People who's voices you don't hear on global warming. Why? Literally because you wont watch it.
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film
This is a huge video file, sorry, not available for mobile
If you don't watch it, then news companies don't make money off of it. It's not theory, it's a fact of the news business. It doesn't matter if it's most important in the name of truth or not. If the news isn't entertaining or threatening enough to capture your attention so you end up not watching it, then they wont play it, or they'll push it to the last page to be viewed.
When I was little I used to watched Mister Rodgers on PBS and I enjoyed it. Now that I've got a little one of my own, I'm watching Mr. Rogers all over again! I can't say that I'm as entertained as before, but it's easy to feel relaxed watching it with my kid.
What took me by surprise was Mr. Fred Rogers speaking outside of PBS, albeit for PBS though. Even being a 6 minute video from 1969, it still moved me. Not only was I impressed, but inspired.
Find free Mr. Rodgers videos in your neighborhood using the PBS TV Times finder.
If you live outside of the country or would like to have the videos to play when its convenient for you, you can find them pretty cheap on eBay and Amazon!
Another great speech from an actor (albiet likely well rehearsed) that this reminds me of is the Al Pacino speech from Scent of a Woman. Al Pacino plays a blind military man of high ranking who while of high dignity, was way down on life due to his blindness. After helping the blind man for only a short while, the young helping man steps between Al Pacino and a gun he was going to use to kill himself, risking his own life for someone he had just met.
Later as you may have watched already in the video above, Pacino has a chance to pay this young man back for saving his life. He was witness to a prank joke on a "better than thou" school official who offered a bribe for the young man to be a witness. The young man refused the bribe to turn his friends alhough he had also just befriended them recently. Judging from the implied moral character of the young man, assumingly he doesn't turn his friends in for the prank because it was something so trivial, yet could still ruin the rest of their lives.
There were great speeches from other very influential peoples lives as well. Two of these great American speeches are from Martin Luther King Jr. and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The different sensing organs we have are all the same except one major difference, they interpret different ranges of the same spectrum. As I've mentioned before, sometimes they overlap (proving this is a fact, not a theory). Just like people will be able to see with their tongue in the future using the technology of the BrainPort or similar, people will also be able to hear with their tongue, or another organ with profound sensing capabilities, like the skin, or even eyes.
There are many ways that a deaf person can regain their ability to interpret sound, which is akin to regain hearing loss. While in the beginning stages, the technology would likely produce very cloudy results, as with the current status of the BrainPort, the prospect is more than hopeful. Not only is is definitely possible, but the technology could go beyond picking up the normal range of hearing.
I think a major goal for developers, scientists, and inventors in regards to projects which aim to give birth to or revive senses should be to aim wide. This will make sure that all known technologies are taken into consideration. For example, while processing the normal human hearing range in a way to be equally interpreted by the skin may be temporarily difficult due to determining small differences, so this can while not equally be made up for in terms of quality, but none the less be made up for with a wider range of sound interpretation, not necessarily considered when the aim is narrow to revive a very specific range of sensation. Such as very high pitched to very low pitched.
While this type of "making up for" a sense may seem clumsy on the outside, on the inside it's much more elegant, as having a wider range of vibration interpretations, while not the same, would add the the ability to triangulate the object of perception (a particular sound). Another example is if the texture of sound must be temporarily sacrificed, then the interpretation of its volumes should be increased. The body's senses typically work by heightening another sense to make up for the lack of another sense.
If you would like me to build a device for portable sound interpretation by means other than ears, please contact me through a message or a comment right here in this article. I'm going to be honest by saying I don't know how much it will cost, how long it will take, or even how high the quality will be for a prototype. I've never built one of these before, so I don't know. The fact is though, that if you sponsor me I will build one of these. If you want, I could also offer a consultation for suggestions or stimulate solutions for others who are trying to develop such a project. No matter who does what, I just hope that someone does develop this.
After about a year without even installing or downloading a virus, adware, spyware, or other malware scanner. I still have no viruses.
I attribute this to two things, one thing of course, is being cautious to what attachments and files I download and being aware of what spam messages (especially with links they want me to click on).
The second and most important tool that I didn't have during my first run with my new computer is McAfee SiteAdvisor. It's a browser plugin that helps you prevent viruses by telling you which sites definitely do or likely have viruses.
I've talked about it to for. I recommend it to family and friends. In my professional opinion, is is the single most important browser add-on for every browser that can add it in. In fact, I've written about this before. I just can't stress enough how incredible this free program is. Antivirus programs are GREAT! But making sure the viruses never get to your computer in the first place is what SiteAdvisor is for. When you search in Google, you'll find a red X next to some links to let you know there have been definite results or user reports of viruses, spyware, or other malware there.
I'm NOT getting paid for writing about this! McAfee probably never heard of me. On that note, anything I write about, which to my memory I haven't gotten paid for before, if I did ever get paid for something, I WOULDN'T WRITE THINGS ABOUT IT I DIDN'T THINK WERE TRUE, unless I was just joking, for example Batman 5.
Please, if not for yourself, then for your computer and your computer illiterate friends and family, download it for them. That reminds me, there's a few people I should be installing this program on.
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I did not mean it to be a poem, but I felt it was poetic when writing it. I continued writing it when I felt that way about it. The words came about when I was creating commentary, or rather a justification of my words regarding someones question about quitting smoking.
"I am not who others think I am and I'm probably not who I think I am, for neither others nor I know myself well enough. I do know that I want peace and will do anything short of disturbing peace in pursuing it. I'm not talking about peace of action, but peace of mind, where happiness can remain in myself and others as in a reflection on clear waters on a sunny day. When Earth trembles, our minds still can be still. Our minds will not spill as the Earth moves, as our cup does not spill when we walk with it. We will have peace."
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