WordWolf

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands." "So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance." "A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" "The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination."

Is this from robert Louis Stephenson's "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?"

For some reason, I thought he meant the old black-and-white movies. There's a lot more color movies that were fun. How about "The Beast Must Die"? A murder movie whodunit that pauses to give the audience a chance to make their guesses... Anything with Vincent Price automatically wins, "The Abominable Dr Phibes" included.

CORRECT! "Where No One Has Gone Before." Here's how the quotes went... "With most life forms I feel something. I may not be able to interpret or understand it, but I feel something, if only a presence. With him -- nothing. Something about this concerns me. I don't know what, I can't point out a reason... yet." "Stay concerned. Please! The safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to those two!" Deanna Troi couldn't sense "The Traveler." Kozinski's "assistant." "I'm sure it was fascinating, Wesley, and I look forward to hearing about it. But not right now!" Wesley noticed it was "the Traveler" who was doing everything, and this was probably the first "shut up Wesley" type moment we had in the series. "How basic shall I be?" "I leave that to you." Kozinski and Riker, Kozinski thought he was a fricking genius. "How should I say this? Aah... sufficient to say for now, these symbols and their relationships have greater meaning to me than to you... ... although you can in time learn them. Then, those of you sufficiently gifted, can duplicate my results." "You are trained through the system -- you go in a straight line, competent, yes, and perhaps even innovative in a minimalist way, but what I am doing here is not the end of the process - it's the beginning." Both Kozinski and his "explanation" of how to get Warp drives to go faster. "Something troubles you about the way this is configured. How about it now?" "Yes. But shouldn't these be connected? Here. ... And here. There. That's better." "The Traveler and Wesley, while Kozinski was rambling about a straight line.

"With most life forms I feel something. I may not be able to interpret or understand it, but I feel something, if only a presence. With him -- nothing. Something about this concerns me. I don't know what, I can't point out a reason... yet." "Stay concerned. Please! The safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to those two!" "I'm sure it was fascinating, Wesley, and I look forward to hearing about it. But not right now!" "How basic shall I be?" "I leave that to you." "How should I say this? Aah... sufficient to say for now, these symbols and their relationships have greater meaning to me than to you... ... although you can in time learn them. Then, those of you sufficiently gifted, can duplicate my results." "You are trained through the system -- you go in a straight line, competent, yes, and perhaps even innovative in a minimalist way, but what I am doing here is not the end of the process - it's the beginning." "Something troubles you about the way this is configured. How about it now?" "Yes. But shouldn't these be connected? Here. ... And here. There. That's better."

Perhaps posts like it are long overdue when a poster has behaved poorly in public over extended periods of time, and refused to heed calls for compassion, reason, or Christian virtues. (Matthew 18:16-17) Apparently, some people think there's no more need for the verses that expose sin by the hands of Christians, or especially the hands of those called leaders among Christians. Would just tearing out the verses be sufficient to allow a conscience to slumber? After all, what do the worth of the hurt souls matter, when faced with making one's own mind feel nice by suppressing the cries of the hurt and suffering, by surpressing the warnings against those who cause hurts and suffering?

Actually, most reasonable people would have agreed I was entirely on topic when I posted this: I really don't get WD's fixation with one sentence. I SAID everyone's experience was different. I SAID bad experiences didn't erase the good ones. When I gave ONE example of a bad experience (kid getting a beatdown with the wooden spoon), WD suddenly took exception. We're 2 pages from where I said it, and WD insisted on pointing out that not everyone was clobbered with the wooden spoon to the point of injury. No duh. I said that. Instead of just saying the same, however, we got a torturously circuitous route of WD never getting to his point, and invoking the word "norm" and its definition while barely ever touching on why he brought it up. The poster who started this thread had some bad experiences- which don't erase anyone's good experiences. However, the posting of bad experiences despite that seems to inspire sweeping changes of subject off of the bad experiences by some people- who then blame others for the change of subject. If I thought it was unintentional, I'd be more compassionate about it. However, it seems clear to me it's CALCULATED instead.

