Economic advice that makes sense

Sticking and perfecting what you know best
Hello Logic Talk readers.
How many times have we all read an article about people who got taken in a great business deal?

What are you best at?
Below are some examples of what Logic is talking about but more importantly, have you ever really sat down and looked into your career and asked yourself this simple question that is actually not simple at all.

We mean best at, not wishing I was in life, this or that
Logic is not talking about what you wish you were in your career like a movie star or Fortune 500 Business founder but what you are working at or studying to be, what you are willing to do to be the absolute best at, better then anyone in that area of expertise is currently?

Are you the best at one of these or something similar?
Do you know how to repair a car?
Maybe you are a nurse or a coffee shop worker?
These jobs are what pay you they are more then likely things you are good at but unless you are great at them experienced and have a true PASSION for then even these are not things you should invest in.

Are you the best at something?
It does not always mean it is what you are the doing for a living today
We each have something we are experienced in, so our advice today is simple, and it is focused on being the best at a single function in life, though it is possible to be good at other things in our daily lives, more then likely we each make our living doing what it is we are best at, or we would like to be anyways otherwise you should for starters, change careers, pursue what you have a PASSION for, or you can never invest in the types of businesses you are stuck in or get by working in.

A few ways to not get conned out of your money
Number one rule
To start with let Logic remind our readers that if something comes along and that something comes along at some point in each of our lives, if something sounds too good to be true, then most likely it is.

Number 1
Con prevention
If you are asked to invest into something that is not something you understand, could run on your own without the person asking you to invest money in, and if at all possible this type of investment or business is something you are good or an expert at, do not do it.

Number 2
Con prevention
If you are asked by a person you do not have any prior long-term business relationships with, do not do it.

Number 3
Con prevention
If a relative asks you to invest, stay clear unless you clearly see your investment being the best and somewhat predetermined outcome, because these relative investments can tear a family into pieces, so do not do it unless you can A afford it, B see the successful bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Number 4
Con prevention
Here is a hot one in a time when we humans are living in a right now result and gratification society. The you must make a decision to invest or fund with us right now, in the next day or two you are going to be too late. these are one of the hottest con person tactics there is time pressure. 

Logic & Catnip have seen it all
Actually that is a false statement
We nor anyone person has yet to have seen all of the business ventures and investment opportunities there are out in the business world. No one ever really has seen them all, not even in our nearing 17 years of operating Viper Logic together.

Open minded investors
At Viper Logic we are a software engineer and development company FOCUSED on and experts in low-level software code development.

We have a performance based product that we offer as a service named Viper Mailer an email-marketing-service for businesses, nonprofits and membership groups because this is what we are GREAT at per our customer base not our ego, ego’s are something when dealing with Viper Logic we all must leave at the door if anything is to become of your investment idea.

Secret about the Viper Logic investment strategy
We are what are known as a 50/50 investor from the financial point of view.
Realizing that many new start ups do not have their 50% in funding then there is this shared or equaled through experience and time investment but the ratio stays for the most part through out our investing into small start ups with the 50/50 rule applied.

While we are comfortable we are not rich, rich to the point that an investment into a start up in our case must be something we can get involved in while leaving the ideas and the creators the freedom to explore the avenues but only to the point of not allowing the start up our the investment to fail, other then this we are easy to work with and level headed people that were that start up almost 17 years ago this May.

Future scam exposures still to come
We do not believe that even the higher profile investment scams that make the news are the largest that are going to come to light especially during a tough economic time that has came and has appeared to have passed. There is something Larger coming that most people are unaware of scheduled to hit in later 2010 to sometime in the first half of 2011 that will have larger fallout effecting nearly all of us, so watch out for making bottom investments, the bottom is far from here today.

Belial 2010 our new decade prediction

Greed is the route of all evil today
While god’s book might teach money is the route of all evil, nothing could be farther from the truth.

Belial is actually wicked and worthless
How many of us read the news on the Internet about greedy people?
How many of us know of a family member that turned greedy when the opportunity arose?

Belial means greed, greedy, evil a sort of devil in human form

Muslim culture agrees with our article
Muslin culture sees the Belial as a demon that feasts on the poor and feeds the rich.

There are plenty of evil and wicked persons in our daily lives but this is not an excuse to join the greed movement

Globally we see our own government officials steeling from the poor to aid their rich friends

We see business operators taking all they can for self at the cost of future generations

We all know of or about a greedy person a Belial person
There is no reason to continue writing about this government or this fund manager or your relative or someone you are in business with that is or has become a Belial.

Logic felt it best to look into this new decade and not attempt to predict what could be or what might be but rather to share what you and I can do to make sure this decade does not follow the decades of the past.

