Typically the bankruptcy processes in many countries involve dissolving the company and paying out as many debtors as they can. The order typically goes: Legal obligations, contractual obligations, and investors. I.e. the Employees' severances get paid out first, the banks second, and the shareholders last.

If the company didn't have the money to cover their most critical debtors who's payments are protected under law, then they were already ruined long before anyone took anyone else to court.

I have a question for you: The idea of instalments assumes the company has a growth prospect and the ability to survive. Companies with those prospects can get loans to get them through those tough moments.

The fact that they didn't do this, or weren't able to do this, or weren't able to find some other investor to get them through this phase is more telling than any court decision. As an ex-employee there's no way in hell I'd be accepting "instalments" from a company that looks like it's about to go under.

Yep and they were responsible for everything, and how the leader is spending life in jail. The system works.

You do realise we don't make anything right? Our entire country's wealth, our way of life, and everything we take for granted is financed by digging shit out of the ground and shipping it overseas along with a few live cows. We are the Qatar of the west when it comes to coal and gas and our wealth comes from the thirst for dirty energy all over the world.

Digging a hole in the middle of the country is not bad for Australia, it's par for the course, it's Australia getting up and going to it's mundane job to pay it's mortgage. It's bad for the environment but no one in power seems to give 2 shits about that.

Oh what a great laugh for a Saturday morning. You do realise this guy was an absolute train-wreck BEFORE we voted him in right? In fact he's been a train-wreck since he got in, but funny enough the polling shows he's just getting more and more popular. In fact if we went to election right now there's only a slight chance that they would lose on a 2-party preferred systems. On a primary vote they are still by far the most popular.

Also you're assuming any of the other idiots are any better.

That can be said for a lot of things which would leave a bunch of kids with the inability to actually make it through life. Like kids not wanting to learn compound interest in math and then not understanding a single thing the car salesman says.

I do agree with part of your post though, teaching Shakespeare, and Drama may not be as useful to a person in later life, but the basics of programming found the basics of logical reasoning. No I won't ever solve the world's problems (or any problem really) using Logo, but the lessons learnt about logic or recursion are about as fundamental as any reasoning skill and all people should have it.

Not everyone is going to be a programmer growing up. But nearly everyone will benefit from some basic knowledge of branching and recursion at some point, even if it's just to make one of their mind numbing tasks a little easier by editing a cell in Excel.

I disagree with this. I'm not a programmer but there have been times when being able to spit out a small script in whatever language I read the manual for has been very helpful in solving other problems. Learning to program is about logic, and being able to solve logic problems is a life skill that I think a lot of people can benefit from regardless if they end up working for Zuckerburg or sitting in an accounting office staring at Excel all day. Basic programming knowledge is something that can make people's lives a bit easier if for no other reason than being able to understand the difference between someone saying AND and OR. (Yes some people actually need the truth tables drawn up for them).

Oh man I wish I were a stupid president. I could engineer for a small lifetime and not get a salary as high as a "stupid president's" retirement pension let alone their actual salary while in office.

Give me social intelligence any day.

According to TFS it failed after 2 days. For something that's supposed to be up there for years I would have expected it to last more than 2 days. If it lasted half a year that would be far more forgiveable.

Really? If a system dies after sending it a reboot command I would blame systemd.

That is only a concern when the inputs aren't within your control.

Also while CSV isn't compact it is human readable. Binary files have their place, but just like the complaints about binary logging in OSes storing data in plain text makes it very resistant to corruption and easy to debug. It's also far easier to deal with strings of plain text when you're an amateur coder, and ...lets face it....do you trust someone who can't prevent a file from dynamically growing to create their own binary format that would be in any way reliable?

Less pins.... sure what functionality should we throw out?

Not necessarily. There's plenty of reasons you may not want to charge someone with a crime you know they've committed. Consider that it may be embarrassing for the prosecutor, may open up new technicalities that allow a case to be thrown out, expose sources of knowledge etc. If someone is going away for life as it is there's very little reason to slap something else on him when you could always do it later.

Yes which is why they have a dispute resolution system.