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Cancer can and has been detected through odors by dogs.

Seems like that would be a much better use of this technology than would be just telling you if you stink.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04...

https://money.cnn.com/1997/10/...

The father of the child who died has no complaints about the treatment she received. Revived multiple times, air-lifted to a hospital. I guess that is murder to you? You're sick.

Well, if Trump hadn't very publicly sent troops to the border, talked about allowing the US troops to use live ammunition against unarmed civilians (and no, a rock is notequivalent to a gun), and generally made conditions at the border so hostile that it is driving people to cross illegally at the most inhospitable and dangerous areas of the border she wouldn't have needed medical treatment in the first place. Yes, I know the troops had logistical roles only, but most people would not see it that way (I also take offense to deploying active duty military personnel domestically in what amounted to a political stunt).

A lot of people hate illegal immigration and illegal immigrants. I agree it's not the right way to come here, but I take it as a compliment. People are willing to travel thousands of miles, use up all their savings, cross what amounts to war zones, and risk not only their lives but the lives of their children to come here, because America is so much better, so much safer than where they come from. That's what this country was founded on, yet a significant portion of our country wants to stop them and the only way they can think of to do it make America just as bad as the places these immigrants are fleeing. We should celebrate the fact that America is still seen as a place of hope and opportunity. Because if and when people stop wanting and trying to come here we might not like what America has turned into.

The father of the child who died has no complaints about the treatment she received. Revived multiple times, air-lifted to a hospital. I guess that is murder to you? You're sick.

obligatory references https://www.justice.gov/atr/us... and https://money.cnn.com/2002/01/...

Yeah, but they don't want suicides clogging the phone lines and blocking "actual" emergencies. That's what they're trying to say by creating a separate hotline.

But that's the situation already.

If you dial 911 to report being suicidal, they transfer you to the suicide prevention hotline.
The 911 line is "blocked" all of 30 seconds.

And before you say that's 30 seconds too many, don't forget that providing a direct number for suicide would have no effect on the massive amount of other calls that do and will continue to block up 911 resources. Such as:

Nearly half of 911 calls being accidental, a good part of which are butt dials
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05...

Drug dealers calling 911 to report their drugs being stolen
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sel...

And people calling 911 because McDonalds ran out of chicken nuggets
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13...

Compared to such things I have a hard time believing anyone at a 911 call center would complain more about having to redirect a call to a suicide hotline.

Yeah, but they don't want suicides clogging the phone lines and blocking "actual" emergencies. That's what they're trying to say by creating a separate hotline.

But that's the situation already.

If you dial 911 to report being suicidal, they transfer you to the suicide prevention hotline.
The 911 line is "blocked" all of 30 seconds.

And before you say that's 30 seconds too many, don't forget that providing a direct number for suicide would have no effect on the massive amount of other calls that do and will continue to block up 911 resources. Such as:

Nearly half of 911 calls being accidental, a good part of which are butt dials
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05...

Drug dealers calling 911 to report their drugs being stolen
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sel...

And people calling 911 because McDonalds ran out of chicken nuggets
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13...

Compared to such things I have a hard time believing anyone at a 911 call center would complain more about having to redirect a call to a suicide hotline.

Like cement, for example?

At least for the bottled water part. Maybe this will push some people to use a filter (where necessary, Flint I'm looking at you) and just begin to reduce the amount of plastic in our toilet...I mean the Pacific ocean.

Not sure how much its improved but Flint was waaay past end-consumer water filters at the worst.

The plastics waste in the Pacific is due more to Asian countries than the US: https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06...

Or, you could simply use another unknown technology, Google, type in 'x-tracer 100 mpg' and get a whole host of links at your disposal, like this one.

Lazy, much?

....with a f*cked up primary system that allows the final ballot to only have Democrats.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2...

California has a “jungle primary” system in which the top two vote-getters in the primary face off in the general election, regardless of party.

Because a party can't put up a decent enough candidate that enough voters will vote for to get past the primary isn't a problem caused by the system, it's a problem caused by the party picking shit candidates that don't reflect the will of the people voting for them.

Huawei CFO facing extradition to US granted bail

By Julia Horowitz, Alberto Moya and Scott McLean, CNN Business

Updated 7:08 PM ET, Tue December 11, 2018

Vancouver, Canada (CNN Business)The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been granted a $10 million ($7.5 million USD) bail, a judge in Canada ruled Tuesday.

Meng Wanzhou faces extradition to the United States, which has accused her of helping Huawei dodge sanctions on Iran. She was arrested December 1 in Canada during a layover at Vancouver International Airport.