Stay positive and you and our future generations shall prevail as one single unit united

What will a Belial person cost human kind?
The outcome looks dark to Logic, we see a future, one would not want to have, then raise children in (if you loved them) as the future through control, rules and power struggles paints a picture with only dark colors on the canvas of the artists behind this massive land grab mentality for self at the expense of whoever gets in the Belial’s way.

How can this decade steer clear of the last decades Belial?
It all starts with an individual, you one person conveying to the next that it is far greater to be an inspiration to others then to work at getting all you can out of those around you, build upon the strengths of your fellow friends, be loyal, be educating and be there for those friends in times of good as well as times of bad.

Follow Logic to a better future
These thoughts and suggested directions are what Logic feels are the best ways to build back our lost trust in our fellow man and woman.

It is our duty to see these changes through
You and I, we can and in fact we must accomplish this important task or we are as a society destines to see failures, failures we have never seen in all of man kinds, time on this great Earth.

Logic thoughts
We did not select to discuss details about employment, governments businesses, trends and people activities, mainly because we pointed those out over the 2008 and 2009 years on this very article site (You Search) leading to the New Decade. This New Decade and the first year being 2010 we will see things coming later in the year and into 2011 we have never seen, yes Logic knows what Logic is talking about since being a hobbyist economist since 1983 and being fully aware of where in America’s case the money shuffled to hold off the worlds Greatest Depression temporarily that any human has ever seen, like a ponzi scheme the floor is going to fall out but more then likely after the current President is far removed from the office in 2012.

Famous person would be 104 years old today

Born on Christmas Eve 1905
We the people at Viper Logic have extensive backgrounds in aviation manufacturing and so today we share the celebration of our dearly departed hero and mentor Howard Robard Hughes

Howard Hughes died on April 5, 1976 the Bicentennial Year for the USA

Logic remembers where I was and what I was doing the minute the breaking news about this famous icon of America had died.

Logic remembers the day
Logic was 13 years old living in Fullerton, California at the time and had just returned from a trip to Morro Bay, California a costal town near the Northern California border in Southern California right outside of San Luis Obispo. We had just come from a visit of the Freedom Train that stopped at the station in Santa Barbara, Amtrak brought Americas 200 years of Freedom, station by station around the entire country with 200 Years of history of America on board to share with all Americans.

CB Radio circa 1970’s
Secret unveiled I, Logic went by California Talker on the C.B. (citizen band radio) in 1976, what we older avatars call the early social network.

Howard Hughes invented, created, experimented, provided, designed, engineered, flew personally even created movies and at one time owned most of the hotels in early Las Vegas, Nevada as well he empowered his teams of people at places like Hughes Aircraft Company.

Logic& Catnip just completed a Hughes Project
Logic and best friend Catnip just completed a special presented and restored 1933 gift to Logic’s father, a tri-coned Hughes Tool Company the Oil Drill Leasing Company’s oil drilling bit.

Howard’s dad created and left most of Hughes Tool Company, 75% upon his death in 1924, when Howard was only 19 years old to this first radio station inventory, that began a life of creation that is still useful today to us all.

Inheritance put to work correctly
Howard built his fortune and legacy from the money of the Hughes Tool Company into what we all have heard bits and pieces about over the years.

Meet Howard’s legacy
What we seldom hear much about when referring to Howard Robard Hughes is the tax shelter turned major human investment. Here is the full story about HHMI. 

HRH History Howard Hughes Education
HRH for HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Logic thoughts
We hope you will join Logic & Catnip today and say a kind thing on Christmas Eve for one of the greatest creators for mankind, in the history of the world, without Mr. Hughes much might not ever have been discovered including the adjustable electric hospital bed, the list goes on and on through all 70 years of Howard’s life.

Coachella Valley to Silicon Valley California

Our article title should read earth (Coachella Valley) teaching reality (Silicon Valley)
Logic is an avid reader of technology news from around the world, we see and read a lot on the subject or both the hardware and the software created and produced.

Silicon Valley News Blogs
Logic really finds the tech industry news reporters from the best known ones to the lesser known ones all have a common trait.

Literally all of the tech news sites reported news Saturday 12/12/2009 Sunday 12/13/2009 and Monday 12/14/2009 AM each covered Google this (another me too phone) and Google that (re-chrome the bumper of my 1963 Cadillac) showing us all that during those 3 days all of the focus was on the creative innovation of nothing new, just new players arriving into an already crowded market place for phones, operating systems and browsers.

Continued advertising space diluting is surely continued.

