The way I heard it on the CBC today, it was a scalpers convention that Ticketmaster attended, not a Ticketmaster convention that scalpers attended. The surprising thing is that scalpers are organized enough to have a convention.
Sometimes bands want to sell their tickets to their fans (relatively) cheap.The other year here, the Tragically Hip's lead singer/writer came down with brain cancer and did a farewell tour. They were quite pissed off at Ticketmaster as they wanted to sell the tickets for a reasonable amount to allow their average fan to buy them. Also when you have brain cancer and 6 months to live, and want to hit a bunch of cities, you can't really just keep adding shows. Even the average band that is not terminal still is up against the logistics of planning a big tour ahead of time and not having time to add more shows. If you're planning on 200+ cities in a year, you really can't add more then the odd show here and there and wanting the odd day off is not being lazy.
The latest copyright updates were just passed unanimously by Congress. The Republicans are pushing copyright (and patents) in NAFTA and wishing they'd stuck with the TPP. I'd say both your parties are in thrall to the entertainment industry.
Lots of words are used for multiple meanings and lots of words change meanings over the years. Check out the entomology of "nice", https://www.etymonline.com/sea... and gay no longer means a female prostitute or even happy. Many Western nations are actually Democratic Monarchies. Republic, Head of State is a President or such. Monarchy, head of State is a King or such is how I was taught in school. Here the Queen (actually her Representative) is basically a rubber stamp though in theory she has a lot of power and is above the law, as She is the law.
I'm in Canada, one of the most expensive places in the world for mobile, and yes per minute plans exist. I even have to pay 20 cents per message for sending text messages, which is better then phone calls which are 20 cents a minute whether calling or receiving. Data costs a fortune too, I keep being offered a deal of 4GB for $45 with unlimited calling to Canada and the USA and it is actually a good deal here. They also charge 10 cents a MB for overages. All prices are in Canadian $ and my plan is a pay as you go, rather then a monthly bill.
True. I still think it is possible for someone to pass the physical, sign a lot of release forms and make the trip. Whether it'll actually happen remains to be seen. At least any spacecraft SpaceX gets working will be more roomy then a Soyuz.
You're obviously not on a per minute plan. I am and even checking the voicemail costs money, though when I hear Chinese, I can hang up pretty quick. I use the phone so little that pay as you go is the cheapest for me.
There was a pretty good electric car marketplace over a hundred years ago, even had charging stations all over NYC. Shit there was even a steam motor marketplace for a while. Perhaps they'll comeback, burning powdered coal.
Yet there has been a number of paying customers that have gone to the space station. I'd assume most all of those would have qualified for the Moon trip, which isn't that different from spending a week in orbit, actually a round trip to the Moon is just an orbit in its simplest form. Even the release forms are probably the same.
Note the use of the word "usually". I call my country a democracy even though referendums are rare though it is more accurate to call it a representative constitutional parliamentary democracy.
Even in "civilized" countries, they can push through a 500+ page omnibus bill by invoking closure while the opposition is still reading the final bill.
The meaning of democracy has changed in the last few centuries to mean representative democracy usually and, yes the USA is a representative democracy where you vote for Representatives, Senators and members of the electoral collage. Now an true example of a Democratic Republic is N. Korea, where there is one man with the one vote.
Each Province is different here as healthcare is a Provincial responsibility. The federal government sets minimum standards and also does some equalization payments so the rich Provinces help the poor ones.
Most non-Canadians (and lots of Canadians) don't understand that we have over a dozen healthcare systems, each Province and Territory runs their own healthcare system with the feds setting minimum standards. So each Province is different.
It's the same in Canada, the patient picks a Doctor and the Doctor bills the Province. We also actually have over a dozen medical systems as it is a Provincial matter with the feds legislating mimimums
Here in Canada, it was ruled that phones have to be unlocked or easy to unlock (as well as the phone payments being a separate line on the bill). So phones were delivered unlocked. Now they're going back to locking them due to claims of theft, as in theft of pallets of phones on the way to the store. You can still phone up and get the unlocking code.
Mountains make all the difference. satellite behind a mountain, most cell towers behind mountains and households spread out enough that running wires is not profitable and even the phone wires aren't much better then rusty barbed wire.
