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That's what I get for not doing my own research ~ Well, Mr. Banker Guy, maybe we could talk about a loan, if you can slant those math errors my direction 
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Geoffrey,Geoffrey wrote:Dear Andrew -
You are a school-teacher who has sexual fantasies involving couples meeting behind their partners' backs at a bed and breakfast place. The imagined details are subsequently written down, as was the case with the work that initiated this thread; a squalid incident concerning two people indulging in a filthy night of carnality under assumed names. I had reservations against your story, not because of the double life you lead (on one hand doing a responsible job working with children, while on the other delving into a make-believe world of gratification of the flesh) - but because of how deception is portrayed as having only a positive side. Unless a person does not know the difference between right and wrong, or is completely void of conscience - this is misleading. Also, and here I am not talking specifically about your '64' poem: can a man write about immorality and dedicate it to a lady of virtue? Maybe you can, I don't know - but the association would have to be mostly negative.
Geoffrey wrote:Andrew McGeever wrote:
>Yes, "64" was dedicated to . . .
One lady posted over twenty messages to you, all positive and encouraging. Another wrote only two. Yet you dedicated your poem to the latter. Why?
from
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Operant_conditioning
Accident allowed Skinner to uncover one
of his most important contributions, the
intermittent reinforcement schedule.
Initially, the free operant procedure
involved the delivery of one food pellet
per press of the lever. However, the food
dispenser often broke down, allowing lever
presses to occur unfollowed by food. Skinner
found that the animals would continue
working for some time before stopping.
This technique was exploited both to save
food pellets (which Skinner then made
himself), and later to uncover now well-known
properties of behavior under different
schedules of reinforcement. These are
commonly classified as interval or ratio
and fixed or variable schedules - with
interval schedules only giving out reinforcers
upon the first response after some period
of time, ratio schedules only giving out
reinforcers every so many responses, fixed
schedules having the same interval or ratio
throughout, and variable schedules enforcing
different intervals or numbers of responses
before each pair of reinforcers. Skinner's
initiation of this area of research, and
his surprisingly varied findings on the
effects of these different schedules on
the rate of a response, has led to broad
advances in our understanding of behavior
like gambling, drug use, piecework, or
waiting for the bus. Likewise, knowledge
of reinforcement schedules is essential
for animal training and forms a crucial
part of behavior therapies.
Dear Geoffrey,Geoffrey wrote:Diane requested:
>Geoffrey, please would you be so kind as to pm me the contact details of the membership secretary of your fan club?
Dear Diane,
While meditating upon Andrew's poem I considered our Redeemer's words from Matthew: "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart!" I wondered why Jesus had addressed only men. He does not stipulate that women commit adultery by lusting after men. Therefore you may fantasize about me with a clear conscience.
Goodnight (dedicated to Diane)
God robbed the darkness
when he set fire to the sun.
The blaze is pillaged nightly
by the thieving moon.
Sparkles in your eyes
are burgled from raids
to the lunar surface -
so it is natural for me
to want to steal a kiss
from you.
Geoffrey
