Jason Newsted Quits Social Networks, like Facebook

Yep,
maybe more people seeing all of these sites are kind of like cancer?


http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/09/25/jason-newsted-decides-hes-just-successful-since-leaving-metallica-quits-social-networks/

Thursday, September 25th, 2014 at 11:30AM By Axl Rosenberg

 

..."has posted the following message to his official website (I’m posting a screen cap because, as usual, the incredible amount of traffic the site receives makes its load time very, VERY long):

 This is so forward-thinking of Newsted I can’t even wrap my head around it. Although the dinosaurs who run the record business have been in denial about it for a long, long time, social networking services like the ones Newsted cites are totally over. The kids don’t care anymore — they wanna go outside, interact face-to-face, discover new music via MTV and various magazines, and buy physical media in stores. Everyone needs to STOP trying to push Instagram and Twitter already. They had their fifteen minutes. Everyone is over it."


http://newstedheavymetal.com/
 

12-Year Old Child Reveals One of the Best Kept Secrets in the World

12-Year Old Child Reveals One of the Best Kept Secrets in the World

Don't let Canada Post end door to door delivery

Petition Update

Over 152,100 supporters now

Susan Dixon

Cambridge

Sep 7, 2014 — Hi all, just wanted to let you know that we now have over 152,100 supporters and still growing. I am looking into a correctly formatted petition with the stipulated correct wording for the House of Commons as they are being extremely picky. I will update as necessary. I have now created a facebook page at www.facebook.com/stopcanadapost. This is where I will post a link to the correct formatted paper petition once I have it corrected. Please be patient but things are moving once again.

Thanks to all of you for your incredible efforts in supporting this cause and keep up the good work. I, for one, will keep this fight on until the end.

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Don't let Canada Post end door to door delivery

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   2. Petition by
      Susan Dixon
      Cambridge, Canada

I wonder, has anyone at Canada Post ever tried to to push a stroller or a wheelchair or a walker through the snow? I don't think they realize the impact of ending door-to-door mail delivery when it comes to the parents of young children, to the disabled, and to the elderly, especially in winter.  
Millions of Canadians were surprised and angry to learn they may have to travel kilometers to get their mail. I am the mother of two young boys. My youngest has cerebral palsy and uses a walker or wheelchair to get around. For me, Canada Post’s decision would mean having to bundle them up and struggle through the snow with a wheelchair just to get our mail.  And I am just one of thousands of Canadians who must already overcome mobility challenges on a daily basis.
On top of that, 8000 employees are going to lose their jobs because of this decision! And, we’re hearing that these new “superboxes” might not be very safe. My grandfather, god rest his soul, was a WW2 veteran and became a mailman. They take their work very seriously otherwise they would not brave the weather. My current mail carrier is also proud of the service she provides for the community. Why change something that is working well for communities across Canada?
This has to be stopped. A lot of people need home delivery because of their circumstances. Please sign the petition and share this with as many people as you can. The more people we get, the more solid the chances will be that Canada post and the government hear our voices!!

To:
Deepak Chopra, President and CEO, Canada post
Douglas Jones, Senior VP, Delivery and Customer Experience, Canada Post
Stephen Edmondson, Vice President, Customer Relations, Canada Post
Jo-Anne Polak, Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs, Canada Post
Lisa Raitt, Minister or Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Government of Canada

Please reconsider the plan to end door-to-door delivery, and think about how all Canadians would be affected.

Sincerely,
[Your name]

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Why does CanadaPost want to put itself out of business?

with more and more people using email and messaging via social media sites,
and there are many other delivery companies out there for packages (sure, for now, more expensive, BUT it is guaranteed to make it directly to the address and within the time limit you pay for),
it would NOT be a problem for the national, provincial and municipal governments to create a similar system again for the monthly cheques and bills that are sent every month.
Financial institutions keep urging customers to switch to digital records only instead of paper, but if another postal system was created, I am sure they would use it if it underpriced the postage costs.

Yes, I am dreaming.

Governemnt unions would FUCK IT UP.

nevermind ....

http://www.readersdigest.ca/?q=magazine%2F7-things-you-can-t-say-canada-0

7 Things You Can’t Say in Canada

Influential columnist Margaret Wente shares her controversial opinion on seven sacred Canadian cows most dare not criticize.

Margaret Wente

Every culture has its unacknowledged taboos—the things you are forbidden to say or do in polite company, the accepted truths you are not allowed to doubt. You might think that a liberal, open-minded country like Canada would be free of such taboos, but you’d be wrong. In spite of our belief in our own enlightened tolerance, some things are simply not open to debate. If you try, you’re bound to shock the neighbours.
It’s risky to question the wisdom of the tribe. You might get stoned. On the other hand, some people might sneak up to you afterwards and confess that they secretly agree.
So here’s a challenge to a few of our nation’s most widely held beliefs. You say these things in public at your own peril. I will be elaborating on these points over the months to come. Feel free to stone me or secretly agree—or, even better, add to the list. At the very least, they’re sure to start a good dinner-party fight.


(Photo courtesy iStock/Chris Bernard)

7 Things You Can’t Say in Canada

Influential columnist Margaret Wente shares her controversial opinion on seven sacred Canadian cows most dare not criticize.

