But as for "Mujib Gandaharik", he goes to the top of the list.

I'm betting the 'losing' end of the situation didn't discuss this with the 'finding' end.

Former OSS: "Shh, we don't know about that. YOU don't know about that. It doesn't exist."

is not merely sentience, but whether one is paying taxes. Taxpayers are paying the salaries of those who decide cases like this.

Also: "right turn, Clyde." *whack*

I'm a Washington resident so I'm in the statistical minority that do pay tax on Amazon's goods. The ruling doesn't help those who live in the place where the business is located, understandably, only those who do not -- and in the case of Amazon, since the source can be anywhere, that list of "nots" is rather subjective or narrow in light of 'substantial nexus'.

Washington has sales tax paid at purchase. (Local to me it's 9.2%)
Oregon has a state income tax -- so save those receipts.

Thus both states tax their goods, just one more delayed than others, with the benefit that Washingtoninans love shopping in Oregon since they don't pay sales tax and Oregonians (like Alaskans) say "no tax" when purchasing stuff in Oregon.

gets replaced.

It proves people still read, and not just the tossoff-of-the-day about vampires. I've never read Catcher despite my English minor, but I'd be more apt to read these three stories not only because they're p1r4t3d but as silent testimony that people still value literature.

Cats do lick their harblz if they still have them intact. ;-)

Next analogy down the pike: Marissa in the corner, licking her own balls.

when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl.

I think that dogfood's gone bad and grown some mushrooms. Also, how does a T-Rex imitate a Pterodactyl... flapping its little arms vainly?

Rawr.

...but who's Johnny?

...where much of the government is Republican but a lot of the power on the grid comes from solar farms?

Wish it were Sunday
That's my fun day
My burger-on-a-bun day
It's just another Meatless Monday.

Okay, yes, it did take 14 years for that to happen. Odds were by 2005 AOL would sink the ship -- but it turns out people still needed MP3 and CD playing software on their computers, no matter who owned Nullsoft.

So now what will AOL rely upon to keep it relevant?

I hate to admit it (okay, not really) that I knew this was going to happen when AOL bought WinAmp... since it was AOL that was waning in popularity and WinAmp that was flying high.

For the purpose of recording it: Same story with Yahoo obtaining Tumblr to buy some continued relevance, since Yahoo itself and its property Flickr have both been fallings stars.