How are every one of you guys and women have done lately? I hope that all of you are doing well, I am doing well myself but lately I have been somewhat more tired than I usually have been in few months because I think it is where I am on a time restrain which is one of few things that I don’t like about the time but like I have said before that the time are part of our life since our birth and will be part of our death as in from time of birth to time of death. So, imagine a few centuries ago where there was no time for the people, time have become part of our life when the technology advanced and invented a clock. Who do we thank for the time? To my understanding, in this case not many of the people know this but the time were invented mainly for the railroads company because they need a way of knowing when to depart and to arrive at certain places so that’s how the different time zones invented such as EST, PST or whatever is because of the trains. I am not exactly sure how the clock were invented and for what to begin with but I do know that the time zones were invented for the trains which you can find about that from our best friend Google or Bing. Ever since the time or a clock were invented along with the time zones, it restrains us to the point that it limits us in doing something and get whatever it is that we need to get done. For example, if a news outlet tasked you to write a draft with a deadline by tonight at 11:59PM so that they can have it reviewed and pass it in for approval to be submit to their news website or if lucky on their newspaper but you were occupied with something else and then you checked your watch to see that it is saying 10:30PM or 10:45PM that would put you in a frustration situation by thinking whether if you were to start writing a draft would you be able to make it in time before the deadline so you could send in your draft to an editorial team? You will start feeling very pressured, wondering if it is possible or if it is impossible and determining if you have the will to push yourself to finish the draft on time? Very rarely that anyone will be able to make it in time because writing a draft usually takes about one, two, three hours or sometimes longer as it depends on what you are writing about or on what and once you have finished writing you would still need the time to double-check to make sure that everything you write is good enough or if it needs some correction and whatnot.
I must admit that I am in that situation too many times and it is frustrating every time when I ended up in that situation. My point is that the time restrains us, if you were to start writing a draft at 10:45PM thinking that you could make it in time for the deadline, not only that you would need to finished writing some good few minutes before that deadline so that way you could have the time to see if you need to make some correction and whatnot. Then you realize that you were still writing a draft and the deadline have been passed so all the energy you had put in would be gone wasted because you didn’t make it in time. Sometimes I envy the writers back in the days when they don’t rely on the time and only rely on how many days.
Time sucks sometimes and I would like to see what it is like to have no way of telling what time it is for about a month but I am sure that there are a few cons about that. One of few cons I can think of is that our timing would be completely screwed for when we plug back in our clocks and then must align ourselves back to the time that we are so used to.
12-4-2016 Tidbits
Speaking of timing, I better get started with the tidbits because I am restrained by the time and not only that as usual I have passed by the time that I was meant to start writing as I tell myself that I need to start writing at about 10:30PM to 11PM but now it’s saying 12:47PM so that is almost two hours late than I wanted it to be. That means that I will be even more restrained after this, I am hoping that I will have this done by about 1:30PM so that I could go and rest for about an hour watching something on Netflix or Hulu then about half an hour for a movie on my desktop computer before I head out to the bed as my bed time is about 3 o’clock but lately I have not met that time for past few weeks now so I need to figure a way to get myself back on time. I probably will try to find a way to get back to my timing after New Year. Anyway, to the tidbits, I think I have good enough of topics that I would like to share my thoughts on or about and I hope that all of you will enjoy some of these topics that I have selected to share my thoughts on. Please keep on sending me some topics suggestion as I am very thankful for them because they help me to figure what I should talk about and not only that they also motivate me to write something.
Dear Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on VRS
While myself and thousands of other people in the Deaf community appreciate that you fund few of the video relay service providers so that we Deaf people could have equal access to communication tools where we can make calls anyone nationally. Because of you that allows us to be more independent without having the need of asking someone in our family or our friends to make some calls for us as we cannot hear and have them to interpret for us with the callers in our language, American Sign Language. For several years you have funded Telecommunication Relay Services (TRS) that allow us to have a way to communicate with anyone via calls using TTY, thankfully as the technology advances we now have better tools such as Video Relay Service that we now rely on in our daily lives and with you funding the providers that provide these video relay services we have some peace of mind to know that we wouldn’t have to rely on our family members or our friends to call other people for us because sometimes that makes us to discomfort with that due to them knowing everything about us that we didn’t want them to know. Nonetheless, that is not the point here but what I am saying is that I am thankful for your gesture and most importantly your alliance in the Deaf community. However, there is a bit problem with that, we are tired of one video relay service provider having too much power of the video relay service market and you know who I am talking about so I ask that you should find a way to share the video relay service market with all video relay services equally. More importantly, Deaf owned or runs video relay service providers such as Convo Relay as they deserve the bigger piece of the market because they know our needs and have better of understanding in what it is that we look for out of the video relay service. I recall that you had the FBI raided one Deaf owned video relay service namely Viable, that crossed over the line as you had the FBI to harshly raided the Viable office and arrested everyone on the spot while in other video relay service providers that are NOT owned or run by Deaf weren’t given the same treatment that you gave the Viable as you were gentle with them as you warned them and asked for the money back. That’s wrong to do that and the picture of that doesn’t look too good on you but unfortunately it has been done and that’s in the past as this had happened few years ago, but that is something that we don’t easily forget for the way you did to Viable owned by Deaf. As of now, Convo Relay is the only remaining video relay service provider that is owned by Deaf and they are obviously easily the best out of all video relay service providers because they know what it is that we need more than the ones that is owned by hearies. So, I ask that, maybe for what you have done with Viable and not only that to show that you are still an ally to the Deaf community is to help Convo Relay to grow.
