that article isn't opening for me. this one goes through the issues better - although the exaggeration around speed is comical. and, they talk about fragmentation as though it's the 1990s and they've never heard of a defrag.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp

this is completely backwards. the most important issues when you're buying a drive are:

1) data integrity.
2) longevity.
3) size.
4) price.

while ssds might be faster on paper, you will never experience the difference.

i've thought about this, and i'll simply never warm to volatile data storage. it's a contradiction in terms. and i consequently don't expect ssds to win, in the end.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/battle-between-ssd-hdd-over-141508916.html

i think the answer is to stop using facebook.

i haven't used it much in years, myself.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/30/facebook-temporary-ban-kevin-sessums-trump-supporters

also, i've been clear on this point in multiple spaces over a long period of time and don't wish to go over it again: i do not support a two-state agreement. rather, i've argued strenuously (and the evidence is right in front of you) that the so-called "peace process" is just an excuse to allow israel to continue it's colonization and genocide in palestine, with tacit and sometimes open approval by the united states, itself a colonial and genocidal state.

i do not support nationalist or exclusionary states in any context, and i think that the premise that israel has a right to build such a society is outrageous, racist and deserving of contempt in the harshest and strongest language possible. the palestinians rarely articulate their vision of the region using the kind of language that israel routinely does, but when they do it should be responded to accordingly.

in the end, there is only one possible outcome in the region: a single, secular state that abolishes special privilege based on language or ethnicity or religion. in such a state, palestinians must have the same rights as jews. and if that means that the state will not be jewish, then that is too fucking bad.

i think i've made the point well enough. people think in binary, and they jump to conclusions.

when i tell you i'm an anarchist, i mean it. i know that this is rare; i'm painfully aware of how rare it is. but, i'm legit. and i'm sorry if that disappoints you, but, you know, fuck you, then.

i don't like liberals very much. i've never identified as one. i've made that clear at every step of the way. but, i find conservatives to be contemptible and enraging. i merely dislike liberals; i actively despise conservatives. i find that they rarely have any redeemable qualities at all.

i essentially never find myself in a situation where i look at a conservative and say "ok, we disagree on this pile of things, but we agree on this, so let's put aside our differences and focus on our agreements.". i really disagree with them categorically, on pretty much every basis you can imagine. when i do find a level of commonality with a conservative, it's almost always on rights issues - and almost always the case that the person in front of me is not a conservative at all.

so, i'm never going to buy into a synthesis, on a personal basis. i'm an agitator. i'm the thesis. i'm the visionary, trying to rip society apart at it's seams. i'm what pushes progress forward through time. and, conservatism is the force that pushes back against me.

it's absolute. really. if there was common ground, i'd take it; there isn't any.

once again...

this is my twitter account. my only twitter account. ever.

https://twitter.com/dgkfgjklgjkgjka

yes, benjamin netanyahu is a racist. and a particular vile one, at that.

anybody who looks you in the eye and tells you that there is no free lunch is a fascist, and should be killed on the spot.

how about i punch you in the face and steal your lunch?

and, you may want to think about whether putting me in jail is a punishment, or what i actually want.

three meals a day, and a place to read with no obligation to socialize? that's a free lunch, alright.

the boots were something that i needed anyways; i also picked myself up a new 2 TB hard drive for the recording machine this afternoon as my christmas/b-day gift to myself, with a combination of money sent to me and money saved from a quiet december.

i bought the recording pc in 2006 with four 250 gb hard drives. three of them are still spinning. the fourth melted into itself in march, 2014 (i couldn't have saved it...rather, i should be happy that it didn't take the whole machine down, or start an apartment fire).

the immediate purpose of the new drive is going to be to store the entire discography, including period discs with vlogs. i'm going to be working on this in the new year, so i did need this, now - i've waited long enough. but, as i work this through, i'm also going to be converting the drives into permanent storage. there's still not any way to get 100 or 200 gb on a disc; these 250 gb drives will ultimately be ideal storage solutions.

