There are a myriad of reasons why a primary may not carry vaccines: Lack of facilities (some of them require constant refrigeration) and lack of demand are probably the biggest two. I would think that primary physicians who only treat adults see much less demand for vaccines and don't stock them. For example my does not carry the flu vaccine. It was too much of a hassle keep them in her tiny office so she referred me to my local pharmacy which has them in stock.

You don't have to. Just remind everyone that FDR contracted polio at the age of 39 and was paralyzed for the rest of his life.

The parent said it was illegal to refuse to "administer" vaccines. Your doctor didn't have one to administer to you and didn't want to buy the minimum amount just for you. If she had one and didn't vaccinate you, that would be illegal. As an analogy, my Primary doctor doesn't have a ultrasound machine in her office and thus she refused to spend the money to install one to examine my abdomen. She instead sent me to the lab down the street that had one.

*Sigh*. You should actually read those links.

First link: "Despite this vaccine being hugely effective against B. pertussis, which was once the primary childhood killer, these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection." In other words, whooping cough vaccine against whooping virus (for which it was designed) may actually promote infection of a related but not identical virus. This does not say the vaccine promotes sickness.

Second link: "Despite widespread childhood vaccination against Bordetella pertussis, disease remains prevalent. It has been suggested that acellular vaccine may be less effective than previously believed. During a large outbreak, we examined the incidence of pertussis and effectiveness of vaccination in a well-vaccinated, well-defined community." In other words, the whooping cough vaccine may not last as long as thought. More boosters may be needed or a different vaccine may need to be developed. It says nothing about spreading sickness.

Third link: "Safety and shedding data from four clinical studies were included in the BLA supplement. Additionally, a publication with associated electronic datasets was submitted in support of a label claim regarding shedding in HIV positive subjects." In other words, it is shows the shedding rates of HIV infected subjects whose immune system is somewhat compromised, not the general population.

Fourth link: "RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine and vaccine-derived strains were detected actively in stool samples from 13 out of 61 (21.3%) infants having diarrhea within 2 weeks of rotavirus vaccination, and among three out of 460 (0.7%) cases with acute gastroenteritis captured via the Australian Rotavirus Surveillance Program. Six (37.5%) of these 16 vaccine-derived viral specimens were associated with a G1P[8] strain thought to be the result of genetic reassortment between two component RotaTeq strains. Although nearly half of these reassortant-associated cases had underlying medical conditions, such as severe combined immunodeficiency disorder, further study is needed to understand the relationship between shedding, viral reassortants and underlying medical conditions." So a sample size of 61 in which half the infants had other medical issues had samples of rotavirus. Again, the vaccine does not spread sickness.

Those were just the first four links. All of them say the same thing: vaccines are not 100% effective. But no scientists have ever claimed them to be. Each of the first three showed that in certain circumstances, the vaccine is not effective. In fact, the first link says that the Pertussis vaccine is not effective against another disease. Excuse for not being panicked about that.

Sure some of it is unnecessary bloat, but there is no way around it.

Depends. If you get your videos from the Swedish video rental company you don't have any of those problems and you can watch the videos on whatever hardware you like.

Well in this case many businesses large and small are affected. The larger ones can afford to amass a portfolio for defensive purposes. The smaller ones cannot. However the mutually assured destruction strategy is only a deterrent for companies that actually make products. It is less effective against patent trolls.

The case involves Alice Corporation who holds four patents originating in the 1990s of which was for "a computerized system for creating and exchanging financial instruments such as derivatives." These patents were challenged by CLS Bank International in 2007. The district court ruled summarily for CLS in that none of patents were valid. The Federal Circuit initially reversed the lower court; however, the full panel (en banc) voted 7 out of 10 to affirm the district court but also issued 5 separate concurring and dissenting opinions.

This confusion was noted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its amicus brief:

In my opinion, it appears that main patent simply added "on the computer" to an existing process, namely in an business transaction between two parties, there is a third party that ensures that payment is made and is facilitated. The computer made the transaction faster and more automated as noted by Judge Lourie in his opinion.

Moving to 350mm is not without cost as well. The savings that can be gained in photolithography will be partially offset by increased costs of handling 350mm. Some machines might have be designed to upgraded to 350 but not all. Also the boats, cassettes, etc will cost more. Making 350mm wafers will cost more with increasing kerf losses, etc.

Some will take pictures of their lattes; some will make art. We old codgers will just have to learn to ignore the hipster dreck because Eternal September will always be upon us.

Bomb the right 20 places on the planet an the human race would need a few decades to be able to make chips again.

No, you are mistaken.

In the 8088 days the term "fabless semiconductor company" was still a new concept (1978 versus 1979 for the 8088) since every man and his dog had a fab. Any university wth a condensed matter physics department has a clean room and fab facilities. They're not set up for mass manufactuing of chips right now because there's no point.

There are thousands of places on the planet that could make chips on the level of an 8088 pretty much today.

And yet, even running the original install of Windows XP, I can't watch Hulu on it - it simply doesn't have the power to run full screen, full motion, compressed video in real time.

The problem is the software, not the machine. I'm not joking. My old eee 900 (900MHz Celeron M) is considerably slower than your 1.4GHZ Pentium M Inspiron. The eee 900 can play 720p H.264 video full screen without skipping, using MPlayer.

This might be a bit of a waste though. With 802.11AC offering 320mbps and probably gigE+ speeds in the next gen it kind of starts calling into question whether wired networks are even necessary.

FTTN and then enough bandwidth to blanket a block in 2gbps wifi w/ 10ms pings would be fine by me and save a small fortune.

I love the justaposition of your sentiment and signiture.

The nice thing about delivery drones is that they typically weigh at least 174,000 pounds less than a maximally loaded 737. If a ten pound drone carrying a five pound package falls on your head, it's going to hurt like heck, but it probably won't kill you.