radiochaser

https://www.truecar.com/new-cars-for-sale/listing/3C6UR5FL1PG635506/2023-ram-2500/ I was looking at the 2500 Laramie. Those midsized vehicles are too uncomfortable for me. Not enough legroom. After 30 minutes of driving, my knees start hurting due to my arthritis. After about 1 -2 hours I have to stop and walk around for a few minutes to ease the pain. My truck has more legroom than I need, my knees don't hurt, and is the most comfortable vehicle to drive that I have owned. On long trips, I can (if I don't need a piss stop) drive more than 500 miles before stopping to refuel. Refueling, buying snacks or a meal, pissing, walking around for exercise etc, only takes 20 to 30 minutes. I have asked EV drivers how long they have been at a charging station during long drives. Responses I get are anywhere from 30 minutes up to 4 hours! Next question I ask is how long before you can leave, that response is anywhere from 1 hour to I don't know. That I don't know puzzles me, I thought the EV's told how long it takes. In New Jersey, last year, I saw 4 or 5 EV's waiting in line for their turn at the charging stations.

So are the new vehicles. I looked at a 2023 RAM pickup truck (U.S. of A.) last year and it cost over $75,000.00! I decided that keeping my paid off 13 year old pickup was a cheaper choice. I bought it used in 2014 for $34,000.00 with only 14,200 miles on it. It looked like a brand new truck. I looked at that truck in December 2022. I asked about getting it in green vs the blue that the show room truck had. I was told I could get it in green but the delivery date would June or July 2023!!! This is at a dealer that used to be one of the largest, if not the largest dealer in the U.S. of A.. Besides walk in customers they sold vehicles by the tens and hundreds to other new vehicle dealers. There were times this dealer had more than 1000 vehicles parked on their property! Sales started dropping towards the end of the first obama term, they closed their back lot during the second obama term and by the time that term ended, they had less than 100 new vehicles on their property. About the third year of the Trump term, they had new vehicles parked in the back lot again. That ended in the covid shut down year. A year into the biden term, they put up barriers blocking off the back lot. No vehicles or employees work back there any more. Now the multi brand show rooms that may have had as many as 50 different vehicles on display before the obama presidential terms, barely have 10 in total some days. I walk through the showrooms on my way to buy food across the street, after dropping off my truck for service in the service department (used to be open to 8 pm m-f and till 4 pm sat & sun) which closes at 4 pm m-f now. Some showrooms only have 1 vehicle in them now. And the EV trucks they have. Last time I asked about them, they had no sales of those for two months. I think that was back in August, after I returned from Thailand. Most vehicle sales at this dealer are now used gas vehicles. How do I know? I talk to the people in sales as I go through the sales floors. I have plenty of time do to this. I drop the truck off for service at the appointment time and they still tell me that it will be an hour or two before I get it back because they have other vehicles ahead of me!!! aaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!

Since Vietnam, the only time I shoot an animal is if I have no money for food and it hasn't been like that since 1987 when I was hired by the 'gubmint. I always have money and there is always something to eat.

He could have some of the deer from here, Lower Bucks County, south eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. of A.. I have nearly hit two of them in this suburban housing area in about the last two weeks. I went to the shooting range last week at 9 PM and there was a small herd of deer frolicking in the parking lot. They must have known I don't hunt animals. I have counted close to 10 dead deer on the roadside, hit by vehicles.

I bought microwave food because I was hungry, at 2 am. People stay up that late. It is 11 minutes to 2 am right now where I am, here in the U.S. of A., and I could use some of those white noodles sold by 7/11. Good enough for a snack before going to sleep.

You can't die MrPancake!!! I just bought a jug of maple syrup!!

Hidden in the words you write!

Are you saying (writing) that muslims don't throw gays off of buildings? There are videos on the internet of exactly that happening! Hands tied behinds men's back, legs bound at the ankles, then two or three men pick them up and throw them off the top of a 3 or 4 story building. Comments on the video claimed that some of the gay men lived and were taken back up to be thrown off the roof again!

Which is exactly what hamas would like to do to Isralies, decimate them and kill at will. Which is exactly what they did to men, women, children, and babies. And you have the gall to support hamas?

Damnit bignok. Stop posting stuff like that. I beginning to think I have an alter ego that is posting without the knowledge of radiochaser and that alter ego is you!

Not I!

"just kidding"? No, I think you may be on to something. He posts more in a week than I do in a year!

That is a close description of one place we went to. Watched some kind of show in Thai, I think it was about bamboo cloth, healing wraps for knees, elbows, lower back, then go and buy bamboo cloth products. My wife bought some underpants for me made from bamboo cloth (google it) and they are actually comfortable. I wondered how much the Thai people working there were paid, only to find out they were all Vietnamese. They all went to Thailand for a few months to learn Thai language and were very fluent in it.

It was my wife's idea to go. Some of her friends were going there on a 3 night 4 day tour (read, 4 days of going to places that was selling stuff) and she asked if I wanted to go. I said yes. I didn't get much chance to sample the coffee shops because of the shopping tour! The shopping was centered on Danang and the tour bus took us to different places each day. Before or after the shopping was done, we had a big meal at restaurants that seemed (to me) to be set up for tours. I did not see anyone off the street going into the restaurants, but there were groups of people that were herded in and sat at their assigned room/area of the restaurants! The food was good, but still, people that were not in our tour group or the other tour groups did not eat there. They were patronizing the restaurants that were next door, across the street, up and down the street, etc. The 2 or 3 coffee shops that I did get to had, I think, good coffee. Even a small take out coffee shop on a beach had good coffee.