As a condition of her release, Meng has agreed to surrender her passports and live in one of her homes in Vancouver. She will also pay for a 24-7 security detail and wear a GPS ankle bracelet.

Tuesday's decision came three days into a hearing for Meng, who is a prominent executive at one of the world's biggest makers of smartphones and networking equipment.

Meng's attorney, David Martin, argued that she should be released on bail while she waits for an extradition hearing because of health concerns. Meng has severe hypertension, for which she was hospitalized after her arrest.

At issue in court was whether Meng posed a flight risk. Martin said she did not, since her ties to Vancouver go back 15 years and she has two homes in the area. Leaving Canada would also embarrass her personally, and would humiliate her father, Huawei and China itself, Martin said.

On Tuesday, Meng's legal team proposed that the terms of her release could include financial pledges from people in Canada who know her, such as a realtor and insurance agent. Together they pledged more than $3 million ($2.2 million USD) in home equity and cash, which they'd owe if Meng flees. Her husband also offered to put up the couple's two houses in Vancouver.

The judge agreed to those terms. Of Meng's $10 million bail, $3 million of that is pledged by her sureties. The other $7 million ($5.2 million USD) is a cash deposit from Meng.

Tuesday's decision could help ease tensions between Washington and Beijing as the two sides try to negotiate an end to their bruising trade war. Her arrest had been met with consternation from Chinese officials. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said over the weekend that it had summoned both US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad and Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum to address Meng's detention, which it described as "lawless, reasonless and ruthless."

President Donald Trump said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that he would intervene in the Meng case if he thought it was "good for the country." "If I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made -— which is a very important thing — what's good for national security — I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary," Trump told Reuters.

Meng, 46, is the daughter of Huawei's founder. In addition to her role as CFO, she serves as deputy chairperson of the company's board. Huawei said in a statement that the company has "every confidence that the Canadian and US legal systems will reach a just conclusion" in the case. The company reiterated that follows all the laws and regulations where it operates.

The United States alleges that Meng helped Huawei get around US sanctions on Iran by telling financial institutions such as HSBC that a Huawei subsidiary, Skycom, was a separate and unaffiliated company.

The US Justice Department has declined to comment on the case. Meng faces "serious charges of fraud involving millions of dollars" in the United States, according to the affidavit of a Canadian law enforcement official. She could receive substantial jail time if convicted, the statement said.

The process of approving or denying Meng's extradition is expected to take months. Meng is due back in court February 6.

Who spreads this nonsense? There aren't people being killed or maimed in the US for racist nonsense.

Really?

Really?!

Ever seen a Tesla battery pack go up in flames?

Not with my own eyes, no. And according to the data neither have you. I have however seen literally dozens of gasoline powered cars burning by the side of the road over the last half century however with my own eyes and there were about 174,000 vehicle fires in the US in 2015 versus 40 total Teslas ever.

The reason why fat people find it so hard to lose weight and keep it off is that the body fights them. When they cut down their calorie intake it goes into starvation mode. They feel tried all the time and it reduces burn to a minimum, which ends up meaning they need to diet extremely aggressively to get anywhere and will likely be unable to keep the weight off. 1500 calories/day is neither healthy nor sustainable, but in starvation mode that's what they need to achieve.

Bullshit. "Starvation mode" doesn't exist, straight up*. What does happen is that you need fewer calories as you lose weight, because fat (like every other cell in your body) consumes energy: less fat means less energy consumed. The idea that your body can miraculously can metabolic efficiency just because you've lost some weight is garbage that makes absolutely no sense: our bodies have had literally millions of years of evolution to become basically as efficient as it's possible for a biological organism to become. And in fact meta-analysis of studies have found that in fact the energy consumption after weight loss behaves exactly as expected. Yes, you can find individual studies that look at a dozen participants that find "metabolic adaptation" (such as the Biggest Loser study you link to elsewhere), but that's because if you perform enough studies of a topic, some of them will show what you want. In the case of that study, for example, the error bars on the measurement of the resting metabolic rate are nearly as big as the "effect".

As an aside: it's very well known that the Biggest Loser competitors lost weight in a horribly unhealthy and unsustainable fashion, essentially going on a crash diet with heavy exercise to lose weight rapidly, instead of being taught to moderate their intake and lose weight over a longer period (this article has more information, as well as tons of links to studies about metabolic adaptation and weight loss). You can lose weight like that (like a Scottish man who lost 276 lbs of weight doing that), but it's unhealthy and can even be dangerous.

