Money in Politics

Politics, ewww! Yeah I know, but I think this is important since I believe what used to be illegal was now made legal after things like Citizen's United going through the Supreme Court. Does it happen on the left and right? Sure, still it's interesting to see some of the fruits money in politics is bringing to my country. It's also disheartening to see people actively taking steps back after moving forward with things like fighting segregation and such.

The most ironic thing about this video? If it weren't for the communists in Russia in the early 1900's, America wouldn't have the Koch brothers of today funding ads that accuse other people of being communists and such.

Money should never be in politics like it is today and it will tear America apart. The worst part is our elected leaders are letting this happen and selling most every American's future out for the sake of a select few who cut big checks.

Incidentally the Koch brothers are a big pusher for the Keystone XL pipeline. As we can see in Montana, this might not be such a good idea to let that pipeline go through.

New PC & Windows 8.1

So I took the plunge to Windows 8.1 a few days ago because I built a nice new PC. 4ghz i7, 32 gigs ram, 250gig ssd, 2tb hard drive, Nvidia 750ti, big glowing blue light case with black metal. So yeah, a really nice rig.

Anyhow I decided to get Windows 8.1 because 7 was losing more support from Microsoft and I didn't feel like installing 7 Home and upgrading to Pro even though I had the licenses to do it. (Lots of hoops) so I installed 8.1.

First thing out of the box was getting to the Desktop which wasn't too bad. After that I tried to find the control panel which took a bit of time but I finally found it to avoid the setting app Microsoft has in the Metro side of things. I pinned that sucker and Explorer to the task bar so I didn't have to go metro anymore for PC config.

I did some digging and found a good replacement for the lack of a standard start menu. Classic Start 8 seems to be a pretty good replacement and does the job till Microsoft manages to put a Start Menu back in to Windows where it belongs. It's a shame you need a third party developer to get something that's been working and standard in Windows since 95. Still my desktop is now in a useable state with 8.1 even though I have two start buttons.(I've had less troubles with Linux installs then I had with Windows 8.x as far as figuring things out. :/ )

That is one of many wallpapers that makes me miss the good times in WoW on Feathermoon a while ago. City raids, fire story telling, Guildwatch meetings, the art some players did and shared with others, and especially a drinking shaman who got everyone to totem dance in Scholomance and other places. :)