Logic likes Google, just utilizing their news to make a point
This useless information is pointing out an important fact written in our article as discussed below, about how the relationship to Hollywood movie releases and the hype works exactly the same within the technology industry.

Let Logic explain, when the a new movie is made, the plot is actually just a remake of the same old thing, with the same end result. This way of hyped information clearly applies towards new innovation, that is merely a twist to and already created product or services we all have access to already.

Where in California are these two valleys located?
While both valley’s are located in California, with the Coachella Valley being located in Riverside County in the deserts of Southern California south of Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley is located in Santa Clara County of Northern California just inland and south of San Francisco there is more then just climate that makes up the differences between these two valleys.

Logic and best friend Catnip love both valleys, we do
We live in the Coachella Valley.
We love many of the companies also in our sister California valley.

About our technology insight article
We are a very happy company, we mostly love Mircosoft because they have single handedly made our living possible for more then 16 years now. While Microsoft is not based in the Silicon Valley they do have a large presence there.

We are not complaining about any company or income opportunity in our article, we are merely pointing out some lacking fundamentals we see from looking into the Silicon Valley and technology in general from the outside.

We have uncovered several technology patterns important enough to share
The buzz out of Silicon Valley is enormous, always seems to have been but the topic used to me more about innovation, this time it is more of a claim of innovation.

Overview related to our article
Below list of products and services really innovation or are they a need to be doing something?
New smart phones (me too)
Applications for smart phones (plenty already really not a business model)
Touch Pads (remember single function devices)
More fruit coming from the tree (might it already have run its course, computer, music and phone now a touch pad coming)
Games or ice just play nice (advertising driven)
Social, Video and Micro-Blog (advertising driven)
Search (advertising driven)
Do not forget the Go Green thing (electric and solar, humm new no, reinvented yes)

Readers the above list of items are not really innovations that are going to drive the Silicon Valley’s continued success in our opinion.

We see what the Silicon Valley is producing and is being over hyped these days
It might be neat and fun to have and try all of these cool money pit toys we call time absorbers but is there a true need for these items or is it more buzz wanting for these items.

To look at the actual necessity of these image products and services and lay out the actual need over the want might uncover some reality.

Touch Screen this and touch screen and expand for that
Ok more specific touch screen smart phones, we have been there done that years ago, now yet another smart phone is soon to arrive.

Personally if you eat and touch the screen time will show you a not so pretty picture.

How many people are really on the go, needing to text, share, update, buy, sale and ship all from their portable device during an average 8 hour work day and to continue doing these things on a 5 day a week basis?

Search engine phone
Big news hardly, this new phone is only news because of the popular search engine company that is releasing it, “yet another smart phone” is coming out of a valley, again no independent network, rather a share any network device.
They are successful, I like them, but I would concentrate on the other search company to protect where your money is made today, advertising through search.

Search competition
The other major search engine has intelligence and at this other search engine if you are looking for learning over popularity that is, you are going to find what you seek.

Fruit salad anyone
Ok then there is the piece of fruit company that has a phone, a phone that only works on a single network (soon to become available on other networks) a network that might not even be the finest network but it sells anyways, ok fine but then there is the proprietary issues in an open source economy.

There products designed with fruit, some are good and sale well, no matter what (Cult, hype or image?)

Now that the net pad faded, that is ok however the notebook is in the no fear zone with Logic over these single function touch pad devices that have names that should read JooJoo = JunkJunk and CrunchPad = TechCrash (true dispute or shock marketing?) here, you decide.

Lets not forget the soon (second attempt) to follow by the fruit company with their version of this coffee table device that offers one easy thing, no operating system to boot onto the Internet, ok giant deal about that time delay, if this was 1993, but it is not, so wow.

Price points alone stands in the way of success
$500.00 dollars? It needed to be $100.00 dollars based on ability.
If these touch and go devices wanted to take on something, they needed to accomplish something besides browsing the Internet maybe the ebook function that device made great sense, have one saving trees now, and it just made sense filled a void and away we go.
My Logic point is the ebook can incorporate the web browsing because that works together showing there was not a need for a stand alone web pad. (Web machine anyone)

Can we personally profit from micro-blogs and social profiles?
Not on your life.

Do you want to share personal information with others?
Why not start by earning real friends not click-a-friends.

Reality of networking hype
Read more on this subject from the Coachella Valley’s only true technology company Viper Logic here it is Socialize until you face the harsh reality
Did you survive that article try this one
Can a social network and micro blog make the average person money?

