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DelianSK posted...

Yeah I don't get it. People know about those restaurants.

Why does Coke advertise?

Coke is a product you purchase. Restaurants have the benefit of visibility as you drive home from work. Billboards generally work better to attract you into an impulse by if the restaurant is down the road.

Companies that sell products/merchandise use more indirect methods of marketing to get you familiar and comfortable with their brand through mere repeated exposure so you're more likely to pick it when you're at Walmart.
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I haven't seen the video and am at work. Can someone summarize what she did?
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I have been a client for years. I have had my business cards, business logos, and even some video editing done there for anywhere from $5-$150.

It is great for unproven artists starting out. Make a little side money while you hone your skills on real projects. The professionals can easily make $100-300 per project with the multitude of add-ons to their services (like transferring editing rights and receiving source files).

And it is not just art. There are editors, proofreaders, and even hot girls who will film themselves advertising your product or draw your brand/logo on their stomach (for real). There is website design and translation services.

I think it is great as a buyer and you can make money as a seller but you have to work for it.
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These have been at my Walmart the last week.


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No joke, my two end goals are starting and operating my own university and at some point running for President of the US. I already have a 30-year-plan that works towards both.
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You mean a calzone?
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Darkman124 posted...

Zanzenburger posted...

Well this topic sure went places. <_<

when your wife has an affair with me you are not allowed to ban me for it

remember that

Why would my wife have an affair with anyone when she can proudly say she's married to a Gamefaqs moderator? ~_~
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completeboy posted...

if you are married you should have your own kids instead of adoptations? regardless i am forced to save money due to extreme lack of consistent work yet i do not see any benefit out of it, i am spendrift by nature as i had a semi rich childhood

Trouble conceiving has been an issue.

Anyways, growing up in extreme poverty, I really can't relate. But still, try for incremental progress like I said above. Set yearly goals that build every year. It seems less daunting that way and you will already start seeing progress.
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Not at all. I set an ambitious goal at age 18 that each year MUST be an improvement of the previous year. So far, 12 years in, I have kept that goal, am $100k richer, married, own a business, am published, and other stuff I have going on. It is amazing how small, incremental chanes year to year can drastically change your lide and mindset.

This year, my improvement will either be adopting 3 kids, running for office, or both. Next year I finish my phd (if this stupid dissertation cooperates).
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Well this topic sure went places. <_<
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I just remember the scene where the lead girl took her shirt off and that was about the only time-stop-related nudity the whole movie (and time wasn't even stopped when she did that).
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My wife makes more than me and I have no problem with that. It evens out more when you count my intangible earnings (the free house my job pays for us, the eating allowance, etc.), but in the end she makes more and I love it. She's quite the keeper.
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prettyprincess posted...

paulie

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Yeah, I've seen this on treadmills for the last 10 years or so. What I really want is a treadmill powered video game where your running speed and distance travelled actually affects the in-game gameplay. That would be a hell of a motivator.
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Super busy at work. Two of my coworkers have deaths in the family so they are out, so I'm covering a lot more college student problems and issues than normal.

Also, I applied to adopt 3 kids last week and am anxiously waiting to hear back if I get them.
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CoolBeansAvi posted...

^Plus you can see Kirsten Dunst's bazongas

Yes, there is also that.
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Watch the movie Melancholia. I think it does a pretty good job of showing how society would react. Pretty much disbelief most of the time, going so far as be in denial. Only until they actually see the thing in the sky does it become real and mass panic ensues. Still, though, this isn't 2012 levels of panic. More like mental breakdowns and some looting here and there, but mostly people coming together to pray or stay in their homes with their loved ones.
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I remember being so used to Everybody Loves Raymond's abbreviated/skipped intros that when I actually saw a full intro to that show I was shocked.
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She wrecks my main Jiggs in Smash 9/10 times... <_<
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This many
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You need an enormous amount of strength to be able to forgive such an act the way the family did. To mock them for it is simply signs of closed-mindedness. Not that it matters, for your judgment of that family is ultimately meaningless to them because they are at peace with themselves (which they would have to be to be able to do something like that).
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Mystere posted...

Those are some big shoes to fill. That s*** better deliver.

You won't know until you try. :)
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Angie Tribeca has been pretty good to fill that Airplane!/Naked Gun humor void. You should watch it on Hulu if you haven't already.
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Hygienists are generally hotter than nurses. Or, at least they are hotter more often. Yeesh.
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Yes and no.

