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Most of these dismissals have come before evidence is considered. There are dozens of reasons to dismiss cases without considering evidence.

There is a bucket load of evidence that shows election irregularities and failures of election staff to follow laws, but that does not mean there is enough evidence to prove the Trump campaign's allegations in court.

Also, a lot of the cases getting bounced are seeking emergency relief which often requires a higher standard of proof/evidence which is usually hard to come up with before discovery.

Also, even if the allegations are proven, there may not be a legal remedy that a court is willing to offer -- this can be grounds for early dismissal too. If you ask for something the court thinks it cannot offer, case dismissed no matter what the evidence is. Often if legal remedy is unavailable courts will point to the electoral process as the remedy.

The invention is just the claims of a particular patent.

The patent description must include enough information so the invention as recited in the claims could be replicated. Patent descriptions do not have to disclose details about the supporting/surrounding components of the whole system or platform.

E.g., a patent claiming a method for selecting 5G channels does not need to describe how to build out a 5G network.

US patents must provide enough information for one of ordinary skill in the art to practice the inventions recited in the Claims of the patent.

Thus, depending on what the claims cover, plenty of detail about complete systems can be omitted from the patent specification. For example, if the claims of a patent are directed to cache management for a messaging platform, most details about how the messaging platform works can be omitted as long as the cache management system is sufficiently described.

If there are unique features of the messaging platform that enable the new cache management system to work, detailed description of those features would need to be included in the patent specification. But unrelated stuff, such as, routing mechanisms, protocol optimizations, security, and so on, that may be part of the messaging platform can be omitted from the cache management patent specification.

Thus, the messaging platform org could keep plenty of trade secrets about other parts of their platform while still obtaining a patent on their cache management system.

In the US, there is no prior restraint that prevents one from doing the things in your list.

If expressions are deemed unlawful after-the-fact and via due process, the speaker may be punished.

It is anti-freedom to bar expression w/o adjudication or due process. E.g., alleged threats or alleged defamation are protected speech until a court determines them to be unprotected. Emergency injunctions or the like may be temporarily enforced if the court feels it is likely that the expression in controversy will be found to be unprotected speech.

Also, courts can issue narrow and temporary gag orders but they are limited and specifically targeted for reasons unrelated to the viewpoint of the speech.

Some angel investors are in it for the short term - flippers so to speak. I have seen them give bad advice to new founders. And since they control the money the bad advice is followed in spite of good counsel otherwise.

Doing nothing? There was a rapid mobilization of emergency military hospitals (that were not used at all), ventilator development, vaccine development, therapeutic development, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and so on. And, here we are with multiple vaccines being deployed in record time.

Also, China could have locked down travel from China that might have helped.

In NYC:

"The restaurant owner filmed a city inspector issuing a citation due to the cafe’s open front door"

https://ny.eater.com/2020/10/21/21526832/gravesend-restauran...

Wearing a mask outside and distanced sends a signal that you do not understand The Science.

And there a few law firms that specialize in shaking down cities across the US for large settlements.

While ADA access is important, it is not often the most important thing. But the lawsuits are forcing $100+ million settlements that take any prioritization of resources out of the hands of local voters or local legislatures.

Why spend $300million on sidewalks 'right now' when other services may be more effective (e.g., on demand shuttles, etc.)

I am not trying to compare the two metrics. Getting instantly down voted for my initial comment reminded me of how that nurse acted 25 years ago.

I don't know how chem/bio pros do it, but I was trained to never include "is" in detailed descriptions only in the claims. In the description we use "may be" instead.

It still approaches zero.

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I recall during our new parent class the lecture where they were discouraging the use of pain drugs during birth because it increased the chance of a bad outcome by 2x or 4X. (I can't remember the actual value the nurse said.)

When I asked what is the actual chance of a bad outcome and what is 2x of that. She didn't know and didn't like me pointing out in front of the class that 2x was probably still pretty close to zero.

States have these registries in place already. This is just the next step.

edit-to-add: but the state registries are not de-identified.

My provider requires random urinalysis and an expansive privacy waiver. (And everything is recorded in a state registry that is available to local government agents)

In the US, it is good practice to be careful with what you say to doctors, especially about drug use because patient-doctor privacy is mostly a myth these days.

States already have similar registries that are not de-identified. Police or other local officials can review these registries almost at will. My provider requires patients to sign an expansive privacy waiver.

