'In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.'
      Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
      June 16, 1933

I believe your math is wrong. U235 releases 202.5 MeV per atom undergoing fission, so that means 1 kg can generate 83.14 TJ from fission. Assuming 100% efficiency, a massless drive, and no mass loss from propellants, that means there is enough energy from fission to reach a velocity of 0.043 c relative to the rest frame.

dE = (m - m') c^2 = m' c^2 (gamma - 1) => m' c^2 = m c^2 (1 - dE/(m c^2)) = m c^2 (1 - rho)

rho = dE/(m c^2) = 83.14 TJ / 89.88 PJ = 9.25e-4

rho = (1 - rho) (gamma - 1) => gamma = 1/(1 - rho) = 1/sqrt(1 - beta^2)

(1 - rho)^2 = 1 - beta^2 => beta^2 = rho (2 - rho) = 1.85e-3

beta = sqrt(rho (2 - rho)) = 0.0430

Actually, PS/2 keyboards can't have a latency less than about 50 ms. The PS/2 specification requires a clock speed between 10 and 16.7 kHz which means that the signal must be in the up or down state for 30-50 ms. http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/

After my parents' Program Files were deleted when they installed a Flash update (curse you Adobe for bundling McAfee), I rebuilt their machine such that I would be the only user with admin privileges. For software updates, I use Chrome Remote Desktop because it's easy, secure, and most importantly, free. If they need to run a program that needs admin privileges (like TurboTax) I setup a special shortcut for them using RunasRob that will run the program as an admin without needing my password.

http://xkcd.com/54/

Most of these methods involve using third party JavaScript which can be circumvented by NoScript.

for those who are interested. I'm looking forward to reading it this weekend.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/11/1203177109

Asimov wrote more than just fiction, he wrote dozens of science books on topics including: astronomy, biology, chemistry, classical physics, and subatomic physics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Nonfiction

Shaka! When the walls fell.

Don't call them monkeys or they'll go Librarian-poo.

No, these classes are taught this way out of necessity. If a grad student wants a physics degree, (s)he must do research. To this end, a typical physics grad student will TA for just a few semesters until (s)he gets a research project. This is a full time job. There just aren't enough incoming grad students to fill more teaching positions. I suspect it's similar for all the sciences.

I don't know what it's like for English grad students, but I suspect that it's the exact opposite. As far as I'm aware, English majors don't need to do the same kind of time intensive research. I suspect that English grad students will teach classes throughout their higher education.

Thus, even if there are the same number of incoming physics and English grad students, I suspect that there will be 4-6 times as many English majors available for teaching.