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Little Minds come from Minuscule Screens?: Ever wonder what's wrong with kids today?
If you use each screen to display no more than two books, then it's much less overwhelming. I guess you did not understand me. I was speaking of using 4 screens for reading books, only, and mostly for research purposes. Of course, if someone like you might use your 4 screens to play FOUR computer games, simultaneously, then... This would soon overwhelm almost anyone. For research purposes..... 4 monitors is the right number. 3....monitors attached together on the bottom level. This gives you a wrap-around horizontal length of about 165 centimeters (using 3 27-inch Benq's) Then, you got 35 centimeters high, on these three monitors. So.... 165 times 35 centimeters equals 5775 square cm. Then, above your 3 attached monitors (not lizards), you have your 4th 27-inch Benq....coming in at about 59 cm by 35, which equals 2065 square cm. GRAND TOTAL for one comp = 7840 cm*2 Now, compare that to my A55 5G screen: 7.5 by 16 = 120 cm*2 This is why, before I bought this A55 5G, I had not become as narrow minded as others on this forum. Now, though....I am. Also, this is why an iPAD or an Apple laptop is GARBAGE for any serious study or research. You need more than one screen for opening various books, via PDF or ePUB, or whatever.....simultaneously. ALSO, I never use that GARBAGE KINDLE garbage ..... I use FING ..... CALIBRE...and.... You should....TOO !!!! It's free. And, it works great. And, it can open almost anything..... And, the original developer was a GENIUS out of CAL-TECH....tooooo... What more do you want????? -
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Gifting the Spouse
Gifting is a little complicated, with two tax regimes and international transfers. But this is what I think I understand so far. Thailand: Gifts may be taxable events for both parties. A spouse may receive up to 20 million baht as a gift every year free of tax. Excess is levied a gift tax of 5%. There doesn't seem to be a filing requirement unless tax is due, but I'm not certain of that. The donor can gift funds from within Thailand with no tax implications to self. Funds sent from outside of Thailand are remittances, and are subject to the standard tax regulations. Irrelevant if the purpose is a gift. Two separate events. Tax on the remitted funds is based on assessability and donor's TEDA, with excess taxed as personal income at rates up to 35%. No tax is levied on the donor for giving the gift. USA: Receiving the gift within exclusion limits is tax-free for the donee. Any gift tax is paid by the donor. Gifts to spouses are generally tax-free, up to a lifetime limit of $13,600,000. Gifts to foreign spouses is capped at an annual tax-free limit of $185,000. IRS Form 709 is used to declare and pay gift tax. Form is not filed if no tax due. A null filing might be useful as documentation for future Thai filing questions. The solution would seem to be setting up an individual brokerage account in the spouses name outside of Thailand. Let's say I gift my wife 1 million baht annually, currently about US$29,000. I sell funds in MY individual account and pay the capital gains taxes if any, and transfer $29K into her individual account as a gift. There is no US gift tax, as I am under the $185K annual threshold. She has cash in her account without worrying about cost basis had I transferred shares previously owned. Form 709 is not required, but a null form may be filed for documentary purposes. There is no Thai income tax for me, as no money has been remitted into Thailand. There is no Thai gift tax for the spouse, as we are under the 20 million baht annual limit. I can do this every year, and when I eventually expire, she will have more than enough funds to live on until the IRS provides the Transfer Certification, which can take up to a year. She should be able to remit the funds herself at any time, either by SWIFT or wise, as non-assessable prior gifts. She can keep the funds indefinitely in her US-based individual brokerage account, we will invest in ETF's and start earning more than the pitiful 1.5% she could get if brought in to Thailand. That will require a W8-BEN withholding form for the brokerage, and she'll also have to start filing US tax returns. If she can get an ITIN, I'll have the option of filing Married filing Joint. Or perhaps keep it simple, and she can file herself to keep her gifted funds separate from mine. Any comments, constructive or otherwise? -
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Intoxicated tourist detained after Pattaya restaurant altercation
Utter baiting tosh - never any issue that could resemble 'serious or newsworthy trouble'... ... But, if you disagree, list the situations where I have 'admitted to 'unsavoury' incidents / behavior ? His estimate that whenever there is an article on here painting a foreigner in a negative light there is a 75% chance it is a Brit - ??? thats no where near realistic... 10% at best. 'us' you mean 'utter tools' ??? So - what % is caused by Brits, are you going with the made up stat of 75% again ?? Nowhere near.... I wrote 0.001% - and thats including your stats, using your exageration of x10 and then more than doubling that.... But - that just highlights your pathetic bias - you think more than 0.001% of British Tourist come here and cause trouble. Even with your exaggeration, basic maths proves your assertion completely flawed. No - in the same way I don't ask why a broken clock is correct twice per day. When you keep pedling the same rhetoric, you will of corse be close to the mark sometimes. The absence of your comments in threads not involving the British is more telling of your bigotry. Because you are an anti-British bigot who refuses to operate outside of your echo-chamber instead persistently searching for confirmation bias. We'll next see you in the news reported for DUI - but it will have nothing to do with your claims of being British and everything to do with you just being... well, you !!!.. -
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Election Commission Urged to Probe Thaksin’s Dual Citizenship
Small poor countries everywhere in the world hawk their passports around to the wealthy marginal citizens of The West, Russia, China and just about anywhere else you can think of. Malta comes to mind. Probably Cyprus also, and many countries of the Caribbean. -
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Massive Korean Study Confirms Elevated Risk of Heart Disease Among Young People
That's because they were caught lying. During day-to-day operations, Wikipedia administrators routinely block accounts and IP ranges to reduce or prevent vandalism and other inappropriate behavior. This page explains to blocked users why they may have been blocked, as well as how to request an unblock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Appealing_a_block -
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New Alcohol Control Bill Nearly Finalised; Set for December House Vote
So they think that they can somehow legislate sensible alcohol consumption? This is a fools errand. Alcohol consumption is an individuals choice. As long as it’s available there will be abusers. It’s about how many there are. The best a government can do is ensure rigorous enforcement of existing laws (eg road safety, DUI etc) and create awareness for the physical and mental cost of alcohol abuse. A tall order I know for a ‘live for today’ society. -
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TM30 - real estate agent reports online, but you still need to go and report it yourself!!!
Either you are leasing or renting. Which one is it? -
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Best time of day for jomtien immigration?
Geez as said thanks for the info....i did believe you which is why i went at 1...the dumb luck maybe was there were about 40 people in line ahead of me but when i got my number for the extension i was number 2 so my guess is i was lucky that the other 38 or so people were not there for basic 30 day extension or i would have not been number 2.....glad it's over and done
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