WTF, conspiracy theorists about Ahmed Mohamed on Hacker News
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I'm just making a point that the family has a habit of engineering situations
Yeah. Sneaky fuckers went to Texas - Texas! - acting all Muslim and shit.
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It is in a freaking Samsonite
Samsonite makes 7 inch pencil cases with tiger decals now? TIL.
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@tufty said:
Given the inherent racism in
America (and, to be honest, most western countries)humanityFTFH
You fucking race baiter.
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Does it look like a bomb? Yes (to most people), and that is a red flag for a school.
Do you think 14yo boys do stupid things all the time just to get attention? Hell yes, I know from experience
What do you think about the teacher who called the cops? idiot over-reactionary
What do you think of the cops? of course idiots, perhaps also bigots. What they did does not make sense at all. Either they thought it is a bomb, and they should have called a bomb squad, or just laughed at the teacher
What do you think of the kid? smart, loved it and he deserves all the goodies he gets
What do you think about people getting jumpy about the kid getting attention? immature at best, he is a kid get over itWhy do I get the feeling I attack (and get attacked by) both sides of every argument in this forum, just because I do not let prejudice shadow my reasoning.
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He took apart a clock and put its guts in a different box.
About as much credit as I give him for being "smart" is that he didn't electrocute himself.
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Yet he got scholarship offers and met my favorite president, and you did not.
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I got scholarship offers for being smart, not for being a race-baiting troll. Speaking of race-baiting trolls, why would I want to meet your favorite president?
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Yet he got scholarship offers and met my favorite president, and you did not.
Yeah, pretty successful troll, eh?
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He got put on a pedestal by certain people because he fit their social and political agendas. One of them happens to be living in the White House, so yeah. Pretty successful.
I find it pretty ironic that he's dissing the scholarship offers and moving to Qatar, though.
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Perhaps should divide the accomplishments by age to have a metric on success. In the same sense that Justin Bieber is successful, yes he was pretty successful.
None of my pranks when I was 14 got out of my school, his was quite an achievement.
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When you were 14, bringing a homemade device that looked like a bomb but obviously wasn't one to school with you wouldn't have raised eyebrows like it does now. Nor would everyone have been bending over backward to apologise to you afterward because of your brown skin.
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I find it pretty ironic that he's dissing the scholarship offers and moving to Qatar, though.
But they're giving him a scholarship:
Ahmed Mohamed Accepts Scholarship to Qatar Foundation: Embracing a Life-Long Learning in Science and Research
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year old clock-making teenager from Texas, United States, is the latest student to accept a scholarship to Qatar Foun ...
Perhaps should divide the accomplishments by age to have a metric on success. In the same sense that Justin Bieber is successful, yes he was pretty successful.
Not at all like Bieber. I wouldn't recognize one of his songs, to be honest, but he managed to get tons of people to pay money for him to perform. Other than similar ages, I don't see much similarity between these two.
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The kid isn't smart. He didn't invent a clock!
The kid is a Gargoyles-villian level master genius, he orchestrated a international media sensation with tens of thousands of moving parts, massive amounts of risk and nearly zero payoff he couldn't have gotten anyways with his family's connections.
Also, he faked the moon landing to distract us from 9/11
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Why do I get the feeling I attack (and get attacked by) both sides of every argument in this forum, just because I do not let prejudice shadow my reasoning.
+1
met my favorite president
Aw, you HAD to ruin it! :-(
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About as much credit as I give him for being "smart" is that he didn't electrocute himself.
I thought he was an evil mastermind trying to fool the whole America? Jeesh, get your stories straight, people.
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Yet he got scholarship offers and met my favorite president, and you did not.
https://i.imgur.com/Q3aY7nM.jpg
Filed Under: Bang!
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At least it proves that he is not nobody :)
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some of my Muslim friends are white, some are black, and some are shades in between
Gray? How many shades?
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How many people actually voted for nobody, as opposed to not voting at all?
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How many people actually voted for nobody, as opposed to not voting at all?
I would if it was an option.
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It is an option. Unless your state doesn't have a "write in" section on the ballot. In which case you live in a weird and mutant state.
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Unless your state doesn't have a "write in" section on the ballot.
Doesn't casting an invalid vote technically count as "voting for nobody" in that case? Poland doesn't have write-ins (and thank God for that, or who knows what YouTube star our government will have to seek out to nominate for President), but it's apparently common to deliberately invalidate your vote to show you were concerned enough to vote, but didn't find any of the candidates good enough.
Filed under: if Deez Nuts could be the president of Poland, he probably would
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It's never mandatory to make a vote selection on every category, or even in any of them as far as I know. You can show up, get your name checked off on the voter turnout rolls, get your ballot, and cast it without voting for anyone. That's why the number of ballots cast (voter turnout) can be higher than the number of votes cast in any particular race.
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That's true. The county I live in is mail-in voting only, and there's no law that says you have to fill in the ballot. You can simple leave it blank, sign it, and mail it in.
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“There is no other way to put it: Ahmed’s reputation in the global community is permanently scarred.”
