This is why short URLs are so important. URLs survive the share. Because the interested reader is forced to go to the URL shortener to map the short URL to the real one, whoever owns the shortener sees the engagement between the audience and the content, no matter where it happens. That's why URLs are the new cookies.
As long as you keep the URL shortened and are sharing it on Twitter. What about when you cross those boundaries and share on Facebook (which is the biggest social network) or e-mail or chat or whatever? Once you take the ball out of Twitter's court the analytics become useless from t.co--just like any other URL shortener.
This is a non-issue for the privacy geeks as they'll just share the original URL and not do it via Twitter.
Honestly, Twitter traffic is fairly useless for anyone as the visitors tend to be one-time flybys who spend less than a few seconds on your endsite and just end up lowering your time on site and raising your bounce metrics. If you want engagement you better be using some other network to get your funnel working the way you want.
I have mod points and I considered moderating your post but I couldn't decide to mark it down or up (it could easily work both ways) so I decided to respond instead:
Yes, ESRI shapefiles are prevalent in the public sector and the software is expensive and difficult to use. Thankfully you can now easily convert SHP files into KML and display a lot of the work done in the public sector for use everywhere else.
I have a small archive of stuff I have converted from SHP to KML in Minnesota available here which are used mainly for geocachers wanting to know what areas are off-limits but as you can see there are MN county boundaries in there as well. Why the county boundaries? Because the company I worked at prior to my current place for employment (a publicly funded educational institution) couldn't afford actual GIS software so I had to use what was freely available to do our analysis of marketing ROI.
So, yeah, ESRI sucks and they need to die but at least there are options now available which are affordable (read: "free") for the general public to get involved and do their own work with what has been made available from their tax dollars being hard at work.
Starting with GMail I have kept every e-mail since 6/22/2004. I also brought over many e-mails I had in my saved folders from long before that. Am I insane? No. I have found this archive incredibly useful for any variety of uses even 6 years later.
Nothing like having your wife ask, "man, I wish we still had the recipe for deviled eggs we made in college. Too bad it was back in 2001." "No problem honey, hold."
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:40:46 -0500 From: yoyoskippy To: garcia@tigerose.com (now dead, have at it spammers) Subject: Deviled eggs
Deviled Eggs
6 hard cooked eggs
(throw two more eggs in, so you can check how they are doing)
pinch of salt (thats a pinch boy, wayyyyy less than 1/4 tsp.)
Boil the eggs, use the extra two eggs to check the eggs process. when boiled crack the shell a bit with a spoon. then put the eggs in cold water w/ice cubes. this makes it easier to peel the shell off the egg. Next take the yolks out of the eggs and smash up very finely with fork. next add all of the ingredients together to make the topping. mix well. spoon the mixture onto the egg and then sprinkle on paprika. enjoy. yum yum!!
Pulled that out a couple weeks ago for a picnic. Yum yum!! was right.
One set of grandparents lives in Cincinnati and the other in Pennsylvania. Kinda hard to make the financial decision to fly them in to Minneapolis to watch the kid for a night while we go out to a movie.
The culprit was that the movie sucked plain and simple. I mean it was quite possibly one of the worst movies I have seen in the last 5 years and I just watched Repo Men. The movie was slow, it was repetitive and the only possible redeeming quality it possessed was that it was rah rah US military and how could you possibly hate on the US military right unless you're a terrorist, right?
In addition to that, there is a recession. I haven't been to a movie in the theater in a long time because I simply do not have the money due to a new baby and a SAHM. Redbox's $1 rentals and Hulu's documentaries have filled the void. Why would I ever spend $20 (for two) to go to see a movie when I can spend $1 instead?
Enough of blaming file sharing this is plain and simple a shitty and overhyped movie which was better watched from the comfort of your own home for 1/20th the cost.
If other sites were smart they'd be doing the same things. The actual userbase is far more pleased with the service you provide when you don't allow that sort of bullshit.
The browser vendors' fetishistic obsession with Javascript speed is most irritating.
I have mod points but I decided to respond instead... I agree with you, it is irritating especially when the browser's speeds themselves are miserable. Yay great, Chrome loads faster but I have random issues with plugins which affect my work (one of the plugins is disabling me from reading GMail messages) and AdBlock still doesn't work nearly as well as it does on Firefox for the sites I use most often.
I wish Firefox would stop trying to compete in Javascript and go back to one of the biggest reasons they started the project: speed of the browser itself. That means it should open instantaneously and have low overhead--even with the usual plugins installed (AdBlock, NoScript, etc).
