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#106387
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Geek-O-Meter
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106387/action/topic#106387
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Originally posted by: norinradd
PALOMNO?

Is that from The Black Hole?
Now I was beaten.

Yes, Palomino was the name of the exploration ship that discovered the _________ floating in space near the black hole.
Its crew was played by such actors as Anthony Perkins, Roddie McDowell and Ernest Borgnine.

What ship did it discover?? Can you remembe that?

I stopped by to say that I just spoke with a friend on the phone. He was listening to a radio contest that screwed up.
The contest question was What was the last line of the last movie? I told him that it was Leia saying "He's my brother." He told me it was incorrect (that the station said Han had the last line) , so of course I took that as a challenge and had to check. I popped in my DVD and checked, and I was right.
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#106351
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Quotes I Like
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106351/action/topic#106351
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From Sneakers:

There is a war out there, old friend. A World War. And its not about who's got the most bullets, its about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think. Its all about the Information.

The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
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#106191
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Animal Rights Extremists
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106191/action/topic#106191
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK so go ahead and tell a 6 year old child that his puppy is not going to heaven when he dies, but is going to simply move to a fightening pattern of infinite non-existance void, while his body will be a rotting corpse for the worms to eat.
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinacle(sp?)
On your snout
...
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#105957
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Enterprise Finale
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105957/action/topic#105957
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wait...

Riker was back on the Enterprise? So Braga and what's his name are destroying their own continuity? That's just pathetic.
I guess you didn't see it.

Riker is on the Enterprise-D Holodeck, observing events that take place 100 years before him (6 years after the previous episode of Enterprise). The timeframe for Riker is the episode where the Enterprise-D goes after the Pegasus (The Pegasus).

Riker is troubled, he wants to disobey a direct order from his previous Captain, but cannot determine if its the right thing to do. Troi advises him to consult the Holorecords of the final days of the NX-01 Enterprise, and that is what he does. He plays a few different parts (Chef, a Maco, etc.), or just observes.
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#105907
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Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105907/action/topic#105907
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Originally posted by: Mackey256
If I were you I would go to the alienware site and get all the specs on the system you want (ie. motherboard, processor, ram) and just build the exact same piece of hardware for yourself. They will charge like 3,000 bux for a top of the line computer that you could build with your own two hands for around 900.

I know your thinking you don't have the skill to do it. Lots of people are scared of building computer by themselves but it's not hard at all. Search online for tutorials and do some research. Next thing you know you'll have a pimped out box of your own.
On the contrary, the computer I have now has plenty of upgrades I installed myself. New processor, video card, 2nd hard drive, network card, memory.
No, I have no problem building a system like that.

The issue for me is if this is worth it.
Its not just a PC, its a work of art, both inside and outside, something I'd hold on to for years...even beyond its time for replacement.
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#105890
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Enterprise Finale
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105890/action/topic#105890
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I thought the finale was fine, but I wish they had let us hear the speech by Archer. This is a landmark occasion for the Federation and I thought it would be interesting to see. They should have added Avery Brooks' voice and Kate Mulgrew's voice to end. Also, I wish they had come up with a new scenario for Riker(he got his own ship in the last movie, why can't we see that?) rather than just rehash an old Next Generation episode.
Got to agree with every word, but the back story of Riker using the Enterprise stuff to help him decide what to do about his old CO and the Pegasus wasn't too bad.
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#105820
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Depressing but fairly intellligent blog...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105820/action/topic#105820
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JATO Story: (1995 Darwin winner, determined bogus later)
The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The metal debris resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it turned out to be the vaporized remains of an automobile. The make of the vehicle was unidentifiable at the scene.

The folks in the lab finally figured out what it was, and pieced together the events that led up to its demise.

It seems that a former Air Force sergeant had somehow got hold of a JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) unit. JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.

Dried desert lakebeds are the location of choice for breaking the world ground vehicle speed record. The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.

The facts, as best as could be determined, are as follows:

The operator was driving a 1967 Chevy Impala. He ignited the JATO unit approximately 3.9 miles from the crash site. This was established by the location of a prominently scorched and melted strip of asphalt. The vehicle quickly reached a speed of between 250 and 300 mph and continued at that speed, under full power, for an additional 20-25 seconds. The soon-to-be pilot experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners.

