We have crackheads in Aus, maybe we need to steer them towards our copper cable so they can rip it up and our government will actually give us the NBN we were promised, with full fiber all the way.
I'm still surprised that Australia didn't do more with the HFC network. Seems like a missed opportunity. Some ISPs in the USA are trialing 2Gbps symmetric (2Gbps up and down) over coax using DOCSIS 4.0, and even DOCSIS 3.1 can get you at least 2Gbps down and ~400Mbps up.
Honestly not a bad idea, I approve.
Modern day problems require modern day solutions
They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It's only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.
If this is how the Western world arrives at harm reduction and UBI for everyone - that it's just good business - I'm not even gonna be mad.
In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day
Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?
We have recyclers too
Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it's better than collecting aluminum cans.
The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.
Well, except that it's nearly always super damaging.
The US version would be more like collecting cans back when they had a 5 or 10 cent deposit. Today I can't really think of anything like that. Maybe driving Uber/Lyft. Or just panhandling/begging.
Several states do this, probably more profit than door dash.
Michigan still does 10 cents a bottle
People do that now in the Netherlands. The bins on the streets of Amsterdam sometimes have little holsters for bottles and tins so you can leave them for people who'd otherwise (or I imagine who still) dig through the rubbish for the deposit.
Crackhead gonna crackhead.
It's typically meth heads that are stealing all of the copper.
Wouldn't calling them drugheads be more inclusive? Just saying.
The crack pipe is a wonderful touch.
That is a methpipe...a straight glass tube filled with steel wool would be a crack pipe... don't want that awkward silence and judgement from addicts when you call it the wrong name!!!
Damn. I wrote meth and changed it to crack at the last second. I have let my addict heritage down. My father would be disappointed if he wasn't so high right now. :(
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it's cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn't want to come off as a tweaker.
Never heard of these?
those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.
what can I say, I probably have issues :)
No, I get you. The artifacts for these you see at museums are impressive. The bigger ones would make some great bookends.
Those are truly amazing. Even the giant honking old stuff on the poles is kinda neat.
could you imagine splicing stuff like this?
could you imagine splicing stuff like this?
Ugh. Honestly, I'd quit. And I actually like repairing things. You'd have to bring in "the guy" that just really enjoys this kind of repetitive and error-prone repair task.
Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/cablefail/comments/5novv2/3900_pair_underground_splice_that_got_wet_due_to/
All I see is a 4000 piece jigsaw puzzle :)
Actually, this one is less fun, just corrosion. good thing there's enough slack to do it all again!
Ask the f'n Russians and Chinese, they might have a huge ass bundle hanging off an anchor.
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