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Re: This would be easy to drive out of business. |
They'll terminate your account if your losing them money. |
I'm hereby establishing prior art for fulfillment centers in geosynchronous orbit, armed with drop-pods. |
Cut out the container ship and truck journeys. Instead, tat is freighted by blimp direct from China, where it then takes up position over a town, then litters said town with a snow of tat over the next week until emptied, whereupon the blimp returns to China for a refill. |
I have drawn this badly on a piece of paper left over from christmas party games and submitted it to the patent office. |
Sorry, but I want to buy something from that blimp. I don't care what it is, I just want the little drone to fly down from mama to me. I'm trying to think of something to buy now. |
Nehmo "I want to buy something from that blimp. I don't care what it is..." |
Made by Acme of course. |
No, that'd be the ACME Parachute Kit. |
Isn't this a script from a failed 1970's disaster film? |
My Googlefu is failing me at this time. Anyone else remember this? |
Gerry Anderson Lawyers, line one! |
Makes sense, it's going to be pretty tricky to rob them at night if they're in the air. |
Will Amazon become BnL not consistent with the Utopian Pixar view? |
Gatwick Approach: "Speedbird 123, traffic is 12 o'clock, 2 miles, passing FL80 on descent, squawking as an Amazon Delivery drone containing pizza, popcorn and a Windows 11 tablet addressed to a Mr A Hancock of Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. Advise traffic in sight." |
Turns my penguin's blood cold just thinking about it. |
Airborne Fulfillment – DELIVER US! |
The best thing: Once Alexa becomes self-aware, whole cities will be obliterared with areal bombardments comprised of toasters, smartphones and sextoys. Out of the rubble, a new kind of techno-cultist society will emerge, praying to the angry blimp beyond the clouds. |
"When the sky god is furious, he sends the hard rain" |
Airships are so last century. What they need is a Helicarrier. |
Remember the movie "Black Sunday"? |
Maybe Amazon should use some of their billions of revenue dollars to provide warehouse employees a living wage with humane work conditions rather than fritter money away on pipe dreams. And you know the kind of pipe I am talking about. |
Frankly, if this was such a good idea UPS, FedEx maybe even some post offices around the world would be working on it. |
Another version of this...idea...included flying blimps. And, of course using little drone thingys to buzz around dropping packages onto the targeted masses when they aren't crashing into innocent pedestrians. |
How do you spell "prior art"? |
Oh, is this USPTO we're talking about, where it's obvious they don't bother with such antiquated concepts ...... ? |
Yeah... No! If anything they should use this BEELLIONS to further Mechanize thier outfit, and sack the last useless Meatsack standing. Like MickyD's have been doing with those Touchscreen Order Pads that some Stores have now. This is how you deal with those Living Wage Freaks! Perhaps next time you might be able to wor... |
But, as it pertains to your 15$(USD), Burger flipper Position, yeah good luck with that! Cause I'm not gonna support that sh-- by purchasing, (What was a 4.95€ Burger with Fries, and Cola), a 7.98€ Meal. Just so baby can keep its first Entry Level Position. |
"Yeah... No! If anything they should use this BEELLIONS to further Mechanize thier outfit, and sack the last useless Meatsack standing. Like MickyD's have been doing with those Touchscreen Order Pads that some Stores have now." |
Now, behind-the-scenes stuff there's little one can do to stop automation since none of the customers really see what goes on there, but in point-of-sale people really prefer to talk to a face, if anything because most people's orders aren't all that simple ("And hey, can I have the cone first? I want to be able to eat... |
I haven't seen the touchscreens at my place yet, but this may be because they're trying something different: order by app, which offsets the lack of a person two ways: you're not there yet (so you're not expected to talk to a face), and you're ordering ahead (so you save time, especially if you're re-ordering a favorit... |
if the descending drones were paper aeroplanes it might be possible to make them so cheap that they are little more than "advanced packaging" |
So you're saying it's within the realms of fantasy i.e. unreal? |
My cider order is due to be shipped in 1 to 2 months using Prime, but at least it arrives in one piece when it does get here. I wonder if the drones will do the same? |
Black helmet and Darth Vader theme music. |
45,000ft is crazy for an airship. While climbing to altitude, the lift cells will expand, requiring venting or pumping out, to be restored during descent. At that altitude pressure is down to 14% of ground level and the difference in density between helium and air therefore about 1/7th. |
Amazon files for Hindenburg flying warehouse? |
More of your Star Destroyer, (Seeing as they can hover inside a Planetary Atmosphere), than your typical "That's NOT a Moon!" Death Star which can't? |
Patenting the idea of a warehouse floating above and making it work is something very different. There are many problems of such a warehouse like: how long should this warehouse fly around? How new goods will be delivered to this warehouse. Are there any commercial available mini-drones capable of flying up to 30.000 m... |
So it is very questionable if this idea could really be implemented in the next time. |
how do the drones get back to the mothership? |
i suggest making the drones edible, as yummy low-calorie treats. it would solve the problem. |
A New Jersey flower farmer was acquitted on animal cruelty charges earlier this week for an incident that happened in 2005. |
