MikeyIdea

Not sure what evidence one can get in the US, copy of medical journal, receipts? 

Well, prenatal care is the health care you get while you are pregnant. 

Honda Click 150 2020. I get between 46 and 55 kilometers per litre depending on driving style. I only get 55 (over a full tank) when I drive really softly. I have to drive hard to get 46.

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

Are you Thai? I also work as an interpreter. 

Why would I be a Thai? Juvenile court accept foreign interpretors and I would advise that you use a foreigner if you need one in a Thai court, or at least a Thai interpretor who has never met "the opposite side" or your lawyer. Thai interpretors are also biased but from what I have seen, not as often as Thai lawyers. It is still not acceptable.

First hand experience again. I "corrected" the Thai interpretor on what a judge said for a Brit myself a couple of times in a court appearance, it was easy to see that the lawyer disliked it. The Thai interpretor didn't interpret much after that... That Brit asked me to be his interpretor next time and I was.   

31 minutes ago, MikeyIdea said:

   

I don't believe US courts turn down cases and thereby undermine justice if credible evidence is submitted.

 

I should add: If the right court is petitioned.

11 hours ago, impulse said:

 

No, there were 60 court cases where the courts declined to hear the case.  Most of them on the basis of standing and procedure, as opposed to evidence or lack thereof.   Maybe the election was fair.  But why not hear the evidence in court? 

 

The first step is that one must provide credible evidence that a crime or fraud has been commited, judges then review the evidence submitted to verify if there is any credibility to the accusations and then they *order*. They can order that the case is taken up, i.e., there IS credible evidence, or they can order that the case is not taken up, i.e.,  credible evidence of a crime or fraud was not submitted. 

Some cases went all the way up to the Supreme Court and 9 (nine) justices reviewed the evidence submitted and then ordered that no credible evidence of fraud or crime was submitted. And 6 of the nine justices were appointed by republican presidents. 

I don't believe US courts turn down cases and thereby undermine justice if credible evidence is submitted.

There is a database in Thailand but it is not public. "Tabien raat". A Thai lawyer can go to a district office (in person) and request information about an individual, that is all

I let my teenage daughter bash me to get her emotions out sometimes. I'll be kind today. For those of you adults who suffer from the same problems, you can bash me to get your emotions out. It'll feel better afterwards, I promise ????

I have driven the 500 meters to my 7-eleven for nearly 30 years without a helmet, there are 2 nearer ones now-a-days but I still prefer "my" 7. I meet a policeman sometimes, I smile at him, he looks at me - and then drives on. And Thailand is incredibly safe now-a-days

The bashing may commence

5 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

The elections were fair. Sadly, many of the laws for voting are set by the state. Each one has it's own set of laws. Change is desperately needed. As we can see by the gerrymandering attempts by the GOP.

I totally agree that the US elections were fair. Absolutely. There were over 60 court cases confirming that the elections were fair. 

28 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Where did you get that from?

 

I’ve never seen that ad the definition of a democracy.

One part of democracy is the right to vote in fair elections. We can have the right to vote without identifying the voters (somehow, doesn't have to be photo ID) but how do we have fair elections? 

China has provincial elections but they are not fair. That's one of the main reasons why China is not a democracy.

8 hours ago, Neeranam said:

someone has been reading too many Christopher Moore novels

So tell me your own first hand experience and if you can't, stop acting as if you do. 

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Nonsense.

Absolutely not nonsense. As I have already written before, I was an interpretor in Thai Juvenile courts some 10 years and I was shocked seeing and hearing how biased Thai lawyers were. First hand information. 

5 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Eezy peezy.  We can do like Sweden and require ID in order to vote.

 

Oh, wait...

 

This is a nobrainer. It's not democracy without a process to confirm identity of the voter. It doesn't have to be ID though, Sweden didn't have photo IDs in 1942.   

24 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

So...  How do you keep 'em from voting 2 or 3 times?  Maybe once by mail and 2 or 3 times in person...

 

I have another question for you. Many other countries solved that 50 years ago, Sweden solved it 78 years ago. Why can't America solve it? 

5 hours ago, Thomas J said:

I know the refrain has been there is no election fraud.  Honestly, I don't know how you in a mail in voting system you would ever know or without extensive follow up one on one audits that you could ever uncover it. 

Consider in the USA you register to vote.  However you do not have to update your address if you move.  I am still registered to vote in Michigan despite not having lived there since 2018.  If a person resides in more than one state there is no process to cross check if the person who has a residence lets say in Florida and is registered to vote, also does not have an address in New York and is registered to vote. 

Now a huge number of states have just mailed out absentee ballots to all registered voters.  Now consider the records of those registered voters are very imperfect with numerous people no longer living at an old address, registered at another address, or perhaps deceased.  There is no mechanism to cross check. 

Now consider, with unemployment benefits whose records are also kept by the government.  It is estimated that between 35% and 40% of the claims are fraud.  So how can it be that a huge percentage of applications to get money are fraud but that a miniscule to nonexistent number of votes are fraudulent. 

