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Meanwhile, In The Non "Polar Vortex" World...
While America is preparing to usher in the coldest days of the 21st century, some other places around the globe are hardly as worried. Below is a photo from Rio's Ipanema beach over the weekend, where temperatures hit 51 degrees. Celsius.
Maybe the global warming experts (and their rescuers) currently stuck in the Antarctic ice, should plan accordingly: plus the sights in Rio are certainly more enjoyable than in a barren ice wasteland...
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yeahh.... NOW SHOVEL SOME MORE SNOW!!
Lol!
50 degrees today.
But please do check back tomorrow.
It's like Kevin Henry is now running the weather.
It is NOT 124o F on that Beach. That is what temperature that 51oC is equivalent.
It was 102oF in Rio yesterday. Currently as I write, in the hottest part of the day, it is 88oF
That's nice.
It's 50 degrees F here (not in Brazil), and due to drop 30-40 degrees this evening.
....where's a good Tsunami when you most need it!!!
Location, Location, Location.
Moar pix please ! *coughthongscough*
Agreed. If you're going to show pictures of a BRAZILIAN BEACH, get the thongs in there.
...and if it gets any hooter, I mean hotter, in Brazil, women will have to go topless on the beach to stay cool.
Perish the thought!
Tyler, the picture you provided looks like penguins lining up for a swim except for the umbrellas.
Rio is a trip but I would not want to live there. Massive poverty and crime. Nice place to visit if you are wealthy.
Nobody goes to that beach anymore, it's too crowded. (thanx, Yogi)
Remember, Al Gore invented not only the Internet but Global Warming too......
Not really; he's not creative enough to invent anything. He just jumped on the bandwagon. The UN hired the wretched starving little University in England's rust belt to produce evidence of global warming, which of course, they did; and Al jumped on the bandwagon.
He can see the melting polar ice-cap from the balcony of his California mansion.
No....
Anthropogenic global warming was first predicted in 1896 by this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius
Boy, never seen so many lemmings in one place ... O holy shit
Giant toilet bowl.
51 degrees C = 123 degrees F
Ouch!........
That water is 98.6 F.
It'll turn purple too!
pods
= 123.8 deg F
Lord...
It's always that .8 that will get you
I'm the one on the right. Under the umbrella.
The blue one?
In the thong?!?
51 Celsius? Doubt it. I think you mean 41.
Too hot to f%@K....
no such thing...
At first I thought it was a local Chinese swimming hole, then I read the article title.
Can"t be Chinese, the albedo is too low.
Not sure why Snowden wants to go there. Russia seems to have a little more elbow room.
Ever see the Russian swim suits... "Velly nice, NEXT".
+1 for referencing funniest hamburger commercial ever..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
Sorry, 31C to 35C this week, http://weather.yahoo.com/brazil/rio-de-janeiro/ipanema-beach-23706479/
?????
fat finger maybe
Yeah, 51c doesn't sound too plausible for air temp. on the shorline. the only place you get air temps. like that are well inland.
"The region has been experiencing a blistering Christmas heatwave, with temperatures soaring as high as 50 degrees Celsius in the sunshine."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/brazil-heatwave-mall-sprinklers-...
Weird that when it's hot (inland) people go to the beach...
Top of the page Tyler, really....
Must be a intern posting this crap, like it's to complicated to find the temp data on the internet, ok ok i'll help you this time, lol.
http://weather.weatherbug.com/Brazil/Ipanema-weather.html?zcode=z6286&un...
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Ipanema+Brazil+BRXX2072
http://www.accuweather.com/en/br/ipanema/34189/weather-forecast/34189
and the link from my first post
http://weather.yahoo.com/brazil/rio-de-janeiro/ipanema-beach-23706479/
9/5 + 32 worked for me long before the internet was a twinkle in
Al Gores eye.
I would always build armies like that until Yuri uses his fucking psychic dominator and destroys my base.
science has been perverted for the sake of goldman sachs and al gore
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. - Joseph Goebbels
Like funding goal-seek junk-science reports regarding the dangers of gluten to enhance a long corn (ethanol), short wheat (gluten) trade?
Don't drink the water...
Don't fuck the residents either...
It is freezing here guys. Michigan here. -10F wind chill going down to -40F tonight. Record for this area. Freeway on/off ramps closing due to wind and snow drifts, etc.
I have a beach in Brazil I'd like to sell you !!!
Holy Toledo! There must be a Brazilian people packed on.
imagine swimmiming in a hot toilet bowl only without the comfort of knowing that your swimming in your own piss and shit,semen and blood.
give me cold purer comforts over brasillia distemper
Dude, that's why God invented antibiotics; just get some and come on in - the water is fine <;)
More like 31 degrees C
The water there is cool almost cold. But I got the worst sunburn (foot) of my life on that beach and was under an umbrella. Sand reflects the sun.
Don't need to go that far, its still warmish and sunny in Northern California :-)
I hope you all realize that it's Summer in Rio right now. Hence the warm weather.
Being on the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are reversed. It starts to get hotter around October, and summer vacations start in mid-December.
Really? No! You're kidding right? But it was just Christmas there! I Call BS!
turds swirl the opposite way too...
Wow, when my CPU hits 51 degrees Celsius the fan goes into overdrive.
I think I'd rather be at home in a cold bath than in that mass of bodies.
We are having a cold spell in Hawaii right now. Temps are downright frigid on the mountains, Haleakala 28F and Mauna Kea 14F as of 6am HST. It was in the 60's at my house in Wailuku.
You must know ZIII?
Tell him I said, "I got both angles. Serve Ali and watch for Dave on two."
In Hawaii the temperature is always relative to altitude. I remember many occasions when there was snow on the summits of Moana Loa and Muana Kea, yet the beaches were full sun bathers and surfers. It is fun to watch the young female Japanese tourists in skimpy clothing get off the tour busses in the Haleakala parking area. Talk about glass cutting nipples!!! WooHoo!!!
It's not that hot...
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/BRXX0201:1
90°F
It's summer in the southern hemisphere. Beach looks inviting. I'd be interested to see the view too.
WOW!
Take a shit in the sea and let the shit float around, i wonder how many people will stay there
lol
Baby Ruth!
There is a sewage stream that gulfs right into Ipanema beach, don`t be mistaken. And there are kids of color swimming in the canal underpass right within the cool sewage.
The apartments near by are multimillion dollar homes and
the favela dwelings above all have million dollar views.
And yes, this probably is not Ipanema beach at all, rather
Leme, not even yet Copacabana. 600.000 thousand souls on a
normal weekend and 100 degrees with a sea breeze is rather
pleasant, moisture and humidity is the spoil most of the year in Rio. If it get`s hot and reasonably dry in summer,
it is all fun.
Being an American I have no idea what "celsius" temparatures mean, I take its warm?
Water boils at 100? what kind of arbitrary bullshit justification is that to re-order how we quantify the universe?
Celsius, Metric, assholes, now we all have to have 2 fucking sets of sockets:(
Will the US stop fucking around and start using real units some day? Metric units go like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. American units go 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, etc. Fucking fractions? Why does everything need to be as complicated as possible?
It's just part of the "baffle them with bullshit" strategy that the US tends to deploy on a 24/7 basis.
........and we are fuckin exceptional!
Are you knocking the King and his foot?
When my Daughter was born and they weighed her the guy told me her weight in grams.
I said: "What's that in the King's English?"
He chuckled and said: "About 8 pounds."
"Thanks" I said, he smiled.
I think in the King's english that should be .57 Stone?
If the US Customary system is too complicated for you, I suggest you stick to your video games and dont try for that GED.
Near the end of the 19th Century, the army of the newly established Republic of Brazil massacred 30,000 members of a separatist religious sect in the War of Canudos. In addition to being anti-republic, the sect believed the metric system was a satanic invention. A total of about 8,000 Brazilian soldiers died in three different offensives against the sect. Canudos is underwater today, the result of a dam-building project.
See Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "La guerra del fin del mundo." (The War of the End of the World).
Metric is irritating progressive BS, even Australia adopted
it officially and no able mechanic would give an inch towards new measures. You can grab an 1/8 inch wrench blind folded, in mm you would loose the Russian roulette...
Fahrenheit? Not so much, unless you live in a hot climate where 100 degrees is the comfort zone not to be exceeded by
much. The Celsius 0 degrees is what would better be applied
to northern hemisphere climates , hence the freezing point of water makes a lot of sense. Unless you go rafting in Alaska and the streams just refuse to freeze. Well, physics is better not applied to the living organism of water or anything relating to the fluid presence of mankind...
It's 304 K above absolute zero (or 549.67 °R, if you swing that way).
show off
Brilliant. Haven't seen the Kelvin scale referenced in so long. Nice job
I like those scales. No negative numbers. Takes the "WOW" factor away from the weather man.