The Chevy remained on the straight highway for approximately 2.6 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied the brakes, completely melting them, blowing the tires, and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface. The vehicle then became airborne for an additional 1.3 miles, impacted the cliff face at a height of 125 feet, and left a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recovered; however, small fragments of bone, teeth, and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

Ironically a still-legible bumper sticker was found, reading
"How do you like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT."

Frog GigginUrban Legend)
(1996) Two local men were seriously injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on state Highway 38 early Monday morning. Woodruff County Deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday.

Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, are listed in serious condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog-giggin' trip.

On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck's headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older model truck had burned out. A replacement fuse was not available, but Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.
After traveling approximately 20 miles, just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply to the right, exiting the pavement and striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released.

"Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston (shot his intimate parts off) or we might have been dead," stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how the accident happened," said Snyder.

Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia, Poole's wife, asked how many frogs the boys had caught.

Incorrectly attributed to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 25 July 1996. The Gazette issued a decisive statement denouncing this story as a hoax on October 17, 1997.


Bonus- Bizarre Death: (Urban Legend)
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS, President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:

On March 23,1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect, indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the descender was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."

That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. Thed old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
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#105764
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Depressing but fairly intellligent blog...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105764/action/topic#105764
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Which brings me to the Darwin Awards. Have you ever heard of them? They are given to people who kill themselves off in the stupidest imaginable ways.
One of my favorite websites.

My 2 favorite stories, even though both have been proven to be fake, have to be the JATO and the 'Frog Giggin' stories. I'll copy and paste the stories if anyone is interested, but we need a new thread for it.
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#105732
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Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105732/action/topic#105732
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Question:

I've been thinking about getting a new PC. At first, I told myself "If I run across a game that I really want, but cannot play because its requirements are too high, then I'll buy a new PC."

Then I learned about the Alienware Star Wars Edition PCs. Now I'm tempted to get a new PC now.
But I cannot decide.

For about $550, I can get a custom machine from CyberPower Systems that is, in theory, equivilent to the power of the baseline Alienware.
(I say in theory because all the numbers...processor speed, Ram, video card type, etc would be roughly the same).

The Alienware starts at $1499, but the added perk is the sweet-looking case, hyperspace subscription, complete XP skinning, various soundtracks and the rest of the Star Wars package, whatever all of it is plus the Alienware brandname.

Is it worth $1000 extra? That's what I'm asking myself.
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#105726
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105726/action/topic#105726
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Rambling is fine Warbler, no need to apologize. You gave your thoughts, just what I wanted.

Now, when to analyzed that Blockbuster situation, you said "Maybe the guy was just going to take the money and run and didn't intend to shoot unless someone put up a fight."

You are spending time considering the thoughts and intends of a criminal.
1. The man in the store had to make a quick decision as to what to do.
2. There is no way to know the intents of anyone, you can only make assumptions. If I see a man walk into a Blockbuster with a shotgun, what conclusion should be drawn?

About assault weapons:
My response to you Warbler depends on how I read into what you wrote.
"do we need assault rifles?"
--The invention of the assault rifle was unneccessary. In that sense we did not ever need assault rifles.

"do we need assault rifles?"
--Since they do exist and criminals often do not stop to question the legal implications of having one, I can see where the public would want to feel protected and want to be allowed to use them as well.

About aiming for the leg:
I will give you that someone shot in the leg can fire back, but aiming for the chest or stomach is not the answer either.
A shot to the chest can do serious damage to the heart or lungs. If the shot is "lucky", the ribcage can actually work against the body. A bullet can ricoche around inside doing lots more damage.

A shot to the stomach threatens the liver, intestines, plenty of other lymphatic organs as well (not to mention the stomach itself. I've also heard that the stomach is the most painful place to be shot.

Hitting them just about anywhere will leave them in enough pain to keep them from returning fire for at least a few seconds, the leg is non-vital and prevents them from standing.
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#105723
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Laurel and Hardy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105723/action/topic#105723
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Step 1: Get Turner Classic Movies
Step 2: Get a DVR/DVD burner (Toshiba makes one)
Step 3: Wait for a Laurel and Hardy marathon.
Step 4: Burn them.

Every so often TCM runs Laurel and Hardy marathons. DVR the entire thing then record it. My dad has several DVDs of them now.

