Actually he brought it in to show his Engineering instructor, who advised him not to show it to other teachers. Unfortunately the alarm went off during English and he was arrested for it, Coerced into signing a written statement, Perp walked through the school, interrogated without his parents or consul present. There is a saying, "When elephants fight, the mice get trampled", it's hard to tell if this is colateral damage from the fight between the mayor Beth van Duyne and a local Mosque over it's Shariah Tribunal, or a key actor.
I notice they called in a Juvie Officer with possibly an associates degree in Criminal Justice, which is about as rigorous a degree as Phys Ed or Communications, not the bomb squad, nor is it report that they evacuated the school. If there was reasonable suspicion for an arrest, then all of that should have been done.
In a civilized society, you have to assume that most people don't have nefarious intentions because there really is no way that you can be absolutely sure that that really big capacitor isn't a cleverly disguised pipe-bomb. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta we had to turn away a TV Cameraman because his camera hadn't been inspected an sealed by ACOG, there was no way we could tell if it was a real camera, or a real camera plus bomb. I'm not saying that we should incarcerate students every time a student gifted in electronics brings in home project he or she is proud of and some shit-for-brains liberal arts major can't understand either.
I for one don't want to go back to the mind set where everyone you didn't like or understand had to live in mortal fear of being accused of witchcraft or terrorism, and this is what this incident feels like to me.
He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for.
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’” He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
In my book it's a clear case of a Female English teacher libels student for being creative in a technical area. Obviously the Engineering Teacher has had plenty of experience with the prejudices of the other teachers. She didn't understand it, it looked remotely like a bomb detonator she saw Sam Hanna defuse on NCIS LA, and Mohamed is geeky enough to be mass murderer waiting for a trigger, so it was inevitable.
The thing I have the most problem with is there was no mention of the school being evacuated and the supposedly "suspicious" clock being evaluated by the Bomb Squad, you would think they would have a "zero tolerance policy" on evacuating the school on discovery of object suspected of being an explosive device.
This is a very good argument for not using text messaging and sending everything even remotely interesting via encrypted email, and having everything sent via Email encrypted; if only interesting emails are encrypted, then bad actors will know which emails are of interest.
What would be more important to Ardbeg Distilleries than the ageing of a single malt scotch whiskey? Why should NanoRacks care what a company sends to space as long as they pay their bill and don't jeopardise other payload?
Seriously, digging in melted permafrost is like digging in wet paper mache; that's why they drive big stuff in on ice roads; try going to the beach and digging below the water table.
You do have to be careful with fertilizer, too much injures the soil's micro-flora which inhibits the crop's ability to absorb essential nutrients and minerals; modern farmers use a crop production service that analyses the soil, considers the crop being planted and applies a custom blended mixture of fertilizer and minerals. Production increases in Europe have been flat, it's hard to tell if this is because of their abhorance of GMO and pesticides, antiquated farming methods or increased bio-mass monoculture, but European soil is losing organic carbon compounds and fertility.
Yes. It is important to not question if Nazis really went to the trouble of tattooing serial numbers on Jews right before killing them and sending them to the ovens.
I always assumed it was a pathological obsession to maintaining ritualistic behaviours, unthinking obedience to their superiors orders, and of course dehumanizing your intended victims, but I'm open to other conjectures.
The point is, if they can't do it in Ubuntu, they can't do it in anything, skype is skype, M$ Office changes things just for the sake of commercial trainers; so if users are just memorizing click streams they are going to be just as lost between versions of Office as they are between Office and LibreOffice.
Which would also be puzzling, as in any normal corporate setup users can't install software on their own Windows machines either.
Oh yes they can, That one mission critical application really isn't windows compatible and will not run properly without Administrator privileges, so the users can install anything they like.
What's to educate? need a text editor, there is always notepad, in Ubuntu, when wine is installed it's just like in Windows. Oh wait maybe they are chocking on single clicking an icon instead of double clicking. Seriously, If you have any issues using Ubuntu that Aren't solved by "use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office" or click the "K" instead of "Start" or "Use Muon to install the software you want", you should just step away from the computer, any computer. You know if they think going from Windows XP to Ubuntu is a culture shock, wait until they see windows 8.1!