Calling People’s Names in Public Is Acceptable?
I am wondering if it is acceptable that for some of the bloggers and vloggers to call out some people’s name in the eyes of public to hold them accountability for their mistakes? I have seen a few blogs who would outright calling the people’s names in public, by in public I mean on the internet and is to be seen by anyone who have the access to the internet so that gave me something to think about. Do I agree with the idea of calling the people’s names to hold them their accountability? I must say I do for few reasons and I will share one or two reasons for why I think it is acceptable. If there is a man who have sexually abused a woman more than once, wouldn’t you want to call out that man’s name who sexually abused some of the women on the internet in public so that he can be held accountability for what he did to these women and by doing so in hope that he recognizes that he is being held accountability for so that he knows what he has done is wrong? If I ever heard or see anyone who do some harsh things to any one, whether it be sexually abusing, verbally abusing, domestic violence, being a racist, discriminating someone and the list goes on then believe it I would feel the need to call out their names in hope that the person acknowledge that it is being known what he or she has done is wrong and at the same time letting the people to know to distance themselves from that person. But I would love to hear your opinion about if it is acceptable to call someone’s name out in the public only if they do something wrong more than once in the comment below please!
Internet Giants Trimming the Fakes!
I am sure that some of you have heard that one of the internet giants such as Facebook is one of main who influences the election this year (2016 election) especially between Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump. The technology news has spread the words that Facebook is one of the biggest influences in the 2016 election and that much of them comes from fake news who write articles with inaccurate information or provides inaccurate or no sources to back them up. I somewhat realized that the fake news had huge influence on the people’s decision of voting, as I have seen too many people posting fake news to convince their family members and friends to vote the candidate that they want to vote for. It is known that I was for Hillary Clinton and I never will be backed away from that because I still think Hillary Clinton is still the best one to fill in the office at white house since Abraham Lincoln or my favorite John F. Kennedy. It is unfortunate that somehow the people successfully convinced the people and electors to vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton with fake news because they were made to convince them with lies. Sometimes I am still amazed at how their brains function when it comes to not recognizing that some news is fake and it is no surprise that many of these fake news were Donald Trump’s supporters.
Nonetheless I am not here to degrade anyone but I am saying that Facebook and possibly Twitter takes huge influences on people’s decision on votes with promoting fake news as anyone can pay to advertise fake news on social media. I am disappointed in Facebook mainly, for not properly screening these advertisers as they have the rights to reject them to be advertised and somehow, they allow the fake news to advertise their articles with nothing but lies about Donald Trump with nothing to back up these facts. Facebook and as well Google have announced that they have started working on trimming out the fake news from being advertised or published on their website but they should have done this long ago before the election so that the voting can at least be a bit more democracy.
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/03/fake-news-a-fake-president-and-a-fake-country-welcome-to-america-land-of-no-context/
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3143724/social-media/5-things-to-know-about-fake-news-on-facebook-google.html
Someone Should Denounce Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Speaking of the fake news that have slipped through Facebook and Google that have influenced the election gave me an idea. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing should be blacklist for providing false information because it is what they are well-known for along with convincing the parents of the newborn Deaf babies with fake data where they were saying that if no one is to get cochlear implants or hearing aids that being Deaf can give them a brain tumor. Seriously, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing organization does said that multiply times which is ignorant of them for doing so especially to convince the parents who just had a new baby that happened to be Deaf or Hard of Hearing so that they can be used to be convince them to get their Deaf baby to have cochlear implant or hearing aids so that the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing can earn a huge commission for doing that. So, since search engine like Google and a giant social media like Facebook pledged to trim out the fake news then I highly suggest that they both trim out any information or posts from Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing while they are at it.
I am not going to bother to search all over for the picture where they had some “Deafness can be caused by what” and one of them is head tumor. You can find it on search engine yourself or I am sure you can find these fake resources over at Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or other anti-cultural organizations. I suggest that you not to fall for their lies because anything that comes out of their mouth is nothing but lies just to convince you to get cochlear implant or hearing aids to profit them as they don’t care about you but money.
Seriously Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing need to be disbanded. I am so surprised that anti-cultural organization and hate crime organization still exists to this day.