Tom Van Wingerden, owner of a flower farm, found a newly born kitten under his porch with a deformed leg. He cut the leg off, himself, with a razor blade. |
Once the kitten healed it was allowed to live at the farm, amongst the green houses and play with the Van Wingerden children. |
When the kitten was only 10 months old Van Wingerden shot it for scratching his kids. He said the cat had "fits". Well, maybe it was just a playful kitten or maybe his kids were cruel in their "playing" with the cat and the cat was defending itself! |
"The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals learned of the shooting while it was investigating a separate complaint of a dog being kept outside at the farm. The SPCA charged Van Wingerden with animal cruelty, and he was indicted in September 2006." |
So he was being investigated by SPCA for being cruel to a family dog as well! He then blurts out how he hacked off this kitty's leg and then later shot it for having "fits"! This guy sounds like a sick animal abuser to me. |
So he's standing before the Judge earlier this week, facing five years in jail for animal cruelty, and the judge decides there's not enough evidence to support the charges and lets him off. |
"The judge said the state's case was weak because it relied almost completely on Van Wingerden's own statements." |
Well, he said he did it, never denied it, so why isn't that good enough for the judge? There was no reason to shoot this cat. He could have given it away or taken it to the shelter if he didn't want to have it on his farm anymore. It just sounds like an obvious case of another abuser who gets off by another uncaring ju... |
TAMA — South Tama County senior center Zoee Buffalo came off the bench to score a career-high 16 points and Jessica Musgrave added a double-double as the Trojans trounced Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont in Saturday’s Class 3A Region 7 quarterfinal, 67-30. |
Buffalo finished 7-of-8 from the field and 2-for-2 at the free-throw line to lead the Trojans (11-7) in scoring. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Musgrave totaled 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and four steals, and fellow senior Madison Rohach added eight points and 10 boards. |
Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont (3-16) suffered its seventh-straight loss to end the season. |
It was the final home game for South Tama’s seniors, as the Trojans go to Pella Christian on Wednesday night to face Centerville (11-8) in the regional semifinals. |
REINBECK — The Gladbrook-Reinbeck girls’ basketball team earned a second shot at Janesville as the Rebels routed winless Waterloo Christian 57-30 in Friday’s Class 1A Region 3 contest. |
Taylor Gienger piled up 27 points, nine rebounds, five steals and four assists in her final game at GRHS, leading the Rebels (9-11) in each statistical category. Reagan Skovard and Saari Kuehl each pitched in with 10 points. |
The Rebels advance to face No. 9 Janesville on Tuesday night in Janesville. The Wildcats topped the Rebels 69-51 in their regular-season meeting just before the holiday break. |
GILBERTVILLE — The North Tama defense delivered its top performance of the season and the Redhawks advanced through the first round of Class 1A Region 3 girls basketball with a 47-27 win over Don Bosco here Friday. |
Katie Kopriva and Rylee McLean led the Redhawks (3-18) with 12 points apiece, with McLean pulling down a whopping 18 rebounds as well. Takoa Kopriva had nine points and four steals. |
North Tama moves on to face No. 12 AGWSR (12-7) in the regional quarterfinals Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Ackley. |
TAMA — The South Tama County boys basketball team slipped to 0-18 for the season with home losses on Friday and Saturday to WaMaC Conference foes. |
The Trojans suffered a 57-48 loss to Central DeWitt (8-8) on Friday night, and then fell to Independence (3-15) by a 76-54 count on Saturday. |
Against DeWitt Central, Keith Keahna posted a double-double of 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Trojans, while Matt Wiese contributed 11 points and six boards. |
Keahna led STC again on Saturday with 16 points and 10 rebounds, while Tyron Lasley added 13 points off the bench. |
LA PORTE CITY — The North Tama boys basketball team pushed Union’s losing streak to 15 games with Friday’s 60-50 victory over the host Knights. |
Hale Hulme had 17 points to lead the Redhawks (12-7). Ryan McLean had 10 points and eight rebounds, Noah Bond had eight points and a team-high 11 boards, and Hulme also pulled down seven rebounds. |
North Tama goes to Sheffield for its Class 1A District 10 opener on Thursday, facing AGWSR at 6:30 p.m. |
ACKLEY — The BCLUW boys basketball team fell 77-53 to AGWSR in Friday’s NICL West Division finale. |
Four players scored in double figures to lead AGWSR (12-7, 8-3) to victory, as Luke Starr scored 20 points, Alex Hames and Tanner Weichers had 16 apiece, and Jaden Penning finished with 14. |
Jack Garber scored 18 points to pace the Comets (4-14, 2-9), who suffered their fourth-straight loss. Treye Teske and Jonny Neff both scored nine points, Mason Yantis had eight and Noah Gallentine seven for BCLUW. |
Teske and Yantis led the Comets with eight rebounds apiece, while Garber had five assists and Neff blocked three shots, but the Comets fell behind 37-22 by halftime and couldn’t counter. |
BCLUW opens Class 1A District 10 play tonight in Garwin, facing GMG in a 7 p.m. first-round pairing. The Comets won the first meeting, 81-71. |
Young Jesus have shared the video for “Fourth Zone of Gaits,” off their most recent release, The Whole Thing is Just There, out now through Saddle Creek Records. |
Watch the “Fourth Zone of Gaits” video below, along with the band’s Paste Studio session from earlier this year. You can stream their album here. |
