Non-motoring > Amazon drops keep falling on my head... Miscellaneous
Thread Author: smokie Replies: 7
View Threaded 

New Thu 29 Dec 16 14:24 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - smokie
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38458867

and details at

tinyurl.com/j7n4l3q

Do we think it will ever happen?
Last edited by: smokie on Thu 29 Dec 16 at 17:38
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 14:30 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - Duncan

>> patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9305280.PN.&OS=PN/9305280&RS=PN/9305280

May I ask, Mr Moderator, why you don't take your own advice and use tiny.url?

tinyurl.com/j7n4l3q

Duncan

Duty Grump for Xmas 2016
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 16:51 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - rtj70
>> May I ask, Mr Moderator, why you don't take your own advice and use tiny.url?

Because that's usually another moderator that suggests such things?
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 17:38 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - smokie
Oops, done!
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 15:20 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - zippy
Who knows!?

In the 1980's to suggest flat screen TV's for £199, Sat Nav and laptops as powerful as mainframes of the time would have been laughed at. Multi-billionaires spending billions to fund private rocket launches were the thing of sci-fi or James Bond films.

Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 16:20 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - Stuartli
>>Who knows?>>

Apart from the Internet, you've left out or perhaps overlooked probably the best known and most widely used product in the world, the mobile phone.

A modern Smartphone is a quite outrageously superb device and there's still a lot more to come....:-)
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 20:06 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - Rudedog
I'm surprised no one has mentioned about the 'new' drone laws that are on the books to be passed at some point.

According to what I've read that would kill off any deliveries by drone, I think one of the rules is that 'you must avoid flying it within 150 metres of a congested area and 50 metres of a person, vessel, vehicle or structure not under the control of the pilot'.

Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Thu 29 Dec 16 20:23 
 Amazon drops keep falling on my head... - R.P.
I think I heard that Amazon had negotiated an exemption.
Reply to this message | Report message
       
Latest Forum Posts