Transhumanist

Extending the work Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minksy, Hans Moravec, and the Singularity meme.


 
INTERVIEW WITH NICK BOSTROM AND DAVID PEARCE 
Dave and Nick are the co-founders of the World Transhumanist Association, a nonprofit
organization aiming to improve human capabilities with high technology

Hulu Doesn't play well with others.

Currently most high end Blue Ray players can stream content from Netflix, Blockbuster, YouTube and Pandora. Some also offer CinemaNow.

One giant in streaming media web sites is missing Hulu.

On Settopbox devices Sling supports Hulu but Roku does not.

Google Video, Sling.com and Bing.com are the few that seems to have Hulu distribution agreements.  

Boxee, TV.com and Rippol all have been forced to remove Hulu content from their sites and applications.



Roku Channel Store Opens, Hulu Is a No-Show  Nov 22,2009
Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe, Netflix, MLB.tv and Amazon channels all now available on the Roku player

In Hulu's note to Rippol, the representative stated that "the only way for a company to legitimately embed our videos the way you do is to enter into a structured distribution relationship with us. However, we are currently entering into these very selectively."


According to Hulu:  Don't embed, Link instead


Bing Brings Hulu, YouTube and MSN Video
Describing it as a "new unified online video destination," Microsoft says Bing Videos will combine results from ABC, YouTube, Hulu and MSN Videos. Of course, such a product calls for a new homepage, which Microsoft has dutifully rolled out for Bing Videos.

Sling.com Isn’t Really A Hulu Competitor, But Does Offer Compelling Reasons To Make It Your Go-To Web Portal

SlingMedia run Sling.com, a video portal similar to Hulu.com but with a few extra benefits.

NBC and Fox content is actually served from Hulu.  Sling and Hulu partnered up to bring that content to Sling users, so you’ll still see the Hulu logo and see the Hulu commercials.

Hulu is streaming using Adobe's Secure RTMP protocol.

Appian.com software can capture Hulu Video.

New Plugin from Google lets you Stream Hulu and Netflix videos with Frontrow 2/09



Understudy is a plug in for Mac OS X interface Front Row. Users can subscribe to multiple feeds and watch from Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and the BBC iPlayer.



Email from Hulu to Rippol hours after they launched.

We saw that you launched today. We want to notify you that you are using our embeds in violation of our terms of service which state specifically that embeds are for personal, non-commercial use only. As such we will plan to block embedding from your site by 12/4.  Typically we disable embedding immediately but given that you just launched, we want to give you some time to transition. In the place of the embeds, we can offer you is a site map feed that links back to Hulu for video playback and includes several useful pieces of metadata in a feed. It includes video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, video type, duration info, season number, episode number, air date, expiration date, in addition to the video link on Hulu.com. It is updated every few hours: http://www.hulu.com/video_sitemap.index.xml

Rippol responded with they will never put ads in or around Hulu content.
Hulu responded:
Ad placement would be more relevant to the "non-commercial" part of the TOS vs. the "personal" part. While you may not plan to place ads near our content, Rippol is a commercial business in the sense that you plan to make money from the content service you create. Thus our content on your site is being used for commercial purposes, even if it is indirect (i.e. you attract users with Hulu content but only monetize other content).Note we are not singling out Rippol as we have transitioned other premium video aggregators to our site map feed.

From: Hulu Gets Ripped Out Of Rippol

When Hulu was announced in 2007, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said that Hulu would aim to have "ubiquitous distribution." The press release issued at the time said that Hulu "will actively seek agreements with a variety of additional distribution partners." The release also stated that each "distribution partner will feature the site?s content in an embedded player customized with a look and feel consistent with each site, making the offering organic to each destination."

More about the new Global Currency and the New World Order.

 I am putting news reports in chronological order so you can follow what's been happening here. Also trying to keep out the hype and conspiracy.
You will see this is really happening!

It's been very revealing to me, as I hope it will also be too you.


China holds more than $US2trillion ($2.4 trillion) in reserves, most of it in US currency or treasury bonds, and the two sides need to keep the value of the US dollar high.

