Path2prosperity News. Stormpay Fiasco & evolving systems.

My heart goes out to all those, who suffered financial losses as a result of the clash between Stormpay and 12DailyPro. I did not get away unscathed. I joined 12DailyPro about a week before the trouble started. I only lost $60 but I have suffered far greater losses, when my off line business crashed and everything else in my life just spiraled out of control. It hurts. It hurts a lot but you can emerge from a situation like that a bit older and a lot wiser.

What made me join 12DailyPro, when all my instincts told me that it was a huge bubble waiting to burst? The answer is simple. I paid no heed to the advice, I have published on my own web site for over three years. I warn people that the Internet fuels stories like “The Emperor’s new Clothes.” I advise my readers not to swallow any of the tripe and nonsense, hot air or hero worship that so many web sites pump out into cyberspace. I ignored my own advice and came to my senses pretty quickly. Something else, that I have published on my web site for years is, that the Internet is a cyberspace jungle and we can all expect to get bitten, ripped off or stung a few times. It is nature’s way of honing our survival skills. It is unpleasant at the time but an essential part of our learning curve.

Most of the opinions that I have read come from people, whose perfectly natural reaction is, “once bitten twice shy.”

My opinion on the matter is published from a very different perspective. I think that the Stormpay Fiasco was the best thing that could have happened. It has cleaned up the auto surf industry. It is sad that the bubble burst and rained on the just and the unjust, but it has destroyed most of the scams and it has foiled most opportunistic crooks. The new generation of auto surf programs is no longer overshadowed by these massive scam and Ponzi programs. The old auto surfs, which have survived the cataclysm and the new generation of auto surfs will provide much better advertising tools and income opportunities for online business users. The sanctions imposed by the US Securities Exchange Commission have given Countries, which are not subject to their laws, a big advantage and we can already see some great programs emerging from other countries. My favourite, which seems to have no growing pains and has paid me on time every time is CompactSurfing I really like this program. See some of the other recommended auto surf programs and “A Case for Autosurfing Programs” on the links below.

It is so easy to get hoodwinked and be taken in by powerful sales spiel. There are thousands of Internet Gurus, who claim to have postulated the 1# rated business model for Internet Marketing, lead generation and the rest. What have they discovered that is new? Most of their strategies have been used by “The oldest profession in the world.” I am not suggesting that anybody should sell access to another person’s nether regions, but take a look at the business models postulated by a fictitious character “Fanny Hillman” in her cartoon book. “Memoirs of a Jewish Madam”.
Can you come up with a better business model? Replace the word it with “digitally delivered products” in Fanny’s business model and see if you agree with the lascivious old crone! She knew how to make good money from home.

If you want to make money, forget hard work. Use your brain to find tools and silicon chip servants, which make your work less arduous. The industrial revolution is history now. We all know what happened when machines were used to replace people in the workplace. Some parts of the planet benefited from this step forward, others degenerated. The technological revolution has produced the tiny machines which we term hardware products. They have made their way into most people’s homes, wallets and pockets. Software tools have been available for many years but the auto surf programs are the first tools, that are cheap enough to be used by almost anybody running a home based business. Auto surfs enable a one person enterprise to delegate a lot of their daily chores to their silicon chip servants. This is a quantum leap. Some small business people could emerge as giant slayers.

Where do we go from here? I suggest that we use these tools to promote our products. Most people used them to promote links to other autosurf programs and heralded them as investment programs. It is easy to see, with hindsight, that this was folly. The auto surf programs give us the opportunity to promote our own digital products or our chosen affiliate products and services to a captive audience. People do watch the screen on autosurf programs. You will not earn or learn much from these programs unless you have saleable products to promote. Path2prosperity has listed, criteria by which it selects products and services to promote on its “Silicon Chip Servant” workforce.

The World Wide Web is an evolving system. It is not a product of conscious design. All evolving systems follow very complex mathematical patterns. Only a genius or a complete idiot would attempt to explain these principles to lay people like me. Michael Crighton has done it brilliantly. I know a professional mathematician, who endorses my opinion of the book. He is my son, who is a mathematical biologist.

My son was capable of getting a brilliant degree in theoretical maths from Oxford University and obtaining a teaching scholarship in the USA. Could he explain anything about mathematical biology to his own mother? He didn’t even try. He made a very good attempt to explain how to count large numbers, when he presented his M.Phil to Bowling Green University in Ohio because he won their coveted prize for the best written M.Phil thesis. It must have been good because the prize is normally awarded to postgraduates in the arts faculties not science faculties. I was not impressed. I thought he was an obtuse, blockhead, who had developed a communication problem. When I told him that I understood a bit about the subject, as I had read Jurassic Park, a broad grin spread all over his face and he spoke in words that I could understand. He said that there was no way that he could explain the subject as well as Michael Crighton and he advised me to tell my friends to read Jurassic Park, if they wanted to get the gist of the subject. My son obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds for counting plankton populations in June 2000 but he still can not suggest a better book for lay people.

The story opens with a series of disasters. A child dies when it is bitten by a strange creature that looks like a lizard. A construction worker is torn to pieces by a creature, which is reputed, to have looked like a pre historic monster. The news is hushed up. Nobody can find out what is going on at a remote building site on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Everybody suspects that it is something pretty hairy but they do not wish to get involved.

