No, pay for his kids' college was what the OP said, and it's accurate. Income is income, and rent is rent.

Note that *he is charging roughly 74% of rent of the neighbours. So if he's not renting, what then? Well likely those tenants have to find a place somewhere else and pay more. They're not paying for nothing, they're paying for a place to live in and whatever the required maintenance is.

I (well, the bank does) own my place. I have renters myself, but we share the common areas of the house so it's a little different than a whole-house rent (and includes pretty much everything including groceries). Laws here actually make it easier to get rid of bad renters in my situation (shared living space rather than a whole house), but generally I've gotten along very well with my renters to the point where most who've moved still stop by for coffee or stay over and visit if they're in town. In my previous experience (as a renter), some of the better places I've been were most the "homestay" rental variety where you get to interact more with the owner/host on a personal level.

However, a number of my friends/family-members still rent, so I see a lot of terrible landlords and situations such as:
a) Poor maintenance: Appliances that break down (fridge,stove,heating/cooling) and take a long time to get fixed. Loose fixtures. Water/mould issues
b) Intrusion: Landlord "pops in" to the suite or rental to check on things (this is actually illegal except in emergencies - i.e. broken water pipe - but many don't follow the law)
c) Illegal evictions: When somebody has complained to the landlord about (a) or (b), or the landlord just wants to jack the rent
d) Harassment: Quite often following along with (b)
e) Illegal suites: Poorly cobbled together, and lacking proper separation of utilities (separate power and hot water, etc)
f) Poor behaviour: Nothing like having a landlord that likes to light up a bit fat joint on the patio and let the smoke drift down into your unit, or watch loud TV until 1:00 after having a screaming match with the wife.

When I was looking for a place to buy, the *worst* were in the areas common to rentals, especially those near the university etc. Poor maintenance, rowdy neighbours, and high prices. Some places I just wanted to laugh in the face of the sellers. It was obvious they'd rented to students and done as little as possible on upkeep... the only selling feature was that the location near amenities (and/or attractive to renters because of such).

The worst rentals tend to be:
* University/College areas, because there's usually a plentiful supply of students willing to put up with crappy conditions in order to be close to school and/or save $50 in rent.
* Distant landlords
* Old single landlords (generally in the market to make ends meet, so little money for professional repairs and not physically capable of doing them)
* masculine used for the sake of simplicity

This is worse than even just tracking cookie injection. A tracking cookie may be used to trace traffic back to a particular user, but there's generally nothing overly special about the cookie data.

In this case, the Telco is not only providing the ability to track you to the third party, but giving away your phone #. As if people don't get enough calls from phone scams and malvertisors already.

I bet Lisa Simpson is great at binary math!

Amazon has for a long time tracked what pages you've read up to on eBooks. This means that when I read a book on a Kindle, and then later forget it at home and use a tablet etc then it's automatically on the same page as the Kindle (provided the Kindle was connected to update the reading progress).

I'm not sure that Amazon knowing "you've read up to page 51 on book X" is more more of a privacy concern than "You purchased book X".

*can* somebody buy you an eBook? Not saying it's not possible, but I never noticed any gifting functions for the non-paper variety.

Yes, because it's a lot easier to drop trouble-students from a private school than a public school. They also don't get as many students from lower-income brackets (which come with various issues: malnutrition, skipping due to having a job, parents who can't get kids to school) because, guess what, THEY CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE SCHOOL.

So yeah, no shit your private Catholic school is going to do better in that regard, they get students from better-off families, and can drop/reject the ones they don't want.

Indeed. Now there might not be a problem with a "default setting" in his particular function or application, but applying to a language in general in pretty dumb.
"Hey, I've never needed to sanity check this so let's change it and potentially f*** things up for a bunch of people" sounds like a greeeeeat idea. While we're at it let's skip bounds-checking entirely, and null-pointer checks.

Russia isn't the only one having issues with social media

ISIS had a little bit of kaboom come their way after an errant social-media posting as well.

Wonder if dude got a selfie of that?

Not feelings, perhaps, but legitimate fear for one's safety, and not the "we need to packet capture the whole internet in order to keep you safe, citizen" type.

There's a difference between "we made fun of X" (which is unkind) VS "we made fun of X, then posted his/her address and personal information with suggestions to cause harm" (which is legitimately threatening).

Yeah, especially considering that "X should be drug out into the street and shot" - which is very similar to "taken out back and shot - was a common phrase of fricking garfield, a cartoon character of some popularity.
It's an expression, and by no means a threat into itself.

The saddest part of the whole mess (other than all the people that they bilked out of thousands of dollars) is that they still haven't been disbarred.

Screw disbarred, I'm thinking that they should be imprisoned
* Identity theft
* Perjury
* (possible) Racketeering
* Failing to comply with a court order
* etc

*some* music I could listen to over and over. Other times I go back to some of the older items in my collection and am like "WTF was I thinking when I thought that this was good"

I listened to a radio article on this recently. From the various races won, it's around $4 million.

Not a bad chunk of change, but the good money from now on won't be in racing, but rather in breeding. It's anticipated that the owner could make up to $60m in stud fees. So now that AP has done the hard part, the owner gets to enjoy some cash and the horse gets to enjoy life carousing with a bunch of fillies. Not a bad retirement.

Do you have anything to cite on those stats?

The stormtrooper would take the and miss. However the haywire shot would take out an important girder, which would then cause the ceiling to collapse killing both trooper and redshirts.