Back from the holiday break with new electronics on hand. Ah, yes… nothing feels more gratifying and more amazing than to open up that Xmas package to find that gadget you always wanted. (Okay, maybe a couple things are more gratifying..)

You tear through the box, instructions go flying(who needs em, anyways?), cables are being wrapped up in your face and finally you get everything plugged in! You power the device on and it gives you the feint hope that all is working to your hearts content. Then, in a blink of an eye, something terrible happens. Something… everything goes wrong.

Suddenly, this coveted piece of technology needs to be slapped into a box and sent back for replacement (*cough* at your charge).

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This is going to be a baaaad item of the week. Not bad like I suck at writing, but bad like I hate this damn product. I’m not writing this so much because I thought it would be a nice review for this week, I am writing this to encourage IT admins, etc. to steer far and clear of this product.

It’s bad… real bad. Worse than you thought, most likely.

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Alliteration ftw, amirite?

In the latest economics move, Ben Bernanke is trying to urge Congress to push through yet another stimulus package with the intent of jump-starting the economy. If Congress goes forward with this, I will lose almost all ability to have any faith in anyone in administration knowing anything about economics or history.

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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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Big news at CNN today is the announcement of a “several hundred billion dollar” bank bailout that will “attempt” to get financial institutions back on their feet. If you have been living under a rock for the past two years, the story is: banks were giving out sub-prime loans to people for housing purchases. These people defaulted on their loans in mass leaving the banks with property that wasn’t worth the loan and out the money. This spurred a lack of confidence in investors who would not continue to support the loans forcing the banks to stop giving loans. If the bank isn’t giving out loans, people aren’t buying homes. When people aren’t buying homes, our economy (apparently) tanks.

In response to this, there is plans being put down that will attempt to “bail out” the banks by having the government absorb some or all of the debts of these banks: amounting in hundreds of billions of dollars (apparently).

This is bad… here’s why:

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I was perusing Facebook this morning while at work. I don’t normally get involved with Facebook, but I decided to throw myself into a group for those that enjoy WoW just to pay homage to an activity that takes quite a bit of my time up from week to week. I punched “World of Warcraft” into the group search, and surprisingly there are MANY groups with the focus of hating on WoW.

Some such groups include: “If this group gets to 100,000 my boyfriend will quit WoW” and “RIT students who aren’t World of Warcraft Nerds”. This makes me beg the question: what about WoW makes you hate it so much?

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