2/27/2008
Ron Paul: Bernanke Deliberately Destroying Dollar  (good videos!)
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-bernanke-deliberately-destroying-dollar/

10/27/2008
Denmark, Iceland look again at euro as crisis takes its toll
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1225126021.25/
mirror the situation in Iceland, where massive devaluation of the krona has destroyed savings and led to calls for the country to abandon their currency altogether and join the Euro.

11/2008 G-20 Summit in Washington

1/24/2009
US President Barack Obama set the stage for a trade war with China yesterday by branding the Asian giant a currency manipulator.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/hard-line-on-china-currency-settings/story-0-1111118649697

2/5/2009
New World Order
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877388,00.html?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.0683253:b23648408&xid=Loomia

3/10/2009
Bernanke's speech to Council on Foreign Relations

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE52939S20090310
in light of the global nature of financial institutions and markets, the reform of financial regulation and supervision should be coordinated internationally to the greatest extent possible.

A read on the "Council on Foreign Relations" is a really interesting rabbit hole.

3/24/2009
UPDATE 3-Obama dismisses idea of single global currency
http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSN2434732920090325

The International Monetary Fund said earlier that the single global currency idea highlighted concerns about the stability of the global financial system, after both China and Russia earlier urged an overhaul of the global monetary system.

Obama Denounces Global Currency While Creating The Very Means For Its Introduction
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-denounces-global-currency-while-creating-the-very-means-for-its-introduction.html

4/2/2009 - G20 summit London

4/3/2009
Obama hails the new world order 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/obama-hails-the-new-world-order-1661088.html
Markets soar after President brokers 'historic' G20 deal between world leaders to bring end to recession 

Barack Obama's New World Order
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889512,00.html

4/9/2009
G20 summit: Gordon Brown announces 'new world order'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5097195/G20-summit-Gordon-Brown-announces-new-world-order.html

7/7/2009

Pope Benedict XVI has called for a new world financial order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for the common good in the third encyclical of his pontificate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGo35zDFZg

7/10/2009
The Pope,  meets with President Obama and the First Lady at the Vatican

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1909969,00.html

7/14/2009
President Medvedev of Russia shows off new coins at G8 summit.
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/medvedev-sees-single-currency-dream-in-g8-coin-gift/

7/16/2009
Medvedev: World Needs New Reserve Currency
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526541,00.html

summit of the BRIC group of leading emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China.

9/24/2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit

9/26/09
G20 leaders map out new economic order at Pittsburgh summit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/25/g20-summit-economy-bonuses-deficits


10/7/2009
Obama ditches Dalai
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/obama-ditches-dalai/story-e6frg6ux-1225783524773





10/14/2009
Lord Christopher Monckton at the Minnesota Free Market Institute
Says: Copenhagen Treaty: Will the U.S. cede sovereignty?
Claims Global Warming is hoax to try to create World Government.

10/29/2009
 George Soros says NEW WORLD ORDER Management   video
 "The dollar needs a managed devaluing." , "China will arrive as the motor replacing the US consumer"
 
11/14/2009
Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders' summit in Singapore

11/18/2009
Obama's China Trip Ends; Currency, Trade Issues Unresolved
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/obamas-china-trip-ends-cu_n_362340.html

11/22/2009
CLIMATEGATE - hacked E-mails leak out. Showing Global Warming data was faked.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574552533758682774.html


11/24/2009   India State Dinner
Obama touts partnership with India
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/24/us.india.leader/index.html



12/10/2009 (not here yet!)
Copenhagen Climate meeting scheduled.

Will Lord Monckton be proven right? 
The Timing of the hacked E-Mails sure did come at a convenient time.




A little more on all this.


World Government Tax system
Tobin tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Tobin tax is the suggested tax on all trade of currency across borders. Named after the economist James Tobin, the tax is intended to put a penalty on ...

