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28/08/2015

Parking Plaine de Plainpalais à Genève 28 August 2020

28/08/2015

Zero Department recommends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1Z5RjuB78

review http://planetneukoln.biserika.ro/the-thrill-seekers-aka-the-time-shifters-1999/

Time Travel Movies, full movies on time travel, Full Movies http://www.youtube.com/timetravelmoviesfull

28/08/2015

Zero Department recommends:

http://planetneukoln.biserika.ro/chiller-wes-craven-1985/

CHILLER was a TV movie by Wes Craven (People Under the Stairs, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shocker) about cryogenics. Chiller is a rare ice-cube of midnight TV, hard to find, and most of the online versions where terrible or hard coded in Spanish etc Still it's a marvellous perio…

18/08/2015

Friday 14 August 2015 Voodoo chicken killing shocks Geneva, prompts calls for CCTV surveillance (after Russia Today http://www.rt.com/news/197144-geneva-chicken-voodoo-killing/ )

A dead chicken killed voodoo-style has been found in a park in Geneva, Switzerland. Shocked locals are demanding surveillance cameras at the site, while a government agency is speculating whether such killings are against the law.

A white chicken was found with its throat chopped and innards removed in Budé park, Petit-Saconnex district. The carcass, which was found by dog walkers, was lying in plain sight on a white sheet covered in blood.

Candles, pieces of potato, eggs, and coin grains were also found at the site, along with a vest, sweater, and jeans belonging to a young girl, The Local reported.

“It’s disgusting! There are plenty of kids who play in this park,” one of the dog owners who came across the dead chicken told Le Matin, a Swiss newspaper.

According to Jean-Philippe Brandt, spokesperson for Geneva police, the incident “seemed like a voodoo ceremony.”

Geneva’s Food and Veterinary Affairs Service (SCAV) is planning to launch an investigation into the case.

Residents took the remains of the chicken were taken to a local protection group, and have written a petition to install surveillance cameras in the area.

However, SCAV spokesman Laurent Paoliello told Le Matin that killing a chicken in a voodoo ceremony may not be against animal protection laws.

“It all depends on the manner in which the animal was killed, if it was stunned or not before being decapitated,” he said.

17/08/2015

Nick Bostrom starts his book on Superintelligence with a short and zoomorphic fable or cautionary tale involving a group of intrepid sparrows:

"The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows

It was the nest-building season, but after days of long hard work, the sparrows sat in the evening glow, relaxing and chirping away.

"We are all so small and weak. Imagine how easy life would be if we had an owl who could help us build our nests!"
"Yes!" said another. "And we could use it to look after our elderly and our young."

"It could give us advice and keep an eye out for the neighborhood cat," added the third.

Then Pastus, the elder-bird spoke "Let us sent out scouts in all directions and try to find an abandoned owlet somewhere, or maybe an egg. A grow chick might also do, or a baby weasel. This could be the best thing that ever happened to us, at least since the opening of the Pavilion of Unlimited Grain in yonder backyard."

The flock was exhilarated, and sparrows everywhere started chirping at the top of their lungs.

Only Scronkfinkle, a one-eyed sparrow with a fretful temperatment, was unconvinced of the wisdom of the endeavour. Quoth he: "This will surely be our undoing. Should we not give some thought to the art of owl domestication and owl-taming first, before we bring such a creature into our midst?"

Replied Pastus "Taming an owl, sounds like an exceedingly difficult thing to do. It will be difficult enough to find an owl egg. So let us start there. After we have succeeded in raising an owl, then we can think about taking on this other challenge."

"There is a flaw in the plant!" squeaked Scronkfinkle, but his protests were in vain as the flock had already lifted off to start implementing the directives set out by Pastus.

Just two or three sparrows remained behind. Together they began to try to work out how owls might be tamed or domesticated. They soon realized that Pastus had been right: this was an exceedingly difficult challenge, especially in the absence of an actual owl to practice on. Nevertheless they pressed on as best they could, constantly fearing that the flock might return with an owl egg before a solution to the control problem had been found.

It is not known hoe the story ends, but the author dedicates this book to Scrokfinkle and his followers." (Nick Bostrom, preface to Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers and Strategies)

14/08/2015

INDIGO PRIME is
"...a very strange organization of interdimensional troubleshooters who work as contract agents for the manipulation of empty universes and also police breakdowns of the barriers between worlds. They rewrite space, time, and dreams to keep reality in one piece."
(review of Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse Rebellion 2013 by Grant Goggans on his blog)

According to the opening pages of the amazingly weird Indigo Prime Anthropocalypse comic book by John Smith/Lee Carter/Edmund Bagwell - there is trouble in Geneva, Switzerland or "reality 415"(by Indigo Prime agency registration standards). There are protests and concerns regarding the search after Higgs Boson. Lets see what happens next...

14/08/2015

http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.dan.stoicescu

Dan Stoicescu

13/08/2015

09/08/2015

This is the cover of the SUPERINTELLIGENCE: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (published September 3rd 2014 by Oxford University Press) by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom (http://www.nickbostrom.com/).
A very influential book by all accounts (read and appreciated by both business magnate Elon Musk and Bill Gates) about how a "cognitive performance greatly [exceeding] that of humans in virtually all domains of interest" could promise both substantial benefits as well as pose a significant existential risk for humanity.

Nick Bostrom is Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. He is well known for his work regarding computational neuroscience, superintelligence risks, existential risk and anthropic principle.
His simulation argument for a simulation hypothesis or reality posits that at least one of the following statements is likely to be true:

≈ 0 The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;
≈ 0 The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;
≈ 1 The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

09/08/2015

09/08/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NwLUPZWZc

Decay is a 75 minute zombie film, shot and set at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN, by physics PhD students. Download: http://www.DecayFilm.com (CC-BY-NC) Sou...