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    For techies not afraid of getting an imaginary disease

    How the Internet moves around the world.

    This is in the NYT and anyone can go there without a subscription. If you have been there too many times this month you may have to clear your cookies.

    Just a preview:

    Nearly 750,000 miles of cable already connect the continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources to collaborate on undersea cable projects, like a freeway for them all to share.

    But now Google is going its own way, in a first-of-its-kind project connecting the United States to Chile, home to the company’s largest data center in Latin America.

    “People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not,” said Jayne Stowell, who oversees construction of Google’s undersea cable projects. “It’s in the ocean.”

    Getting it there is an exacting and time-intensive process. A 456-foot ship named Durable will eventually deliver the cable to sea. But first, the cable is assembled inside a sprawling factory a few hundred yards away, in Newington, N.H. The factory, owned by the company SubCom, is filled with specialized machinery used to maintain tension in the wire and encase it in protective skin.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    NYT is = to PMSNBC and CausticNN so not news for real thinking people.
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    Obviously you did not read the link, Billy. This thread has nothing to do with politics or political bias by the media.
    Interesting article Dave! Thanks.
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    I knew you would find it of interest Mike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    NYT is = to PMSNBC and CausticNN so not news for real thinking people.
    Do you have any idea of how silly that makes you look Billy?
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    I think Billy was criticizing the NYT as a source. I don't see criticizing a source as a real big deal. It just happened in another thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Do you have any idea of how silly that makes you look Billy?
    How long have you been on this site Dave? And you're going to pick on billy for that? I guess you'll have to answer now billy eh'
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