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From what I remember of the World Cup, 90% of the tickets go to corporate sponsors and the rest to whatever counts as Ticketmaster in this context.
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We can't cancel sports, not even for a second, lets be real
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It could be that the unsold tickets are to events that people care less about. I don't think the summer Olympics have actually sold out in a long while.
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Cliff Racer posted:It could be that the unsold tickets are to events that people care less about. I don't think the summer Olympics have actually sold out in a long while. e: tons of these tickets end up being given out to sponsors who then never use them and the like.
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Cliff Racer posted:It could be that the unsold tickets are to events that people care less about. I don't think the summer Olympics have actually sold out in a long while. London effectively did. There still was pictures of the odd event with empty seats though thanks to corporate tickets.
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London is one of the few modern Olympics that occurred in a first world country with responsible governance and an affluent population.
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Morrow posted:London is one of the few modern Olympics that occurred in a first world country with responsible governance and an affluent population. Also less ostentatious than most modern Olympics.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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It's like they weren't trying to use it a combined prestige project/bread & circuses to distract the world and their own population from immense long-standing problems while funneling lots of money into private pockets.
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Morrow posted:London is one of the few modern Olympics that occurred in a first world country with responsible governance and an affluent population. Using 2000 as a cut off, Sydney, Salt Lake and Vancouver were all in "acceptable" locations. Sochi, Beijing and Athens were not. Turin is debatable if you want to talk about Italy as a whole but from what I've heard its one of the "good" areas. Half and half seems acceptable to me, to be honest.
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Morrow posted:London is one of the few modern Olympics that occurred in a first world country with responsible governance and an affluent population. IMO, countries that have difficulty with the concept of modern plumbing should not be allowed to post the olympics.
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Morrow posted:It's like they weren't trying to use it a combined prestige project/bread & circuses to distract the world and their own population from immense long-standing problems while funneling lots of money into private pockets. Oh, they absolutely were, we've just gotten very good at corruption in the City of London.
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-Troika- posted:IMO, countries that have difficulty with the concept of modern plumbing should not be allowed to post the olympics. Check your civilised country privilege 
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Cliff Racer posted:Using 2000 as a cut off, Sydney, Salt Lake and Vancouver were all in "acceptable" locations. Sochi, Beijing and Athens were not. Turin is debatable if you want to talk about Italy as a whole but from what I've heard its one of the "good" areas. Half and half seems acceptable to me, to be honest. I was using 2004 as a cut-off, as that's the first year I knew about the Olympics, and consider Salt Lake to have been a barely averted disaster.
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-Troika- posted:IMO, countries that have difficulty with the concept of modern plumbing should not be allowed to post the olympics. I would totally attend Olympics in Sri Lanka. Oh, sure, Modi claims he will toiletize mainland India, but come on.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Oh, sure, Modi claims he will toiletize mainland India, but come on.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Isn't India already toiletized? I was being a little tongue in cheek but it's an ongoing project in lots of rural areas and some of the poorer parts of some cities.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Isn't India already toiletized? Street making GBS threads megathread is in GBS.
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The word demanded that response.
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Looks like the President is being impeached: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/world/americas/brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeachment-vote.html
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I'd love if the riots manage to wait until the Olympics to really fire off, there just weren't enough of them during the World Cup.
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On the day of the finals,there was a protest in Saenz Peña Square,one mile from Maracana stadium,where thw finals happened.The intention was to go in the direction of the stadium all the way to the police barrier. Turns out that the police surrounded the square and didnt let anyone out until 1 hour after the game was over
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Some Zika, anyone?
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Zika concerns for the summer olympics are completely overblown. The following are cases of dengue fever per 100,000 for Rio. Dengue is transmitted by the same mosquito as Zika: The x axis is week of the year. Olympics start at around the 30 week mark. Blue line is mean for past 2 years. At that point in the year, infection rate is less than 2.5 per 100,000. There are hundreds of thousands more cases of dengue than zika, and yet dengue virtually disappears in august, because the mosquito virtually disappears. People are at significantly higher risk of being killed by a stray bullet than catching Zika in august in Rio.
