Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

7 of 311 comments (clear)

  1. I CLAIM THIS FIRST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hearby claim this first post for the glorious Queen of Spain! May her mighty bossoms rule over the world for all eternity!!

  2. 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

    --
    No man is an island, but Gary is a city in Indiana.
  3. 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

  4. Re:Linux saves Amazon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is CRAP!!!!
    it stopped being one when the Amazon sysadmins rewrote it from scratch!

  5. Re:Reuters story by Sir_trolls_alot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thats some fine high quailty Karma whoring you're doing kid ;) keep up the good work. Seeing as the orignal article isin't even slashdotted ROTFLMAO. I bet you were hoping some kid with mod points would mod you up without the article? opps I guess I messed that up for you!! BTW did you hear Alan Thicke DIED today? Just heard it on CBC radio!! (Not kidding either!. Sorry to burst your karma bubble!

  6. Re:Linux saves Amazon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess your post still isn't entirely accuate. The $17 mil was actually due to getting rid of Linux. Dropping insecure open source software saved them from hackers that kept exploiting holes they found in the source code. Reliable closed source software gave them the freedom to safely expand into international markets.

    Go Linux! (Preferably away from the US where it is stifling the economy)

  7. 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!