United Future World Currency

http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentID=191


Good article in general specifically the controlled devaluation of US currency.
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/prosper.html

Story about the Pope's involvement.
(these are very conspiracy theory oriented but good anyhow, it makes some good points)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVe3p0vCsxQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89v1gjs62c

Society has evolved with religion at it's core

First I want to say that I am not saying what I believe in, my close friends already know, and it's personal and this had nothing to do with what I believe in. I will just go to say that one can not really be a believer in Atheism, GOD, Allah Buddha, Lucifer or what ever you choose with out having studied the rest at least to some level.

I think being an Atheist is all well and fine for some people, if we all were then everything would be just great.  But there are those who believe in following GOD and those who believe in following Satin.

The problem is as the existence of GOD is attacked, I see many starting to openly follow the Satanic path. Many unknowingly even as they are completely ignorant of religion they can't see what's being taught to them!  I also see many who think they are christian also being taught satanism again they are too ignorant of religion to know what they are being taught.

 I mean, pretend blood sacrifices in music videos, rams heads, skull and bones and other satanic symbols on kids clothing. They are being taught satanism in mass through the media.   The whole "be kind to your fellow man" and "do on to others" is starting to go out the window! So does concepts of love, honesty and loyalty are replaced with materialism, icon worship, promiscuity and greed.  I see a frightening trend of young people not caring about the lives of others. And in turn there own lives become less valuable.  I think much of this whole economic collapse is because of the lack of ethics stemming from much of this "As long as I get mine" attitude.

They don't realize that by screwing others there is an emergent behavior that happens. With enough people doing it we all get screwed! Every last one of us!

Irrelevant if weather there is or isn't either GOD or satan, the problem is following;  being surrounded by people that don't believe in GOOD is Bad, especially when shit hits the fan.

It's the different between people who help each other in a pinch vs. kill, break and wreck and take what they want.
Who would you rather be around in a crisis, followers of Jesus or Aleister Crowley?


We could be facing helter skelter.

What do you plan to do when these satanist take over and just decide everything opposite of what Jesus taught is just great? Where killing their neighbors off just means more for them, heck it's even fun. 

It's at that point where what I believe doesn't matter, it's what they believe that does. Where I'd wish they would have still believed in GOD or at least in GOOD.

Our society has evolved with religion at it's core.
I can't emphasize enough, evolved!
I fear that with the end of GOD and GOOD we are seeing the beginning of things far worse replacing it.

It's the vacuum that's left behind that's the real danger.

The New Global Currency is here!

It's already here, right under our noses and no one here in the US would ever guess the dollar is soon to be gone. That right, better pick up some crisp bills and save them. They soon will be collectors items.

I am not sure how to lay all this out, so I will explain it in the order I have been discovering this.  Sorry but I will leave much as a exercise to the reader to try to understand it all.

First there is Alex Jones and his very "conspiracy theory" style reports, that seem to be all very accurate and verifiable but still hard to believe. I will not even bother linking to this but it's easies enough to google and lots of videos on youtube from him.


Climategate, Copenhagen, and The New World Order

Copenhagen Consequences - The Greatest Threat to American Sovereignty

Copenhagen Treaty: Will the U.S. cede sovereignty?

Lord Monckton,
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton
Different article:
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton


When I start reading on the New Global Currency there are 1000's of web sites and news articles.  You would not believe the number of world power brokers all pushing for this to happen, even though it will end US sovereignty.

How is that? Well if we don't control our money, then nothing else really matters. Simple as that!

Henry Ford once said, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

Did Ford know something we don't?



"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

He also said, "It (the Central Bank ) gives the National Bank almost complete control of national finance. The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class... The great body of the people, mentally incapable of comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (contrary) to their interests."


Quotes on Banking and the Federal Reserve


Watch this video and listen to what George Soros says.
NEW WORLD ORDER Management  
Now Mr Soros is some one worth listening too.
He says "The dollar needs a managed devaluing." , "China will arrive as the motor replacing the US consumer"

He mentions SDR's.  Read the Wiki on Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)
And the IMF site on SDR's 

"The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries' official reserves."

