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.

Or he was off and going to some event to show off the outfit (or maybe having some fun with his kid... it didn't say if he had a child at the school).

a) You do have to pay the tax
b) You don't pay duties on items manufactured in the US. If it's an import to the US that is then resold, it's susceptible to duties.

Yes it happens everywhere, but some places are more susceptible to obvious graft and cheating than others. In the USA, for example, it would be hard to argue that there isn't a certain culture of graft in government... but it's mostly a legally acceptable variety called "campaign contributions." Unfortunately the people making the rules have made a system where they're exempt many of them.

The thing is, what might not be unexpected in certain levels in North American society permeates more levels in some others. In many places you simply can't do business without bribes. In China, it's pretty much endemic to the culture in some areas.

My ex used to share stories, one of which stuck with me: she wanted to transfer her son to another school after moving.
When she went in to register him, she was told "sorry, we're full and not accepting more students."
As she's leaving, another guy comes up, drops a red envelope (presumably containing some cash) with the school secretary, and asks for the same thing. He's told "sure, we'll fit him"

"oh, and once a month you should run this script which performs, uh, maintenance on the production systems"

(no, I do not recommend this, but one can sometimes see why IT people are often escorted out rather quickly rather than "training their replacements")

Also that pesky requirement of having a license in the US to practice medicine... which requires a fairly hefty investment in education etc
(IT also requires education, but there are no "licensed" IT people... generally because nobody dies if a server goes down).