JamesP

I would not place self therapy in the same category as actually having a therapist external to you. Having good habits is important, but if you "self coached" for the Olympics, you couldn't be too surprised when you fail catastrophically. It's true, you need to adopt a good training regimen and change your lifestyle, and doing what you can on your own may get you a small part of the way there. However, you're not going to see your bad form which can lead to serious injury without that expert coach. Also, if you are in the position of needing therapy (I don't think I've ever met anyone who isn't), you're going to have blind spots. You need somebody else to find these things and using your friends for this is not good for those relationships.

This was an amazing conversation, thanks to the caller and Stef for sharing it. It's certainly provoked a lot of thought and examination for me; I invite everyone to give it a listen. It's a long call but it is most certainly worth it.

It's fixed now, problem on their end.

Hey all, just wanted to post here that we're aware that the chat room is offline. I have a support request out to the software developers. I hope to have it back online soon. Thanks for your understanding!

You just paste the URL as-is, and it'll embed automagically:

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What do you think self knowledge is? I'm asking because your statement makes about as much sense to me as, "I'm not entirely sure children need to know how to read."

Knowing history is quite important, especially self-history. The more you know, the better you are able to understand how we [you] got to where we [you] are, and the better we [you] will be able to avoid the mistakes others (or we [you]) have made. Of course, having a reliable source is essential. History as taught in schools generally whitewashes past crimes of the parties in power, if they even ever touch upon them. Personal history, however, is written in your genes, on your bones, in your heart… and it is quite accessible.

There is a bug in the chat. If you browse the forums in the same browser session, then the cookies get screwed up and you start getting "no permission" messages. This is the same bug which causes you to not see new people enter the chat. Workaround is to use another browser or an incognito session for the chat, or to not browse the boards while using the chat.

I was able to download it in full so it may be an issue with the CDN.

What browser, operating system and device are you using to access the website?

Ah, see, there's the problem. This is not a philosophy class.

I think the claim is considerably stronger than "there are more important problems in the world." At least, the claim I put forward is that this scenario just doesn't happen! Or, in the cases where you might have to choose between killing the workers and killing some poor slob who wandered onto the tracks, it's a question of practical safety measures you put in place *before* it ever happens to avoid anyone having to be placed into such a terrible situation. In short, it's not a moral question. It's not that there are more important questions of morality to consider, it's that it does not even fall into the same category, so please stop treating it like it is.

This was changed yesterday. You can click the logo to return to the forum home page, or on "Freedomain Radio Message Board" in the upper left area underneath your profile picture.

We do have the backend functionality for timestamps, but I will let Kevin comment on whether the front end supports them or not. If so, it's just a matter of loading the data, which is in my wheelhouse. Oh, and possibly some user training...

To be fair, this was a Safari problem, not an iOS problem.

After digging for some time, I found that the board software was responding incorrectly to the request from Safari and Chrome. I've fixed it and verified it on my end. Let me know if things are working for you now. Note that downloading the file doesn't auto-play anymore, but that kind of makes sense. It will also allow you to seek with the embedded player as well, though it's not very precise. I've also submitted a patch to the vendor since it was a bug in their system. We'll see if they accept it (not all vendors like people sending in patches).

Also worth checking: are you using the default browser (Safari) or some other app to access premium content on the iPad? I was listening to one via the embedded player and, as I was typing this, it just cut off in mid-sentence. It was somewhere around 10 minutes but I suspect it probably stopped loading at a certain number of bytes. It looks like that player does NOT work well with Safari on the iPad. Let's see what happens with that green button, and then I'll go seeing if this is a known issue with this particular software and iPads. And I think I see... if it doesn't realize it's receiving a file, but it thinks it's some kind of mp3 stream, that could be problematic... So I changed the MIME type for mp3 files. The iPad didn't seem to change, but Chrome changed its behavior... (Still listening) And it also happens in Safari on a Mac. So, at least it's broken the same way in several places...

I do have an iPad, I'll try it out... but if you're actually downloading the file to the iPad to play, I really don't understand why you'd have problems with this and not with regular mp3s as well.

Oh, I would not say you murdered anyone. Look at the way the trolley problem is formulated on Wikipedia. The general form of the problem has people *tied up* on the tracks and unable to move. The murderer is the person who tied those people to the tracks, not you if you try to save them by diverting the trolley which then, because this is a magical situation, goes on to kill somebody else. In the world of DROs, how might this be judged? There are so many unanswered questions here, it rather boggles the mind. Who tied those people up on the tracks? How can we prevent people from being tied to the tracks? Can we have a system which detects obstructions and shuts everything down until it is investigated and repaired? Why are people allowed to cross the tracks at all?If the trolley can reach a fatal speed, how are there no guard rails or fences walling it off? How can we prevent runaway trolleys? If control is lost, should there not be an automatic brake that gets deployed? How would a trolley move without an operator? I know that you can come up with all kinds of answers to each question posed, but for each answer you give, you increase the improbability of this scenario by some rather significant factors. You're not questioning morality here. You're contriving a disaster scenario that only happens in bad movies. I mean, anyone with the name Snidely Whiplash would surely be locked up in the real world.

What XML feed are they supposed to be fetching from? Do they not like that our XML only contains the most recent shows?

Bedouin, you touch exactly on "why not" with "if he's got some time." Of all of the evils and challenges facing philosophers today, a hypothetical never-gonna-happen mental exercise just isn't that interesting. Where is the payoff? It may satisfy a few people's idle curiosity, but will it do anything to combat evil? It's not that he can never relax or do anything else, but if it is that important, then make the case. If Stef spends a day on this, which means he has spent a day less on promoting peaceful parenting, what is the cost benefit? Alternatively, since there is an implicit criticism of Stef's opinion on the trolley problem, you could try calling in.

I meant that you have no standards when it comes to the people you consider your friends. Or, at the very least, these standards aren't remotely philosophical. We become the people we surround ourselves with. If we surround ourselves with petty thugs, they will approve of such behaviors. If we surround ourselves with good people, they will call us on our bullshit and approve of good behavior. We cannot expect to remain untainted for long in close proximity to negative influences.

Given that you describe this thug as an acquaintance/possible friend, all you're really telling us is that you have no standards.