I remember printers in the more recent tech age where there was no switch and one time had to pull a plug to stop it from printing. More than once I have had to pull plugs and batteries even out of devices to turn them OFF. Again, how hard is it to STOP electrons in wires? It took us 60 centuries or so of civilization just to figure out how to get them to start moving like that.

And when I click that stupid X at the top of a "window" I expect it to X. To X right there and then. Not whirr and crackle and freeze and tell me it -- get this! -- cannot shut down because it is not working.

Here. Look:

Lever. Ok. If you pull on it, the circuit breaks and offness happens. Right then. Lights flicker and go out in barely a second. Work ceases. Darkness embraces. Like those TV's from childhood, hit switch and the screen immediately shrank to a dot that did linger, but unobtrusively and for barely a few seconds.

Please, o Meaningful Off Switch, make a comeback. Return us to the sacred Biblical order of the "twinkling of an eye" and then it's over. You know, the emergency cutoff that plumbers manage with tons of water.

Motor busses of 10 tons and 60 miles per hour take less time to stop than a computer "bus".