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mp_en_viaje: in any case, it turns out radio links don't work so well throyugh major traffic jams .meanwhile satlinks don't work so great in thick cloud cover such as can be had in autumnal fulda gap.
mp_en_viaje: in other news, spessart in the fulda gap is beautiful in the autumn.
mircea_popescu: (for the new people : the historical reason for which german gold was stored on another continent has everything to do with the fulda gap, and the sad experience of about 100-150 tons of romanian gold + an order of magnitude more in paper that was magically lost in russia)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform prolly they have some oversized office leftover from the glory days of the fulda gap
mircea_popescu: c) god comes back in the shape of Kennedy and the Fulda gap. herring is being airlifted into berlin
mircea_popescu: had beria not been pro-us, but symetrically anti, the fulda gap'd have been taken in a week and well... russia from sea to sea.
assbot: 1 results for 'fulda' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=fulda
asciilifeform: !s fulda
asciilifeform: at any rate, btc mining is the 'fulda gap moment' for all of these folks. all the shitgnomery corrupting, subverting computing mechanisms of every kind - suddenly, it all had a purpose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, pretty much every single gi item has fulda fucking stamped on it.
mircea_popescu: this is sort-of like wanting to see what happens if/when the soviets finally decide to cross fulda ?