Logic has more to say today
We then produced a very serious article prior to the suspected attempt by a couple of micro-blog and social network sites lately to up their US ratings by creating causes and reasons to revisit our social and micro accounts setting up yet more actions required. (Next time in life someone offers you over one billion dollars, take it my friend)

We suspect furthermore that while there are plenty of people shooting those 140 character messages or adding images or progress, location updates, tracking others spending habits or precise geo location seeking, there are so few who are actually reading these updates it makes for no common reasoning.

Here is why personal updates go unread, we speculate in our opinion
People are basically living life one day at a time. The number one thing they do is travel to and from work each day, why the Silicon Valley needs to travel at all yet alone to work is a mystery in 2010 to logic. Anyways so these people’s lives are made up of micro and geo connecting, so they are well, boring overall. People update their status to express more excitement about their lives, yet these updates go unnoticed.

Social Network and Micro-Blog ventilator
Next Logic shares the true issue about updated profiles and micro-blogs (IM reinvented or whatever) is that these are places where people of all walks of life can, mostly for or because of the word free and with if preferred, annuity, cry out, fantasize, role play and basically be the equivalent to coloring your natural brown hair orange and blue like a high school boy or girl, this is venting 101 via the Internet. 

Read Social Networking and Micro Blogging this is for you
Then is an article titled Apps that do not make you money

Logic loves you baby
Wait there is more, if you are in your twenties and playing video games still on your computer, we feel this is the equivalent too how young persons used to chew on ice cubes to deal with their stress in relationships, being young and broke, finding or holding a job, and other issues like sex, success and power.

Logic means our youth no offense
We love young people, they make our world go around, and in fact their excitement generally intrigues us slightly older kids. That said and like as with life, there comes a time when, oh you know one day you return home from kinder guardian and your favorite blanket or stuffed animal is missing, you outgrew it, and who can argue, mother knows best.

Are you really staying busy just to be busy?
Here is a great question in the use of technology.
This is directed at organizations that run those VC or Angel Investor meetings and presentations in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the world where people actually travel to meet up and present their newest startup ideas.

One recent News Blogger in the Silicon Valley made a comment on his blog that no one should shake hands anymore.

Logic could not agree more
After all he the blog writer is a self proclaimed lawyer (not verified lawyer like Logic’s brother is one) and is yet lacking some details we think he forgot about human interaction that also exist.

Blogger confuses Logic (not difficult actually)
Logic is confused as to why this same man who feels the way he does about hand shaking still sees the need to have these meet up and new startup presentations held physically all around the germ riddled world, including the Silicon Valley.
(Hummm)

We all have tech, yet few rarely utilize tech to its fullest
This non-utilization of tech to Logic just goes to show that even though the technology for live teleconference and instant updating exists for both a private one on one meeting as well as a multipoint group on group meeting environments simultaneously from all around the world is here humans, companies and salespersons even startup presenters fail to apply it.

Mystery why does this easy to implement and utilize technology still not get used correctly replacing the need for actual in person meetings and the excuse to fly to here or there?

Most computer users do not really utilize their own computers

Logic has been into and quickly out of the Silicon Valley since 1993 in physical person.
We stopped all meetings in person in 1999 a new millennium commitment because travel and meeting in person for business is a very 1990’s thing.

The actual truth is, most humans just do not meet reality with ease.
What is new is hot, like video conferencing and soon like the forgotten social networks and IM services when it comes to actually relying on technology the ball gets dropped.

Here are some recent cases in point

Where does really true and important news first appear?
As we can now share with our readers, when the golfer Tiger Woods, music group Weezer as well as a company in the Silicon Valley this morning, each when confronted with truly important news, rushed to their websites to update clients, listeners or fans of their current status, instead of just updating their profiles or micro-blogs.

So which famous person, group or company Internet locations were updated first? Or was only their websites updated and others posted stories about what they learned though only secondarily learning of the breaking news?

What is ahead for the Silicon Valley?
The single largest issue confronting the Silicon Valley is the lack of innovation.
Most all blogs, profile, image, social and search exists for advertising income.
What will become of these lacking PASSION sites in the near future?

Logic can share our article titled, Tech Bubble Prediction 2010

Which California Valley is the Best Valley in California?
The Coachella Valley of course.
Common sense and focus will always prevail.

Logic thoughts
In closing Logic needs to share the truth about what makes our valley a greater location to live besides our quality of life and reduced stress.

The real advantage the Coachella Valley has over the Silicon Valley in the case of technology utilizers, is the ability to sit back from the outside and take a look into the future, all of the while remaining with our noses very close to the ground and in touch with reality. This being focused makes for greater decision making and the most accurate low-level code producing possible, even though it appears boring to be an Advanced Technology Engineering company, it is a stable and profitable way of making a sustainable living.