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Amazon has already started doing their own shipping. Maybe they'll hire their own mercenaries to guard the shipments too. Eventually they'll replace the governm
by imgabe 5y ago
Amazon has already started doing their own shipping. Maybe they'll hire their own mercenaries to guard the shipments too. Eventually they'll replace the government. United States of Amazon. We won't even have to change all our monogrammed stuff.
- bryans 5y agoIt will all be Brawndo soon. Prophet Judge foretold it.
- Jerry2 5y agoIdiocracy was not meant to be a documentary.
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- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoMercenaries? I doubt it. Cheap rent-a-cops to burn in a hire & fire way, like their fulfilment center slaves seems more likely. Which after a while leads to enough people knowing about their ways, and enables easy sabotage :-)
- sterlind 5y agoSnow Crash is looking more and more likely.
- buryat 5y agoif they do it the way they did AWS it'll be amazing
- ramoz 5y agoI know folks building their data centers around the DC/VA region and I hear funny things.
- OJFord 5y agoLike 'I would like 1 minute of private security while I walk up this alley'? 'How many times can I walk it on the free tier?'
- gs17 5y agoMakes me wonder what the equivalent to the free micro instance would be.
- formerly_proven 5y agoUntil you forget to dismiss your security detail and get a 600k$ charge on your AmazoCard at the end of the month.
- cm2187 5y agoYou are describing the rise of the East India Company!
- selimthegrim 5y agoYou might want to look at their flag - might seem oddly familiar.
- hansel_der 5y agopoor ppl getting shot by underpaid security for trying to steal a box of stupid stuff which the rich kids that ordered it have already forgotten about ... can totally see this dystopia