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I start from the supposition that everything which exists, is absolutely, fascinatingly, beautiful and awe inspiring... because there is absolutely no causal evidence to suggest that things should exist, or would exist... but... THEY DO!!! As something that exists, I feel I cannot help but believe that is a good thing. That being said, one must still make distinctions.

I am a man… A good man, in fact. I only mention this, because I think people are beginning to forget what those words actually mean. Throughout history, good men have sought to tame their self destructive, and lustful nature, with sarcasm, and a self deprecating sense of humor. I do the same. By occasionally laughing at myself for being a vulgar brute… I stop myself from becoming one. This is an important distinction for an honest man to make in my estimation, or else he risk devolving into a genuine animal, by trying to prove, he’s anything but.

I don’t believe governance is good thing… In general… I’m ag’n it. I don’t on the other hand believe that it is evil… Just inefficient, and full of nonsense. I think every moment spent examining politics, is one spent through the looking glass, where “here you have to move incredibly fast… just to stand still”.

I fear at times that human beings, especially in America, are engaged in what I call a "sexual race to the bottom", in which, if a young man, doesn't agree with absolutely everything an attractive young woman says... She can find a man who will. This is not the fault of women, in fact… it’s predominantly the fault of young men, who have no self respect or integrity. The problem there… Is that biologically, men are designed to gain self esteem, in large part, through perceived value of their sexual partner.

This makes it very difficult for young men to have self respect, and integrity, because men don't agree... with about half of what women say, and they never will. Just as women, don't agree with... half the insanity, we spout. We're different... It's awesome, who wants to have sex with themselves all the time, anyways?

As a man I don’t care what celebrities are doing. I don’t think reality is worth filming. I don’t think History is “made every day”, by people who sell trees. Nor do I think Searching for Bigfoot, is a form of “Discovery”. I enjoy boxing, and mixed martial arts, because they appeal to the brute in me, while still allowing me to maintain a gentleman’s interest, in the more creative, keen, and cunning strategies of the "sweet science".

I am a philosopher, a jester, a writer, a weapon, and a monk.

I am on your side. I think you can do better than this. I think every human being is capable of living a more productive, and bountiful life, than the one we are currently trapped in. I believe you are smart enough to decide what to put in your own body. I believe you are smart enough to choose your own lover. I believe you are smart enough to make better purchasing decisions. I believe humanity, is smart enough to survive… And, I believe Douglas Adams was one of the greatest writers of all time. “Close with a quote, someone else has already said it best… So if you can’t top it… Steal from them, and go out strong” Edward Furlong, American History X

Take it away Douglas... "It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur. Douglas Adams... Rest In peace. myspace.com/thatfooldave if you ever feel like listening to my playlist, or pretending to be my friend.

Location:
United States, Santa Clarita, CA
Current organization:
Foolish Marketing Solutions
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Marketing & Branding, Distribution, Warehouse Management, printing , speech writing - songwriting - poetry & prose, Foreign Policy
I am:
Activist, Business leader, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Industrialist, Inventor, Marketer, Promoter, World traveler, Writer/Editor
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I'm passionate about

Gender neutral single parent incomes. Electric motorcycles for commuters. Portable solar conentration. Wind amplification. An educational approach to religion... And, human dignity.

An idea worth spreading

Gender neutral single parent incomes are the civil rights issue of our generation. In the 1950's the average white man could provide for a family of four, by working 40-60 hours a week. 60 years later, almost no one can provide for a family of four on a single income. This is simply unacceptable. Every man woman or child on the planet deserves to be able to choose between two equally important roles in human society, provider, and educator. One man, or woman, whichever is more skilled in the workforce, should be able to go to work every day, and earn enough money, for their wife or husband, to be able to stay at home and cook a delicious dinner, or take the kids to a museum or art gallery after school. We need someone to stay at home and raise our children... They're going to understand nuclear secrets by the time they are twelve, someone needs to make them like people, and embrace culture or we're all going to die.

Talk to me about

Anything... I love to talk. My marketing firm also does consulting, so if you're in need of business advice feel free to contact me. You pay me what you think my advice was worth.

People don't know that I'm good at

Physical activities. I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, and I seem lazy on the surface, but I really love to climb, cliff dive, and hike, and I'm a pretty decent basketball, tennis, and football player.

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  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Feb 6 2013: You're not just standing and watching... You're contributing your energy and taxes... Have done so for your entire life. Society, culture, government, community... whatever you want to call it... It is the mechanism through which violent psychopaths, use fear and sex, to manipulate good men and women into commiting horrifc murders. The only solution, is for people to stop contributing. There is nothing to fear, except the violent nutjobs who believe they have the right to govern you. If something was good, it would not require forced participation.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Feb 1 2013: I'm not a very stressed out person. I'm just non violent, so I can't really make money in "polite" society. If you're not going to play the game, and make a living, there's not really much for you in cities.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Feb 1 2013: Yeah... Just thought the big one time cost might still be cheaper than going the London route, and less invasive.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 31 2013: Thanks for that Fritzie. I miss a few of you guys too. I'm just getting too far off the beaten path to post in political debates now, and that's my favorite stuff talk about, so I've got to find another home for my ramblings. Writing more fiction at the moment.

