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Toronto-Age |OT3| Going Off the Rails on a Gravy Train
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Yeah, not everyone is going to use netflix through a vpn like me. Bob's burgers whenever I want it is a blessing.
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Not only that but the selection is shit regardless where you go. I said it before and I'll say it again: $20 a month for premium service, and you can count me in. All the latest movies a month after releasing on DVD/Blu-ray.
Sadly, I'm stuck with Netflix's mediocre service.
I don't know, I've been running with no cable and just Netflix for a while now and it's working out great. There's a lot of good tv shows on canadian netflix and watching an episode or two of a TV show nightly is really all the television we need.
Community, The Job, The Good Guys, Leverage, Top Gear, Bones, Sherlock Holmes etc. It's a pretty good collection and keeps us busy enough.
I'm not a sports fan though so the lack of live games doesn't really hurt, and I get all my news from the internet. Netflix is pretty crap for finding some show or movie in specific, it's great for browsing and discovering something that's fun to watch and has a lot of episodes to go through though.
Community, The Job, The Good Guys, Leverage, Top Gear, Bones, Sherlock Holmes etc. It's a pretty good collection and keeps us busy enough.
I'm not a sports fan though so the lack of live games doesn't really hurt, and I get all my news from the internet. Netflix is pretty crap for finding some show or movie in specific, it's great for browsing and discovering something that's fun to watch and has a lot of episodes to go through though.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1295629--rob-ford-eligible-to-run-in-by-election
Ford is eligible to run in the by-election. I have this sickening feeling that he will not win the appeal, but be right back after the by-election. Disband the GTA, the suburbs do not, and should not, speak for the core.
Ford is eligible to run in the by-election. I have this sickening feeling that he will not win the appeal, but be right back after the by-election. Disband the GTA, the suburbs do not, and should not, speak for the core.
I wish there was just some type of amnesty fee you could pay annually to pirate as much as you want. But that will never happen.
I don't know if Spotify has changed recently (I doubt it), but a while back I remember Lady Gaga complaining that she got a couple hundred dollars for a million plays. But as I mentioned earlier, artists are going to have to tour or find alternative means to make revenue. And on top of that, it seems the biggest industry complainers are the ones making the most money. Many smaller bands/artists don't care how you hear their music, so long as you hear it and maybe go to their shows. Some bands are even putting their tracks up for free. I think that artists should make a decent living off their music, but I don't care if they can't afford a castle and 3 private jets. If your sole focus for making music is money, you got into the wrong business.
In regards to TV, I don't understand why I can't watch any show that has previously aired on demand. Hell, I would even watch some advertising (much like regular TV). Last time I legally streamed a TV show (I think it was on ctv.ca) they showed the same advertisement numerous times. Do these businesses not want money? And depending on the show, the opportunity for very targeted marketing is huge.
I was thinking about this washing dishes last night.
Amalgamation could work if we had the kind of councillors that were prone to seek consensus and use diplomacy to ensure an agreement on issues. But we don't have that kind of council. It's become hyper-partisan and petty (in that a councillor will hold a grudge and vote against another if that person didn't vote with him on an unrelated issue.)
So amalgamation is a failure because of council. If council could work out their differences then there would be no obsticle that they couldn't overcome and amalgamation would be a success. But if they can't come together - as they prove every session for two years - then amalgamation won't work even if the obsticles are minor.
We basically don't have a council to make amalgamation anything but a failure.
Council isn't the only problem. It also falls heavily on the people that live in the outlining areas and downtown. The needs and wants are vastly different. Car vs public transit. Low property taxes vs affordable housing, etc. Its a city divided by basic needs determined by where you live. This never did work, and it never will.
Canadian Netflix has made some serious gains in the last 6 months - they are starting to get some exclusive non-american content too. So it's better, and I can see people being comfortable with it alone now - I can't do it though, so I pay the 5 bucks for the VPN and switch between both the networks with a button press - best of both worlds.
I agree with the gains. Still waiting for Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" on Canadian Netflix.
The VPN is a great option, but if I have to do workarounds (regardless of simplicity), I'm just going to get the content with alternate means and then I have it forever.
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AlphaTwo00
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THE GTA DOESN'T VOTE FOR TORONTO.
None of the area outside of City of Toronto gets to vote on your mayor. What you're looking for is de-amalgamation.
Edit: I am in the camp that actually believes that if you actually let the GTA vote, you actually balance out the the core's needs: people in the GTA who commutes downtown actually would get the needs for subways, the kind of infrastructure needs the city faces, whereas people who just live and work within suburbs of Toronto don't actually interact with it.
THE GTA DOESN'T VOTE FOR TORONTO.
None of the area outside of City of Toronto gets to vote on your mayor. What you're looking for is de-amalgamation.
Edit: I am in the camp that actually believes that if you actually let the GTA vote, you actually balance out the the core's needs: people in the GTA who commutes downtown actually would get the needs for subways, the kind of infrastructure needs the city faces, whereas people who just live and work within suburbs of Toronto don't actually interact with it.
yes de-amalgamation. Poor wording on my part.
