Whenever you're doing a significant remodel, it makes sense to contact an insurance company and ask what sort of coverage (you) need.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

This is a superior merger because it makes more sense strategically. Qwest is also a more substantial company -- larger in terms of size, employees, revenues and fixed assets.

We're all sitting here waiting for this company to produce earnings from the changes Chuck Conaway has initiated. These changes are going to make a substantive difference. The market believes it. We do too. But it won't start being reflected until we see the hard numbers.

It's almost like a flat tax. It doesn't matter if you are small company, SOX costs a set amount. That generally means you have to generate a lot more revenue to offset that cost.

If you really needed a floppy drive, that could be added through the USB ports, and a company could use one floppy between a number of people to save costs.