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You are all over the place in your reponses. Mixing one idea with something else. Excluding your idea of hotdog competition on the stadium grounds, you say there is no way to get a lower price at the football stadium? Is this your position? I know it must be hard for you to stay focused but please let us know if this is your thinking about hot dog pricing?

Come on Billvon you're not making sense. Costco is businesses example of bulk buying to reduce pricing. NFL fan placing demands at the counter that they won't pay $5 for a hot dog and will only pay $2 is the same example. What would the stadium owner do if he never sold one fringgin hot dog at $5 yet had 50,000 fans tell the counter people they'd pay $2 and if they wouldn't take $2 THE FAN WALKED AWAY. The next game the dogs would be $2. You are missing my point. People have a lot of power if they were organized. The owner of costco organized group buying, but he didn't reach critical mass until he had large numbers of subscribers to his plan. So go start your NFL DOGCO buying service association, get 50,000 members and negotiate dog price for the benefit of your members OR induce 50,000 game gowers to do what I suggest if you could influence them to do so, which I don't think is possible. For crips sakes they're wearing cheese hats and paying $5 for a coke. Most are drunk, what do they care about what they are paying! In fact, they laugh about how much they do pay without doing one darn thing about it. Stadium Owners laugh all the way to the bank. Oil companies laugh all the way to the bank as they have PEGGED, what you will pay for a gallon based on buying preferences of the masses without any respect to how much gas there is.

It seems the focus is on Ms. Lanza for making guns available to her son who she knew had mental problems. Of course I wasn't there, the boy could have held a knife to his mom demanding she open the safe etc. In any event, so much as I respect Ms. Lanza's right to own guns and keep them in her house, it might have not been the right thing to do knowing the son had mental problems. It would be almost impossible to legislate against people making the wrong choices about keeping or handling guns no matter any law or safe gun handling directive.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/a-month-after-massacre-newtown-considers-what-to-do-with-conn-school-where-gunman-killed-26/2013/01/13/f4d10aaa-5dde-11e2-8acb-ab5cb77e95c8_story.html "They include requiring gun owners to lock up their weapons in their homes if the guns could be accessed by mentally ill or dangerous people, and boosting federal grants for school security reviews. Pozner’s family also is suggesting a new law requiring people to notify police within 24 hours if they know about an imminent threat of harm or death made by a person who has access to guns or explosive devices. Breaking the law would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail."

Thats an odd argument. Should food be free also? Yes, DHS needs supply everyone who goes through airline security that prohibits carrying water as water is needed for life. Afterall we are guarnteed freedom of LIFE, Liberty and the Persuit of Happiness. They shouldn't deny me water, then only make water availible at $5 per bottle for me to purchase if I want. In fact, there should fountains directly past the screener. NOw were should I send you the bill for the air you are breathing? You can talk about Oxygen Bars in another thread. This discussion is about petitioning sellers about what price will be paid for their products, not anything else. People have that power, but are not organized enough to do so. If you disagree with this premise, then that's your opinion.

NOt sure who is being addressed but if RIFLES are only 3% of total gun violence out of all rifles then RIFLES might not be the gun of focus. Noted that AR's are only subset of RIFLES so, AR are even less than 3% which really places them on the back burner. They want to continue allowing illegal hand gun owners the use of illegal handguns, where most of the crime occures while taking away AR's from law abiding citizens. Its a case of priorties. Hope this helps.

No one, exatly what I explained above via my illustration in how gasco plays with pricing. Gas price was hiked from $2.35 to $4.25 then reduced to $3.25 and people think they are getting a deal. Gasco made less money at $4.25, but now that people are use to paying $3.25 they are making more money than at $2.35. Gasco is sofisticated in how they ascert price. Price is determined by maxium cash flow. If they could make more money at $1 per gallon, price would be $1. Just so happens that $3.25 is where they can make the most money. *** Your taxes and your airplane ticket pay for that. More specifically, the airport pays for heavily subsidized water (same subsidies you get) and the airport (and eventually the airline) pays the remaining few cents it costs them to provide you with water. It's like the air conditioning; you think you're not paying for it, but it's coming out of your ticket price. Still, water out of the tap at the airport is far less expensive than buying bottled water at Starbucks at the airport. You are missing my point. If every who wanted to go to the NFL superbowl would be willing to pay $55,000 per tick do you think the Stadium owner would adjust differently? Same with water. People will pay $5 but won't pay $6 they reason water is $5. Complete a website that SAYS WE'll only pay $2 coke at the Stadium. If all people at the stadium will only pay $2 or NOT BUY A COKE, do you think the stadium owners will keep prices at $5 per coke. NO, They'll lower the coke to $2 then jack the price of hot dogs to cover the loss on the coke. So you do the same with hotdogs. Pay $1.50 or WE THE FANS will not buy hotdogs either. People at the Stadium are suckers and the owners bilk fans for as much as what fans will pay. If they'll pay $100 per hot dog, then the price will be $100. From what I hear there is no shortage of hotdogs! IIt's a numbers game that the public has no control over due to the fact that THEY ARE NOT ORGANIZED in their buying of specific items. Which is the point I'm discussing. In fact, the world should not even buy water in bottles. Water should be free as we need water to live but the buying public allowed bottling firms to turn water into a product.