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Concerns over the bay that's full of literal, actual poo poo, on the other hand...
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joepinetree posted:Zika concerns for the summer olympics are completely overblown. The following are cases of dengue fever per 100,000 for Rio. Dengue is transmitted by the same mosquito as Zika: The issue is less the number of people catching it and more that it is now proven to be sexually transmitted, and it's an STI that causes birth defects, and then introducing that to all other countries. People are less afraid of a pandemic breaking out in Brazil as much as what happens when it ends. Stick everyone in quarantine?
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I think that the fifth reason is so sad , this "Olympic spirit" bullshit that is crammed down our throats all the time is obviously just that, bullshit, when billions of dollars are on the line. http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/ Off the Podium: Why Public Health Concerns for Global Spread of Zika Virus Means That Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games Must Not Proceed Brazil’s Zika problem is inconveniently not ending. The outbreak that began in the country’s northeast has reached Rio de Janeiro, where it is flourishing. Clinical studies are also mounting that Zika infection is associated not just with pediatric microcephaly and brain damage, but also adult conditions such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, which are debilitating and sometimes fatal. Simply put, Zika infection is more dangerous, and Brazil’s outbreak more extensive, than scientists reckoned a short time ago. Which leads to a bitter truth: the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games must be postponed, moved, or both, as a precautionary concession. There are five reasons. First, Rio de Janeiro is more affected by Zika than anyone expected, rendering earlier assumptions of safety obsolete. Second, although Zika virus was discovered nearly seventy years ago, the viral strain that recently entered Brazil is clearly new, different, and vastly more dangerous than “old” Zika. Third, while Brazil’s Zika inevitably will spread globally — given enough time, viruses always do — it helps nobody to speed that up. Fourth, when (not if) the Games speed up Zika’s spread, the already-urgent job of inventing new technologies to stop it becomes harder. Fifth, proceeding with the Games violates what the Olympics stand for.
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davebo posted:Yeah I have no clue how Olympic tickets are sold. Like they must allocate a certain amount for sale within the host country right? And you would think they'd have the ability to charge different amounts to citizens vs foreigners so some of the less well-off locals could attend home team games? Outside of that, and given how corrupt the entire process is, are they just at liberty to price-gouge specific sales based on the location of the buyer? Could there be some side-market where people in Ethiopia buy tickets for Americans for a fee or given the security do these events require ID/passports that match the tickets to get in the venue?
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Fanatic posted:From memory there was a controversy at a previous Olympics/Commonwealth Games where quite often the stands were empty because the tickets were often allocated to corporations who never showed up and the ticket prices were too expensive for the poorer local population, despite the demand. I don't know if that's been remedied for this games or not. Well at this rate to save face with the worldwide tv audiences they'll just have to fill all the empty seats with small-headed babies.
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Fanatic posted:From memory there was a controversy at a previous Olympics/Commonwealth Games where quite often the stands were empty because the tickets were often allocated to corporations who never showed up and the ticket prices were too expensive for the poorer local population, despite the demand. I don't know if that's been remedied for this games or not. World would be a better place if cities were more willing to tell the Olympic Committee to go gently caress itself.  
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I'm crosspost from the LOL thread. 9:20 a.m. Just hours after the Senate vote that suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, her entire Cabinet was dismissed. The G1 internet portal of the Globo television network says notice of the dismissal of the 27 ministers has appeared in Thursday's edition of the government gazette. Those sacked include former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff's predecessor and mentor, whom she named as her chief of staff in March. The dismissals appear to open the way for Rousseff's Vice President Michel Temer to swear in his own Cabinet as early as Thursday. Temer has suggested he'll slash the number of Cabinet posts to 22. The International Olympic Committee says it is looking forward to working with the new Brazilian government ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-senate-debate-brazil-impeachment-drags-39058151 There is no real government in Brazil right now. They have cleaned out everyone. Now it's a power grab. Edit: I say power grab because, Out of the 80 senators that participated in Wednesday’s vote on whether to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, 60 percent of them have legal cases pending against them, ranging from charges of bribery to money laundering. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-60-of-Senators-Have-Pending-Legal-Cases-Against-Them-20160511-0015.html Whole things a mess.
