And a $1 (or so) charge for reserving a spot and then not parking there, or some douche will walk around the city reserving spots on his smart phone.

I don't know. I think nobody expected it to take 50 years to get back (assuming Newt can do it, which even if elected he can't/won't) or more (see previous parenthetical)

And that thought amuses me in a sad kind of way.

Many flight attendants make you turn off MP3 players too, thinking they somehow magically emanate plane-crashing radio waves.

I think I fall into the realm you find so laughable. Here are my two feelings. They do not conflict in my mind.

1) You should, legally, be able to do it.
2) It's not technically feasible without DRM so I'd never do it.

Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's smart. It's legal to dance the Macarena. I feel fairly strongly that it should remain legal. However, I have no plans to ever do it.

Maybe these "schools" who offered "classes" in App Inventor should first have someone on hand who knows enough about computers to get the service up and running.

And maybe, just MAYBE they should have had that all set up already, considering they're (presumably) charging money for the class.

What's next classes on Minecraft? Oh wait...

If they were truly like GoDaddy, they'd publicly state they were no longer supporting the $2 charge, but wouldn't actually say they weren't going to do it.

It's more like gas (and time) is so expensive that you'd be a fool to drive somewhere to pay a bill.

I personally just tell my bank how much to pay Verizon, and they cut a check, for free. I get the convenience of online pay without this stupid fee.

I hope his wife doesn't get mad! /I know, shame on me for Ring TFA.

Because you know that ads on TV are going to put the product in the best possible light, and use false imagery to try to trick you into wanting the product. Or, if you don't know this, you could.

Note, both are misleading. Pretending to be a satisfied customer on an Internet posting is simply MORE misleading, and therefore different, from showing a bunch of skinny women drinking beer.

Could be worse, they could have only hired a sixth of a dozen, or even a twelfth of a dozen.