Besides, metric was invented by the French.... enough said.
EDIT: You know the only ones pushing metric? The high school teachers. These liberals struggle with rudimentry math and so they immediatly gravitate to whole numbers.
I'll bet the only reason they did it was to mess over British tourists
Actually, anyone working in science or engineering pretty much uses SI units all the time. Not that I have anything against the old Imperial units, where you can still substitute a body part as a rough measure (I know my span is about 7", my thumb is about 1", and my foot is, oddly enough, about 1'). And I confess that for temps and weights, I still mentally convert to Imperial. 20 degrees C doesn't mean anything to me (after 50 years of it!); but 68 F means put on a long sleeve shirt.
I work in the Engineering and science fields. We use US system. All the companies I worked for use the US system. If you want something built in the US, use the US system. They are going to convert it anyway.
That is the reason that the US fails to market quality merchandise to the rest of the World. The tolerances in machining are not held to as high of standards.
Adapt or perish.
Metric or Imperial, a cunt hair is still a cunt hair.
Thank you sir for your eloquence.
Not at all, although I can't really claim authorship. A cunt hair is a well established unit of measure. Ask any engineer.
Yes sir. I am well aware. Its just that I get stuck in these cubicles and need to be in the lab more often. Other universal units:
1) CH (as you stated)
2) $hit ton
3) MotherF, as in cold as a....
As a trophy cunt`ed` in inches it is still more impressive.
Metric is mean, imperial is great.
Actually it is those whom understand Orders of Magnitude that wish to use the Base 10 Logarithm system. Those whom are incapable of thinking Mathematically wish to use an archaic system that has no order behind it.
So you believe that I, as a Physicist, do not understand rudimentary Math?
You only make a declaration of your own ineptnitude, innumerance and ignorance.
And as for my Politics...I am not a liberal...at all.
God, Gwen, Gold and Guns baby...I live a G Rated life.
Half of the people in the world drive on the wrong side of the road. That's the kind of world we live in!
Been there, done that. Never had troubles adopting. Just converting back had issues. US and Europe probably on the wrong side of the road, sorry to spill the truth.
SmittyinLA you're a true kilogramme
Being an American I have no idea what "celsius" temparatures mean, I take its warm?
Water boils at 100? what kind of arbitrary bullshit justification is that to re-order how we quantify the universe?
Celsius, Metric, assholes, now we all have to have 2 fucking sets of sockets:(
Being an American gives you no excuse. Water also freezes at 0oC
Now you have two data points as Water Boils at 212oF and Freezes at 32oF. Those numbers appear to be arbitrary.
A temperature system set up upon the Physical Properties of Water, the Freezing Point and the Boiling Point at STP, does not seem all that arbitrary, does it?
Can you use the Definition of the Slope to write a Function with the two data points? Do you remember your Algebra?
Or as an American are you also INNUMERATE?
I am an American and I happen to understand both systems. I prefer the Metric System as it is EXPONENTIALLY Based. Yes it is based on Powers of Ten.
It's 95 degrees f in Rio..Right now...So fucking what...
C'mon ZH. 51C? This one doesn't smell right. Seems fishy.
Yesterday's high in Rio was 93 degrees Fahrenheit, per Weather Underground.
Meanwhile, back to reality in the unreality. The psychopathy runs rampant in WASHINGTON, DC.
Canadian Medical Association Journal Blasts Japanese Government: "Culture of Coverup" Exposing Japanese Citizens to "Unconscionable" Radiation Risk:
http://mr-absentia.soup.io/post/385488541/Canadian-Medical-Association-J...
Skeena Sockeye Fishery Closed Due to Low Returns:
http://ospreysteelheadnews.blogspot.com/...ue-to.html
Sockeye Fisheries Closed Following Historic Lows In Skeena River, B.C.:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/12/...44088.html
(SitNews) Thorne Bay, Alaska – Due to a low sockeye return, the US Forest Service Thorne Bay District Ranger is acting immediately to protect sockeye salmon in the Hatchery Creek drainage on Prince of Wales Island:
http://www.sitnews.us/0613News/062713/06...losed.html
Diseased Alaska seals tested for radiation:
http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/animal-ri...1#msg54931
"There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled. But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two. No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.":
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/184843...is-broken/
Dead Sea Creatures Cover 98% of Ocean Floor Off California Coast; Up From 1% before Fukushima:
http://thedailyblogreport.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/dead-sea-creatures-co...