I did the same with a recent Three Stooges marathon on SpikeTV recently. 2 disks with 18 shorts, including one that had 4 stooges (after his heart attack, Curly had cameo appearances in a handful of them).
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#105721
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Hero (not the movie)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105721/action/topic#105721
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Few comments:

1. I got a cellphone just a few months ago. I always keep it on silence mode.

2. At work, too often I have to remind people that the library that our cellphone policy is that you talk in the front or back lobby.

3. More than people that let their phone ring, I cannot stand people that use hands-free headsets. You see them standing there talking to "no one", and everytime, EVERYTIME, I think they are full-blown, out-of-their-skull nuts.

4. I wish the US would legalize cellphone jammers. I'd have one instaled in my car.
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#105615
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Original trilogy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105615/action/topic#105615
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But the changes do make a difference:

- Han Shot First-
Originally, Han was projected as being kind of evil, shooting Greedo in cold-blood. Through the movie, he changes until he a hero for the Alliance. Its an important character transformation.

Now, with Greedo shooting first, its just self-defense.

-Jabba-
Some of the lines were corny and the melding of digital Jabba into the scene, even with the DVD, just does NOT look right.
Plus, in ROTJ, Jabba doesn't seem very forgiving. Why introduce him as being that way?

-Luke's scream in ESB-
Even Lucas knows he screwed up on this, because he changed it back for the DVDs.

-Visual Changes-
Changes where the story doesn't really change, its just updated graphics, I have no problem with (heading into Mos Eisley, the trip to the Death Star, etc.).
BUT that doesn't mean I would like to see the originals at some point. There is a certain nostalgia about having the old films available to us.
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#105525
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105525/action/topic#105525
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Its currently 7:40PM EST and I have another hour and 20 minutes of work. Library patrons trickle in at a slow pace and I'm fairly bored.

So, what better way to deal with my boredom than to start some random topic discussion.

Guideline
Its really something I shouldn't have to mention, but I figure I will anyways:
Let's not breakdown to swearing, insults and namecalling. I know some topics seem to turn into hotbeds (politics, religion are 2 good examples) in this forum.
And if someone does get nasty, turn the other cheek, politely disagree and remember that Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Topic: Gun Control
Within the last year, the American Congress let a law expire which put a ban on certain assault rifles and automatic weapons. The liberals in Congress and around the country were opposed to letting it expire, saying that it would be wrong to allow these weapons to become accessible.

Related Tie-in:
The state of Ohio, where I live, within the last couple years, created a conceal-carry law, allowing citizens who took the proper training and passed classes, to carry concealed weapons. Again, many were against the idea.

My take
The assault weapons ban.
Allowing the law to expire was the right thing to do, for several reasons.
First of all, the ban specifically named certain weapons, so a person could technically change the name of the weapon and sell it "legally". A TEK-9 (which I believe was on the list) could be sold as a DEK-9b, and that got through.
Second, certain venues, such as gun shows, could not be regulated under this law. Sales of weapons at these shows simply went under the radar.
Last, and I consider this the clincher, a criminal, wanting a weapon, is not going to care whether a gun is "legal" or not. They will find a way to get it. But a man wanting to have a legal firearm and keep up with the firepower the criminals have at their disposal is unable to do so. Many police dept. have the same trouble. They are unable to keep up with the criminals.

Now, concerning the conceal-carry law, I feel this was also the right thing. Yes it opens up the door for criminals, but it also opens the door for the good people too.
If you look at crime-rates in states that have legalized conceal-carry, they are actually lower. Why? Because a criminal never knows who might have a gun on them. Would you mug someone if you thought they might have a gun?
Specifically, I recall a story where 2 men attempted to rob a Blockbuster Video. They went in with a shotgun and demanded money from the cash register. A man with a conceal-carry permit and his weapon pulled it out and told the 2 men than if they didn't leave, he'd shoot them. They must not have thought he'd do it, because they did not leave. So he shot them both (both in the leg I believe).
Without conceal-carry, not only would the criminals have gotten away, but they might have shot people in the store as well. By injuring the criminals, the man prevented several crimes.

Conceal-carry also harkens back to the last point about the assault weapons ban. A criminal isn't going to say to himself I better not hide this pistol I'm going to shoot someone with...I might get arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. If he breaks one serious law, what would it matter to him that he also breaks a minor one as well.

Now, tell me what you think.
How do you feel about either topic? Why?
Do you see errors in my reasoning/facts? What are they and what proof do you have?
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#105477
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ROTS: Gut Feeling
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105477/action/topic#105477
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Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.