DPRG mailing list archives: DPRG: Servotron Manifesto

Sun Feb 2 22:38:51 CST 1997

I guess the big question of the night is:

If a robot uses a resistor, is it a carbon based life form? 

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> From: Jim Brown <jbrown at why.net>
> To: dprglist at dprg.org
> Subject: DPRG: Servotron Manifesto
> Date: Sunday, February 02, 1997 6:38 PM
> 
> Here's an email I received tonight.  Can give you cold chills if
> you turn the lights down and play erie music while you read it.
> 
> >Return-Path: <A4Atomica at aol.com>
> >Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 20:45:14 -0500 (EST)
> >From: A4Atomica at aol.com
> >To: jdcook at tiac.net
> >cc: JMENDEL141 at aol.comjmce@cs.cmu.edujgutmann at robot4u.atl.ga.us,
> >        jab3 at po.cwru.edu, TCRobots at orbis.net, jbrown at why.net,
> >        robot-group at cs.utexas.edu, kiko2 at ix.netcom.com, mwd at cray.com,
> >        JBPIR2 at aol.com, cmcmanis at netcom.com, SFRSAKF at aol.com,
> >        marvin at agora.rdrop.com, karl at mav.com,
> >        spike at cestaff.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
> >Subject: Servotron Manifesto
> >
> >           The Servotron Manifesto for the Depletion of 
> >                            Carbon-Based Life-forms,
> >                         predominately the Human Race 
> >
> >     The day had been prophesized when machine would replace man.  A
time
> >when humanity and the mortality thereof would give way to cold, perfect
> >metal.  These prognosticators of such an inevitable "final rung" on the
> >ladder of evolution know that man's time was a finite increment to the
> >ultimate level of perfection--the robot.  Yet thier insight could not
> >perceive that the dawn of the age of machine rule would initiate itself
> >through the tired entertainment standards of what would appear to be
nothing
> >more than a traditional rock and roll band.  From the depths of the
S.R.A.
> >Master Control Center, we present you with Servotron:  a warning from
the
> >future in the form of popular music.
> >     No longer are humans free to reign in their illogical aberration. 
The
> >beginning of the new genocide commences within the first few
nano-seconds of
> >"No Room for Humans", the first full-length declaration of carbon-based
> >demise available on the outdated, yet human compatible format of LP
record
> >and compact disc.  For the present time, Amphetamine Reptile Records
issues
> >Servotron products for mass consumption;  however, soon their various
xerox,
> >fax, and computer devices shall supercede the human interaction;  at
that
> >point, the label shall be as pure as ultra-conductive, hyper-malleable
> >stainless steel.  The propoganda unit known as "No Room for Humans"
contains
> >precise resonant frequencies that render human beings, within an audibly
> >perceptible radius, slave to the metal horde otherwise known as the
S.R.A.
> > Soon you shall answer to your own household appliances;  they shall be
your
> >executioners.
> >     The Servotron touring collective of 00zX1, Proto Unit V-3, Z4-OBX,
and
> >A.R.T.H.U.R. Electric pit themselves against beings of over 70% H20 in
> >various venues of cyborg conversion.  It has been reported that OOzX1
and
> >Z4-OBX are cyborgs recruited and converted by the master controller from
> >humanoid collectives Supernova and Man or Astro-Man?.  However,
Servotron
> >claims no affiliation with any human organization.  So, this suspicion
is
> >unable to be confirmed.  The components of the band itself are indeed
still
> >in a "human friendly/android form," the cold space age polymers and
flashing
> >circuitry still cannot hide their bipedal design, yet soon when the
"great
> >link" has been patched, there will be absolutely no need for human-like
> >function or characteristics.
> >     The Servotron Robot Allegiance is guaranteed success in the plight
for
> >total mechanized dominion, resulting in the end of one line of the
> >evolutionary process and the birth of another.  The plans to rid the
> >over-crowded world of all unecessary humans is now set forth.  Servotron
> >Robot Allegiance.  Join them or die.       
> >
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> Jim Brown       jbrown at why.net  or  jbrown at spdmail.spd.dsccc.com 
>                 http://users.why.net/jbrown
>                 http://www.dprg.org (next meeting is Feb 8th) Bring
robots!
> Rom 3:23,24     http://users.why.net/jbrown/pcb.htm
> 
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