The poll question was neutral. Hair is Hair. My comment outside of the poll question was bias as I forgot there might be a couple of whitle guys playing, who might have long hair that was not styled in any type of dred fashion, getting perms or what have you to have caucasion hair appearing as dred hair. I serious regret this transgression and retract "dreds" and replace that with "hair" in my comment above. In this instance length of hair, not style of hair is the focus. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Yep, at least for you life time there's plenty of supply and do to you and your peers who don't coordinate your buying, you're subjected to paying what everyone is willing to pay. And too, Spigot water at the airport is free and plentiful if you have a cup, or if you use your hand as cup in the men room. Drinking fountain are usually hidded they they are there. At consession you pay $5 a bottle. Same deal. It's what people will pay that prices are determined. In this case water is free and plentiful. Besides, they serve free water on the airliner. I gather people won't pay $6 the reason why $5 was set. Unbelievable.

Yea, its a dead end conversation. Tons of oil, so much oil and so much gas producing capability there's not enough storage capacity on top of earth to contain all that they can produce. That they store the oil where they find it, in wells! They only produce what they project they'll need. To the oil company with the amount of money they make, the oil is virtually FREE. BP just paid a billion dollar fine and didn't even put a dent in the balance sheet. Call it what you want, price fixing, price ascerting, afixing a price but what determines what we pay at the pump is what the public is willing to pay. Plenty of gas always. You see how they toy with price. They jack it up to get people use to really high price then back it off to higher than before increase. So you pay $2 it goes to $4 then to $3.50 and the $2 is long forgotten. OH $3.50, that's a deal, better than $4 but hey dummy. ITS NOT $2. This is all done digitally via pump signage. Easy.

Refining capacity far exceeds world wide gas container capacity. Well head capacity far exceeds what refiners can deal with. There are capped wells for the next 50 years use, ready for refining. Supply is not a factor. What people will pay is the main factor, regardless of supply as there's ENOUGH GAS in the enterprise. Now when refiners can't produce enough gas there'd be a supply problem but so far the world has more than enough refining capability to fill all available gas storage facilities world wide.

Supply is not a factor. There's plenty of gas. Gas provisioning is equated a year out from actual use. There were tanking off Baltimore port filled with gas all while gas firms were claiming oil embargo etc. We're talking offer to pay x price, or we won't buy gas. True hard to get people not to buy gas to make that idea work I agree. But I disagree that reduced consumption will lower prices. Look now, consumption is down since SUV days, yet price is twice as high as SUV days. Especially with many giving up f150s, suvs and buying 40mph hondas. And without you nor I with access to oil company data, can barely discuss the matter, if you could agree.

Odd, lots of dissapointments but yet finally it was mentioned movie was outstanding? Sounds pretty boring to me. Everyone knows the end of the story. All use of aircraft carriers and aircraft cost a lot of money so keeping costs low, your pre raid sets on sound stages are the right choice.

Well, actually the range (according to numbeo) is 87 cents to a dollar. Per liter, which equals roughly 3.50-3.75 a gallon. I looked it up originally because I was just in Puerto Rico in November, and I sure didn't pay any 79 cents a liter, never mind gallon. Wendy P. Must have gone up since when I was in PR in July. I paid $6.78 CI when I was in Caymen over Christmas add 20% to CI to get the USD equivalent. None the less, gas prices are fixed to what any economy will pay.

What about the Browns? Would the Cleveland Browns would continue to use their bland orange helmets? Plus WTF is a 49er? Redskins would drop their name and take Browns name and Cleveland will take the name Cleveland ROCK AND ROLLERS and continue to grow Hair Band hair, so long as hair is dyed differnet colors so that players can be distinguished. What to do with Browns, OH since the Potomac is filling with snake head fish and since they are brown, Washington can take the SNAKE HEADS. Not sure about their costume though. They do have some ugly teeth... Guys its commercial break SEA 21 vs. ATL 27 just fun'in a little.

What gets me is that people think other people control pricing. The people that control pricing are: THE SHEEPLE. Since the production of gasoline is basically free to the oil producer, don't you think for a New York milisecond that if ALL DRIVERS told the gas companys they were going to stop driving until gas got to 1.79. per gallon the gas firms would lower prices? Why is gas RIGHT NOW $.79 cents in Puerto Rico and $6.79 per gallon on Grand Cayman. Reason: peeople will pay those prices. Oil companies price the fuel for what the population will spend. If all Americans would spend $20 per gallon, gas would be that price. Believe me, shut down the whole car transportation system for one week demanding lower prices and gas prices would plument. If consumers were organized, which they could do through the internet etc., they could get a lot done themselves. But they are simply not willing to organize. Major corporations know this and take advantage.

