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I agree with everything you say here.

At least in the State of WA, I think prosecutors have qualified immunity and can be sued or charged for Brady violations.

I think one of the biggest 'frauds' is the churn in the lower courts. It often seems like judges, clerks, public defenders, and prosecutors are pretending they are doing something helpful or important while the repeat defendants think of the whole situation as a joke.

I get a kick out of seeing judges sternly reprimanding attorneys or defendants for being 10 minutes late to the start of a cattle call hearing while they must know the entire enterprise is meaningless kabuki theater.

Here is the State of Washington's wolf management portal. Lots of good information here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-recover...

Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Grazing (Leasing/Contracts) https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/product-sales-a...

Some Indian tribes (maybe just the Colville Confederated Tribes) have their own rules for range area management but they are similar to WA state rules.

I lived in NE WA and still have property there (working our way back out there). The hubris and ignorance displayed by many wolf management critics often knows no bounds. They are often completely unaware of how range land is priced and managed nor how the wolf management program works.

However, with all the concern expressed for the gray wolf, I have yet to see wolves re-introduced into the many acres of protected greenspace on the west side of the state.

I am sure the western side the Cascades can use more wolves to cut down the deer overpopulation and coyotes.

The adversarial system used in US courts assumes the other side will discover such frauds and bring them to the attention of the court.

I think the frauds that appear to be legal but do not actually involve courts are where more harm is. These are the scams asking people to pay fines or else.

Pretty sure the NY Post did not post raw data dumps of the laptops. Though many people on the left were clamoring for them to dump all the data to enable the emails to be verified.

Also, many used the absence of raw data to cast doubt on the authenticity of the information released by the NY Post.

But there is no evidence anything was hacked.

It is pretty clear Apple doesn't think it is your computer. Similar to how they feel about their phones that they let people use.

edit-to-add: further evidenced by Apple's stance on right-to-repair.

In the olden days before the AIA (America Invents Act) US Provisional applications provided inventors proof of invention. Back then proof of invention would establish the presumptive priority date for the whole invention. The details could be fleshed out in the subsequent filed non-provisional application.

After the AIA, the so-called first-to-file rule took effect where priority date is set based on the date you file the first application (provisional or non-provisional). But for a few exceptions, the first to file wins, first to invent does not apply anymore.

Now, US Provisional patent applications only protect the subject matter that is in the fours corners of the document. The only time we file provisional applications now, is if it there is a bar date emergency or the inventors have not had time to approve the draft non-provisional application before the bar date.

Courts are well practiced at sorting these kinds of things out. They would review the content, presentation, targeting, etc. of the emails to determine if it is commercial speech or political speech.

If the spam is commercial speech it can be subjected to significant regulation as long as the regulation is viewpoint neutral the same as other commercial speech.

Unhinged entertainers is one thing, but it gets pretty scary when similar language is coming elected officials.

"A county prosecutor has again denigrated constituents, this time with the alarming claim that we must “cleanse society” of the “diseased thinking” of Trump supporters."

https://mynorthwest.com/2231869/rantz-county-prosecutor-clea...

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/a-prosecutors-anti-trump-post...

60 Minutes 2 aired a slanderous story about George Bush based on documents they knew were unverified.

And, the timing is not suspicious it is politics.

No one was hacked. The repair shop owned the laptop after it was abandoned.

Not too mention The 1619 Project.

I don't agree with you at all (though I don't think you deserve down votes but that is how goes around here now - I up voted).

I have raised high talent children (1 boy and 2 girls). My girls thrived in school while my boy did not. They are all equally brilliant and talented in their own way.

My son was on elite traveling basketball teams, all star baseball teams, and earned a podium medal for track at state. He hated school and failed to get his diploma -- one credit short. (He made it up later at a community college.) He excelled as an US Army Ranger in a high-skill combat role with the Rangers (fire support specialist).

He was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, but I didn't believe in such a thing back then. (I believe it now given my late diagnosis and ongoing treatment and struggles.)

I hated school too what a boring nightmare. I still feel guilty about taking my son to school when he was 6 years-old and begging me to let him hang out with me instead.

That memory will always be a record of one of my greatest regrets and failures.

Different countries of origin are subject to different scrutiny standards based on the demand to immigrate to the US, the amount of fraud or corruption in the origin country, and the level of illegal immigration or overstays from a given country of origin.

It is illegal in the US consider race as a criteria for issuing visas.

Canada is different, not easier.

