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Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by glbrew on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:05PM (#13092745)
Finally somewhere to store my porn collection.
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by glbrew on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:25PM (#13092875)
Oh come on I didn't even know I could get downvoted on HN
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by glbrew on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:37PM (#13092939)
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by user5994461 on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:08PM (#13092765)
The more I see it, the more I think that this is just an easter egg from some Amazon guys that wanted to bring in a badass truck in the middle of the re-Invent presentation.
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by Qwertystop on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:35PM (#13092509)
A step up from SneakerNet ("You there, bring this bag of flashdrives to the office across the street, wouldya?"), I suppose.
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by hchenji on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:06PM (#13094247)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.
Re:Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Ha... by pasbesoin on Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:26PM (#13097570)
With the recent archive.org mirror announcement, I've had visions of Griswold-era Chevys (I think his was a Chevy) careening northward over the Canadian border.