BigStar

On 12/6/2024 at 5:38 PM, BigStar said:

 

Good point and one I myself take to heart. I wear Merrell trekking shoes as my personal foot armor. Great traction & stability; impervious to Thailand's countless pavement & road hazards.

Case in point:

An American tourist was killed when he slipped on a wet sidewalk and was electrocuted by a faulty streetlight in Phuket, authorities said on Friday.

Thura Kyaw, 33, from New York, was walking with his girlfriend to a seafood restaurant in Don Jom Thao Road in tambon Thep Krasattri of Thalang district at 9.30pm on Thursday when he fell and tried to steady himself on a light pole, the New York Post reported.

The pole, which might have had a live wire, shocked the man into unconsciousness and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, Pol Maj Thanom Thongpaen told Thai media.

     --https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2915672/american-tourist-electrocuted-in-phuket

3 hours ago, damole said:

Thanks for the input.

 

Watched a few YouTube videos on  gaming benchmarks for the RTX 4060.  Didn't make me any clearer.

 

https://store.acer.com/th-th/acer-an-rx7800xt-oc

 

This is a good price.  6K/50% more still which is significant.

 

https://www.tech-critter.com/acer-nitro-radeon-rx-7800-xt-oc-16g-review/

 

I play on my 4K TV but usually at 1440p.

Higher tier, higher cost, and higher running cost.

Cost-effectiveness evaluation    100.00    68.04

https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-RTX-4060-vs-Radeon-RX-7800-XT

Generally, Radeon gives somewhat better performance than Nvidia for money spent. Most gamers and Linux geeks on the 'net will inevitably favor Radeon and, as forum members do, sneer at "overpriced" Nvidia.

The tradeoff has to do with the drivers. On Windows, Nvidia seems to attract fewer complaints. Just recently Nvidia deprecated the old GeForce for a new all-encompassing app, which is pretty nice.

That said, my Radeon's doing fine on my spare computer, but I haven't stressed it much over there. If it'd worked on my A5, I'd be using it now. Chances are, whatever you choose will be fine. Me, I'm staying with Nvidia in the future, though I'd try a Battlemage IF Intel improves the Linux drivers a bit. I dual boot.

Anyway, if money's no object, then you have quite a wide range. Why don't you go ask the gurus on reddit here:

https://reddit.com/r/graphicscard/

They live and breather graphics cards and can answer all your questions. Registration's trivial.

On 12/4/2024 at 9:41 PM, swissie said:

Globally, autocratic right wingers are being elected into office by "little people".

More autocratic than the left-wingers? How so?🤣

On 12/4/2024 at 9:41 PM, swissie said:

Don't they know that the dismantling of any Social Security Concept is high on their agenda?

How could they, since you don't know that? Nobody said anything about doing any such thing. You've merely sucked up an old Dem lie they always repeat every election.

Left-wingers, however, have already ensured the bankruptcy of USA Social Security in about nine years.🙂

On 12/4/2024 at 9:41 PM, swissie said:

Their gospel as far as this is concernd is: "Let them eat s*hit and let them die".

 

Utter nonsense.

On 12/4/2024 at 9:41 PM, swissie said:

Why do little people vote for their executioners?

Well, you'll have to ask all those Kamala supporters. Many of them, such as teachers' unions, are paid off. Others believe the perennial lie that Dems are going to give them all that free stuff. So they don't mind if Biden spends their money, from the poor and working class, to bail out college kids to took out loans at private unis to major in gender studies, for example.

Last Biden pardon of student loans could cost $600,000,000,000

WHY? Good question. Or spend all those billions on illegal migrant benefits or allow criminals and homeless to take over the inner cities, or allow drag queens to groom their kids. Or accept all that inflation their salaries haven't kept up with:

Must be that like yourself they accept the DNC and their media propagandists' assurances that none of it is real, or, if it is, it's somehow Trump's fault.🤣 

10 hours ago, WDSmart said:

They do so, as they also have in the USA, either because they've been duped by false information or because they actually have some of the same selfish values their executioners have out of a desire for revenge on the supposed and delusional "deep state." 

True, almost half the electorate voted Harris/Walz, duped by false information or because they actually have some of the same selfish values their executioners have out of a desire to increase their own wealth and power. Fortunately, that deluded segment lost again this time. 

24 minutes ago, phetphet said:

The trouble with the BBC is that it is full of "Woke Lefties" whose personal political bias will tend to affect their reporting.

True. Was known as Baghdad Broadcasting Corp during the Iraq War.

Find some positive articles on pushback against immigration and illegality by any immigrant or person of color. WOT?

On 12/3/2024 at 3:55 PM, impulse said:

I wonder how long we'll have to put up with the liberal tears?

 

At least through 2036, end of Vance's terms.

Right now all the squealing and authoritative posturings and dire prophecies are in the absence of Trump's actually signing any bills or executive orders. He hasn't deported one Venezuelan thug or dared to fire even one useless gov't hack. Our pathetic libs are just repeating their same talking points.

