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Starbucks Drinks Simplified (kinda)

Please update your bookmark to the new URL, as I’m not sure how much longer the old site will be up. Thank you! Since many people seem to be overly confused by the wide variety of options available at Starbucks, I’ve put together this handy-dandy page to help you figure out what you want without spending hours staring blankly at a menu. I’ve tried to include as much info as possible. Some things on this page may be horribly out of date.

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Man Uses Droid to Fight Speeding Ticket, Wins

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Globa: Accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050

Whether Globa can cope with the rise of massively intelligent machines occurring at about the same time is far less certain. Most readers will have heard of the phenomenon called “Moore’s Law” (i.e., the trend that the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a chip keeps doubling every 18 months). Less well known is the phenomenon I label “BRAD” (Bit Rate Annual Doubling), i.e., the speed of the Internet keeps doubling every 12 months. Personality psychology. Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation between individuals.

Personality psychology

Its areas of focus include: Construction of a coherent picture of the individual and his or her major psychological processesInvestigation of individual psychological differencesInvestigation of human nature and psychological similarities between individuals "Personality" is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, emotions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. The word "personality" originates from the Latin persona, which means mask. Holland Codes. The Holland Codes or the Holland Occupational Themes (RIASEC), is a theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types.

Holland Codes

It was developed by the psychologist John L. Holland. [1] Each letter or code stands for a particular "type": Realistic (Doers), Investigative (Thinkers), Artistic (Creators), Social (Helpers), Enterprising (Persuaders), and Conventional (Organizers). Lewis Goldberg. Lewis R.

Lewis Goldberg

Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon who is closely associated [1] with the Big Five taxonomy of personality (he coined the term "Big Five").[2] He is the creator of the International Personality Item Pool[3] (IPIP),[4] a website that provides public-domain personality measures. Education[edit] In 1953 Goldberg received an A.B. in social relations from Harvard University. Socionics. Socionics, in psychology and sociology, is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche (called "Model A") and a model of interpersonal relations.

Socionics

It incorporates Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński's theory of information metabolism. Socionics is a modification of Jung's personality type theory that uses eight psychic functions, in contrast to Jung's model, which used only four. These functions process information at varying levels of competency and interact with the corresponding function in other individuals, giving rise to predictable reactions and impressions—a theory of intertype relations.[1] The central idea of socionics is that information is intuitively divisible into eight categories, called information aspects or information elements, which a person's psyche processes using eight psychological functions.

History[edit] Interpersonal compatibility. Interpersonal compatibility is the long-term interaction between two or more individuals in terms of the ease and comfort of communication.

Interpersonal compatibility

Existing concepts[edit] Among existing psychological tools for studying and/or measuring interpersonal compatibility, the following are noteworthy: Socionics has proposed a theory of intertype relationships between psychological types based on a modified version of C.G. Analytical psychology. Analytical psychology (or Jungian psychology) is a school of psychology that originated from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.

Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology is fundamentally distinct from the psychoanalytic school of Sigmund Freud. Its aim is a meaningful life with particular focus on personality development during the second half of life and substantive contributions to society. This is achieved via a continuous cyclical process of self-awareness, transformation, and self-actualization. These are products of constructive re-conceptualization of conscious and unconscious conflicts in an individual's life. The effort of examining the two opposing views yields a new view, new understanding, and a new helpful attitude. Philosophical realism. Realists tend to believe that whatever we believe now is only an approximation of reality and that every new observation brings us closer to understanding reality.[2] In its Kantian sense, realism is contrasted with idealism.

Philosophical realism

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Problem of the criterion. In the field of epistemology, the problem of the criterion is an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge. Here is a hand. Pyrrhonism. Pyrrhonism, or Pyrrhonian skepticism, was a school of skepticism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC and recorded by Sextus Empiricus in the late 2nd century or early 3rd century AD. It was named after Pyrrho, a philosopher who lived from c. 360 to c. 270 BC, although the relationship between the philosophy of the school and that of the historical figure is murky. Shangqing School. Shangqing practice values meditation techniques of visualization and breathing, as well as physical exercises, as opposed to the use of alchemy and talismans. The recitation of the sacred canon plays an equally important role. The practice was essentially individualistic, contrary to the collective practices in the Celestial Master school or in the Lingbao School.

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