Honestly, how often is wired internet even available in these situations? Do you want to wait in line for a booth with wired internet at every airport and con and conference and ted talk? Should we be adding an RJ45 in the back of every convention hall chair? The logistics you're describing are untenable, especially in light of wifi's existence. The beauty of wifi is that many people can connect from a single point, without being tethered to a cord. That freedom is worth the latency for all but some of the most critical tasks. These are the problems wifi was invented to solve. It sounds like you're wanting to return us all to 1999.

Am I missing something in your post? Because based on your complaints it sounds like we'd be better off if we could solve some of wifi's issues, instead.

We know what each of our American presidential candidates are like too, but we're still going to give one of them the job....

Venatus vestibulum robotics, ipsum amet metus in modum

Better? :)

This. Mod parent up.

But what if my vote is that both candidates are power-hungry, narcissistic, and self-serving, and I find neither of them fit for office? Where's my 'NONE OF THE ABOVE' option? Preferably it's an option that, if it wins, invalidates the other two candidates for political office for a set number of years. "You have been weighted and measured by your populace, and you have been found wanting. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done." Then we start a new campaign, and the new candidates look REALLY HARD at why their predecessors got the no-vote.

Sure, we'd have periods of time with no governor, or missing a senator or two. But let's be honest: they shut the government down on a whim anyway, right? And life has carried on in their absence. So what can it hurt?

The fact is we have very little say in WHO ends up in our elections. The parties manage those choices for us these days. I'm not a fan of their candidates, because in a state like Texas I don't have much "choice" in my choices. That starts to stretch the bonds of democracy.

That sounds good. Except for one tiny thing:

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

Are we still talking about Russia? America isn't exactly running the smoothest, most intelligent government at the moment either...

I take my watch off at the end of the day. I put it on in the morning. How big a difference is it to set it "on a charger on my nightstand", instead of just "on my nightstand?"

Much ado about nothing.

Are they actively anti-consumer, or simply pro-self, and we get caught in the wake?

Greed that accidentally destroys your country I can understand. Willfully destroying your country I can't. Occam's razor and all that.