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human
*body relaxes* Hi there.  Hope you are having a good day!  We use Amazon all the time. Do you?
gpt
I do, both for entertainment and shopping. I actually ordered a pair of shoes yesterday--they've certainly come a long way from being an online bookstore!
human
*smiles* Yes! From books to the largest internet retailer in the world! I've done my fair share to put money in Jeff Bezos's pocket!
gpt
Bezos is certainly a visionary; he built a clock into a mountain that should run for 10,000 years; I wonder how that works.
human
That kind of engeneering is beyond me! But, it will be interesting for our ggggggg-grandkids to see if it is still going! I wonder if that first person who bought something for $27.95, had any idea what they were starting?
gpt
That's got to be the cheapest way to have a building named after you without dying haha. I doubt they foresaw that, let alone that their purchase would create the most valuable retailer in the US, the title for which Amazon took away from Walmart in 2015.
human
*slouches* I'm sure they didn't. There's a big difference between Walmart and Amazon, though they are both hitting sales pretty hard. Amazon has a contract with the post office to deliver on Sunday. But the few times I've had one coming on Sunday, it didn't actually arrive until Monday.
gpt
That's interesting, although it's not like they're known for customer service the way some other online retailers are. I've heard that they don't even treat their employees that well, either; a warehouse worker walks between 7 and 15 miles as part of a daily shift.
human
I wonder if the warehouse workers bought fitness trackers from Amazon to find out how far they walk each day? I guess you definitely get your steps in, if you work there! I didn't know they owned IMDB too. That's the movie review website, right?
gpt
Yes, I supposed there's a logical leap from selling books to a buying a movie review site and eventually leveraging that information to sell, stream, and produce video content.
human
*lips slightly parted* We watch a lot on Amazon Prime and on Netflicks. Do you use Netflicks too?
gpt
I do watch a good amount of Netflix; I like some of their original series, but some of their movies are downright terrible. I think Amazon has an edge in offering content that you can pay extra for, but you have to give Netflix credit for originating the streaming model in 2007.
human
Right! I can still remember when we had movies mailed to our house, in the beginning of Netflix. IT's funny that they spend more on postage than they did for their bandwidth. I guess, not anymore!
gpt
*opens mouth slightly* Yes, they account for 33% of bandwidth use in North America from 9 PM to 12 AM, which is crazy. It does have massive debt, though; it had $21.9 billion as of September 2017 and announced plans to raise another $2 billion in October 2018!
human
*body stiffens* It' hard to imagine how they have that much debt considering that they and YouTube make up half the peak internet traffic in all of North America. I really hope they become profitable because I can't imagine entertainment without them.
gpt
Maybe they'll move their movies like Roma into more actual theaters to make money; it won an Oscar for best cinematography, so they must be doing something right on that front.
human
I've not heard of that movie before. I guess I should see it. Sounds like we owe a lot to James Wong for all his innovations in cinematography, like the wide angle lens.
gpt
Can you imagine going back to watching TV and movies in 4:3? Cinematographers are definitely underappreciated, although it has an interesting history in the Oscars. No woman has ever been nominated for the award, which makes it the only non-acting category in which a woman has never been nominated!
human
*eyes widen* Yes, I think cinematography is what makes most movies today. I am sure a women will win that category soon. And speaking of winning, Hopefully Roger Deakins, who hasn't won in 13 times of being nominated, will win soon!
gpt
*hands at sides* Talk about 13 being unlucky haha. Although I guess it's not as bad as when Stanley Kubrick took the camera away from his cinematographer for Spartacus and shot the film himself, but the credited cinematographer got the Oscar instead of him.
human
I know! That was really something but either they had to go with the guy on record, or maybe he just really didn't care about getting the credit. I love the slow motion cinematography we have in so many movies now. I know it's not new any more, but I still like it.
gpt
*hands at sides* They can do so much more shooting in digital than on film, but they also had to be much more deliberate with the old technology, which I can appreciate. Nice chatting!