The letter demands that $5 million be paid to the family from the school district and $10 million be paid by the city.
I guess we all knew it was coming. How can I damage my global reputation enough to get lots of people falling all over themselves to help me?
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I guess we all knew it was coming.
Well duh. He got perp-walked, he now has half the Internet spilling vitriol at him, and you expected him not to sue? He might've gotten some perks out of it, but does that mean that if you're a victim and you get media attention out of it, you should just be a nice guy and not sue?
And either way, even if we accept your assertion that it was all just a provocation to troll the mighty America out of its hard-earned money... well you dun got trolled. It still doesn't make it justifiable for the school and officers to behave as they did.
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He might've gotten some perks out of it, but does that mean that if you're a victim and you get media attention out of it, you should just be a nice guy and not sue?
I think his case is bullshit, so, yeah, he should not sue.
It still doesn't make it justifiable for the school and officers to behave as they did.
I think they got it pretty much right with the hoax bomb idea.
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I think his case is bullshit, so, yeah, he should not sue.
Then he'll get thrown out of court. Your point?
I think they got it pretty much right with the hoax bomb idea.
Yeeeeah, except there was no bomb scare, he didn't threaten anyone or even claim it's a bomb, and there was - and is - no way they can prove it was a hoax. So... hook, line and sinker, 'Murica.
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Yeeeeah, except there was no bomb scare, he didn't threaten anyone or even claim it's a bomb, and there was - and is - no way they can prove it was a hoax.
So...what was his troll then? Look, maybe he's really just an idiot. I'm open to that possibility. Hanlon's razor and all that. But his claims that it wasn't a bomb doesn't mean that he didn't want people to think it was. And he said stuff (like using a cable to close it so it didn't look suspicious) that point to him knowing that people might think it was a bomb.
Yeah, I think he wanted people to think it was a bomb, and then he could point out how it obviously wasn't. That's a hoax. It worked, and may work even more.
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I love that phrasing. He's DEMANDING it. Like a cartoon supervillain.
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I think his case is bullshit,
I don't agree with the amount, but he was arrested without cause. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to sue over. And he's hardly the first lawsuit participant to ask for more money than he should be entitled to.
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So...what was his troll then? Look, maybe he's really just an idiot.
THOSE ARE THE TWO OPTIONS BOOMZILLA WILL ACCEPT! TROLL OR IDIOT! THERE CAN BE NOTHING INBETWEEN!!!
Hey did you hear about how he didn't build a clock but just got an existing clock and put it in a new case? Since he didn't build the clock himself, that makes him mega-Hitler in the Boomzilla brain! They shouldn't have just arrested him, they should have vaporized him! Slightly exaggerating about building a clock is the worst form of terrorism!!!
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THOSE ARE THE TWO OPTIONS BOOMZILLA WILL ACCEPT! TROLL OR IDIOT! THERE CAN BE NOTHING INBETWEEN!!!
Those are the best explanations based on the evidence.
I don't agree with the amount, but he was arrested without cause.
I don't agree that he was arrested without cause. I know you take his word as proof that there was no cause.
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I don't agree that he was arrested without cause.
THE COPS WHO ARRESTED HIM ADMITTED THEY HAD NO CAU--
you know what, fuck it. Go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh, or Mark Levin or whatever the fuck's plastered all over AM radio now.
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THE COPS WHO ARRESTED HIM ADMITTED THEY HAD NO CAU--
No, they ultimately decided not to charge him. That's not the same thing.
"Under Texas law, a person is guilty of possessing a hoax bomb if he possesses a device that is intended to cause anyone to be alarmed or a reaction of any type by law enforcement officers," Boyd said.
Ahmed was later released to his parents as police further investigated the incident. Boyd said a further probe revealed Ahmed didn't intend to create alarm. He also said officers later discovered there were some on campus who were aware of the student's invention, but that it wasn't part of a school project, to his knowledge.
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STOP.
I am not continuing this with you. It's like talking to a wall. Fuck off. Get out of my thread. Go fuck a goat. I don't care what you do, just STOP.
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he was arrested
just arrested him
he was arrested
He was detained, not arrested.
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Cult of Dusty posted the ultimate breakdown of this whole thing IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UGLM31S6II
The only blame he left out was for this stupid "no tolerance" policy and the cops who handled the whole thing terribly and allowed it to explode the way it did.
Filed Under: Sigh. "Explode". Hehehe. Get it. Funny.
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He was detained, not arrested.
That's pretense on the part of the cops; they always say that. ("Oh, no, we're not arresting you, just detaining you.")
From Wex Legal Dictionary:
An arrest is using legal authority to deprive a person of his or her freedom of movement. An arrest is generally made with an arrest warrant. An arrest may be made without a warrant if probable cause and exigent circumstances are presented at the time of the arrest.
Legally, they arrested him. They may not have charged him with a crime but that doesn't make his detention not an arrest.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
ARE YOU APPROPRIATING LAWYER CULTURE?!?!
OH NOES, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT, I SO BAD!
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