Just like supermarkets not carrying products they don't like, bookstores carrying books they don't like, etc. This tends to be self-limiting.
Unluckily internet is a lot more capital intensive then a supermarket or bookstore, so it is not simple to just go to a different provider. And just like it seems there are only a few supermarket operators, there are only a few ISP's and they keep merging. It's a flaw with capitalism, businesses grow by absorbing the competition and competition is part of what makes a market work.
I think that ISP's being free to block any site they feel like is not going to work out for the best. Everyone talks about fast lanes and ISP's double dipping but the real danger is the ISP's just not allowing connectivity to any sites they don't like. If people can't load your site that talks about small government, well, good luck in pushing the agenda. Myself, I have exactly one choice to get on the internet, its a scary bottleneck.
Wealthy people pick the candidates and finance their campaigns. While in theory you are right about the voters deciding, in practice it doesn't seem to work that way and you end up with billionaire Presidents that pretend to care and a Congress full of millionaires that everyone hates but they keep getting re-elected. As you say, there is also a lot of propaganda to get people to vote a certain way and to consider only a limited number of choices. Look at how few votes the other parties got last election even though both candidates were horrible. Small government is a good thing to strive for, but it is going to be quite an uphill battle and as the media is owned by the rich and the internet is getting more locked down (lack of network neutrality, copyright laws that allow sites to be knocked off the internet just by accusing them of breaking copyright are two examples), it is going to get harder and harder.
How do you keep limited government? There's always wealthy people who want big government to do whatever agenda they have, usually making more money by tilting the playing field.
Both sides do it. The 1st does not say Congress will only abridge freedom of speech for these reasons, with reasons varying from national security, through protecting the children and stopping smut and the 2nd doesn't say that the right to bear arms will only be infringed for this list of people, where the list includes felons, potential felons, people who can't pass background checks as well as various government controlled places such as court rooms, and other government operated places. Those are just the most straight forward parts of the Bill of Rights, then we can get into what reasonable is, what cruel and unusual is and so on.
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People lazily sitting around thinking instead of going out and exercising?
The way I heard it on the CBC today, it was a scalpers convention that Ticketmaster attended, not a Ticketmaster convention that scalpers attended.
The surprising thing is that scalpers are organized enough to have a convention.
Sometimes bands want to sell their tickets to their fans (relatively) cheap.The other year here, the Tragically Hip's lead singer/writer came down with brain cancer and did a farewell tour. They were quite pissed off at Ticketmaster as they wanted to sell the tickets for a reasonable amount to allow their average fan to buy them.
Also when you have brain cancer and 6 months to live, and want to hit a bunch of cities, you can't really just keep adding shows. Even the average band that is not terminal still is up against the logistics of planning a big tour ahead of time and not having time to add more shows. If you're planning on 200+ cities in a year, you really can't add more then the odd show here and there and wanting the odd day off is not being lazy.
And which one led to Ticketmaster's monopoly? Enforcing contracts?
The latest copyright updates were just passed unanimously by Congress. The Republicans are pushing copyright (and patents) in NAFTA and wishing they'd stuck with the TPP. I'd say both your parties are in thrall to the entertainment industry.
Lots of words are used for multiple meanings and lots of words change meanings over the years. Check out the entomology of "nice", https://www.etymonline.com/sea... and gay no longer means a female prostitute or even happy.
Many Western nations are actually Democratic Monarchies. Republic, Head of State is a President or such. Monarchy, head of State is a King or such is how I was taught in school. Here the Queen (actually her Representative) is basically a rubber stamp though in theory she has a lot of power and is above the law, as She is the law.
I'm in Canada, one of the most expensive places in the world for mobile, and yes per minute plans exist. I even have to pay 20 cents per message for sending text messages, which is better then phone calls which are 20 cents a minute whether calling or receiving. Data costs a fortune too, I keep being offered a deal of 4GB for $45 with unlimited calling to Canada and the USA and it is actually a good deal here. They also charge 10 cents a MB for overages.
All prices are in Canadian $ and my plan is a pay as you go, rather then a monthly bill.
True. I still think it is possible for someone to pass the physical, sign a lot of release forms and make the trip. Whether it'll actually happen remains to be seen. At least any spacecraft SpaceX gets working will be more roomy then a Soyuz.
