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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].'"
For our amusement, let's hope they killed somebody's 2g1c download.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
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?
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
ask cheney's hunting buddies.
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.
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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...
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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