Darn those pesky discussions on topic. How dare they get in the way of an agenda, like derails with non-sequiturs like suburbia and charismatic practices?

"With most life forms I feel something. I may not be able to interpret or understand it, but I feel something, if only a presence. With him -- nothing. Something about this concerns me. I don't know what, I can't point out a reason... yet." "Stay concerned. Please! The safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to those two!" "I'm sure it was fascinating, Wesley, and I look forward to hearing about it. But not right now!" "How basic shall I be?" "I leave that to you."

For me, just "the Wolf Man", with Lon Chaney Jr. Big surprise, eh?

Groucho, IF you somehow had found yourself in that position- having cared so little about others that you molested and raped some women, then heard one of them was in extreme emotional distress immediately following that, (can it POSSIBLY be related to what you did? Can't be-Oldies insists it can't. Then again, it's not like Oldies is a mental health professional or has any background of that type...) then you did nothing, and THEN she committed suicide, it would be expected that this would shock you into a sense of reality- of CONSEQUENCES of actions, of CAUSE and EFFECT. Harming others doesn't just go away- they remain HARMED, and some won't be able to recover without help. This would probably shock you enough to awaken your conscience, to stop you from molesting and raping the next time you wanted to. In this case, it's like cows looking at a passing train. Oh, she committed suicide? I hope that won't cause any trouble FOR ME, I hope this won't reflect on MY REPUTATION. And worse..... "He put extreme emotional distress on her, and she committed suicide shortly thereafter? It must have had nothing to do with what he did- she bears 100% of the responsiblity of the act, and he is BLAMELESS." If this is what a "Christian" can think and say, I can see why there's plenty of people with conscience and compassion who avoid or leave Christianity. This is a stain on Christianity.

"Something about this concerns me. I don't know what, I can't point out a reason... yet." "Stay concerned. Please! The safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to those two!" "I'm sure it was fascinating, Wesley, and I look forward to hearing about it. But not right now!"

I just followed the quote backward. I recognized Lwaxana talking to Worf. She was talking about a DIFFERENT race of telepaths. That really cut the number of possible episodes down, although I didn't have it down to exactly one. That's why I asked if this was it-this was my best guess.

Since I'm sure a few people missed it, Oakspear was kicked out SPECIFICALLY for the "crime" of posting on the GSC.