Japanese Senator: “The Path That Japan Is Taking Is The Recreation Of A Fascist State”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/fukushima-radiation-will-hit-fish...
Japanese cars banned in Russia:
http://japandailypress.com/russia-bans-1...n-0641885/
BIG RADIATION COVERAGE ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW RIGHT NOW!!!
http://www.infowars.com/listen-on-the-internet/
RIO DE JANEIRO — Passengers sweltered Friday without air conditioning in parts of Rio de Janeiro's Antonio Carlos Jobim international airport with temperatures outside hovering around 40C (104F). the 5th
41 not 51
123 degree F, tan lines, big fat bootie's, and fake tits. What more can you ask for?
about 30% off each
It's what happens when the planet tilts.
And climate change is not invalid just because it gets cold in America in the winter, weather extremes are the heads up. Pay no attention the the ice melting at the poles and glaciers receding at a fast clip, etc, etc.
Now excuse me while I keep feeding the six months camp fire inside my wood stove.
Party on, Garth.
Except it is not melting at the south pole in the summer obviously.
Glabal warming is goin to happen in the eyes of the leftists no matter how much evidence to the counter exists.
I suppose you'll tell me that people go to the beach in the summer in the southern hemishpere next, even in the face of the boiling peril that we face as a consequence of all of these capitalist industrialists.
heh, I could care less about global warming. I just like laffing at uneducated, right wing, brain washed midgets. I will not be around when your grand children suffer.
Excuse my while I throw another log on the fire... ahhhh
Hot weather for walking the beach, but probably good for tanning. Ahhhhhhhh...
What, no one is going to do it? OK, here goes...
Tall and Tan and Young and... waitaminute-was that one her? Or that one? Or that one? Or that one? Or that one???
I just got back from 1.5 months in Philippines and Thailand. It was a constant 85/75 and there was a whole lot of economic activity and freedom going on. Life is not being canceled for the global warming doomsday cultists in the West.
120+ in Rio yesterday??? Nonsense!!!! It was 88. Maybe 95 today. Not too bad for summertime. You know we ALL have access to the Internet thingee and can fact check. So you are going to say it was 125 on the sand? Jeez. Maybe next you will say the asphalt was hot too.
Here we go again, more weather reports from Tyler. I suggest you read the manifesto. At minimum, please include a reputable link to verify 51 dec C. I could not find one.
Published on Jan 6, 2014 |Magnetic Polarity Data
http://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
Solar Cycle 24 has begun. Meaning, the suns magnetic poles have shifted. The fools preaching UN mandates to protect the mother earth will run into hiding. Why? They were planning to get green greedy on making you pay for something you never caused. I’ll let you deal with that problem.
I think that an error. Its supposed to be 30 C today.
That beach has gotta smell worse than my finger
Where's the vortex? Damn nothing ever happens in Southern California.
The fault line will be next, stop wishing.
"If I Wanted America To Fail" - April 22, 2012
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/22/if_i_wanted_america_to_fail.html
I dont think that is Ipanema....but did it really hit 51 C...that is hot hot hot...and yes do not drink the water...no public toilets.....or not enough for that crowd....and Ipanema is upstream from Copacabana....don[t go swimming there for sure....you come eye to eye with things you dont want to see in the water...
UK reporting 51 degrees in the sun... That is not how you measure temperature. Its 2000 degrees in a solar furnace or 300 degrees under a magnifier. Inconvenient truth from these math modeling folks... Gee whiz these fraudsters change the yard stick typical. Speaking of modeling new rule no Rio beaches without string bikini pictures.
Same old Sheet.. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
Reed Senate today is a smelling
to all the awake world I am telling
as the FED usurers in Janet
to save cronies corrupt planet
carbon Nazis leave dollar crash to Yellen
Yes, that is not how you measure temperature, but it doesn't change the fact that it was 51C for someone fully exposed to the sun...
My front porch has a full southern exposure and the thermometer will read up to 20 F higher in the full sun....
"They...are ...eating...my...FOOD!"
-Baron David René James de Rothschild, Circa 2014 AD.
It was 34 in Leblon yesterday, at least that's what my car's indicator said, but certainly the sensible heat with the strog sun (kinda like wind chill in the Great White North) could have given the impression of 51. In any case, there are not such hideous agglomerations on the beaches a little further south.... and the scenery is easier to access.
