More specifically, fascism creates false threats as an excuse for justifying major purges after the fact. The people are told they must look to the state for safety from said threat, and even those who see through the lies recognize that they have no choice but to comply, lest they be branded treasonous as well. (Hitler had this, and Mussolini had something a little less-remembered that Rosenfelter details; a particular event in early 1921 where numerous Communist party buildings were attacked.) This particular damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't move isn't as universal. This is covered in the article I linked.
That being said, fascism is mostly distinguished through the other traits Patch86 sort-of mentioned: concern for communal decline, cults of the state and (generally racial) purity, collaboration with the traditional elite, and popular appeal. The use of extrajudicial, retributive killings as a scare tactic is only one component of the whole.
I brought up this particular use of violence specifically because it disqualified Bloomberg's activities, and in part those of the latter Bush Administration, which is frequently compared to fascism.
There was a peculiar "creative class" hypothesis kicking around a few years ago that was essentially a catch-all term for educated people. Maybe the term could be repurposed to describe low-income arts students and graduates coping with debt: accustomed to a higher standard of living, yet technically hovering around the poverty line. Surely this aligns well with the presented image of the penniless Tumblr content producer.
There's one more component I think you need to add: violence. Mark Rosenberg wrote a piece based on discussions of fascism by twentieth-century historians, and the key feature that distinguished Hitler and Mussolini from other merely despotic dictatorships was the use of scare tactics and targeted assassinations. This is why the "9/11 was an inside job" conspiracy is so appealing; because it would be a perfect parallel to the bombing of the Reichstag. Gestapo-style wanton thuggery is also essential—and while the DHS and TSA may be obscene and annoying, dissidents don't get rounded up easily enough for that to be valid either. It does, however, appear that perhaps there is an internal struggle within the federal government between fascists and democratists.
That having been said, Bloomberg simply doesn't have the authority to enact fascist policies, and is nowhere near patient enough to trick people into electing him into a position where he could. (Regardless of whether or not he really wants to, which seems doubtful for the reasons you and others stated.)
What’s interesting about the second device they tested, however, was the “catastrophic failure” of the weapon. Translation? It exploded. The plastic gave way to the brutal force of an exploding.38 caliber bullet and the barrel exploded.
[...]
The NSW Commissioner said that the realist in him believes that you can never stop the spread of The Liberator — and he’s right — but at least they can tell people how dangerous they are.
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
Okay, you got me; the pinnacle of the gender divide in tech communities on the internet.:)
In Canada it's a little better—most M.D. students in 2010 were female. On the medical front, a lot has changed in the twenty-two years since Dr. Conley walked out.
As for physics—while it's not entirely politically correct to point this out, there is a genetic basis for a gender difference in mathematical ability, the behaviour of which appears to be linked to the X chromosome: girls' math ability tends to be more average, whereas boys (after puberty) show a more extreme distribution and have a higher frequency of great success and great failure.
It's tempting to chalk this up to social pressures, but the same bifurcation is visible in traits as basic as height and appearance, which are known to be the result of a large number of genes acting in concert (in addition to diet and stress.) There's an obvious evolutionary reason for all of this, too, which means at the very least that we've been holding beauty pageants backward all this time. This is nothing to cry over: people will still be whatever they want to be, and algebra is not the totality of human experience, anyway.
But that all being said, it certainly doesn't justify sexism—only headcount ratios, and even then they should be something like 1:3, not the pitiful sausagefests that actually occur. The good news is that we live in interesting times.
I've known a lot of men-pretending-to-be-women, and it's faintly amusing to report that almost all of them went on to identify as transgendered when given a chance. I think the label should probably be laid to rest. (And I'm pretty sure girlinatrainingbra is.)
For what it's worth I had a lot of respect for the PCs—it's the Reform Party elements that get under my skin—and I was really just focusing on that one election. I gave up on believing in the infallibility of the Liberals when I realised Paul Martin very seriously does not know how to make a non-guilty face.
Part of this, also, was that I grew up in a smaller city; I moved to the centre of the universe just this last year and have discovered what a difference it makes. I suspect the behaviour you were witnessing in Ottawa wouldn't have been found in most of Canada.
