Personally, my preference is for ranked (preferential) ballot. Having said that, up here in Canada we also have FPTP (first pass the post) and currently have 5 parties in the federal Parliament, 4 if we ignore the 3 Green Party members, and we've had more than 2 major parties in Parliament for decades now. So, although FPTP makes it much more difficult to not have a de facto 2 party system, it doesn't make it impossible.

I call BS. Bitcoin is used for speculation *and* facilitating illegal activities.

Please get with the program. You're supposed to not RTFA and then provide a strongly worded opinion and become belligerent when challenged on it. Sheeesh.

I believe that every developed country on the planet, with the exception of the US, is a 'nazi country' by this definition.
So don't you go feeling you're special :-)

[written from nazi country Canada]

Solar power is not dispatchable. This failing may possibly be rectifiable with battery storage systems, but we're not there yet. FWIW, I live in Vancouver where sunlight is almost non-existent in November, so I always find it interesting when solar is championed as the wave of the future.

It's truly ludicrous that outside of North America, dual SIM phones are the norm, whereas in NA, it is impossible to buy a phone from a carrier that is dual SIM (at least that's the case in Canada). That kind of nonsense is the result of having oligopolies. I voted with my wallet and bought a dual SIM Xiaomi from a third party. Will likely do so next time I need a phone as well.

I've had a Redmi 6 for about a month. I put Nova on it and life's good. The Redmi 6 is not a power phone by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very good bang for the buck. Got mine from B&H Photo. Next phone will likely be a Xiaomi as well.

We have the exact same problem in Vancouver - housing speculators, hot asian money, etc. We even had people walking into casinos with $10s of thousands, usually in $20 bills, or even $100,000 to $200,000 in duffel bags, exchanging it for chips, and then cashing it out - voila, money laundered. So, count me in as incredulous as to why anyone needs to be walking around with $10,000 in cash on them.

Didn't seem to work for Pied Piper, why should it work for Facebook.

Well, I, for one, blame Canada.

The problem with this is that you'd separate parents from kids. So, not gonna happen.

Canada must also be cell phone thief free, but only just recently. IIRC it was as of December 2017 that it became illegal to sell locked cell phones in Canada. Presumably prior to Dec 2017 Canada was rife with cell phone thieves. Either that or the whole lock to prevent theft argument is so much BS.

Pretty much the same situation in Vancouver and Toronto. The one difference with the UK may be that in Vancouver, housing supply would arguably not be an issue except for foreign money pouring into the residential real estate market, thus driving up demand and prices.

I live in Canada and for a number of years had been getting mail order contacts from daysoft in the UK, with no doctor's prescription. Was always happy about the cost and service. I've since had PRK done, so no longer need their services, but would definitely recommend them (and have) to anyone looking for daily wear contacts. So, yup, I agree, the "prescription" requirement is something of a racket. My 2 cents.

That trick has worked for me as well in the past. Haven't tried it in the last few years, so can't say how current it is.