Belfry High School Won 4th State Championships in Rows
I would like to congratulate every player, coaches and the staffs for Belfry High School football team “Pirates” for winning their fourth state championships in a row which is a feat and a record-setting I believe as at my time when I was in Belfry High School we only could go as far as back-to-back state championships two times in a row then it gets quiet until in 2011 or 2012 they got their mojo back. Congratulation boys! I am proud of you, I am sure that especially some of you who have won these four state championships in row are pleased with that knowing that you have just helped Belfry High School to set the record of the streak in state championships in row and I wish all of you nothing but the best in your future! You deserve these three or four rings.
Updated Christmas Wish List
Fine, fine I will tell you what I would like to have for Christmas. I know I have made a Christmas wish list in few articles ago but I have added a few more and updated its list so I will share what I would like to have for Christmas here. However, I am certain that I won’t get all of them if not even one of them, this is just for the fun as I have mentioned in few articles ago that even though we may be adults and probably have a cane or is in wheelchairs due to age but just for the heck out of it as the Christmas is nearing I figured why in the heck not. No harm in writing a Christmas list as if I am a child again and I would love for some of you to do the same by leaving a comment below to let me know what you’d like to have for Christmas.
A new desktop computer. Preferably from HP, as it seems that every brand for computers I had is that HP computers tend to last the longest out of other brands that I owned before which is Dell, Emachine (remember them?!), IBM (remember them?!) and Compaq. I would like to have a customized (fully packed) HP Omen of either:
HP Omen Desktop 870-130VS (subtotal $2,044.99)
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Processor: Core i7-6700K 4.0Hz 91W; 4 Cores; HT enabled; 8MB Shared Cache; 14nm; Max Memory Speed: DDR4-2133/DDR3L-1600
- Memory: 32GB DDR4 Memory
- Hard Drive: 3TB 7200rpm SATA; 512GB SSD (with SSD can boot up PC in matter of seconds)
- Heatsink: Liquid Cooling Solution
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X modified) (WHOA! Highest graphic card to be known and is ready for VR!)
- Power Supply: 500W Bronze efficiency power supply (the reason why so high watts, it’s to handle that kind of powers from the graphics card)
- Primary Optical Drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner and of course a must Blu-Ray Reader
- Networking: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2×2) and Bluetooth 4.0 M.2. Combo (that adds extra 5 dollars because this to help the efficiency of networking)
Or
HP Omen X Desktop 900-040vt (subtotal $3,139.99)
- OS: Windows 10 Pro
- Processor: 6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700K
- Memory: 32GB DDR4 Memory
- Hard Drive: 3TB 7200rpm SATA; 512GB SSD
- Heatsink: Jet Black; Liquid Cooling Solution
- Graphics Card: GFX NVIDIA GTX1080 FH 8GB G5 modified
- Power Supply: 1300W Gold Efficiency Power Supply (As to handle the powerful graphics card and to hold better or more graphics card in future if to upgrade)
- Primary Optical Drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner and Blu-Ray Reader
- Networking: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2×2) and Bluetooth 4.0 M.2. Combo
In Particular Order after one of PC above –
GoPro Karma Grip ($299.99)
GoPro Hero 5 Black ($399.99)
DJI Mavic Pro ($999.00)
Apple MacBook Pro Retina 15” w/ touch bar Space Gray Fully Customized ($4,299.00)
Apple iPad Pro 9.7” Space Gray 256GB ($799.00)
Apple Watch series 2 Space Black Stainless Steel 42mm with Black Sport Band ($599.00)
GoPro Session 5 ($299.99)
4K Desktop Monitors ($1,000 – $1,200)
iTunes Card (any amounts)
Money for Fox clothes, Fox hats, PC games and other small things
That’s pretty much for my “for the fun” Christmas list and that does NOT mean I expects or asks some of these from any one of you (note to my family and friends). This is pretty much just my dream Christmas wish list if Santa Clause is to exists. Oh, don’t worry children he does exists and it is just that for the adults like me Santa Clauses become no longer delivering any presents to us but for your children he will be so you better have your cookies and milk ready for both Santa Clause and his reindeers. Remember on Christmas eve night you get to bed very early otherwise Santa will see that you are up and not deliver any presents because he only will deliver to any children who’s asleep.
The End!
This must come to end, unfortunately as nothing can continue for infinite and it is something that we sometimes need to put the brakes in our hurries when it comes to the timing. Why am I saying something like that? I know my brain is out there at this moment, that is because I have written over three thousand words and over six hundred words so my brain is sputtering which this means that I must call it a night to you guys and women! By the way, remember what time I noted when I started writing this article? I don’t even remember what it was but if you know then good because now it is at 3:29AM so my point all along is that the time restrains us all. I bid you all good night!
Joshua “Joshie” Sullivan.
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