Bringing Bandwidth To Iraq 230
jemevans sends us a link to his nonfiction tale of two California cypherpunks who went to Baghdad to seek their fortune and bring the Internet to Iraq. A much abridged version ran in Wired a while back. From the original: "Ryan Lackey wears body armor to business meetings. He flies armed helicopters to client sites. He has a cash flow problem: he is paid in hundred-dollar bills, sometimes shrink-wrapped bricks of them, and flowing this money into a bank is difficult. He even calls some of his company's transactions 'drug deals' — but what Lackey sells is Internet access. From his trailer on Logistics Staging Area Anaconda, a colossal US Army base fifty miles north of Baghdad, Lackey runs Blue Iraq, surely the most surreal ISP on the planet. He is 26 years old."
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The little woman says she wants to have the kid first, though. She's uneager to learn to fire heavy weapons while 6 months pregnant.
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Hey, then Iraq would finally have WMD's!
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Duh, yep, it was screwed up. Flew through Egypt and changed my clock there. Spent the entire evening thinking it was 2 hours earlier than it was.