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I wish there were some simple, efficient, and universal way to ask a question and get an answer. Something like a toll-free international phone number or a platform-independent key combination that opens a question input box and automatically connects you to a service that will answer it. Or a handheld question-asking and answer-receiving device that lets you click a button to broadcast your question and maybe click a few more buttons if you want to attach a file. Maybe, way in the future (or in the world of "Pete & Pete"), you could do it all through a plate in your head.

At bare minimum, an implementation of my Q&A fantasy would eliminate the following ass-pains:
•Usernames
•Passwords
•Confirmation e-mails
•Trying to copy case-sensitive character strings over and over again because you can't tell the difference between a lysergically acidic •M" and a tangled three-way among two "I"s and a "V"
•Scrolling through tons of ads and irrelevant Google search results
•Scrolling through Yahoo! "answers" submitted by 14-year-olds who would never think to use a period except as a birth control method
•"Expert" articles that tell you to contact your local congressman/librarian/doctor/career center/phone book and, if you want even more information, to visit some <a href="dead-Geocities-site-that's-probably-more-useful-now-than-when-it-was-online">link</a>
•Actual expert articles that you have to download as PDF documents and then either delete or complete a master's program in order to understand
•Getting sucked into the vortex of Wikipedia
•Posting on a message board and waiting four days for a response that (A) tells you to post on a different message board, (B) tells you that if you don't know [something you don't know], you shouldn't even be trying to do [something you want to know how to do], (C) provides a link to a previous thread that is vaguely related to your question, and/or (D) provides a "Let Me Google That For You" link
•Being put on hold and listening to elevator music spliced with painfully slow, redundant recordings of: "Please stay on the line"; "Your call is very important to us"; "If you know your party's extension..."; "DID YOU KNOW?!?--that you can get fifty percent off your next purchase if..."; "We're sorry--the number you have entered is invalid. Goodbye."

A better implementation of my Q&A fantasy would not involve a web browser at all, and it would not involve menus in quantities greater than 1.