I'm one of those people and since moving to Minnesota I've always been one of those people. My DSL was "up to 2mbps" and I received 4.7mbs and with cable I'm "up to 7mbps" and receive 20mbps (18.85mbps according to my most recent aptitude safe-upgrade).
This is a non-story in my most recent experience but I'm guessing it's not for others. In a previous life, back when I had DSL in college from VZW, we would routinely see 400k/64k speeds on a connection that was supposed to be 768/256. YMMV.
I use Facebook all the time. I've never heard of Foursquare. Is this another one of those "I use it, therefore I assume everybody uses it" kind of things?
No, it's been all over CNN and the rest of the major news outlets. They have big deals with tons of different big name museums, etc. It's "another one of those 'If you read the news you should know what it is' kind of things". But hey I totally agree with you. While I know what it is, I choose not to use it even though I was a pretty heavy Dodgeball user (its predecessor which was bought out by Google and then killed) back in the day.
If you have something more complex than a flat file, then use relational databases. Even Access databases are better than a collection of text files.
That really depends on what your intended use for them is. I mean I don't know this particular fellow's situation for data collection or what tools he uses for reporting and visualization but perhaps, for him, it's a much better idea to store them in flat files. Me? I have been using flat files for all my data collection about local crime (see here, here, here, and here) for several reasons:
1. I script it all with awk/sed to scrape the data and then put it in a CSV for summary with MySQL.
2. Yes, I could use MySQL for it all but I like to easily see it in its raw format on another remote machine. I also like to use Excel to do ad-hoc pivots and this is the easiest way for me to do that.
3. I upload the data to Google Docs and use their gadgets to make charts for my dashboards and maps. If I were to store it solely in MySQL I would have to make the CSV, pipe it into the MySQL, convert it back out to CSV and then upload it. An additional step for nothing.
Hey, no method is perfect for everyone and every project is a little different and while it's hard for me, based on the information provided, to give this guy any help, automatically suggesting that he needs a relational database to do his data storage might be just a little shortsighted.
The US is so big, it's hard to generalize. I would say the car culture and strip malls are a near constant though.
I have lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest and have visited pools all over the country and have never felt they were overpriced.
Yes, we are a car-culture and have a proliferation of strip malls but mass and pedestrian transit alternatives are improving at least here in Minnesota.
A nearby city-owned waterpark with slides, a lazy river, a big pool, etc is similarly priced at $7-$9 (depending on height). It's even cheaper in the evenings when most people are going to go after work. 5 Euros is what, about $6.50 right now so quite reasonable as far as I'm concerned.
While I don't go to that waterpark my gym has four pools (two outdoor and two indoor) with four waterslides, hot tubs, etc and it's part of my membership. My wife and kid belong and we use it a couple of days a week in the evenings. Membership there is about $35/month for kids and ends up being super cheap compared to what you mention.
I grew up swimming for sport and visited many pools. They were always priced in the $3 to $4 range and I'm guessing that those places are now about double that. Guess my experience with US pools is a little different than yours...
I don't see how these would be any different than their existing aerial photography. All of the high resolution stuff they have is from planes with cameras at a few thousand feet.
Their's, not their competitions' who use aerial photographs from about 100m to do "Bird's Eye View". It's much better than Google's and I find myself using Bing's maps more and more. Perhaps this is so that they can do the same sort of thing w/o having to outfit a Cessna.
As you can see I quoted the parent not the summary or the article itself and was responding to him so while I appreciate your duplication of effort from what I already knew about the topic, I am not sure how it applies to what I wrote.
If our tax dollars are to be spent, they should be spent wisely. The idea that you can sell goods and services to the government at inflated prices needs to stop. Part of the problem is the government itself not doing their homework until after the fact. The other part is that everyone knows you can screw the government over. So naturally, crap like this happens.
I am a tax watchdog for the county I live in. I study government tax dollar expenditures for tons of different things ranging from website upgrades/design to large arts centers run by third party management companies. Now, I am all for keeping taxes low and thus expenditures for changes, upgrades, and the running of money making enterprises low. I think that government entities should be working hard to do that but what I don't believe is that corporations are required to make their bidding lower to the government because they aren't as capable as private entities to ensure their contracts are reasonable.