Also, 1500 calories/day is perfectly healthy and sustainable for extended times (how long depends on your height, weight, and level of physical activity: a tall physically active man should usually eat more, a short sedentary woman probably needs to eat even less just to maintain a healthy weight). It doesn't even really matter how you get those calories (as long as you make sure you get enough micronutrients): you can lose weight eating mostly Twinkies and Hostess cakes.

*Note that once someone starts actually starving, your body will start consuming and shutting down internal organs, which could be called "starvation mode". But that doesn't happen until you reach basically 0% body fat and 0% lean muscle. But unless you literally have no access to food for a month or so, or are working in a force labor camp on 500 calories a day, that's not happening to you. Actual starvation looks like this. Skipping your daily venti mocha frappachino? Not even close to starvation.

ya, storm damage isn't a thing at all...: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/da...

that was something like 80% Dem went the completely opposite direction. e.g. one of the Gerrymandered districts full of Democrats somehow flipped completely blue. And even with all that the Republican still only won by 965 votes...

It's pretty brazen election fraud, but it's usually up to the Fed to move in and fix that sort of thing, which given the current administration I don't see happening...

At least CNN finally covered it. Albeit with a wishy washy opinion piece.

from a much bigger story going on right now. Compared to what's going on with our foreign policy (and the ramifications that has for an Administration that continues to ignore intelligence in favor of money) this isn't even small potatoes...

If they're such idiots, how'd they get China to back down?

But China didn't back down - at least not yet. At the moment it's all words, and even those don't appear to address the most important issues: mandatory Chinese majority ownership for companies trying to trade in China, mandatory transfer of intellectual property to the Chinese part and complete lack of enforcement of intellectual property laws against copycat Chinese companies. I reserve my judgement on the matter until I see concrete results - especially on those issues.

This is a pattern for Trump. He comes in all blustery, calls various dictators and criminals "good guys", gets a bunch of mostly empty promises or some meaningless changes, then boasts on Twitter about his amazing successes and drops the issue. He has no followup, and no attention span. See North Korea. He got a bunch of words, preened before the cameras, agreed to cancel the South Korea-USA joint exercises, then forgot the whole thing. In the meantime, North Korea has dismantled their old nuclear testing site at Punggye-ri (which was due for closing anyway), then got right back at their tricks. North Korea cancelled the November 7 meeting with Pompeo, and now got the USA to agree not to require a complete list of nuclear weapons and missile sites from North Korea prior to next year's summit (according to Mike Pence's Nov 15 interview with NBC). I believe there is a high chance that the China thing will go the same way.

China agrees to buy more US agriculture products. China agrees to make Fentanyl a controlled substance. China agrees to negotiate on forced technology transfer. Yeah, China won on everything, for just a 90 day stay, didn't they?

Waymo's director of 'self driving' cars recently said in an interview that 'level 5 self driving cars are impossible.'

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21...

The money quote: 'But L5 is impossible, said Krafcik.'

You're taking that quote out of context. Read on and he clearly says that self-driving cars *are* going to be doing a lot of fully-automated driving, with no human involvement. The snippet you quoted is merely him trying to reassure the journalist that there will always be some place for human driving, some sorts of specialized driving that computers won't be trained to do. I suppose that makes sense; there is a lot of specialized driving that very few human drivers can do either.

The article goes on to point out that self-driving cars will initially "operate in designated areas on familiar roads", and then widen those areas, diminishing the need for human driving. This is obvious. It makes perfect sense to start in the most controlled conditions and then gradually widen the scope as experience is gained and problems are solved.

Waymo's director of 'self driving' cars recently said in an interview that 'level 5 self driving cars are impossible.'

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21...

The money quote: 'But L5 is impossible, said Krafcik.'

It's not about direct competition, it's about who is spending the money. With Microsoft, a huge portion of their revenue comes from companies who have to spend the money to make money. It's just another cost of business, when the next market downturn happens, they'll lose companies that go bankrupt, but the rest of their customers will still have to spend to use their computers. Now, I was just reading an article on with an analyst who is thinking along the same lines as myself:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/28...

Apple on the other hand depends largely upon people's disposable incomes. If I'm somebody who makes 200k, the extra cost of buying Apple products isn't much of a consideration on what I'm buying, I'll choose based on device control, ease of use, image, features, etc. But somebody who makes 30k a year, maybe they decide to by a $50 instead of a $1000 iPhone. Unfortunately for Apple, when recessions hit, the people who are hit hardest are often people who make more money. Teachers, nurses, firefighters, etc are not laid off at near the rate of high earners in corporations that cut upper management, and commissioned sales people have a more difficult time closing deals as money becomes scarce.

