LawTalkers - Missing the Paigow (et al.) [sniff]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Please discuss [Another way to look at is if you come across a farmer, whose farm is surrounded by foxes and cougars, and his chickens are getting eaten. The foxes are accusing the cougars of eating the chickens and the cougars are accusing the foxers of eating the chickens. If the farmer tell you that the cougars are not eating the chickens, but the foxes are, who would you trust in this case? Of course the farmer. If he tells you foxes, and you kill them, and it is really the cougars, he is still screwed. If he tells you the cougars are not the problem, the only reason he would tell you that is if the cougars are not the problem. He has no reason to lie.

But both the foxes and the cougars are unreliable because they have a strong reason to lie.
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If he's going to use an analogy, he could at least put some thought into an original one. I mean, how many times have we heard the old chicken-farmer-caught-between-the-cougars-and-foxes bit? He might as well have used that tired old Balloon-salesman-in-the-land-of-porcupines-and-puffer-fish analogy.

TM

Shape Shifter

01-05-2006 04:08 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
If he's going to use an analogy, he could at least put some thought into an original one. I mean, how many times have we heard the old chicken-farmer-caught-between-the-cougars-and-foxes bit? He might as well have used that tired old Balloon-salesman-in-the-land-of-porcupines-and-puffer-fish analogy.

TM

Did you ever read the tale of Bilmore's Bees?

ThurgreedMarshall

01-05-2006 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Did you ever read the tale of Bilmore's Bees?

No. Do tell.

TM

greatwhitenorthchick

01-05-2006 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
What do farmers eat?

Cougars eat tasty young men.

I'm sure this has already been posted.

dtb	01-05-2006 04:13 PM

Calling All Meanies

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Point of clarification: Does 12 times mean twelve thrusts or twelve sessions in which one or both parties achieves orgasm?

bitch, please

spookyfish

01-05-2006 04:13 PM

Calling All Meanies

Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Point of clarification: Does 12 times mean twelve thrusts or twelve sessions in which one or both parties achieves orgasm?

Twelve thrusts in twelve separate sessions.

One party achieves orgasm. Then falls asleep.

Duh.

dtb	01-05-2006 04:14 PM

Calling All Meanies

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I didn't think you could fuck up that story. I really didn't. But there it is.

TM

Sigh. I have so much to learn.

And I was doing so well.

Shape Shifter

01-05-2006 04:19 PM

Calling All Meanies

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Originally posted by dtb
Sigh. I have so much to learn.

And I was doing so well.

I enjoyed it.

ltl/fb

01-05-2006 04:19 PM

Calling All Meanies

Quote:

Originally posted by spookyfish
Twelve thrusts in twelve separate sessions.

One party achieves orgasm. Then falls asleep.

Duh.

12 times? Before breakfast? I guess they are short naps.

Shape Shifter

01-05-2006 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. Do tell.

TM

See http://lawtalkers.com/forums/showthr...041#post79041, et seq.

LessinSF

01-05-2006 04:26 PM

Opening Day

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Nobody wins the 10 points.

2006 PGA Tour tees off in an hour in Maui. Go Jason Gore.

Indeed. My golf team:

Vijay Singh $8,017,336
Ernie Els $1,627,184
Jason Gore $871,135
Alex Cejka $510,082
Mathias Gronberg $401,140
David Howell $224,450
Miguel A. Jimenez $109,398
Chris Couch $96,667
Ian Leggett $63,283
Camilo Villegas $16,300
Charley Hoffman $10,656
Steven Bowditch $8,299

Cash $44,070

pony_trekker

01-05-2006 04:29 PM

Calling All Meanies

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I only wear shoes when I absolutely have to. It is no wonder she likes to be barefoot as well.

Please post pictures of yourself barefoot in public. Thanks.

Mr. Man

01-05-2006 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Please discuss

The Lotka-Volterra model describes interactions between two species in an ecosystem, a predator and a prey. Since we are considering two species, the model will involve two equations, one which describes how the prey population changes and the second which describes how the predator population changes.
If we let R(t) and F(t) represent the number of hens and cougars, respectively, that are alive at time t, then the Lotka-Volterra model is:

dR/dt = a*R - b*R*F
dF/dt = e*b*R*F - c*F

where the parameters are defined by:

-a is the natural growth rate of hens in the absence of predation,
-c is the natural death rate of cougars in the absence of food,
-b is the death rate per encounter of hens due to predation,
-e is the efficiency of turning predated hens into cougars.

The model is much more complex with two predators.

FYI, this is the exact shit that made me raise the white flag in second semester college math, after living a high school life as one of the top math team geeks in the Midwest. Makes me cry.

MM

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