Skeptic Project

h/t Justin Templer for getting all of this.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognized as one of the largest grassroots social movements in the world with Chapters in over 60 Countries, The Zeitgeist Movement announces its 5th annual 'Zeitgeist Day' ("ZDay") global awareness campaign. The main event will be held in Los Angeles, CA at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre March 17th, 2013 - in tandem with hundreds of parallel events occurring all over the world. Prior main events have been well documented by news agencies, including the New York Times and Huffington Post in America, with speakers and attendees coming from all around the world to discuss the state of society and how to improve it.

The 2013 symposium entitled "Realizing Human Progress & Sustainability" will address the most pressing social issues of our time with key lectures from Social Activist & Filmmaker Peter Joseph, Author of "Robots will steal your job, but that's ok"; Federico Pistono, Founder of Cybernated Farm Systems; Douglas Mallette and others.

This daylong event will also showcase speakers covering the most current understandings in the areas of: Human Values, Real Economy, Applied Science, Technological Unemployment and Global Sustainability. There will be 2 Q & A's giving the audience a chance to ask relevant questions. Featured in the lobby will be interactive installations that demonstrate new paradigm technologies and solutions.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/316858
Zday Official Website: http://zdayglobal.org/

About TZM: The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist group working to bring the world together for the common goal of species sustainability before it is too late. Divisive notions such as nations, governments, races, political parties, religions, creeds or class are non-operational distinctions in the view of The Movement. Rather, we recognize the world as one system and the human species as a singular unit, sharing a common habitat. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

Zeitgeist Day(ZDAY for short) occurs annually with 100s of parallel events in over 60 countries. The goal of ZDAY is to increase public awareness to the solutions available by utilizing the scientific method for social concern as advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement. This year the main event will take place Sunday March 17, 2013 at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles.

Reserve Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/316858

Press Contact: Sharleen B. Cell: 424.261.2284
events@thezeitgeistmovement.com

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Now last year they were at The Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC Canada. Looks as though they got a clue. Vogue seats 1,144 people and it was an empty house.



So they got a smaller venue: The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles.

http://www.barnsdall.org/gallery-theatre/

The Theatre is a 299-seat proscenium stage with a basic lighting and sound package, as well as a HD ready digital projector, a built in 16mm film, slide and video projector.

I forgot about poor old Doug. Did he ever raise the money for his greenhouse?

@JimJesus lol

I always thought Dougs greenhouse idea was a bad idea, as well as made him look even more incompetent (Hi, I'm Doug I work for NASA but I need a half a million dollars for a untested greenhouse idea). The model at which Doug claimed one could make money was not very solid. There were to many facets to it that if broken would destroy the idea of his greenhouse concept which a few of the facets would be that his model would require a actual working and functioning product before any return investment could happen (His greenhouse idea is just imaginary right now), it would take something of around 500 investors per 1 green house (so a co-oped greenhouse basically), The greenhouse would not provide 500 people all the food they would need to live on (as stated in Dougs .pdf business plan. So it's not a grocery store, not even close to my understanding), There is not a economical justification as to if someone would eventually make a return investment in someway off this greenhouse idea if they were one of the 500 who donated.

I'd like to say something to Dougy here. Doug the guy who worked for NASA, anybody can be a CEO of there own company when there a company who only has 1 person (you) working for it bud. I'm not impressed. Please stop touting that around to gain credibility, as well as that you worked for NASA, it's embarrassing but entertaining for me. Gain credibility by action and making a working prototype, not by telling people how important you are.

"Or at least use his :engineering tech" skills to develop just one robotic farming tool? "

I doubt he even has the skills to build these things, otherwise he would at least have some schematics already sorted.

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I doubt he even has the skills to build these things, otherwise he would at least have some schematics already sorted.

Just have him copy OSE schematics and put a TVP label on 'em.

What a shame, the money they made could have gone for Cancer or a REAL concern.... but whatever.

Can anyone tell me how the hell can you raise 'awareness'if you're hosting in a 299 seater?

