Actually the police do (other than the going to work part).

Actually they don't. I have Spotify fully disconnected from Facebook.

What? There are two choices. The woman carries the child to term or she doesn't. If a woman is pregnant, the only choice other than abortion is to carry the child to term, unless you count an unintended miscarriage as a choice, which, if unintended, it could not be. ...wait, are you thinking of that DS9 episode where Bashir transplants Keiko's baby into Kira? You know that's not real, right?

I can understand why, but I think you're mistaking the DoJ for the DoE, which, apparently, does have some problems with spelling education it needs to work out.

Since you want to bring up pharoahs and kings, we might as well bring Romans into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso Pretty much all of the things listed in this clip are things your government provides, not your free market, and they are paid for with tax money. The free market did not give you roads, sanitation, regulated utilities, education, the order of law, etc. It gave you wine though, you've got that at least. Although it'd be hard to produce or purchase the wine without the roads, sanitation, regulated utilities, education, order of law, etc.

If qmaqdk doesn't know what the scientific community has to say about climate change already, he probably hasn't even met Google, much less made friends with it.

I was surprised, for a minute, to see all these Slashdotters sarcastically pretending this is proof of global climate change, or forgoing the sarcasm and outright denying it entirely. Then I remembered that, despite Slashdot readers being generally accepting of, and, in many cases, even excited about science, they also tend to be generally libertarian in their politics, which means denying ideas widely held by entire scientific and academic communities if it might lead to more gub'mint.

You must be new to America.

A standard cup of coffee has about 100mg of Caffeine, whereas a can of Mountain Dew has about 55mg. http://coffeefaq.com/site/how-much-caffeine

Interest on students loans is federally subsidized. For one thing, all interest is subsidized while you are enrolled, so you don't have to worry about making payments until you graduate. For another, the rate itself is subsidized, giving you a much lower rate than if you tried to get a personal loan from a bank or put your tuition on a credit card. This allows students who aren't poor enough for direct grants and scholarships, but not rich enough to pay it all out of pocket, to still get some assistance.

China owns about 7.5% of our debt. Japan owns almost as much, and even the UK isn't that far off. The VAST majority of our debt is owned by US citizens. If the US and China went to war, I think most of our creditors would rather have us win than China. The real question is how would China fund a war with the US, given that their export-based economy is largely dependent on our consumption.

China owns about 7.5% of our debt. Japan and the UK each own almost as much, and are our very close allies. The American public owns almost half our debt. If it ever came time to divide up America's assets to pay off its creditors, China would not exactly take a high priority, certainly not enough for them to start seizing US territories. And if China has a habit of "just taking things" and thinks it can tussle with the US and its allies, they would have Taiwan back by now.

Just for clarification, ALL of the US debt is denominated in US dollars. We are a sovereign issuer of debt denominate solely in a currency that we have monopoly control over, and the rest of your point is correct and accurate.

The first was a girl and the second two were boys. They didn't get better at it, the Chinese just don't put a very high value on females children.

There's the possibility that some lovely foreign gay couple purchased all three of them because their local adoption agency wouldn't approve them just because they're gay, but gosh darnit, they'll love those kids and give them a wonderful environment and keep all the brothers and sisters together and it'll just be great. There's also the much likelier possibility that they were sold into some kind of slavery, sexual or otherwise, because such a practice is still quite prevalent in various developing countries, China included. I can assure that even if buying children for the purposes of adoption were legal and regulated, a black market for human trafficking would still exist.

You'd be surprised.