He didn't even make the clock: http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin...
Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school
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#22Regardless of what you think about all the actors at play here, this is one of those stories to look back on that says... something... about the internet. A few million tweets led to media attention, discourse about schools and race, meetings with presidents and scholarships to prestigious universities. All good things and all was once again well in the world and the internet won. However, with time, more details com…
> with time, more details come out that make the whole thing not quite as clear cut
What details came out that made it less clear cut?
Re: Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school
#23This makes no sense. The standard award for one death is $8m.
In no world is what he went through equal two people losing their lives.
Re: Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school
#24Regardless of what you think about all the actors at play here, this is one of those stories to look back on that says... something... about the internet. A few million tweets led to media attention, discourse about schools and race, meetings with presidents and scholarships to prestigious universities. All good things and all was once again well in the world and the internet won. However, with time, more details com…
I wasn't sure what you were talking about, with respect to the other side of the story, but after searching ran across this article: http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin... Not sure how I missed it, but if anyone else did as well, it really looks like he just moved the guts of an old clock into a new casing. He didn't really design any circuitry at all.
> it really looks like he just moved the guts of an old clock into a new casing. He didn't really design any circuitry at all
He's 14 years old and learning electronics—I'm not sure what light this sheds on anything?
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#25Sorry, that seems opportunistic. I felt bad for him, but no way he was scarred to the tune of $15 million. Even the bad experience had a major upside - he was offered an internship to Twitter and an invitation to the White House. Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix. In this case everyone involved in suspending him should have been seriously reprimanded and an apology given…
> Schools are budget-deprived enough without adding frivolous lawsuits to the mix.
I'm sorry, in what way is this frivolous?
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#26I encourage everyone to dig into this story a bit more. This family acted in a provocative way, and now they to attempt to punish the school and taxpayers.
> This family acted in a provocative way
Lucky for them, then, that the school and police were as racist as his family expected, and they walked right into his trap.
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#27This move really undermines the overwhelming good will that people had towards Ahmed.
I couldn't disagree more. Schools & cities both ought to live in fear of lawsuits to stop this kind of nonsense from occuring as a kneejerk reaction and give common sense an opportunity to prevail.
Living in fear of lawsuits is why we don't have climbing equipment in parks and diving boards in pools anymore. Lawsuits need to be scaled back and commonsense returned.
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#28An asshole.
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#29This move really undermines the overwhelming good will that people had towards Ahmed.
I couldn't disagree more. Schools & cities both ought to live in fear of lawsuits to stop this kind of nonsense from occuring as a kneejerk reaction and give common sense an opportunity to prevail.
More like clock boy wants to line his pockets with tax payer money after getting massive amounts of sympathy, products and scholarships from liberals trying to signal to other liberals.
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#30This move really undermines the overwhelming good will that people had towards Ahmed.
I couldn't disagree more. Schools & cities both ought to live in fear of lawsuits to stop this kind of nonsense from occuring as a kneejerk reaction and give common sense an opportunity to prevail.
You have to admit; simply taking the casing off a store bought 80's clock, putting it in a suitcase and bringing it to school could easily be grounds for a bomb hoax.