A group of professionals, two children and a recidivist criminal, who managed to get an invitation with the intention of stealing some embryos, are taken on a tour of Jurassic Park. One of the party, Ian Malcolm is a mathematician who is not impressed. He tells the party that Jurassic Park is an accident waiting to happen. He says that the dinosaurs will start breeding and escape. Nobody wants to look at Ian Malcolm’s graphs or mathematical patterns. They are over awed by the sight of the dinosaurs. The film version did not have mathematical pictures as subtitles, so we miss the most interesting bits in the book. The pictures in the book are graphs and computer code. The reader can visualise the pictures of dinosaurs in his or her mind’s eye and look at Ian Malcolm’s mathematical patterns at the same time. The pictures illustrate the dialogue and narrative very well. The reader begins to understand Malcolm’s argument. He informs the readers why evolving systems like Jurassic Park and the World Wide Web can only exist on the edge of chaos.

Malcolm rabbits on about things that would be very difficult to understand, if it were not for the graphs and patterns that accompany the dialogue. He asks why nobody has counted the dinosaurs to see if they are breeding? He is not in the least deterred by the fact that nobody else in the party sees the need count all female populations. How can they breed? Malcolm never finds the answer to that. He is devoured by a dinosaur. I am sure that most of us remember the scene from the film version. We saw his legs hanging out of the dinosaurs jaws and we heard his gut wrenching screams, as the dinosaur swallowed the tasty morsel. The action continues and everything that Ian Malcolm told them would happen, does happen. The reader is shown the graphs and patterns again and he or she can begin to understand that it all makes sense. Evolution in Jurassic Park had been too fast and the laws of nature had introduced an unprecedented factor, which had thrown the system back into chaos. The narrative continues. The trusted employees try to patch up the system. Security programs start to crash and the criminal is able to gain access to the genetics laboratory. He steals some frozen embryos and hides them in an empty can of shaving cream. He attempts a quick escape but becomes dinosaur fodder before he can get out of the precinct.

How could a population of all female dinosaurs breed? Jurassic Park’s chief geneticist takes over from Ian Malcolm as the mathematical biologist and explains. If frog populations begin to decline, some of the females turn into males and impregnate the other females. He had been told to substitute some of the missing strands of dinosaur DNA with frog DNA, nature had taken control of the situation to ensure that the species could survive.

How did the party get out of Jurassic Park?. They used common sense, which I describe as part of nature’s survival kit. You will understand more if you are familiar with Unix systems and C++ programming. Getting the gist of that lingo is way beyond my capabilities.

When you read the book, you will be amazed how much of it can be applied to your own experiences in life and on the Internet. It teaches you to trust your own instincts and pay attention to things that are happening right under your nose. It illustrates the power of natural forces and the way that evolving systems can not be monitored or manipulated. Experts can tell you what is probable. They can warn you about pending disasters. They can tell you when nature is likely to introduce an unprecedented factor but when it comes to medium and long term predictions, their opinions are no more than an educated guess. The person who observes what he or she sees happening right under his or her nose is just as likely to discover something new about an evolving system. If that sounds far fetched ask yourself why amateur astronomers have discovered more new stars, planets and moons than the professionals. The expanding universe is the biggest evolving system that mankind can comprehend at this time. The moral of this synopsis is TRUST YOUR COMMON SENSE. USE YOUR COMMON SENSE. APPLY YOUR COMMON SENSE.

Most of my friends in the Adlandpro Building and Internet Marketing Community joined because they were in a JOB, which left them “Just Over Broke.” It is a civilised Community, where we share ideas and help one another to create additional income streams without investing more than we can afford to loose. I hope that you will accept my invitation to join our community and make friends with Shannon, Rose and Ellyn. We have a great deal of fun communicating with each other and talking to each other over SKYPE. I intend to introduce my London readers to three Adlandpro members in each issue of Path2prosperity News. I have selected three women from America to highlight in this issue but my network includes men and women from most age groups and a lot of different Countries.

Shannon has had to give up her job because of a horrific illness (fibromyalgia), for which there is no cure. She is an extremely talented young woman who designs and crafts a range of hand made jewellery, which she sells from the web site that she has designed herself. She is extremely artistic person with a number of talents. She writes extremely good English and she writes music. Why not listen to Shannon’s very attractive singing voice on the records which she made before she was struck down with her dreadful affliction. She has added sound bytes so that you can listen if you have a media player on your computer. She is warm, friendly person, who is very popular with members of the community. Most of us read her autosurf blog. Her dream is to earn enough money to be able to train others to craft jewellery to the same high standards that she has set for Bollin Family Jewellery

Rose is a full time carer. She has a full time job, looking after a quadraplegic invalid. She describes herself as a person with an unusual affinity with paraplegics. Her daily workload is mind boggling. She is a great grandmother with a demanding job but she maintains excellent relations with her family and a huge network at Adlandpro. How does she do it. She tells me that she relies on the motto. “One day at a time.” One thing she knows very well is how to use her computers as silicon chip servants so that they can earn some additional income for her and she can look forward to a pleasant retirement. I think of you as Adland’s Queen of Auto Surf Programs, Rose but I will describe you as a “Multitasking Phenomenon” to my neighbours in SW London.

Ellyn is a fashionable lady, who attended a fashionable girls boarding school and a fashionable Ladies College. We know what went on in those establishments Ellyn. What was that book about your sort of girls, that was published in the Sixties? I have a vague feeling it was called “The Group.” Ellyn’s antics in the days when rampageous hormones clouded most young girls' better judgment are not recorded on her Adlandpro Community profile but I would bet a pound to a penny that I know where she kept her betting money at that school. Was it stuffed down your bra or safely secured just above your knicker elastic Ellyn? Ellyn loves a PUNT. Her Adlandpro nickname is Winning1 She discovered the thrill of the HYIPs a few years ago and gave the casinos a miss. She is one of Adland’s most trusted correspondents on the subject of HYIP’s . If you think of opening a High Income Investment Portfollio (HYIP), please invite Ellyn to be you Internet friend.