Unless you hack the eternal damnation out of them. Pass me the logic analyzer! Mwahahahah!
(That said, does anybody know why the Rigol’s “Ultra Sigma” has a half-gigabyte monstrosity installer?)
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Or a Co-op Atlantic store - it’s nearby, the people say hello, and they sell soap that’s not advertized on TV, magazine, radio, (and boingboing?), and cheaper.
Not so much on that count. The Free Press covered it last year - outside of some local beers, there’s very little from VT there, mostly because of TJ’s distribution method that for example, requires VT apples to be shipped to their MA distribution center, to then be shipped back here.
Ya gotta love the cases of Switchback at the Costco, though!
Playing Find the Hummus gets pretty old.
That sounds like what Uncle Mordechai got thrown into jail for.
// Or should I have gone for the Gitmo joke?
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How long before someone’s cat orders a truckload of dishwasher detergent?
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As a Amazon stock holder, I noticed you said that like it’s a bad thing.
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Perhaps it’s merely your imagination. How long have you been experiencing these feelings of persecution? Do you want to talk about it?
Just kidding. Though I probably do own some Amazon stock, in some mutual fund buried in a 401 somewhere, I am not an Amazon stock holder. I do have a few Amazon boxes in my recycle bin though.
I saw those! I thought that was your Bag Hutch.
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Just so we’re clear, I’m not a bad guy, but I don’t have great impulse control. If I see these buttons anywhere in real life, whoever owns them is going have a fuckload of Tide™ show up at their doorstep a couple days after I was invited over.
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I will press these buttons whenever I see them. Lots of times. And I don’t have nearly the focus of a small child faced with a push button.
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I don’t mind Costco, per se. I do mind most of their clientele. Most of ‘em seem to have more money than brains and are so effin’ self absorbed that they can’t even navigate the giant carts in a civilized manner. I go when they open, if I go at all.
Vermont must be more special than I originally considered. Milk at Costco generally costs more than at the big chain grocers and the local chain grocer here.
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Wow, I can’t find a Costco, but we have a BJ’s membership. Milk is about $1 less than in grocery stores. I but it up and freeze it. Thawing is a pain, though.
How do you freeze-thaw milk without breaking the emulsion? (Wouldn’t evaporating/drying be more useful?)
(Side note. After the Chernobyl mishap, Brits were destroying batches of 131-I contaminated milk. Russians turned them into dried milk powder, and stored them for a dozen or so half-lives. Some problems take care of themselves if you give them the time.)
They will just end with a confirmation request on the phone. In default config, the button sends just one confirmation request for just one order until the thing is delivered, then it resets and allows another request.
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Does anyone actually read the links? You can press them all you want. You get one order until the delivery is made! And for things like the amazon subscriptions, they send them the slowest possible way because they want to encourage you to order early. And you are alerted to it via email.
I use to do the Amazon subscription thing…it made my life easier. With the exception of when I realized that I wasn’t using a product nearly as much as I thought I was and 6 months later I was sick of it…and happy that I finally finished off the last box so I never have to see it again and DAMMIT WHAT IS THIS SHIPMENT AT MY DOOR.
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How about this?
Can you imagine what’s going to happen when this button is installed in a house with children?
Maybe Amazon are counting on the fact that anyone so self-absorbed as to think that a wifi-buy-it-now-button is a pretty neat idea would be the kind of person who spurns a family.
Either that or Amazon must want to make this advert from Adobe into a reality!
ETA: No, of course I didn’t read TFA.
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The button gets moved up, outside of their reach?
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Nothing is outside of the reach of a determined child.
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