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Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer
celerityfm writes "Warning: Deploying Verizon's new Fiber To The Premises (FTTP, see previous) in YOUR neighborhood may involve geysers of raw sewage spewing onto your front yard or sinkholes opening and swallowing moving vehicles. Well, Hillsborough County, host to one of the first FTTP trial sites, has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside. No word on whether SBC is having similar problems with their fiber roll-out."
First Sinkhole.
>> Warning: Deploying Verizon's new Fiber To The Premises (FTTP, see previous) in YOUR neighborhood may involve geysers of raw sewage spewing onto your front yard or sinkholes opening and swallowing moving vehicles.
Still sounds like a pretty fair deal to me!
Verizon: Delivering the wrong sort of fiber.
thank God! We didn't want Joe Q Public running their own unpatched IIS servers, did we?
figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
Well that's easy, drive your kids around in a different type of car, like an SUV.. problem solved!
I've had all that happen at my house, and I still don't have fiber! That just isn't fair.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
Luddites.
next on news 10, more sh!t than usual with your internet connection...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I was hired to install some fiber in some house in Amityville, NY. I was later accused of giving Satan internet access.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Large scale deployment of fiber is quite likely to lead to "geysers of raw sewage" if not properly contained.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Verizon Fiber - Catch The Wave!
has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
For access to reasonably priced, unmetered high-speed internet access, minivan swallowing sinkholes is an evil that I am perfectly willing to face.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
The real cause of these events, as yet unobserved, can only be the Devil. You see, about 6 years ago, the Great Destroyer attempted to get DSL installed in his humble abode, told that he was more that 5000m from a C.O. His wrath is just now becomming clear as the Horned Goat himself is now eating up babies.
As if the internet infecting your computer wasn't enough, Verizon is working on a way to infect you.
Per Square Mile, a blog about density
reputable contractors or Cletus the gapped tooth back hoe operator
:o)
Hey, Cletus and Merle did damn good work!
Just make sure they keep the dog away from the cement mixer.
Because if I can crawl out of a sewage filed sinkhole and download new Slackware ISO's in under a minute, you may have yourself a deal.
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
Good, killing two birds with one stone. I thank Verizon for helping remove more soccer-mom-driven minivans from the road. And as for the children... maybe now I can go seen a R rated movie without having some kid crying up and down the isles.
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Houston TX, USA
sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside
:o)
How exactly does one engineer a sinkhole that knows whether or not there are children inside a minivan?
Ye gads - intelligent sinkholes!
Cue the "new sinkhole overlords" jokes.
I know that I personally always keep a fire going, and leaves nearby, so I can send smoke signals as a backup in case all these newfangled "electronic" devices fail.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
1 - Dig Hole
2 - Get covered in sewage
3 - Minivan full of children sinks in sewage
4 - ???
5 - Profit!
how long until
> [Can we] have Verizon install FTTP to Congress, the White House, ... ? :)
With the amount of raw sewage coming out of there already, anything new would hardly be noticeable...
Your brain is not a computer.
Okay, so some kids may be lost, but this is fiber to the home we're talking about here! Some sacrifices must be made.
Besides, it's not like they're taxpayers or anything. Plus, what're they gonna DO, CRY about it? Puh-lease. Stupid cry-babies.
So, anybody know if the county voted Republican or Democrat?
Hmmmm, geysers of raw sewage... Nope, still sounds like either party.
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Save yourself the click; Miss Utility isn't hot, and there aren't even any bikini shots.
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If you're ever going out into the wilderness, bring a PVC pipe with you. If you get lost, you can bury it in the ground, and a Verizon crew will be along shortly to break it.
Me too, in NE Ohio. They come out and flag and paint little circles and arrows all over the place. Then a construction company came and dug a driveway (new house) down the road. Bzzt- Cable, Phone, Power, all toasted. Fix, splice, splice, done.
Then the power guys came out and used the horizontal drill gizmo to run their replacement wire. And chewed up the cable and phone.
Then the cable guys came out and ran their replacement wire with the horizontal boring machine.
Then the phone guys came out and ran their horizontal bore, and cut the cable.
Then the cable guys came back and cut the phone.
Then the phone guys came back and reconnected their line.
Lots of amusement for us civilians.
I'd like a basement I could keep alligators in.
It would make keeping my relatives kids quiet during dinner a lot easier.
"Hey, Scotty, want to see a real live alligator?"
"Sure, Uncle K!"
"Well, if you don't shut up, you'll see one up close. Specifically, you will see its teeth."
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Mod me down, you fucking twits. Go ahead. I dare you.
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"It sounds like Verizon wants to get this test site up ASAP by focusing a lot of money and contractors on this one county."
Florida = Spam Capitol of the U.S. if not the world
Fiber = Uber bandwidth
You think?
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Thanks for playing.
Best possible moments for a sinkhole: