I'm a surgeon, and often work long hours. Lots of my colleague do too. I have always only needed 4-5 hours of sleep per night - just wake up after 5 hours, even without an alarm. Many of my surgical partners are the same, but just not as much. Surgery seems to attract people who tend not to need much sleep, and are driven.

I have never heard of a surgeon, nor seen, a mistake, or poor outcome, due to someone being tired

If someone can show a higher complication rate for surgeon, who are sleepy, then I'd consider the above proposal, otherwise it's just over reactionary crap.

I've had plenty of times like the above "scenario" where I've been a bit tired. No mistakes, no complications, no extra time - everything turned out perfectly. If I'm tired, then I'll do something about it. I've delayed 2 cases until the next day in 5 years (thats' 2 cases out of 1750 cases because of being tired).

Let's see some data, as opposed to truck driver, or pilot studies - 'cause surgery isn't anything like those jobs.

Remember - the bastard in the government WORK FOR US. I agree - we have an obligation to know what they are doing.
Unless it is really a mater of protecting immediate risk to life, then we should know what is going on.

Couldn't agree with ya more.

I figured this out early on, when a classmate at university, gave all sorts of answers which the professor loved and ate up. The problem was that the student never even read the books.
He got an A
Please see relevant XKCD cartoon - imposter
http://xkcd.com/451/

A better solution might be a battery swap out station. Drive your car over a lift/pit, and some guy swaps out your entire battery pack.
Takes 2 minutes.
Everyone has membership fees/deposit - easy to do.

Just make an algorthym for your password. That way every site has a unique password, and you don't need to remember any paswords.

Say for Slashdot - your method might be number+letters from site+ fixed set of letters
So for slashDOT pass might be 2DOTwrd
For gooGLE 2GLEwrd
for yaHOO 2HOOwrd
etc

The weakness is if someone figures out your "method", so I use a few different methods - one for banking, another for social, and one for garbage sites.

My main bank acccount has its own separate comlpex password.

Maybe they can bomb it with the collectives crop duster.

Dude! - I am SO going to root my very own computer!

I think that this is more of a study in being a Devils Advocate, re-affirming the scientific process, and a study of the history of science.
I will, as an INTP personality type, argue against my position sometimes, to hear out any weaknesses in my position.

I have read on the flat earth boards before, and it seems to me to be a misture of real flat earth believers, devils advocates, and others who like to creatively argue an absurd point, so as to intellectually have an interesting battle of the wits.

Have her where her clothing for a day or two, with no deoderant, and plastic bag it. Her scent might last a year or two.
But to be honest, at some point, you will need to move on. It will be healthy to have fond memories, but funerals are for the living to help let go, because everyone goes at some point. Living is about those around you, and the past shouldn't get in the way of the present - it's not good for anyone, and if she really loves you, then she'd want you happy after she's gone.

try vacuuming your card's heat sink,
and then see if it happens

I'm just saying

I too, ran GLXGEARS to check my framerate, and was pulling 3500 FPS on a 6 month old good card, and was wondering - "HOLY fuct! -what card do you have that runs that fast?"

And then I remembered you could shrink the screen, and get higher FPS
(makes glxgers screen tiny)

20,900 FPS
21,500 FPS

meh...

They compared a Porsche Boxster variation (320 HP, $70,000, 2900 pounds) to the Tesla (288HP $155,000 , 2800 pounds), and the Porsche won.
There is no Porsche made in the last 20 years that had only 220 HP

Now for $150,000 you can get a new Porsche 911 Turbo 0-60 3.2 seconds, 3400 pounds, and that will trounce the tesla a bit more than the Boxster.

I think there's a bunch of fudging in this article to help justify it's conclusions.. At least with the West coast, having a solar facility out in the desert, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas would be easy to make, and supply most/all of the Southwests needs. The rest of the county doesn't have that benefit of so much sun, and nuke power will be useful/needed.

What was that study - 91x91 miles of solar panels would supply 80% of ALL of the USA power needs? Build it bigger, and make the super conducter version of the Alaskan pipeline and sell it to Canada and Mexico..

I personally did about 15-17 Gs in a car accident 35 to 0 in about 2.5 feet. Broke 3 ribs on the typical 3point seat belt, and my wrist on the steering wheel. A racing harness would have got me thru w/o out any rib fractures.
Colonel John Paul Stapp often did 32 g and walked away often easily, and did 42G a bunch of times on his rocket sled experiments. Some race car drives have undergone 100G to 150 G in some of their crashes (with many broken bones).
  I think the 12g/17G is referring to max force that people can withstand for minutes at a time. People often withstand much more instantaneously