I did place an order on Amazon.com this morning...but somehow I doubt that's what brought down the system. Whatever; it has been unavailable for a few hours now: "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable." Just another reminder that we are too dependent on infrastructure over which we have little or no control: water, sanitary services, electrical power, grocery deliveries, police protection, mail, phone, and Internet services. Our ancestors had plenty of worries that we don't, but they dug their own wells, buried their own sewage, grew and/or hunted their own food, and protected their families with their own weapons, and lived among neighbors who could help out when needed.
Communities still share what they can during times of trouble, but for the most part, if we lose one or more of the basic services, so do our neighbors.
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