sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: > I recently finished my CS degree, and I had more than one professor say > that they won't take "My computer crashed and I lost everything!" as an > excuse for not being able to turn in homework.
How about "My computer crashed and died and now I can't get to Dropbox to access my files"? "My computer got infected by ransomware which encrypted all my data files and blocks access to Dropbox." "One of my housemates torrented a Linux tarball, and the MPAA wrongly identified it as a movie file. Purely on their say-so, my ISP disabled my account and banned me from the Internet. But all is not lost, if I move 45 miles away, I can sign up with a different ISP!" "Some dude I've never seen before gate-crashed our party and was smoking pot, and the police raided us and seized my computer and everybody's phones. My lawyer tells me the raid was illegal and if spend two or three hundred thousand dollars in legal fees, I'll probably be able to get my computer back within eight years or so." "My dog ate my USB stick." :-) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
