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    News Can corporations have religious beliefs?

    Yeah, I can see that a corporation can have the right to have religious beliefs, but how can it actually HAVE beliefs? Not to be too Monty Python-esque, it's like saying that a man has the right to be pregnant, but can't actually get pregnant. I simply do not see how a legal entity like a...
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    News Can corporations have religious beliefs?

    Citizens United established that corporations have free speech rights, but do they have religious rights? Hobby Lobby says that the Affordable Care Act violates the company's religious beliefs, and therefore should be exempt from fines for not following the law...
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    News Explosion reported near Boston Marathon finish line

    They got him. Boston Police tweet he's in custody.
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    News U.S. Supreme Court Hears Monsanto Seed Patent Case

    So at what percentage of the market does it become okay to plant commodity seeds? If 80% of the seeds were roundup ready, would it have been okay? 50%? 25%? What if only 5% were roundup ready? If he planted 10,000 seeds, it's an almost statistical certainty that he planted at least one...
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    News U.S. Supreme Court Hears Monsanto Seed Patent Case

    I don't know that this is all that clear. The seeds were not Monsanto brand seeds. They were just random seeds from the open market. Commodity seeds. He was just smart enough to know that the Monsanto gene was so prevalent, that any random seed would probably have the gene. Please tell me if...
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    News Explosion reported near Boston Marathon finish line

    I live about 3/4 of a mile from the finish line, and had considered going to see the marathon at some point yesterday. I'm kind of glad I felt lazy yesterday and decided to stay home. People couldn't reach me by cell phone, so my girlfriend and family members were worried about me. Girlfriend...
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    First interview for a high school physics teaching position tomorrow

    The interview didn't go badly, but it wasn't great either. My lack of formal teaching experience hurt me. I was asked questions like "what would your homework policy be?" I responded that I didn't have any strong feelings one way or another about various homework policies, and I'd seek the...
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    First interview for a high school physics teaching position tomorrow

    Not to rehash that thread, but it was more of a problem where the students abilities were often orders of magnitude apart. If I graded every student equally across the board, I'd either end up with a group of Bs mixed in with lots of 100%s, or most students failing with a few at 95% or more. I...
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    First interview for a high school physics teaching position tomorrow

    Lol, I reconsidered that policy anyway, and besides, that was for university engineering majors, not high school students.
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    First interview for a high school physics teaching position tomorrow

    So, after quitting my physics Ph.D grad program last semester, I got my physics teaching license with the aim to be a high school teacher. Teaching and tutoring were my favorite things in undergrad and my one semester in grad school, so I've decided to do it for a living. I have a few months of...
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    Download the free PF App for iPhone/Android phones

    The iPhone app is unusable for me. Immediately after logging in, it tries to go to a tab labeled "Unread", and it just crashes. I've attempted this 5 times. It crashes on "Loading Unread Topics" I am using the iPhone 3gs iOS version 4.3.3
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    Is Game of Thrones Really Overrated? An Honest Review of the First Season

    It's clear that you only watched a few episodes. There is plot building and character building in every episode. Some of the best fleshed-out characters are Daenerys, Tyrion, Jon, and Ayra. Sure, there are some cardboard characters, but this is a series with something like 30 major characters...
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    Rescue injured baby deer, go to jail

    Wow, I didn't know that the Department of Natural Resources went after sex-offenders. :rolleyes:
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    Rescue injured baby deer, go to jail

    I just think it's bizarre that somebody would rescue a wounded deer instead of just putting it out of its misery. Where I'm from, deer are looked upon like giant, tasty rats.
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    News Race War in America: LA's Compton at the Forefront

    Yes, and I certainly wouldn't have called it a race war, even though that situation was probably closer to a race war than currently in LA.
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