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TSN
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"From" is already included in "whence".
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Omega
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Thank you.

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Grokca
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Wouldn't swipe cards as you enter classes be an easier method of knowing if you show up? I know your friends could swipe you in and screw up attendance, but this method has been used in factories for at least the last 70 years. Much less complex and cheaper to implement. Remember thr first rule of engineering, KISS.

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Wraith
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That's the system used at my school and it works pretty well. It's just a standard industrial swiping system, everyone has a card and it's easy to track who's in and who's not. Except when the computers go mad.

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Mucus
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There's something vaguely unsettling about the prospect of treating attendance at church like time at work in a factory, although I can't quite put my finger on it...
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Omega
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This is a private Christian university. People who go here know exactly what the rules are. If they don't like that, they're perfectly free to go anywhere else they please.

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Mucus
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Actually, I was referring to the swipe cards (i.e. factory style) mentioned by Grocka and Wraith.
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Styrofoaman
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I would not attend a church with a time-card system. "You missed two days last spring NOW YOU WILL BURN IN HELL!!! Unless you load up the collection plate next go'round."

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TSN
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That's already the way it is. It's just that they'd have more solid evidence.
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Omega
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*L*

Y'all have funny views of how we think church works. I like it. [Smile]

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Styrofoaman
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Actually my reply was based on a combo my the sum of all my vists to church and my last preformance review as a mere mortal.

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PsyLiam
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Well, to go really old fashioned and anti-tech, couldn't you just have a register? It gets passed around the class, and everyone there signs next to their name. I know it's open to abuse, probably not as much as you think. People are lazy.

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TSN
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Couldn't the camera thing be easily circumvented by having your buddy put a book or something on your seat for the duration of the class? The camera wouldn't see the seat cover, so it would think you were in class.
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Omega
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Well, to go really old fashioned and anti-tech, couldn't you just have a register?

Actually, we do that for the 200 or so seats on the floor of the arena, and for people who are late, and for everyone on Fridays when we're in chapel elsewhere. I didn't say this was the BEST system in the world. It's just what they do, and I may as well take advantage of it and build a nifty toy.

And the camera thing could only be circumvented if the entirity of the seat was covered. Which is possible, of course, but it'd take more than a book, and I don't think anyone would really go to the trouble.

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Nim
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Omega-3 said:"Actually, we do that for the 200 or so seats on the floor of the arena"

Wow, like that vulcan Pon'Farr arena? "Da-di-Da da da da da Da-di-daaa da"!?

I haven't even asked, are you protestant or catholic, Omega?

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