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IkeyPikey Zippo still sells and services lighters. I know you were just using them as an example.
So FYI. I have a Pizza Shop "BC Pizza" a chain just five blocks from my house and they sell Zippo products. Zippo guarantees there lighters for a lifetime. There guarantee is if they can't repair it. They will replace it. You just pay the postage. Of course you will need stamps to get there and back home. |
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I collect U.S. Singles, Se-Tenants, Souvenir sheets and Canadian Singles. |
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Mars coloney one here reporting we use stampless letters here ,the receiving party pays the fee with some oxygen rations. There has been talk of new fangled stamps that the sending party attaches to the letter which we make into cut squares and collect in booklets for water and air rations. Some old timer remembered earther stamps and showed us one for a new mars stamp design it was some guy with wooden teeth and an awful smile he must have had martian blood thoe since his color was green just like us! It may be some time for the new stamps as the old timer wants 3 space ships and a couple rovers - a little steep for our blood makes my antenna twitch, those old earther stamps sure are expensive... |
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TinMan: Yes, you're right, Zippo is still around; while stalking thrift shops et al, I keep an eye out for 'classics' that might please my daughter, who does not smoke but has done field stuff (grave restoration, archaeological surveys, etc) and knows they are (comparatively) awesome in wind. I was trying to think of something smoking related - onyx ashtrays, meerschaum pipes, cigar clippers - that went out of use when social smoking stopped, decades ago ;)
And, where *did* all those ashtrays go? Time was, every living room & den & foyer & dining room had a few, one on every surface.
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TheArtfulHinger: My friend Herb thinks that fusion will mean near-free energy, and that 3D printing will mean Big Macs assembled, molecule-by-molecule, in his great-grandchildren's kitchen. What *is* it with you guys and shopping/cooking meat?
Nuclear energy never got "too cheap to meter", and I don't think that any version of hydrogen-to-helium energy will ever get cheap enough to enable atom-by-atom, molecule-by-molecule 3D printing of Big Macs (or any other red meat concoction) at home at a competitive price.
And, long before it does, we'll be able to 3D print our own Penny Blacks, and use them for postage.
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ikeyPikey,
Careful what you say abour Fusion and near free energy. I remember when Fission was in vogue some 50-60 years ago. The teachers taught us how to read electric meters but told us we wouldn't need them "10 years from now" because electricity would be free!
On a lighter side, everybody should know that we can still buy "Pez Machines". Get them while you can!
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Stamps will become like used stock certificates. interesting and collectible. I agree that the used newer ones will be rare. |
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At first postal systems will evolve to become almost exclusively parcel delivery services but eventually hard copy information will simply not be needed to be delivered to anyone's door. As 3D printer technologies become more common even the need to parcel delivery to your home will also subside.
How will all of this look? On your way to your job your car, which is driving itself, your dishwasher sends you yet another notification that it is not been running at peak performance. You query your dishwasher and it displays the status, a moving part is now 65% worn and eminent failure will occur within 4 weeks (given your current usage of your dishwasher). You only need to check for price and availability, the exact part needed is already identified for you. It is already displaying the purchase options for you, making the purchase is as simple as making your mid up which service you will use. When you arrive back at home in the evening the part will be sitting on your 3D printer and ready for installation. They displayed a 3D printed car at Detroit this week. "The car of the future - just a click, print, and drive away." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-roa...printed-car/Don |
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