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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak proclaims Ahmed Mohamed a ‘modern day hero’
Dallas Morning News ^ | Robert Wilonsky

Posted on 09/29/2015 12:02:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

At this point there’s no point in aggregating ever last this and that about Ahmed Mohamed, especially since this is the newspaper that has Avi Selk on the payroll. But a reader did forward a Facebook post in which you might be interested — and, no, not Mark Zuckerberg’s, but an overnight post from Apple co-founder (and Midlake fan) Steve Wozniak.

Related Irving 9th-grader goes from handcuffed to hero over homemade clock frenzy GOP candidates weigh in on Ahmed Mohamed arrest for ‘hoax bomb’ Editorial: Overreaction in clock-bomb mix-up has chilling effect It began with a few sentences in which The Man Called Woz recounts his origin story, before he met Steve Jobs and crafted that garage myth. Wrote Wozniak, without mentioning Ahmed by name:

The story about the kid arrested for making a clock takes me back to high school in 1967. I built an electronic metronome and placed it in a friend’s locker, along with a tin-foil switch to speed up the ticking when the locker was opened. I couldn’t hold my laughter when Principal Bryld told me how he extracted the ‘bomb’, ran out to the football field (from the C building), and dismantled it. I wound up spending a night in ‘juvie’. I did teach other inmates there how they could remove the electric wires from an overhead fan and attach them to the metal bars no shock the guards. And that could have been the end of it — a retelling of the origin story also found in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. But instead, Wozniak responded to fans who thumbsed-up the well-known story.

Wrote one Steven Schuster of Racine, Wisconsin: “Sounds like you could have gone either way.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...


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To: null and void; Impala64ssa

Just noticed you pinged me.

When I met him, 30 years ago, I felt like an idiot.

This guy has an amazing brain and just the best disposition.


21 posted on 09/29/2015 12:21:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 4rcane; Impala64ssa

A nobody?

There is no Steve Jobs without Woz.

Woz invented the Apple, Jobs was the salesman.


22 posted on 09/29/2015 12:22:32 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Impala64ssa

“Another reason to stay away from Apple products. How detached and disassociated must one be?...”
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Wozniak IS a complete idiot and lacks all understanding of this fraud. He likely only “knows” what he has seen in the mainstream media which depicts this room temperature IQ kid as an oppressed genius instead of the fraud he is.

That being said, Wozniak has nothing to do with current Apple products...they are way beyond the things he is capable of creating. So the idiot Wozniak is not a reason to avoid Apple products.


23 posted on 09/29/2015 12:22:40 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: Impala64ssa
If you've lost Bill Maher, you've lost the argument.

On last Friday’s show, Maher assailed the fables spun by liberal apologists, pointing out two basic facts: the “clock” that Mohamed brought to school did look like a bomb, and that the 14-year-old who’s been hailed as a genius inventor didn’t actually invent anything at all.

1. Looked Like a Bomb

2. Ahmed Didn't Invent Anything

Ahmed, his sister and father are antagonist, looking for trouble, only to calm racism.

How quickly they learn.

24 posted on 09/29/2015 12:22:59 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Impala64ssa

So, Clockmed opens up an off-the-shelf digital clock, extracts the circuit board and display, sticks those in a metal briefcase, and he’s a “genius”? Really? How the hell has the U.S. gotten so completely stupid, and why is the media going along with this utter nonsense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHk_6Vh4Qeo


25 posted on 09/29/2015 12:23:08 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

Woz absolutely does not hate America.

He loves the US of A but, has a different take on things that makes him eccentric...like a lot of wealthy people...LOL


26 posted on 09/29/2015 12:23:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: massgopguy
If the kid had taken the guts out of an iPhone and said he invented it. You’d be reading about the youngest plaintiff to be sued by Apple.

Hey, that's what Samsung did!

Regardless, Ahmed is following in Obama's footsteps, faking every so-called "accomplishment". And Wozniak got suckered by this faker.

27 posted on 09/29/2015 12:24:05 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Impala64ssa

Apple: There is a reason their devices only have one button.


28 posted on 09/29/2015 12:24:33 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: House Atreides

Uhmmmm...Wrong.

Woz still has input into products, just not from a direct corporate level...


29 posted on 09/29/2015 12:24:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Impala64ssa
And those with a clue responds with a resounding

What a turd!

30 posted on 09/29/2015 12:26:52 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Impala64ssa

All that was living has addled his brain.


31 posted on 09/29/2015 12:27:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: thesharkboy

In which case, I am also a highly prolific author.


32 posted on 09/29/2015 12:28:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Cyman
All his money and he can’t buy himself a neck
If they ever do a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show he can play the narrator. WHERE'S YOUR BLEEPING NECK??!?
33 posted on 09/29/2015 12:29:23 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Mr Wazznoikee,

There is no excuse for this idiocy.

There’s two kinds of people in this world: educated and unducated.
One of them has a legitimate excuse. You, on the other hand, you are educated and you’re STILL an idiot!
Thats the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
No doubt about it, plain stupid.

-Si


34 posted on 09/29/2015 12:31:33 PM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: Dante3

Baltimore STEM students design prosthetic hands for needy
Parts designed from 3-D printed material

UPDATED 5:39 PM EDT Sep 28, 2015

http://www.wbaltv.com/education/baltimore-stem-students-design-prosthetic-hands-for-needy/35531546

I don’t think these kids got invited to the White House


35 posted on 09/29/2015 12:32:44 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Vendome

By all accounts you’re right. He used to Segway past our house all the time on his way to the Apple store downtown, and the staff there seemed to think he was a pretty nice guy.

But there can only be two reasons for Woz to say what he did about this Ahmed kid. One of those doesn’t speak well for his intentions.


36 posted on 09/29/2015 12:33:08 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: faithhopecharity

I’m not impressed with the Iphone. I miss my Samsung.


37 posted on 09/29/2015 12:34:04 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Impala64ssa

People standing in line to be stupid in public.


38 posted on 09/29/2015 12:36:45 PM PDT by jimbug
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To: ilovesarah2012

samsung Tv’s have the best pictures, by far, of any boobtoobs on display at either Sears or BestBuy


39 posted on 09/29/2015 12:36:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: skeeter

When Segway came out, he started a Polo team for Segway.

Shortly after that I introduced him to a friend. Beautiful, Blonde and makes mens heads turn.

They were engaged for a short time but, ultimately the whole Beauty and The Beast thing belongs in story books.

Came to her house one night and he was demonstrating Segways. Helped my Dad learn how to ride and afterward, Woz and I loaded four of them things into his Prius.

He had it down to a science and we got em in just fine.

I said something funny about the Prius/Segway thing but, forget what was and he couldn’t stop laughing.

Just a great guy.


40 posted on 09/29/2015 12:37:35 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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