I have written and said a lot of things before with a lot of emotion and, perhaps even, exaggeration. However, today, I am flat-out mad. Today, October 3rd 2k8, Congress decided that taxpayers were eligible and required to pay COMPANIES for the failures and fuck-ups of Wall St.. Companies did so poorly and took so many risks that they aren’t even liable for their own actions, we, the middle class, are.

Today, the bailout bill was passed, and today the pockets of every tax-paying citizen were reached into so that a companies stock doesn’t go down.

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For our first installment of “Item of the Week” we have a PC Power & Cooling (henceforth, PCPC) Silencer 750 watt power supply. I bought this sucker to replace my Silverstone Zues, mainly because I wanted to have a single-rail system with enough power to drive single-GPU rigs for some time coming.

The PCPC Silencer fit the bill and for a mere $91 (after MIR and promo code) at Newegg, who could beat the deal?

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