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Because AWS is a huge profit center for Amazon, they are able to invest those profits into reducing prices on the retail side of their business - amazon.com. Netflix doesn't compete with Amazon's retail business, Walmart most certainly does.

"Even in flyover country", ouch, you realize the comments earlier about Walmart's Y2K efforts were all driven out of Arkansas, right?

Ahem Orwell's 1984. It's a book.

It's possible that the computers didn't run on tubes but rather the radar systems. The two may have been conflated. I believe I've read that tubes are still quite common in high-power radio transmitters because they're more effective than solid-state components. Still a bad situation, but maybe not as sensational as it appears on the surface.

> It's going to take a while before Islamists change their views on this issue.

It's only been 1,500 years. Lets give them a little more time mmm-k?

I'm guessing it's a joke. Y=vertical scaling, X=horizontal scaling, Z=? scaling