I understand your perspective, Maya, and it is one that I hold in high esteem—ultimately what we're discussing is the rate at which that stratification is breaking down.
I think it's going a bit far to call it "silly," though—sexual dimorphism is much more about the utility of social and developmental norms than physical sex. It's supposed to create specialists at various tasks who complement and balance out each other. We (as a civilization) should be proud that we are enlightened and resource-endowed enough to shed those conventions, and that those who fit better into a less polar system are no longer being forced to try to obey one, but to say it was a mistake or foolish is to lie about its origins. (Admittedly this is somewhat harder to hold in one's head without having lived through all of human history.)
Yeah, I was in that boat too until doing a bit more research. It looks like the name's last gasp was the TriCaster VT[5], where "VT" stood for "Video Toaster".
The TriCaster is the direct descendant of the Video Toaster. The last hardware product called "Video Toaster" was the Video Toaster Screamer, a MIPS-based machine sold in 1993.
Pfffft. Aristotle made up stuff while "thinking" about the world. This is not science.
This is an extremely childish and anachronistic viewpoint. Newton entertained many unscientific notions alongside those which bore fruit; the scientific method was an invention of his generation. We owe an incalculable amount of our understanding of the universe to philosophy, and selective ignorance of history changes nothing.
Above all else, the classical scholars gave the Renaissance scientists an intellectual authority with which to question the world; it is absolutely absurd to suggest they were ignored. Aristotle's impact went much further than the details of his assumptions about physical motion.
More to the point, however, they would still be much better basketball players.
Aristotle was (almost) Newton's direct predecessor in understanding of the physical world; it is certain that Newton would have read his writings due to the Renaissance. Newton would be annoyed if he were left off the court.
Moreover, while we don't know much about Aristotle's personal life, Socrates was formerly a soldier and Plato was a seasoned wrestler. It was typical in golden-age Athens for the intellectual to also be physically fit.
In short, the physicists would get schooled, much like the jive suckers of old.
I'm not sure one's ever been done—although there is this, although it seems impossible to rely upon and, given the nature of the site's core audience, is certain to leave out all tinfoil hat wearers.
Compare the familiarity of the following statements: "Ubuntu is a Linux distribution" vs. "Ubuntu is a GNU distribution" vs. "Ubuntu is a version of Linux."
Exception? No, no, Slashdot is probably the pinnacle of the gender divide. I can count the number of (confessed) estrogen-infused users on here on two hands. Even 4chan is less homogeneous, despite the... rich tradition of unrestrained abuse to every imaginable target. The popularity curve moved along a long time ago; I don't think it's wrong to say the average Slashdot user has more in common with Timothy Lord than Homo starbucksii—one need only look to the voices that pipe up during the numerous "IT wages gripefest" stories. These be a more slovenly, disenfranchised folk.
Admittedly, I haven't experienced much in the way of childish moderation (which, honestly, seems to know no gender boundaries), but I do usually try to keep my pointless little self-validating karma-farming operation on the downlow, and most posts end up informational. But hey, on the bright side, I bet you've gotten fewer creepy marriage proposals through here than I have. And there's always the mysterious anonymous butt pirate, but given the rate of such posts I'm starting to wonder if there's only one guy in the entire world who does that, sort of like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.
I understand your stance on the "GNU/" prefixing, although personally I believe the tag should be applied whenever a system contains significant GNU components, puritanism not required. After all, we call it "Linux" when the system contains Linux, not because it's just Linux.
But, um, yeah, I honestly thought that post was a pretty direct cruising-for-a-bruising affair. Congrats on getting it modded up at all!
No, I'm pretty sure "depreciated" is right, since no ceasefire has been called. Think of it as a more tongue-in-cheek equivalent, along the lines of PHP deprecation, which actually means "popular."
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More specifically, fascism creates false threats as an excuse for justifying major purges after the fact. The people are told they must look to the state for safety from said threat, and even those who see through the lies recognize that they have no choice but to comply, lest they be branded treasonous as well. (Hitler had this, and Mussolini had something a little less-remembered that Rosenfelter details; a particular event in early 1921 where numerous Communist party buildings were attacked.) This particular damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't move isn't as universal. This is covered in the article I linked.