Now look up:
WCU - World Currency Unit
DGC - Digital Gold Currency
SGC - Single Global Currency
World currency

Single Global Currency Association.  

"The Single Global Currency: Common Cents for the World"

Feedback on SGC Names.
Lists new names for the new Global Currency.

They are already coming up with names for it.
Akmetal, Alitinonfo, Arcturian, Ard, Bancor, Buck, Cosmos, Dey, Earth, Eartha, ECO, ECU, Ecumene, Esperanza, Euron, Galacto, Geo, Globar, Globo, Harmoney, Helio, Intor, Mono, Mondo, Mundo, Omnit, Only, Petro, Phoenix, Sol, Sosyc, Terra, Terran, UNA, UNIT, UMU, Unitas, UNO, UTO, WCU, Worldo

I place my bets on the Geo, Eco or Unit in that order.

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frickin' laser beams

From: Slashdot
Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test 
airshowfan writes"Boeing's directed-energy weapons (a.k.a. frickin' laser beams) have been getting some attention lately. The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) is a C-130 that famously burned a hole through a car's hood, and the YAL-1 AirBorne Laser is a 747 that shoots a laser from its nose that is powerful enough to bring down an ICBM. But even cooler is the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX), a laser that is mounted on a truck (which probably costs less than a 747, but who knows) and that can shoot down small aircraft, as shown in the picture on this article. (The Laser Avenger supposedly also has this capability). We live in the future!"

The Apple, part 1. As Sci-Fi Story by John L. Sokol

The big apple, that's what they used to call it, but I never understood why.

It was my first day on the job. I have my new uniform if you can call it that, a dingy orange jump suit and florescent reflectors like out of the 80's pop group DIVO. I pull the truck over, I hear the back open and the crew begins loading. I can't believe this old crappy truck is still on the road, it's engine groans like the old Prius hybrids every time I try to accelerate. It's got to be almost 60 years old by now and once it might have been considered a small truck. Now it towers over everything, twice the width of everything on the road. The only reason it's still in use is because it belongs to the city and they are too cheap to replace it I guess. It engine had been replaced years back and had been converted to electric when they stopped selling gas here, before, the rest of the country did. In doing so the streets are now like death traps with 600 volt rails jutting out all over the roads that are constantly replenishing the caps. It's amazing how few problems they have with it. You'd think people would be getting fried all the time, but nobody walks the street these days, not even to cross it.

I really should have used the restroom before I started driving. On the street in Manhattan there are no restrooms. The entrance to main office I which just left from is only a few feet away from the other end of the block.  Technically I am still  in the building.  I stared at it's concrete, looming overhead, like being under a bridge.   I'm sure I can just run over, while the work crew is loading, and be back in 5 minutes, before anyone even notices.

I open the door to face the traffic, I can remember what this used to be like in my youth when you'd get hit in the face with the familiar, almost comforting smell of petroleum exhaust and the blare of car horns. I actually miss it. Now the whole road is like an ocean of little robotic bumper cars silent. Nobody is even paying any attention since the cars drive themselves now, occasionally brushing against the rails for power. I remember when the Smart car first came out and how odd they seemed at the time; now there is nothing but. Everyone is oblivious, sitting in little half width toy cars, with the exception of this one old truck as far as the eye can see.

“Hey where are you going”, shouted another DWP worker sitting in his little orange toy car stopped in front of me. I reply, “I need to use the rest room!”. “You sure?!”, “Yes, I really need to go”; “Christ”, He waves me over, and I jump in. Moments later a path opens amongst the cars crossing ahead of us. Some invisible traffic light had signaled and seven lanes of traffic wide stopped and opened up, like the parting of the red sea. We cut across and were silently zipping down the street. We stop at the end of the block and I start to step out, he yells “You better get back there quick”. Before I could reply he was gone. I run up the stairs through a set of double doors and dive in to the men's room.