So we are heading to Preditor type of costume on the field? What's next, face guards modeled like mal ocuded teeth hanging out to complete the get-up. If it's legal to pull hair to bring a guy down then I suspect once hair get long enough, and more tackles take advantage, this conversation might become more popular. Personally I think each team should wear costume by how they are named. Bears have bear heads and claws and Raven have feathers, that is if you are into the entertainment type of amusement which these scraggly players now must offer. Coming out in Viking helmet with horns wouild be so awesome. Not sure what you'd do for the Packers.

How long are these dreadlocks going to get?

Seriously? I found this on You Tube, is it the same video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkSmniM_O4 Thats a really interesting video, I wonder what the difference is in what is classed as violent crime between the USA and the UK? Are there crimes that are not included in the USA that are in the UK? Also has there been changes in what is included in the USA violent crime figures which would account for the 50% reduction in violent crime? But I like the main thrust of his argument and the bottom line is why take AR15s away from law abiding middle class Americans when the killing is being done by gang bangers with handguns? Havn't you heard. They want to continue to enslave middle class who pays all the taxes for rich and poor and middle class with guns are more apt to revolt. Rich can revolt by simply changing laws to their favor and poor disenfranchied don't need to revolt because they get everthing handed to them anyway, free food, education, housing and healthcare. It's the middle class white guy who if fed up that they worry most about as if there were any group that could effect change the most would be that group. Currently they are unorganized. They're too busy getting frunk watching NFL football allwhile other hands are in their pockets. Go Ravens!

I'm aware of the intercept in reference to the Doc and family. If my memory serves me correctly, it was an F4 that was creeping up on the aircraft in IMC conditions to identify its N number when the collision occurred. There was no contact with the pilot at the time and that is why Center requested a intercept. I believe the Pilot did not file an ICAO flight Plan and busted the US ADIZ Boundary without a proper flight plan and or being in contact with Air Traffic Control. But I could be wrong and will look up this incident for the facts. I personally spoke to the commander of the flight wing. I'll refrain from telling you what I told him as I frequented that route. He had no response to what I told him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings During that time cops were called pigs. Look what LEO did to Waco, Ruby Ridge. LadyBird J. made million off of Bell stock. The Johnson became billionare off of Viet Nam. Texas seems to know how to make money any way they can. They destroyed 4,500 helicopters in Viet Nam at the expense of 60,000 lives lost in Viet Nam. Is it any wonder people are passionate about AR's

Apparently you don't have a clue what I'm talking about. Give up your guns and truly you'll be alone, all alone, I agree.

There was no building that burned down at Kent State. I was refering generally to the time of the Viet Nam war protests. I think perhap only a few Molatov cocktails were thrown. Very passionate time where citizens of the US were upset with government action. Now no one really gives a crap. Burning tires are also another act used by protesters, Including rolling cop cars and breaking glass. Here is info on the Malatov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail I'd not recommend any of this for any form of protest.

Not changing my tune. If no new guns laws were passed, I would be ok with that. You didn't answer my question; "I am open to ideas that will prevent these shootings. So far I haven't heard any ideas that would. Do you have any?" Derek V YES IS DO. Keep an open mind and don't say the status quo is fine and nothing can be done. Clearly the USA has a serious problem with gun violence that other developed nations don't have. Don't be in denial about this. Out of all the murders by gun, I just wonder how many of the victims were perps. The DC snipers were found sleeping in their cars at a rest stop. While sleeping 500 LEO surrounded the car. Helicopters were were over head. When morning came, they arrested Malvo and Mohamad. Those men cost our society 40 million dollars in lawyers fees. Mohamed was put to death and we're paying 100k per year to keep Malvo for life, including meds, food, houseing. NOw suppose Malvo was tired being molested by Mohamed and shot Mohamed just before they were arrested. That death would be considered death by gun but do you call that :gun violence. I think of it as: TAX SAVINGS Think about all the money we save with reduced numbers of perps.

Not changing my tune. If no new guns laws were passed, I would be ok with that. You didn't answer my question; "I am open to ideas that will prevent these shootings. So far I haven't heard any ideas that would. Do you have any?" Derek V Lanza shot the lock off. So it would seem LOCKS might be looked at. HEY ride the train from Phil to NYC. LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. Fences didn't work, so then they put barbared wire on top. And got a pack of german shepards to keep the perps off the yard. IF the LOCK DIDNT" WORK THEY YOU NEED TO CHANGE TO A DIFFERENT TYPE OF LOCK. FOOL Guess what, while you are saying you've not heard any good solution, SCHOOLS are putting locks on doors, getting guards, and doing drills inside the school to prevent death. Bla Bla Bla you've not heard any solutions. Taking AR's is not the solution. Locking doors, and keeping eyes on entry ways are solutions. When these kids know the schools have limited access the perps will think differently that they won't be able to kill a lot of people before killing themselves.