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03-04-2009, 09:13 PM
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#1 | | The RS Anchorman
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| Olympic rings to light up airport
Visitors to Vancouver are now being welcomed by a set of 15-metre-tall, illuminated Olympic rings as they leave Vancouver International Airport.
The rings are the first in a series which are being erected by the Ministry of Transportation.
On Thursday at 6 p.m. B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell will officially light the rings, which are made up of more than 20,000 low-energy LED lights.
According to one Province source, it will cost $3 per day to power the lights.
A government news release says the rings can be programmed "for stunning light displays."
Two other candidates for sets of rings are believed to be the Burrard Street Bridge and the Lions Gate Bridge and there's been speculation that a giant, illuminated set of rings may be placed on the North Shore mountains.
Colin Hansen, Minister responsible for the 2010 Winter Games confirmed that the cost of the rings at Vancouver International Airport is $1.3 million. http://www.theprovince.com/news/story.html?id=1354058 | 
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03-04-2009, 09:19 PM
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#2 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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$3 a day? who cares. $1.3 million to build it, that should be the focus.
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03-04-2009, 09:31 PM
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seen the rings already while driving by the airport.. its pretty cool i guess
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03-04-2009, 09:35 PM
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#4 | | Banned (ABWS)
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$1.3 million is peanut compared the bail out money for american automakers..
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03-04-2009, 09:46 PM
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#5 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by jofo  $3 a day? who cares. $1.3 million to build it, that should be the focus. | 1.3 million to build it? how bout a multi million dollar robert diszkenski inquiry that "should be the focus"
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03-04-2009, 10:10 PM
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#6 | | ESKETIT
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3$ a day lol
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03-04-2009, 10:20 PM
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#7 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Nice.
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03-04-2009, 11:27 PM
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#8 | | Retired Mod
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How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street.
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03-04-2009, 11:30 PM
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#9 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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maybe i'll see it when i go to the airport on saturday
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03-05-2009, 07:21 AM
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#10 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by SharkBite How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street. | 1.3 million isn't gonna do anything for the DTES. An article from last week or the week before stated they spent about 365 million on the DTES for the 08 calender year? That's ~1 million/day.
When it comes to government spending, a million is peanuts but I do have to say that this 1.3 million could have been spent in better ways instead on some "stunning light displays".
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03-05-2009, 07:43 AM
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I think it's a really good idea
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03-05-2009, 07:48 AM
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#12 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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cool
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03-05-2009, 10:19 AM
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#13 | | Witness protection
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nice. something to stare at as i'm stuck in traffic trying to merge onto the arthur lang...
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03-05-2009, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by SharkBite How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street. |
how about the 1.4 billion we have already spent on the homeless in since 2001?
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03-05-2009, 10:46 AM
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#15 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by SharkBite How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street. | How about they pay taxes first before they get a piece of our pie?
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03-05-2009, 11:27 AM
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useless
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03-05-2009, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SharkBite How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street. | $1.4B has poored (pun intended) into the DTES already with no visible change (other than an increase in the population of homeless).
Considering Vancouverites desire to waste tax money on the homeless (a problem that cannot be fixed, mentally ill people need to be hospitalized) I'm all for wasting $1.4B on the Olympics. I'll at least enjoy the Olympics, I don't enjoy the DTES.
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03-05-2009, 11:37 AM
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useless and not creative at all
laser beam would be nicer
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03-05-2009, 11:42 AM
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#19 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by JSALES maybe i'll see it when i go to the airport on saturday |
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03-05-2009, 11:44 AM
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#20 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by silk useless and not creative at all
laser beam would be nicer | How do you get creative on a Logo that's not allowed to be altered? It's the Olympic Rings afterall.
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03-05-2009, 12:01 PM
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#21 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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^ werd
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03-05-2009, 01:57 PM
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i saw it, looks very cool.
1.3 mill though? fuckk
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03-05-2009, 02:48 PM
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#23 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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1.3 million to build THAT?
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03-05-2009, 03:36 PM
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#24 | | Kick' In' Duh' Bass
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after all this talk you would think someone would post a pic of them at night!!! how about we see that huh
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03-05-2009, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by silk useless and not creative at all
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