Soon the hysteria's gon' get much, much worse. We really should ignore all that noise.

RTX 4060 would surely meet your needs. Go for it.

I finally tried a Radeon earlier this year, a great value in theory (and on sale, too) and found it had a weird incompatibility with my A5 motherboard. Put it in my spare computer, where it works fine. I'll stick with Intel from now on.  

But the new Intel Battlemage cards have just been released. Look like great value and targeted at the RTX 4060 market. The independent benchmarks aren't up yet. Even Amazon doesn't have them in stock.

Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) seems a thing now, better than Urolift even and much cheaper. Evidently not yet available in Thailand but India has it. I don't have any BPH symptoms yet, which I attribute to a healthy lifestyle, If I did, I think I'd go to India and get a few checks done there as well.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/prostatic-artery-embolization

19 hours ago, sambum said:

Another great advert for the "family friendly resort".😦

You can lead a horse to water but . . . .

Watched too many action movies.

On 12/3/2024 at 12:20 PM, Walker88 said:

Nobody voted for fascism, or if they did, they are enemies of the State and deserve no quarter. Anywhere.

They voted so in 2020 and nearly half the electorate did in 2024, but thankfully lost. True, the Biden admin gave no quarter during its hoaxes, coverups, and lawfare, getting new laws passed retroactively to manufacture crimes and creating novel untested interpretations of old laws.

Recent cool thing Trump did was appoint Peter Navarro to serve as "Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing" after he had to serve time for refusing to appear before Schiff's corrupt J6 committee. Hee.

18 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What about packing the court, they still want to move ahead with that? 

 

Given up hope for the moment. And Sotomayor's let it be known that she's not stepping down so Biden can replace her w/ someone younger, so that's a dead end. Meanwhile, Trump may get to pick another one or two w/ luck.

Not that underneath Dems have really changed their minds on Harris' "values" or have been able to learn anything from their recent drubbing. Just bidening (sic) their time and regrouping, like Hezbollah. Force and power are all they understand--therefore, Trump.

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

So is the left still wanting to get rid of the filibuster? 

They backed off that fast. Schumer started talking about "let's play nice now." LOL

1 hour ago, SportRider said:

There is an assumption here that 'many' of these ladies stay.  If you look at the *proportion* of ladies staying vs the numbers that leave, I'd be surprised if it was noteworthy, considering how many thousands must have gone through over the years. 

Agreed. Same w/ any of the thousands of low-level employees w/ no family ties in Pattaya. Most work for a time, then leave. They don't necessarily go back to villages. They may join a business started by a family member in BKK or nearby towns, such a Chonburi or Rayong. And a much smaller proportion stay, for various reasons. You don't have to have tattoos to stay long-term in Pattaya.

4 hours ago, dddave said:

I realized that the open toes of sandals are much more prone to catching any kind of snag while closed, rounded shoe toes are more likely to ward of such hazards.

Good point and one I myself take to heart. I wear Merrell trekking shoes as my personal foot armor. Great traction & stability; impervious to Thailand's countless pavement & road hazards.

11 hours ago, gargamon said:

They probably had just washed the stairs and they sere still wet. That slippery when wet tiling should be outlawed.

I think he may have been distracted by a fly he was trying to swat.

Oh, various reasons, depends. Ask the individual if that's an important issue for you.

Most ex-bar girls leave Pattaya, however.

54 minutes ago, madone said:

 

 

 

thank heaven for ASEAN now

The ANF Excuse Industry is one of the marvels of today's social media.

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

What a load of cobblers. What about other religions, Muslims, Seikhs, Rastafarians etc.

Notably, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

Welcome to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

16 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

Yep, going great over there.

 

Muhammad top name for baby boys in England and Wales

 

Alex Consani becomes first transgender Model of the Year at U.K. Fashion Awards

 

Britain’s local governments are at ‘serious’ risk of ‘widespread collapse’

And a bit o' SATIRE for you from the SATIRICAL Babylon Bee.

'Allahu Akbar' Replaces 'Cheerio, Mate!' As Most Popular UK Greeting

The results of the survey show "Allahu Akbar" beating out "Cheerio mate" in what experts are calling a "flippin' landslide, old bean."

"It's not really that surprising, what what?" said Baxter Edwin Bartleby III, a senior pollster. "Just reflects the social and cultural makeup of the jolly old Realm now, dunnit? Quite. 'Pon my Sam, I didn't b'leeve my peepers when I first took a goggle at the results, but it's right sensible once you think about it for a minute, innit? I use it all the time, myself. . . . guess it's our culture now, so that makes it better? Rather."

Bartleby was then stabbed repeatedly by a Libyan immigrant shouting "Allahu Akbar."

     --https://babylonbee.com/news/allahu-akbar-replaces-cheerio-mate-as-most-popular-uk-greeting

27 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

And when the six months are over?

The internet stops?