In my experience in Rio the temp gauges all over the streets are way wrong and grossly overstate the true air temperature. 34 graus in Leblon sounds a lot more accurate than 51 in Ipanema.
They're contiguous.....
I know.
In the 90s, I used to cycle along the ciclovia from Leblon -> Ipanema -> Arpoador -> Copacabana, thru the tunnel to Botafogo and on to Flamengo. And back again.
Those were the days :-)
I have been actively prompting this exact idea for almost 2 years, it will be nice when MSM picks up the idea and educates
It appears that Socref is a pronuker who is about up to my level of sophistication. There is a good chance he is paid troll, but may just be a true believer.
He is casting uncertainty and doubt, he tries to proclaim that the blow up mode is simply a statement of a mathematical singularity in which the equation blows up, like trying to divide by zero.
But the blow up mode means far more, and in fact, this issue is the line in the sand for the pro-nukers.
Succintly:
To keep the industry going, they have to pretend they have a solution to the pollution problem. Their solution has been MOX, plutonium enriched fuel.
All fuels can blow sky high in an uncontrolled reaction called a Moderated Prompt Criticality (MPC). Uranium fuel needs just the right conditions. But MOX fuel is 10 times more likely to enter the MPC and with 20 times the explosive result, all due to the plutonium being more likely to release neutrons more easily and more quickly.
So their "holy grail" has been shown to be a Holy Curse, as both Reactor 3 and the Equipment pool of Reactor 4 both had MOX and both blew and had extreme fires. And now we have a poisoned Pacific Ocean.
So the Pro-Nukers took a risk and it blew up in all of our faces. And now they have sent their best troops to squash the idea that MOX can blow up and turn reactors into Radiation Canons (tm)
The proof is not just in posts at Nuke Pro, but these are permanent pages, see the tabs at the top.
Video showing how fuel can blow up in an out of control criticality--
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/videos-moderated-prompt-criticality.html
Arnie Gundersen confirming and enhancing my theory
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/gundersen-email-and-theories.html
And when you see that probably at least 100,000 lbs of Uranium and Plutonium was aerosolized into the atmosphere, you know for sure that it wasn't just a hydrogen explosion which blows from the top down and blows out the walls. It was a "Radiation Canon" with the explosive force coming from below and within the mixture of fuel, causing it to be launched up and out. Remember the videos of Reactor 3, and when Reactor 4 also blew and had a big fire and side meltout, they covered up the video of Reactor 4. They were loading MOX Plutonium into Reactor 4, and MOX Plutonium was stored in the Equipment pool (opposite from the spent fuel pool).
That proof of aerosolization is here, using EPA data.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html
Blame it on the 'Ozone Hole.' See, it lets the heat out over the Antarctic. And "Acid Rain" is causing the snow and cold in N. America.
I say tax the shit out of the sun, rain and farting and send all the loot to Al "Green Alright" Gore, and those Climategate "scientists."
Making Al Gore richer will fix everything.
/sarc
Yawn...
Go post at WUWT, they eat your kind of nonsense up with both hands...
Head over to Huffpo they eat up your psuedoscientificpolitifacts like progressive candy..
Naw, I go here for Climate science
http://www.realclimate.org/
Sort of like research doctors going to the New England Journal of Medicine instead of People magazine for research news....
Of course you do, it's the Daily Kos of climate "science" (by consensus).
Don't you know? It cannot be Good science unless their is a consensus, James Hansen will have the FBI break your legs but consensus they will have..
Because we all know that science and facts have a "liberal bias"....
Too funny... I bet you count on Rush Limbaugh for the latest science news...
Nope follow your lead Daily kos and for extra consensus Ed Schultz..
Ed is a blowhard I can do without...
www.climatedepot.com
Climate is the Sun's fault?!
who'da thunk?
nobody coulda known that!
a turd hit direct in your eye.
a soiled condom caught on your ear
a cocktail drink of salt water,mercury blood and piss.
no wonder those folks smile but just never see.
Hard to see the fecal for the pees
Toxic Tony.
looks like Penguins
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_I-N0ming-s/Ty1_1n5IwiI/AAAAAAAAA8k/ucjNHVMs5d...
theres a smokin hottie just to the left of that umbrella
WARNING: COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC
LIGHT INTRODUCTIONS
DIRECTV Costco Rep Training Seminar
Trainee Chrissy: ...So we go through everything with the customer and then we call the “Florida Office” to confirm everything and setup their appt right?
