Posted on 09/17/2015 11:23:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old North Texas student who was questioned and detained after teachers at his Irving high school thought his homemade clock resembled a bomb, has been invited to meet with leaders of the tech industry, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest,” Zuckerberg posted on his own Facebook page, adding that he would “love to” meet the young teen.s
Zuckerberg joins the ranks of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, White House Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith and Twitter co-founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey, all of whom tweeted their support for Mohamed Wednesday morning.
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Bring a DRAWING of a gun to school and libs will flip their minds.
Ahmed did not make a clock, he made a detonator. You better know the difference.
I wonder if Zuckerberg knows that digital clock kits have been around since the 1970s. Just check eBay for digital clock kits (some less than $5).
What Ahmed assembled looked like a bomb kit, not a digital clock.
What would be cool is a mechanical clock with gears made from scratch, not something that has been around for fifty years, and looks like a bomb. The only thing "new" about what he assembled is that it is packaged in a suspicious manner.
There is a photo of the kid’s device on another thread here on FR. (I think the thread was posted later; but the title of that post is self-explanatory.)
Schmuckberger is still trying to buy his way into heaven even a Muslim one!
If the kid were a David Finkelstein he would be in a jail cell.
I invited him to a pork bbq... Still waiting for a response.
A clock transplanter is more likely. The kid didn’t solder the circuit boards. He took the parts from a manufactured clock. It looks like he was building a timer for a bomb from some terrorist web site.
As a DIY electronics project, it's not particularly impressive. The kid showed it to his Engineering class instructor, who didn't seem to think it was particularly noteworthy, and advised him not to show it to anyone else. He obviously knew it wasn't a bomb, but also knew that other people might jump to that conclusion. The kid then set it up so that it would trigger the alarm and cause a disturbance during class, insuring that other people would see it.
Another cause celebre for the left.
At first, I thought that this was just an incident set up by the father of this kid and his CAIR buddies. Now, I am wondering if there was a bigger circle in on this collaboration.
Suckerburg is a fool, but you already knew that.
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Or perhaps Obamugabe’s pal is in on the plan.
Build something cool? I could have wired that clock together in fourth grade, had digital electronics even existed back then. People are acting like this moon-worshipper MacGyvere’d a space shuttle from clothespins and an old oatmeal box!
On a side note, if you are the engineering/inventing type why would you go to Farcebook? They do not create anything that is an engineering feat. Their office is a sea of cubes and beanbag chairs with H1B’s and other sitting around writing software that is not technically difficult. It does not control any hardware outside of interacting with the OS. They are not really scientific innovators merely providers of a useless service that people are willing to use.
even the President....tweeted [ his] their support for Mohammed ...
if your name is mohammad and youre of the negro persuasion you go to the HEAD of the classs
nice PR stunt by CAIR, huh?
Desensitizing the masses to kids who build stuff..
coming soon,, Lego Nukes..
The “thing” he made wasn’t cool, it was idiotic. And it sure wasn’t a clock.
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