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Attack on telephone infastructure
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 14, 2009, 09:24:47 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 14, 2009, 02:45:53 am ---Correction, most people are using their cell phones as a primary means of communication. Their land lines is a backup to the cell (assuming they even have land lines anymore). ;)
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...and who makes these batteries? What would happen should that supply be cut off?
We are treading some very dangerous waters in terms of foreign dependence and getting further from shore every year.
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The smartest ones would hack some new batteries in there. The not-so smart ones would revert back to an old 80's concept, car phones. The rest of the people would just panic.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but do you honestly think 85% of the U.S. even remotely understand the globalization problem at hand much less even care about it? This goes right in hand with similar problems. What percentage of the population do you think are willing to actually spend the slight extra money to buy fresh groceries and spend the time to cook their own (healthy) dinners as opposed to hopping down to the nearest fast food joint and buying a gallon soda, a bucket of cheesy fries, and triple deck burger from the dollar menu? Or how about those same people that like to shop at Wal*Mart even though Wal*Mart is responsible in some way for many of those people losing their jobs at the local grocery store or at the T-Shirt factory? Shop at Target for a "Made in the U.S.A" shirt or shop at Wal*Mart for a Chinese made shirt to save an extra buck?
Very few people ever actually stop to think about the consequences of their actions. As much as I would like to think optimistically about what Obama tells us, my gut feeling tells me it will take a complete cut-off to shift our dependence from foreign industry. This cutting of the fiber-optics isn't a wake up call, it's just a hint of what's going to happen if we don't work things out.
RayB:
I should have read the article instead of skimming, but its possible it was just people looking for copper, rather than intentional service disruption.
ChadTower:
Metal prices have plunged... maybe 8 months ago but I just don't see someone cutting something that major for scrap. Nobody is risking their lives anymore for copper.
SavannahLion:
Depends on where you live ChadTower. Where I am, thieves resorted to stealing the brass plugs (stops, caps, whatever they're called) for the fire fighter water valves on high rises. The estimated value to a recycler? About 8 cents for each one. They've also taken to stealing the brass rings around the sidewalk lights some buildings have, but those are a bit more involved apparently. They also steal the brass fittings from public toilets.
In any case, RayB, they didn't cut copper lines, they cut through fiberoptics. If someone was stealing copper, wouldn't they have noticed it wasn't copper as soon as they cut through the outer jacket and moved on to some other cable?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on April 14, 2009, 03:57:21 pm ---Depends on where you live ChadTower. Where I am, thieves resorted to stealing the brass plugs (stops, caps, whatever they're called) for the fire fighter water valves on high rises. The estimated value to a recycler? About 8 cents for each one. They've also taken to stealing the brass rings around the sidewalk lights some buildings have, but those are a bit more involved apparently. They also steal the brass fittings from public toilets.
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Recently? That all stopped here many months ago.
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