User profile: wdevine

To souper12:
Wait - so you are advocating that we artificially restrict the maximum price that a private party can charge another private party for an optional product that is purchased based on a consumers free will? So, should we also restrict the maximum price for sodas, Cirque shows, hotel rooms, and alcohol on the Strip, or elsewhere for that matter?

Even if it costs $50 for a hot dog, if someone wants to buy it, let them buy it. If you don't like it, don't buy it. If you're jealous that you're not selling hot dogs for that much, then open a competitor, grow your business to that level where people will pay $X for a hot-dog, and start your own stand on the Strip.

Until then, I think you should probably let that real world concept of allowing the demand for an optional product purchased by a willing and able consumer determine what its price should be.

Re: SgtRock
If you're going to rip something that you don't like, at least don't misrepresent the actual facts. The Volt is a plug-in HYBRID not an all-electric car. So if you don't recharge it, big deal, you just fill up with gas at any local gas station.

I agree with you on the dollar/month work-out though. I ended up buying a new truck instead of a high-MPG car because the break-even point was about $6/gallon with my commute with the reduced cost of a non-hybrid truck. It wasn't worth buying a more expensive car to 'save money' on gas so I could pay 2x the monthly car payment.

Excellent news.
The long time Las Vegas attorney who did the majority of the heavy lifting in this case for Steel Engineers Inc (SEI), with MGM's attorneys usually just joining in on this attorney's filings, was Robert Kurth, Jr. of the Kurth Law Office (Google to find him).
It was a great win for not only SEI and MGM, but for all self-insured employers in Nevada, including multiple city governments, automobile dealerships, and other very large employers capable of handling the requirements of being self-insured.

Great work!

Dang - we still can't get past using a truncated and out-of-context version of the Shakespeare quote... Come on 'bdover' - it was a compliment to lawyers when Shakespeare said the first thing we should do is kill all the lawyers, because he was talking about how to take away people's rights, and before being able to trample on people's rights, there cannot be lawyers to defend those rights.

As to the Vegas drivers, I moved to Vegas from Houston and I think everyone drive's great here :-) It's a matter of perspective.

To ZeddyBear@10:24am:

If you're going to quote Shakespeare, don't quote him out of context. The line was spoken to state how they were going to eliminate people who would stand in the way of a possible revolution - i.e. who would be the ones that would protect the rights of the people the most, and eliminate them as to avoid resistance of the revolution.

So when people say "The first thing we need to do is kill all the lawyers" and think it means what you think it means, I take it as a compliment and just laugh at their ignorance.