i don't tink his PAC support was all that much to lean him towards "helping us out". Politics is politics, but we can't discount people who DO work and do their job simply because you focus on the people that don't. We suffer the tyranny of the majority in the marketplace, too. I wish it were painless to just go out and buy a good, cheap computer where every single component worked under Linux. I wish I weren't expected to choose between MS Word and plain ASCII text for my resume format. I wish I could go to a nearby coffee shop that played classical music all the time. I wish it were easy to find a home in walking distance of a school, town center w/ movie theater, etc., but the marketplace has not seen fit to cre either wifi is a public infrastructure like roads and rails or its not. if it is, the "state" in its more general sense has a power and an obligation to see that this data road of the radio frequencies reaches all the citizens and it has the power to collect our taxes to make sure the infrastructure is adequate in capacity and properly maintained. if its NOT, then let the moneygrubbing telco's sharpen their knives and move in. but as I road-warrior-drive about, I don't want to be disconnected at every jurisdictional and regulatory boundary such as state lines and city limits. In one of those cases the government shouldn't be