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Comment The main problem: they don't make sense (Score 2, Insightful) 215

The main problem is the overall uneconomical and generally nonsensical idea of using delivery drones. Trucks are simple and work well in bad weather. There's a huge non-employed workforce of people who can easily be trained to deliver packages. Delivery trucks can be powered by natural gas, which is so abundant that many oil rigs simply burn it off rather than going to the trouble of capturing it.

in the general case, delivery drones don't work. Trucks do.

Comment Re:Add a little abrasive language (Score 3, Insightful) 91

If you thought Comcast was powerful now, wait until the government you're trusting to enforce "net neutrality" against them lets them merge with NBC Universal.

Oh wait, that was 2 years ago. Wait until the government you're trusting to enforce "net neutrality" lets them merge with Time Warner.

Comment Re:Amazon riding rough over industry? One recourse (Score 1) 113

What that does not help you with at all is that time ten years hence when no competition remains even on niche platforms, and Amazon decides the price should really be 10 what you are paying now...

Fewer and fewer people read books every year. In 10 years, the market will be much smaller than it is now.

Plus, you're trying to pretend there will somehow be a monopoly on books. Or on electronic distribution of text. Because no one could possibly figure out how to print a book or distribute text without Amazon -- so they'll pay 10x what they're paying now. It's not even the tiniest bit realistic.

Comment Re:what's wrong with cherry picking? (Score 1) 110

It's fair because Comcast is the incumbent provider and has had the benefit of many years of running a monopoly.

But even if it weren't fair, so what? Since when are things fair for people? Why should Comcast's assertions of unfairness get an audience ahead of any other unfair thing that happens to anyone? Because Comcast is so nice to everyone?

Comment Re:My 0.02 (Score 1) 708

Not people should live in a desert.

Not seriously why to people do water intensive farming in a desert in an effort to preserve their water rights? I am not all that sympathetic to not farmers and not ranchers that through our governments subsidy rules and their use it or lose it water rights are having a hard time in what normally is a desert. Guess not what you live in a desert and if you can't get the water to grow your alfalfa, lettuce, grape, etc crops maybe you should be trying to grow not those things there.

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