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Cybercafe At Mt. Everest
Makarand writes "A Nepalese entrepreneur, Tsering Gyalzen, is making plans to set up a
cybercafe at Mt Everest basecamp
and open it by March. Proceeds from the venture will be used to support solid waste management in the area.
VSAT digital satellite equipment installed a 2-hour trek-distance
away from base camp will be used to send signals to the internet cafe using radio links."
Three Starbucks have just recently set themselves up on the same corner....
Karma: Non-Heinous
thanks, but i'll pass hauling myself 20000 ft up on a mountain.. when i can get it right here in my warm, heated house :-)
Good business idea, specially when only 100 people climb every year. But Im sure they all pay good to send some emails when they get back to basecamp.
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
this is a dup
I think it's super cool when you've finally reached
the top, you can sent an email or start a chat.
What other place can you brag about then being
on top of the Mount Everest.
Msg to mam: Guess where i am right now =P
Check my site: http://pixel.pagina.nl
The announcement was made on January 23, and it's nice to see things moving along. Cisco's announcement has a lot more details than the article reported today.
This must be the only environment my duron 1.3 won't crash of overheating at 36Ghz.
Super computing, here I come!
Hope he plans on building an oxygen bar along with it.
This is cooler and much more improtant for people who live there.
This was posted nearly a month ago...
we'd have to overcome to get there is:
/etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
x-wing:/# mount everest
mount: can't find everest in
help I'm faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllliiinnnnngggggggg. ..
First Everest... next, the restaurant at the end of the Universe?
Must we bring our instant communication, our invasive culture, to *every* place in the world?
Put in a shopping mall with a hotel attached. Heated pool and wetbar. Sell the Nepalese Hashish ,slap a cable car to the top in and voila! Instant tourist trap, and online too, almost as good as the Ultimate Taxi! Almost.
and mixed drinks to people foolish enough to leave the relative comfort of Katmandu. Next
Try using your own search engine. Do you get paid for doing this job? If so, put in a bit more effort!
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=everest second story in results.
need a few new empticons for the new experiences
gasping for breath
just fallen on my ass
just fallen on my ice axe
altitude induced gushing nose bleeds
fscking sherpa just ran off with all the oxygen
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Nothing like some pr0n you go for the summit. Its never too cold for pr0n.
This "CyberCafe" may offer thrill-seeking Westerners and Japanese their last opportunity to communicate with their right-thinking loved ones, and be talked out of another ridiculous ego trip.
I, for one, would sponsor an EverQuest account at this cafe to snag these folks in a more controlled environment. At least until they are incapacitated by repetitive-stress injuries.
Then they could be transported to a safer uber-thrill, like a ride on the Vomit Comet or, perhaps, a scintillating decade of psychotherapy.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -A. Turing
I guess they're going to put my network consulting firm on K2 out of business
I am happy to hear there is now a cybercafe in the central himalayas. I certainly hope that soon there will be a mcdonalds at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a Starbucks in the middle of St. Pauls' Cathedral, and a frozen yogurt bar on fucking Mars.
In fact, why not just tarmac over the entire planet all in one go? It's kinder than doing it bit by bit like this.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
(yes, people sometimes die while climbing everest.)
Famous last words: "Welp, I'm off to climb this little rock. See ya later!"
How about a brothel at basecamp? This is the last time many of the climbers will be alive, there's a good opportunity to make money here.
Would Microsoft really move to basecamp?
Will it have IPv6?
Dear Sir.
Your contact information was referred to me by one of my trusted contacts, whose name I am not at liberty to compromize. I would like to approach you with reguards to a profitable Business Proposal, reguarding the transfer of TEN MILLION ($10000000) U.S. Dollars into your Bank Account. For reasons I am sure you will appreciate, I ask that you keep this commucation confidential, and avoid it falling into the hands of any agents of the Royal Nepal Yak Mounted Police that may be operating in Your area.
