Really? Try this: pour over coffee. Cheap and no mess... ...richie

There is a reason for this. If you live rural, there is no backup. It comes down to your ability to handle doing surgery at 3 am effectively even though you haven't been home yet. Sure, you aren't as good as when fresh.

Perhaps the problem is that there is no backup. There should be more than one doctor available. We are just not willing to pay for it.

Working 90 hours a week is work hoarding. There are other people who could be doing this work and most likely better...

I wonder how effective you can be at the end of 95 hour work week. Next time you fly on an airline, consider if you would want you pilot and copilot have similar "work ethic"....

Socialism is, of course, worker control of the means of production...

No, that's communism.

"feather the controls" !?!? you have no idea what you are talking about. Do you?

GPS does not measure airspeed, pitot tube does. Airspeed is needed for flight and that's what the pilot is mostly concerned with.

This is the nature of insurance. Everyone puts in some money into the pot, so that things some people need will be paid for.

Sigh.. do you understand how insurance works? If you have insurance via your job it also covers all kinds of stuff that you will never use...

The historical record shows that not a single Republican voted for this particular piece of legislative madness.

So what! At the time Republicans were a minority in Congress, so ACA was passed fair and square. Like there were no bills passed with only Republican votes in the past...

You should watch this to understand what the debt limit is.

This has been known for ages. here is one reference:

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/polygraphs_and_the_national_labs_dangerous_ruse_undermines_national_securit/

More the reason not to follow him, especially after handing off to police.

Joel Spolsky had this article on Gladwell the expresses very well what has been annoying me about Gladwell and his books.

The manufacturer provides the training. Mostly in simulators.

Here is a more knowledgeable article about this crash written by an airline pilot. Korean airlines may have had some of those problems years back, but no longer.