    If you thought any of my projects were viable, and you know people with drive, tell them to go for it. I'm probably gonna end up living in a forest or a desert somewhere without internet, someone might as well use them, lol.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 31 2013: Naw, just goofing off... Knew something was impossible about this idea, and assumed I wouldn't find the direct answer on twitter/facebook etc. figured i'd let some bright people tear into me. Foolish Marketing Solutions, is just a little pet project... Offline viral marketing for small businesses I believe in.

    Basically, I decided to try promoting local businesses, the way you would a concert, fight, politician, or non profit in LA... Venice Beach, concerts, and Public Events. I have an electric motorcycle shop, and small electric skateboard company I work with, but it's barely in infancy. I think I listed myself founder and CEO to remind me to kick my ass.

    The truth is the business model I've designed is viral, so even if my company hits it big I don't own anything. It's like a pyramid scheme, without the pyramid. Promotions are codes, or coupons, which provide physical evidence of a product sold. Each salesman has his own code, and gets paid directly by the vendor. The benefit I get for recruiting and training, is a ground team that can get me more, and bigger clients, and the satisfaction of teaching someone how to support themselves... I work off the same commission as everyone else only when someone uses my sales code.

    Unfortunately people who want to buy motorcycles, don't want electric ones... People who want electric vehicles, don't want motorcycles... and the skateboard is a really awesome toy/vehicle... that kids have to buy for themselves with a job a 16, cus parents aren't that crazy : p

    Suffice to say, I'm not really in position to teach someone else to support themselves yet... but it's a fun side project, that will hopefully be my full time income some day. Has nothing to do with ted though, and i considered doing things on the internet like everyone else, but I like being outside... I like concerts and events. If I can keep it analog I'm going to.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 31 2013: The concept of orbit at 1 light hour was just bonkers... didn't think about how close the sun is in light time. It won't even feel our gravity. Geosynchronous (that's the one which maintaines the exact speed of the earth right?), pointed at static dense population centers, taking enourmous data pictures, which could then be subpoenaed, in portion, by law enforcement provided they have compelling evidence a crime was commited... would actually just make sense... but i'm sure they're already working on it, and you won't need a subpoena, or warrant, etc, they'll just pay people to watch us : p

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 31 2013: Yup completely impossible, didn't even look up how many light minutes away from the sun we were, there would not be gravity to support an orbit. I just came up with this after hearing about the new next gen telescope and programming NASA is working on, which could in essence re focus an image, after the picture was taken... and at the same time thinking about a short story where humans send a faster than light speed craft away from us with a camera, so we can remotely view the past.

    So I just thought... Combine them... Even though the first actually makes the second completely unnecessary.

    As to time though... I wasn't expecting it to be perfect, just give you what cars were in the area when shots went off... etc. Bits and pieces. Geostatic locations are the way to go.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 31 2013: Like most things, it would be perfectly fine if people were... yeah, I don't know why for some reason I thought higher wavelength light moved faster last night... just pure brain fart.

    Actually though... what I'm saying is a bit less intrusive. It would be absolutely impossible to view a photo of Los Angeles 24/7... and incredibly inefficient... The warrant system, however, would not be. If you have suffiecient evidence of a serious crime in a given time and area, you could ask for permission to view that area, specifically for that crime. Anything else you see would be inadmissable.

    Obviously, you could do it the super creepy way too, and many governments would prefer that... but this would be much simpler. Ultimately though, yes, I'm just suggesting surveillance of major cities... after the fact. Keep it illegal to look in on people, make it legal to see what happened on the street when shots were fired.

    And of course in my science fiction novel "Thank god we learned to communicate with high speed lasers, so we can view the past" : p

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 30 2013: For some reason I thought you could use infrared to communicate with the satellite, slightly faster than visible light... but now i'm pretty sure that's not true... Luckily it's not necessary. The flaw in my concept is the "light hour"... We don't need to have time to reposition the camera... We need a camera that is always taking a multi trillion point of light image of Los Angeles (or other crime ridden city)... all the time.. Then we can zoom into a part of that image with programming... After the fact. Good call though, that was a glaring, and obvious miscalculation on my part. Should have spent a bit more time thinking this out before i posted.

  • A reply on Conversation: Could we orbit a telescopic satellite 1 light hour above the earth, and use it to zoom in on crimes, after the fact?

    Jan 30 2013: Yup... Didn't even think about it for 2 minutes before posting... just knew something about it was impossible, and something about it was interesting. Impossible... both the orbit concept, and the concept of communicating with something faster than the light on earth changes.

    Interesting... Our cameras are so good, and record so much information now, that you can use programs to actually zoom into their images, after the fact... So, it doesn't need to be a light hour away... It just needs to be taking the most detailed photo of Los Angeles (or whatever city it is designed for), every second... then law enforcement can zoom into the time and place of the crime, after the fact... and possible see a vehicle.

    Infrared for determining self defense is probably still a dream, especially on multi floor buildings... but moore's law + great optics, and you never know.
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