Why should professors worry so much about this kinda stuff? In the past do you remember college professors getting pissed over doodling or daydreaming? In high school, its different, everyone has to be there, and its almost the teachers job to mold every student into something. But in college, its different, their should be mutual respect from the student and the teacher.
Maybe the professors are pissed that some students can still do this (surf, IM) and still pass the class, which is up to them to deicide how to form their classes. But hands down, the college already has your money, what the hell should they care what you do? Our advisor said it best "We HAVE your money now...thats the easy part...you STAYING here is the hard part"
Mastercard learned from Nader. I think that is when they realized that they had no legal basis. But what theyre doing now, I think, is nothing more than a PR stunt. They are going after the "bad guys" that make fun of tragedies. It makes them seem heroic and trying to stop "evil" even though they know they can't win. So this costs them a few thousand, they might pick it up from people out there that see what they are doing as good, they might lose customers, who knows. Mastercard is pretty much just rolling the dice.
The Ask Slashdot question should be are aliens people then. How in the living HELL can you say that aliens arent people? We havent even have conclusive 100% beyond a resonable doubt that they even exist! How the heck do we not know they arent human? How do they reproduce, how do they think, how do they feed their young? Until you answer these questions you dont even know what the hell make them up. We assume just because they arent on our planet, that they couldnt possibley be human, or that just because they look different that they arent human. It could possibley be that with all our scientific guidlines, that they could fit the human mold
The Ask Slashdot question should be are aliens people then. How in the living HELL can you say that aliens arent people? We havent even have conclusive 100% beyond a resonable doubt that they even exist! How the heck do we not know they arent human? How do they reproduce, how do they think, how do they feed their young? Until you answer these questions you dont even know what the hell make them up. We assume just because they arent on our planet, that they couldnt possibley be human, or that just because they look different that they arent human. It could possibley be that with all our scientific guidlines, that they could fit the human mold.
As far as the United States goes, we have set up right's for people that ARE U.S. Citizens, and those who aren't. Heck, we even refer to non-US citizens as aliens. So I dont see the difference if theyre from a different planet. We dont have text saying the rights of every different race or ethnic backround outlined. Although technically we should treat them as just non-americans, I have a strange feeling that we wouldnt, considering sometimes we cant even treat Americans like non-Americans sometimes. \
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Why should professors worry so much about this kinda stuff? In the past do you remember college professors getting pissed over doodling or daydreaming? In high school, its different, everyone has to be there, and its almost the teachers job to mold every student into something. But in college, its different, their should be mutual respect from the student and the teacher.
Maybe the professors are pissed that some students can still do this (surf, IM) and still pass the class, which is up to them to deicide how to form their classes. But hands down, the college already has your money, what the hell should they care what you do? Our advisor said it best "We HAVE your money now...thats the easy part...you STAYING here is the hard part"
Mastercard learned from Nader. I think that is when they realized that they had no legal basis. But what theyre doing now, I think, is nothing more than a PR stunt. They are going after the "bad guys" that make fun of tragedies. It makes them seem heroic and trying to stop "evil" even though they know they can't win. So this costs them a few thousand, they might pick it up from people out there that see what they are doing as good, they might lose customers, who knows. Mastercard is pretty much just rolling the dice.
The Ask Slashdot question should be are aliens people then. How in the living HELL can you say that aliens arent people? We havent even have conclusive 100% beyond a resonable doubt that they even exist! How the heck do we not know they arent human? How do they reproduce, how do they think, how do they feed their young? Until you answer these questions you dont even know what the hell make them up. We assume just because they arent on our planet, that they couldnt possibley be human, or that just because they look different that they arent human. It could possibley be that with all our scientific guidlines, that they could fit the human mold
The Ask Slashdot question should be are aliens people then. How in the living HELL can you say that aliens arent people? We havent even have conclusive 100% beyond a resonable doubt that they even exist! How the heck do we not know they arent human? How do they reproduce, how do they think, how do they feed their young? Until you answer these questions you dont even know what the hell make them up. We assume just because they arent on our planet, that they couldnt possibley be human, or that just because they look different that they arent human. It could possibley be that with all our scientific guidlines, that they could fit the human mold.
As far as the United States goes, we have set up right's for people that ARE U.S. Citizens, and those who aren't. Heck, we even refer to non-US citizens as aliens. So I dont see the difference if theyre from a different planet. We dont have text saying the rights of every different race or ethnic backround outlined. Although technically we should treat them as just non-americans, I have a strange feeling that we wouldnt, considering sometimes we cant even treat Americans like non-Americans sometimes. \