That being said, fascism is mostly distinguished through the other traits Patch86 sort-of mentioned: concern for communal decline, cults of the state and (generally racial) purity, collaboration with the traditional elite, and popular appeal. The use of extrajudicial, retributive killings as a scare tactic is only one component of the whole.
I brought up this particular use of violence specifically because it disqualified Bloomberg's activities, and in part those of the latter Bush Administration, which is frequently compared to fascism.
There was a peculiar "creative class" hypothesis kicking around a few years ago that was essentially a catch-all term for educated people. Maybe the term could be repurposed to describe low-income arts students and graduates coping with debt: accustomed to a higher standard of living, yet technically hovering around the poverty line. Surely this aligns well with the presented image of the penniless Tumblr content producer.
Here is a (rough, imperfect, insert-your-own-caveat-here) list of popular websites. Tumblr is #31.
It gets lost in translation a lot, but remember that Hitler was "defending" the working-class German. That was, after all, his core platform.
...Rosenfelter, not Rosenberg. Oh god, he'll kill me in my sleep.
There's one more component I think you need to add: violence. Mark Rosenberg wrote a piece based on discussions of fascism by twentieth-century historians, and the key feature that distinguished Hitler and Mussolini from other merely despotic dictatorships was the use of scare tactics and targeted assassinations. This is why the "9/11 was an inside job" conspiracy is so appealing; because it would be a perfect parallel to the bombing of the Reichstag. Gestapo-style wanton thuggery is also essential—and while the DHS and TSA may be obscene and annoying, dissidents don't get rounded up easily enough for that to be valid either. It does, however, appear that perhaps there is an internal struggle within the federal government between fascists and democratists.
That having been said, Bloomberg simply doesn't have the authority to enact fascist policies, and is nowhere near patient enough to trick people into electing him into a position where he could. (Regardless of whether or not he really wants to, which seems doubtful for the reasons you and others stated.)
Shamelessly omitted from the summary:
What’s interesting about the second device they tested, however, was the “catastrophic failure” of the weapon. Translation? It exploded. The plastic gave way to the brutal force of an exploding .38 caliber bullet and the barrel exploded.
[...]
The NSW Commissioner said that the realist in him believes that you can never stop the spread of The Liberator — and he’s right — but at least they can tell people how dangerous they are.
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
Well... so far it's been +4 Funny, +2 Insightful, -1 Offtopic, but we can hope.
Okay, you got me; the pinnacle of the gender divide in tech communities on the internet. :)
In Canada it's a little better—most M.D. students in 2010 were female. On the medical front, a lot has changed in the twenty-two years since Dr. Conley walked out.
As for physics—while it's not entirely politically correct to point this out, there is a genetic basis for a gender difference in mathematical ability, the behaviour of which appears to be linked to the X chromosome: girls' math ability tends to be more average, whereas boys (after puberty) show a more extreme distribution and have a higher frequency of great success and great failure.
It's tempting to chalk this up to social pressures, but the same bifurcation is visible in traits as basic as height and appearance, which are known to be the result of a large number of genes acting in concert (in addition to diet and stress.) There's an obvious evolutionary reason for all of this, too, which means at the very least that we've been holding beauty pageants backward all this time. This is nothing to cry over: people will still be whatever they want to be, and algebra is not the totality of human experience, anyway.
But that all being said, it certainly doesn't justify sexism—only headcount ratios, and even then they should be something like 1:3, not the pitiful sausagefests that actually occur. The good news is that we live in interesting times.
I've known a lot of men-pretending-to-be-women, and it's faintly amusing to report that almost all of them went on to identify as transgendered when given a chance. I think the label should probably be laid to rest. (And I'm pretty sure girlinatrainingbra is.)
...but he was a philosopher, not a scientist! D:
Admittedly, the glasses are in the same ballpark.
For what it's worth I had a lot of respect for the PCs—it's the Reform Party elements that get under my skin—and I was really just focusing on that one election. I gave up on believing in the infallibility of the Liberals when I realised Paul Martin very seriously does not know how to make a non-guilty face.
