President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
Good luck getting the clock past the TSA.
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
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#812Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then why don't the Obama kids go to public school? Citing security would be silly. A school is a school. Even the President doesn't believe in public schools. If he does, he sure isn't eating his dog food.
While this has great rhetorical impact, it is still an appeal to authority. To me, the Obamas are just like any other rich(er) family. The PotUS has no special expertise in this domain. They can afford to send their kids to private school, they believe that school to be superior to the public schools their kids would otherwise attend, so they pay the private tuition. As a parent, I agree with this. I, however, do not…
it is true that the president may have no special expertise in assessing whether private schools are better than government schools, but it strikes me that any support he expresses for public schools is going to ring hollow if he isn't personally invested in the success of government schools.
I could be mistaken, but as far as I am aware no politician (from either side of the aisle) sends their kids to a government school. At least, no politician at the national level (president, congress, etc.).
I am not a fan of having a centralized governmental school system (I think the indoctrination risk is greater, because then there aren't competing institutions around to teach anything different) but it strikes me that any voter who does believe in government schools should demand that their representatives send their own kids to governmental schools as a sign of good faith.
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#813Earlier quoted context omitted.
Running seti / etc on the school computers does result in thousands of dollars spend on extra electricity. He was number one on SETI for years, running the client without approval on 5,000 machines. It's not surprising that people get fired for increasing costs by that much without getting approval first. See also http://www.securityfocus.com/news/300
That's ridiculous. Now you're going to say I'm "breaking the law" for installing a bitcoin miner on all the computers I support and donating the money to charity (well, some of it;rent doesn't pay itself)!
Yep, government works have been fired for mining on government computers. Unauthorized computer use.
http://www.businessinsider.com/researcher-bitcoin-supercompu...
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#814Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my school district[0] teachers start at $43,500 and max out at $63,688 (after 30 years and a PhD) You can pick up some extra stipends if you coach or work in certian departments (STEM) but good luck getting into 6 digits as a Teacher. When I taught in Massachusetts (where we have a teacher union)[1] pay starts at $36,400 and maxes out at $74,000 (with a PhD) after 19 years. Turns out that public school salary info…
Well, you can easily look up NYC teacher salaries. They start at $50k and go up to $105k. http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2712AB02-A1EF-4CE2-B879-... When you take into account the shorter work day/work year http://www.uft.org/new-teachers/your-work-day-and-year really good benefits, including a $50-$60k a year pension ( http://www.empirecenter.org/publications/pension-calculator/ ) and essentially tenure...well,…
Why shouldn't it be 'not too bad'? For NYC that's the lower end of middle class- comparable to being in a (unionized) trade. And I can guarantee the teachers put up with more shit than a plumber.
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#815President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
Shouldn't he have done proper presidenting to make sure this didn't happen? I see only PR here.
The President doesn't control what officials in Texas do... But this is a cool move. It's PR, but it's the best kind of PR, especially from the President that called on the country to become a "nation of makers".
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#816Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're mistaken. You might want to ignore race [...] I neither appreciate the defaming mischaracterization resulting from your mistake, nor do I appreciate the casual and irresponsible manner in which you do so: police made repeated mention of his surname. Neither the original DallasNews article nor the TechCrunch article makes any such assertion about . The only person who draws that assertion is his dad, for which…
Actually, it is the kid himself is who is saying it. http://mic.com/articles/125400/texas-police-officer-to-ahmed... Now given you are getting all high and mighty bandying around terms like defamation, you going to go calling him a liar?
EDIT: I believe you are misunderstanding the meaning of my previous comment based on its use of indefinite pronouns and how it was physically structured relative to the quote block. Rather than rehash it here, please re-read it.[1]
EDIT 2: Looks like my Edit window timed out. I meant to also update this line as follows:
Neither the original DallasNews article nor the TechCrunch article
makes any such assertion about the officer's use of his surname.
EDIT 3: One last time for clarity, the kid felt his name to be relevant (which still does not mean his name was in fact relevant), but did not assert that the "police made repeated mention of his surname", which, apart from the mischaracterizations, was specifically what I was refuting.
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#817Earlier quoted context omitted.
Irving, Texas is not typical of what most consider the deep south. It's part of the DFW metroplex which is in the nation's fourth largest population center[1], and it's in a county that went 57% for Obama in the 2012 election[2]. So let's just be careful about painting wide swaths of the country with an singular view. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic... [2] - http://elections.nytimes…
I guess you are not familiar with Irving's Mayor, Beth Van Duyne... Sorry to blow your theory right out of the water.
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#818The look on the kid's face in that first photo says it all, really. Welcome to Earth, kid. These will be your fellow human beings. Enjoy your stay.
Hell, the kid has a NASA shirt, is a thin nerdy type and brought a science project to school to show it off (instead of whatever illegal things kids bring to schools these days). I really, really hope someone will pick this up and offer that kid some kind of internship somewhere, if only to keep his moral and spirit up.
It seems like a few big figures did pick this it up and offer the kid some awesome opportunities. Obama, Facebook, NASA, etc.
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#819Earlier quoted context omitted.
The father is an anti-Islamist. Anti. It means opposite. The guy is sufficiently anti-Islamist to go run for president of Sudan. That takes some dedication. Muslim != Islamist, just as Christian != Westboro Baptist.
The article said the father is outspoken against (presumably imaginary) anti-Islamic policies. You may not know this, but Sudan is ruled by its Muslim, Arab north and is often quite happy to enslave or murder the black Christians in its south. Hardly a model of an anti-Islamist republic.
Do you know what party he runs for? Because that would seem to be a bit of important information to have before you slander him.
He ran for the National Reform Party. Here's his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20110903180626/http://www.alisla...
Note repeated use of the word "sufi".
EDIT: He tried to repeal laws against converting from Islam and ratifying human rights. That's not the stance of Islamists. http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan
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#820Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, far from being definitive, but it looks like a regular pc will cost around $227.52 (350 watt psu, $18.96 per month) in electricity per year to run 24/7.[1] (calculated using $0.06 per kWh, which is rather low for most people in the US) So, 5,000 machines running 24/7/365 would cost around $1,137,600 annually (5,000 machines * $227.52 per year) in electricity usage alone. Of that 24 hours per day, we can assume…
Just one data point, but I have a machine I run Folding@Home on most of the time, and that is plugged into a Kill-A-Watt. The difference between idle and full folding power is about 70W, as I recall. Not trivial, but 1/5 of what you've estimated here. 15 years ago, the power difference was probably smaller, maybe quite a bit smaller -- modern CPUs are better optimized for low idle power.
You're probably running a much more powerful processor than the school's computers were. The report is from 2009 at the earliest based on the cited forum post. There were some very low TDP processors during the 2000-2009 time frame that were very common in education systems.
Core 2 Duo was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...