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http://www.amazon.com/l/ref=mh_rd_l?node=8037720011

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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I think I just felt a tinge of regret at a recent decision. Flying robot engineer sounds awesome!


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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It's like the Jetsons, or Galaxy High. That's amazing!


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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http://www.amazon.com/l/ref=mh_rd_l?node=8037720011

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I can think of so many issues with that. Won't work if it's windy, Range of a few miles, people stealing them, landing in an un-mapped swimming pool. One day for sure but 2015? No chance.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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I picture a whole fleet of drones going over our cities, carpet-bombing the country with 'we called but you were out' slips.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Won't happen in this country for a while, certainly - I seem to remember that there's a specific clause in all of the UAV regulations here in the UK that prohibits UAVs from releasing any carried payload during flight.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Won't happen in this country for a while, certainly - I seem to remember that there's a specific clause in all of the UAV regulations here in the UK that prohibits UAVs from releasing any carried payload during flight.


Including, if I remember correctly, small animals with or without parachutes.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Grim... wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/l/ref=mh_rd_l?node=8037720011

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I can think of so many issues with that. Won't work if it's windy, Range of a few miles, people stealing them, landing in an un-mapped swimming pool. One day for sure but 2015? No chance.
Aye, I was thinking it's just another thing to get blown into the windows alongside the gulls.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Because what we need is more UAVs in the world.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Heh. Something else for me to add to the emerging risk register at work.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Vacuum tube network would be much more efficient. And safer.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Vacuum tube network would be much more efficient. And safer.

I'd like to see delivery via the sewage system. Up through the toilet.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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DavPaz wrote:
Vacuum tube network would be much more efficient. And safer.

I'd like to see delivery via the sewage system. Up through the toilet.

Sounds shit.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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The NSA will love this idea. Get Amazon to take lots of nice pictures for them.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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I wonder how long it will take for the first one to be shot down.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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DavPaz wrote:
Vacuum tube network would be much more efficient. And safer.

Better sounds too.
*Whoosh, whoosh, ssssssssssSSSSSSSSS-pop*

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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1. Order gun from Amazon
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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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How much will the drones cost? I'd just wait for it to deliver my £5 book and then disable it and sell it on eBay.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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How much will the drones cost? I'd just wait for it to deliver my £5 book and then disable it and sell it on eBay.
You'd quadraspaz a quadracopter!?

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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The US Post Office once tried delivering mail by ICBM.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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...Man, this story is right up there with the flying car and nuclear energy "too cheap to meter".
Like, as if.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Lot's of people giving reasons why this wouldn't work or shouldn't be done.

I have a counter suggestion as to why it should be. BECAUSE AWESOME.

It would be even better if Amazon moved into selling paper bags of dogshit that were on fire.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Lot's of people giving reasons why this wouldn't work or shouldn't be done.

I have a counter suggestion as to why it should be. BECAUSE AWESOME.

It would be even better if Amazon moved into selling paper bags of dogshit that were on fire.


They sell 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in paperback, which is close enough.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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I hear they were trialling this in Glasgow the other day.

Tooearly?

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Can't see it catching on in a big way (perhaps not even a small way) - far too many potential problems (weather, theft, danger to life/property if the thing gets out of control, privacy issues (the thing will have at least one camera), noise ....... and that's just a few off the top of my head).

Seems more like a publicity stunt for Amazon Prime.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Just before Christmas? Never.

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Four_Candles wrote:
Seems more like a publicity stunt for Amazon Prime.


And conveniently detracts attention from a lot of the (justified) bad press they've been getting too.


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Noticed the drone drops the goods by the door then fucks off, just like most of the delivery people they use now!!


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Noticed the drone drops the goods by the door then fucks off, just like most of the delivery people they use now!!


heh, but presumably you know where you are going to be 30 minutes from when you order something!

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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A reasonable article here:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... bezos-hype


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12 ... g-o-w-l-s/


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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That is superb!

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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Amazing!


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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime Air
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I had to take that to Twitter.

Best PR retort since KitKat.

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