Stop Sector Seven

Hello everyone,

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone here who made a wonderful contribution to spreading the truth about Sector 7. I'm sure we couldn't have done what we accomplished without everyone here! Since Sector 7's "Operation: Hungry Dragon 2" (ie- the "Transformers" movie) hit the theaters, there has been no activity seen from SectorSeven.org, or from Agent X.

As you may know, I did receive a brief email & a 'thank you' from Agent X for my time spent here spreading the truth.
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Methusalen-
Thank you for your continued devotion to the cause. Don't let their lies fool you- this isnt over- the struggle will continue for years.
Yourself and RisingDragon have been integral in the campaign to expose the lies [the rest has been removed by me -Methusalen]

X
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To which I and RisingDragon11 were mailed a "movie poster" from a "Friend of the cause", signed by Peter Cullen -the voice of "Optimus Prime", along with another 'thank you' letter from Agent X. (an image of one of those posters can be seen below)

Now, I wholly intend to "stay vigilant", as I was directed in one of Sciencehottie35's last communiques  to me. To this end, I still monitor Sectorseven.org weekly, as well as the Buzznet community that was initially set up for us here... Additionally, I am still signed up for Agent X's text messages through the "Broadtexter" service (who's widget is located on the main page still.). I am sure if Agent X or Dr. Howard attempt to get into contact with us again, it would be through one of those channels... I can only wish them the best of luck in their endeavors in the months & years to come, may they be ultimately successful in their goals!

If any of you receive new information regarding Agent X, please feel free to contact me via PM here at the Buzznet site, as it will automatically email me to notify me of a new message.

Thank you again everyone! I hope we get the opportunity to further our cause when Agent X needs us again!

In the words of Agent X:
"Expose the lies. Expose the truth."
In the words of Dr. Howard:
"Stay vigilant!"

Ever loyal,
Methusalen out...

Congratulations everyone! This post marks the 200th piece of information we've gathered here at the Buzznet StopSectorSeven site, not including the information we've gathered in the forums!

 Now, 200 might not seem like a HUGE number, but we only scratched the surface of the conspiracy! There's plenty of information out there that Sector 7 doesn't want us to know about. And it's up to us to sniff out, gather, expose, and reveal what we find to the world outside! I'm sure we can keep up the pace we're working at and  uncover some great things regarding the truth that Sector 7 is keeping hidden from us... It's only a matter of time now!

I'd just like to take a quick second and thank everyone past, present, and future who has contributed to www.buzznet.com/groups/stopsectorseven... Especially Agent X, Dr. Rebecca Howard, & Takara 83 (the first Admin here at SSS!), my other fellow Admin RisingDragon11, along with everyone else here who has (or will) contribute the cause!

As Agent X puts it, "Expose the lies. Spread the truth."

Ever loyal,
Methusalen out...

SEATTLE April 23 (UPI) -- University of Washington research engineer Bill Beaty is set to test a piece of stone purported to have fallen from an alien spacecraft 60 years ago.

The last 20 years has seen our cultures awash in robot imagery, first as retro-kitsch, then matter-of-fact.  Brand architecture- the subtle art of "What is this product's personality," embraced the Giant Robot.  Why talk about a car's personality when you could parachute it out of an exploding airplane, transform, and do mad ollies on a snowboard?  (Or as someone posted, why watch lesbians make out when you can watch lesbian ROBOTS make out?) 

Giant Robots are possibly the most credulous of science-fiction ideas.  They are not superpowers, they are not the force, demons, ghosts or angels.  They sidestep the 100 civilization year window of Drake's equation, while being more familiar than any other 'unlike us' alien.  Finally- they don't even have to be aliens.  Giant Robots may come from Earth.  While we are busily killing off the Cetaceans ("Oh, I hope they're all gone before we find out they're intelligent so I only have to feel guilty in the abstract…") we are just as busily building what may become Earth's second intelligent species- robots and machine intelligences.  They are evolving at an exponential rate- and we are the primordial soup that will birth them.  Indeed, when we talk of Giant <i>Transforming</i> Robots, they may be the most credulous sci-fi concept of all.  After all, we know there aren't Spider-men, or aliens blowing up cities, or Klingons quoting Shakespeare… but robots that turn into cars planes and household appliances?  Why- they <i>could</b> be here, and we'd see the world exactly as we see it now.  Like Horeslover Fat's Zebra-God in Veritas- we would not see what wasn't supposed to be there until it <i>moved</i> and ceased to blend in.  When Occam's Razor has eliminated every other sci-fi dream, Giant Transforming Robots, however improbable, must be true.

Giant Robots are not only anthropomorphic- they're metonymic.  Larger-than-life figures that embody our hopes, dreams and fears.  Giant Robots are super-protagonists.  They quit the job they're working for to build the solar tower they always wanted.  You hate your boss?  Starscream actually tries to kill his boss.  The dreamers, the makers, the leaders who actually stands their ground and say "this is who I am and what I stand for" when you say 'this I who I wish I was, what I wish I stood up for.'  By <i>reducing</i> every problem in life to its embodying giant robot, all problems (though they may be large) become ultimately comprehensible, and overcomeable.  Defeating a giant robot is hard- but it's far simpler than trying to heal your fractured relationship with your father.  Suddenly all problems become problems you <i>could potentially solve</i>, if you can just defeat the Giant Robot, and that sense of power is a heady one, a tantalizing glimpse of what it's like to be a Super Protagonist Robot.  What if you was someone who tackled my problems head on and overcame them, instead of sullenly accepting them?  Reducing the world to Giant Robots includes the implicit promise of <i>resolution</i>, of a life where you can <i>win</i>, and if you can actually win… suddenly you feel like playing.  The game of life is obtuse, there is no rule book, and failure a hard-won ally, it taught you not to try.  Reducing the world to Giant Robots is like a beacon if shining light among the shadows.  Suddenly there is the tantalizing possibility that we can <i>win</i>, and the urge to compete returns.  "I want to play this game to win," you tell your father, "not just shrink from pain and try not to lose." 

