Windows_nn on an older system like this is that it takes hours to get the system updates to install. Literally hours, and the CPU is spiked at 100% during the entire time. Software updates on Ubuntu (and probably most other Linux systems) updates in 30 seconds to, at longest, a couple of minutes. A full 'kernel update' might take 3 to 5 minutes.

That's I good idea. Booting up with an "easy-to-use version" of Linux on a USB is simple. I ran Win7 until they stopped supporting it with security updates and loaded Win10 and ran into the same issues you're having. Unlike Win7, on Win10 the CPU would spike to 100% for anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours. Once it got all of it's background processing completed it would go a back to 80%. I ran Linux and Win10 dual booted, but finally just took it off my system and now run Ubuntu with Win10 running in a VM so it's now my backup system. And I bought a new computer with an up-to-date Intel i7. I run it with the same configuration and Win10 runs in a VM and is well behaved. I seldom use Windows as I only have a couple of applications that require it, and I seldom use those applications.

Given the recent unrest in France, the Movie Athena is almost prescient. Cinematography is very well done. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15445056/

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

1. Wrinkled elderly women 2. Spain 3. Nepal

You have a older CPU and you're running MS Windows. That's your problem.

There is a time and place for capital punishment - like right here and now.

Stay away from Government House and Democracy Circle and like places and Bob's Your Uncle.

That would have got you 15 bullets from a Heckler-Koch machine gun back in the day.