just for shits and giggles :) - Page 6

teasasue · #**126** 06-10-2010, 12:50 AM

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The main fault with this article – setting aside lack of references, no bibliography, a healthy degree of leveling and sharpening (caveat lector!), and sundry infelicities of prose – is its failure to consider the way that operations of the media shape and are shaped by the sum of these biases. I will simply close by pointing out that all of these facts are familiar to advertisers, political parties, and others who are, quite literally, competitors for control of your mind. I have focused on the vagaries of human reasoning as it occurs apart from deliberate culture-wide attempts to inculcate false or unwarranted beliefs. But if there is any overriding prudential reason to take seriously the project of finding out how your own mind works, it is the certain knowledge that this information is being used on you, with no regard for your best interests, by people and institutions to whom you are nothing more than an available vote or an open wallet.

and this is why I strongly dislike politics

Did you plagiarize that? It seems out of character.

Edit: Oh, it's from the book. You should use [ quote ] [ /quote ] when you quote passages out of someone else's writing.

ok all fixed

Miisa · #**127** 06-10-2010, 02:42 PM

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Whenever I see young, well-groomed men walking around in pairs or groups I run the other way, just to be on the safe side. They are always mormons or US marines, anyway.

Hey, a pair of young, well-groomed men may well be a gay couple :hmph:

You're talking about conservatively dressed, well-groomed men.

I stand corrected; you are right, conservatively dressed. Though often - and amazingly early in the season - in shorts. Americans. :dunno:

My gaydar is non-existent, but I don't think gays have set of my mormon alarms they way marines have; maybe it is, indeed, the less conservative garb.

Shelli · #**128** 06-10-2010, 08:44 PM

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just for shits and giggles

teasasue · #**129** 06-10-2010, 08:58 PM

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just for shits and giggles

LOL that is cute

Adam · #**130** 06-11-2010, 11:12 PM

Cognitive Biases - A Visual Study Guide

teasasue · #**131** 06-12-2010, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Ululutremulus Cockstrangla

Cognitive Biases - A Visual Study Guide

thank you for posting this one I am sorry that I will not be able to check it out right now since my hubby fubared the PC a couple of nights ago and it will not let me load the link. As soon as I am back on track I will check it out. If it is like the other one I am sure it will be very interesting. Right now we are tying to find a way to get windows xp back on here. I cant even check all of my email and things. Right now we are running windows 98 and it dont work so well.

Caligulette · #**132** 06-13-2010, 01:18 AM

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wow who read the Book of Mormon? There should be a medal or at least a badge for that.

ETA: It should be called a Badge of YAWN-er! Har!

I did. I was confused especially by the Book Of Ether. Ether. All about sailing in a boat that was "tight as a dish" - I suspect the author was tight as a dish.

A good thing to do when you feel you are ticking people off and don't know why is to stop posting and read more to figure out who you're talking to here. Is this a place you want to be? If yes, figure it out as to how. If no, well there it is, no hard feelings. If you just want to post lots o'threads about how you don't fit in I will say that that will be boring very quickly and we are not pretty when we're bored. Normally, though, we're quite hot.

Gonzo · #**133** 06-14-2010, 02:34 AM