11-year old "engineer" needs counseling
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From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Jan 2010 13:02 Falk Willberg wrote: > > 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!) That's why I only use green wire for projects. No red or blue wire = no bomb. > BTW: Are cars allowed near U.S. schools? Some high school kids drive to school. -- Greed is the root of all eBay.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Jan 2010 13:03 Reinardt Behm wrote: > > On Sunday 17 January 2010 10:02 Falk Willberg wrote: > > > 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!) > > This always makes me wonder wether there is a published standard for wire > colors in a bomb. > And what the punishment for not adhering to this standard? :-) The bomb goes off while you're building it. -- Greed is the root of all eBay.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Jan 2010 13:08 Jan Panteltje wrote: > > 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.. I took a 5" scope tube to school, to give to another student in the late '60s. Some idiots tried to have me thrown off the bus because "It will explode and kill everyone." the driver told them to shut up and sit down, then mumbled, "Damned Idiots!" -- Greed is the root of all eBay.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Jan 2010 13:08 Jim Thompson wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:28:37 -0800, "Joel Koltner" > <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > ><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 > > This demonstrates what is fundamentally wrong with our school systems. > The educational "elite" think they know better than anyone else about > anything. They make arbitrary stupid rules and exhibit no capability > to apply some reasonable judgment. We parents need to take the school > system back from these terrorists. > > I'll supply the pick-em-up truck ;-) Too cheap to spring for the rope? -- Greed is the root of all eBay.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 17 Jan 2010 13:27
krw wrote: > > You'll never stack enough NEA members in a pickup to do any good. Offer them high paying jobs in Haiti. They are too stupid to live through the next earthquake. -- Greed is the root of all eBay. |