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[jsence2]

Adios, Steve Rannazzisi's career. Was nice while it lasted

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/arts/ ... .html?_r=0

[nick]

Has anyone seen what the clock looks like?

Like a bomb

ya man, bombs have extension cords...

Spoiler!

notice the guys thumb? damn, massive bomb, everyones in danger

[nick]

[GeorgesGoons]

This made me LOL

The build your own Quran and Missile trajectory calculator

[jsence2]

8.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile, almost five miles below the surface

Tsunami waves likely to hit before 11pm local time

[Whittness10]

8.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile, almost five miles below the surface

Tsunami waves likely to hit before 11pm local time

I saw 7.9. Not that it makes much difference, just weird how there could be variance in the number.

[Uuaww]

8.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile, almost five miles below the surface

Tsunami waves likely to hit before 11pm local time

I saw 7.9. Not that it makes much difference, just weird how there could be variance in the number.

It's actually quite a lot. .4 difference is about 2.5x bigger and 3.9x stronger.

[Uuaww]

Also Chile is up there with Japan and California with being built to deal with earthquakes. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti 5 years ago killed about 160000 people. A 7.0 earthquake in any of those places would barely cause damage (not counting tsunami issues).

[GeorgesGoons]

Tsunami alert for Hawaii as well

[jsence2]

Sorry, meant the waves would continue through 11pm. New Zealand has also issued a tsunami warning.

Ready or not, it's done a lot of damage. Luckily they have a cell phone alert system and we're able to clear the beaches, it's a two day holiday in Chile so lots of people were at them.

[Seeitsaveit13]

the story about the kid with the clock breaks my heart and then the reaction from people who are reaching out to him after makes me realize that good can always overcomes bad.

Just looked it up after reading your post. That's really sad. Not a big Obama fan but it was cool to see that he said "Cool clock mohammed, want to bring it to the white house?" or something like that. Glad to see the support

[dakshdar]

Republican Candidate debate is a rocking good time if you like your humor with a dash of humor.

I particularly like Ben Carson, the black guy, stating that it would be a good idea that for illegal immigrants that "people who had a pristine record we should consider allowing them to become guest workers primarily in the agricultural sphere". So, is he saying we should take them and put them to work in the fields picking cotton?

[GeorgesGoons]

Republican Candidate debate is a rocking good time if you like your humor with a dash of humor.

I particularly like Ben Carson, the black guy, stating that it would be a good idea that for illegal immigrants that "people who had a pristine record we should consider allowing them to become guest workers primarily in the agricultural sphere". So, is he saying we should take them and put them to work in the fields picking cotton fruit?

FIFY

[Whittness10]

8.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile, almost five miles below the surface

Tsunami waves likely to hit before 11pm local time

I saw 7.9. Not that it makes much difference, just weird how there could be variance in the number.

It's actually quite a lot. .4 difference is about 2.5x bigger and 3.9x stronger.

Sorry Captain Planet. I haven't talked about earthquakes since 8th grade, I'm a little rusty.

[ajalves]

Has anyone seen what the clock looks like?

Like a bomb

ya man, bombs have extension cords...

Spoiler!

notice the guys thumb? damn, massive bomb, everyones in danger

So you don't think another teacher should have reported this? Move with the rest of us to the real world

[DRiccio21]

reported it? sure

arrested him and had him in handcuffs? a bit much.

[ajalves]

arrested him and had him in handcuffs? a bit much.

that's a bad bad call by administration and the SRO on site.

But for Nick to act like everyone is fucking out of their minds for even raising a finger about, and further more implying that what is in that picture couldn't be a bomb, then he is 100% naïve

[shel311]

Like I said, if the teacher said, "a clock, cool.", and it turned out to be a bomb, Nick would probably be the first person wagging a finger at the teacher for being incompetent.

Seems like a very tough situation for the teacher to be in. The issue, like Dave said, is arresting and putting the poor kid in handcuffs.

[ajalves]

Like I said, if the teacher said, "a clock, cool.", and it turned out to be a bomb, Nick would probably be the first person wagging a finger at the teacher for being incompetent.

Seems like a very tough situatoin for the teacher to be in. The issue, like Dave said, is arresting and putting the poor kid in handcuffs.

agreed. Believe it or not, its a pretty easy situation to deal with that was dealt with horribly after the teacher passed it off

[cougnix]

I just ignored the nick response to me anyway. It was a sarcastic response to George asking what it looked like and I hadn't even seen the thing, just saw the kid on the TV after they showed the image of his clock. So I wouldn't have expected any less of a troll job from him.

I'm with AJ on this one though. Handcuffs and shipped out like that? Bad move.