Margaret Wente

1. Margaret Atwood Writes Some Awful Books

The queen of CanLit bestrides the literary world like a colossus. Nobody has won more awards than she has, and nobody is more feared. There is no such thing as a bad review of a Margaret Atwood book in Canada. That’s too bad, because many of her books are tedious and unreadable, full of tortuous plots and unpleasant characters. Why will no one say so? Because we’re grateful that she’s put us on the global map. And because if they do, they’ll never work in this country again.

(Photo courtesy of iStock/Irina Afonskaya)

7 Things You Can’t Say in Canada

Influential columnist Margaret Wente shares her controversial opinion on seven sacred Canadian cows most dare not criticize.

Margaret Wente

2. Recycling is a Waste of Time and Money

Once upon a time it was easy to put out the trash. Today, the Garbage Gestapo rule our lives. Every household has become a mini version of the village dump, and every one of us has become a garbage picker, carefully separating our organics from our bottles and papers, and worrying about where our dryer lint is supposed to go.
Don’t try to sneak a wine bottle into the wrong bag! The trash police will punish you. The truth about recycling is that it’s a giant waste of dollars and doesn’t help the environment. But don’t tell your kids. They won’t believe you. They’ve been brainwashed.

(Photo courtesy of iStock/Christopher Futcher)
 

3. Only Private Enterprise Can Save Health Care

Tommy Douglas, the CBC’s Greatest Canadian, brought us universal health care. But even his plan didn’t originally pay for everybody’s ingrown toenails. His primary goal was to make sure nobody faced financial ruin if they got sick.
Today we have a system where controlling costs is more important than treating patients, and where ideology is crippling us. In some places, including Toronto, people go blind waiting for cataract surgery. The government could restore their sight tomorrow simply by sending them to a private clinic instead of to a hospital. The cost to the government would be exactly the same. But in Canada, private is a dirty word, and so the government would rather you go blind. Poor Tommy would be spinning in his grave.

 

4. David Suzuki is Bad for the Environment

From global warming to farmed salmon and genetically modified crops, David Suzuki has just one message: The End is Nigh.
He is our homegrown prophet of doom who preaches the essential wickedness of the human race. Like a modern Savonarola, he warns that unless we cast our material possessions into the bonfire, we’re all going to hell.
The trouble with this apocalyptic vision is that people are starting to tune out. And our hugely expensive investment in the unworkable Kyoto treaty, which Mr. Suzuki tells us doesn’t go nearly far enough, will crowd out more practical measures to cut smog and clean up our waste sites.

(Photo courtesy of iStock)

 

5. A National Daycare Program Won't Do a Thing To Help Poor Kids

Cheap national daycare! Who could be against it? It’s supposed to give kids a better start in life, and nobody can object to that. But in Quebec, where the program started, universal daycare has turned out to be nothing more than a giant (and extremely costly) subsidy for relatively well-heeled middle-class parents. Few poor parents use the system.
No doubt convenient daycare is a godsend for many. But so far there is no definitive evidence that kids who go to daycare go on to do better in school or in life. So if we want to invest billions in helping kids, why are we spending it on the kids who need help the least?

(Photo courtesy of iStock)

 

6. Group of Seven are Overexposed Genre Painters

I like A.Y. Jackson as much as you do. His paintings remind me of when I went to summer camp. I grew up with a reproduction of The West Wind hanging in our living room. (That was by Tom Thomson, who wasn’t really a member of Group of Seven, but never mind.) Group of Seven were the first artists to depict the wild Canadian landscape, and they were bold young rebels in their time.
But that time was 80 years ago. Today their work is the quintessence of bourgeois picture-postcard art—the kind of art it’s safe to take your mother to see. Enough, already. Maybe it’s time we moved on.

(Photo courtesy of Pavel Gramatikov/iStock)

 

7. The United States is the World's Greatest Force for Good

Of all the shocking things you can say around the dinner table, this is the most shocking one. After all, America-bashing is part of our national identity.
At best, we see our neighbour as a well-intentioned but arrogant and blundering bully that throws its weight around too much. At worst, we see our neighbour as one of the most evil nations in the world. And yet, right now, hundreds of millions of people in India and China and other desperately poor parts of the world are being liberated from millennia of suffering and serfdom. Why? Because of the United States, which has spread its idea of economic freedom—and its purchasing power—around the world.

(Photo courtesy of iStock/Kieran Wills)

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Xbox One at E3 - The Abridged Version (VideoGamer.com)

TRON

The website on the back of the box - www.tron20.net  - wonder if it still works ?

I bought the TRON 2.0 video game for my personal computer in 2003, maybe from Radio Shack, or Futureshop. Either it was too late, or I simply forgot to mail in the slip to get the $10 rebate.

Even though I hadn't seen the original TRON (1982) movie for years, and it was a distant memory (because I only watched part of it), it definitely was cool, and always planned to get it in my collection.
Not surprised I finally seen it again (ALL of it),  AFTER the SECOND Tron movie, Tron: Legacy (2010) !

I will add to this blog post in the future.
just thought I would start posting, as yesterday / last night (Wed. May.1st, 2013) when talking / recording The Bloke Show podcast, the movie's name came up during our 1980s MOVIES topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy

Potatoes

CFMJ, MOJO AM RADIO 1999 and Toronto Sun Sunshine Girls

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