stinerman [Ohio]

WLW is a TV station in Cleveland so I was really confused.

That guy!

PBS here has ads. They are short, but there are ads nonetheless. This is over and above the ads for their own shows that will be on the channel at a later date.

I heard tell from a Gen Xer who said cable TV used to not have ads.

I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

In California, it doesn’t matter because the results are already known. In other states the calculus is a bit different.

first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.

The Democratic Party would rather lose to the Republican Party than change the rules to allow for a multi-party system.

That aside, the major parties don’t want to reform the system they have because it’s worked very well for them. Our parties are incredibly old by world standards. The Democrats have been around since the 18th century, and the Republicans have been around since the 1850s.