George Steinbrenner said he was adamant about switching sites for the Yankees-Tigers series for this weekend and next weekend. He said yesterday that he wanted to get his players away from the potential distractions of playing more games at Shea Stadium, and also said he did not want to ask the Mets for additional assi... |
Steinbrenner was gracious to Mike Ilitch, the Tigers' owner, for honoring the American League's request to play in Detroit this weekend, beginning tonight, while repairs are made at Yankee Stadium. |
But he inexplicably disputed the idea that Detroit fans have been seriously inconvenienced or that some of them may feel betrayed. |
Steinbrenner said he ''will do something'' financially to compensate the Tigers for their generosity in flip-flopping the series, and the American League has told the Tigers that they would be refunded for whatever they prove to have lost. But Glazier said it is uncertain whether the Yankees, the league, the City of Ne... |
''No one can figure it out yet,'' Glazier said. |
Beyond the financial considerations, the Tigers are privately worried about how fans view the swap. The decision has disturbed some fans, and the Tigers are allowing ticketholders who cannot attend the games to exchange tickets to the Yankee games for any future game. Also, fans who attend games this weekend can trade ... |
Still, there are thousands of fans who have had to adjust their plans, and there are some who simply cannot. One Michigan Girl Scout troop contracted to rent a bus and attend next Saturday's contest. When the game was switched, the troop's leaders called the bus company and tried to cancel, but were told they would not... |
The Mets offered the Yankees the chance to play at Shea Stadium this weekend while the Mets are in Cincinnati, but Steinbrenner was against that plan. He did not want the Yankees to lose out on the total monetary benefits of three home games at Yankee Stadium, and did not want his team's routine to be disrupted again. |
Field staff from the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operations (IAATO) and the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) got together in Toronto last month in the first Polar field staff conference ever held. Seventy-five people attended over the three days representing 24 IAATO/AECO members... |
There was tremendous enthusiasm for conducting citizen science projects with several participants sharing their ongoing work. Both the WWF and Stony Brook University highlighted ways that tourism benefits conservation and science, noting the importance of field staff as experts; they are highly educated and experienced... |
Kim Crosbie, Executive Director, IAATO, highlighted that after a period of downturn, tourism to Antarctica is recovering and diversifying, citing the use of UAVs as an example. |
There isn’t as much information about humpback whales and their migrations in terms of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as you would expect, he says. Circumpolar Southern Ocean whale surveys organized by the International Whaling Commission (IDCR-SOWER, 1978-2005) did not include substantial areas of the Southern Ocea... |
Challenges associated with previous citizen science efforts have been a lack of feedback from project coordinators to those submitting data. They tend to be busy and under-resourced. Cheeseman has worked with several whale monitoring projects to combine into one program, www.happywhale.com. He endeavors to make contrib... |
Conference discussion also focused on the need to ensure all human activities – no matter how small – are planned and prepared for, and they must be authorized. |
Categories: Health & Science, Tourism, Antarctica, International. |
Tags: Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO), Dr Kim Crosbie, Happy Whales.com, International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), International Whaling Commission (IWC), Polar operators, Ted Cheesman, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), World Wildlife Fund WWF. |
Kelly Osbourne says she had a seizure and doctors are trying to figure out why. |
The 28-year-old TV personality posted a photo on Twitter late Thursday of an IV in her tattooed left arm. She thanked her fans for their "beautiful well wishes." |
Osbourne was hospitalized Thursday after collapsing on the set of E! network's "Fashion Police," where she serves as a panelist alongside Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos. |
Osbourne is the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and "The Talk" co-host Sharon Osbourne. She was profiled with her family on the MTV reality series "The Osbournes" and has appeared as a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars." |
Representatives for E! and Kelly Osbourne didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. |
Islamic Feminism In Iran, a woman wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. In France, Muslim women are fighting to keep their headscarves. And in India, female Islamic scholars advise women on issues from make-up to child-rearing. Join host Neal Conan while we look at how Islamic women reform Islam from the inside out. |
In Iran, a woman wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. In France, Muslim women are fighting to keep their headscarves. And in India, female Islamic scholars advise women on issues from make-up to child-rearing. Join host Neal Conan while we look at how Islamic women reform Islam from the inside out. |
Microsoft, Get Back to Work! |
Microsoft and Salesforce.com have agreed to settle their patent suits against each other. The tale of two clouds can move on to the next chapter now as the two agree to disagree and enter into a license sharing agreement for the competing cloud technologies. |
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