The mail-in-ballots for the U.S. military traditionally doesn't work fine. There is a bill that has been proposed to fix the problems. The Counting All Military Votes Act has been proposed...

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr5840/text

It hasn't been in acted yet which is just odd why this wouldn't be approved right away.

The problem isn't the mask. The problem is in all of the mandates this one should have been first except it was last and no matter how smart it could be to wear one it was the straw that broke the camels back. You have governors who suspended rights guaranteed by the U.S constitution but they did it out of the desire to protect the citizens. The US government also stopped evictions, which is a good thing but those landlords have bills to pay and they are deprived of their property and that's a violation too. This is not how it's supposed to work. There is a right way to go about things and a wrong way and saying "but the pandemic" doesn't make it the right way. As a kicker to declare it is OK to go protest depending on what you are protesting just compounds the problem. This all wears on people, especially those who are concerned about rights. I guess you can say that 10% of the Democrats and 42% of the Republicans just fed up with rights being trampled on. Some probably wear their mask and just are telling the pollsters they aren't to show their displeasure.

I've wondered about UV light myself for years. Turns out it was being used and with success in the 1940's. Then antibiotics showed up.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/

Interesting.

Peter Daszak, their source has worked with Zhengli Shi of the Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=author:%22Peter+Daszak%22+author:%22Shi+Zhengli%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

Not that it matters but for full disclosure it does.

If you want a good chance to identify a pentester you look for three things.

1. Wearing a backpack.
2. Both arms through the straps.
3. The backpack is Swissgear.

Sure I know others wear those but it's a giveaway in my experience. Doesn't hurt to vigilant.

Just a little joke... On topic....

There was a scientist one time, and he went to talk to God and he says, "God, we can now clone humans, make life, and take care of ourselves and we don't need you anymore."

God laughed and said: "You think? So show me, how you can make humans and life!"

The scientist agreed, reached down, grabbed a full hand of soil to start making his human, when God promptly stops him and says, "Whoa not so fast, use your own dirt."

Like Star Wars Galaxies....

Good point on a better target and less of a compelling fight...

I may be totally wrong on this too, my knowledge about patents is very very far complete. I was taught just some basic stuff and would love to know if I'm on the right track. I can't believe someone would go ahead with law suits if it was this obvious so I must be missing something.

Not a patent lawyer, or any type of lawyer. I did get into reading patents for a while. The thing with a patent is the parent claims. You need to be on target with those and if your thing doesn't fit then it doesn't apply...

This patent doesn't hold up well against Uber or Lyft very well from what I can gather.

I won't put the patent itself here - just what I think won't hold up.

In claim 1:

A - Invoices are not periodic they are instant.
B - Communication is not done with the vehicle but the driver of the vehicle.
under the wherein clause...
      D - You don't get to operate the vehicle.

Claim 2:

A - Invoices are not periodic they are instant.
B - Communication is not done with the vehicle but the driver of the vehicle. Drive may not be in the vehicle when the message is delivered. His claim is with the vehicle.

Claim 3:

A - Invoices are not periodic they are instant.
B - Communication is not done with the vehicle but the driver of the vehicle.

Claim 4:

A - Uber and Lyft are not car rental companies. Time doesn't expire either...
B - Uber and Lyft are not car rental companies.

Claim 6:

A - Invoices are not periodic they are instant.
B - Communication is not done with the vehicle but the driver of the vehicle. Drive may not be in the vehicle when the message is delivered. His claim is with the vehicle.

So every claim is probably not applicable to Uber and Lyft as it only takes one part of a claim that isn't applicable to make the whole claim not applicable. Only the parent claims count too as the child claims, like 5, rely on the parent being held up.

Should be a no brainer for the defense against this.

"Going against a long Boeing tradition of giving the pilot complete control of the aircraft, the MAX's new MCAS automatic flight control system was designed to act in the background, without pilot input"

Often old and simpler is far better....

Remember being called an LPB back in the day?
   

Considering they had to fight for access to the utility poles I guess this was the other option.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161101/08481735932/fcc-lends-support-to-google-fiber-louisville-fight-to-access-att-utility-poles.shtml

I don't know if that really was the result or not but the incumbents tend to fight tooth and nail to stop access in more ways than just that.

It is also said to help lessen the effects of PTSD as reported previously on slashdot.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/03/29/163238/playing-tetris-can-reduce-onset-of-ptsd-after-trauma-study-finds

They can listen in on anyone. Think about those ramifications.

Workers can also cross over bridges without getting spooked.