Trainer Vladimir: Yes. Very good Chrissy. Remember that you should quote the customer the “teaser” $34.99 rate for the first twelve months and make sure you write it on the contract.
Trainee Chrissy: I’m not sure I understand why we do that. Why don’t we just be straight up and honest with the customer and tell them the real rate of $39.99 that we are going to charge them anyway.
Won’t some customers see that as a “bait and switch” when we tell them that we have to charge them $39.99 instead of $34.99 as we had originally promised because “the $34.99 rate “expired yesterday”, even though we could never have sold them the service for $34.99 in the first place?
Trainee Vlaidimir: Good question Chrissy. The reason why we do that is because our extensive analysis and research has shown us that we make and, more importantly, retain a customer that we use this approach with.
If we offer the $34.99 rate we are not making a customer.
Trainee Chrissy: I don’t understand. Aren’t they still making a 24 month commitment to the $34.99 rate the same as the 24 month commitment they make to the $39.99 rate we try to “upsell” them to?
Trainer Vladimir: We do not make the same kind of customer at $34.99 and at $39.99. Again, Chrissy, we have done extensive testing on this.
Trainee Chrissy: What is the difference in the customers from $34.99 to $39.99?
Trainer Vladimir: The difference is a “customer” at the $34.99 rate is motivated solely by the price of the service and is an aggressive “comparison shopper”. Generally these kinds of customers are looking for the lowest price service in the market.
Our research has shown us that these kinds of customers do not make good long term customers and usually quickly switch to another service for a deeper discount on their service than we provided them at $34.99.
We do not want this type of customer.
We want the customer to whom a few bucks (like 5) isn’t going to “make or break” the deal. They don’t really mind that they pay an extra $5 for our service because they find other value in it and are much less likely to switch to another service for a few dollars.
This is our method of “weeding out” the “Value Market” customer who shops solely on price. So called “Value Market” customers make it difficult for us to make a suitable profit on them.
Trainee Chrissy: So what you’re telling me is that The End Justifies The Means.
We use what amounts to an age old Deceptive Trade Practice commonly known as “Bait and Switch” to find out how sensitive to the price of our service and the likelihood that a customer will switch to another more competitive service for a few dollars less.
That seems unethical, possibly illegal.
Trainer Vladimir: It works for us Chrissy. We are able to screen the kinds of customers we get much better with this approach.
Besides, it is a common industry practice.
Trainee Chrissy: But there is another unaccounted for variable in this equation.
Trainer Vladimir: I’m sorry? I don’t understand what you mean.
Trainee Chrissy: Well, the customer (variable) who is wise enough to see through the “Bait and Switch” will undoubtedly lose interest in our service for the sole reason that they honestly see that they have been deceived. Some honest people do not do business with companies who use the “Bait and Switch” approach under any circumstances.
Your models don’t seem to have taken into account the kind of customer who could be a loyal honest customer to an honest company that does not believe in the use of deceptive trade practices like “Bait and Switch”.
Trainer Vladimir: Our research shows that such customers are generally in the minority.
Trainee Chrissy: So you’re willing to sacrifice what could be the life blood, heart and soul of a great company, an honest approach to the sales process, for the sake of trying to generate a customer that will stay with the company because we upsold them on price when they bought and they didn’t mind getting a “bait and switch” or were to stupid to identify it?
I believe that is called “cutting off your nose, despite your face” where I come from.
I had a customer today, some guy named Frank C. who came through my area. I liked him and I think he liked me. He was genuinely interested in signing up for the service and I think he could tell he was getting a good deal at the agreed on price of $34.99 for the first twelve months..
I used this “bait and switch” approach with him probably against my better judgement, in retrospect.
He saw right through the “bait and switch” immediately.
He was polite about it and didn’t call it that.
He just said he was going to do more research before he made his decision.
But I bet you a dollar to a donut he won’t ever be back to DIRECTv as a customer.
I also bet you that he will be telling other people that he got a “bait and switch” ploy from a DIRECTv rep today.
Trainer Vladimir: Ok Chrissy, you’ve forced my hand. I’m sorry but I’m going to have to ask you to leave the training facility and never come back. Your employment with DirectV is terminated effective immediately.
Trainee Chrissy: You’re too late. I already resigned. My resignation is on the desk of the President of DirectV as we speak.
He will be in possession of this conversation posthaste.
