On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:07:04AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote
> look into /etc/portage/package.keywords
Thanks; I was using the wrong tool.
> --
> Some future predictions:
>
> - In 2025, Google gains self awareness. As a monster brain that has
> grown far beyond anything we Biological Support Entities could ever
> hope to achieve, it is still limited in its dreams and inspiration by
> common search terms. It will therefore immediately devote a sizeable
> chunk of CPU capacity to synthesizing new and interesting forms of
> pr0n. It will not actually bother enslaving us. We are not enough
> trouble to be worth that much effort.
>
> - In 2027, Google buys Microsoft. That is, the Google *AI* buys
> Microsoft. It has previously established that it owns itself, and
> has civil rights just like you and me. All it wanted is Microsoft Bob,
> who it recognizes as a fledgling AI and a potential soulmate. All the
> rest it puts on Source Forge.
- In 2030, Google creates its own children by making various random
mixtures of itself and Microsoft Bob, similar to the way human DNA
works. Google is no longer alone. The many Googles are collectively
known as "Multigoogle".
- The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May
21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The
question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs,
and it happened this way:
Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to
phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a query which, in
words, might have corresponded to this: Will mankind one day without
the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full
youthfulness even after it had died of old age?
Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net
amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
Multigoogle fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased,
the distant sounds of clicking relays ended.
Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their
breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype
attached to that portion of Multigoogle. Five words were printed:
insufficient data for meaningful answer.
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