Posted on 09/25/2015 6:05:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I suppose that headline is a bit optimistic -- the media is very good about suppressing stories that expose them as frauds; see the Gosnell coverage.
But we're coming to a point where the media's continue refusal to acknowledge the obvious is going to become very embarrassing to them.
IBD states the obvious. (I can't quote it because it's short, but it dispels so much of the previous myth-making here; do read it.)
Suggesting, to me, that we're about to hit the moment of Peak Media Embarrassment is the fact that the tech community is now openly referring to this as a hoax. They focus on the fact that this kid did not "invent" anything -- he took a mass produced clock, took it out of its case, and put it into pencil box that looked like a small suitcase to make it look like a "cartoon" bomb.
People who do tech know that no one, not even a ninth grader, would think he did anything of value here, unless he were mentally slow, which this kid is not said to be. Some in this thread call it simple "plagiarism." That is the exact analogy I used in talking about this: It would be as like a ninth grader simply xeroxing "The Old Man and the Sea" and then telling people "Look at my story."
No one who is not mentally slow would think that mere act of photocopying made it "his story," and no ninth grader who was not mentally slow would imagine that taking a mass produced clock out of its case and putting it into another case constituted making an "invention" or even "building" a clock.
Two videos to illustrate the difference between an electronics hobbyist building a clock and someone not building a clock.
First, here is someone actually making a clock:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Now, here is what Ahmad the Genius Clock Inventor did:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Anyone see a difference? A slight difference?
Why would someone -- apart from someone who is mentally slow -- imagine that the latter "invention" was worth showing off at school at all?
I was once a ninth grader. If I had, say, taken a bit of blue transparent plastic and laid it over the red screen of a digital clock, I would have made the numbers appear purple rather than red.
This would have been more of an "invention" than Ahmad achieved -- I actually would have changed, in a minor way, the performance of the device -- and yet I would never have thought for one second that such a minor, trivial, idiotic alteration was worth showing off to anyone.
Worth doing? Who knows; maybe if I were going through a Prince phase.
But worth showing off to multiple teachers?
Hardly. I'd think they'd think there was something wrong with me for being so proud of something that a baby could do.
But we are told that this kid is a genius -- so much so he's getting scholarship offers from MIT -- for a hoax, and for a plagiarism.
Why would anyone think was an "invention" worth bringing to school?
Suddenly becomes a non-story.
It went off in class after he plugged it into a wall out, having already set the alarm to go off in during the class period. The AC cord and transformer are clearly visibile in the photo.
The little putz is a social terrorist and should be prosecuted accordingly.
The kid was a genius at not being a genius
“Welcome Back My Friends to the show that never ends”
Upon further review, I guess I did see some of that and blew it off.
The Trayvon Martin hoax didn't hold, and the Media wasn't Massively Discredited.
The Gentle Giant hoax didn't hold, and the Media wasn't Massively Discredited.
The Freddy Gray hoax didn't hold, and the Media wasn't Massively Discredited.
The main point of Ahmed’s little stunt was to get people relaxed around Muslims carrying unidentified objects. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ahmed could actually build a bomb, and is trying to appear as a Luddite hack who c&ps from DIY websites to fool the gullible Lamestream media.
“What makes you think he can build a bomb? He made a simplistic dev- *BOOM*”
Jug Ears acted stupidly by elevating little Clockmed to sainthood so quickly.
Yes but, NASA will need some of these when we send Muslims to Mars as part of our, “Outreach” efforts!
“We are barraged with their brainwashing, every second, every minute of every day.”
“Jug Ears acted stupidly by elevating little Clockmed to sainthood so quickly.”
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Par for the course with this idiot.
Remember the Cambridge police criticism and the sanctification of Michael Brown?
He’s an embarrassment to the country.
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I found it surprising that freepers would blame the teachers and defend the Muslim kid who obviously was trying to cause trouble.
The kid’s sister was thrown out of school three years ago for making a bomb threat yet some freepers think he was treated unfairly.
I have not been really following it but Mr. GGw feels the same way you do.
The Barack Obama hoax has held, well enough to destroy the US.
Yes but, NASA will need some of these when we send Muslims to Mars as part of our, “Outreach” efforts!
All in celebrations of Zero !!
Well that is the question.
You might not want to overlook the fact that the friggin clock needed to be plugged in to do that.(the battery backup is not enough power to operate the alarm so it only maintains the time) Sooooooooo
One can therefore extrapolate that the entire sordid event was contrived entirely for effect.
I've said this since the crap was first put out on national media, but the reactions from some on this very forum were such that I have pretty much left it alone.
We have a lot of people, not only on this forum, but quite a few others that have forgotten what happened, just a little over 14 years ago and that have never really realized the extent that the muslim taqiyya masters will go to.
I say deport the little would-be terrorist and be done with the whole damned thing.
But learn from it.
I argued with an idiot on a comment board who said what that lazy kid did was a good first project. Guess they aren’t getting smarter these days...
If I'm not mistaken, this clock needs to be plugged in order to alarm or display the time. It has a nine-volt battery, but that's only to preserve the time while it's unplugged while being moved or across a power failure.
It's from the 1980's and uses LEDs for its display. Those use too much energy to run on batteries, unlike more modern LCD displays, which can go years between battery changes.
That means Ahmed must have plugged it into an outlet during English class. Why would he do that? And why would anyone suspect a crude contraption that needed to be plugged into AC to be a bomb?
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