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Amazon Makes a Profit

Posted by chrisd on from the satan-ordered-a-book-on-freezing-hell-apparently dept.

sofar writes: "Amazon finally makes a profit. Well, only $ 5mln, but maybe you can actually earn something on your stock now. At 1c a share it's no pension fund in Florida yet." I wonder how much of that profit represents 1-click licensing fees.

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  1. what?!?! by trix_e · · Score: 0, Troll

    I call for a Congressional investigation... stop this Enron non-sense, this is truly a scandal... Someone making money on the Internet without porn or MLM... Something is fishy here.

    "I'm hurt, and confused and I don't know what to say... no comment!" --Alfalfa, 3/12/83

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  2. The Matrix by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1, Troll

    Amazon is the best ePortal in the world! I think that Amazon should buy every corporation in the world, and patent every tiny detail of every operation that takes place in the resulting massive huge enormous multinational corporation. For example, "Method and Apparatus Attaching Manually Recorded Hardcopy," meaning, a patent on paperclipping some handwritten notes together, or, "Method and Apparatus for Disposing of Manually Generated Hardcopy of Temporary Use," meaning, a patent on tossing a piece of paper in the trash.

    Then, once all these actions take place, every person will pay an Amazon Tax on every transaction they make. Amazon will then buy all the governments of the world, enslave the human people, put a computer in command of those people, patent that, charge ridiculous license fees for it, put all the people of the world into chambers in a power plant and use them as batteries, and next thing you know, we have The Matrix.

    oooooOoooooHooooo oooooWoooooEoooooLoooooLooooo

  3. In your face! by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1, Troll

    All of you unbeleivers that were talking about "dot-com death" and such. Take that!