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  1. Re:Companies don't pay for healthcare, workers do on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    The premium is the compensation, a plan that doesn't hand out birth control like candy to the girls will have a lower premium. If you want everything imaginable covered you'd need to pay your company to work there.

  2. Re:Let the floodgates open on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Smokers can certainly be denied coverage or even fired. That's the mainstream religion

  3. Re:Lots of people can't afford a movie a week on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    If you can't afford to go to the movies maybe you can't afford to have sex? Cucumbers are cheap, a low-calorie food, and are also covered by food stamps.

  4. Re:Can an "atheist company" refuse too? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Your forgetting that fetuses are nothing more than tapeworms

  5. Re:A win for freedom on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    There is no justification for forcing anyone to pay for anything. Not even spaghetti. Government economic coercion is the real "slippery slope". Contraceptives are predictable expenses and have no business being in insurance, abortion is an elective procedure and shouldn't be covered either. The pressure to force these treatments to be "free" is entirely emotional, and could be said to come from socialist/satanic religious doctrines.

  6. Re:No sovereign immunity on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    Whole point of their "special weapons and tactics" is to make any defense impossible, unless you live in fortified compound, in which case they will burn it

  7. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Has it been proven? Many people who live excessively long lives end up with dementia and other age-related illnesses which are extremely expensive, not to mention the additional burdens they place on the public pension system. Since the system makes no other tax adjustments justified by projected lifetime social costs it seems clear the focus on smoking is primarily moralistic.

  8. Re:Problem #1: Usage Cap on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 1

    You should vote with your dollars, find a provider that will give you unlimited usage with higher bandwidth. I'm sure there's plenty of ISPs that would be willing to drop an OC48 (2.4Gb) into your house for a quite a few grand a month.

    That's like saying if the local gas chain started charging $4 per fluid oz you have no grounds for complaint since you could have a tanker truck fill up a 10,000 gallon tank in your yard. And why do you need more than a moped anyway? Caps are not justified by the ISP's level of congestion or by the price the ISP pays for bandwidth, it's price-gouging. As long as ISPs hang their wires all over the public ways and get exclusive franchise agreements customers should not put up with being scammed.

  9. Re:Good! on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting the part where government engineered the inflation to cover up theft of massive amounts of wealth. It's not a bill issued by the laws of the universe, it's a scam. And after a thief empties your pocket it's quite possible you won't be able to afford basic things.

  10. Re:"Who cares about diversity?" on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    "Diverse" would be hiring people skilled different technologies, "life experience" is of zero relevance, especially for worker drones. If yahoo really want some "perspective" they should recruit in strip clubs

  11. Re:Sexism on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    Most of the women changing bedpans are dumb, you really believe they could be doctors? Just because girls have nice handwriting and can read Twilight fluently doesn't mean they are smart. They are lucky to have a job that pays better than operating a cash register and that is less strenuous than waiting tables

  12. Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    Scandinavian countries have shown that a more comfortable standard of living makes women more reluctant to do hard work. Bitches are crazy

  13. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    He's not even really done since he continues to manage an investment portfolio that accumulates wealth at scale that is probably detrimental to the average consumer or retiree

  14. Re:Please make it a mental one on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Most people can't think critically about anything let alone their diet, and they have no individual will to speak of. Then again, deferred gratification and independent initiative are of questionable value on the train to the graveyard.

  15. Re:I used to donate blood... on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 2

    A "non-profit" that pays the CEO a million dollars.

  16. Re:You can come back with half the pay and no bene on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    100-level college math and science are useless if you are not continuing along the progression of studies, it's like learning the alphabet of a language and going no further. The only advantage might be that they could offer an opportunity for the kids to save themselves by switching majors, though those introductory classes usually test the resolve of even those committed to the subject. Humanities majors don't need more distractions, they should be focused on qualifying for or conning their way into a job. Of course if humanities programs actually were concerned with students' best interest and emphasized this most students would find dropping from the program to be the best choice

  17. Re:Disagree. on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    Again, I would point to the US as the prime example of why the second amendment does absolutely nothing to help you secure any of your primary freedoms, since they are being violated ALL THE TIME by your government, but I don't see anyone successfully taking up arms against them.. and I find the concept that citizens with a few guns could hold their own against the american military-industrial complex a bit of a farce to begin with.

    No doubt being disarmed will immediately produce an amazing expansion of freedom. The NSA workers will walk off the job with tears streaming from their eyes at our Christlike gentleness, Bloomberg will convert his entire 30 billion fortune into free apple pie for America, and the Reaper drones will longer identify us as targets but will instead think of helpful services they can perform for us like locating a lost cellphone.

  18. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Every worker by definition gets a living wage, because the dead don't work.

  19. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 0

    Yeah, we can see the result: shockingly high prices, obscene unemployment rate, and a reduced standard of living

  20. Re:No mortgage! on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    Congratulations, you're pre-approved for a mortgage at a special low rate!!!

  21. You're talking about socialist countries where there is no right to free speech recognized. Government decides what's best for society, it's not about individual copyright or even truth. Disturbing how many people in the USA point to these countries as the "direction forward", which is like saying a dog should want to become a cat.

  22. Re:Rinse Lather Repeat. on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    We're waiting for the sorority girls to search their souls and learn to cherish virgins and geeks, and for the feminists to retire The Vagina Monologues to introduce The Vagina and Penis Dialogues .

  23. Re:Fuck you on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    And women never bitch about men preferring young/thin/pretty/easy over assertive/funny/whatever bullshit qualities they think men should be attracted to?

  24. Re:Wow on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 2

    It's the toxic idea that everything is the result of social attitudes and can therefore be optimized through social engineering. Such people will claim "race doesn't exist", "men and women are the same", "everyone deserves a comfortable wage" etc. with a straight face. Which is actually the same delusional mindset of Rodger, who wanted the government to make sex illegal.

  25. Re:The gun store should be a crime scene on The Internet Is Now Part of the Crime Scene · · Score: 2

    Did he buy the knife at the gun store too?