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Well yeah :)

Any ideas on how the board is chosen? Does the majority(only) owner / CEO of the p-corp do it?

You make excellent criticisms and I've had similar thoughts. But I never really understood what people want to do other than confiscate companies once they become successful. Not saying that is what you want to do - you specifically say not that.

You mention "let’s engineer a network of trust and monitoring and a culture of transparency". I'm not sure what that means.

I think a better question than "who made us" is "where are we?"

When Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series (super fun to read) was being written.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-ph...

My point is that is just one of many factors influencing how bands price their events. And that range of factors has changed over time.

The motivation to keep fans coming back and not seem "too greedy" keep things in check but the balance of motivations has definitely shifted towards: we want more money from live events.

Decades ago concert ticket sales might have been considered almost a loss leader.

They do more nowadays. The old model of touring to drive demand for record sales has been turned upside-down. It is now sell music to drive demand for concert ticket sales.

Most (not all) artists now make much more of their overall revenue from touring and want to maximize the revenue there - without seeming too much like they are.

As well artists can sometimes have a narrow window of time to cash in.

If any system does not funnel a huge amount of cash to the artists it would be changed immediately.

Since there is, more or less, no other type of democracy around when a colloquial English speaker says "democracy" they mean representative democracy. Everything else is a pointless annoying semantic game.

Representative democracy is a perfectly acceptable term. Trying to shoehorn monarchies into the term "republic" is absurd.

To be fair the ruling is part of your voting system needs to be tweaked to make it even more fair. That is no embarrassment. Quite the opposite I would say. Your system is working on further improving itself and that should look messy not neat and tidy.

Compared to many western democracies the German system is quite enviable.

The piece has a lot more details plus interviews with women working in the gaming industry.

No such thing as "face value" for a plane ticket.

Ability to schedule more flights in the same day as demand increases.

I wish I still had eight and a half more to go!

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm

"So why did you go into medicine?"

"Family expectations. It was either that or the law. Medicine seemed less arbitrary; nothing in the body can be overturned by an appeal to the High Court. What about you?"

I said, "I wanted to be in on the revolution. The one that was going to banish all disease."

"Ah, that one."

"I picked the wrong job, of course. I should have been a molecular biologist."

"Or a software engineer."

Canada scores in the top 10 in all PISA categories, not far off from Finland, and shares much more demographically and geographically with the United States than with Finland.

The provinces of Canada with higher ethnic diversity and immigration (the more prosperous ones) tend to score higher within Canada than the ethnically homogeneous provinces.

Voters have two votes: one on the left and one on the right. "Hier 1 Stimme" means "Here 1 vote". It is still just an X in a circle but twice instead of once. Most people when shown this grasp it immediately.

A similar Scottish ballot is on the left here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures...

There is less messing around with openings as well. That appeals to me as I am just a casual player. You get to the "fun part" much faster.

Concerning the introduction of "mandatory" metered internet in Canada: it appears the big guys may have been so greedy they over-reached. The consumer backlash is strong and the decision is now under review by government.

Thank you if or if not possible!