Amazon Air trade

[Flosshilde]

So you don't think there are any negative aspects to 'horseless carriages'? Like the deaths they cause, pollution, etc?

[Globaltruth]

In the interests of balanced reporting let's not leave those wonderful people at Google out of this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25212514

and, with the wonderful "upgrade to cajole mall denizens"

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2732

it's great to help Google & Amazon with their Xmas marketing strategies innit?

[Dave2002]

The stories are quite fun, though there's a spectacular example of a tautology in the first "She tried vainly to elude it, without success."
Came out and hit me as something I'd try to avoid writing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Apologists for capitalism banned thinking intelligently about alternatives in order to be paid to come up with such cr*p.

[Word]

This all seems in the realms of fantasy to me. How can there be hundreds of these drones flying around avoiding telegraph wires, pylons, double decker buses, birds and people?

An unexpectedly charitable response on these pages - it may be viable 10 years hence but for now this looks like nothing but a cynical bid for publicity in the run-up to Christmas.

[Beef Oven!]

So you don't think there are any negative aspects to 'horseless carriages'? Like the deaths they cause, pollution, etc?

I just don't like progress of any kind.

[Flosshilde]

The stories are quite fun, though there's a spectacular example of a tautology in the first "She tried vainly to elude it, without success."
Came out and hit me as something I'd try to avoid writing.

'tried vainly to elude it' could perhaps mean that she was not trying to avoid it (or trying not to avoid it); if she was without success, then she actually avoided it.

[Anna]

An unexpectedly charitable response on these pages - it may be viable 10 years hence but for now this looks like nothing but a cynical bid for publicity in the run-up to Christmas.

Exactly. And it deflects bad publicity re the Panorama programme exposing working conditions at Amazon, their tax avoidance, etc. They don't, and won't, have permission to use drones in the US until 2015 at the earliest (if indeed ever), let alone here. So, it's a load of spin to take the spotlight off dubious practices. Cynical? Moi?

[Serial_Apologist]

Exactly. And it deflects bad publicity re the Panorama programme exposing working conditions at Amazon, their tax avoidance, etc. They don't, and won't, have permission to use drones in the US until 2015 at the earliest (if indeed ever), let alone here. So, it's a load of spin to take the spotlight off dubious practices. Cynical? Moi?

Spot on? Oui!

[teamsaint]

so,for example, all the GPO and amazon workers are replaced by robots, but gideon wants us all to work to age 70.


How?

[Flosshilde]

Repairing the robots of course.

[teamsaint]

Repairing the robots of course.

Ah yes, smart thinking.

and repairing the damage they cause.

[Angle]

Now seems to be the time to buy a new swatter.

[Gordon]

Now seems to be the time to buy a new swatter.

I'm sure you'll get one from Amazon!