Giant Robots are made of people.  The primitive non-biological organisms of our lives- government agencies, and large businesses, are made up of people acting as cogs in a system so complex and self-sustaining that we call them 'legal entities.'  The basic unit of construction to these entities is not carbon or iron- but law, as long as the components function in according to their strict procedures, a thousand individual cogs accomplish tremendous collective action.

Legal entities are, in essence, enormous gestalts- and like Transformer gestalts, are only successful if the members can sublimate their individual wants and desires to the needs of the group.

But the pliability of identity can also be used as to create a type of Super-Individualism, where we mere humans take on the attributes of things greater than ourselves.  We use totemic anchors to channel transhuman entities and concepts, and embody them in the real world- want to become more aggressive and assert yourself?  Become the avatar of a power-hungry Decepticon pillaging the Earth's resources by buying a SUV.  Score with underage schoolgirls, buy a Honda S200.  Become a better person than you ever thought you could be, change your name to Optimus Prime and go fight terrorists.  By donning this identity-armor we become super-protagonists, just like that which we channel, whose great power can carve through life's difficulties like a cold knife through hot cheerleader.  With practice, we can even use these fiction-suits to ender into and interact directly with that we channel.

Giant Fucking Robots are the realest thing that will ever happen that will ever happen in our pre-planned artificial lives.  They must exist, and if they do not exist, we must create them, and if we cannot create them, we will become them.  They are the sanest most rational paradigm for dealing with a world gone feral, so choose your side and play.

I welcome our new robot overlords, for they are us.

神奈川沖浪裏

Accidents do occur, but in general automatons are less dangerous to mankind than cars.

By David Wilson

On July 21, 1984, at about 1pm, Harry Allen, 34, a diecast operator at Diecast Corporation in Michigan entered a restricted area. Apparently, he planned to clean up some scrap metal from the floor.

In the process, he obstructed the machinations of an industrial robot. He was trapped between a factory pole and the back of the machine and suffered a heart attack. The company's director of manufacturing managed to free him. But five days later he died in hospital, becoming the first American victim of an industrial robot-related accident and a global focus for feelings of unease towards automatons.

Twenty years on, the question is whether that unease is justified. Are robots insidiously evolving into a Frankenstein threat to our safety?

According to Forbes, there is one accident a year for every 45 robots. This may sound high but Jeff Fryman, the director of standards development at the Robotic Industries Association, dismissed the inference that the risk is acute.

He described robot-related accidents as "very rare and far fewer than industrial accidents".

David Miller, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Oklahoma who runs non-destructive Botball tournaments, said that when accidents do happen, they stem from human negligence. In every case he knows (including the 1984 Michigan tragedy), somebody bypassed installed safety mechanisms to encroach on a robot's workspace while it was operating.

Professor Miller compared this foolish tactic to working at the base of a lift shaft "and hoping that the elevator is not called to the basement".

On balance, robots were much less of a menace to society than cars, he continued.

Admittedly, as robots became more common, more accidents would happen - doubtless in the future, someone would trip over their Roomba robotic floorvac and get hurt, but so what? "Does that mean that the Roomba is dangerous?" he said.

"No more so than a cat, or a book that was left unnoticed on the floor."

One engineering development that looks much more of a danger than domestic disarray is the armed robot security guard.

Think of the Net-enabled gun-waving monster devised by Pitikhet Suraksa, an assistant professor at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Scary.

But Professor Miller questioned whether, in the roboguard realm too, the real threat was silicon- or carbon-based. Since, to his knowledge, no commercially available robot that could fire a weapon on its own existed, the real threat came from the human operator, he said.

Jordan Pollack, a professor of computer science and complex systems at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, echoed Professor Miller's view, calling roboguards "puppets".

Nevertheless what if, as AI advances, robots develop autonomy and decide to take on their masters? Kevin Warwick, a cybernetics expert at Reading University near London, predicts a robot uprising.

Hugo de Garis - an associate professor of computer science at Utah State University - goes even further, forecasting a civil war between them and us.

Both scenarios look unlikely, however, because few scientists take the prospect of organised belligerence seriously. MIT's Rodney Brooks laughed it off, saying that he was often asked what would happen if machines decided we are useless and sided against us.

His answer was: "Well, that hasn't stopped us having children."

Professor Pollack was also sardonic. Portraying loss of jobs instead of lives was the issue at stake, he said: "Currently, the robots which threaten humanity are the ATM machine tellers , the computer printer typists and the CD-burner music industry workers ."

Even so, not all robots are pussycats, it seems. "The first rule of robotics is they shall cause no harm, so some of the new war-type applications fly in the face of these rules," Mr Fryman said.

Already, the Scottish company Essential Viewing has designed robot soldiers for the Pentagon. Consequently, just like in Attack Of The Clones, one day, armies of robots could fight running battles.