bobwyzguy’s Comments

• Sep 21st, 2018 @ 4:04am

  Not Just New Jersey

  on New Jersey Judicial Commission Says State's Courts Are Maximizing Revenue, Minimizing Justice
  This kind of stuff happens in the People's Republic of Minnesota too. I successfully beat a ticket for "Failure to observe signage" due to poor placement of said signs and ended up paying more to "win" than I would have to just pay the fine, but I needed to keep it off my driving record. The little city I live in made a small fortune in the DUI entrapment business by staking out wedding receptions at the local American Legion and basically having everyone blow a breath test before they got to go home. Not to mention the volume of speeding tickets that the Police Chief was bragging about in a council meeting once. This goes on everywhere.
• Aug 30th, 2017 @ 6:21am

  NPR closes comments

  on NPR Gives Up On News Comments; After All, Who Cares What Your Customers Have To Say?
  Too tough to censor all the conservative and right wing comments.
• Jun 16th, 2012 @ 9:24am

  Carreon - carrion - coincidence?

  on Funnyjunk's Lawyer Charles Carreon Just Keeps Digging: Promises He'll Find Some Law To Go After Oatmeal's Matt Inman
  Hey Chuck - just maybe you ARE a douche-bag. You are an attorney after all, I've only ever met two who weren't, and they both left the legal profession.
• Jan 6th, 2011 @ 9:51am

  Worked for my son

  on Are Tweets And Text Messaging Actually Increasing The Appeal Of Long Form Writing?
  When my son was in the 4th grade we realized that he was woefully behind his peers in reading. But the combination of IM and text messaging seemed to help. He is now a voracious and more to the point, speedy reader of long form fiction. This seems to me to be the result of texting more than anything he got in school.
• Oct 8th, 2010 @ 4:20am

  Death of bit.ly is good news

  on As Was Predicted, Libya Is Shutting Down Some .ly Domains With No Notice
  I will not click on a shortened link, like the ones created by bit.ly. Too easy for someone to use a bit.ly link to take you to some virus laden security nightmare. Sorry, I want to know where I am going and not just climb on the Mystery Tour. Hoping Libya shuts them down.
• Jan 15th, 2010 @ 2:53pm

  McAfee - So Bad It's Free

  on Facebook Requires McAfee Scan If There's A Security Breach? Is This Security Or A Marketing Program?
  Where I live Comcast gives McAfee away free with your cable Internet subscription. I work on PCs for a living, and this is the worst POS, and has been for a long time. It has not made the top 10 in any independent review for ages.
  
  I get deals from Buy.com and the like all the time selling McAfee 3 user licenses for under $10. If this stuff is so great why are they giving it away? This is the Yugo of security software.
  
  Facebook can have my forking account, ain't no way I'm putting that crap on my PC.
• Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 5:22am

  First Amendment Anyone

  on Students Blocked From Publishing School Paper, Given 2 Hours To Write New Stories Or Fail
  And - in case someone wants to take the moral high ground, there used to be something called the First Amendment. I understand that recent case law has pretty much entirely neutered this right, but in a truly free society, there has to be room for dangerous or unpopular behavior too. It applies to everyone including children, as a fundamental human right. We have, as a citizenry, prety much given this away in a poor exchange for safety. I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said that those who would trade liberty for security would soon have neither. Welcome to neither, which is what we currently "enjoy."
• Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 5:15am

  Same Old Crap

  on Students Blocked From Publishing School Paper, Given 2 Hours To Write New Stories Or Fail
  When I was in HS in the 70's the administration pulled this crap. I put out an underground newspaper using memograph technology (anyone?) for three issues before being suspended.
  The Internet does make it totally simple to put out the original stories.
• Aug 20th, 2009 @ 3:03pm

  Re: Perceived value

  on Street Performer Explains His Experience Connecting With Fans, Giving Them A Reason To Buy
  Sorry - so excited I forgot to spell check - or even read it first!!
• Aug 20th, 2009 @ 3:02pm

  Perceived value

  on Street Performer Explains His Experience Connecting With Fans, Giving Them A Reason To Buy
  In a fixed price model what you have is a certain number of people who thing they bought "a bargain", a certain number who that the proce was "ok" and another group who feel "ripped off" and a fourht group who just walked away without buying anything. The pay what you want fits model perfectly with everyone's perceived value of the product. Basically - everybody gets a deal and gets to feel good about it, even the sociopath who thought free was a fair deal. So there you are -