The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VI

[Ulyaoth]

Well then I don't know of any. It is kind of a ridiculous price. Nowadays the cable company has decided with Verizon's Fios around, it's time to raise prices and piss of customers as much as possible. It's $17 a month for the DVR box I think. $7 for a regular box, and given that you can't get HD or most channels anymore with just a connection. If it wasn't for that pretty much all tv I watch is on basic cable channels I wouldn't even care to have it.

 

[Birdjaguar]

We have a box from direct TV. The features we like best are:

Big hard drive (typically measured in hours)
Record all first run shows of X show
Easy search
Easy set up to record multiple shows
Record and play at the same time
When we turn on the TV/DVR the channel it is on has previous 2 hours available for viewing. (probably a service function)

 

[kulade]

What country should I run to if I don't want to be extradited back to the United States?



Answer quickly before the feds catch up to me...

 

[Ulyaoth]

Monaco

 

[Annex]

North Korea

 

[cardgame]

North Korea

I've seen some things, man, and some stuff [in NK]. I wouldn't recommend it!

 

[Virote_Considon]

Somalia.

 

[Atticus]

I see. But shouldn't the chance for at least two 20s (i.e. either two or three 20s) be higher than the one for exactly two 20s? I guess I got that one wrong too.

You got it right, it is higher: 57/8000 < 57/400 < 58/400.

 

[REDY]

I want to know health consequences if someone doesnt eat and drinks only beer. Its case of my relative.

 

[Azale]

I want to know health consequences if someone doesnt eat and drinks only beer. Its case of my relative.

Kinda like that movie Supersize Me but with beer instead of McDonalds?

 

[Brighteye]

I want to know health consequences if someone doesnt eat and drinks only beer. Its case of my relative.

Malnutrition and eventually death.

 

[flyingchicken]

and eventually death.

Everything leads to that.

 

[cardgame]

Everything leads to that.

Except immortality

Question: does tencommandments.org really think they're helping their cause?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Question: does tencommandments.org really think they're helping their cause?

Of course they do. They are like the Taliban; they want to establish theocractic rule in United States.

 

[NKVD]

theres another Ponzi-frauder that got away here in quebec with 50 millions, nobody knows where he is. i mean how can you hide? is that easy like in some movies where you put your money in an swiss account and move to thailand and go to the atm every 2 weeks?

 

[Cutlass]

theres another Ponzi-frauder that got away here in quebec with 50 millions, nobody knows where he is. i mean how can you hide? is that easy like in some movies where you put your money in an swiss account and move to thailand and go to the atm every 2 weeks?

There are a number of nations with banking laws that allow secretive transfers. Once a person has obscured the money trail, obscuring the personal trail means just not using any traceable identification.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Where should you seek employment if you want to do scientific research but do not want to teach?

 

[Cutlass]

Where should you seek employment if you want to do scientific research but do not want to teach?

a government agency involved in research or a private company that does science directed at their bottom line. bell labs has done a lot of great science.

 

[flyingchicken]

Where should you seek employment if you want to do scientific research but do not want to teach?

Private R&D?

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What is the cheapest course of action to try to escape a government contract a parent signed for me when I was but a wee lad of ten or eleven, a contract which forces me to limit my options for four or five years after I graduate from college--and given that the only options left to me are suboptimal both with regard to the level of education I would have received (which is tied to the contract) and my own personal gain, it would probably be really really be nice for all parties involved, including the insubstantial intent of the said contract, if I got out of said contract?

(Aside from hiring some lawyer or trying to learn relevant laws over the weekends, that is!)

 

[kulade]

What should I do this weekend?