TSMC is also known as Wafertech and has a massive fab just across the river from intel's main R&D fabs in Portland. So they are incredibly easy to access.

*cough* Gattaca *cough*

Unless of course the paycut lowers you enough to qualify for additional tax credits based on income. But then again you don't see that on you pay check, just at the end of year. For example in 2007 I made the same per hour as in 2008, but only worked 4 months out of the year and so I qualified (according to my tax software) for lots of tax credits for things like my retirement pay.

Last year I worked enough that I didn't qualify for them. Not the nearly the same thing as being bumped into a higher tax bracket, but if you're on the bubble it sure feels like it.

Don't forget undertakers!

The reason they want chicken pox early is not for your child to not develop it at school.

The reason goes back to herd immunity and the mutation rates in humans meaning if enough people get the disease it mutates into a new form that adults are not immune from. If enough people are vaccinated that human chickenpox is uncommmon, the mutation rates are low enough the vaccine will be stable so adults who get it and never had it won't get it.

Pregnant women who get chickenpox as an adult can not only have their unborn child die from it, but have been known to drop dead of it themselves. 10,000 people are hosptialized each year with it in the US.

What's really important though beyond the health risks for you child to spread chicken pox beyond the home (can take 3 weeks to incubate), is to understand what about the vaccinations were causing allergic reactions. Several vaccines have alternative methods, although some are a bit more controversial

A skin reaction may not exist for the oral version of the vaccine. Polio is the poster child for the oral polio vaccine (although there have been one or two flaws with that one).

The odds of your child being reactive to any additional vaccines are tiny. Of course being allergic to any of them in the first is also pretty tiny. Hopefully when you're ready to get the rest there will be no issue, and hopefully the ones that are most needed at the age recommended (typhus for example) aren't an issue.

I prefer looking at Hydro electric. 317,686 million Kilowatt-hours for the US versus 26,944 million Kilowatt-hours. Or about 4 times as much per person. I live in the Northwest though, and 82% of the power for the region is from Hydroelectric. The rest is either natural gas or nuclear and mostly for Seattle.

Well the biggest issue is the life support and social aspects. There's more than a few ways people have figured out to do the energy. Project Orion did enough math they figured they could get up to .12 C. Orion isn't something people would take likely due to being essentially using nukes. But the math works and we've got the stuff we need on earth enough enough. Let alone using lasers to boost a solar sail to a fractional C and dumping the sail and using a ramscoop to steer/break. If we can make habits (and that's the biggest if) we can slow boat it to the stars and make most of the cost in laser launching systems that are a fixed one time cost for all launch. Plus you can use em as a communication beam.

I was extremely lucky to be involved in the NASA SOAR program the last year the KC-135 was used. (Now it's a DC-9) SOAR is the free program for undergraduate research to be involved with Microgravity experiments. Something like 32 student groups a year get to use it in 2 week periods. NASA is also good at about getting multiple schools involved. Everyone from MIT to WVU and Oregon State is involved. Back to the topic. What happens isn't a sharp fall, it takes a small amount of time to pull out of it, so you don't quite fall normally. And then once you get up to 1G you then go up to 2G in a short time. The first and last sets of parabolas are also a different type designed to replicate Lunar and Martian gravity.

Unless you use enough to make other fuels viable. Ore refining of Uranium can be done electrically. Hanford site and Oakridge were picked for reasons of cheap power from hydro. Only thing left is transport. And even that can be carbon free if you're willing to do pebble bed reactors. The thing is even though there's CO2 from those, you don't have the carload of coal per hour like coal plants. Sure there's minor stuff, but that's in all of them. When you compare it to the massive coal burning we got going, it's much better. Less radioactive than the coal too.

Oh god how do they. You overuse dramatic pop ups and they make people numb. I worked in a high volume manufacturing company and we could make each work area have prompts and warnings come up. But many were like you scanned X before Y on some of the automatic tools. A very common occurrence, and made those pop ups useless.

Thus began the escalating war of pop-ups where automatic warnings versus catastrophic warnings had to be given increasing amounts. The number of small warnings made people numb to them. So the biggest issues would have to bring up red screens requiring the employee ID and passwords to continue. What this did was make anything that wasn't that screen just be clicked through. I had some luck reducing the ignorable pop ups in my area because I didn't want the guys on the floor to ignore everything I had set up, but many of them were ones the floor managment didn't want taken out due to being able to use it as a club/way to pin blame on someone.

That's why we have medals. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is given to people who have enriched America through their works. Yeah it's a bit political, but Fred Rogers, Frank Sinatra and a mess of other folks.

Although I don't have a problem with constitutional monarchy, with a bit more power than the British do. It seems to me there's some merits when you have a decent Royal line that needs to think on a much longer scale than election cycles

Alot of the rights were saved by Roddenberry. She as his widow got everything. I think their son gets everything now. That's creative rights versus $$$ rights. Although I'm sure the son will be fithly rich off all the stuff for ages.