This statement makes me wonder if the human species will die off before it adapts to its own technology. Alas, Babylon.

I've hit one deer at 70 mph & another ran into the side of my truck when I was going 40 mph. Since then, if I see deer ahead of me on the roadside, or if one crosses road ahead of me, I honk my horn. Most of the time, the deer I honk at show an obvious startle reaction and move away from my car. None has ever moved toward my car or into my path. If one deer crosses the road, there's a good chance others will follow, that's why I honk. I think it helps, don't think it hurts. Most animals act as if they dislike loud, sudden noises.

Will happen of its own accord once gasoline costs more than $10/gallon and each car owner is rationed to 10 gallons a month. That's not rocket science.

Damn few other commenters have noticed this, here and especially elsewhere.

You have described a tendency common to all human societies. Believe it or not, some other societies have been able to deal with the tendency, with more success than the US is showing at present. E.g. some Greek city states practiced ostracism.

in its unproven effectiveness. Plus it's a big red pill, red pills always work better than other colors.

I got the same email from US Bank at about the same time. Time to change my password with them.

I wonder if a regular diesel engine Most diesel-powered vehicles sold nowadays are boosted. I have a 1983 non-boosted Ford diesel pickup. It barely runs above 5000 feet elevation. Below that it runs well, gets 23 mpg even though it weighs 5000 lb.

Apparently I've taken a more radical approach than anyone else. I have stopped sitting upright at a desk to type on a computer. Nearly all of my time using my laptop is done in a fully-reclined chair. I am nearly supine as I type this. The built-in head & neck rest on the back of the chair fully supports my shoulders, neck & head. My upper arms, elbows & forearms arm supported by the backrest & padded arm rest. The laptop itself is supported by a cheap plastic laptray. The laptray has pockets on either side that serve as legs. The laptop is separated from my lap by an air space of about 2". The tray pockets hold pens, small pads, TV remotes, occasionally a can of Dew or a bottle of beer (if either tips, the liquid goes into the tray pocket & nowhere near the laptop.)

If I gaze straight ahead from this relaxed position, my line of sight is about 2" above the top of the screen. I wear bifocals. The screen is about 30" away from my eyes. I had my ophthalmologist adjust the prescription for my lower lenses to allow me to read materials from 30", not from 20" as is typically prescribed for reading glasses. The bifocals are the lined type, so the entire plane of the laptop's screen is viewed through the same lens prescription. I once tried using lineless bifocals & found with them I could only see a small fraction of the screen clearly. I had to continually move my head to focus clearly on the screen. The projected line between the upper & lower eyeglass lenses lines up very closely with the top of the laptop's screen. So I can see distant objects past the screen clearly without moving my head.

When I use a desktop scanner, I have to sit or stand bent over at the desk as most anyone would do. My land line phone is on the floor below the right arm rest.

I am retired, so I have to justify my arrangement to no boss who might perhaps believe I am too comfortable to be really working. If I stay up too late at my laptop, I tend to fall asleep in my computer position, it is that comfortable.

A couple of my hobbies are genealogy & local history. I travel around the US to do this & sometimes find I need to work my laptop for several hours at a time to catch up on email and type up my discoveries while they are still fresh in memory. I bought a folding recliner chair, similar to what is sold for use on patios, where a mesh fabric supports the body. I use a small pillow to provide more support for my head & neck, but otherwise it's very similar to my home recliner. This works almost as well as my home recliner.

I think the foundation of RSI for computer users is attempting to sit upright and pound on a keyboard, with minimal support for the arms & wrists. It's an unnatural and pain-provoking position, dictated by the all-too-human thinking of "We've always done it this way."

If the system is down, the patient records can't be pulled up and maybe somebody gets the wrong medicines and dies. All the more reason to have adequate on-site and off-site backup of some kind. You don't need multiple workstations for that.

Hard drives sometimes die or become corrupt and that recovery partition is useless at that point. Better to say they reliably die or become corrupt, and usually at a most inopportune moment. I've owned several dozen laptops & desktops over the last 25 years, and hard drive failure or corruption has been my most frequently occurring problem.

Good point about the increased reliability of a 'pressed' recovery disk vs. a home-burned one. I have never had a pressed disk go bad, but have had plenty of home-brewed ones do that, of all degrees of quality. I have also tried to burn a recovery DVD immediately after starting a new laptop, had that operation fail, and then discovered I could not make a second attempt. I had to pay the manufacturer for their pressed recovery DVD in addition to the price of the new laptop.