"Waldo must figure out what effect broadcast power has on humans. Grimes is seeing a slow weakening of the human physique, and he blames the radiant power industry." -- from the Wikipedia entry on WALDO
I remember seeing some PBS show about the routine performance of the Roman warrior, how far they would march carrying standard kit, and how modern folks were not up to it anymore. It could also of course be those hormone-confusing-chemicals which the genome has never had to deal with before. Sigh.

(( Did you do that before or after taking out the power cable to shake out the loose electrons? )). Actually that's a deep remark. I have read of cases in which primitive peoples do things which ultimately DO have a scientific foundation, but the tribesman's explanation of why he does it is ridiculous. Bottom line if something experimentally seems to work then forget about the theory. In particular, "taking out the power cable" has worked for me several times, say when my ancient Dell no longer "wants to" SUSPEND correctly. Taking out the power cable has definitely fixed that, obviously there is some state-variable in some chip, no idea where. Indeed this is a worrisome thing as Windows is increasingly aggressive in saving-state-to-disk, what if the saved-state becomes corrupt, how do you reset that if the OS becomes so sure it has got it right ?

(( 'In fact, the law is very well designed to say that you have to treat H-1Bs the same as US citizens in all regards.' )) I wonder does anyone else have an obsession with the "equalization meme" - which I define as "A and B are different, but we must make them equal" ? For example, you can Google (( Canada Equalization )) to find that this meme is a cornerstone of their philosophy of governance. At its most ridiculous is sexual equalization, male and female are SO different. Anyway it seems like "there ought to be a book", but I have not found one. I would found a website myself, if I could figure out how to make money off it.

Several times I have restored speed using Chkdsk, it's an easy thing to try anyway.