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Amazon unveils delivery by drone: Prime Air. No, seriously
Ziff-Davis Net ^
| December 2, 2013 -- 01:14 GMT (17:14 PST)
| Zack Whittaker
Posted on 12/01/2013 8:12:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Not content with next-day delivery service through its Prime program, Amazon wants orders to land on people’s front porches in as little as half an hour.
Just when you thought the technology industry couldn’t get any stranger, the latest idea from the retail giant is to offer an audacious delivery-by-drone service. …
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 0bamadrone; amazondotcom; amazondrones; drones
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To: null and void
Lol! I kneel before your considerable memory.
(I got a huge life insurance on this one. Better to extinguish than divorce. Besides, I am sick of going to Motor Vehicles to get the license changed.)
To: ToastedHead
Any time you can avoid the DMV, it’s a good plan!
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:24:42 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: null and void
At the very least, I am demanding my own line. Those of us doing the marry/divorce Get Rich Quick scheme should not have to wait.
“Now serving ‘W’(hore) number 27.”
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:33:38 PM PST
by
ToastedHead
(W #28. Almost there.)
To: ToastedHead
Fortunately, having been married before, I am protected by poverty...
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:37:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: null and void
(crosses N/V off potential hit list...)
Feel free to walk outside. I will order no package to destroy you.
To: ToastedHead
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:44:32 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: null and void
Why bother. Just a bunch of nuts and freaks (and random non-essential body parts) walking around these days anyway.
To: ican'tbelieveit
Israel will be the last place to allow this service. Everyone would get into the act, Hezbollah, Hamas, the works, with bombs to your door.
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:51:53 PM PST
by
idov
To: ToastedHead
Tell me about it! I live in the SF bay area!
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posted on
12/01/2013 9:58:32 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: Daffynition
Sydney's one thing but how'll they make these drones blend into suburbia?
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:03:51 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: null and void
Glen Canyon Park ring a bell?
To: Olog-hai
To: ToastedHead
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:11:07 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: Olog-hai; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; aragorn; La Lydia; ...
Amazon unveils delivery by drone: Prime Air. No, seriously.
30 minutes delivery time.
.
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:45:47 PM PST
by
LucyT
(~ If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on. ~)
To: Uncle Chip
"If I were a kid and spotted one of those in my neighborhood, I would follow it and jump on it when it landed."
LOL! That's EXACTLY what will happen. The drone lands, drops off the package and a kid throws a blanket over it.
Free drone!
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posted on
12/01/2013 10:51:33 PM PST
by
boop
(I had no IDEA I'd be paying for Obamacare. I thought it would be a rich guy.)
To: Ezekiel
ROFLOL...if *that* drone flies by my window....I guaranteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the Lab will go right thru the glass to get it...being such a waterfowl retriever, that he is. He won't know it's a cat....*If it flies...it dies* LOL
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posted on
12/01/2013 11:27:43 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(*$17,000,000,000,000* Fear the beards! GO SOX!)
To: Olog-hai
So when this machine accidentally smashes into my participles, all a sudden like I get to own half of Amazon?
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posted on
12/01/2013 11:33:31 PM PST
by
djf
(Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:42:54 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: ToastedHead
best investment of my adult life!
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:45:20 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: Olog-hai
As long as it arrives before my husband returns back from golf, I’m happy :-D. The less he knows about packages arriving for me the better. lol
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:47:37 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
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