So, when the next crisis happens in the markets, possibly when the next recession starts, probably due to the Fed raising rates and pulling money out of the markets through a reverse quantitative easing, Apple is likely to be harder hit with lost sales. I'm not against Apple, I'm just saying that business wise, their eggs are in a basket that's going to be harder hit by recession. I have no idea who will be ahead 5, 10 or 20 years from now. If I knew that, I'd put my money where my mouth is and invest accordingly. But I'm not certain, and that's not a risk I want to take on either company right now.

...can cost several years of income. How are you supposed to plan for that?

One complaint sent to the Michigan insurance office says a family flew a dying relative home after he got sick in Arizona. To get him to a hospice in Michigan cost $547,725.

In the past, a single house hold earner could provide for a family. Now it takes two.

What's changed? THAT'S what we need to look at.

I suspect it will be a mix of increased costs due to:

Government regulations and their impact on manufacturers.
Industry practices...required because they can. fees surcharges, penalties, etc.
Increased consumer materialism. You HAVE to have the big screen TV, you HAVE to have that 4 wheeler, new car, etc.

You're mostly wrong - since the 1970's, inflation has increased at a steady rate, but wages haven't kept up; in fact, real wages have been decreasing over the past few years, while inflation has continued to grow.

So the question you should be asking is, "Why haven't wages grown along with inflation?" and the simple answer can be found in the CEO wage gap and greedy shareholders only concerned about short-term financial gain for themselves, consequences be damned.

Also, the tax code is really stealing from the rich to appease the poor. When you look at how much the rich pay in taxes, it turns out that they pay MORE of the taxes than the poor do, with the top few percent paying over half of all taxes collected.

It's actually stealing from the middle class. The top few percent make most of their income from capital gains, paying a lower tax rate (or in some cases, they are able to pay 0%).

For citations, see Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Is that fair?

Billionaires avoid paying taxes by borrowing. You, my friend, pay much more in taxes than many rich people.

GM has been making cars & trucks for a long time.

They don't seem particularly good at it (in terms of quality or price).

Not to mention safety. Any car can have safety defects - issue a recall and fix the problem. But not GM. GM cracks down on whistleblowers and makes them suffer.

Current GM employees know the score - don't mention these kinds of problems and you won't be fired (at least for now).

https://www.theverge.com/2014/...

https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26...

- 2 Supreme Court justices and dozens of lower court judges

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24...

When you place party above country, like the GOP regularly does, unprecedented things can happen. Those things don't tend to be good for the country. Mitch McConnell should be considered an insurgent undermining the US. Worthless shits like you might like living in a banana republic, but you are as much an enemy of this country as anyone else trying to destroy its government and people.

No, all it takes is a nurse with political ties to be allowed back in the country for no good reason.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/29...

If Ivanka was only the president's daughter it wouldn't be a problem. The problem arises from the fact that she is an official government employee as an unpaid WH advisor.

"I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the President in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules, and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees," Ivanka Trump said in a statement. "Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role."

https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29...

So yes you are correct that " President's Daughter is not an official position" but she does have an official position as an unpaid government employee.

Clinton's server was, assuming it was configured competently, secure.

It was more than just configured competently, she had security pros running the whole operation. Of all the email systems in the news, her's is the only one for which there is no evidence it was ever hacked. And you know that if her stuff was hacked, that shit would be leaked everywhere. The state dept's own email system was massively pwned.

How come they never let the FBI examine the the server

FBI: DNC rebuffed request to examine computer servers
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05...

Kinda hard to get your golden showers when the woman is wearing Depends, ain't it? No wonder he despises her. Wow, Donald really does love everything about gold, doesn't he?

Fucking uncouth pig. What kind of pussy-whipped election loser has to be told by his wife which staff members he should fire?

Funny to see him so fucking embarrassed . You'd think that would teach that orange little bitch a lesson about taking the US Presidency seriously. You fuck with the citizens of the US, and we'll definitely fuck you up. Unfortunately, Trump is too stupid to learn that lesson. He keeps trying to plow forward.

Sad.

I don't care about barber shops. I'm bald.

What I do care about are the additional 2 House seats that we just flipped. Splooooooooooooosh!!!! Surfin' in big blue wave, baby.

Oh, and this is always nice, too. I love seeing that piece of shit TOTALLY INFURIATED!!! . It puts a big goddamn smile on my face. YMMV.

I wonder why Faux-"News" isn't reporting on it. I'm beginning to think their reporting is biased.

P.S. - Thank god for Jeff Flake!!

...software that monitors usage...and that could send an alert or disable the app after so many minutes.