Still doesn't mean anything, with all of the data breaches that have happened over the years; would Ashley Madison really be beyond plumping up their membership lists bought from hackers? Real cheaters would be using freebee Gmail or outlook accounts with Greendot cards and burner phones. You only have to watch a couple movies to learn more spy-craft than the Impact Teams expects us to believe the typical cheater has.
My original comment was "Add to that the current satellite data shows no statistically significant warming for 18 out of the 65 years that anthropogenic warming was even possible,... ", your statistician is not only working on adjusted data, but is working on adjusted ground station data i.e. the GISS temperature product so it's a strawman argument and a complete red herring.
CO2 has been theoretically able to overcome the effects of natural variability since about 1950, hence the 65 years; there has been a pause in warming for a little over 18 years or about half of the satellite record. The pause is going to end soon due to the current El Nino, I’m actually surprised it hasn't ended all ready, the next 5 or 6 years will be interesting.
You can't just add water to the atmosphere. Cold air will not hold much water. The water vapour capacity of air increases as the temperature increases. Warmer air means more humidity means warmer air. It's a feedback.
True but what people often don't realise is CO2 has a molecular weight of about 44, Air is about 21 and water vapor is about 18; so CO2 is heavier than air whereas water vapor is lighter than air. This means it is more plausible that water vapor will carry heat and kinetic energy high above the IR scattering of CO2 where the energy is more easily radiated to space as the vapor condenses into clouds and rain and be a net negative feedback. Where or not this is the case in reality is a matter of emerging science, so every time some alarmist says "The science is settled", my brain screams they are a bald-faced liar.
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yeah this Reprobate will never get a tech job anywhere!
Actually he brought it in to show his Engineering instructor, who advised him not to show it to other teachers. Unfortunately the alarm went off during English and he was arrested for it, Coerced into signing a written statement, Perp walked through the school, interrogated without his parents or consul present. There is a saying, "When elephants fight, the mice get trampled", it's hard to tell if this is colateral damage from the fight between the mayor Beth van Duyne and a local Mosque over it's Shariah Tribunal, or a key actor.
If he was the Captain of the Football team, he wouldn't even be running laps after practise for doing what Amed was falsely accused of doing.
I notice they called in a Juvie Officer with possibly an associates degree in Criminal Justice, which is about as rigorous a degree as Phys Ed or Communications, not the bomb squad, nor is it report that they evacuated the school. If there was reasonable suspicion for an arrest, then all of that should have been done.
In a civilized society, you have to assume that most people don't have nefarious intentions because there really is no way that you can be absolutely sure that that really big capacitor isn't a cleverly disguised pipe-bomb. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta we had to turn away a TV Cameraman because his camera hadn't been inspected an sealed by ACOG, there was no way we could tell if it was a real camera, or a real camera plus bomb. I'm not saying that we should incarcerate students every time a student gifted in electronics brings in home project he or she is proud of and some shit-for-brains liberal arts major can't understand either.
I for one don't want to go back to the mind set where everyone you didn't like or understand had to live in mortal fear of being accused of witchcraft or terrorism, and this is what this incident feels like to me.
In my book it's a clear case of a Female English teacher libels student for being creative in a technical area. Obviously the Engineering Teacher has had plenty of experience with the prejudices of the other teachers. She didn't understand it, it looked remotely like a bomb detonator she saw Sam Hanna defuse on NCIS LA, and Mohamed is geeky enough to be mass murderer waiting for a trigger, so it was inevitable.
The thing I have the most problem with is there was no mention of the school being evacuated and the supposedly "suspicious" clock being evaluated by the Bomb Squad, you would think they would have a "zero tolerance policy" on evacuating the school on discovery of object suspected of being an explosive device.
This is a very good argument for not using text messaging and sending everything even remotely interesting via encrypted email, and having everything sent via Email encrypted; if only interesting emails are encrypted, then bad actors will know which emails are of interest.
I see, you were expecting to see someone else's wife naked.
Beer doesn't work in micro-gravity, the sediment doesn't settle out of the wort, and what happens to the head when you pour a glass is just obscene.
