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posted by martyb on Friday November 18 2016, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the supersized-bees dept.

You can call it pie in the sky, but pizza delivery is now a real thing -- at least in the Land Down Under.

Domino's Pizza Enterprises said Wednesday it had completed what it called the world's first delivery of a pizza to a customer in New Zealand. Under the watch of a team of drone experts, the unmanned aerial vehicle used GPS navigation to autonomously deliver Peri-Peri Chicken and Chicken and Cranberry pizzas to a backyard in Whangaparaoa, about 20 miles north of Auckland.

Drones have grown in popularity among big retailers such as Amazon and Walmart, which are continually looking for new ways to get a jump on the competition and attract customers. The small, commercial aerial drones could avoid the delays of terrestrial deliveries by flying above traffic and avoiding circuitous roadways.

Manna from heaven?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday November 18 2016, @04:24AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday November 18 2016, @04:24AM (#428654) Journal

    Isn't Domino's the alt-right cuck pizza? The "entreprenuer, no unions, underpay your workers, and buy a company yacht" pizza company? The even worse than the "if I have to pay for health care for my employees, it will cost you! Suckers!" Papa Johannos Pizzas? The pizza that tastes like cardboard for a reason, the pizza where every single employee who has contact with your order puts a little of them selves into it? So, Drones. It was better when it was Hellfire missiles.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by dyingtolive on Friday November 18 2016, @05:13AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Friday November 18 2016, @05:13AM (#428675)

    I know it as the "weight loss" pizza, or alternatively the "comes out both ends" pizza.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @05:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @05:55AM (#428699)

      I have always thought that "cuck" was short for "regurgitation". Not sure why. Something to do with jmorris, no doubt. The only other possibility is that it is short for "canuck", but the people using the term do not seem to be swinging towards the Great Socialist North. Hoseheads.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:32AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:32AM (#428728)

        up-cuck

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @05:33PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 18 2016, @05:33PM (#428946) Journal

        It comes from cuckold, meaning a man whose wife is cheating on him. The alt-right uses it because it perfectly hits that combination of hypocrisy, projection, inner insecurity, sexual dominance ritual, and satisfying monosyllabilic-ness. I'll bet you it fires the same parts of the brain swearing does.

        The overtone seems to be "you got cheated because you're weak and lack manly virtue and you deserve it...but not me, i'm superior and elite, as evidenced by the fact that i can see you're a cuck." As always with the loonie-fringe right, this is a projection of deeply-held insecurities and fears.

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        • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday November 18 2016, @06:48PM

          by dyingtolive (952) on Friday November 18 2016, @06:48PM (#429003)

          I thought it was more specifically "a man raising the child that isn't his from said wife who cheated on him."

          I can't say I'm surprised to see the term used by such people, but I totally agree with you that it says more about the person making the comment than it does the person the comment is directed toward. Of course, if your argument has to resort to insults, you really didn't have much of argument to begin with.

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          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @07:33PM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 18 2016, @07:33PM (#429043) Journal

            Tell our resident alt-right diva JMorris that. Uzzard's mostly phoning it in and being a troll, but J-Mo there seems to believe every single last word...

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            • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday November 18 2016, @08:20PM

              by dyingtolive (952) on Friday November 18 2016, @08:20PM (#429088)

              I see you go back and forth with them so many times. I do agree that Buzz is likely just trolling you more often than not, but it is kind of enjoyable to watch the trainwreck sometimes, to be honest. :)

              Sadly, I do not think there is anything you can say to such a person to get them to change. Any attempt at doing so only seems to reinforce their stance. Interestingly, it's the one trait they share with the polarized extreme left.

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        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:05AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:05AM (#429285) Journal

          Azuma? Please? We are busy here redefining the entire alt-right vocabulary, as part of the SJW Nemesis Project. You coming along with the actual origin of the term is not helping! You are, however, as ever, spot on and absolutely correct. Makes me want to up-cuck.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by SomeGuy on Friday November 18 2016, @03:44PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Friday November 18 2016, @03:44PM (#428883)

    And in a related innovation, Domino's Pizza will now be able to make their pizzas fresher by using drones to directly drop squirrels in to traffic on a road near you. But how they will get the same "sat in the sun for 10 hours" taste remains to be seen.