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KG4RUL

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DO NOT buy DFRobot Products!
« on: November 19, 2015, 05:44:04 AM »

ENOUGH is enough!  Sorry I ever tried to be serious with a bunch of dumb-asses.
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AC7CW

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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2015, 06:40:03 AM »

That looks like some fun! Kind of pricey at $59 for a pure toy but ham radio trappings is just toys for the most part and people spend a lot more than $59...
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K7EXJ

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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2015, 08:21:36 AM »

Holy Crap! That thing could get you arrested. A kid's home-built digital clock kit got him arrested because people are not at all rational when presented with a threat they don't understand... and it didn't even LOOK like a bomb.

This "toy" DOES look like a bomb. In fact, it's intended to look like a bomb.

Not all that bright...

73s de K7EXJ
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W0DLM

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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2015, 06:22:30 AM »

A company that would offer that is stupid. A person who would buy it is even stupider!
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KD0REQ

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« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2015, 06:29:33 PM »

that's awful.  maybe in the 70s in a dorm party... but not today.
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KG7CSS

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« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2015, 08:31:12 AM »

Pricy but much to do about nothing. No need to engage  in post 9/11  fear mongering. Get off the keyboard, tun off the news  and do some ham radio or something. 
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KF7ITG

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« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2015, 05:02:51 PM »

Anyone with one of those should be doing twenty years in a Federal lock up. Every person that works in that store should know better and should be arrested as an accomplice promoting terrorism. While we are fixing stuff and being a nanny let us agree with our Presidents NSA and eliminate the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and the Forth Amendment for our own safety. I mean that's only good old common sense.

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N6PJB

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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2015, 05:16:35 PM »

Anyone with one of those should be doing twenty years in a Federal lock up. Every person that works in that store should know better and should be arrested as an accomplice promoting terrorism. While we are fixing stuff and being a nanny let us agree with our Presidents NSA and eliminate the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and the Forth Amendment for our own safety. I mean that's only good old common sense.

KF7ITG ...... ;-) 73

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KQ9J

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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2015, 07:36:33 AM »

We should boycott them because one of their products offends you??  NOT.  :o
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W1BR

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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2015, 02:49:32 PM »

Of course, if Clock Boy brought it to school, any one sounding an alarm would be labeled racist or islamphobic. 
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K1QQQ

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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2015, 02:34:09 AM »

Probably entrapment.   OR to sort out dummies ?
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KQ9J

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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2015, 05:42:20 PM »

It depends on what the purchaser does with it. A conversation piece for your living room or a gag gift for a friend, a decoration. Totally harmless. If some idiot does something else with it, with nefarious intent, it is not the company's problem.

Fake bombs don't kill people....people kill people. 

I borrowed that slogan from the proponents of a product that people really CAN be used to kill people. 

Lighten up. Or, write your congressman and tell him to write a law that makes fake bombs illegal. Eventually everything will be illegal and then we can all live forever riding rainbows and smelling unicorn farts.

I still have my old "Time Bomb" game from when I was a kid. I suppose I should get rid of that too....it might scare somebody.
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AH7I

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« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2015, 08:48:34 AM »

Oh F$CK! The sky is falling, AGAIN!

It's a perfect for an escape room.
Some people do have a "rational" use for a defusable model bomb.

For the unfamiliar, here is an example of an escape room...
http://www.paranoiaquest.com/

Also available from Amazon.
It's on the Instructables website.
Adafruit offers the clock kit.

73, AH7I


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KG7CSS

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« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2015, 09:14:58 AM »

TO KG7CSS:

And if you saw one of these devices, let's say setting in a corner at your local mall, you would INSTANTLY recognize it as a toy and ignore it?

There is such a thing as corporate responsibility and DFRobot appears to have NONE!

This is not fear mongering.  This is being aware in an increasingly dangerous world.


If If If I am sick of if. I only deal with reality. If is a logical fallacy because this situation may or may not be true. This is foolishness and fear mongering of a irationall kind . I care not to follow and openly defy you and the horse you rode on. deal with it. God forbid if you go to hackaday where the was a guy built a bomb clock. I even thought of a terrorist halloween costume in 1990's with a ticking  bomb, because parody is a weapon against  oppression.
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W9FIB

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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2015, 04:22:15 AM »

If I lived in fear of everything everyone tells me I should fear, I would have to stay in a windowless room with absolutely nothing inside it. Even a glass of water could drown you.

Even HR is dangerous if you really want to worry about something. Lethal voltages, RF exposure, not lifting heavy radios properly, antennas falling down, you falling down with the antennas, etc.

To me the terrorists have already won. Look at all the lifestyle changes in the last 20 years because of it. We lost the war on terrorism the minute we made almost everything a threat. And I think that was their (the terrorist groups) plan all along.

And in reality, what is the big difference between that toy and say a realistic toy M16 gun? Or the box of fire starting sticks that looks like a box of dynamite?

Calling people stupid because they don't share your level of fear in life is just your opinion based on your level of fear; not a rational argument.
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