GroveHillWanderer

Not necessarily, depending on the child's age. As far as I'm aware up to the age of 16 there is no overstay fine - and no requirement to do 90 day reports. Certainly that was my daughter's experience when she was younger and used to regularly enter Thailand on a visa exempt entry (sometimes for up to 3 months at a time) on her UK passport. Admittedly, that is going back a while but as per @BritTim 's post it still holds true.

Of course it is, Ariel Castro held 3 women captive for ten years. Jaycee Dugard was held for 17 years. Just Google "Women held captive for years" and you'll find numerous such cases.

They actually told my wife 11 weeks when she handed her application in. She just got her approved visa back today, exactly 3 weeks later.

Probably getting confused with the requirement for a TB certificate for Thais applying to stay for longer than 6 months (so not a visitor visa). According to the website: Tuberculosis tests for visa applicants Thailand is one of the listed countries.

My wife handed in her passport and completed application exactly 3 weeks ago to VFS. When she was in there they told her it would take around 11 weeks unless she paid 10,000 Baht for expedited processing. She just received her passport back with her approved visa in it today. YMMV

You've just proved my point again. There's no reason why the exact same argument you've just made for drivetrains wouldn't apply equally to batteries. The majority are likely to last getting on for 20 years, according to the data but guaranteeing all of them for that long would be cost prohibitive. HOW LONG SHOULD AN ELECTRIC CAR’S BATTERY LAST? Also, a battery is not the equivalent of a fuel tank and it's ridiculous to pretend that it is. A fuel tank is nothing more than an empty metal box. See @Lacessit's post for a further explanation of why most manufacturers don't offer a warranty for the full life of a product. As stated therein, "No manufacturer would offer a warranty on vehicles that matched the expected life, the service departments of car dealerships would go broke."

TTB opens for me but has a warning message about possible performance issues.

Yes, that was my point - about how things have changed.

No, they wouldn't. You yourself made the point that ICE drivetrains typically last for 2 - 300,000 miles. That means it's "a good bet" they'll last that long. So if what you're saying for batteries is true, the manufacturers would offer a 10-year, 200,000 mile warranty on drivetrains. But they don't, they offer (on average) a 5-year, 60,000 mile warranty. No manufacturer of consumer goods (or almost none of them) offer warranties that cover the entire predicted or expected life span of their products. For instance, most of the kitchen appliances we own have been going strong now for 7 or 8 years (some longer than that). But most of them came with only a one year warranty.

I guess this just shows how times have changed. When my daughter first left Thailand with her mother, to come to the UK (this was back in the 1980's) she couldn't leave on anything but her UK passport. Leaving on a Thai passport was not an option.

Also, the majority of the cases are now beyond the statute of limitations - and have been for years. Certainly that's true for any of them that took place in Florida. The only reason they were able to prosecute Maxwell was because some of her offences took place in New York, which had recently changed its laws on historic sex abuse cases. Even in New York, Maxwell could not be prosecuted if they were starting today. The time limit for filing cases as old as these under that new legislation expired the same year Maxwell was charged (2020).

Yes, and several of the victims have tried suing their alleged abusers. However, since pretty much all the abuse took place behind closed doors, it comes down to a "he said, she said," scenario. Some of the accused abusers have admitted knowing or meeting women at Epstein's house but claim they had a simple massage with no sexual impropriety. Alan Dershowitz, for example, said in an interview that: Alan Dershowitz underwear Very difficult to prove otherwise with no independent eye witnesses.

Also, Tesla have just announced a new battery technology that will produce batteries that last 100 years and can be driven for 4 million miles. Article below from Forbes.com. Tesla Researcher Demonstrates 100-Year, 4-Million-Mile Battery

Yes, along with the stories about how they didn't realise at least some of it was useless to them as it could be remotely disabled. Ukraine: How farm vehicles stolen by Russia were remotely disabled

On a 9 hour journey, a total of 3/4 of an hour for a combination of refueling, food and bathroom breaks seems excessive to you? Really? I don't know what your family are like but for us, on a 9 hour car journey we would spend at least an hour on breaks for food alone.

That's only true if your driving habits match the parameters of the WLTP testing protocol.

The CAN Bus Protocol Tutorial CAN bus technology is widely used in modern motor vehicles, whether ICE or EV.

Actually, as @KhunLAalready pointed out, a real world experience of driving this route in an EV (an MG ZS, at it happens) that was posted recently on YouTube, proved that you can do it in almost exactly the same time as the Google Maps estimate for an ICE. And as I said when that video was posted before, in another thread, the time taken in an EV in real world conditions was: "Actually only 43 minutes extra, and don't forget that Google Maps estimates are based on driving the entire route without a single stop. Even in an ICE car you'd be hard pressed to do it without something like an additional 3/4 hour (or more) for refueling, food, bathroom breaks etc." Here's a link to that video, in case you want to check it out for yourself. https://youtu.be/Ypf_J0PAUuw

Except that the same facts are being reported by publications from every point on the political spectrum. In the Daily Express for example, we find the following: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1631258/boris-johnson-three-terms-election-have-your-say-evg

True but (although as some have pointed out, it may be wrong in its conclusions) the article is quite clear that it is talking about, "The Thai baht [...] against the US dollar."

Well yes, they only replace the bits that need replacing. If you had a warranty covering the windows on your vehicle and one of the windows got broken, they wouldn't replace all the windows in the vehicle, only the one that needed it.

You didn't actually read and understand the title of this thread (or the content of the OP) did you? This thread isn't about the overturning of Roe v Wade itself, it's about whether that decision presages others. Especially in light of the fact that Justice Thomas said in his concurring opinion that the rulings on contraception, gay sex and same-sex marriage should now be called into question. Interestingly enough, he mentioned these three rulings, saying they're based on the same legal principle as Roe v Wade, but conspicuously didn't call into question another ruling based on that principle (Loving v Virginia) which made interracial marriages legal. I wonder why that would be?

You could just as easily ask why ICE vehicle manufacturers don't offer a longer warranty. As the article I mentioned points out, they only give (on average) a vehicle drivetrain warranty of 5 years or 60,000 miles. Why don't they give a warranty that would last as long as most drivetrains do? I actually don't know the answer for sure, but I suspect that manufacturers of both EV's and ICE vehicles do not offer a warranty that covers the normal expected total lifetime of their products because they don't see it as good business practice to do so.

I'm not sure why you have such a bee in your bonnet over the warranty period for EV batteries. As the article below mentions, although "the average lifetime mileage of an ICE vehicle is about 133,000 miles, [...] the average ICE vehicle drivetrain warranty [is] 5 years or 60,000 miles." So why is it not equally "a head scratcher" that ICE vehicle manufacturers give a warranty that is less than half the expected life-span? How long does an electric car battery last? The fact is that the period for which a manufacturer will give you a guaranteed, cost-free replacement for something is not the same as the predicted or expected life span.

The batteries may only be fully guaranteed for 8 years, or 160,000 miles (for Tesla) but that doesn't mean that's as long as they last. Some car rental companies have cars that have done the equivalent of twenty years-worth of mileage for a normal motorist and the batteries are still fine. And battery technology keeps on improving. Tesla has just unveiled a new battery design that could last up to 100 years or 4 million miles, for instance. Tesla Researcher Demonstrates 100-Year, 4-Million-Mile Battery