THE GTA DOESN'T VOTE FOR TORONTO.
None of the area outside of City of Toronto gets to vote on your mayor. What you're looking for is de-amalgamation.
Edit: I am in the camp that actually believes that if you actually let the GTA vote, you actually balance out the the core's needs: people in the GTA who commutes downtown actually would get the needs for subways, the kind of infrastructure needs the city faces, whereas people who just live and work within suburbs of Toronto don't actually interact with it.
The old GTA is the new Toronto, though. We know who he means when he says GTA. He means this:
added_time
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The old GTA is the new Toronto, though. We know who he means when he says GTA. He means this:
Yeah, but that is just Toronto, not the GTA. So if he says GTA, it's confusing for people. He already said he meant just the boroughs though.
I brought your point up at coffee break here at work (City Hall.) My supervisor brought up an interesting point of view: he thought that amalgamated Toronto is going through it's adolescence. That there are still old staff and old council that still operate under the old Toronto rules. He put forth that things might get better as time passes.
Oppo
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I know what you are saying but I do find it sort of funny how militant you are about this one point. Yes we use '905ers' and GTA somewhat incorrectly but no one is really confused about who we are referring to in the context of this discussion.
It's a good point, but i dont buy it. Scarborough for instance needs vastly different things compared to the core. There will never be enough money to go around to appease both parties.
Take the homeless problem for instance. Sure, everyone wants it taken care of, but you rarely see the homeless in scar. If its down to two items, public affordable housing in the core, and say, a promised subway to nowhere. They will vote on the subject that directly affects them. Its human nature.
Take the homeless problem for instance. Sure, everyone wants it taken care of, but you rarely see the homeless in scar. If its down to two items, public affordable housing in the core, and say, a promised subway to nowhere. They will vote on the subject that directly affects them. Its human nature.
As long as fares and fees don't go up, I'm good. Well, that and taxes. Sigh... who am I kidding.
No, that's the old Metro Toronto. GTA is still the same as it was before.
Only if we vote for Councillors who, as a part of their campaigns, pledge to be cooperative, rather than ones who scream and shout and pit one part of the city against another.
Which approach wins votes though?
If politicians have an incentive to work with each other (that is it will help get them re-elected), they will. If they have an incentive to work *against* each other (for the same reason as before), they will.
Our election system, I feel, gives councilors no good reason to work with each other as opposed to playing to some power base in their riding (typically pro low tax in the suburbs and pro spending in the core).
What you need is a mayor who can inspire people to think about the big picture, longer term, and as city builders rather than just the narrow interests. Miller managed to pull this off for a pretty long while before the garbage workers destroyed his reputation. Ford had no interest in this from the get go.
I mean it's no good for the core that Scarborough has shit transit and it's no good for Scarborough to have a bad homeless problem in the city and plenty of people in both areas realize this.
Well okay, but this is still a semantic argument. We all know what he meant.
But if councilors only HAD to look after their riding and not Toronto as a whole. We would see a lot more progress.
Yes, that's why I cut off the rest of your post in my quote.
Since we were just talking about rail transit to Pearson..
Air-Rail Link, now rebranded the Union Pearson Express.
http://www.upexpress.com/en/
Air-Rail Link, now rebranded the Union Pearson Express.
http://www.upexpress.com/en/
AlphaTwo00
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I hope no one is, but I've seen it before, and people easily confuses things.
I have never seen anyone think that Durham is part of the Toronto when GTA is used in conversations like this. Guess it depends on your age.
Just like I refuse to call it Kool Haus, Rogers Centre, or Sound Academy.
AlphaTwo00
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Should be still "ok" this weekend, here on out? Probably bad.
Avoid yorkdale at all costs.
I don't see how you could parcel things up so small. Transit in the core affects every riding, poverty in the inner burbs affects every riding as well. Plus there's a common budget, a common police force, common emergency services.
Slightly OT but related, I use to have fun at work when a couple of guys from Woodbridge would start talking stupidness about Toronto politics. I would shut them up by telling them to fuck off because they couldn't vote anyway. :lol
So if I do this, I can use my existing Canadian account?
Yes. It doesn't matter where your account is from, all that matters is where you're connecting from. US Netflix users get the gimped Canadian version when they come to Canada on a trip.
Thanks, that's interesting. Torrents are bad idea, I guess, as you are often "distributing".
Seriously, FUCK this guy.
I have never seen hate like this in Toronto City Council, and its directly attributed to the arrogance and outright nastiness of Ford. He did it when he was a councilor and hes continuing to do it as Mayor, yet to a larger degree.
Nice. I should do this then.
Good, the Councillors aren't exactly innocent bystanders.
It's really worth the extra $5 / month. You can switch between U.S. and Canada instantly, too.
What an embarrassment... are these people grown adults? We voted these fools into office?
The political landscape in Toronto has to change IMMEDIATELY. Get these clowns out of city hall.
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