Iphone 5s

As a big Apple fan, the release of the new Iphone 5s was a big excitement to me.  To go back a few years, my first Iphone was the 4, and overall, it was a great phone.  Always in a case, it was dropped multiple times a week, and owning the phone for 2 years, no screen was cracked, nor did any other problems arise.  When I was due for an upgrade, I got the Iphone 5, which has been a decent phone, with multiple problems.  The phone won't charge 70% of the time!  It also liked to freeze up "under load", such as listening to music and surfing the web for a long period of time.  Now back to today, as I have been debating on just upgrading to the 5s, I get on AOL.com and in the news headlines I read "
Iphone 5s More Fragile Than iphone 5, Tests Find".  My only words are "What is wrong with this company"  It seems as though every iphone has done nothing but get cheaper and cheaper as the years go on.  If I am paying $200.00 for a new iphone, I expect it to last, not stop charging, freeze up, and with one light drop, shatter a screen.  I feel as though apple will begin to loose business over time from those who also realize their products seem to be made cheaper then before.

Silence of cellphones

In the article "Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally" written by Matt Richtel, we are told that there are devices that are on the market, illegally, that allow you to temporary disable any cellphone within so much distance of you.  All though this seems cool, and would be funny to play a prank on your friends.  And like Matt tells us in the article, they are used by employers to disable their employees cell phones while at work, or even by teacher to stop students from being distracted.  Which all seem like good reasons to use one, except for in emergency situations.  Which is why I feel they should remain illegal.  Just think, your at work and get hurt, and when you try to use your phone, its disabled because your boss thought it would be a good idea to disable it.  These jammer's seem to have a couple positive sides to them, but those are easily over thrown by the con of not being able to use your phone if you needed to in an emergency situation. In the article, Matt also tells us that people are buying these jammer's online.  Being illegal in the U.S., they must be coming from other countries, but why are we not stopping this.  Sure, the government is not able to inspect every package that comes into the U.S., but why don't they purchase one themselves just to get the address of the sender, and from there ban any packages from that address coming into the U.S?

Zimmerman

                George Zimmerman, in my eyes, is a threat waiting to happen.  First of all, he was charged back in February of 2012 for the murder of Trayvon Martin.  Between that date and the day his trial began, June 10^th, 2013, he was stopped twice for speeding, and on one traffic stop, he had a gun in his possession.  What is the state of Florida thinking, allowing him to have a gun after being charged for a murder involving a gun?  The first step should have been to take any type of weapon away from him to prevent such case from happening again.  On July 13^th, 2013, he was found not guilty, and released of all charges against him.  Now, only months later, he was arrested for a domestic violence against his wife, Shellie, and her father.  This is the second incident in only a year with George, and not only that, he threatened his wife and father with a gun.   After being arrested, his wife agreed to not press charges but why wouldn’t the state forcefully take away any weapons from this man.  He clearly has a history of using weapons, and now he’s pulling them on others?  Do we have to wait for him to commit another murder before we decide to take action?  His gun privileges should be revoked, immediately!  

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/us/george-zimmerman-detained/

Social networking

In the article “Is Social Networking a Waste of Time” written by Bernhard Warner, he shows up multiple pros and cons of social networking.  Only telling us a couple of cons such as: 6.5 billion dollars of revenue lost in the British industry because of time spent on sites such as Facebook and Myspace, and students in school spending as much time as 30 minutes per day on these sites instead of listening to their instructor.  As for pros, he tells us that his former students have used these sites for good things including to promote their online newspaper, build and promote projects on fighting poverty, organizing music gigs, and coordinating meet ups for political rallies.  Although I also believe these are good reasons that social networking is not a waste of time, I disagree with Bernhard Warner because I feel the cons out weigh the pros he listed to support social networking to not be a waste of time.

        The reason I feel that his cons make social networking feel like a waste of time is because if a company is losing 6.5 billion dollars due to their employees focusing more on Facebook then getting things done, this is causing products such as cell phones, computers, and even food products to increase in price due to the companies losing money.  He also says students spend as much as 30 or more minutes on these websites during school.  The amount of information they are losing, such as important due dates of a paper that they may not have heard was due because they were posting a status could result in failing a class.  To add to his cons list, kids today are not the same kids as they were 30 years ago before social networking was around.  Kids now don’t want to leave the house.  Countless amounts of times have I listened to my sister say “I’m bored”, when she has every possible gaming system, ipods, TV channel, cell phone, and access to any website, including Facebook.  I feel that in my parent’s day, they never complained.  They would go outside and make their own games. 

Goals

                Every human known to man sets some type of goal for themselves to achieve sometime throughout their life.  Whether it be to graduate from high school or a university, become a doctor, run a faster mile, or even move out by a certain age, no matter what it may be, we all set them.  Although many people’s goals are never met, many are.  Which brings me here to write this post. 

When I was younger, I always wanted to own a Fourth Gen Camaro SS.  So at the age of 13, I made a goal to be able to purchase one by my sixteenth birthday.  Many people ask why I chose “this car”, as the money that was spent could have been used to buy a wide variety of other cars.  I believe it came down to the look of it in its bright red color, the tone of the loud exhaust, or maybe just that the already fast motor has a ton of expanding potential to be a very fast sports car, which is something that interests me.

I started with a bank account with less than a thousand dollars in it, and I knew raking leaves in the fall, shoveling snow in the winter, and mowing grass in the summer wasn’t going to cut it, so I thought of different ways to make an income.  After weeks of thinking and searching the web, I found out about affiliate marketing.  After signing up for a company, cxdigitalmedia.com, I was once again stuck.  What was I thinking, that money would just appear, well that did not happen!  It never once occurred to me how I would go about advertising the offers that I was trying to promote.  Luckily, only weeks before, I learned about Myspace.  Myspace having millions of active users daily, this is what I needed.  I began mass messaging an ad titled “Get a Free Apple IPod”, similar to ads you see when visiting random websites.  How this process worked was I used my referral link for the IPod ad through cxdigitalmedia.com, and sent messages to random users on Myspace, hoping they would fill out the information, making me $1.20.  To my surprise, it worked!  For the first couple of weeks, money was slow making only ten or so dollars per day.  As time went on, I found programs to send the messages automatically, allowing me to increase that ten dollars, all the way to one to three hundred dollars per day.  This was awesome, but as people say, “all good things must come to an end”.  After making just under $20,000, my cxdigitalmedia account got shut down for “using social media as advertisement”, although I did not know, such advertising was against their terms of service agreement.

While this was upsetting, I thought to myself, I am 14 years old, and with twenty grand sitting in my bank, I had plenty of money for the car of my dreams, which was the sole purpose to ever making any money.  Just weeks before my sixteenth birthday, I found that perfect car, a bright red, loud, fast, and very clean Camaro ss.  The car is still great, even two years later as I am writing this.