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On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison
13.7BillionYears writes "The Institute for War and Peace Reporting details on the exploits of Ghulam Sediq Wardak, a 62 year old semi-literate Afghan with 341 clever inventions to his credit. His first was a radio powered by the low voltage produced by the human body. His most recent is a 1980 Volkswagen rigged to run on solar power. A handful of others are mentioned. Like many a Slashdotter, his parents were once very worried and he eschews patents. 'The main purpose of my inventing is not to earn money,' he says. 'I want to render a service to my countrymen and to all people in the world.'"
His first was a radio powered by the low voltage produced by the human body.
:D
I would say this is prior art. Guess their patent is history
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Now we know why Afghanistan is poor :)
any relation to Junis?
It isn't. This guy is way too smart to even look at /.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
His most recent is a 1980 Volkswagen rigged to run on solar power.
Wouldn't this make him Afghanistan's Ed Begley, Jr.?
~Philly
Now which of those ways is this guy employing on deep wells in undeveloped Afghanistan, with only solar power?
It's only got to be 20 meters to support his claim and nobody said it was a good pump. It may only produce a trickle or it may charge batteries for days before pumping. It may run little buckets on a conveyer belt down the well. The fact is that if your not humbled by now after thinking you can spout of some fact and then being reminded by everybody that you are a dumbass, you are not going to be humbled even if you saw the pump working.
Um, you can't suck water higher than 10 meters. How to you think water gets to the toilets on the top floor of a skyscraper?
Ummm, how the fuck should I know. I go out the window just like every other civilized person.
If slashdot start to give an annual "honorific life membership" he should be one of the first to get the title. Kudos to the guy! :)
/. membership? I thought the article said he was "semi-literate."
What would he do with a
He might put the rest of us at a disadvantage...
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
I don't suppose there are any /.'ers out there in or near Afghanistan. Are there?
I hope so... I was wondering how you say "you insensitive clod" in Pashto.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Exactly, he'll fit right in :P
He sounds like Professor Branestawm.
I have a few of the books about this bloke, he was always inventing weird stuff and then having it go wrong.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Are you by chance a female Troll? I don't think I've ever seen one here on /. And you're part of CLIT to top it off.
except that to maybe make other not-too-literate people feel good about themselves.
They probably won't be reading the article anyway.
What would he do with a /. membership? I thought the article said he was "semi-literate."
He will do like all slashdotter... semi-read the articles.
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Some guy on slashdot:
"...the lion's share doesn't mean the majority. The lion's share is 100%...everything."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition:
"lion's share- The greatest or best part."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer:
"lion's share- The greater part or most of something..."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
"Lion's share- All, or nearly all; the best or largest part..."
This guy Sediq is not a geek...he is married to a woman!
I call shennanigans: the Illuminati posted this article to try to make geeks around the world less dedicated to their studies by comparing to other so-called "Sediq" geek in hopes to socialy engineer every geek in the world to contemplate dating women for marriage.
But then again, the Illuminati are reputed to be slave-punchers of even the largest of industrialised nations, such as the security agreements between the citizen-subjects of the United States corporation within these federated republics of these several [confederated] states. Would that mean that I could be also upholding the Illuminati by emphasing getting a wife is a ploy to make us stop being geeks to plot against them by weilding the voice of freedom? Am I slave-punching geeks, that the Illuminati have their endless stream of matrix technologies they use to subvert and controll freedom: RFID, TIA, Rattlesnake Project.
Damn! There are multiple dimensions to multiple dimensions and they all converge back to the controll of the Illuminati!
Where is Professor Farnsworth when you need him? I need him to build a box containing a parallel universe for every Illuminati venue, that I can eavsedrop the outcome of each aspect of their control!
No Patents!!!????
He should be thrown into Camp X-Ray. He is clearly a threat to the whole American way of life!
MrCreosote Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump! "You're right! There isn't enough room to swing a cat in here!"
"The young man goes to a tin teapot in the kitchen which is powered by a solar panel. When the water comes to the boil, the boy makes the tea, pours it into a traditional vacuum flask"
I call abuse of cute adjectives! I haven't read up on Afghan culture but I'm willing to bet vacuum thermoses are about as "traditional" as solar panels.
.sig Karma out the wazoo, better to spend points elsewhere if this is above 2 or below 0
The body of Sediq Wardak was pulled out of the flaming wreckage of a modified Volkswagon today, after a U.S. pilot mistook the vehicle for a mobile WMD factory and called in a full cruise missile strike.
yeah, he even stole the credit for Homer's electric hammer!
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe by three o'clock... with nail polish."