5 Thoughts for July 29, 2015

1. Good news, everyone, Greece had actually made contingency plans for an alternative banking / currency system, had they moved out of the Eurozone, willing or unwilling. Bad news everyone, Greece chose to stay in the Eurozone.
2. I commented last week that Trump's support would not erode -- a result of his criticisms of John McCain -- because there's a substantial amount of people who believe that free speech means having the right to express (non-PC) dumb ideas without consequences. Polls confirm that Trump's support has not eroded, and look what Dave Weigel wrote: "His free-associating style, and stream of tangential insults, is seen not as crudeness, but as a refreshing honesty." If you read some of the quotes from people Weigel interviewed, it's exactly what I expected.
3. Tom Madore has come out with a new political ad, this time asserting that, thanks to him, Clark County has had the highest job growth in Washington. And again, knowing how employment actually works, I thought I'd put together another chart. Both Snohomish and King counties put Clark to shame. They must be using the powers of Conservative Economics to derive their data and outcomes. Of course, no local media is taking on his assertions.
4. Rick and Morty's season two kicked off, and the first episode is available to watch, for free, at Adult Swim. Yeah, bitches! Stop being uncertain and just watch it.
5. Windows 10 is here. On one computer, the notification arrived and I DL'd and installed it; on the other, I'm still waiting in the queue to get the notification. First thoughts: It looks a lot better, and thank goodness the icon+start menu returned, instead of the convoluted tile mode switch to access the start menu. Switching between tablet and desktop modes are considerably obscured now, requiring you to select the notification icon in your taskbar, then going over to the right side of the screen to change to tablet / desktop. Charms is gone -- good riddance. There's a little bug in the personalization section, where hovering over the lock screen's preview will close the section.*

* -- An important warning on your install: DO NOT allow the update to install with basic settings. If you do, you will have opted in to what Microsoft calls "WiFi Sense", which shares your WiFi password, encrypted, with people in your Outlook, Skype contacts, and Facebook contacts if you allow it in a separate step. In fact, there are multiple automatic opt-ins to share your info, that you might want to check out. Apparently Microsoft has finally ditched its Scroogled campaign, and decided to opt in to Microshafting.