Looks like I was right, Doug just wants to become a lecture and possible guru as said on his twitter. Doug also put his crap up on angel now. https://angel.co/douglas-mallette


https://twitter.com/DouglasMallette

He probably would of just pocketed most of the Kickstarter money had he gotten it. He's either a brilliant huckster or a really naive ideologue. My faith in the latter is dwindling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxCbsYOqpA

Interesting. It seems as if Center for Inquiry West is right across the street.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/30066813
FF to 32:45.

Douglas sez:
"Some technologies aren't very good. Some technologies don't serve a proper purpose and they might not even be relevant as we move forward. What's the technological benefit of of creating some crazy-ass frankenfood that is going to give you cancer later on just because some scientists were paid to do so in a lab? I mean, what's the scientific relevance of that? ...And this is coming from a science geek."

Yea, that would be a bad technology, Doug. That's why it doesn't exist. There's no evidence commercially available GMO foods are harmful. The reason GMOs are made is not to give you cancer (if it was, the scientists failed miserably) but to increase yeild, resist parasites, resist molds, and to create vitamins and minerals that are lacking in a region's diet like golden rice.

This all goes back to Doug and his conspiracy theory mindset everyone wants to pretend doesn't exist. He's a loon, always has been and still is. THEY are tying to KILL YOU with YOUR FOOD using SCIENCE

Shit is dead.

Dude, I swear it's gonna take off when VTV releases his documentary and that VP movie comes out.

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VTV's movie is vaporware.

VP's Project Hollywood isn't? Spending 100 grand on another Pipedreams or <s>Morrowind</s> Oblivion doesn't count.

Btw, almost forgot about Neil, if it weren't for this goofy talk. Looks like nothing's really changed. Except his computer is "broken" and he needs $300 to "fix it".

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I can't wait for the next VTV begging show where he says "give me money", I hope people continue to give the guy money to continue his lifestyle, living VTV's life is a nightmare. VTV go on a diet.

One of my best friends is conservative and he'd be completely crazy about Neil. I'm 100% sure. Yeah, the economy is bad and it's tough if you haven't learned anything that's in demand, but this kind of blame-everyone, jobs suck, society brings me down and sucks too because people are rich and don't help me out is exactly how he pictures the radical left.

The computer is just one thing. When I built my first, I spent two months graphing parts to get the best return on my investment. Getting the sockets and clocks right didn't even concern me it was so basic. I repaired all screw-ups (which was before search engines would just spit out perfect answers) myself, including some pretty severe BIOS issues.

Sure, the repair story sounds like a ruse, but either way it's just lazy. Same for the "there are no jobs" thing. Work online. Do mechanical turk stuff. Learn a language and be a translator - I practice 25 words per day, and I already speak three. What's the fucking holdup?

Hell, I make >€10/hr playing poker at a local casino and I'm not even any good. I genuinely feel bad for anyone in need, but there aren't any good excuses for not applying yourself. Ever.

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Owes landlord exactly $300, needs exactly $300 to "fix broken computer", some might call me cynical.

@anticultist I misspoke it was $605.00 in trailer rent but apparently he owes $1,005.00 in back trailer rent total. I'm not sure on a per month bases how much he has to pay just in rent to stay in his trailer, I would imagine it's very cheap. I'm surprised VTV neglected to pay his trailer rent that it's gotten to $1,005, no wonder the landlord served the notice. Seriously VTV you splurge a little and take your landlord out to some waterpark, my lord your living high on the hog there (hahaha!). Seriously you think you deserve leeway on the rent for taking your landlord to a waterpark? This is just another example how VTV manipulates people, as to get something out of them. VTV is subleasing his trailer out to strangers as well. What happened to that money from subleasing? LMAO what a life...

VTV should make his life into a web show for supplement income. I find his life hilarious so I know I'd watch it.

Here is the eviction notice.




