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Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber
aesoteric writes "Google has revealed that aerial fiber links to its data center in Oregon were 'regularly' shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. Hunters were reportedly trying to hit insulators on electricity distribution poles, which also hosted aerially-deployed fiber connected to Google's $600 million data center in The Dalles. 'I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly shoot down the fiber,' Google's network engineering manager Vijay Gill told a conference in Australia. 'Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that the fiber will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path [for it].'"
Because unlike you I am not racist enough to assume that an urban gang is black.
*golf clap* You assumed that the people doing the shooting were just "dumb hicks". This is like assuming gangs are comprised of "stupid niggers". Congratulations on failing to understand analogy.
Yes.
To which? This isn't a logic class - "or" doesn't have the same meaning in general discourse. Congratulations on failing to understand English.
Why's it always the uneducated who are first to come out with the epithets?
Most Americans are gun happy? Then why do only 3% of Americans own guns?
There's a broad variety of reasons to own guns.
Sure. And the reasons OP presented were protection from violence and resistance to the government.
Some people own guns because no government fears an unarmed populace, and government only works in the interest of the people when the government fears the people and not the other way around.
So you need armed populace in order to have functional government? Um, OK.
Similarly, people are the victims of violent crime and government oppression every day.
Sure. But that doesn't mean that I feel the need to carry guns with me. I have never ever faced a situation where I would have needed a gun. Hell, I have never been in a situation where I have to defend my person or my property through use of force. Does that mean that I'm "missing out" on something?
And, FWIW, I have never faced any "oppression" from the government. And I don't see those gun-owners in USA facing it either, nor do I really see them offering any armed resistance to any perceived "oppression" they face. Unless their form of resistance includes "suicide by cop".
Welcome to life.
Thanks. And it seems that over here in Finland I can live nice, comfortable life without having the need to carry guns. And while our politicians are nothing to write home about, I face no "oppression" from them.
So, is USA such a shithole that you need guns to protect yourself from your neighbours and from the government? Because if I believed the gun-owners, that is the reality over there. And five seconds later they have said that, they start telling what a great place USA is. Huh?
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There's a broad variety of reasons to own guns. Some people own guns because the police are not there to protect you and in some areas you NEED protection. Some people own guns because no government fears an unarmed populace, and government only works in the interest of the people when the government fears the people and not the other way around.
Somehow you are contradicting yourself. Your government is unable to work for you and doesn't provide protection, and because you have a weapon the goverment works for your interest now?
There is an easy way to force your government to work in your interest: Don't reelect the jerks who are not working in your interest. Hold your government responsible for your wellbeing. If you expect your government to fail anyway, you will get a government, that fails all the way.
I doubt a government behaves well because it fears the weapons of the populace it governs. The last government that feared the populace I was living under was thrown out by a completely unarmed uprising, and this government had armed about 15% of the male populace between 18 and 60 to protect itself, while keeping all the other people unarmed. It wasn't weapons which overthrew the goverment. It was a populace unimpressed by the government's display of weapons that did it.
Weapons are a very ineffective way to make threats to your government. Your goverment will always have the better weapons and the better organized troups. Threatening it with weapons just makes you a prime and outstanding target.
Some people own guns because to them it is an economically advantageous way to acquire food. All of these are valid reasons in my book.
Most of them are fairytales in my book. My life experience contradicts them. As a scientific hypothesis they didn't work out.
You seriously need to read up on history.
At which point did WWII partisans ever become a threat the third reich ? Or even to small groups of soldiers ? Sure they were able to slightly disrupt some shipping channels, and pass information to an external invading force, but that's it.
They were, at no point, capable of even attempting to attack any significant groups of German soldiers.
And the groups collaborating with the nazi's dwarfed, in almost all of Europe, the resistance.
Personally I find WWII history supports my point, it does not contradict it.
maybe in a computer game but in real life we have this thing called the geneva convention which all the sensible countries in the world have signed up to that prevents that sort of medieval behaviour.
the rest of the world is watching america waiting for china to finish you off.
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We in the US are a bunch of hypocrites - except for maybe the PETA nuts.
Hahahaha, the PETA nuts are the biggest hypocrites of all! If they want to change this reputation, they can stop killing puppies they can't be bothered to care for and covertly dumping their corpses in a dumpster, and that dumb bitch running the place can announce that she will cease to take the animal-derived medication keeping her alive, and will now lie in a ditch and die.
And then they can state their opposition to the natural instincts and biological function of carnivorous and omnivorous animals, protest outside zoos against the lions and snakes being fed meat, and they can hide in the grass in the African savannah and tranqulize carnivores as they stalk their prey, to save the prey's lives, and they can lobby to have all sharks and other carinvores such as bald eagles taken off the endangered species list since they don't condone their feeding habits.
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That much is obvious, but the important question is WHY do you enjoy it? Is it honestly simply because you like to pull a trigger, hear a bang, and have a bullet hit a target due to your aiming skill, or is there an undercurrent of developing skills so you can defend yourself, or fit an image, or protect your wife and kids, or own a weapon?
I'm not telling, I'm asking, seriously. But it deserves a serious, thoughtful, deeply introspective answer. If you can't think through your motivations in terms of your childhood and cultural background, influences on TV, self-image, male role in society, etc., then you're not qualified to answer, no matter what you THINK your motivations are.