From oracle-admin@soic.indiana.edu Mon Mar 10 07:39:16 2014 Received: from newman.soic.indiana.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newman.soic.indiana.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/IUCS_2.100) with ESMTP id s2ABdGST028174; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:39:16 -0400 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by newman.soic.indiana.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id s2ABdGiH028170; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:39:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:39:16 -0400 From: oracle-request@cs.indiana.edu Message-Id: <201403101139.s2ABdGiH028170@newman.soic.indiana.edu> To: oracle-list@cs.indiana.edu Subject: Internet Oracularities #1529 Reply-To: oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu X-Face: )/f9dPAX/dU$1Z!U(/?A PiIJvIOtcN@L.>6,2OKd."T#S7b*{feRf.Kns23^P9.Ak{GdWWv]0*1E}RJ)_idU:(5VkN*_+bB kyrnLfC12B>V/q=z32:05`EcAd.!z#3k]h)O!ZU^E"f`@),(2WT X-Planation: X-Face can be used with www.cs.indiana.edu/ftp/faces === 1529 ================================================================= Title: Internet Oracularities #1529 Compiled-By: Steve Kinzler Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:39:05 -0500 (EST) To find out all about the Internet Oracle (TM), including how to participate, send mail to oracle@cs.indiana.edu with the word "help" in the subject line, or go to http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/ or http://www.internetoracle.org/ ("Internet Oracle" is a trademark of Stephen B Kinzler.) Let us know what you like! Send your ratings of these 10 Oracularities on an integer scale of 1 ("very bad") to 5 ("very good") with the volume number to oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu (probably just reply to this message). For example: 1529 2 1 3 4 3 5 3 3 4 1 1524 15 votes 43521 34341 12831 03624 23415 04551 24360 02418 23820 25341 1524 3.1 mean 2.5 2.7 3.1 3.5 3.3 3.2 2.9 4.0 2.7 2.8 --- 1529-01 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > ERROR 404: SUPPLICANT NOT FOUND And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Oh where, oh where has my Supplicant gone. } Oh where, oh where can he be? } With his question cut short and his words made tall, } Oh where, oh where can he be. } } You owe the Oracle a search party. I'm sure he'll turn up eventually; } he always does. --- 1529-02 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: "Klone (aka Daniel V. Klein) " The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > "The Oracle has pondered your question deeply." Have you ever > pondered my question shallowly? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Generally not. Occasionally an out-of-control incarnation may make it } seem that way. Sometimes, though, shallowness is deliberate. } } Because you ask, here's a shallow answer: "Duhhh?" } } As you can see, it hurts my head to give that kind of answer, } especially as it appears to question itself. Still, that's what some } supplicants need, and it's what they'll get, as I lie to them about the } depth of my pondering. } } Duhhh. } } You owe the Oracle the fall of a great empire and a clear explanation } of Zen. --- 1529-03 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Ian Davis The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Geek Alphabet time. There is the letter Lambda, used in math and for > writing about Lambs. > > What about the letter Krambda, used for spelling the name of Ralph > Kramden? Tell me more. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } As an Alpha-male, the Oracle uses Zota, causing the Idiota supplicants } to Psi themselves. --- 1529-04 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Say that again? --- 1529-05 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: "Klone (aka Daniel V. Klein) " The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Back in 1952 they promised me a future with: > - Rockets to the moon > - Check! We went there. Still waiting for more. > - A helicopter in every garage > - We're still waiting. > - Rocket backpacks > - Check! Someone in the military made one work, I think. > - ATOMIC POWERED CARS > - waiting, waiting, waiting. > > I want my atomic powered car! I was thinking development of thorium > reactors might be the right way. > > Please tell me how to get my atomic-powered car. Putting a Ford Edsel > inside a "test excursion of a nuclear device" at the Nevada Test Site > in 1959 does not count, even if you have the time-travel ability to do > that, which I suspect you do. Or at least you know how to, along with > everything else you know. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Well, that's easy. All you need to do is to buy one of the surplus } war ships the Russian navy has laid up in Murmansk, put wheels on it, } and you will be set to go. } } You owe the Oracle a way to get the DMV to approve this. And a way to } get fuel without having the NSA show up at my door. --- 1529-06 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > sudo oracle And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Ow! Oh yeah? Well, ROUNDHOUSE SUPPLICANT! } } (Well, it certainly works for Chuck Norris.) --- 1529-07 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Christophe The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > I have a difficult time reading you sometimes. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } .dya as cealr aer ealxtinanpos my taht tinkh presollaany I Ryllea? } A godo kybaored you oew teh Ocrale. --- 1529-08 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Dave The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Is it about that time for another rash of good luck that I used to > enjoy as a beginner? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } If your good luck gave you a rash, then you probably got lucky with } the wrong partner. } } You owe both of you a trip to the doctor. --- 1529-09 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: Ian Davis The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Forgive me Oracle, for I have sinned. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Ego te abzotto. --- 1529-10 -------------------------------------------------------------- Selected-By: "Lawrence, Mark" The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > My laguage having letter not in other alhpabet, like this one and > this one that are not in anything on any body computer. As you can > see you can't see. Not knowing howput in computer. Yuo know so much you > tell me. Also other letter that you can't see neither like and so > you can tell they are difficult. I telling you not want to hear me > pronounce them sound like spit in yourear. > > Thankyou wonderfully Oracle youare so good. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Just do these steps. (for your convenience & also to show you it } actually works I have written the steps in your language. Hope you can } see them in your machine)