Let's take the website and arts center management for example. A simple city website redesign is going to cost my hometown nearly $80,000 because they don't know any better. They seriously feel that this is a fair price and have been saving up for 10 years to cover the costs. For the changes they want and based on the costs incurred by surrounding cities (other government entities which happily provided me with their own costs!) it would appear that they are being charged at least by $20,000 more than the other cities who have recently underwent change and probably another $10,000 on top of that.
As for the arts center, several other government agencies have utilized the management company that another local city is using. All of those other outfits have been running at unacceptable losses for more than five years and now guess what? The city adjacent to mine is as well. Why did the city management and councils allow these things to happen?
Simple: because they're not able to make sound business decisions on their own and the real world sucks. Do I think that private companies should be able to take advantage of anyone who is stupid enough not to do their homework? Yup. That's how businesses make money.
Let's stop this happy fucking horseshit world we have suddenly found ourselves in where it's someone else's fault that the government got overcharged. Either hire competent people to oversee the bidding on expenditures such as these and allow those people the freedom to make tough choices to save money or suffer the consequences. Stop meddling in private business because you are inept when it comes to dealing in the real world.
Government wants to pretend its like the private world in so many ways, especially at reelection time, but then it goes off and does something like this. And they wonder why they get taken advantage of. Ugh.
They have trade schools and a lot of them. Unfortunately they force a liberal arts education on those who attend--just like those in traditional college/university settings.:et's go back to the way trade schools were in the 1970s and 1980s and get rid of the liberal arts education nonsense. Problem is that this won't work as the courses required to master a trade generally only take a year and the additional year of liberal arts credits helps with the school's bottom line.
What I want to know is why they believe it's ok if I've allowed ANOTHER party to have my GPS data that I should automatically be opted in to allow them to have my data by default. Just because I gave a single application my permission to use my location data, one time only (that's how I do it for say Google Maps), does not mean that Steve can find out where my bars are dropping because I'm holding his phone wrong (no, I don't have an iPhone4 nor will I).
Now instead of just having to deal with one asshole company (AT&T), I have to deal with two. I can't wait to see the responses from the Worshipers explaining this one.
We have been vacationing on Hilton Head Island for over 20 years. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s we were ripped off in a hotel employee scam. My mother would always pay in cash. Four crisp 100 dollar bills were laid on the counter and slid across to the staffer behind for our week long stay in paradise (we always found it hilarious that it was 1/6th as expensive as a shitty two bed hotel room on the Jersey shore). This year, however, the clerk requested that we put down a credit card to cover any damages which may occur during our stay. My mother, not one for hucksters, agreed reluctantly only because a young boy of no more than 10 or 11 was whining in the backseat of the minivan about how he had to pee.
After another excellent vacation we arrived home and a letter came in the mail with our receipt of a credit card charge in the amount of $400. My mother knowing this had to be a mistake as she had a similar receipt for $400 in cash called and explained the situation and expected it to be cleared up--after all we always paid with cash and never had problems before. After accusations of lying and trying to scam the resort out of money it was later determined that 7 or 8 other families met similar fates.
One of the employees was pocketing the cash and charging the credit cards. We were later begged to stay, free of charge, the next summer. My parents ignored the request and we spent the next few years in a far less cozy location on the other side of the island.
So yeah, some employees truly do suck--always have and always will.
While I have never seen the speed increases that everyone has (yes, studies, studies, studies -- but in my real world use it doesn't make a difference) Chrome simply doesn't have a viable AdBlock and thus is totally useless for me. YMMV.
I only resort to TicketBastard as a last resort. I have seen many shows in the last two years and I never had to go through TicketBastard to get my tickets. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to have to wait in line at the Will Call line (the last show I went to, at the end of June, the Will Call line was moving faster than the "I already have my TicketBastard ticket" line so YMMV) but at least I don't have to pay their crazy fees and put up with their bullshit.
People, do your homework and see if you can get a ticket from somewhere else. If people would stop patronizing TicketBastard they would eventually go out of business.
I hate the entire story. It's as if they're trying to detract from real news and we needed a new set of terrorists to hate. "Well we haven't hated the Russians since the early 1990s, let's get back to that."
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As long as you keep the URL shortened and are sharing it on Twitter. What about when you cross those boundaries and share on Facebook (which is the biggest social network) or e-mail or chat or whatever? Once you take the ball out of Twitter's court the analytics become useless from t.co--just like any other URL shortener.
This is a non-issue for the privacy geeks as they'll just share the original URL and not do it via Twitter.
