Purely out of curiosity...

[Danny Weltman]

I once took apart a digital watch to change the battery. It had about seven
parts, including the battery and the watchband, and I still managed to it
back together wrong. I had a tiny piece of metal left over (which turned
out to be a blessing, because it silenced the watch - I never did like
those beeps) and somehow it was no longer watertight, so condensation would
often form inside the face.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:01 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Jon Ronson book is a fun light read. It made me think twice about
> how I use social media, and how I read stories that are ultimately
> inconsequential if you take three seconds to think about it. He
> doesn't go far enough in some cases, especially when it comes to
> considering who recovers most easily from public shaming (rich white
> guys - Trump even knowingly goes for the kind of ridicule that would
> slaughter someone not already in a position of power).
>
> I've been astonished by how Dawkins has gone in guns blazing against
> the clock kid. First you take down God, good for you, but then you
> follow up by targeting some teenage boy? I'm far more interested in
> why people get all het up about Ahmed than I am his supposed crimes.
>
> Also: try taking apart a clock then putting it back together. It's frickin
> hard.
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:45 AM,  <rbollinger at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > Please cite your statute governing reassembled clock parts...
> >
> >
> > Rob Bollinger
> > Austin TX
> >
> > ---- ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Was the clock a school project? In other words, did a teacher, a club
> >> adviser, any adult in the school assign a project, and did the clock fit
> >> the assignment? Or did the young man make a clock and bring it to
> school?
> >>
> >> As far as I can tell the young man did not build a clock or make a
> project,
> >> or in any way bring something to school that was part of an assignment
> from
> >> any adult in the building. It was not a project. It was not show and
> tell.
> >> It seems the student took apart a clock, re-fashioned it and put in in a
> >> box and brought it to school.
> >>
> >> Why did he do this? What was his motivation?
> >>
> >> Whatever his intentions, if he re-assembled clock parts in a box and
> took
> >> them to school, he broke the law. While 14 year old boys, and sometimes
> 14
> >> year old girls, are instructed that bringing a clock in a box, a plastic
> >> gun, a plastic sword, a paper bomb or dynamite  etc..., even on
> Halloween
> >> is dangerous and against the law, young people do make these kinds of
> >> mistakes, from time to time. Best if they make them in school as school
> is
> >> the safest place in the world for students. Obviously, doing so in the
> >> street may get one killed by a police officer or even a gun toting
> citizen.
> >> In a school the child, age 14, will be interrogated, handcuffed,
> probably,
> >> and asked to write a statement explaining his or her intentions and the
> >> police will contact the guardians and book the kid. This is the law. It
> >> matters not the race or religion of the child.
> >>
> >> From time to time, a  brave administrator, more likely an experienced
> >> teacher will protect the child with a slap on the wrist, but the current
> >> mood in the country and in schools is making this a rare act of....welll
> >> not courage, but decency.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:02 AM, The Jonathon Hunt Experience <
> >> newtalkingwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there any evidence that the kid "only" took apart a store bought
> clock
> >> > and put it back together, beyond people online pointing out that
> doing so
> >> > is a thing that people can do? Beyond that, if the child acted as
> >> > maliciously as Richard Dawkins and others would like to believe, this
> means
> >> > his whole plan hinged on the knowledge that his teachers and police
> would
> >> > confuse a circuit board and some wires with something that can
> explode. If
> >> > our teachers and police are this stupid (which seems to be the case,
> here),
> >> > then we are lucky in getting off with a $15 million dollar fine.
> >> >
> >
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