[PLUG-TALK] good grief

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 08:55:31AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
> >This is just pathetic.
> ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/16/they-thought-it-was-a-bomb-ahmed-mohamed-texas-9th-grader-arrested-after-bringing-a-home-built-clock-to-school/?tid=sm_tw>
> 
> Might as well tell anyone from a marginalized or feared population
> not to experiment with science and/or engineering because ... Fear.

As Russell Senior pointed out in another forum this is as much an electronics ignorance problem.
Witness the MIT Sophomore arrested for wearing an LED blinky shirt.
http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html

 
> And then the school suspends him for three days. When it should be
> apologizing!
> 
> O common sense, where art thou?
> O civil liberties, where hast thou fled?


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