Look, all I know is that the machine has air, and then after some time, it contains air AND. BAGUETTES. Okay? I ain't no rocket surgeon, it just happens, okay?

The French are famous for protesting

Machines taking over jobs, maybe it was too expensive, maybe kids fukcing around.

Could have been smooth-brained, but someone wasted some time there.

That the same kind of damage i see on my local metro when machines stop working and dont' get fixed for a week.

No, duh. If it requires thin air you have to have a partial vacuum or fly it in a plane or something. My god you people are stupid.

^;-)^

Same fucking problem. Our neighborhood has a string of thefts, (from porch pirates to stolen cars) I'd love to have something centralized and accessible to the whole community to police, but that's what flock is doing and I hate that. And even if we rolled our own, some of those asshole in the neighborhood would be bitching about kids riding bikes on empty sidewalks.

just take us back to pre-technology when we came out of our houses with baseball bats to discourage vandals.

So you're saying you experience pain au 'chocolatine'? :)

No, Flock is very different, as there is no meaningful oversight or regulatory apparatus. (Unless you count lawsuits, which I don't.) That's certainly not the case with China.

Though the baseball bat analogy is attractive.

If they ever do a marketing campaign, they should have some New Yorkers of Italian descent saying "Need some bread? Hey, baguette about it!"

I'll see myself out.

Showed this to my girlfriend, who is French, expecting she'd recoil in horror. But she said "yeah, we have those, it's good for when there isn't a full-time baker around".

According to their website, it can store two types of baguettes (regular and traditional) and two types of pastries (croissants and pains au chocolat)

According to their website, it's two types of baguettes (traditional and regular). The one that looks bigger is probably the traditional, which is typically shorter and sometimes a bit thicker.

How so? Having an open bottom seems counter-intuitive.

For some reason I'm just having trouble imagining it.

There is a circular hole on the pizza box, the pizza is on top of a separate square piece of some kind of cardboard. I assume the box is like that for cooking it, as the raw pizza is cooked inside its box.

Oh, that makes more sense.