My wife and I are currently looking to adopt three kids. Her job pays a lot more than mine (from a pure money perspective, not counting intangibles), so it would make more sense for me to stay at home with the kids than her.

Though if I did stay at home, I wouldn't be unemployed. My job has an online component and with the right company I could work virtually, so technically still work and be a stay-at-home parent. That would be a win-win for me. Spend times with my kids, work flexible hours without having to be stuck in a stuffy office, and still make the money.
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The dentist I go to gives me a free toothbrush after every cleaning session. I go to the dentist twice a year so I get a new toothbrush every six months. It's much easier when it's automated that way.
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My wife suffers from that sometimes. She got a note from a doctor to allow her to work from home a few times a week. I'm not sure if that's possible in your job but that's how she does it. ADA forces businesses to comply to medical/health needs of employees. If you can think of a reasonable accommodation that you think would help, bring it up with your doctor, have them make a note, then see HR and try to work out a solution.
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Assuming that's a typo for internal bleeding, I have a condition that has me bleeding internally almost all the time. Couple that with the fact that my body is unable to heal naturally and you have a dangerous combination that makes you wonder how I am even alive right now.
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Void where prohibited
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@Khalpz
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Electrokinesis posted...

@Zanzenburger

I've enjoyed the few exchanges we've had.

Thanks @Electrokinesis !

And I love your username. It reminds me of Electroplankton, and fun and underrated game.
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Lol
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Solid Sonic posted...

GOATTHlEF posted...

Shrugged off the reinstatement of slavery when he himself grew up as a slave togetic

Don't treat your Pokemon like slaves.

I remember that gimmick.
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I'm both a pastor and a phd scientist. My belief in God is one that I question daily and usually reaffirm through both logical and illogical means. It keeps life interesting, to say the least.
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GOATTHlEF posted...

*steals the goats of the summoned mods and flees*

Hey! >:[
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I am more of the "I will eventually create something that indirectly ends humanity" evil. We good?
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Thanks for your support, everyone! This is very encouraging.
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Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

KainWind posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

Wait, does this mean the child can actually understand their language? Could this be the revolutionary start between monkey-human relations?

Well it looks like they decided to "rescue" her so, maybe?

Damn, if we could get her to understand human language this could be the beginning of understanding monkeys

that is... very interesting

I love how the topic starts with monkey jokes and then this philosophical conundrum is proposed. I love CE.
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Gojak_v3 posted...

That's actually garbage. And I don't mind this guy most of the time. His argument is, "Them close minded conservatives." Which is a mostly bulls*** argument. You can find any number of intellectual conservatives if you didn't want to bury yer head in bias. Likewise you can find any number of brain dead liberals.

Plus the bolded part is simply flat out wrong. Critical thinking as it comes to academic education has nothing to do with political ideology, because it's just that an ideology.

I am willing to hear your side. My assertion is that conservative ideologies are based on tradition, whereas liberal ideologies are generally new and change the status quo. Are you willing to challenge that assertion?

Take a look at the most pressing liberal talking points: increased lgbt rights, free college, free/single payer healthcare, increased gun control, increased/new social programs, etc.

Whereas conservative talking points are generally to either keep things as they are, or change them back to the way they used to be.

My argument is that going to college exposes people to new ideas at such a constant rate, that it transfers over to other areas of life, so yes, academic critical thinking does, indeed, influence political ideology. It's not that this is what colleges are intending, but once a person begins to explore new ideas and ways of seeing a problem, they become more comfortable with looking at new solutions.

As someone with a conservative family who lives in a red state in one of the reddest towns in the red state, I struggle to get them to see things from a different perspective. And yet, even those who go to college and remain conservative, are still more open to alternative solutions. The students in our Young Conservatives organization, for example, are strictly against ACA and abortion, but yet champion for gay rights (including marriage), trans rights, and separation of church and state. Because they go to class every day with students who are Muslim, who are gay, who are trans, and they see what these issues do to them.

Putting a face to the issue does a lot to change people's minds. It's much harder to care about a gay person's rights if there aren't any for miles (that you know of) and your only understanding of them is what you see in the media.
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meingott posted...

your analogy does not disprove the fact that there are concerted efforts at basically every university, including top universities, to substantially alter free discourse and free thought. to the point where colleges are becoming centers of indoctrination rather than centers of critical thinking.

the handful of examples i found in just a couple of minutes is not exhaustive. there are hundreds of more examples you can find, and it's just gonna get worse over time.

