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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].'"
In civilized countries all cables are put undergrownd, no squirrels, no birds, no drunks hitting the poles causing dozens of houses to freeze to death and so on.
What are they thinking? Also, what kind of hunter can't hit an insulator? Amateurs...
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
For our amusement, let's hope they killed somebody's 2g1c download.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
but Oregon? I can't even think of anything Oregon's known for.
Well, I did a brief search for "Oregon, land of ... " to se if there was something Oregon was known for.
I got: "Oregon: Land of Domestic Abuse Endorsement".
So they can safely add "... and Google fiber hunters" without tarnishing the motto.
that'll learn em
To be fair, there's no way Steve could have thrown a chair that high.
During his Beretta days Robert Blake was on the Johnny Carson show.
He told a story of walking in Northern Europe during WWII. They saw some insulators.
"It was wartime. We had guns on us. When we got back to camp, we were told that the Germans had cut the communication lines."
It's too late for that, now that the humans have guns, let's give some guns to the insulators so that they can at least fight back.
You can't simply chase down a deer and scream liberal rhetoric at it until it kills itself, now can you?
No. Because unlike you I am not racist enough to assume that an urban gang is black. Tell me, have you stopped beating your wife yet you redneck hick?
Yes.
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In soviet Russia, insulators on electricity distribution poles shoot hunters.
It's why non-Americans think the U.S. gun culture is so obviously insane.
As a European, I don't have a problem with American gun culture at all. Can't fire across the Atlantic, so nobody except Americans get hurt.
On the serious side, though: The way the US government is trending I think it's a really good idea to have a large number of weapons in the populace.
Oh, come on.
Americans can be irritating, but wanting them to go down in a blaze of self inflicted gunshot wounds is mean.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Some stupid scottish neds stole a whole bunch of cable a while ago, burned it as usual to strip the insulation and tried to sell it.
It fibre.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Put the camera at the center of the bullseye. With those idiots running around you probably won't need to replace it more than once per year.
We're talking about hunters here, not morons.
Oh wait... never mind.
You are welcome on my lawn.
When you have a rat problem you dont send in a bunch of cats riding on the back of pigs do you
No, that sort of problem calls for possums.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
ask cheney's hunting buddies.
>>Then why do only 3% of Americans own guns?
>Once again, the moderators are on crack -- giving +1 to something that can be proved wrong with a simple Google search:
>Two in Five Americans Live in Gun-Owning Households
Those statistics are not mutually exclusive. Gun-owners could have at least 22 people, on average, living in their household.
Having spent a few years in a gun-friendly state, I'm not going to immediately dismiss this possibility.
When I used to work in the wireless Internet world, I had an associate who had much the same problem with idiots shooting at his antennas. After he had been forced to change antennas on several occasions, I told to him that the simple way to fix the problem was to mount a bullseye somewhere else on his towers and give these lunatics something different to aim at. The last time I talked to him his antennas were bullet hole free but he did have to replace a few of the targets due to them taking some serious damage. Come on, Google, put some creative thought into solving these problems..
Have the targets shoot back. If the hunters want to man up about their sport, fucking man up.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Killing anyone who blinked is how Napoleon did it
Which is why France is the center of a hegemonic empire today.....
er wait they aren't.
I work in electrical power transmission and distribution, and apparently shooting at insulators is a popular pastime. One of the bullet points in most specsheets for fiberglass insulators is the resistance to damage from gunfire.
So, what we're saying is that Google is being regularly shot down by yahoos?
...There's gotta be a witty quip to be made there somewhere...
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
I can't find numbers that disagree with what you're saying, in fact, I did see an article about the UK murder rate being the lowest ever last year, but the site you linked also claims that drug offenses in the UK were 183,419 per 100,000 people, and Germany had 250,969 per 100,000 people. I didn't think those countries were so high that everyone got busted more than once last year.
They also list this as a crime statistic:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation
CSI - Tatort Las Vegas
later CSI - Den Tätern auf der Spur
("CSI - hunting the offenders")
I mean, the shows suck, but I didn't think they were illegally bad.
This sentence no verb.
I mean, hey, the stimulus act contained $300bn in tax breaks but when Obama does it, it must be SOCIALISM.
And that infrastructure spending Republican congressmen and business associations wanted? Now Obama is in favor of it, so it must be SOCIALISM.
And extending tax breaks a Republican president and Republican congress scheduled to expire for anyone but the richest 2% that never had lower taxes anyway since they came up with the income tax. SOCIALISM.
I'm sure if you just keep watching Glen Beck and buy ammo and gold capitalism can yet prevail.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
>Come on, Google, put some creative thought into solving these problems..
How about infrastructure that shoots backs? That'll make BillyJoe and BillyBob think twice about damaging equipment that isn't theirs.
"Google would like to announce its new gOS. It comes equipped with Lotus Notes and a machine gun."
Yes, America will lose because of the stupidity of not emulating Hitler and attempting genocide. But why stop there? Let's nuke the entire middle east! That'll stop those towelheads! And hey, we've got nukes enough for the rest of the world too. America, FUCK YEAH!!!
Who the fuck modded this troll "Insightful"? Or does every tl;dr post get automatic +mods?
When I hike, I regularly come across bear and cougar tracks and cougar kills. There are at least 3 cougars that share one of the urban parks with thousands of visitors. It's not unusual for trails to be posted with cougar sightings.
(For those of you who don't know, a cougar is a large cat, also known as a mountain lion.)
I knew they went after young boys, but I never knew they killed... oh, not those cougars.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.