Amazon Wants Patent for All-You-Can-Eat Shipping

theodp writes "USPTO documents released Thursday show that Amazon is seeking a patent covering subscription-based shipping, aka Amazon Prime. Among the seven listed inventors is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has been singing the praises of Amazon Prime to Wall Street."

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Re:I don't understand...

[Roody Blashes]

Yea, they're so wholly idiotic that they're raking in huge amounts of money from corporations without having to do much work, since they don't really vette the applications any, leaving the legwork up to the company legal departments, thus basically engaging in a business model in which rich people willingly hand them huge wads of cash for no actual service in return.

What morons they are!

Jesus, I wish I could be that stupid.

Just out of curiosity, is there anybody on Slashdot who actually thinks their comments through anymore, or is it pretty much the norm these days that no matter how successful a process is in its goal, the people engaging in it are "idiots" and "stupid" if the nerd collective finds it unappealing?

Re:I don't understand...

[Roody Blashes]

Blah blah. You made a snide, derogatory remark without any justification for it. The specifics are unimportant, and if you're that much of a prick about technicalities, do the substitution between "idiots" and "people lacking judgement" yourself, because the content of the post is just as valid whether it's directed specifically at you or at the Slashbot community as a whole.

Now sod off you pedantic little whelp. I don't have the patience to deal with numbskulls who want to bicker over the specifics of a thing to try and cover their asses after they say something stupid. The USPTO is pulling in hundreds, in some cases thousands, of dollars in fees per patent application and leaving most of the work up to the businesses anyway. They're doing a fine job of handling applications, and your idiotic take on the matter doesn't change that.