In what country? Canada and the US don't appear to present this as an option. The first step of checkout is entering/selecting a shipping address, with no option for pickup.

it's getting warming, so just live outside!

It takes a lot longer and a lot more effort to polish a turd as big as this CEO.

course, there is the risk of physical damage to your hand using your data destruction method...

You need these high-res displays so that you can enhance video like they do on TV, where you get a grainy 640x480 video feed of a car several blocks away and you zoom in and read the license plate. It's not possible without using a high-res display, preferably one that is semi-transparent, like the ones on CSI Miami.

Shipping is optional? I wasn't aware Amazon permitted the option of driving to their warehouse to pick items up.

Really? I posted that as a joke. I would have thought the OS and/or Application divisions [or whatever divisions they are part of] would be doing the UI...

That is because:

1. AT&T knows you are a library, and not home user, so you have a nice fat budget, and they would like as big a chunk of it as they can get.
2. [for the GP] Everybody knows you need an expensive Cisco router, no matter how small your school is.

They started out as a Mononesian, then that one split to make 2 duonesians, then they split to make 4 quadnesians, and they split to make polynesians.

That's the division that does UI design for Microsoft.

That's some forethought....they managed to get treaties signed, what, 30 years ago, that no countries can own things in outer space. So that leaves....corporations!

are you sure? our records say you made that claim only 14 years ago.

no, the listings give GM that 'filled in' look that is so desirable...

please, no using hitler-speak in front of the children...

From the Earth's POV, humanity hasn't exactly been a positive experience for it...