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A coworker told me about this: Kids go on summer vacation from state schools. Parents don't want to deal with the kids and don't want to pay for daycare / baby sitters. So the parents research all of the available week-long summer religious camps and sign their kids up for as many back-to-back religious camps as is possible. End result = no kids for the whole summer. They even had a catch-phrase for it, something like "Bible Vacation for Parents", implying "vacation from the kids". My jaw dropped when I heard this. Have you ever heard of this?

Peaceful parenting empiricism in mainstream media ... IT'S HAPPENING!!!

I'm already seeding all of those torrents. Is there anything else I should do if I want to contribute bandwidth? Do I need to configure my bittorrent client in a particular way?

Welcome Jacey. What was your process of finding FDR?

I was just browsing a stand-up comedy subreddit and came across a wonderfully relevant image: https://www.reddit.com/r/standupshots/comments/1ce2nk/hit_my_kid/

I played iRacing a lot until a few weeks ago when I took a break from the addiction. See my FDR paint schemes in my avatar and signature.

Existing Product Design Engineer I work at a manufacturing plant and design existing product (as opposed to designing new product) and support production from a design perspective (as opposed to a process perspective). So I do not design all-new product and I do not work on the equipment that makes the product, I instead: -- Improve/modify the design of existing product -- Extend the product to new applications -- Support production from a design perspective -- Manage and improve product specifications -- Manage projects

Welcome Axel

Alternately, a cinder block or two is a cheap way to elevate yourself. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-16-in-x-8-in-x-6-in-Concrete-Block-068H0010100100/100322580?N=5yc1vZboge

I am a product design engineer for a manufacturing company. I can confirm that I do not design for obsolescence. I want to make the best product possible at the lowest cost possible. The only reason my products don't last longer is because (A) longevity costs money and we've targeted the optimum balance between cost and quality to be where we are and (B) I'm not done making improvements. Intentionally making a bad product only works in an environment devoid of competition and freedom of association. When competition exists, then it breaks down like this: If I try to make a part that wears out sooner, my customers will buy my competitors' parts instead If I can make a part that lasts longer, I will earn customers from my competition I have literally experienced the conclusion of both of those scenarios. Now, without competition and/or freedom of association, then it works like this: My customers can't leave, so I have no incentive to please them and every incentive to pull more cost out of my product. One of the symptoms of cost-cutting is decreased life expectancy. Being a design engineer, I can also explain that there are several design compromises/decisions that are made by smart and careful people, the effects of which are unintuitive to those outside of the industry. For example, engineers spend most of their day thinking about how things can fail, then working to prevent failure. In the case of printer cartridges, one possible failure would be: Continuing to print when the ink level is too low to support a quality image. This can harm the perception of quality in customers, because they might think, "what a piece of junk printed this terrible image? Sarah, would you order a Konica Minolta next time? I never had print jobs like this on the old Konica". Perhaps when the flow rate of ink decreases, the spray pattern has less control and then it dirties the internal components. Perhaps the ink degrades over time such that the last 5-10% of the ink is not good for printing and this could be a design decision because more expensive materials that are good to the last drop might double the price, so it's worth taking the 5-10% hit rather than a 100% price increase. These failure modes came to me inside of a minute of thinking - the guys at printer companies spend years fine-tuning failure modes. In addition, consumer-level products often differ from commercial-level products. Why? There are several possibilities. A key one is economies of scale. Commercial customers require high reliability, so when manufacturing their parts, the cheapest production methods are not an option because they make lower quality parts. Therefore, the purchase price of commercial products is much higher. Also, higher quality parts require more engineering and production support to maintain the high quality. Avoiding failure is costly. Consumers can often tolerate an equipment replacement. Therefore, the cheapest production methods are viable and less staff are needed to support the production. This results in large price reductions. Here's a hypothetical: Commercial machine costs $1,000 up front. Lasts 10 years. Total cost of ownership for 10 years = $1,000. Consumer machine costs $180 up front. Lasts 2 years. Total cost of ownership for 10 years = $900. The $100 savings comes from tolerating down time and replacements. Everything is a compromise in engineering and while the decisions made are not always intuitive to customers, nobody stays in business by making net-negative decisions.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/vegas-cop-killers/two-cops-three-others-killed-las-vegas-shooting-spree-n125766 Authorities said they believe the Millers were acting alone but they espoused an "anti-government, anti-police" ideology They covered one [of the bodies] with a swastika and the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag, which depicts a coiled snake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me.” On the other [dead] officer was a note that said, "The revolution is beginning."