Part of this, also, was that I grew up in a smaller city; I moved to the centre of the universe just this last year and have discovered what a difference it makes. I suspect the behaviour you were witnessing in Ottawa wouldn't have been found in most of Canada.
I understand your perspective, Maya, and it is one that I hold in high esteem—ultimately what we're discussing is the rate at which that stratification is breaking down.
I think it's going a bit far to call it "silly," though—sexual dimorphism is much more about the utility of social and developmental norms than physical sex. It's supposed to create specialists at various tasks who complement and balance out each other. We (as a civilization) should be proud that we are enlightened and resource-endowed enough to shed those conventions, and that those who fit better into a less polar system are no longer being forced to try to obey one, but to say it was a mistake or foolish is to lie about its origins. (Admittedly this is somewhat harder to hold in one's head without having lived through all of human history.)
Yeah, I was in that boat too until doing a bit more research. It looks like the name's last gasp was the TriCaster VT[5], where "VT" stood for "Video Toaster".
The TriCaster is the direct descendant of the Video Toaster. The last hardware product called "Video Toaster" was the Video Toaster Screamer, a MIPS-based machine sold in 1993.
Pfffft. Aristotle made up stuff while "thinking" about the world. This is not science.
This is an extremely childish and anachronistic viewpoint. Newton entertained many unscientific notions alongside those which bore fruit; the scientific method was an invention of his generation. We owe an incalculable amount of our understanding of the universe to philosophy, and selective ignorance of history changes nothing.
Above all else, the classical scholars gave the Renaissance scientists an intellectual authority with which to question the world; it is absolutely absurd to suggest they were ignored. Aristotle's impact went much further than the details of his assumptions about physical motion.
More to the point, however, they would still be much better basketball players.
Aristotle was (almost) Newton's direct predecessor in understanding of the physical world; it is certain that Newton would have read his writings due to the Renaissance. Newton would be annoyed if he were left off the court.
Moreover, while we don't know much about Aristotle's personal life, Socrates was formerly a soldier and Plato was a seasoned wrestler. It was typical in golden-age Athens for the intellectual to also be physically fit.
In short, the physicists would get schooled, much like the jive suckers of old.
...and now I'm wondering how old a thread has to be before people with mod points leave it for dead.
I'm not sure one's ever been done—although there is this, although it seems impossible to rely upon and, given the nature of the site's core audience, is certain to leave out all tinfoil hat wearers.
Compare the familiarity of the following statements: "Ubuntu is a Linux distribution" vs. "Ubuntu is a GNU distribution" vs. "Ubuntu is a version of Linux."
Exception? No, no, Slashdot is probably the pinnacle of the gender divide. I can count the number of (confessed) estrogen-infused users on here on two hands. Even 4chan is less homogeneous, despite the... rich tradition of unrestrained abuse to every imaginable target. The popularity curve moved along a long time ago; I don't think it's wrong to say the average Slashdot user has more in common with Timothy Lord than Homo starbucksii—one need only look to the voices that pipe up during the numerous "IT wages gripefest" stories. These be a more slovenly, disenfranchised folk.
Admittedly, I haven't experienced much in the way of childish moderation (which, honestly, seems to know no gender boundaries), but I do usually try to keep my pointless little self-validating karma-farming operation on the downlow, and most posts end up informational. But hey, on the bright side, I bet you've gotten fewer creepy marriage proposals through here than I have. And there's always the mysterious anonymous butt pirate, but given the rate of such posts I'm starting to wonder if there's only one guy in the entire world who does that, sort of like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.
I believe the slogan at hand is "Grammatik macht frei." :)
I understand your stance on the "GNU/" prefixing, although personally I believe the tag should be applied whenever a system contains significant GNU components, puritanism not required. After all, we call it "Linux" when the system contains Linux, not because it's just Linux.
But, um, yeah, I honestly thought that post was a pretty direct cruising-for-a-bruising affair. Congrats on getting it modded up at all!
No, I'm pretty sure "depreciated" is right, since no ceasefire has been called. Think of it as a more tongue-in-cheek equivalent, along the lines of PHP deprecation, which actually means "popular."
There are other reasons why the Conservative Party got that majority; it would be an exaggeration to say we elected them.