Not all monarchies are hereditary. The Holy Roman Emperor, for one, was elected. Okay, so the electorate and the candidates were drawn exclusively from the German princes, but...
Just a few weeks after its launch it's now retailing at a penny under two hundered pounds (approx US$300) after starting at a whopping three hundred quid (approx US$450). If that isn't an indicator of poor sales, I don't know what is.
I would think that if Barnes & Nobles(which they've stated they won't do) started a used book section at their physical stores they would get upset too.
Blackwells, the largest bookshop in Oxford (UK), has a pretty good second-hand section. Don't recall publishers complaining about that.
make all elections 100% publicly funded (I believe that england does this and each candidate can only spend something like 10,000 pounds)
Not quite. While there is a limit on how much an individual candidate can spend in an election --- which is around the ten grand mentioned --- the candidates have to supply the money themselves. The national parties can also spend on advertising too, though no TV or radio: political advertising's banned (we have Party Political Broadcats of which we get adequate warning;-)). There's a limit been introduced on this of about 15--20 million quid (which just happens to be what they were spending before). Naturally, this system works in favour of the established parties and against independent candidates.
Political bribery's a lot cheaper in the UK, though (about the only thing that is). MS has to spend millions to buy influence; for less than 40 grand Enron was able to change entire government policy.
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I'm guessing here, so don't shoot me if I'm wrong.
Who ordered the clones ten years ago and how did he know they would be needed?
Dooku under Palpatine's orders. If you planning to start a war (and they're definitely thinking long term here) you're gonna need an army.
Who erased the planet from the archives
Dooku. No one else it could have been. It had to be a Jedi.
Is Palpatine on the republic or the separatist side?
Palpatine doesn't care. He just needed to create a situation bad enough that (a) he could get emergency powers and (b) his army (already pre-ordered).
Not all monarchies are hereditary. The Holy Roman Emperor, for one, was elected. Okay, so the electorate and the candidates were drawn exclusively from the German princes, but...
Just a few weeks after its launch it's now retailing at a penny under two hundered pounds (approx US$300) after starting at a whopping three hundred quid (approx US$450). If that isn't an indicator of poor sales, I don't know what is.
The Federation democratic? When did they last hold an election? When did we last see a Federation MP/Representative/Senator/What-not?
I would think that if Barnes & Nobles(which they've stated they won't do) started a used book section at their physical stores they would get upset too.
Blackwells, the largest bookshop in Oxford (UK), has a pretty good second-hand section. Don't recall publishers complaining about that.
Not quite. While there is a limit on how much an individual candidate can spend in an election --- which is around the ten grand mentioned --- the candidates have to supply the money themselves. The national parties can also spend on advertising too, though no TV or radio: political advertising's banned (we have Party Political Broadcats of which we get adequate warning ;-)). There's a limit been introduced on this of about 15--20 million quid (which just happens to be what they were spending before). Naturally, this system works in favour of the established parties and against independent candidates.
Political bribery's a lot cheaper in the UK, though (about the only thing that is). MS has to spend millions to buy influence; for less than 40 grand Enron was able to change entire government policy.