11.   Analysts say that the company is preparing a public stock offering for the near future.

12.   And a mettlesome government -- which still, for instance, sets the share price of all new stock offerings -- needs to step a bit further away.

13.   And hot stock offerings and the bull market in technology stocks have piqued investor interest across the industry.

14.   And one fundamental tenet of a stock offering is telling the truth.

15.   And it recently had a wildly successful public stock offering.

16.   And the frothy market for initial public stock offerings proves that many love to speculate.

17.   And Internet investors account for only an infinitesimally small fraction of one percent of all investment in new stock offerings.

18.   And long-range plans might include a public stock offering.

19.   And the company has begun looking at the possibility of a public stock offering, perhaps later this year.

20.   And then there is the matter of how a big, ugly footnote would look on a stock offering.