And this matters, because...?

No, just No. "She was a student." End of story.

And no-one said that she was. She had her trust and confidence betrayed, which is what is at issue here. So who raised the strawman, again?

It's also very important to know whether the AC is female and single.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I prefer series that don't get chopped off cold just when things are starting to get interesting.

Uh, what?

Great literature is nothing BUT morality plays in various guises.

Hm, when the DHL guy finally showed up yesterday, I invited him in for tea--in Swedish, even--but he declined.

UPS != USPS. UPS do have a Canadian presence.

Sounds like what I went through this week to get a package from DHL when my employer insisted on sending it to me at home rather than at the office. I guess they thought they were trying to be helpful... *sigh*

"Trend"? I've been doing this for at least 10 years. And I know lots of folks who've been doing it for much longer.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't, since Stallman is said never to surf the Net directly, but only to read Web pages via email.

Except that we all know that Bill only reads Ars Technica.

Time to wake up, Rip--2005 was the year of the Linux Desktop.

I've been ten years without Windows and lovin' every minute of it, baby.

Thanks for the possible solution to my pet dilemma, but who would I get to take care of them when I'm overseas? No different from having a cat, in that regard.

Haha, if you're going to use a *nix system, you might as well go with one that you actually control.

I didn't like Ted even in the 70s when it was cool to like Ted.

And here I was, hoping you were introducing a new Steely Dan concert clip... ah, well.

(Dunno if you intended it, but your intro sounds just like the MC's intro to the live version of "Bodhisattva".)