It costs a few thousand dollars to file a patent. How many people have that lying around?

My husband's cousin had a bad reaction to the polio vaccine and is in a wheelchair because of it. But I still vaccinated my children.

If you actually read the info sheet the nurse gives you with each vaccine, you'll see there are risks. Some small percentage of the population has a bad reaction to some vaccines, and the info sheets describe what they are and what symptoms to watch for. I weighed the risks and decided in favor of vaccination.

You're a Clemson fan, aren't you? Trying to convice people Garnets are dangerous. Hmph!

It's not exactly a bubble, it's more like a void. Peter Hamilton was prescient.

I suppose I can thank our weekly team meetings for helping keep my handwriting skills up to snuff. I always take notes at the meetings so I can remember what we talked about and make to-do lists. Sometimes, the meetings become long and tedious, but now when I feel myself itching to look at the clock I can just remember that I'm practicing an important skill: writing on paper with a pen. And I'll know it's all worth it.

No kidding. I'm thinking of the notification systems the research group I work for developed back in the 90's - the way they worked was very similar to this patent. And we were not by any means the only player in the business of notification software.

Not going to argue with that. Yes, SC definitely locks up too many people.

It's not so much that, it's that our prison system is severely underfunded. SC spends less per prisoner than any other state and has a higher per capita prison population than most. We just don't have enough guards to properly enforce rules.

It's gotten so bad that the head of the Dept. of Corrections wants to let nonviolent offenders go early to save money and ease the crowding.