Finally at peace, I step out and take a deep breath, and as I walk past the front desk I hear, “Hey, where are you supposed to be? Is that your truck out there?”. Stunned, “yea, but--” , “What the fuck!” he grabs me by the wrist, “Your in a real load of shit now! Come on”, we run back down the stairs, among the toy cars packed bumper to bumper, is another orange car that's empty. He jumps over the 2 inch rail in the middle of this part of the road and hops in the car. I try to follow, when one of the cars lurches forward and rams the back of my ankle. “agh!”, I fall almost hitting that rail, bloodying my knee and catching myself on the car next to ours. All of the cars lurch forward again, “Shit!” still holding the car in front of me that is now dragging me along. This is it, I have been on the job maybe 30 minutes and it's over for me, the 600 volt rail is only inches from me, when I feel my arm getting grabbed and I come crashing inside the passenger seat. “Holy cow, grandpa! You ain't from around here are you? Ed or you can call me Eddy.” We glide down the street silently back to where I parked the truck. There's a whole crowd of guys in there orange suits. Eddy says “ I'd hate to be in your shoes.” I can see there is already a tow truck angling towards us up the side street, I get out, “Thanks”. He jumps out too and the car speeds off.

“Where the hell were you!, Get this truck outta here!” There is already a second truck behind mine and because of the way the curb rolls in one of the halve width lanes is blocked forcing a stream of cars to have to merge around. Traffic is a mess. 

Eddy puts his hands up, “Hey guys give him a break it's is first day”. I hear someone yell, “Hey get some depends grandpa!” While Eddy's distracting him I jump in and make my get away. “Whew!”. What else can go wrong today.

----

“Turn right ahead” I look down seeing the blinking map, the springs in the seat cushion are digging in to me. The little robotic cars wiz past me, I have found it's best to drive slow and let them navigate around me. They don't really seem to give me any breaks, not that this is unusual. I had driven here last, gee, I can't even remember, must be over 30 years ago, but this was the norm even back then. Still without people driving, they don't sound horns, I could just plow over one of these cars and would never even know it. I bet that would get the passengers attention. “Turn right ahead” I have no idea where I am at. I think I used to live down one of these streets, I think this is around where canal street was. Nothing is labeled any more. They didn't remove the street signs, just never bothered keeping them up. No body drives their cars here any more. I am not sure it's even legal for non-government people within the city limits.

“Your destination is to the left”, ahead is a dingy garage with another familiar orange jump suite waiting in front. I turn to pull in. “Whoa, back in, we need to unload”.

“So I heard you're having a shitty day.”, I can here some of the other guys in the back chuckling at this. “Not cool, Not cool, the boss wants to see you right now.” Before I could answer, another orange car had silently sneaked up. “Chop! Chop! Old man, wake up! Car's waiting. Why aren't you taking your calls?”. I reply “What?, I don't even have a phone”. “Is this your first day on the job or something?”, “Yea” I reply, “Well just get back, don't try to argue, just kiss ass. You'll probably be OK. Not a lot of people around that still know how to drive.”

“Ding, Ding, Ding” the little orange car is now making a chiming sound waiting for me, getting louder and louder impatiently. This is terrible. I just wish I was back in California or Bangalore or any of the other places I had lived where the world seemed to make some sort of sense. I haven't had a chance to catch my breath once today. The car whooshes off, weaving, ducking and dodging at a frightening pace. It reminds me of my first time in India. I couldn't believe how many close calls we almost had taking the little rickshaw there, and my kids who where young at the time screaming then laughing hysterically as we almost plowed over an old woman crossing the street, her pink saree suddenly filling the windshield in front of us. She didn't even notice that we went from 30 mph to a complete stop about 2 inches from her in the blink of and eye, but this is the norm there. Eventually you get used to it, but even the rickshaws weren't as frantic as this car. The car lurched hard, my already sore bloody knee jammed against the console as we race past another truck like the one I had just driven, narrowly missing, “Yikes!” I can feel the hair on the back of my neck rise. I can see the drivers eyes pop open wide as my car shot passed. I know exactly what she's feeling, I wonder if it's her first day too and what screwed up predicament brought her to this situation. Was it as bad as my own?