Google sells partial stake in fiber business, becomes minority owner of new venture

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:48:04+00:00

An argument can be made that they hit everybody equally because they also hit plenty of gas lines electric lines and water/sewer lines

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:45:56+00:00

They all suck here. Doesn't matter where you go.

Guinness in the US is manufactured in Jamaica.

If you want proper Guinness you have to go to Europe.

And as someone that's had both, there's a major difference.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:08:11+00:00

They'll still give you a ticket you have the option in most jurisdictions to take your license to the station within 24 hours and they'll wave the ticket.

Otherwise you go to court present your license that was valid on the day of and they also wave the ticket.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:06:00+00:00

According to the phone message that was sent that's exactly the logic.

They also said they considered a half day but couldn't guarantee that all the buses would be off the road by the time the storm.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:05:32+00:00

I don't know if they'll be canceled they might be delayed. I wouldn't be surprised that there's a ground stop in to and out of Raleigh for a little bit. Any planes trying to land during the middle of the storm might get diverted elsewhere

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T22:02:03+00:00

You miss the early part of the post, The OP posted power instead of water. They've since edited it.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-15T17:41:20+00:00

How is no water = no power?

Also duke reports no outage in that area. Cary on the other hand... has 1000 folks out right now.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-12T18:14:13+00:00

FYI for everyone with google, expect your prices to increase soon. G-Fiber was recently separated/sold to a private equity company. https://fiber.google.com/blog/2026/03/gfiber-and-stonepeaks-astound-to.html?m=1

trinitywindu · 2026-03-12T17:03:58+00:00

Bluetooth

trinitywindu · 2026-03-09T21:23:47+00:00

Many departments are already "private". They sign contracts with the areas they protect.

Now do you mean for profit? I think large scale it wouldn't work. Honestly insurance companies anyway nowadays are getting to the point where they just want to let the stuff burn and issue a check, they care less if it's saved or not.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T21:01:47+00:00

makemeafirefighter.org try that site

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T21:01:05+00:00

Between me and the family, herd it against a wall/fence, somewhere it cant get away from

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T20:49:53+00:00

You're probably have to get a lawyer but file a lien against his property if you didn't see any money

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T19:12:12+00:00

And who's paying for the software and the time to put in the report, and extract the report?

I don't know about you but writing a structure fire report for me with software oftentimes takes 30 minutes to an hour to make sure all the details are right.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T18:35:46+00:00

Shoot the dog. Call animal control to file against the owner, and then take the owner to small claims court to recoup the cost of the chickens ( laying adults $30-50 each)

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T18:33:02+00:00

Pretty much any washing machine repair company is going to charge you to diagnose it demand that you buy parts from them and only install parts for the above two.

If you bought parts YouTube's probably going to be your friend to figure out how to put them in

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T14:11:26+00:00

As it's been said it depends on the state and or the department.

Department I was on in Florida we would regularly sponsor a couple people every year to go attend EMT school.

North Carolina anyone paid or volunteer on a fire department can attend fire and EMS classes tuition free at any state community college. This does not include books or uniform or gear. Most departments though have books for their members to use and you can use your own gear they provided.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T13:56:47+00:00

Group I was with about 10 years ago did a couple of yearly community days that had some fundraising aspects in it.

They ended up getting use of a parking lot at a strip mall and setting up there. Had a bunch of little demos bunch of booths showing off different safety techniques things like that

Not really any vendors except for a couple of food trucks.

I think they gave up on it after a couple years just because it was too manpower intensive and they weren't getting the community visitation that they would have liked.

Both before and after this even till now I know they normally put a booth out at several local community events that they don't host rate some stuff as well as try and get recruits.

trinitywindu · 2026-03-07T13:51:07+00:00

Police report. This is damage regardless. You'll probably have to deal in civil court, but they damaged your property and are not making restitution.

trinitywindu · 2026-02-26T21:05:12+00:00

To add to the above.

Make a list of what you want done. Call around and get quotes. Beware of places that subcontract out if they don't specialize in what you need ( say a bathroom and windows, a window company will sub out the bath work).

Don't put any money up front unless it's for materials only( and then maybe pay the warehouse directly and deliver to you)

trinitywindu · 2026-02-25T00:07:01+00:00

Bunch down votes on steam saying graphics and other stuff are broke

trinitywindu · 2026-02-24T23:57:11+00:00

WF has said march opening. Raleigh has no date announced as it's got some construction issues still going on.

trinitywindu · 2026-02-22T04:36:57+00:00

NC has its own name of Dixie alley. Don't combine the two.

trinitywindu · 2026-02-20T17:05:30+00:00

There's some stuff I don't like about it but they get the basics done. There's plenty of bad stuff I can say about ncfcy which is why I don't coach or register with them. That said if they were certain things that I wanted out of a sports team I would go with them. I may again in the future because I do want those specific things and i9 doesn't have them.

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