Your average state university has between 25,000 and 30,000 students. There are over 2,000 universities in the US. You could find 10,000 examples of students being this way and it would still be a ridiculously small sample size compared to the amount of students in higher education.
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Esrac posted...

Is Relativism the right word? That sounds less like Relativism and more like Skepticism.

Probably, but this is what the theorist called it in the 1960s and that's how it is commonly referred by the higher education scholarship.
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Balrog0 posted...

I dunno how true I think that is, honestly.

I mean, there are definitely some particular institutions where I'd buy this (Hillsdale is going to be very conservative, obviously, and maybe CCs will be less liberal than 4 yr Liberal Arts colleges) but as far as region goes I'm a bit less convinced. The issue is that the job market for professors really isn't regional, it's national. It's not like you usually get your PhD from a school and then go on to teach there, though of course that happens too

I think you're focusing on professors, and I'm focusing on students. That's where the disconnect lies.

Regarding professors, I think it has more to do with departmental politics. For example, our history department at our college is full of Lincoln-hating, confederate flag-waving conservatives. But that's not true of the history department of the town next to us.

What likely happened is the department head, who is a conservative, likely hires faculty who think like him. Just like how the liberal humanities department head hires liberal professors. It is common for people in any field to hire like-minded individuals. Which is ironic given that their goal is to teach openness to new ideas to students.

But faculty hiring and tenure practices is a completely different argument saved for another day.
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meingott posted...

This was all true in the past. Not anymore. SJWism has poisoned that process. It's a religion.

Where are you getting your info? I actually work with 16 colleges, today, in this present day, and this is all very true.

Don't let sensationalist headlines scare you into a false reality about what's going on in the big bad colleges.
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s0nicfan posted...

The problem is college teaches people to look at the world from a different perspective, but often doesn't give them all the tools to critically analyze said perspective. Rather than seeing new viewpoints as potential ones to consider, they act like they're suddenly "woke" to the truth that the stupid masses just can't see. It's not quite a god complex, but it absolutely does come from a sense of superiority. This is why you see things like college kids arguing that free college is absolutely critical for society and then getting obliterated by economists who dive into the specifics of what it would take. They fell in love with an idea, suddenly thought it wasn't just AN idea but the right idea, and went forth without ever really putting in the work to truly understand it. It's why there are so many pro-communist kids coming out of universities.

I don't think facts have a liberal bias. I think facts are pretty even across both party lines, but any fact that has a conservative bias is bigoted and therefore handwaved away. Sure, let's talk about pollution using scientific data, but let's not consider the inconclusiveness of MRI scans when it comes to transsexuality. Let's argue we all need free college, but then ignore the hard math that shows the costs probably outweigh the benefits. Let's laugh at conservatives for fighting against gun control legislation but then shun and shame anyone who brings demographics into the discussion.

I guess the tl;dr is colleges give people the tools think critically along with a few, often liberal examples. Rather than use said tools, they instead treat what they're told as doctrine and being their personal crusade to educate the masses on how wrong they are.

I'd like to refer you to William Perry's theory of college student cognitive development. In his theory, students go through four developmental stages (further divided into 9 positions within the stages but I'll stick to stages for simplicity sake). They go as follows:

Dualism- the world is black and white, no grey area. What they believe is what is true
Multiplicity- All of a sudden, new ideas "awaken" an individual and they hold these new truths to be an enlightenment and suddenly anything is possible
Relativism- Suddenly, students realize that just because an idea is new, does not mean it is "true" or "correct". There must be enough fact and experience to validate an idea.
Commitment to Relativism- Like the previous stage, but life experience becomes more relevant with age as people become wiser through experiencing walks of life.

What you explain is students going to the Multiplicity stage. That is normal for college students. They think they have found enlightenment, that they found the secret to life because they are excited about these new trains of thought discovered in college. That's their critical thinking expanding in their infancy stage. Some breeze through it and some stay in it for a long time.

It is our job as college administrators to help them through those stages into the relativism stage. The programs we provide in college both inside and outside of the classroom are meant to help students transition from one stage to the other at an appropriate speed.

As such, many people never leave the dualism stage, especially if they live their entire lives with the same group of people and their worldview is never challenged. There are definitely exceptions (usually when tragedy happens or some other unexpected life event), but college is often the most common method for going through these stages.
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meingott posted...

anyway, to all the people saying college enhances your critical thinking and opens you up to new ideas.

are you fucking kidding? have you been living under a rock? colleges are all about safe places where adults can play with play-doh and color in coloring books if they were hurt or scared by other people's opinions. colleges are places where people shut down free speech, even through force and violence and threats of violence, whenever someone brings a viewpoint they don't like.

tons of people enter college as sane individuals and leave as insane social justice warriors. it's becoming an epidemic.

take a look at this idiot:

http://www.phillyvoice.com/villanova-student-shaves-her-head-combat-hair-privilege/

numerous examples of college idiocy have been shared on this board over the last few years.

