>> ^heathen:

>> ^Tingles:
There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly?

Maybe the ice is still laid once per year and then a sprung floor is fitted above it, in pre-made sections, when required for basketball or other events?
No idea if this is what they actually do, there would still be issues such as keeping the ice cool without affecting the basketball court - possibly an insulating air gap and/or rubber surface - but it's the easiest way I can think of doing it.


Here's how they do it in Raleigh:
http://www.rbccenter.com/default.asp?RBCcenter=186

He went plaid.

You mean real people don't cough twice, spit out some water, and then get up and kill bad guys? Reality ruins everything.

On key or not, there's something about the quality of her voice that grates me a little. But, yeah, not as bad as I expected either.

Ladies, "fat" is not "curvy", "flab" is not "feminine" and "hairy" is not "empowered."

Either be happy with the way you look or change it. Don't just change the name to make yourself feel better. You're lying to yourself, and it makes you look dumb.

Hello, Ze Frank ripoff.

Oh, so that's why they make you wear your seatbelt till you arrive at the terminal!

This is all bullshit. If you want to empower women, don't treat them like victims of society -- treat them like they're adults capable of making their own choices in life and are responsible for their own happiness.

Nah, any dirty hungover hippie wearing skinny jorts will do.

Kind of. They used the chromatic scale, i.e., every whole note between C and C. Unlike scales such as the major, minor, etc., the chromatic scale is sequential, and not built on nice sounds. You can make a LOT of bad-sounding combinations by picking notes from that scale, whereas pretty much all the notes from other scales sound good together musically.


>> ^zomgunicorns:

Here is my comment on this as a music hobbyist:
At first it seems amazing, but really, the numbers are all placed on a scale, in this case the C scale. Scales are notes that sound musical and pleasing when played after each other. So even with Pi's set of numbers, in the musical sense, as long as it's within a scale, it will sound like music. If he were to exclude scales and place the numbers in a linear fashion on the piano, it would not sound like music. And by that, I mean, if the number 1 was C, number 2 was C#, number 3 was D, number 4 was D# and ect.

Too much spirit!

Also, in before a heavy metal remix...

lmaooooo

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>> ^Peroxide:

Like throwing rhetoric to the wind and instead pettily calling people Nazi sympathizers and Communists? Sounds like the Glenn Beck show is for you!


When you can't win an argument, personal attacks are the way to go.

Truckchase, you're right. With regard to your last two paragraphs, I think we are more similar than I may have thought. At least with respect to our perceptions of the problem. Our individual ideas of how to address the problem, however, may be divergent.

Why would you want to punish the people that actually succeed? How would it help to take away an individual's incentive to get ahead by taking more than half of their earnings when they do?

In 2006, the top 20% of earners in the country brought in 66% of the revenue and paid 85% of federal income taxes. The bottom 40%, on the other hand /consumed/ 3.6% in tax credits and incentives. Cumulatively, the bottom 60% of earners in this country paid only 0.8% of the federal income tax.

So, if you're making over $91k / year (which, face it, isn't rich), you're considered "elite" and should be punished for your success? Government programs that take from the rich and give to the poor disenfranchise people to try to succeed, as they'll be punished for it, while they reward people for doing nothing. And, somehow, it's a big puzzle why the income gap in America is growing? What's the incentive to bridge the gap?

If I can sit on my ass all day and make the same post-tax income as working 50 hours a week, why would I get a job? If I get sick, I just call an ambulance instead of a taxi - Medicare will pay for it after all. I get hungry - food stamps. If I need some extra cash, I sell my food stamps and buy beer. Beats working for a living.

If you want to combat earning discrepancies, provide incentive for people to get off their ass and make a decent living. And you don't do that by "dis-empowering" the rich.


>> ^Truckchase:

If anyone has a good idea as to how to dis-empower the rich in this country then I'm all ears.

If he's not talking about you, it's your civic duty to make more money so you can pay more taxes. I mean, really. Give back some.

FWIW, I'm a small business owner that keeps twelve people employed and provides them the best benefits money can buy. Between my employees, they have 14 children who are also taken care of. I also volunteer my time and give charitably to a number of humanitarian organizations.

Personally, I'm just of the mindset that we don't need the government to tell us to do well by others, save for our retirement, and waste 80% of the money they collect in the process. I'd rather see the government use money efficiently for things that make sense at a federal level: Defense, Infrastructure, Energy, and *gasp* Insurance.

Let the states figure the rest out.



>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ridesallyridenc:
He lost me at "raise my taxes."
If he's talking about you you're making too much money. The income gap in the US is out of control.

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