Is this the one where Luwaxana Troi needs therapy because she's supressed a rather dark incident from before Deanna was born, and passes out when a child lingers at the edge of a pond?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory, while in fact may be physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage. Systems that use this technique make programming of large applications easier and use real physical memory (e.g. RAM) more efficiently than those without virtual memory. Note that "virtual memory" is not just "using disk space to extend physical memory size". Extending memory is a normal consequence of using virtual memory techniques, but can be done by other means such as overlays or swapping programs and their data completely out to disk while they are inactive. The definition of "virtual memory" is based on tricking programs into thinking they are using large blocks of contiguous addresses. All modern general-purpose computer operating systems use virtual memory techniques for ordinary applications, such as word processors, spreadsheets, multimedia players, accounting, etc. Few older operating systems, such as DOS of the 1980s, or those for the mainframes of the 1960s, had virtual memory functionality - notable exceptions being the Atlas and B5000. Embedded systems and other special-purpose computer systems which require very fast, very consistent response time do not generally use virtual memory. ============= ============= http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question684.htm What is "virtual memory"? Virtual memory is a common part of most operating systems on desktop computers. It has become so common because it provides a big benefit for users at a very low cost. Most computers today have something like 64 or 128 megabytes of RAM (random-access memory) available for use by the CPU (central processing unit). Often, that amount of RAM is not enough to run all of the programs that most users expect to run at once. For example, if you load the Windows operating system, an e-mail program, a Web browser and word processor into RAM simultaneously, 64 megabytes is not enough to hold it all. If there were no such thing as virtual memory, your computer would have to say, "Sorry, you cannot load any more applications. Please close an application to load a new one." With virtual memory, the computer can look for areas of RAM that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application. Because it does this automatically, you don't even know it is happening, and it makes your computer feel like is has unlimited RAM space even though it has only 32 megabytes installed. Because hard-disk space is so much cheaper than RAM chips, virtual memory also provides a nice economic benefit. The area of the hard disk that stores the RAM image is called a page file. It holds pages of RAM on the hard disk, and the operating system moves data back and forth between the page file and RAM. (On a Windows machine, page files have a .SWP extension.) Of course, the read/write speed of a hard drive is much slower than RAM, and the technology of a hard drive is not geared toward accessing small pieces of data at a time. If your system has to rely too heavily on virtual memory, you will notice a significant performance drop. The key is to have enough RAM to handle everything you tend to work on simultaneously. Then, the only time you "feel" the slowness of virtual memory is in the slight pause that occurs when you change tasks. When you have enough RAM for your needs, virtual memory works beautifully. When you don't, the operating system has to constantly swap information back and forth between RAM and the hard disk. This is called thrashing, and it can make your computer feel incredibly slow. ================== ================== [Here's the technical one.] http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/v/virtual_memory.html (n.) An imaginary memory area supported by some operating systems (for example, Windows but not DOS) in conjunction with the hardware. You can think of virtual memory as an alternate set of memory addresses. Programs use these virtual addresses rather than real addresses to store instructions and data. When the program is actually executed, the virtual addresses are converted into real memory addresses. The purpose of virtual memory is to enlarge the address space, the set of addresses a program can utilize. For example, virtual memory might contain twice as many addresses as main memory. A program using all of virtual memory, therefore, would not be able to fit in main memory all at once. Nevertheless, the computer could execute such a program by copying into main memory those portions of the program needed at any given point during execution. To facilitate copying virtual memory into real memory, the operating system divides virtual memory into pages, each of which contains a fixed number of addresses. Each page is stored on a disk until it is needed. When the page is needed, the operating system copies it from disk to main memory, translating the virtual addresses into real addresses. The process of translating virtual addresses into real addresses is called mapping. The copying of virtual pages from disk to main memory is known as paging or swapping.

You know, taking a break from running- maybe a shorter, less exerting walk if you can't stop running- might be in order until your doctor's determined EXACTLY what happened. It could be one of MANY things. Some of them don't give you warnings, and that may have been your LAST warning. As George Carlin said about his Dad's heart problems, his Dad's FIRST sign that he had heart trouble was a trip to the cemetery. Let's not let that be your NEXT sign of trouble.

But your usage of the word "worship" is CONSISTENT with how twi used with some verses. Matthew 18:25-27 (King James Version) 25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. Surely, if he was reading Matthew 18, he wouldn't conclude the servant was an idolator and was idolizing his lord....

About anything that will divert the thread, of course! The post that, apparently, was so offensive that it needed to be diverged from, was this one:

What, no blah-blah-blah? And how can you respect Shatner after that line?

I've found that "wikiquote" comes in handy sometimes, as well. If you don't know how to find quotes, don't have an episode taped, and can't remember any, here's how you look them up online. Go to a search engine, like Google http://www.google.com In the searchbar, type, in quotes, the name of the show, and the word "quotes". The first 2 pages of results SHOULD give you plenty of quotes. USUALLY that works. For example, "House" "quotes" If you're not getting quotes from the show (like, your getting price-quotes on houses) get more specific. "House" "quotes" "television" You can throw in the name of a character as well.

Oh, and the continued and consisted DISTORTING of the posts of other people aren't "personal"? Here's one example: "These continued accusations of idolatry by you and others" Please link to the post where T-Bone just accused you of idolatry. These continued DISTORTIONS and personal attacks- while claiming your hands are clean- THOSE are getting old.

Since the idea is that we can name it from just the opening line, it should be a well-known song, from some timeframe or another. With lyrics, of course, or there's nothing to post. :) The "Name that tune" thread has an accepted rule that the songs should have received airplay at some point. Here, that's pretty much assumed, since the song needed airplay to be well-known...

Apparently, just post and go. We're not keeping score, so keeping the thread "in play" and "no cheating" are really more important than anything else.

*wild guess* "the Quick and the Dead"?