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2015/10/04 01:23:30
Subject: 9th grader arrested on suspicion of bomb-making for showing teacher his home-made clock.
SickSix wrote: Wait so it isn't equally sad how the leftwing media is frothing at the mouth to heap praise on a proven fraud? The kid literally took the case off his alarm clock and put it in a suitcase.
I still don't know why people are assuming that automatically off of one picture. I also don't know why everything that everyone did afterward became justified by the fact that he had a clock with him in class, no matter how much of it he made himself or otherwise. I mean, if they thought it was a bomb threat, they didn't treat it like a bomb threat, which sounds like negligence. If they smacked the kid down because it felt good, well, that's kinda wrong too.
Out of curiosity, how much of it would he have had to make himself for you to be impressed?
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2015/10/04 01:58:59
Subject: 9th grader arrested on suspicion of bomb-making for showing teacher his home-made clock.
SickSix wrote: Wait so it isn't equally sad how the leftwing media is frothing at the mouth to heap praise on a proven fraud? The kid literally took the case off his alarm clock and put it in a suitcase.
I still don't know why people are assuming that automatically off of one picture. I also don't know why everything that everyone did afterward became justified by the fact that he had a clock with him in class, no matter how much of it he made himself or otherwise. I mean, if they thought it was a bomb threat, they didn't treat it like a bomb threat, which sounds like negligence. If they smacked the kid down because it felt good, well, that's kinda wrong too.
Out of curiosity, how much of it would he have had to make himself for you to be impressed?
How about ANY of it.
Oh, I did that analysis on page 6 too. I'll repeat the main point I said back on page 6:
I mean, there's a lot of things here that could sway how hard it actually was that we're just not privy to at this point. I'm going to sidestep the question by saying that it SHOULDN'T be hard for a 9th grader to make something like this, but remembering most of my peers at 14, they probably wouldn't have been able to do this if you did give them all the working parts from a single clock, and nor would they have had the motivation to do so. Which I think is more important than how difficult the task actually was. He was motivated to do this, on his own. If he keeps that drive, that'll move him closer to doing genuinely impressive things as he expands his knowledge.
At this point, I'm also going to state that for all any armchair experts (inlucding myself) know, he also repaired any number of things (or even none) on the boards themselves. That's that whole "we're not privy to at this point" part I talk about above. I don't know. I don't claim to know. That is not something your guy in the first video would have been able to tell from that picture, but that's okay because he seems more set on proving a point than actually understanding fully the situation. All I'm asking is that we don't jump to conclusions without facts, and you can't get all those facts from this picture, no matter how much someone on youtube seems eager to want to.
As a side not, anyone who says people don't make things that use AC power hasn't been making things very long.
I'll ask again, how much of something does one have to make to "invent" something? I'll also ask again, why do you support the negligence of the police and school?
According to Apple, you would have as long as your air filter had rounded corners on it.
Automatically Appended Next Post: But seriously though, anyone who's calling him a fraud really needs to define what an invention is. Not having it well defined makes it hard to judge whether or not he is.
Automatically Appended Next Post: At least, for me, anyway. I'm at the same time trying not to get hung up on his use of the word because he's a 14 year old boy that I good-naturedly assume is like every other intelligent 14 year old boy who is still painfully stupid (but in different ways) and gets overexcited about things he is enthusiastic about. I wonder what it was like for other people at that age, sometimes.
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He's a 14 YO. I used to think that I was really clever at being able to take things like radios apart and put them back together, even though it only requires a screwdriver and a memory. It's the same thing.
Don't use adult logic for kids.
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2015/10/04 02:55:43
Subject: 9th grader arrested on suspicion of bomb-making for showing teacher his home-made clock.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
d-usa wrote: I looked at the Dakka gallery just now. Lots of frauds on there...
Not really. They're not claiming to have designed the models. Only to have painted them.
Pulling a clock apart and putting it back together is not comparable to painting a miniature.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
The gallery has people building models from scratch and having amazing paint jobs, and also people putting together snap-lock models with crappy paint jobs, and then one life models that were dipped. Some of them are frauds using the criteria in this thread.
Of course none of that has anything at all to do with the actions by the school. Even if this whole thing was a elaborate trap to showcase the expected reaction from the school, it would have been a useless showcase of the school wouldn't have reacted like it did.
But whatever makes everyone sleep better at night I guess. Taking stuff apart and putting it back together is the first step to learn a lot of things. Dakka OT if filled by prodigal geniuses I guess.
2015/10/04 03:42:21
Subject: 9th grader arrested on suspicion of bomb-making for showing teacher his home-made clock.