I've never tried this feature, and it doesn't sound like it has everything you're looking for, but it's something.

What I'm saying is that 45 could at least bring the tragedy up, tell the people of Paradise that their country will do what they can to help... in times of devastation it is comforting to know that a leader is taking time to at least ACKNOWLEDGE what's going on. He is not, and has not.

Well, maybe that's fair. Obama did: https://www.chicagotribune.com...

Donald, on the other hand, seems to be more interested in cancelling regulations: https://observer.com/2017/10/t...
He is tweeting, though! He says environmental laws are the problem! https://newrepublic.com/articl... But environmental laws are not the problem https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07...
He says that water is the problem! https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07... Although turns out water is not the problem: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

What I'm saying is that 45 could at least bring the tragedy up, tell the people of Paradise that their country will do what they can to help... in times of devastation it is comforting to know that a leader is taking time to at least ACKNOWLEDGE what's going on. He is not, and has not.

Well, maybe that's fair. Obama did: https://www.chicagotribune.com...

Donald, on the other hand, seems to be more interested in cancelling regulations: https://observer.com/2017/10/t...
He is tweeting, though! He says environmental laws are the problem! https://newrepublic.com/articl... But environmental laws are not the problem https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07...
He says that water is the problem! https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07... Although turns out water is not the problem: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

and tastes sweet as well

If you claim you can't tell the difference between antifa and Democrats, you're obviously both trolling, and an asshole.

Really ?

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. We've got to get the children connected to their parents," -- Maxine Waters

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25...

We owe the American people to be there for them, for their financial security, respecting the dignity and worth of every person in our country, and if there is some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it, -- Nancy Pelosi

https://www.washingtontimes.co...

"Its illegal to show someone your ballot"

Wrong. See https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02...

Its illegal to take pictures of your ballot or polling places in some states.

I still don't understand how multiple headquarters is supposed to work. The purpose of a headquarters is to have a place to get ideas in front of the decision maker. Is Bezos going to spend a week each month at each location?

If he isn't there, it isn't really headquarters. It sounds to me like a giant grift for taxpayer money.

I've seen similar stunts in the past.

what happened to the constitutional guarantee of a trial?

IANAL, but I doubt, enemy combatants are covered by that guarantee — certainly not if they are outside of the US proper. And what crime would you accuse them of?

Why is that not an option?

I don't know. But, as the already-cited case of Somali pirates shows, it is not — and not only in the case of the blood-thirsty AmeriKKKan goon$, but for the gentle Canadians and enlightened Europeans as well...

Why don't you stop blaming America for a second, and direct your query to the Canadian, Spanish, and French governments? Whatever they tell you about trying pirates will apply to trying the Guantanamo inmates as well. And as long as are contacting all these nice, benevolent non-American governments, be sure to ask India, why their Navy never bothered to look for survivors of its "battle" with "pirates" 10 years ago.

What's with this false dilemma idiocy?

It is a trilemma, and it is very real:

1. Kill them.
2. Let them go.
3. Detain them

Bush chose the third. Obama — in his Nobel Peace Prize winner's mercy — the first. Would you pick the second? Let the guys, who've just engaged you in a firefight, go?

You can't find a better alternative to the suspected teriirst?

No, I can't. Nobody has so far — Somali pirates are let go, because there is no fourth choice...

(Further anonymous replies will be ignored.)

I doubt if the scientists at Apeel said "no chemicals". They may have said "no artificial chemicals" and the journalist (she has a degree in religious studies) rephrased it into nonsense.

Yes, like this one... oh sorry, it pointed at the wrong direction.

same as this. He's riling his base so they'll go vote.

What pissed me off is the way he's doing is divides the nation and encourages violence. Meanwhile he's cutting programs to fight domestic terror which just so happens to come mostly from the right.

As they say on Fark, screw this timeline.

same as this. He's riling his base so they'll go vote.

What pissed me off is the way he's doing is divides the nation and encourages violence. Meanwhile he's cutting programs to fight domestic terror which just so happens to come mostly from the right.

As they say on Fark, screw this timeline.

Clearly your knowledge is even less then the poster you are responding to as there have been many documented cases of this:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/...

High pressure containers are dangerous.. and there is more to scuba then air pressure and dive time..

Sure wish that you guys would do something about your corrupt system, didn't see the party that brought free trade to you getting wiped out

The Democrats ? NAFTA came in 1994 Clinton was president and he had a Democratic controlled congress. Now they are reduced to having people scream at congress while covering themselves in menstrual blood and other crazy people to try and achieve their goals. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05...