Please don’t buy a car. Here’s why.

Hi all.

I have decided not to get a driving license or buy a car.

In my opinion, here’s why you shouldn’t either:

1. The cost. Although it may be largely insignificant to you, a car can cost a lot in terms of money, maintenance and gas over many years.
2. The inefficiency. A car usually has FOUR seats. One is reserved for the driver. This is a problem because with only one seat occupied, the car is holding up the weight for THESE THREE EMPTY SEATS THAT ARE NOT BEING USED AT ALL, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN MADE ANYWAY. And this makes a car cost more because the car manufacturer must make the three extra car seats, install supports for the three extra car seats, etc.
3. There are way too many cars out there. This contributes to low air quality, too much chemicals out in the air, traffic jams, etc. This is a problem because with all these combined, you have a city that is full of problems that cannot be easily resolved.
4. The safety of the car relies on the driver. This is a problem because car accidents can happen. If they happen, the roads have to be shut down, causing more traffic jams, smog, etc.

- Kyle Brooks

The Onion: Doesn’t taste so good now

Hi all.

“The Onion”, for these people who are unfamiliar, is “America’s finest news source”. Their website is at http://www.theonion.com.

Today, in the era of real TV captioning, it is now accessible to all, even Deaf people. Unfortunately, in the case of Internet TV, this is sadly not the case and must be fixed soon, because captioning has many benefits, including but not limited to:

• learning new languages by following the captions and talking
• if you don’t want to hear the sound, you can mute. But there needs to be an alternative to sound. What is it?

I viewed one of The Onion’s news stories as a video, and captioning is sadly non existent. I also think that in the USA where The Onion reside, it may be illegal to fail to caption these videos.

Please write a physical letter, call in, or e-mail The Onion asking them to rectify their mistake soon. I have called in and asked them to do that, leaving my e-mail for co operation.

Contact The Onion

If YOU did any of the above, you would be significantly contributing to the future of Internet TV. PLEASE caption any videos that you make first before uploading them in order to make another significant difference.

Thanks!

- Kyle Brooks

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Hearing church website criticisms

Hi all.

First, a disclaimer. I am not in any way talking about my deaf church (Calvary Deaf Church), but rather the hearing church, who has a website at http://www.yourmeetingplace.ca/

And now without further ado, the criticism goes on as follows:

• They use Flash. Yup, you heard me right. Flash. What’s the problem with Flash if it provides interactive content? Well, a church should not be discriminating against its website visitors, as that would be hypocritical. Even a few other websites of churches (yes, there are!) do much better in this regard by not using Flash. The hearing church should be ashamed of themselves.
• My deaf church is located below the hearing church in the basement of it _using their facilities_. So shouldn’t the hearing church give back and talk about the deaf church? Remember, God wants even the blind and deaf to hear His word.
• Related to the above, the hearing church doesn’t even list the pastor of the deaf church or even anyone related to it in the Staff section of the website at all. Again, oppressive and hypocritical.

- Kyle Brooks

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I am against the death penalty.

Hi all.

What do YOU think about the death penalty? I think that the death penalty is egregious (conspicuously bad or offensive), cruel, inhuman, degrading, violates rights, and is irrevocable. Also, it DOES NOT deter crime more effectively than other punishments.

To expand on those reasons…

• The death penalty is very bad to humans, since it shows other humans that killing is OK, and therefore perpetuates more crime.
• The death penalty is unnecessarily cruel, since it inflicts unnecessary pain or suffering that should not be practiced by other people. Isn’t death penalty some form of covered up murder or manslaughter that should be dealt with?
• The death penalty is inhuman, since for all intents and purposes, no one ever wants to kill other people (ingrained in our human brains).The death penalty could be some form of “humane” violence against our own brothers for all we care. Wouldn’t this still be inhuman?
• The death penalty is very degrading, and has negative effects on humans while they are waiting to die. Do we really want to be treated in a degraded way on our death?
• The death penalty violates our right to life. We do not have a right to change that, whether by murder, rape that kills, forced drinks of too much alcohol, etc. There are way too many ways to die, and many of those ways could be caused by us humans. That doesn’t mean we can inflict those ways on one of our brothers.
• The death penalty is irrevocable since when you die, you’re dead. Just like that in a extreme instant. There is no rolling back death. All the things we see on TV or in movies about time travel are not real.
• It has been shown that after the abolition of the death penalty in Canada, the national crime rate decreased.

Conclusion: Death penalty should and must be abolished for better quality of life, and so that we do not subject our brothers or sisters to such awful and cruel punishment. Think of it like this: Would a government official want to be subject to the death penalty themselves? In the USA? Canada? UK?

- Kyle