MacGyver Bond

Relays and the Nigerian Scams
MacGyver Bond The Nigerian scam thing that runs via the relay services can be stopped. All it takes is some creative thinking and putting at least some more power into the hands of the relay operators. As it stands now, the operators don't even have that much power to do useful things, if anything. Just letting the scam go til conclusion is not the way to do it. The service loses [...]
Tech Thu, Jul 05 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Speaking in Honking Tongues
MacGyver Bond How annoying is it to get comments that you speak well to an extent?"Can you talk?" "No, can you?" "You speak well." "Yep, I learned to talk at an early age just like you did." "Was it hard?" "No, I just made funny noises just like everyone else."We don't always need big speakers, programs, or interpreters to speak/voice for us. We got our own voice boxes, no matter [...]
Language Wed, Jun 27 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deafness, Computers, and... Say What?
MacGyver Bond It's still amazing to hear from hearing people what we "can't" do. We can't use a computer?"Can you type?" "No, can you read?" "Can you type a report?" "No, my printer's out of ink."We wear out our keyboards faster than hearing people wear out their ears with that phone handset yakking away. Some of us have fast typing speeds that leave a keyboard smoking. This same [...]
Thu, Jun 21 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Driving You Up The Road
MacGyver Bond Some days, what a hearing person says to and/or asks a deaf person when they see them doing a certain act makes you shake your head and wonder what's on their minds. I'm talking about the act of driving."You can drive?" "No, can you hear?" "Can you read the signs?" "Got a microscope?"But of course, there are some pretty good deaf drivers out there who have driven for [...]
Thu, Jun 14 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

On the Gallaudet Legal Train - Part Two
MacGyver Bond This is the last time I will post on the Gallaudet issue, with this being a correction to my previous post. I will be moving on to other subjects.My apologies for fouling up so badly with my "On The Gallaudet Legal Train" post. I deserve being whipped by all those posters including Ridor. But I still wish someone had posted some corrections. I lumped felonies and [...]
Higher Education Legal Mon, Jun 11 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

On the Gallaudet Legal Train
MacGyver Bond There were quite a few arrestees on that Black Friday during the Gallaudet protests, with the arrestees charged with a misdemeanor. That could easily mean it's on their record for the rest of their lives. But will they still be allowed to continue with their classes or have the specter of more possible disciplines coming down, this time from Gallaudet? Sure, it was [...]
Legal Higher Education Thu, Jun 07 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet Protests and classrooms
MacGyver Bond Back to the Gallaudet protests, shutting and locking down an important classroom building on campus is most likely one of the worst things anyone could have done. Too many things could have gone wrong. Campus security did the right thing by looking around and not hurt any students badly.Yes, I did read the PDF writeup by that law firm, and yes, there were a few [...]
Higher Education Legal Sat, Jun 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Borg or human?
MacGyver Bond Just what is it about cochlear implants that have people all up in a tizzy? At first, they were unacceptable until more information about them came out. Now, they're acceptable to an extent. But, the user still has a hearing loss.What's the real problem here? Has our society gotten to the point where any little imperfection cannot be tolerated and *MUSTMUSTMUSTMUST* [...]
Language Education Tech Culture Sat, Jun 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gally protests vs DPN
MacGyver Bond I have been following a lot of the Gallaudet events from the start when the protests first begun. As The Deaf Sherlock said, there were no heroes. Everyone paid a price. There were no "one size fits all" situations here. The methods that made DPN '88 work back then did not quite work with the protest we had earlier. Too many things went wrong this time.Let me point [...]
Higher Education Sat, Jun 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post