I thought that was Interstate 405 in Portland before ODOT repaved it.

Oklahoma has car inspection rules?

You seriously need to get your emergency brake adjusted, then. I had a service brake failure at turnpike speeds (~75mph) about two years ago and successfully stopped my Chevy Malibu with the e-brake. Emergency brake is exactly the right term. Can the engine overcome it? Yeah, if the throttle is stuck, but it at least gives you something holding the brake down a bit while you find a way to kill power.

That's why you ease it on one notch at a time so you can control it. You don't just slam it on. Also, this is why I think an electronic parking brake is an outright retarded idea without a traditional manual lever or latchpedal present.

Steering wheel locks engage when the key is in the OFF or ACC position, regardless of what the transmission is in, on every car I've ever driven that even has a steering wheel lock. That said, wait for a straightaway, kill the engine and listen for it to stop, then go back to the ON position without going to the START position.

Want to know how we know you've never used OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

Same reason we already do so for rural roads. Commerce still depends on people like us. You like beef or driving a car? Thank rural Oklahoma.

Thank you for explaining why McDonald's is not only popular, but thriving, in the American midwest. I was surprised to discover that, unless you live in a big city like McAlester, Claremore or Lawton, indoor plumbing is still a "maybe." Want basic landline phone service? That's a very real maybe. Want electricity? That's almost definitely a solar panels on your roof thing. Want indoor plumbing? Then you're stuck on a water cistern or a well, both of which depend on electricity. Whether you go well or cistern largely depends on whether or not fracking has destroyed the water table yet. And if you're on a cistern in rural Oklahoma two years into a drought, well, a shower is a five gallon bucket of water heated with a bucket heater, once a week, and you're happy to have the luxury of water to spare for bathing at all. (No, your coworkers and clients don't complain, they're in the same boat).

Want to know how I know your idea of economics in the US is stuck in 1993?

Which is why we shouldn't be championing lassez-faire capitalism as the end-all, be-all in American commerce.

Even then, a wifi router is, what, $30?

There's a few CPUs Intel already makes that has this situation. The pins go on the socket side and are spring loaded instead. Dell seems to be a big fan of this design on the Optiplex line, even though RMAing the boards requires stick-on plastic caps that, as often as not, don't stay grippy through shipping...

Speaking of, do I have you on my Google+?

...Google+ hit relevance.

Clearly you weren't around during the .com bust when KPMG was renaming itself to something stupid every eighteen minutes. Or missed the rapidfire Pacific Northwest Bell > US West > Qwest > CenturyLink stupidity.