To reiterate what Asherlee said, what you are seeing is headlines by extreme minorities. That's like pointing out to the crazy stuff Christian extremists have done these last few years and saying Christianity is a crazy religion. Or that drunk, redneck football fans are the epitome of people on stands on game day. They're a stereotype due to a vocal minority and media that perpetuates it through exposure.

The purpose of college and intent is to look at new ideas and be able to process them and either use them to reaffirm, challenge, or completely revamp your own initial ones. For the most part, it works. Various polls employers have taken have shown that they much prefer college graduates over non-college graduates because of their critical thinking skills. They are able to look at problems in a new way to solve things they weren't necessarily trained for. While non-college grads are really good at tasks they've been trained to do, they don't do as well when tasked with something they haven't seen before.
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Balrog0 posted...

Zanzenburger posted...

Plus, most college courses are designed to enhance your critical thinking and be open to new ideas, which generally fuel liberal/progressive ideologies.

how do you feel about the recent wave of leftist protest of open discourse?

also, why do you think that political ideology varies so much by discipline?

That is not something that is promoted by universities (not usually, anyways). The problem universities face is that they try to encourage students to be more active in political and other community causes. But they don't want to dictate what students should and shouldn't fight for.

A lot of the leftist protest is generational, not necessarily liberal. It's a product of their upbringing and how they see the world. It isn't the university's job to stifle or encourage their viewpoints, but instead to help the students develop into mature debaters and fight for causes they are passionate about with the correct tact and correct information.

Obviously, there are students who take this too far. These are the ones you see in the headlines. Most students (and I can only speak anecdotally from my state as I've worked closely with every university in my state) are much more reasonable than the extremists you see in the news.

The difference in discipline really depends on region, honestly. Midwestern psychology majors, for example, will be different from coastal and southern psychology majors, because their communities are dealing with different types of problems.
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Asherlee10 posted...

COVxy posted...

My guess is that the openness required to enter any form of extended volitional education jives more with liberal policies than conservatism, which at it's nature is about close-mindedness.

Well put.

However, this looks like a recent change that so many post-grads are consistently liberal.
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/475794063/why-are-highly-educated-americans-getting-more-liberal

"There's some pretty good evidence that going to college leads people to have more liberal attitudes on social issues, in particular on issues of tolerance, of difference and issues of gender equity,"

The article goes on to list a few more reasons for post-grad liberalism.

1. General polarization of ideologies
2. More women going to college
3. Insularity

This is not a recent revelation. I recently cited an article from the 1940s that had the same results. I will pull it up later when I am by a computer.
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COVxy posted...

My guess is that the openness required to enter any form of extended volitional education jives more with liberal policies than conservatism, which at it's nature is about close-mindedness.

This.

Conservative policies are, generally, based on traditionalist views passed down through generations. Deep-rooted societal beliefs like Christianity, the American Dream, and gun ownership are traditional American views.

In college, students are exposed to different viewpoints, either through class discussion or relationships with peers. Suddenly, strange concepts like lgbt students, different religions, and alternatove lifestyles don't seem so scary anymore, because you meet actual people with those beliefs and they seem pretty normal and just like you.

It is no coincidence that the conservatives championing for gay rights, for example, generall have a gay person in their life they care about. College is the most likely point in your life where you will meet these new people and ideas.

Plus, most college courses are designed to enhance your critical thinking and be open to new ideas, which generally fuel liberal/progressive ideologies.
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Error1355 posted...

The mods have absolutely nothing to do with username changes.

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Darmik posted...

Good luck! I hope it works out well for you and you're selected! If you're selected what's the next step? Do you have like a trial period or something?

Sort of. If we accept, we get to know them as "friends" of the foster family (at least that is how we are introduced). We hang out with them and after a while we have unsupervised visits to see how the kids do with us. Slowly, they transition them i to our home until the paperwork is completed. We can cancel at any time if we feel that they are not the right fit.


JScriv posted...

They're pretty young so hopefully they're okay. And also it's kinda nice one's older, in a couple years they'll be able to help out a lot with the little ones.

Definitely!
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