You're obviously not on a per minute plan. I am and even checking the voicemail costs money, though when I hear Chinese, I can hang up pretty quick.
I use the phone so little that pay as you go is the cheapest for me.
There was a pretty good electric car marketplace over a hundred years ago, even had charging stations all over NYC.
Shit there was even a steam motor marketplace for a while. Perhaps they'll comeback, burning powdered coal.
Yet there has been a number of paying customers that have gone to the space station. I'd assume most all of those would have qualified for the Moon trip, which isn't that different from spending a week in orbit, actually a round trip to the Moon is just an orbit in its simplest form.
Even the release forms are probably the same.
To quote myself,
Note the use of the word "usually". I call my country a democracy even though referendums are rare though it is more accurate to call it a representative constitutional parliamentary democracy.
Even in "civilized" countries, they can push through a 500+ page omnibus bill by invoking closure while the opposition is still reading the final bill.
Isn't that mostly an American thing?
The meaning of democracy has changed in the last few centuries to mean representative democracy usually and, yes the USA is a representative democracy where you vote for Representatives, Senators and members of the electoral collage.
Now an true example of a Democratic Republic is N. Korea, where there is one man with the one vote.
Why is a word that is used when hitting a finger with a hammer considered offensive?
Each Province is different here as healthcare is a Provincial responsibility. The federal government sets minimum standards and also does some equalization payments so the rich Provinces help the poor ones.
Most non-Canadians (and lots of Canadians) don't understand that we have over a dozen healthcare systems, each Province and Territory runs their own healthcare system with the feds setting minimum standards. So each Province is different.
It's the same in Canada, the patient picks a Doctor and the Doctor bills the Province.
We also actually have over a dozen medical systems as it is a Provincial matter with the feds legislating mimimums
Here in Canada, it was ruled that phones have to be unlocked or easy to unlock (as well as the phone payments being a separate line on the bill). So phones were delivered unlocked.
Now they're going back to locking them due to claims of theft, as in theft of pallets of phones on the way to the store. You can still phone up and get the unlocking code.
Mountains make all the difference. satellite behind a mountain, most cell towers behind mountains and households spread out enough that running wires is not profitable and even the phone wires aren't much better then rusty barbed wire.
Just like supermarkets not carrying products they don't like, bookstores carrying books they don't like, etc. This tends to be self-limiting.
Unluckily internet is a lot more capital intensive then a supermarket or bookstore, so it is not simple to just go to a different provider. And just like it seems there are only a few supermarket operators, there are only a few ISP's and they keep merging. It's a flaw with capitalism, businesses grow by absorbing the competition and competition is part of what makes a market work.
I think that ISP's being free to block any site they feel like is not going to work out for the best. Everyone talks about fast lanes and ISP's double dipping but the real danger is the ISP's just not allowing connectivity to any sites they don't like. If people can't load your site that talks about small government, well, good luck in pushing the agenda.
Myself, I have exactly one choice to get on the internet, its a scary bottleneck.
Wealthy people pick the candidates and finance their campaigns. While in theory you are right about the voters deciding, in practice it doesn't seem to work that way and you end up with billionaire Presidents that pretend to care and a Congress full of millionaires that everyone hates but they keep getting re-elected.
As you say, there is also a lot of propaganda to get people to vote a certain way and to consider only a limited number of choices. Look at how few votes the other parties got last election even though both candidates were horrible.
Small government is a good thing to strive for, but it is going to be quite an uphill battle and as the media is owned by the rich and the internet is getting more locked down (lack of network neutrality, copyright laws that allow sites to be knocked off the internet just by accusing them of breaking copyright are two examples), it is going to get harder and harder.
How do you keep limited government? There's always wealthy people who want big government to do whatever agenda they have, usually making more money by tilting the playing field.
Both sides do it. The 1st does not say Congress will only abridge freedom of speech for these reasons, with reasons varying from national security, through protecting the children and stopping smut and the 2nd doesn't say that the right to bear arms will only be infringed for this list of people, where the list includes felons, potential felons, people who can't pass background checks as well as various government controlled places such as court rooms, and other government operated places.
Those are just the most straight forward parts of the Bill of Rights, then we can get into what reasonable is, what cruel and unusual is and so on.