DPRG mailing list archives: DPRG: Servotron Manifesto

Mon Feb 3 10:11:11 CST 1997

Also, I suppose if you want to make a fire extinguishing robot with a
big water tank on it, you've got to keep the ratio of water to
robotics at less then 70% water.*

> I guess the big question of the night is:
> 
> If a robot uses a resistor, is it a carbon based life form? 
> 
> ----------
> > 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demise available on the outdated, yet human compatible format of LP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.       
> > >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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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