5 Sep
2011
5 Sep
'11
9:24 p.m.
On 05/09/2011 19:13, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 09/05/2011 12:39 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
The academic and telecomms communities in the UK have plenty of
instances of fibre optic links suddenly going down, and the repair crews
finding someone has ripped up "the wires" to sell for scrap.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Of course. But the rise in commodities prices
driven by China (copper is
a good example) is real, and changes people's behaviour. Theft of copper
and other metals is more commonplace than it was. People get
electrocuted frequently while trying to steal live wires.
Good riddance, and thank you Mr. Darwin.
In Florida, it has become common for one to be sitting in one's living
room and suddenly notice it's getting warm in the house. You go outside
and find that some street urchin has made off with the copper coils in
the condenser unit of your air conditioner.