The problem with VTV is he just expects people to just give him money or that they owe him something. In a way that's actually somewhat human and normal as everybody expects people to owe them something. However though VTV is 40 something years old and I'm in disbelief he hasn't learned one of the most basic life lessons there is which is that no one owes him anything. When you rent out your trailer to someone to help out with the rent don't expect that individual to be reliable or actually pay the rent. I emphasize this point when VTV has kids to look after and he is seriously going to rely on his subleasing part of his mobile home out to strangers to be his main income source to pay for VTV and his kids.

Again no one owes VTV anything, that is the reality of the situation so don't bemoan america on your short comings in life. It's not my job or anybody else's job to pay your rent, buy you a computer, and make your life a lifestyle where you make it a art to avoid getting a job or do any real work. So the next time a renter leaves your mobile home, do not think those renters owe you anything , just suck it up and find a job or apply for welfare if you haven't already. If I was poor like yourself, I would apply for welfare, I mean it's free money (you get even more when you have kids)! Nowadays from what I heard you can get welfare money transferred to your debit so when you buy stuff with it no one even knows your using that money for it.

I enjoy the fact that VTV acts like he's dying because some young kid is telling him what to do at his jurb he supposedly has. I know inside VTV is crying inside because in his imaginary world he is the king and he looks down people he deems not worthy to tell him what to do. I just enjoy the fact that he's coming to reality that he's not squat in real life, and from a economic perspective VTV being forty something years old is not above the pay grade of a teenager who works at Mcdonalds. I'm glad he has a jurb (so he says) but I enjoy it even more that inside it's killing him to take orders from people he deems not worthy, I enjoy that very much. SUCK IT UP!


VTV radio show description crying about a renter.

Sometimes it does not pay to trust, and sometimes it can be downright dangerous to be kind. I took in someone I thought was my friend. He agreed to contribute to the household expenses. So back in July, one of my now former roommates told us that he was going to pay the lot rent directly to my land lord via some service his bank offered. He also claimed to be doing this for August and September. My land lord did not report any problems (Normally if rent is late or missing they notify you right away.) so I figured everything was fine. In September my landlord finally notified me that they had not gotten any rent since June. According to my lease if we are late three months in a given year they can terminate my residence for that reason alone.

I kept up to date after that and started paying more towards the back rent owed. The landlord has not contacted me until yesterday to inform me that I had seven days to pay them $605 or they would take my home. I called a lawyer who specializes in evictions and got a consultation and it turns out I have no recourse. If I cannot get them the money in the alloted time I will lose my home. Shortly thereafter would be loss of custody of my children. And everything else.

If V-RADIO has ever brought you anything of worth to your life please consider helping me out. I posted about this on Facebook and am now nearly half way to my goal. PLEASE consider a donation at http://v-radio.org/donations

Furthermore, if there is any doubt about the validity of my predicament:

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad94/VTV115/Evictionnoticeredacted_zps5cad71d0.jpg

@CyborgJesus I agree that " aren't any good excuses for not applying yourself. ". I'm not that lucky though I could never make living off of gambling lol.

I am a believer that everybody has the right to work and at that a right to build there resume as well. However to move up the ladder within society as far as making more money, that is not a right that is a privilege for individuals who work hard, but a life can be unfair and allow some who are legacies aka born with money to have the same privileges and more to others who work hard for them but that's apart of life.

I can sympathies more with a individual whose actually tried in life and I mean really tried but has failed, however I have zero sympathy for individuals who have never tried at all yet bemoan america. I guess I started to point fingers as to why America has groomed a bunch of LAZY, complainer, do nothings, who expect trophy's for just participating aka doing nothing. I suppose I'd blame the educational system as apparently everybody believes that's the only way to get ahead. From grade school to college, it teaches nothing but theory when you go out into the free market that's where grades stop and you either pass or fail this is where the real test is. To some extent you have the government (government is there for good reason) involved but don't let that deter you from doing what you want to do within the freemarket.

It seems to me that we're teaching people that there to stupid to teach themselves, that you actually need to pay others to teach you. This is far from the truth and with the internet even more so now. At any age all you need is to work hard, dedication, and patience and you can get your equivalent college education in the free market. The majority of my income, does not correlate with the degrees I have earned.