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Sounds like a generic search subsequent to arrest.

Well within the law and normal.

In rural areas people often have more and closer contact with government than big city folks.

People in US rural areas are likely to personally interact with the mayor, sheriff, police chief, council members, US park service directors, US forest service directors, local or federal agriculture agency reps, public utility commissioners, water commissioners, tribal government, and so on.

And, many of these people do have direct influence on their day to day life.

Early on the Trump administration floated the idea of a point based system and they were instantly savaged for being racists and white supremacists for even suggesting such a thing.

The howls of outrage died out fairly quickly when it was pointed out that many developed countries use a point system.

Yep small companies often under estimate the value of a couple of good patents.

Spending a few million to stand up a product w/o having a few patents that might cost $50,000 each to protect the company leaves them wide open for all kinds of bad.

The trick for small companies is to have a few good patents and leverage the profit/revenue imbalance with BigCo.

When BigCo comes calling with their stack of patents demanding a license or profit share, you break out your few key patents and demand one back from them. BigCo has a lot more to lose compared to SmallCo.

SmallCo has little or no profit and little revenue so BigCo gets no money from them for patent infringement. BigCo has a bunch of money. If SmallCo has good patents BigCo will go away or make SmallCo a deal to avoid millions of dollars in damages or license fees BigCo would owe SmallCo for infringement.

IP litigators will take such cases on contingency.

If you don't have good IP you are a commodity.

The Union of States made that mistake too in 1781.

In the US, it common for local or federal RFP's (requests for proposals) to include a hard requirement that qualified vendors have done the same kind of project before. This usually excludes any new players from the game.

How many companies build large bridges, airports, subways, railroads, tunnels, etc? Not many.

It is part of the racket that discourages innovation.

Prevailing wage laws that are used in many areas. (added: private contractors must pay them if working in the government constructions projects)

https://secure.lni.wa.gov/wagelookup/ApprenticeWageLookup.as...

Many local US governments establish prevailing wage-laws that set minimum wages for construction jobs that private contractors have to abide by if they go work for the government.

https://secure.lni.wa.gov/wagelookup/ApprenticeWageLookup.as...

Local and State elections in the US are usually overwhelming dominated by larger cities and counties.

There is local representation but in many states legislative districts are allocated by population not geography so often areas with higher population density have more control.

And, State-wide elections, such as, Governor, Attorney General, state supreme court justices (where elected, such as, WA), initiatives, referendums, and so on, are often dominated by the high population centers.

Lawyers are trained to advocate for either side of a case. While they often develop a preference for staying on one side or the other, they should be able argue for either side.

When I was an 1L, some classmates were very good at arguing one side (usually the good-guy side) and then they would fall to pieces if professors asked them to advocate for the other side. Even to the point of saying there was no feasible argument for the other side.

Trial lawyers work with evidence and law. Deciding what the facts are is the business of judges or juries.

In 1789 the US made a very conscious decision to tie free movement of labor to free movement of capital within its operating zone (probably the first ever economic agreement of its kind). The US is a union of sovereign states.

You have to tell the carriers if you have coverage under more than one plan. They split bills at their discretion.

If carrier A pays a bunch of claims for you and then they learn you also have similar coverage from carrier B, carrier A may demand a reckoning.

Not reporting dual insurance coverage to the carriers would be a problem if he did not opt out of one of the employers plans completely.

Pretty sure non-competes or non-disclosure agreements used by Google and FB in the Seattle area have language that restricts one from working at Google and FB at the same time without permission from the employers.

(I haven't looked at one for a couple of years, but generally they are pretty onerous around these parts.)

I still remember my first fight, it was at school in 2d grade in Seattle. I was a new kid, a jerk jumped me right in class for touching his chair. Luckily it was harmless. I was not bullied after probably because I was not small or completely friendless even though I was shy and quiet.

The next time was in 5th grade in Texas (new kid again -- I was the weirdo from Seattle). Also harmless. We didn't even get suspended or put on detention in those days.

The next time was in the Army defending someone who was being bullied by a racist. That was scary for me because I was so angry I could have really hurt someone. Luckily, cooler heads intervened.

Growing up, I heard stories from cousins that went to public school in the Chicago area. Major fights everyday. Though they managed to stay out of harms way.

Back in Seattle, my son got suspended for play fighting in middle school (zero tolerance) but otherwise he made it out without getting into any fights -- it helped that he was/is very tall and a popular athlete.

Onetime when I picked him up after a dance there was a horrible fight where a large girl was beating the shit out of a smaller girl with 100s of kids whooping it up around them. Crazy time.

Plenty of more stories from his time in bad schools in South Seattle. Scenes out of a movie bad. Most people can't imagine the out-control violent environment that exists in some US public schools. Even in cities like Seattle.

I can't imagine how bad it could be for kids forced to go to bad schools in big cities like Baltimore, Philly, Chicago, LA, DC, and such.

The expansion of the scope of public schooling to include mitigating a broad range of social problems reminds me of how US police have been forced to deal with social issues that they are not really equipped to handle, such as, mental health, child welfare, drug addiction, other poverty adjacent problems, or the like.

There should be another agency directed to dealing with these out-of-scope issues. Because actual education efforts and funding gets diverted to dealing with the social issues rather than providing education.

School districts around Seattle often provide meal programs over the summer breaks too. Breakfast and Lunch.

Keeping my dumb 1080p 60" plasma LG forever.

Basic cable box (used rarely), roku, and PS4 provide plenty of "smarts" for me.

I have 5-gallon cans, holding them high enough to use a funnel with a car would be very difficult or hard to control.

I am about to try siphoning.

I hate those, I spill gas everywhere when trying use them. I have seen Youtubers, etc. showing DIY mods to disable the spill spouts.

I wonder when creators will start suing people who make vexatious claims against their content.

Taiwan seemed to sort things out eventually.

The CCP conquered the Chinese people.

China is as bad as it ever was. The people of China have not had any redress. The CCP is doing fine though.

And not everyone can vote. As a casual but everyday user, I was issued mod points one time in over 20 years. (Though lately I rarely read or comment there anymore.)

Rachel Maddow is the queen of the fake news. Come on Man!

Obama set a precedent for that type of executive. Following a growing trend as the congress has become so bi-polar.

Nonsense. The entire basis of the US government is the dual sovereignty of States and the Federal government.

What slavery? 2020 is bad but it isn't that bad.

Legislative leadership at all levels of US government often do not allow hearings, floor debates, or floor votes when they know the issue will fail.