11-year old "engineer" needs counseling
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From: Richard Henry on 17 Jan 2010 00:37 On Jan 16, 7:14 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Joel Koltner wrote: > > <don> wrote in message > >news:HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net... > >>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch.... > > > That's sad. I wonder what "school policies" he supposedly violated? > > > A guy I'm acquainted with was telling me the other day that he build a > > Xenon flash bulb driver circuit from Popular Electronics back in the > > '80s, took it to school, and tried to convince his "friends" to touch > > the output terminals while he hit the trigger button. :-) > > > I suppose these days you'd get expelled for that sort of thing... > > > When I was in high school I built various "photogate" sensors and > > timers... the photogates were made out of PVC piping (cheap, strong, and > > readily available); no doubt that'd get you in trouble today too. > > > Make Magazine must be considered terrorist literature by now... > > > ---Joel > > When I was in school I took a jar of homemade napalm to show around. > Teachers were quite impressed. > Of course, that was in the 1960s. > > -- > Dirk > > http://www.transcendence.me.uk/- Transcendence UKhttp://www.theconsensus.org/- A UK political partyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe- Occult Talk Show The whiz kids at my high school learned how to make nitroglycerin and butyric acid.
From: krw on 17 Jan 2010 01:01 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:49:10 -0800 (PST), "J.A. Legris" <jalegris(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: >On Jan 16, 5:53�pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:26 -0700) it happened don <don> wrote >> in <HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4...(a)forethought.net>: >> >> >http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch... >> >> US has turned into a bunch of paranoid schizofrenics. > >No, the U.S. has turned into a place where there's a reasonable chance >of being harmed by crazies using anything from handguns, to assault >rifles, to homemade bombs. When confronted in the classroom with an >unrequested homemade device about the size of a bomb, bearing wires, >what would you do - ask the kid to demonstrate its safeness? You _are_ an idiot.
From: Robert Baer on 17 Jan 2010 02:52 J.A. Legris wrote: > On Jan 16, 5:53 pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:26 -0700) it happened don <don> wrote >> in <HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4...(a)forethought.net>: >> >>> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch... >> US has turned into a bunch of paranoid schizofrenics. > > No, the U.S. has turned into a place where there's a reasonable chance > of being harmed by crazies using anything from handguns, to assault > rifles, to homemade bombs. When confronted in the classroom with an > unrequested homemade device about the size of a bomb, bearing wires, > what would you do - ask the kid to demonstrate its safeness? > > -- > Joe Absolutely! If it (was) unsafe, the kid would become a poster child for the annual Darwin award. Naturally, the teacher, whatever would take safety precautions shortly befor the demonstration...
From: Falk Willberg on 17 Jan 2010 04:02 J.A. Legris schrieb: > On Jan 16, 5:53 pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:43:26 -0700) it happened don <don> wrote >> in <HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4...(a)forethought.net>: >> >>> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch... >> US has turned into a bunch of paranoid schizofrenics. "A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students..." Terrorists show their bombs around? "... *empty* half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components..." > No, the U.S. has turned into a place where there's a reasonable chance > of being harmed by crazies using anything from handguns, to assault > rifles, to homemade bombs. Common sense. And common sense (Hollymood movies) teaches, that cylindrical objects are not batteries but dynamite and the wires are used to ignite the dynamite. But it is also general knowledge how to deactivate any bomb: Wait for the counter to go down to 00:05 and the cut the *blue* wire. (Never cut the red wire!) BTW: Are cars allowed near U.S. schools? Falk
From: Jan Panteltje on 17 Jan 2010 04:37
On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:28:37 -0800) it happened "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote in <WQs4n.51973$er1.24343(a)en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com>: ><don> wrote in message >news:HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net... >> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/ > >That's sad. I wonder what "school policies" he supposedly violated? > >A guy I'm acquainted with was telling me the other day that he build a Xenon >flash bulb driver circuit from Popular Electronics back in the '80s, took it >to school, and tried to convince his "friends" to touch the output terminals >while he hit the trigger button. :-) > >I suppose these days you'd get expelled for that sort of thing... > >When I was in high school I built various "photogate" sensors and timers... >the photogates were made out of PVC piping (cheap, strong, and readily >available); no doubt that'd get you in trouble today too. > >Make Magazine must be considered terrorist literature by now... > >---Joel In high school I once brought a TV tube (CRT) for the physics teacher, so we could do experiments with electron beam deflection. What implosion danger, on the back of the bike... what wires :-) What glass tube? He did not want it, dunno why, but we stayed after school with a blackboard full of equations about electrons... Very inspiring guy. So, anyways, in these day I would be arrested and counselled for that? Or worse, shot in the head first just in case it was dangerous, like they shot that guy in the UK from South America who had a backpack? Paranoid schizofrenia!! And, let's face it, is is all because of GW Bush and his cronies. How sick one nut case can make a whole population, how really really sad.. |