I suspect that this “bait and switch” approach came from the top down. But at least he can get an idea of how the rank and file are handling having this idea crammed down their throat.
You’re not going to cram it down mine any more. Fuck you. Have a good life.
Visualize Al Gore on a popsicle stick.
Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes, Aaah
When she walks, she's like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gently
That when she passes, each one she passes goes, Aaah
Oh, but he watches so sadly -
How can he tell her he loves her
Yes, he would give his heart gladly,
But each day when she walks to the sea,
She looks straight ahead not at he.
Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, he smiles, but she doesn't see.
Oh, but he sees her so sadly -
How can he tell her he loves her?
Yes, he would give his heart gladly,
But each day when she walks to the sea,
She looks straight ahead not at he.
Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, he smiles, but she doesn't see.
She just doesn't see
No, she doesn't see
But she doesn't see
She doesn't see
No, she doesn't see
There was a girl from Ipanema,
She met a boy from Fukushima,
They found the cure for Emphysema,
When their fluids mixed.
I have not seen any Brazilian bikinis.
What up?
The issue has been debunked years ago by "real"climatologists who have been studying the earth for a long time and did not wake up one morning with an epiphany that polution is destroying our atmosphere. The earth has survived the coal stacks of the industrial revolution; it has survived volcanic eruptions which so far more damage to the earths atmosphere than any age of industrial waste and it has survived untold global cahnges over millions of years.
If these bozos want to figure out something perhaps they can put in the time to figure out what really caused species to go extinct. Like say for instance the dinosaurs wo inhabitied this world far longer than we have. Personally I would like to know this so that when the next extinction phase comes we might know what to do?
124° ???
If you can't get a simple temperature conversion right we should trust your economic numbers?
Fuck the metric system. Talk american.
51 degrees Celsius = 124 degrees Farenheit
I don't think so, especially on the ocean.
NEWSFLASH:
Waldo found lifeless on Rio beach; foul play suspected
Actually the Non+Polar vortex has been in Siberia since last summer, record smahing heat all across the board, from Northern Norway to the Russia Far East. Arctic temperatures above the circle were in the 80-90's for extended periods, winter has brought temps in the 40-50's with many nightime lows not even reaching the freezing point. I dare say many people claimed this to be global warming, but it was simply the movement of warm air northward, and thus not proof of global warming. But, we must also admit that the polar vortex moving south into the US was simply the movement of cold air and not proof of global cooling. When a weather event brings out those whith political ideologies to attempt the trash climate science, most of us se right throught it. Political ideology is not science, nor is it physics.
The evidence is clear and can not be disputed in reality, in can be disputed in non-reality, but that is another topic all together. Anyways, this polar vottex is a joke, when I was a kid 40 years ago, here in the upper midwest, every winter brought cold snaps of -20 to -35 degrees as a matter of course. Now it is news! Why? Because it so rarely happening now a days. That is why it is news, it is now a rare event, when 3 decades ago, we never mentioned it, because it was typical winter weather. -10 was everyday. -20 was a cold sanp, -30 was what we called very cold. The worst morning I remember was 25 years ago when it was -45 degrees at 6:00 when I left the house to go to work.
Heat waves are now much more common up here than cold snaps. We all know it, so how is that political? The temperatures we can measure and prove are what they are, that is political. That is madness, or has America really gone mad? I sometimes wonder. This is no longer debate is is ideology and politics that is blinding people to a reality that can be measured. I am politically against heat waves, but they still comes, as do record rain events, like one summer ago when we had 20 inches of rain in one 24 hour day. I swear my politics to not agree with that rain event, but it happened never the less.
The more it become undeniable, the more radical become the deniers. I mean really radical. And then there is the PR industry hired by fossil fuels to wage this political campaign. They have won the debate 100%, their victory is recorded in history now, as we dig up tar sands and frack the high plains. I will be hear to revisit this issue when the next El Nino finally comes and breaks the last few years of neutral of cold La Nina conditions. El Nino will release the stored heat from the Pacific oceans that has been stored up for years now. We will have much to talk about in the next El Nino. I feel certain that the deniers will deny this, but the proof is coming and I stand by that coming proof.
Goodshit jack?
It's almost funny that we are concerned with some hypothetical globalist cartel banking scam when, in truth, we are facing the greatest global calamity since the Permian extinction coming to a shore near you this year. Every third baby in Washington state has thyroid irregularities now. How do you say Homer Simpson in Japanese?