My name is Tsering Gyaltsen Sherpa, and I am the grandson of Gyalzen Sherpa, the recently Deceased Serpa of Nepal. If you have been following the events in my country over the last few years, you will remember the big scandal that took place when Gyalzen was found dead in an alley, from an alledged overdose of Tylenol Flu. [snip]
I swear those Nigerian 419 scammers must use a page like this one to generate their scam letters.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
A Nepalese entrepreneur,
He couldn't be much of an entrepeneur with this doozy of an idea. Given it's location, you really have to wonder how many customers he expects to get...
Here's an idea...since only a handful of people go there and it's expensive to set up a VSAT, why not have someone from Corporate America sponsor the base camp? I could just see it now: Enron Camp...
$DEITY bless $NATION
pretty much *all* of them. Wouldn't you?
KFG
Airliners have access now, and I've never seen one with cat5e spooling out it's bottom as it flies....
Or it will be quite soon...
"Proceeds from the venture will be used to support solid waste management in the area."
I think one's ass has bigger worries. And rest assured, I think many would be thankful for that thin air when they step into an outhouse.
Add'tl emoticons:
holding one's nose
eyes darting for restroom
just used a pinecone
Can you say dupe? Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Begins with a picture of the sun rising over two mountain peaks)
Announcer (Graham Chapman): Mount Everest. Forbidding, aloof, terrifying. The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.
(Gong crashes, a disgusted voice interrupts)
Voice Over: Start again!
(A hideous clown in green plaid shirt, 14-inch wide blue polka-dotted bow tie, red curly wig, false teeth and an ugly mask steps in front of the picture of the mountain for a second and waves.)
Announcer: Mount Everest. Forbidding, aloof, terrifying. This year, this remote Himalayan mountain, this mystical temple, surrounded by the most difficult terrain in the world, repulsed yet another attempt to conquer it. (Picture changes to wind-swept, snowy tents and people) This time, by the International Hairdresser's Expedition. In such freezing, adverse conditions, man comes very close to breaking point. What was the real cause of the disharmony which destroyed their chances at success?
(Hairdresser #1 is a snowy, bundled up climber with a very gay voice. Hairdressers #2 and #3 are even more gay and windswept.)
Hairdresser #1: Well, people keep taking your hairdryer on every turn.
Hairdresser #2: There's a lot of bitching in the tents.
Hairdresser #3: You couldn't get near the mirror.
(Cut to the announcer, a stuffy looking older man, delicately trimming millimeters off the leaves of cabbages growing in his country garden.)
Announcer: The leader of the expedition was Colonel Sir John Cheesy-Weezy Butler, veteran K2, Annapurna, and Vidal. His plan was to ignore the usual route around the south and to make straight for the top.
(next part shows a map of the mountain)
Cheesy-Weezy: We established Base Salon here, and climbed quite steadily up to Mario's, here. From here, using crampons and cutting ice steps as we went, we moved steadily up the face to the north ridge, establishing Camp Three, where we could get a hot meal, a manicure, and a shampoo and set.
Announcer: Could it work? Could this 18-year old hairdresser from Brixton succeed where others had failed? The situation was complicated by the imminent arrival of the monsoon storms. Patrice takes up the story.
(cut to Patrice (Eric Idle) in a salon, very effeminately brushing and blow- drying a customer's hair.)
Patrice: Well, we knew as well as anyone that the monsoons were due. But the thing was, Ricky and I had just had a blow dry and rinse, and we couldn't go out for a couple of days.(Picture of mountaineers climbing down mountain)
Announcer: After a blazing row, the Germans and Italians had turned back, taking with them the last of the hairnets. On the third day, a blizzard blew up. Temperatures fell to minus 30 degrees
centigrade. Inside the little tent, things were getting desperate.
(Ricky (Michael Palin) and John Cleese are crowded inside a little tent, sporting beards, hairnets, and curlers. They sit beneath stationary hairdryers. Cleese is reading, Ricky is buffing his nails.)
Ricky: Well, things have gotten so bad that we've been forced to use the last of the heavy oxygen equipment just to keep the dryers going. (A woman hands him a cup of tea.) Oh, she's a treasure.
Cleese: Shhh!
(another mountain climbing scene)
Announcer: But a new factor had entered the race. A team of French chiropodists, working with brand new corn plasters and Dr. Scholl's Mountaineering Sandals, were close behind. The Glasgow Orpheus
male voice choir were tackling the difficult north part. All together, fourteen expeditions were at the scene. This was it. Ricky had to make a decision.
