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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."
>> 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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Right, but can you get it to open only for minivans with children in them?
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
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.
Or SUV's with idiots in them?
Super-bling neon's with engineered wings and neon lights?
Oh, the possibilities are endless.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
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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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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