You would not be able to be voted out if you controlled a majority of votes, unless you voted against yourself.

Probably no, although some exceptions apply

First, doing illegal things may allow them to vote you out regardless, but thats more a case-by-case basis.

So for pure voting, generally you have 1 share 1 vote. So if you own 75%, of course you can win any vote.

However, in some cases, its not 1 share 1 vote. Some shares may be worth more than 1 vote. This is by design. Stocks can be dividend into different "classes". So a Class A share may be 10 votes, and a class B share may be 1 vote.

So what happens if I own 75% of a company, but they are all Class B shares with 1 vote vs maybe someone who only owns 25% of the company, but those are Class A shares with 10 votes! Things get weird

In reality, its common for founders in the early stages of companies who sell off stock for money, to create these classes and get shares with more votes, so that while they may only own 25% of the company, they still have the majority votes.

Surprisingly, diving in hockey (especially high level hockey) really isn't a big issue. You'd be surprised how often it actually gets called.

Refs in hockey, unlike NBA and football/soccer, are pretty empowered to make the decision to call a diving penalty, as such you see far less of it than you might otherwise see.

Yes, its true, they all need breaks so sometimes you see this in play, where someone just takes a lot of time and everyone gets some water. But this is also, kinda a mutual waterbreak, to a degree.

Its unfortunately simply a successful tactic in the game with little downside.

Getting a penalty, especially one in a prime location or that would result in a penalty kick, is extremely valuable. Huge deal. The 'cost' of being caught faking, is that most fakes aren't caught, and if you get caught its generally not a big deal.

Its unfortunate, but its such a good tactic in the sport that you see it from youth up to the top pinnacle of players.

A short to say, the rules of the game make the benefit of making vastly more than the "loss" in getting caught faking.

Yes, everyone thinks the rule should change.

You didn't ask, but the NBA also has a flopping problem, which they also ignore.

Vermont as well was in theory its own country, but it wasn't recognized as a country by anyone and generally intended to join the US anyways (which it later did).

Yup. That’s why I said it’s directional, not proportional

I would say this storyline was a flop in the sense that it kept Jesse as an "addict" trope for too long in the story, but him dating the mom was worse.

Both were good for Walt, but overall I thought had too much time with Jesse + girls that added less than it should have

The spinning top

Gas generally is aligned directionally with the price of oil. If oil goes up, gas goes up, if oil goes down gas goes.

If people think the price of oil is increasing, they will say that gas may go up. They may be wrong, maybe oil goes down, or no change, but they can still say it. Saying "gas will go up" means nothing until it actually does, and unless you're putting your money where your mouth is, there's no penalty for being wrong. They absolutely do not ALWAYS get it right. But economists and traders know the patterns and roughly what to expect. Your local radio etc. isn't making their own predictions, they probably just look at what someone else is saying.

Example: Gas is going up tomorrow.

For oil, there's a lot of metrics, such as worldwide oil production, that are very good indicators of the direction oil is trending, so people look to those when they think about what the price will be in the near term.

No, TV ratings are just fake there to make it seem like they exist. They are not real. Its a vanity plate, its not like actual real or has effect, outside of some carriage deals, which I have to assume at this point you don't know what content covenants and such are.

The FCC was never going to get involved. Never. The networks made a fake "ratings" system just to get the religious folks off their ass, it was all fake situation to shut people up. The networks knew it, the FCC did, the religious people knew it. Smoke and mirrors. It was "ok, if we just fake it will everyone shut up? Yeah? Ok"

The FCC will never get involved. They did not want to ever get involved, and they just had the networks do something fake to shut up the religious people screaming about Married with Children. Ratings for TV aren't real, they have some internal controls but its totally irrelevant. TV ratings are just total nonsense. No one considers them real or valid, their main usage is actually in carriage contracts and that most cable channels will only air shows rated TV-MA after a certain hour (but not always the case). And on some young kids channels, they can't show above TV-PG. But these are deals within carriage agreements, and no one actually monitors it on any side, it more has to do with that it makes it more difficult to change channel content/style in mid-contract.

Anyone who thinks these are effective, real, or anything but a vanity plate is wrong, its not. Its all fake.

TV ratings don’t really exist. They aren’t “real”. Don’t ever care what a tv show is or is not rated. The network just slaps on whatever rating they want and there aren’t a lot of rules around it outside of deals with cable companies.

Movie ratings are a complete clusterfuck too, but in a different way, and G is generally reserved now for content for very young kids. Was not always the case, but that’s todays version

If you're trying to put logic into ratings of these stuff, you're gonna have a hard time.

This is more or less than same lawsuit thats been happening for a half a decade. Its not really new.

They were already suing them, and then some additional info came out in discovery related to the Darabont suit, which help Kirkman and other's cases regarding AMC purposefully not respecting their MFNs, and then AMC and Darabont got finished and now they are using that to try to close out their suit.

Basically nothing really new here is happening, they're just doing regular legal things that need to be done to get AMC to the table again

Fox broadcast networks and Fox Sports are still part of Murdock's empire, they were not sold. He sold off Fox cable nets, the studios, the RSNs and such, but kept the broadcast channel and Fox Sports 1. That said, the "Fox Sports" part of the business is basically an entirely separate business than the rest of Fox, just under common ownership of big Fox (who also own Fox News, etc.).

For complicated anti-competitive legal reasons, the broadcast channels and Fox Sports 1 couldn't be included in the Disney deal, and the RSNs had to be divested and most became Bally Sports.

All the broadcast stations are 720p or 1080i. Fox and ABC are 720p, NBC and CBS are 1080i (although I think some CBS affiliates are 720p?). I'm guessing some local stations may have slight variability.

The difference in 720p vs 1080i for broadcast to the end user is nothing. The progressive nature of 720p more than makes up for it being a smaller line count. Additionally, if you're watching any over the air broadcast, its uncompressed, which will likely be a tiny bit better than your cable/sat feed.

ATSC 3.0 will eventually allow 1080p and 4K, but its actually a LOT more complicated to do those resolutions than it appears from the outside, especially for retrans from cable/sat companies

If I'm the NFL, I'm taking the broadcast network that bids the most money. Everything else is noise. NFL owners want their money. Its also too political to choose favorites. Zero controversy is best -- you gave me more money, congrats! Hey other guys, you all have a shot next time, we don't play favorites -- just bid the most and its yours.

Don't play favorites, invite everyone to the party and let them fight over the last slice of cake.

Edit: OK but in the spirit of the question, I think NBC is the worst, but its not really about their NFL coverage, they do the same thing with most sports in that they try to create a "story" about things happening on/off the filed rather than keeping their focus on the game or sport. All the networks do this to a degree, NBC is the worst offender

Its not at all like Black Sails. Deadwood is more like a Shakespeare history play in an old west mining town with a lot of exposition and slow pace. Black Sails is more like an action adventure in comparison.

It was a pretty big hit when it was on. I don't think much would change now vs then. It was made for a more niche audience and would have stayed that way. The first season especially is much more of a western than the others and that is a pretty hard sell to a general audience for such a slow show. Deadwood is fantastic but its also a show where they go 2-4 episodes with almost nothing much actually happening, and in an ensemble show, in that time you only get a little bit of each storyline. Sure we have ensembles today, but this one was slow and wordy in a different way, Succession looks like rocket's pace in comparison

It wasn't split into two, it was split into 4, and later became two.

The allies divided up Germany (and Austria) each into 4 sectors (American, British, French, and Soviet). However, they also decided that Berlin so was important, they they would also split Berlin into 4 sectors as well, despite it being inside of the Soviet sector.

Eventually, the American, British, and French sectors of Germany combined to form a singular West Germany, this included their sectors of Berlin as well. The Soviet Sector, including their part of Berlin, became East Germany.

Yeah for sure. I’ve done it too. Just keeping it easier to understand

Well. How they decide it is they test and see what people like.

Sometimes perception is reality

Product testing. Product testing. Product testing. Then more product testing.

These companies do lots and lots of tests with people, surveys, and all sorts of stuff before they ever ever put a product out on the shelf-- in other words, they tried a ton of stuff and the flavors you see out there are the ones that worked the best.

Mint tends to have a "refreshing" feel, flavor and smell, so is often used to indicate something being clean and fresh.

Lets just take an example. Would you want brownie flavored toothpaste? Probably not, you'd feel like it didn't clean because you just had a whole brownie and its full of chocolate and sugar, that doesn't feel like your mouth is clean. Or would you want banana flavored? Well some people HATE banana flavor, so no luck, you just lost a big audience and others may not want to have banana in their mouth for a few minutes every day, if they did they'd eat a banana.

As an aside, cinnamon used to be around a little bit but has fallen off. Bubble gum flavor (generally meant for kids) can still be found!

There were many, many nuclear proof bunkers and locations made during the cold war, on all sides. Its not particularly difficult to build something capable of surviving a nuclear detonation, often these would be built underground or in the side of a mountain. There are many, many of these facilities, both civilian, military, and government though today, most are abandoned or used for storage.

Nuclear weapons are extremely powerful, but we also know an absolute ton about how they work and figured out its not that hard to build shelter or even whole facility to survive an attack.

The lingering question though is when will it be safe to get out of the bunker, as there may be radiation, although this depends on the specific weapon used and where it detonated.