I support space research......but couldn't they find anything more important to study?
MORE important than WHISKY?
That sound you just heard was my head exploding.
These Millennials just don't have an appropriate values system, I blame the educational system.
What would be more important to Ardbeg Distilleries than the ageing of a single malt scotch whiskey? Why should NanoRacks care what a company sends to space as long as they pay their bill and don't jeopardise other payload?
I'm actually surprised it did taste different, makes me wonder how it would taste if a sample was centrifuged at 10G for two years.
Seriously, digging in melted permafrost is like digging in wet paper mache; that's why they drive big stuff in on ice roads; try going to the beach and digging below the water table.
You do have to be careful with fertilizer, too much injures the soil's micro-flora which inhibits the crop's ability to absorb essential nutrients and minerals; modern farmers use a crop production service that analyses the soil, considers the crop being planted and applies a custom blended mixture of fertilizer and minerals. Production increases in Europe have been flat, it's hard to tell if this is because of their abhorance of GMO and pesticides, antiquated farming methods or increased bio-mass monoculture, but European soil is losing organic carbon compounds and fertility.
A good sized piece of the deforestation pie is to increase oil nut and sugar cane production to feed the bio-fuel industry.
Yes. It is important to not question if Nazis really went to the trouble of tattooing serial numbers on Jews right before killing them and sending them to the ovens.
I always assumed it was a pathological obsession to maintaining ritualistic behaviours, unthinking obedience to their superiors orders, and of course dehumanizing your intended victims, but I'm open to other conjectures.
Deuterium - Deuterium or Deuterium - Tritium.
The point is, if they can't do it in Ubuntu, they can't do it in anything, skype is skype, M$ Office changes things just for the sake of commercial trainers; so if users are just memorizing click streams they are going to be just as lost between versions of Office as they are between Office and LibreOffice.
Which would also be puzzling, as in any normal corporate setup users can't install software on their own Windows machines either.
Oh yes they can, That one mission critical application really isn't windows compatible and will not run properly without Administrator privileges, so the users can install anything they like.
What's to educate? need a text editor, there is always notepad, in Ubuntu, when wine is installed it's just like in Windows. Oh wait maybe they are chocking on single clicking an icon instead of double clicking. Seriously, If you have any issues using Ubuntu that Aren't solved by "use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office" or click the "K" instead of "Start" or "Use Muon to install the software you want", you should just step away from the computer, any computer. You know if they think going from Windows XP to Ubuntu is a culture shock, wait until they see windows 8.1!
Still doesn't mean anything, with all of the data breaches that have happened over the years; would Ashley Madison really be beyond plumping up their membership lists bought from hackers? Real cheaters would be using freebee Gmail or outlook accounts with Greendot cards and burner phones. You only have to watch a couple movies to learn more spy-craft than the Impact Teams expects us to believe the typical cheater has.
Now.... If you find your wife on there...
There's an 80% chance she was there to see if you were.
My original comment was "Add to that the current satellite data shows no statistically significant warming for 18 out of the 65 years that anthropogenic warming was even possible, ... ", your statistician is not only working on adjusted data, but is working on adjusted ground station data i.e. the GISS temperature product so it's a strawman argument and a complete red herring.
CO2 has been theoretically able to overcome the effects of natural variability since about 1950, hence the 65 years; there has been a pause in warming for a little over 18 years or about half of the satellite record. The pause is going to end soon due to the current El Nino, I’m actually surprised it hasn't ended all ready, the next 5 or 6 years will be interesting.
You can't just add water to the atmosphere. Cold air will not hold much water. The water vapour capacity of air increases as the temperature increases. Warmer air means more humidity means warmer air. It's a feedback.
True but what people often don't realise is CO2 has a molecular weight of about 44, Air is about 21 and water vapor is about 18; so CO2 is heavier than air whereas water vapor is lighter than air. This means it is more plausible that water vapor will carry heat and kinetic energy high above the IR scattering of CO2 where the energy is more easily radiated to space as the vapor condenses into clouds and rain and be a net negative feedback. Where or not this is the case in reality is a matter of emerging science, so every time some alarmist says "The science is settled", my brain screams they are a bald-faced liar.