Vietnam has its problems, but I would like to go back again to check out a couple of places that I was working at. Not the last place, while the Phu Bai airbase, now airport, is still there and is now the Hue International Airport (still in Phu Bai), the base just across the street, 8th RRFS, is now an industrial area. Before being at Phu Bai I was assigned to a detachment away from the company I was assigned to and worked on the north perimeter of Phu Cat Air Force base, is now the Quy Nhon Airport - Phu Cat Airport - UIH. I was there 7 months. Looking at google earth, the area of our communications intercept site may still be there. It would be fun to look around, if the officials would allow it. Using google earth you can see the bomb bunkers on the north end of the airport and I worked about 100 - 150 yards north of those. Besides, the coffee was good when I went there in July of this year and I would like to try more.

Never mind, I turned on my vpn (I had it on the last time too) and changed the region to Japan. Now it opened up with out the "Access denied". If you do know the reason and want to provide an answer, that would be appreciated. Maybe tna security does not like my comcast.com internet service. I did find that my laptop had connected to someone else's unsecured wifi router (my wifi router was temporarily not working ) and I found a huge amount of traffic was running through my lapatop. I downloaded a packet decrypter/translater/whateveritwascalled and found that a huge amount of spam was running through my laptop. I also discovered that multiple IP address' that belonged to comcast.com were blacklisted and blocked in Russia.

I get this (and had it the other day with another article) when I click on the link to read the entire article. Anyone have an idea about what is happening? I did an internet search a couple of days ago when I first got this message and did not find what the reason was. : Access denied Error 14 tna.mcot.net 2023-11-10 03:00:00 UTC What happened? This request was blocked by our security service Your IP: 73.81.88.150 Proxy IP: 45.223.160.163 (ID 101460-100) Incident ID: 1460000820537389505-188899056980071557

If you fit the title of this post and use the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Federal Employees Plan (FEP) health plan with the prescription plan associated with it. You are in Thailand, but you still use a U.S. of A. mailing address (does not matter why). You are also of Medicare age and are enrolled in Part A - Hospital and Part B Medical. You use your BCBS prescription plan to cover your medications. If you have not received a notification letter (or post card) introducing the FEP Medicare Prescription Drug Program (MPDP), then you do not know if you are, or will be, automatically enrolled, into this plan. From what I understand, after speaking with several people associated with BCBS and CVS Caremark prescription plan, and what I have read on the internet webpage related to this issue, you will not have drug coverage outside of the United States! I became aware of the issue yesterday (my Tuesday 11/9/23) that BCBS FEP members with Medicare are automatically enrolled into the MPDP program and must opt out of it within 26 days of the letter notification of the automatic enrollment! If BCBS FEP has you listed in their database as a Medicare recipient, but does not know you live outside of the United States, you are or will be enrolled. The MPDP program starts January 1, 2024. Some medications from CVS Caremark mail order department, are not covered as a mail order medication, by MPDP. I assume that those medications must then be purchased under the MPDP program at a local U.S. retail pharmacy. One such medication I have, costs me $10.00 for a 90 day supply (1 pill a day) through CVS Caremark mail order department and at the local pharmacy a 30 day supply cost is, $5.00. But MPDP will not pay for medications outside of the United States. I had medical care in Thailand in July and the prescribed medicine was included in the co-pay for my visit. I believe BCBS FEP members can determine if they have been automatically enrolled in the MPDP plan by going to the website, fepblue.org/medicarerx . I think you can also unenroll from the plan there, if, you are within the 26 day opt out period. If you missed that, you can still opt out but may or may not be covered for drug prescriptions if you are not enrolled, either in the U.S. or overseas. I have been unable to determine, yet, what drug coverage, if any, that you may have, if the 26 day opt out period has passed. Opting out of the MPDP will allow you to continue with the current drug prescription program you currently have, covered through BCBS FEP. See the attached picture of the post card that I received regarding this issue. I have not received a letter and was advised that I was not automatically enrolled in the MPDP program. OK, not really ok, I cannot upload the picture I made of the post card. Use the fepblue.org/medicarerx website link for information. admin/moderators. If this is in the wrong forum, please move.

Met my Thai spouse in Thailand, married her in the U.S. of A.

I was in Vietnam for more than 1.5 years. People there were trying to kill me (perhaps not just me though)! 4 months after being in Vietnam, I was in Thailand for 7 months. People were not trying to kill me! Ergo, I chose Thailand. P.S. Earlier this year, I was in Vietnam for 4 days. No one tried to kill me. Such a welcome change. And the coffee was very good!

Blocking your stinking post!

I read some of that thread and the linked article. I retired due to a military connected disability. I am rated at 100% disabled due to my service in the Vietnam war. I pay, no, tax on my disability pension which is more than I need to become a retiree in Thailand. I think the Thai government might try to tax me on that, based the term, "other income" that was in the linked article. Both the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the Pennsylvania State revenue service says, my disability pension is non taxable.

I met a Thai woman in San Francisco decades ago, that was working in a massage parlor. She told me that she was preparing to return to Thailand as she had finished paying for a farm, house, car, and truck for her mother and had a lot of money in the bank. I think that was in 1988 or 1989. She spoke very good English and seemed to be a smart woman.

I think you are correct, or it could have been 12 D cells.

Most of those jammers will block GPS signals. There was a case years ago in Louisiana, U.S. of A. that blocked the GPS signal of a ship transiting in the Mississippi river in a fog. The pilot or ships captain attempted to bring the ship to a stop, but it ran into a bridge before it could stop. The device was located in an apartment building. It was determined that the jammer had an almost 1 kilometer radius! Another jammer in Philadelphia, PA, U.S. of A., was blocking GPS signals for aircraft that flew over the building it was located in, as the aircraft flew over the building. The United States considers jamming of GPS signals to be a National Security Issue of high priority and investigates the jamming cases.