so, what that means is that i've now begun what will likely be a lengthy process of swapping out drives. in the end, all four of those 250 gb drives should be replaced by 2 TB drives.

it's a dual core 3.6. yes, it's ten years old. and, i actually *have* had a few reasons to think about upgrading to 64-bit, specifically issues around RAM. but, i still see no reason at all why i'd want a faster processor than that, and don't see why i ever will. i was aware that the technology was hitting a plateau around ten years ago, and that it was going to take fundamental shift to break through it; that machine could very well last another 20 or 30 years, so i'm comfortable in committing to a long term plan around upgrading it.

the fundamental theorem of communism is not that capitalism and socialism are in conflict, and that socialism must destroy capitalism. rather, the fundamental theorem of communism is that capitalism will inevitably evolve into communism - and there is nothing capitalists can do to stop it.

once again: i am not a historical materialist. i don't believe in historical inevitability, and one must believe in it as it is an article of faith. but, i do believe that marx had deep insight in understanding that capitalism will eventually require fewer and fewer workers, and therefore be unable to sustain itself.

all your talk about "entrepreneurialism" is just an upper class bubble. it's a fictional reality, based on economic bubbles and only-exists-on-paper delusions and fantasies.

reality is that the real economy continues to contract, that capitalism remains in decline, that it's still on a collision course with collapse and that it will wipe out your make believe bourgeois world when the crash finally comes.

and good riddance.

clueless article.

the left is not about workers' movements. that is a means to an end. the left is about ownership of production. and, technology is leading us directly into communism.

communism is not a society run by a dictatorship of the proletariat, it is a society operated around full automation. and, marx was always very clear: the revolution can only ever occur in the MODE of production.

we're in truth closer than we've ever been. a crisis of a specific sort could quickly change the rules forever.

i'm on strike while i wait it out. there's no other way forward: the system will collapse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/george-poulakidas/left-platform-capitalism_b_13895652.html

i finally got some winter boots today for the first time in years. it doesn't seem to snow half as much here as it does in ottawa, so i haven't needed them, really. but we got a good dump a few weeks ago, which reminded me i should have something in case i *do* need them. i've had to trudge through snow drifts in running shoes in the past, and it....it destroys your shoes. you get boots to save your shoes.

but, the reason i'm posting is to update on a running gag i've had in place for years. i got a good deal, yet again, by buying kid's boots on sale. how small are my feet?

a children's size 6 - made for roughly 6 year olds - was actually just a little bit too big. i got them instead of the 5.5's, which were a closer fit, in case i wanted to double or triple up on socks....

if they were shoes, i would have got 5.5's. so, i can for real buy shoes made for 5 or 6 year olds. i just did. and i'm about 5' 9" - relatively tall, actually.

i've continually pointed to a few biological gender markers like this. i don't think gender is genetic, i think it's a social construct. so, i reject the idea that being trans is a genetic condition (which is the actual scientific consensus, outside of religious circles on the left and right). but, if you pay close attention to trans people, you *will* notice these kinds of things that make you wonder if the rejection of a monolithic social construct around gender does *sometimes*, or *often*, have coincidental biological causes. for me, the things i've noticed most prominently are a lack of body hair in certain regions (i've never grown a hair on my chest, ever) and hand and feet sizes that are pretty unambiguously not-male.

hormones don't change your shoe size, of course. but 36 year-old grown ass men don't fit into shoes made for 6 year-olds very often, either. that's an entirely biological observation, and one that almost never applies to dudes.

i'm not suggesting we should go around measuring kids' feet and assigning them gender roles based on it. i'm just a little hesitant to declare my absurdly small feet to be coincidental to my gender identity and would point geneticists to markers like this if they want to find something. that's more evidence, to me, of a biological cross-wiring than any desire to wear a specific kind of clothing.

i actually hope i never have to wear them. but i'm glad i have the option.