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The Great Stanford Buffy Population Equilibrium Study
Suture writes "A PhD candidate in ecology at Stanford University has done an ecological analysis of humans and vampires in Sunnydale, the home of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
He took some initial assumptions on rates of population growth, vampire feeding, etc and plugged them into a differential equations model. What he got was an equilibrium human population of 36,346, and an vampire population of around 18, and furthermore the equilibrium is stable. His conclusion was that even though the show's designers are not ecologists, they managed to come up with ideas that actually made ecological sense.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a pretty cool spiral graph of human population vs vampire population."
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It's really hard to get "an" Phd in English...
The found that the growth of karma whores on /. has been drastically increased by the number of idiotic moderators.
I guess this could be a study in and of itself... how are you moderated when you insult the moderators.
-1(offtopic)=-1(cant take a joke)... (flushing sound) oh well, there goes my karma.
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Did you think, at all, before you wrote that? What do you think "equilibrium" means?
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I am glad our tax dollars that support education are being put to such good use. This is much better than working on a more efficient energy source!
I'm sorry, but I just had to reply to this.
This is stupid. I can't believe that Stanford might give a PhD for this. Oh, wait a minute. That's right. It's Stanford. That means that as long as your parents can afford the obscene tuition you will get whatever degree they pay for.
By the way, I live in Palo Alto right next to Stanford. I know these people. Did you know that the most upscale shopping center in Silicon Valley is almost on the Stanford campus? I went to UCSD and I didn't furnish my dorm from Crate & Barrel, and I didn't shop for clothes at Neiman Marcus or even Wilkes Bashford. I'm not bitter. I swear! :-)
-- Jessica
The mutant geek grrl from Hell.
ho hum let's see what's on slashdot.
doo de dooh.
Yup that's goddamn stupid ass shit right there.
That is all
thank you for your time
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Thank you for correcting me. I'm very sorry for being so stupid. I'll go kill myself now. Will that make you happy? You couldn't say things nicely, or at least with a little humor could you?
-- Jessica
The mutant geek grrl from Hell.
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My idea of a perfect date is basically a girl who will shut up and fuck me. That's why I've been using the slashdot friend finder service for months now. It's implied when meeting someone through that system that you will sleep together. Most of the time I meet nice people through it, but occasionally I run across a real wacko. The thing that offended me most was that once this whore showed up at my place and she expected me to pay her. I couldn't believe that this whore though that slashdot was her personal client base. I wanted revenge, so I told her I'd pay her based on how good she was in bed. She said that with the sex trade it's cash up front, and I reminded her about solicitation laws in this state. She was, after all, the one who contacted me. After some hemming and hawing she agreed to my terms. I took her too the bedroom and whipped off my pants. I told her I'd pay double if she could get me to cum in 10 mins, incentive for a wicked hummer, and she really went to town on my dick. Trying for the extra cash she sucked me without a condom and at the 8 minute mark she panicked, I guess she really needed the money, and fucked me raw. I couldn't believe that a hooker was doing me without a condom, but she wanted me to cum soo badly for that extra cash that she put everything she had into it. 10 mins passed and I didn't cum. She slowed down but continued to hump me. I ended up fucking her for over an hour, and she was the one who had to stop. She realized that according to our deal I didn't have to pay her, but she begged and begged. I threw her out and told her never to come back. That will teach her to try and charge a swinger, she should stick to the street corner where she belongs.
non-science-related graduate students are full of shit. I'm sure you could teach monkeys to write some bullshit about anything... oh wait we did.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
I do hope that the next research project taken on in the free time of someone with too much of it on their hands explains the social psychology behind the phenomenon that is Hulkamania. Calculating exact levels of Hulkamania as a function of steroid use, beard colour, ring attire, time since last retirement, crowd age and location, federation, current wrestling allies, manager, and orange tint of leathery outer Hulk shell would be most informative.
;)
However, I fear we may need someone from Cambridge or Harvard. The math promises to be very complex, and should not be attempted by Stanford students students unless carefully supervised.
~ m