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Do you want a Facebook own-brand drone army? Because this is how you get one.

by JulianMorrison 5y ago

notatoad 5y ago
Meh, given current Facebook PR trends I give it about a week before we learn they've already got one.
- aaroninsf 5y ago
  Delivery drone can deliver quite a range of things.
  - JulianMorrison 5y ago
    "Our new fleet of stand-off delivery drones and inertially guided gliding packages can accurately drop your purchase onto your front lawn from 31,000 feet"
- deleted 5y ago
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quickthrower2 5y ago
Free clay pigeon shooting? Sure!
jessaustin 5y ago
So the MVP drones will do what twenty years of trillion-dollar brutality couldn't do? Wow you seem to have an even lower opinion of the effectiveness of USA military than I do... I suspect Taliban would laugh at this idea.
- JulianMorrison 5y ago
  I mean #1 you missed the bit where I'm not being serious? But #2, the US military is just fine at blowing up specific named people in specific locations. It's trying to mould an entire nation with their own ideas and traditions into a carbon copy of America that they're not great at. Facebook, I think, would avoid this trap.
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    No they really are not any good at accomplishing any military objective. The Afghan War was originally pitched as "kill this specific person". Within a month of the start of hostilities, that person had relocated to a different nation. Somehow the war went on for another decade, before an ObL impersonator who had been held by ISI for years less than a mile from PMA Kakul was ceremonially executed as an elaborate reelection campaign event. Somehow, the war also went on for another decade after that. Of course I know this is all a joke, but I enjoy taking jokes seriously. It seems that only nations who are carbon copies of USA in the very worst sense could harm their own citizens to enforce TOS of American firms. (For instance, no one would be surprised if Australia did this.) I suspect that even a very extensive drone force would fail to accomplish Facebook's goals in Afghanistan.
int_19h 5y ago
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Do you want a Facebook own-brand drone army? Because this is how you get one.

notatoad 5y ago

Meh, given current Facebook PR trends I give it about a week before we learn they've already got one.

aaroninsf 5y ago
Delivery drone can deliver quite a range of things.
- JulianMorrison 5y ago
  "Our new fleet of stand-off delivery drones and inertially guided gliding packages can accurately drop your purchase onto your front lawn from 31,000 feet"
deleted 5y ago
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quickthrower2 5y ago

Free clay pigeon shooting? Sure!

jessaustin 5y ago

So the MVP drones will do what twenty years of trillion-dollar brutality couldn't do? Wow you seem to have an even lower opinion of the effectiveness of USA military than I do... I suspect Taliban would laugh at this idea.

JulianMorrison 5y ago
I mean #1 you missed the bit where I'm not being serious? But #2, the US military is just fine at blowing up specific named people in specific locations. It's trying to mould an entire nation with their own ideas and traditions into a carbon copy of America that they're not great at. Facebook, I think, would avoid this trap.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  No they really are not any good at accomplishing any military objective. The Afghan War was originally pitched as "kill this specific person". Within a month of the start of hostilities, that person had relocated to a different nation. Somehow the war went on for another decade, before an ObL impersonator who had been held by ISI for years less than a mile from PMA Kakul was ceremonially executed as an elaborate reelection campaign event. Somehow, the war also went on for another decade after that. Of course I know this is all a joke, but I enjoy taking jokes seriously. It seems that only nations who are carbon copies of USA in the very worst sense could harm their own citizens to enforce TOS of American firms. (For instance, no one would be surprised if Australia did this.) I suspect that even a very extensive drone force would fail to accomplish Facebook's goals in Afghanistan.

int_19h 5y ago

https://www.maverickdrone.com/products/skynet-drone-defense-3-pack https://www.maverickdrone.com/products/skynet-drone-defense-...