Bitcoin is infinitely divisible, you'll never have just one left. Move the default unit of account a few decimal places down and you effectively have a stock split. Problem solved.

http://www.androidauthority.com/percent-smartphones-price-comes-patent-royalties-388270/

I haven't seen FDR's recent video, "aggravated by awesomeness", but the title I think sums up people's reactions to you. People get aggravated by others who are outside the norm because it reminds them how boring they are. Also, they get aggravated by people who actually have reasoned values because it's like a mirror in their faces reminding them how unreasoned their values are and they don't want to be reminded ... they want to feel like Lebron James without ever learning to dribble. So long as no real basketball players are around, they're never reminded how much they can't play. Here's a semi-related humorous video about being a "basic bitch":

My favorite podcast app is Pocket Casts. It allows you to timestamp a podcast, then send an e-mail containing that timestamp and a hyperlink to the timestamp.

Is there any transcript of what the child is saying? I can't make out his words.

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Mine turned out great! The packaging was strong. Thanks, Carl. Do you accept Bitcoin donations?

Wow, what a horrible situation to be in. I don't have any advice, just wow.

Some of my notes: FDR-116 13min - Capital Punishment = http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/116/criminals-part-1-capital-punishment Do third parties have the right to defend others against violence? Of course, but allowing the state to do it? Is the execution of the retaliatory measure the EXCLUSIVE right of the state (no one else allowed to do it)? Can the state properly determine if the retaliatory act is justified? Is the state the SOLE determinant of justification? Can the state tax other people to pay for this process?

I'm an engineer in the US and when studying, I took a university elective class in psychology. In it, I recall 3 definitions, let me know if they are accurate: Psychologist = researches how the human mind works Psychiatrist = takes the work of psychologists and others, then applies it in attempts to cure mental health issues in patients via medication Psychotherapists = takes the work of psychologists and aothers, then applies it in attempts to cure mental health issues in patients via dialogue Ah, I did not know that. I have always been curious how many psychiatrists there are in comparison to how many psychotherapists there are. It sounds like at least in the NHS, there is an allocation towards a high psychiatrist:psychotherapist ratio. What areas of psychotherapy are there? Out of curiosity, if your study is very different from the psychotherapy path, yet you are stopping the progression towards psychiatry, what is the resulting path? What kind of job are you seeking?

Good for you to escape that situation. What is your current degree? Why did you not instead move your study to the area of psychotherapy? Judging by you offering free psychotherapy sessions here, is psychotherapy not your goal?

If 1 in 20 people you meet do not want you shot for disagreeing with them, then why would you continue to spend your time debating with them about whether you should be shot? Why not spend your time meeting new people and by the time you get to the 20th person, you'll have a nonviolent friend. And if you just want to hang out with someone without supporting their values, then why bring up values in the first place? Nothing wrong with hanging out to hang out. But if you say to someone, "these are my values and I care deeply about them" and they reject your values but you continue to associate with them, then you clearly don't care about your values. You can either not talk about your values or you can talk about your values and live them. You can't do both - talk about your values and not live them - that's hypocritical and it is damaging to people who actually hold values. You're not talking with people who disagree with you. The conversation started with a disagreement, but after explaining the truth to them (that supporting the state is to support you being shot), if they continue to support the state after being shown what it is, then they are attacking you. If this upsets you, GOOD! You're supposed to be upset when people attack you, that's your body's way of getting you out of a situation of attack. If your aim to suppress that feeling, then I am worried for you. Your emotions are healthy, anger is healthy. Anger is your fuel to escape dangerous situations. Why would you want to suppress that? Why would you want to stay in a dangerous situation? You can probably guess where this goes next ... who benefits from your desire to stay in a dangerous situation? This rule that if people reject you, that you are the intolerant one for leaving. Who benefits from this rule? You or other people? Other people. So this doesn't seem like a rule that's good to follow, this seems like a rule that others imposed on you for their gain. Who in your life imposed this rule on you? Can we start with your parents? You said yourself that 1 in 20 people are okay with not shooting you. How do you expect to find them if you spend all of your time with people who support shooting you? I'm not saying that people who hold values cannot hold relationships. I'm saying that either you don't bring up values, or you bring up values and live them. The fact that you keep bringing up values makes me think that you really want to live them but you need help. I want to help. The way you phrase things is telling. Saying that people who attack you are merely "disagreeing" with you, that when people reject you, it is you who would be "cutting off the relationships". Again, people are rejecting you and yet you feel that you are the one rejecting. These people have already rejected you, to leave would be to acknowledge that truth; it wouldn't be rejecting them. Who has shaped your thinking this way? Can we start with your parents? Can we talk about times that you were rejected as a child, but told that you should still love your parents?