Bezos never acts as if he cares about anyone other than himself and his hobbies. He's an asshole but at least doesn't subject the world to fake displays that he cares.

and the powers that be are on his side. "Funny" in the sense of odd, sad, pathetic.

You also needed to get hooked up by special agreement of somebody who had access. You needed a special modem, really. A prized modem.. A telebit Trailblazer, actually. Which made a unique sound. Kind of like a moose's mating call. My first exposure to www was via the pre web really having a TCP connection to the web was difficult. My first hoolup was via a protocol much like SLIP or PPP of today, and it multiplex TCP-IP over it. This enabled a generic Unix shell account to be used for TCP-ip, which seemed really magical to me. It was still very slow. So then I could use "WWW" which was the hot new thing. eventually some people got hooked up with the first web ISPs, which slowly emerged. Even big businesses were just starting out, and funneled their entire operations through modems. I remember being invited by a guy named Will Krieth that I knew to go to a party at a nightclub that was run by an old friend of mine, Dave Dean. The magazine was to be called "wired". It was actually "weird" because they seemed to have hired a whole bunch of my friends, quite a coincidence, I thought.. Their new glossy magazine used a printing process that made for a huge amount of flexibility in printing it, and this gave it a unique new look.It was being started by Louis Rosetto and Jane Metcalfe
With the entry of wired, and all their connections to the publishing world it suddenly started to feel that something was going on and people began to congregate in the Bay Area, even people who knew nothing about the internet except that "they wanted to be involved in the next new thing" At this point the first iteration of net users began to have access to real TCP-ip, a real step upward from the ugly hacks many had started out with before.originally, people were often using SLIP or a program called TIA, to tunnel TCP-ip over a shell account. Or UUCP to connect Unix machines to one another. It was like Internet peering today. The early "bang path" email addreses were very long and delimited with exclamation points, does anybody else here remember that? The web's original author was Tim Berners-Lee, an employee of CERN which was the European particle physics lab. TimBL authored www on his work computer, his desktop Next workstation whichof course ran the NextStep OS, Next was Steve Jobs company, which was particularly easy to program. TimBL wrote www, which was similar in spirit to "gopher" but used hypertext markup language, a text based invention based on SGML, a markup language used in commercial publishing toi lay out print pages.. He wrote this in his office as a personal fun project, which was strictly text based with provision only for text, and links, which when clicked would open the linked page, allowing the text to be turned into links. This turned out to be so easy and fun that even children could do it, I think it originally had no graphics, Later it had provision for inline graphics only left to right. And a "blink" tag. And a rapidly growing vocabulary of HTML tags..No real formatting was possible so people used all sorts of ugly hacks to embed graphics The magic of the www was that HTML could embed all different kinds of files and launch helper applications that were appropriate.. graphics, no tables, no frames, and a very abbreviated simple HTML by today's standards, way back in the late 80s or early 90s in the context of a website run as a labor of love by a friend who was a UCB student who shared with me an interest in electronic music.. I originally learned how to make web pages using "lynx" which was another very early, CLI browser. Then I graduated to using Irix 5.2 and 5.3, the very nice, elegant flawor of Unix used by SGI machines. This was a very nice OS to use hat I wish was still around today. The web only became available to the general public bit by bit. There were no commercial ISps until years after it emerged for the scientific and educational communities. Selling things on the early web was forbidden, it seems to me. Then it became okay but was discouraged in its most commercial form..I had a friend who ran one of the very first ISPs in Silicon Valley. The Internet was really in its infancy. The commercially dverse Web of today actually didnt exist until around 1994 At least five years after "TimBL's" A Beginners Guide to HTML was first published and the first graphical web browser, XMosaic which ra under Xwindows on UNix, and later Mac OS and Windows 95 appeared.

THis story is very much out of sequence, its not in chronological order a all, sorry about that. But its fun, I hope.

I actually went to some of the first WWW conferences and still have their Proceedings. There were only a few ISPS in the world. I was the 300th customer of one of them., AT my job I was very interested in making the best use of the Web. One of the projects I was involved in way back then actually won major kudos for its usefulness and unlike almost any web sites that were around back now, still exists! And is still super useful and relevant. I also helped develop a policy that is still being used to ensure that scientific information thats published is credible and is accountable in terms of its accuracy. It is also still being used. A very very long time later. Today obviously everything is so very different. Especially, computers have become so very much more ffordable and powerful. By many orders of magnitude at least. This has made things possible or even easy that would have been out of the question then. Back then powerful computers were huge power hogs and cost astronomical sums of money. They required a lot of technical expertise to use. Now a $35 credit card sized Raspberry Pi of today probably carries more computing power and memory than a whole roomful of powerful graphics workstations did then, (and produces a LOT less heat). It can address 64 bits which means terabytes of memory and disk, which is still a lot in terms of its usefulness.. What this means is that even little kids can afford a machine with which they could do, if they want, serious science. And they can be very productive if they are motivated to be so.

The key to doing this is to free your mind of limitations that box you in with ideas of what can and can't be done. So you can reach your full potential.

@lily-o-lady

Distilled water with a tiny bit of carnosine in it. 1% or less by weight. Make sure the distilled water and eye dropper you use is kept sterile!

It has been known for a long time. Carnosine really works wonders for the beta-cystallin protoglycans in the eye. The clear proteins in the lens of the eye.

It was discovered in the former USSR and was published, but seems as if the older articles never made it into PubMed. Note I am talking about plain old l-carnosine. Not n-acetyl-carnosine which is insanely expensive. Carnosine is quite affordable as a little bit of it can last years taken this way. Ive been taking it for years - every couple of days for a few years. It seems to have arrested the progress of a very destructive and common eye condition to some exent. It clarifies cloudiness in eyes, if its not too bad. Look it up. Just keep in mind that plain l-carnosine works too. Not just the expensive kind. This really should be publicized all around the world. It helps dogs too. Dogs seem to be helped a real lot by it. It would likely help a lot of old elephants too, I suspect. Eye drops are not very invasive.

Its because people, especially children, have to be fed and eat.
Bezos should at least give his underpaid workers a hefty discount on food at his food store.
But I don't think they do. There may not even be a "Real Foods" or any kind of health oriented supermarket in many parts of the country, because they could't afford the high prices for healthy food now as the food supply is being monopolized by the land grabbing.

Thats the biggest question for me. I hope people are okay safe somewhere, get out safe and that its not freezing cold. People who are pinned under huge fallen racks of products to be shipped and debris are definitely under severe risk of hypothermia. So glad the disaster wasnt an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault. (which could be a vast multi state catastrophe)

In a best case scenario, I would say that there may be a serious safety and structural conflict between their business model and extreme weather. As well as coronavirus.

They are "no longer looking for people". (whatever that means, I couldn't figure out what they meant). The building was very new and was peeled open by the 150+ mph winds..
At least 40 people are verified as survivors, At least six died. Several subcontracting companies worked there for Amazon, but the workers for these companies may not be Amazon employees???

Numbers of potential fatalities are not known. I dont know if there are many injured? They are for photos, asking familiy members for pictures of the possibly involved to facilitate identification of people who may not have been carrying ID when the storm hit.

Re the candle factory, there are familiy members on the site hoping that their family members were among the survivors, 40 people out of 110 were accounted for, not necessarily alive or dead.. There are a lot first responders who want to help until their help is no longer needed and everybody, living hopefully is found..there are also many coroners from several counties.
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Pray for these families whose homes look like many of them have lost everything as well as families and loved ones. Warm clothing and housing would be helpful. Pray!

Kentucky state government is setting up a fund for donations for survivors.