Now the ballot is received, there is no way to guarantee that the ballot was actually received by the registered voter, and no way to determine if the return ballot was actually filled out by the registered voter. Some states have computer signature verification but like all OCR systems it is fraught with errors. 

 Finally, at polling stations places to vote are to be politics free.  That is those who wish to either support or oppose specific candidates are not permitted to engage with those that vote.  With mail in ballots there is no way to determine if a persons vote was tainted by others through inducement to vote.  

In order to open a bank account you have to show up in person and present ID.  In order to purchase alcohol you have to show up in person and if close to the legal age, show ID. To purchase a firearm you have to show up in person and show an ID.  You can not "pre-board" online to avoid showing an ID to fly on a commercial airline.   Many transactions some as insignificant as verifying a Facebook account require picture ID.  However somehow there is this mantra being preached that voting is not that important, requiring ID is somehow discriminatory, and is voter suppression.   

It is estimated that Medicare fraud totals $415 billion a year, unemployment fraud just with the pandemic relief program is estimated to be $36 billion.  This is old data but a 2013 report by the IRS showed 5  million returns filed with stolen identities.  In 2019 the IRS who should have far better data than they individual states with voter registration mailed out 1 million Covid Relief checks to dead people.  To look at the rampant fraud with other government online systems and not think that fraud exists in voting is ludicrous.  With a fake tax return you might walk away with a few thousand.  With a swung election with trillions of tax dollars as the ultimate prize there is a far greater incentive on the part of some. 

Assuming it could be done, which I think technologically it can, there would be nothing wrong with using fingerprints, retinal scans, or facial recognition systems in lieu of picture ID to verify voters.  While I still would favor in person voting, at least those sorts of systems done online would verify the person placing the vote, was in fact the registered voter, and they could be centralized so a person unlike now can not vote in multiple states. 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/scammers-have-taken-36-billion-in-fraudulent-unemployment-payments-.html
 

America could send people to the moon but they didn't implement a secure postal voting system for normal voters which Sweden has has since the second world war 2? Sounds too backwards to believe. So you say it's as I said? Banana Republic? 

It was not difficult to implement during WW2 even, now it's easy

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Mail in voting isn't new in the U S  either. The rules depend on each state. It was justifiably expanded because of the pandemic. Expats and military abroad have always voted by mail. Yankee soldiers in the Civil War voted by mail.

It's s the resistance to mail-in voting for normal citizens that baffles me. It's normal citizen postal voting that Sweden has had for 78 years. 

Armed forces has beed allowed Mail in voting for hundreds of years in many democracies. 

Just now, overherebc said:

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Sorry I don't drink beer ????

It seems that the voting system the the US is about as modern as in a banana republic. Perhaps it is time for a country like America to do something about that. After all, many countries in the world have mail-in voting, Sweden has had mail-in voting since 1942!!! that's Seventy-Eight-Years ago, never any election fraud. 

Yeah, 

Life expectancy 79, only 14.x years after retirement? That is incredibly short. Another interesting question is why life expectancy is so much lower than in Europe. It's 83 in Italy, 82.5 in Sweden, and 81.5 in the UK. It's 77 in Thailand even

70,000 baht per month? I don't know how to spend that much money per month even in Bangkok. 

21 hours ago, eisfeld said:

 

I don't believe it, got a source? There was some news article on TVF not long ago but looked like the "journalist" got some things lost in translation. Simple reason for not believing being that a juristic person can buy a car and a juristic person can't have a license.

One Thai person in the office also said the same, you need a driving licence (for that vehicle type) to transfer a car to your name now-a-days. He also said that the bank wanted to see the driving license too before approving. This is in Bangkok. I can certainly believe that implementation varies, Bangkok Yes, upcountry, who knows. Both actually said "Rule", not law. It could also be a local rule implemented in Bangkok without there being an actual law, doesn't make any difference , does it?

I must say that I find that the dealer in question very knowledgeable. Big authorised dealer and I have bought several motorcycles there over the years, all without driving licence. I always use my blue tabien baan but this time a few months ago they specifically told me that they need a copy of my Thai driving licence too because of a new rule.

That broke my record. I've been driving in Thailand for 30 years on my Swedish license and now I had to get a Thai one. I was hoping to drive 50 years without a Thai driving license but that wasn't to be ????

Knowledge depends on where you go. I bought a new Honda click from an authorised Honda dealer only a few months ago. Clear and good information

Work permit is not needed, however, some kind of proof of identification is required. I used my blue tabien Baan, yellow one is also OK, pink I'd card is good too. If you don't have any of those, then you can use a WP or certificate of residency. 

New: I used to buy without a driving license too in the past but they have introduced a law that you must have a driving license for the vehicle you buy. 

What's the yearly insurance for the Interceptor 650

As you can hear, I'm interested ????

220,000 is a really good price for so much bike. I wonder if we won't see a substantial price hike when the economy recovers.

Thai Post for sure. Cheap and convenient, they even wrap it up for you for a few hundred baht without receipt. Make sure that the ID you state as receiver matches the one fetching it or they won't release it.  No need to box it, just ask them wrap it up, they do a good job. You need to be able to prove that you are the owner when shipping it.