China's War Against Wires 244
hodet writes "On sections of Beijing Road, you can barely see the sky. On Tibet Road, they dangle in garden-hose rolls and knots intricate enough to confound a Boy Scout. Over on Hefei Street, one enterprising apartment dweller even used them to hang-dry selected cuts of meat.
Tech-happy Shanghai, the most wired city in China, has a problem: wires. Telephone wires. Fiber-optic wires. Electrical wires. Wires no one can seem to identify. Black wires. Blue wires. Magenta wires. They're everywhere, and they're gumming up the works."
Who'd of known... (Score:5, Funny)
Looks Like... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Looks Like... (Score:5, Funny)
I found them eventually, hanging on a piece of cat5 just below sight behind my desk.
Re:Not that big a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Number 17 please? (Score:0, Funny)
Rodent contraceptives (Score:5, Funny)
> Wires are just one urban challenge. Bedeviled by ballooning rat populations,
> Shanghai has turned not to poison but to rodent contraceptives.
Who gets the job of fitting all the little guys with condoms?
Pfft... (Score:5, Funny)
Asking the masses? Askslashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
So why didn't China post this in Askslashdot?
Re:Not that big a problem (Score:5, Funny)
that's one more wire radiating electromagnetic dirt! can't we make that grounding wireless?
Look under your desk (Score:4, Funny)
Another interesting thing to ponder, last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused... where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
Yet another thing to consider. I just came back from a 200 person LAN party [eastcoastlan.com] this weekend. A buddy in my clan (read: geeks that LAN together, not CS \"noobs\"); was relieved that he brought his trusty Dell QuietKey keyboard rather than his wireless logitech. The clan sitting directly behind us all were using these devices are were having trouble with interference all the time. Probably could have fixed things with using different channels but by the looks of things (19" LCD, green Antec cases, blue LED casefans) these guys didnt know a CAT5 from a Hello Kitty Personal Vibrator [jlist.com]
Re:Looks Like... (Score:5, Funny)
where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
And why is it that even though CAT5 cables are male-male they too seem to multiply!
Re:Looks Like... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lots of digging up roads though (Score:5, Funny)
Booming China (Score:2, Funny)
Dr. Seuss's wires in China. (Score:4, Funny)
Crossing and shorting and starting great fires.
Sagging and snagging and causing us ires,
down to the street and around all our tires.
Intricate knots to confound a Boy Scout.
Perplexing knots that no one can get out.
So many knots that I know nothing about.
Gordian knots I say without a doubt.
On Tibet Road they dangle
each and every angle
on telephone poles
n garden-hose rolls.
Black wires Blue wires Magenta you see,
it's a rainbow put there to serve you 'n me.
On Beijing Road you can barely see the sky
Wires no one can seem to identify
growing and climbing and reaching so high
all over China's tech-happy city Shanghai.
Wires to hang-dry selected cuts of meat,
Wires as planters for growing rows of wheat.
Wires for poppy-san, wires for mommy-san.
Wires for you-san, wires for me-san.
Please do not forget some wires for Nissan!
Wires in rows for power that glows,
under my toes and under my nose.
The question I pose is where it all goes?
Where it all goes? But nobody knows!
We are betwix it how do we fix it?
How do we nix it? Let us sub-six it!
Oh what a feat I jump from my seat!
Under the street down under our feet!
That is no cheat! That would be a treat!
That would be neat that answer I greet!
Could that be beat down under concrete?
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Re:Looks like San Francisco (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not that big a problem (Score:1, Funny)
It also brings an altogether new meaning to phrase "shitty connection".
Re:Asking the masses? Askslashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
Wires no one can seem to identify (Score:2, Funny)
cut them all (Score:2, Funny)
PLEASE OHH PLEASE
Re:Lots of digging up roads though (Score:3, Funny)
Speaking as a canadian:
And snow, ice, mad beavers, enraged mooses, majestic maples...
The wires are in constant danger!
Obligatory Webcomic Reference (Score:4, Funny)
The Jim Saga, Part 1 [penny-arcade.com]
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