Nine-tenths of the law

James Kent knew that there was some­thing wrong with his com­puter. He had only recently acquired the com­puter — not through a pur­chase of his own, but through his employer. Kent taught pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion at a col­lege in upstate New York and the com­puter had been installed in his office as a replace­ment for an older one. When the IT depart­ment had put the new one in they sim­ply moved Pro­fes­sor Kent’s files onto the new computer’s hard drive.