The US medical profession completely rolled over and sold out their patients. I can't figure out why, unless it is part of a deal to avoid being pursued or prosecuted for their part in creating the opioid crisis.

RIP democracies as we know them. Neo-feudalism is here. "You will own nothing. And be happy." Just like serfs in the middle ages.

Recently Schedule II prescriptions are reported to state or multi-state registries that local government officials including police can view at will.

My provider makes me sign an expansive privacy waiver to get my prescription. I gave up the drug for awhile because of it, I had to come crawling back and sign it.

The AMA embraces this total abdication of their responsibility to protect patient privacy. A federal registry is the natural next step.

As an attorney I cannot imagine selling out my clients the way MD's do.

It was in Washington State in the US. The shutdown order came from the Governor and was enforced by the state department of fishing and wildlife.

Now, guided fishing and fishing tours still have some reasonable restrictions but non-guided fishing and non-guided hunting are pretty much back to normal.

Strict lockdown rules were announced this past Sunday, I am not sure if they impact fishing or hunting -- it doesn't sound like it.

Recreational fishing was closed state-wide in Washington State for about a month as part of the initial lock-down. Granted it wasn't closed that long but the damage to 'follow the science' credibility was done. There were protests and public ridicule which probably led to the quick turn-around.

Also, nonsensical restrictions mixed in with reasonable restrictions in a seemingly ad hoc way have eroded trust in local leadership.

Around here, government construction projects were allowed to continue while private ones were halted. Outdoor walks encouraged, but fishing disallowed. And plenty more.

Now, indoor dining and gyms are closed again even though they are not contributing to the recent spike.

Also, don't forget the well publicized disregard of restrictions by some politicians who enacted or advocate for those same restrictions.

The giant funeral for John Lewis was a special case too. Back then funerals for little people had severe restrictions.

The number of deaths in my 2.5million pop. urban county has been 1 per day since mid-June. The number of cases has gone up and down since then till now with no variance in deaths.

At a certain point people get tired of the bullshit.

We are seeing the end of the nation state or at least its prominence.

The Army has nothing to with personal self-defense or protection of civil rights. Standing armies were the part of the motivation for the 2nd Amd.

There is plenty of 2nd Amd. scholarship that goes over all of this. Not saying you need to agree with the scholarship, but a lot of people have thought about his stuff and researched it deeply.

Gotchas statements re: "...well regulated...", cars are registered why not guns, restrict people to owning muskets, etc., are unhelpful.

Not in free states like Washington. The voters decided.

Critical race theory and its sister anti-racism reject liberalism by assigning blame, power, guilt, victimhood, privilege, etc., to individuals based on their race.

DiAngelo’s thesis [White Fragility]: All white Americans are racist. All white Americans are a product of white supremacy and are actively or unwittingly complicit in maintaining this power structure. If you say you are not racist, that is only proof that you are racist. If you believe you are not racist, same thing. Black people exist in America only to be oppressed by whites. In DiAngelo’s worldview, any progress black Americans have made is because white Americans have allowed such growth as pacifiers.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/06/peddling-the-idea-that-all-whi...

She is not alone.

The left is abandoning enlightenment principles of individualism in favor of skin color. They define people based on external features rather than their actions or thoughts. That doesn't smell like freedom to me.

Ala, I am racist because I am a white person who is not racist.

They probably still hate those conservatives though. Even now you can see the hate being directed to Blacks or Hispanics that may have voted for Trump.

"reasonable chance" -- for anything less than well fitted N95 masks "reasonable" approaches zero.

What makes you think those 500 kids came with their parents?

The entire child crusade was caused by the Obama administration unilaterally changing asylum law to allow claims that are unrelated to a claimant's home nation state actions. Until then, being from a poor crime ridden country was not a valid ground for an asylum claim in any country. During the Obama administration, an immigration judge ruled that such a claim was valid, the Obama DOJ let the ruling stand (the DOJ can overrule immigration judges).

As soon as this policy was recognized and promoted by NGOs, the flood gates opened, women and children first instead of working adults first.

Also, until then absent congress made law for special cases, one could not travel through n-number of countries until eventually reaching the one you want to claim asylum in.

Asylum is a remedy for people in danger because of state actions or state actors -- it must be made in the first reached neutral country, not four countries over because that country has better benefits.

Trump's DOJ put things back to normal.

No fences in open range areas.