Lack of contraception leads to more babies, leads to additional health costs. It's a cost-cutting measure.

You truly don't understand, do you. If all the customers of the idiotic insurer are good Christians, they will not get any contraceptives. Ergo, nobody would get contraceptives, the idiot insurer would not have to reimburse, and the premium of the idiot insurer goes down, and nobody actually pays for the service. Apparently the customers of the idiot insurer are not as strong in the faith as the idiot insurer, and he wants the government to give him a stick to beat the flock into their version of moral behavior.

No it's not called slavery. Paying for something you will never ever use has never been called slavery. You might want to buy a dictionary.

Sure, every country in the entire fucking world does this. However, the United States of America are the only country in the world that rides the moral high horse, calls itself the land of the free, calls itself the leader of the free world and considers itself the New World. Fact of the matter, apart from being just another country in the world, the United States are a bunch of hypocrites.

Hmm. Punched in beta.slashdot.org, and didn't see much difference. Home page, comments, ability to edit. I've been around here for a bit, so what's the beef? Why do shills and trolls have a better game at the new site compared to the old?

There are ways to address concerns about abuses of government power,

[citation needed]

NSA is spying on enemies. NSA is spying on American citizens. Therefore American citizens are enemies.

Yes, dirt/mud roads, very limited services, privately owned infrastructure. Death, starvation and servitude. All the good stuff.

Wait. What? Atheism being more popular today than in the 70's? That definitely needs a citation.You've got a warped sense of history.

I guess they could also take a CEO from that other country. Problem solved.

There are few CEOs that actually are worth their dime. Almost all of them are founders. The others ... not much evidence on their actual contribution to the company as a whole. Hired CEOs are a gamble, and more often than not have a net negative effect on the company. Paying losers top dollars is not good business sense. Paying a CEO milliions more does not necessarily result in the company earning billions more. But that's the math you just can't understand.

But when it's a train, where two train-wagons run bumper to bumper, you would call it a feature? Having the cars essentially lock together and then run 160 mph is not only safe, it is also energy efficient. When you literally run bumper to bumper with a distance of 10 cm, the impact of a sudden change in speed is much less than when you have a runway of a few 10s of meters in which the front car can decelerate enough to have a significant difference in speed from the car running in its back. And it's a lot more energy efficient to make essentially one car out of two.

So the GP says that the Republicans and Democrats are equally guilty of Gerrymandering and that this should stop. You retort that the Democrats started it, and they are now giving Republicans a hard time for doing it in Texas. What's your point? Do you think Gerrymandering is okay because the Reps copied the Dems? Gerrymandering is a nightmare, regardless of who does it. You seem to disagree.

A representative democracy is a form of government where the people elect representatives who gather in a body (often called a house) where they cast their votes. In that body majority rules. A constitutional republic is a form of government that has a constitution and where the leader of the state is elected (not appointed. The UK and the US are representative democracies. The US and China are constitutional republics. Is the US more like China, or more like the UK in the way government works?

No use trying giving some perspective on the issue. The USA was the first modern representative democracy, and all choices that were made in those early days (when there was by definition no experience) were obviously optimal and therefore have eternal validity. This is due to the intellectual and moral superiority of the people involved in the process. No finer set of men have since then set foot on this earth. In all time, they are only surpassed by Jesus.