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Unchecked corruption for years by the government and shady deals with state run companies, especially petrobras. It doesn't help that oil prices are low. Having to find a way to squeeze money from other sources. We wouldn't be having this conversation if the price of oil was higher. Loss of money just accelerated the collapse.
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Yeah I'm another person who has only been vaguely familiar with anything going on in Brazil but the last few years seem to just be non-stop insanity. Are there any good articles or article lists that can explain exactly how everything seems to be falling apart so fast?
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Just look up "operation car wash". Here's a good summary, but there is more out there. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-Brazils-Petrobras-Scandal-20160313-0012.html Add to the fact brazil is in a deep recession, people are mad about not being paid. The whole Olympics thing is just another layer on the cake.
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I was in Brasil last year for a Fulbright program and the international reporting has not even come close to doing justice to how bad things are on the ground. Their economy is poo poo, the Olympics are causing all kinds of damage and unrest, the real is in the gutter (3 or 4 real per dollar, if not worse), how bad public services are tanking (crazy bus and subway fee hikes), people not getting stipends and striking in droves in resposne, the rampant corruption and mismanagement of various public works, the health crisis with Dengue and now Zika, the drought in SP, etc. The list is really kind of endless. The governmental stuff with Dilma is just the icing on the cake. Like someone else said, if oil, minerals, etc were trading higher right now the PT might've had enough money to ride things out, but no chance of that happening now. To be clear, I'm not blaming all that on the PT (most of it is just business as usual in Brasil and Dilma has done a lot of work supporting the poor and the growing middle class), but they're in a vortex of poo poo right now with no signs of slowdown. Good resources on what's happening now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gMrRORKyHQ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/21/dilma-rousseff-enemies-impeached-brazil https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/brazil-is-engulfed-by-ruling-class-corruption-and-a-dangerous-subversion-of-democracy/ Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 03:14 on May 13, 2016 |
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:To be clear, I'm not blaming all that on the PT Why not, previous governments didn't have massive (ly inflated) amounts of oil wealth to throw around and the country wasn't collapsing under them? Well, not recently anyway.
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Oil prices were high for the vast majority of the 2000s, Dilma only was elected in 2011 and basically everyone in the legislature, both opposition and former supporters of PT is under investigation for corruption what are you talking about
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The PT under Lula (Dilma's predecessor) was still involved in lots of shady poo poo, but they at least made some strides towards redistributing some of the wealth in order to grow the middle class and try to lessen some of the inequalities that are rife in Brazilian society.
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rscott posted:Oil prices were high for the vast majority of the 2000s, Dilma only was elected in 2011 and basically everyone in the legislature, both opposition and former supporters of PT is under investigation for corruption what are you talking about We aren't talking Rouseff, we are talking PT. And we aren't even talking normal corruption, though that is obviously bad. The current crises have been exacerbated infinitely by all the Petrobras lies that took place during the Lula years.
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Cliff Racer posted:We aren't talking Rouseff, we are talking PT. And we aren't even talking normal corruption, though that is obviously bad. The current crises have been exacerbated infinitely by all the Petrobras lies that took place during the Lula years. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. Oil was never the main Brazilian export, Brazil has virtually always imported more oil than it exported due to Brazilian consumption, and given the quality of Brazilian oil and it's refining capabilities it always imported more expensive oil than it exported. And all the evidence points to the corruption scheme starting long before Lula. joepinetree fucked around with this message at 20:06 on May 15, 2016 |
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