The absence of Cisco winning infringement lawsuits or settlements with Zoom would suggest there was no IP theft.

Many founders split from established companies because the established company disregard or dismiss their product ideas.

An idea is not IP.

I am confident that an interface standard could be developed to allow some level of identity portability. Supporting such an interface would be rolled into the myriad other compliance requirements that tech service providers have to deal with these days. (A natural part of being in a maturing consumer facing industry.)

Cellphone carriers argued that number portability was too hard or too expensive.

"But cell phone companies argue counter that the idea of portability should be scrapped because customers aren’t demanding it. They argue that implementing portability, which involves retooling the software of each carrier’s computerized call-routing system, would be expensive and technically complicated.

“The cost to be able to move numbers from one carrier to the other is significant, and it would be significant for the customer too,” said John Scott, deputy general counsel for Verizon Wireless. “Our argument is that it’s not necessary to promote competition.”

Carriers Aim to Kill Number Portability - 2002

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-16-fi-cell1...

Cell service providers had to do it. It wasn't that long ago in the US when you couldn't take your cell phone number to a different provider.

Facebook, et al, could provide restricted APIs that let another authorized service gain access to your information via your user identifier. I imagine they provide partial access for favored partners already.

Prolly Type 2 Diabetes which can be "cured" by making a major lifestyle changes.

I know a few people who have went to certified Wim Hof training weekends. Doesn't sound like my cup of tea.

It is pretty easy with Amazon Prime or Apple TV to cycle through streaming services or pay channels often with free or cheap specials.

That is my current plan, no more than two paid subscriptions at any time with Amazon Prime being one of them. However, 12+ mos ago we canceled Netflix with the intention of signing up for a HBO product for awhile. That was the plan anyway. We haven't yet signed up for a second service.

It helps that whenever the kids are home we binge on whatever during the holidays because they have "shared" accounts with almost all services.

edit-to-add: we have basic cable because bundling it with internet saves us a dollar.

The article author is having fun. Kinda of like how hyper-milers were working so hard to minimize their gas use when Toyota Prius were all the rage.

I could not imagine raising my kids in an apartment, it sounds like a nightmare to me. We lived the American suburb lifestyle you described. I loved every minute of it while it lasted.

Preppers do what they because it is fun for them. This is same thing that drives the author. It is fun for him and his family.

We have a decent sized yard, and my right now my wife is planting a fig tree because that is fun for her.

Local police and sheriffs will partner with Feds in so-called task forces to get around these limitations.

That is what local police in Washington State do to get around the state's long standing restrictions on wire-tapping.

Sometimes they are used to breach walls of buildings to provide alternative entry points. They also are useful for providing bulletproof cover when a SWAT breaching/entry team is approach a building.

Though a department doesn't need many. And, they could be shared within a county or metro area rather than every department having their own.

Police rarely use revolvers these days for numerous reasons (e.g., safety, training difficulty, efficacy, and so on).

"NBC 5 checked with more than 114 police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Out of 79 responses, it was discovered only one Plano officer still carried a revolver."

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/last-revolvers-retired-as-...

US police need more funding and more training. Much more training. Even if some of their social service responsibilities are moved to civilian agencies, the police would still need more funding for training.

US Army Rangers which are only responsible for a fraction of what civilian police are responsible for usually deploy 3 months and train 9 months out of a year. When they don't deploy, they train 12 months out of the year.

In contrast, even though they have more duties than Army Rangers, US police hardly train at all after they leave their law enforcement academy and yet we demand perfection from them in all of their responsibilities.

The use of military surplus material could be restricted to SWAT or other special circumstances. But then the police departments would have to buy expensive purpose-built equipment rather than use cheaper/free milspec equipment.

Continuing to underfund the police will force them to cut training, seek low-cost sources of equipment (military surplus), and reduce their ability to investigate crimes.

There would be increased costs up the whole supply chain -- all passed up to restaurants.

There are often more restrictive laws against weapons that are not firearms because the 2nd amendment has been held to concern firearms, not weapons in general.

E.g., in Seattle any fixed blade is illegal to carry. Even chefs have to take special precaution if they want to carry their knives to and from work. Same for hunters/fishermen (fillet knives) heading to or from the wild.

In Oregon (and probably most states), it is illegal conceal most knives, except pocket knives.

Often, the same laws restricting knives cover brass knuckles, clubs, etc.

"any person who carries concealed upon the person any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slungshot, metal knuckles, or any similar instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person, commits a Class B misdemeanor" https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.240