Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
>Wow. If I look around here in the greater Munich area, i'd be happy
>to have some 1-2% of the total classic comp population ... we have :)
So would I... ;-)
> > [snip re: Medusa/Hades/Milan/etc]
>
>THey are often not ready for that. Most of them are rather small
>Companies, or in most cases single person, not realy ready for
>business, and rather driven by the idea.
Then maybe their websites shouldn't say "Email me here if you want to be a
dealer! We'll get right back with you!" Or even just email me back saying
"Holy Scheisse! We're not ready to have a US Dealer!" Or even... "There's
no dealer discount or anything, and I only make 2 per week..." or
whatever... The lack of response is what I was upset about.
If their website said: "Email us and we'll never answer you back because
this is just a *#!%^~(_at_ hobby for us, but we wanted to put out a webpage"
--> that would have been just fine, then. ;-)
> > And in the more populous areas where pickin's are easier... we still have
> > more crime, slow autobahns, and *really* *bad* *beer*.
>
>No, that's not true, you may have some slow highways, but slow
>Autobahns are limited to Germany - where basicly _every_ Autobahn
>is so crowded that a parking lot gives you a better driving
>experience. If you'll do an average over all Autobahns and
>US Interstates, the Interstate system will come out first.
>At least when counting cars per kilometer.
Then things sure have changed from when I was there... I drove from Oerbke
(I think that's the spelling... it's been a while since '91... 12-year
brainfog) - 50km north of Hannover, anyway - I was driving an American
Military vehicle (CUCV -> Chevy Blazer for those who've seen one) 130kph up
to Bremerhaven (with oversized balloon tires only designed to withstand
72kph - it was *bouncy*!!) and rarely did those little, dinky,
currently-domestic Porches & Mercedes drop below 170kph, even in the
construction zones! Some of them zipped past me near cm away - that was a
rather hectic ride!
The bus trip I took to Berlin was similarly unencumbered by traffic, until
we got into the city proper (which still isn't as bad on the stretch of
Interstate 75 between Bay City & Detroit, MI, at least IMHO... imagine 30km
of 25kph travel out of 100km, if you catch it the wrong time...)
And you had *no* witty comeback about the beer... ;-) ;-)
To bring this back ontopic... I'm *still* trying to work out getting over
to VCF Europa... we'll see...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
P.S. I don't have a Deutschland map handy... how far away is Munich from
Garmish?
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein
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Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 16:15:10 GMT