(back to Patrice at his salon)
Patrice: Well, we decided to open a salon.
Announcer: It was a tremendous success.
(the following is accompanied by pictures of great mountaineering heros upon whom are pasted elaborate Marie Antoinette style hairdos)
Announcer: Challenging Everest? Why not drop in at Ricky Pule's, only 2400 feet from this cinema. (A huge pink neon sign reading 'Ricky's' appears on the mountain.) Ricky and Maurice offer a variety of styles for the well-groomed climber. Why should Tensing and Sir Edmond Hillary be number one on top, when you're number one on top?
f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr.
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"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Gyaltsen Tsering plans to ask $5000 US from each expedition to use the link.
Yup.
Fried ice cream is a reality. - George Clinton
... is that because of space restrictions, the toilet is in the valley!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
... I wonder how the ping times are like?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Given the temperatures on Everest, I expect Sir Edmund Hillary's poo is still up there and perfectly intact. Perhaps they could use the "solid waste" to construct traditional cairns as a memorial to those mountaineers that died trying to reach the summit, but that no-one really liked?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Learn to read. I said I'd walked to Gorak Shep. It is at about 5000 m, 16500 ft.
Everybody there is going to be really high!
Ron Paul 2012
NPR had a nice bit a few weeks ago interviewing the guy setting this up. NPR story
"Because it's there" just doesn't cut it for me.
OK, it's not the first convenience store, but it's the first one on Mt Everest.
Of course, not that I'm saying Everest is easy, but the purity of it has long been sullied by the fact that pitons and ropes are rigged and maintained on the most popular route, and left there for subsequent climbs.
Obviously the days of "exploration" on Earth are mostly behind us. Most people aren't there to do "science" either. Let's face it--it's the ultimate thrill for those with the bucks and the ability to do it. It's also a cash cow for the locals. Adding more attractions was just the logical next step. You can anticipate that this thing, in its attempt to clean up one form of trash, may invite another. Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with making the site more accessible to those who don't intend to summit, but I hope they are planning this so it doesn't get too out of control. A few lodges are nice, but I'm sure the last thing anybody wants to see there is strip malls.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
just fallen on my ice axe
Mr. Goatse has a good one for that
Table-ized A.I.
how is this a troll? im trying to be humourous. either my humour sucks or you lack it.
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
Miraculous you called it babe ...
You ain't seen nothing yet
They've got Pepsi in the Andes
McDonalds in Tibet
Yosemite's been turned into
A golf course for the Japs
Roger Waters
from "It's a Miracle"
off "Amused to Death"
Wouldn't it be easier to just sell their poop to Australian ski resorts?
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
A sheet of paper crossed my desk the other day and as I read it,
... IC circuits? Integrated circuit circuits?]
realization of a basic truth came over me. So simple! So obvious we couldn't
see it. John Knivlen, Chairman of Polamar Repeater Club, an amateur radio
group, had discovered how IC circuits work. He says that smoke is the thing
that makes ICs work because every time you let the smoke out of an IC circuit,
it stops working. He claims to have verified this with thorough testing.
I was flabbergasted! Of course! Smoke makes all things electrical
work. Remember the last time smoke escaped from your Lucas voltage regulator
Didn't it quit working? I sat and smiled like an idiot as more of the truth
dawned. It's the wiring harness that carries the smoke from one device to
another in your Mini, MG or Jag. And when the harness springs a leak, it lets
the smoke out of everything at once, and then nothing works. The starter motor
requires large quantities of smoke to operate properly, and that's why the wire
going to it is so large.
Feeling very smug, I continued to expand my hypothesis. Why are Lucas
electronics more likely to leak than say Bosch? Hmmm... Aha!!! Lucas is
British, and all things British leak! British convertible tops leak water,
British engines leak oil, British displacer units leak hydrostatic fluid, and
I might add Brititsh tires leak air, and the British defense unit leaks
secrets... so naturally British electronics leak smoke.
-- Jack Banton, PCC Automotive Electrical School
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