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The Return of "Cable Cut"

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The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby mos6507 » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 17:36:07

Hurry, head for the bunker! It's Cable-Cut time again!!!!!

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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby CarlosFerreira » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 17:38:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'H')urry, head for the bunker! It's Cable-Cut time again!!!!!

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Didn't this happen some 3 years ago? Funny, I remember about that time everyone said how unlike it was that more than one had ruptured... how about back-ups?
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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby Ferretlover » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 17:40:29

I don't know who is captaining that ship, or why he persists in dragging his anchor everywhere, but he'd better knock it off! :lol:
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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby Sixstrings » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 19:34:41

Yikes! We better get that fixed, or else we may actually have to give Americans jobs in the call center industry. Jobs here in the US, imagine that.. ::shiver::
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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 19:40:58

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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby InToWishin » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 19:58:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')u]Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication

By Malcolm Fried and Lars Klemming

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three undersea cables connecting Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged. ...

Doesn't say anything about the US.
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Re: The Return of "Cable Cut"

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Fri 19 Dec 2008, 20:44:27

Maybe the Somalian Pirates figure to hold underwater cables for ransom. :-)

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