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internet retardation

A person who has no idea of how to conduct themselves online by saying and doing things that would not be socially acceptable in real life.

Generally the actions of this person have no reflection of how they actually are.
Boy: OMG im lyk so c00l. Haunted house wif ma homes!!!111!one
Girl: I'm going too! See you there.
Boy: YESHHH! LETZ HAV S3X.
Girl: Do you have internet retardation?
by Kittens with Mittens October 27, 2010
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international ganja day

one of the grestest days. 20th April. 4/20. Smoke weed on this day!!!
dude whens it IGD?
20th april
thats 6months fuck it, lets light up
by craig March 12, 2003
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intervision

"Television" watched via the internet e.g. YouTube, Hulu, Myspace Video etc.
"You need to get off the computer, that intervision will rot your mind!"
by Kurt 8 Keiner November 10, 2009
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

title of book by John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) outlining the general concept of Keynesian economics. The book was published in 1936.

*Context*
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Prior to the Great Depression, opinions about how to properly manage the economy were dominated by Neoclassical economics, which advocated little government intervention. In particular, unemployment was regarded as the consequence of workers failing to accept wages sufficiently low to permit full employment.

During the Great Depression, unemployment soared to 25% in the USA and Germany. Economics had no advice to give to leaders anxious to do something, and none of the neoclassical predictions were coming true. The government of the UK commissioned J.M. Keynes to lead a commission of top British economists in a general review of economic theory; their finding were summarized by Keynes in *The General Theory*.

*The Findings*
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The Cambridge team did not have access to statistics of national income and product accounting (NIPA). They did have some data on unemployment and prices, especially from the USA.

Keynes also identified several inherent logical problems with neoclassical economic theory about saving and investment. The theory said that all economic output of an economy would tend to be consumed; all saving would be invested; and all workers would be employed, *provided wages fell low enough*.


Keynes noted the economic mechanism by which investment occurs has little to do with the existing rate of saving; both are influenced by interest rates, but other forces come into play (e.g., liquidity preference for saving, business opportunities and user cost for investment). Hence, aggregate demand can drift very far out of alignment with output (or potential output).

Another finding was that employment rates actually did not respond in a predictable way to the fall in wages. The US economy suffered periods when a reduction in the wage level lead to increases in employment, despite the assumption that workers would have withdrawn from the labor market.

Finally, Keynes proposed the use of monetary policy and fiscal policy for regulating business cycles.
The *The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money* completely shook up the world of economic policy. Hereafter, governments took responsibility for economic conditions or they lost power.
by Abu Yahya March 3, 2009
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The Internet

-The Internet Example-
www.google.com
Here, look one up
by maxmoefoe May 30, 2010
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intellectual masturbation

Fascinating intellectual breakthroughs regarding reality, language, existence, knowledge, perception, or human behavior which are completely unprovable and utterly without use, and therefore of no real consequence to anyone. See also: philosophy

Etymology: the mental counterpart to masturbation; i.e. a process that is very pleasurable but hasn't accomplished anything at the end.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that language influences human thought, so that native speakers of different languages think about concepts in incommensurably distinct modes. Linguists and psychologists contend fiercely over the validity of this claim, oblivious to the fact that it is intellectual masturbation.
by samd12345 August 6, 2007
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intervention

1. An attempt often by a group of people (typically family and friends) to have someone get professional help or counseling with an addiction. The word intervention is used when a traumatic event involves addiction to drugs, alcohol or other substances.

2. The title of a television show on A&E. You can watch people struggle with their addictions. At the end of the show, the addict is surprised with an intervention by family and friends.
1. Ken: Where you headed to man?

Anthony: I gotta go home. My Mom and Dad finally decided to have an intervention for my sister and her sex addiction.

Ken: Damn! I better call your sister and wake her ass up outta my bed.

2. Shannon: Hey girl!

Linda: What's up girl!

Shannon: What you doing?

Linda: Watching "Intervention".

Shannon: Again?!

Linda: Hell yeah! This alcoholic-chick is drinkin' mouthwash like kool-aid!
by hmbell2002 January 27, 2009
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