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    Chem help!

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    Sooo, I'm studying for a test tomorrow and I need to do this old AP question for review

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    Anybody can help? It's Chapter 14 and 19 in the AP Chem textbook...

    Folgore Rangers Mafia -- GAME OVER

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    Posted · Edited by Aere

    Votals:

    Sho (6) Kay, SB, Elieson, eclipse, Mancer, Rapier

    Mancer (3) JB, Shin, Lucina

    BBM (1) scorri

    Baldrick (3) Shinori, BBM, Xinnidy

    scorri (1) Sho

    Elieson (1) Baldrick

    17 hours, 33 minutes till phase end (I think)

    Folgore Rangers Mafia Signups

    in Mafia

    Posted

    I will try my best to at least check this thread after school/during school/ as often as I can. If I can't, I'm sure my partners will keep this up...

    Well, I'll try to get votals current enough when the game starts and when it matters.

    Women in combat positions

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    Are you aware that there are female soldiers who've had combat experience, who would say and have indeed been saying they did just fine, and that they can handle it?

    One particular high-ranking U.S. officer, IIRC a general, while being escorted in Iraq or Afghanistan through dangerous territory, was so impressed with the performance of, again IIRC, the soldier on the vehicle's turret, that he asked the soldier's name, and of course discovered the gunner to be a woman and basically had his mind changed for him on the spot.

    Also, I'd think there are plenty of men who couldn't handle roles in combat in anything but the most desperate circumstances, if even those, and certainly not to a military standard. I certainly don't think I can/could handle it, but hypothetical/potential proportional differences between the sexes aside, I don't think I should be taken to represent every other male soldier in combat situations, any more than any individual woman with similar feelings should be taken to represent the potential effectiveness of every other female soldier.

    So, there are exceptions? You're basically supporting the idea that qualifications should be gender blind. However, as a whole, women are weaker physically than men. So, less women would be in the armed forces, and that would be based on strength not sex. Men who do not qualify would fall under the same category.

    Women in combat positions

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    Superbus has the right idea. Who gives a fuck about gender equality in a warzone? If a woman cannot physically perform as well as a man in those situations, she should not be allowed to serve in that position. If she can perform as well, that's when other things may be adressed.

    A discussion on evolution...

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    I don't typically mind religion/science arguments, and I don't mind people arguing for their religion with at least proper etiquette and some semblance of support, but this guy has got me beat. If you're trolling, and I don't think you are, you've won.

    How can you simply "disagree" with something? It's been proven, through the Miller-Urey Experiment, that amino acids can be created through conditions that would have been present on the early earth. Organic compounds CAN be created from nonorganic ones. Even if you only examine that singular fact, and you agree with microevolution, the rest should at least be more than unacceptable?

    Theories, such as the Big Bang and evolution, are not random guesses that should be believed or ignored without a second thought. Lots of work has been put in to proving the validity of these theories, and as they are realistically unchallenged in terms of accuracy, they are currently accepted. If, somehow, God appeared in Times Square tomorrow and proved his dominance and superiority, I'm sure views would change. The problem with religion is that there IS no accepted grey area. The BIble is somehow the literal word of God, mistranslated and miscopied over thousands of years, and it's still completely true? Anybody accepting that has a lot less behind them than any scientist or their supporters.

    Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

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    What is an assault rifle?

    This question bothered me (though I was skimming, so tell me if this was your point), because I'm pretty sure you know full well what an assault rifle is. My problems are with full-auto ones, in any case.

    In regards to Hajime no Ippo (my favorite manga), it is stated multiple times that the fists of a professional boxer are classified as lethal weapons. Whether or not this is true in the real world, or outside of Japan, I don't know.

    Another Reason to Hate High School

    in Far from the Forest...

    Posted

    I feel like I'm the only one who has problems with the writing part, not the reading. On my PSATs (taking SATs this March, junior year), I got 98th% on critical reading, but 96th on the rest

    :(

    However, PSATs don't include the essay. Which I hate, but there are apparently tricks for the essay to make it "correct" in the eyes of the examiners.

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