[Sigia-l] Raising a Dead Horse

[Listera]

I can force myself to understand something about raising a dead horse, but
unearthing a fossil? Billions of bilious blistering barnacles! One never
knows what a new year has in store.
 
"paula.thornton" wrote:

> At that time Ziya said: "It's silly to argue that Amazon is unique or will
> *continue* to make money, since it never has."

*AT THAT TIME* Amazon had NEVER made any money since its inception. That was
and is STILL a fact. In Feb 02 one could NOT truthfully say that a company
would CONTINUE to make money, if (for half a decade since its founding up to
that point in time) it had never made any profits. That's why I emphasized
the word *continue*, as the quote shows. Now, that obviously does NOT mean
that it WILL NEVER EVER make money. Nowhere did I EVER predict that Amazon
would make OR lose money at some FUTURE date. Because...

> To miss the call on the top-performing company of the NASDAQ 100
> for 2002...

...I wasn't analyzing the FUTURE prospects of Amazon as a company. That sure
wasn't the focus of the thread and I was simply pointing out that it was
silly to say that Amazon "will *continue* to make money" since up to that
point it never had. (As in, one cannot *continue* to do something one has
never done before.) I'm not sure what my factual observation THEN has
anything to do with some future date in late 2002 or, for that matter, 2022.

If that thread on Amazon was really about predicting 'top-performing
companies for NASDAQ 100 for 2002' then I must have missed it totally and
stand clueless to this very day.

Best,

Ziya

(Sorry for the shouting caps but if this post is ever excavated sometime
next decade, I wanted to be sure that it wasn't repositioned for
convenience.)