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Kugai:
Eeeeeeexcellent

Akima:

--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 01 Apr 2015, 06:47 ---I think it's closer to the more modern usage of office or industrial workers who serve to endlessly repeat actions or processes with little to no intellectual input into their work.
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Well that usage is strange too. That is a description much closer to the behaviour of worker bees, not drones whose only function is to mate with a queen.

The Seldom Killer:
I think at this point I'm just going to blame the Americans.

pwhodges:
Perhaps the term is taken from the droning sound such a remote-controlled plane typically makes.

Akima:
The origin of "drone" according to the WSJ.

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