Honestly, Twitter traffic is fairly useless for anyone as the visitors tend to be one-time flybys who spend less than a few seconds on your endsite and just end up lowering your time on site and raising your bounce metrics. If you want engagement you better be using some other network to get your funnel working the way you want.
I have mod points and I considered moderating your post but I couldn't decide to mark it down or up (it could easily work both ways) so I decided to respond instead:
Yes, ESRI shapefiles are prevalent in the public sector and the software is expensive and difficult to use. Thankfully you can now easily convert SHP files into KML and display a lot of the work done in the public sector for use everywhere else.
I have a small archive of stuff I have converted from SHP to KML in Minnesota available here which are used mainly for geocachers wanting to know what areas are off-limits but as you can see there are MN county boundaries in there as well. Why the county boundaries? Because the company I worked at prior to my current place for employment (a publicly funded educational institution) couldn't afford actual GIS software so I had to use what was freely available to do our analysis of marketing ROI.
So, yeah, ESRI sucks and they need to die but at least there are options now available which are affordable (read: "free") for the general public to get involved and do their own work with what has been made available from their tax dollars being hard at work.
Starting with GMail I have kept every e-mail since 6/22/2004. I also brought over many e-mails I had in my saved folders from long before that. Am I insane? No. I have found this archive incredibly useful for any variety of uses even 6 years later.
Nothing like having your wife ask, "man, I wish we still had the recipe for deviled eggs we made in college. Too bad it was back in 2001." "No problem honey, hold."
Pulled that out a couple weeks ago for a picnic. Yum yum!! was right.
One set of grandparents lives in Cincinnati and the other in Pennsylvania. Kinda hard to make the financial decision to fly them in to Minneapolis to watch the kid for a night while we go out to a movie.
The culprit was that the movie sucked plain and simple. I mean it was quite possibly one of the worst movies I have seen in the last 5 years and I just watched Repo Men. The movie was slow, it was repetitive and the only possible redeeming quality it possessed was that it was rah rah US military and how could you possibly hate on the US military right unless you're a terrorist, right?
In addition to that, there is a recession. I haven't been to a movie in the theater in a long time because I simply do not have the money due to a new baby and a SAHM. Redbox's $1 rentals and Hulu's documentaries have filled the void. Why would I ever spend $20 (for two) to go to see a movie when I can spend $1 instead?
Enough of blaming file sharing this is plain and simple a shitty and overhyped movie which was better watched from the comfort of your own home for 1/20th the cost.
Flying pigs spotted here too.
Pigs are the replacement for chairs once He leaves?
They do it on blogs too. Unfortunately for them they can't capitalize on my site's high ranking for their restaurants because I track them down and expose them for what they are. See here: http://www.lazylightning.org/astroturfing-poor-attempts-at-changing-opinion
If other sites were smart they'd be doing the same things. The actual userbase is far more pleased with the service you provide when you don't allow that sort of bullshit.
The real question is: Why are people still unable to reply "don't use child porn for your benefits", and stop the argument right there?
People are, legislators are not. After all, if they did, the insanely deep pockets would suddenly get a lot smaller.
The browser vendors' fetishistic obsession with Javascript speed is most irritating.
I have mod points but I decided to respond instead... I agree with you, it is irritating especially when the browser's speeds themselves are miserable. Yay great, Chrome loads faster but I have random issues with plugins which affect my work (one of the plugins is disabling me from reading GMail messages) and AdBlock still doesn't work nearly as well as it does on Firefox for the sites I use most often.
I wish Firefox would stop trying to compete in Javascript and go back to one of the biggest reasons they started the project: speed of the browser itself. That means it should open instantaneously and have low overhead--even with the usual plugins installed (AdBlock, NoScript, etc).
I'm one of those people and since moving to Minnesota I've always been one of those people. My DSL was "up to 2mbps" and I received 4.7mbs and with cable I'm "up to 7mbps" and receive 20mbps (18.85mbps according to my most recent aptitude safe-upgrade).
This is a non-story in my most recent experience but I'm guessing it's not for others. In a previous life, back when I had DSL in college from VZW, we would routinely see 400k/64k speeds on a connection that was supposed to be 768/256. YMMV.
I use Facebook all the time. I've never heard of Foursquare. Is this another one of those "I use it, therefore I assume everybody uses it" kind of things?
No, it's been all over CNN and the rest of the major news outlets. They have big deals with tons of different big name museums, etc. It's "another one of those 'If you read the news you should know what it is' kind of things". But hey I totally agree with you. While I know what it is, I choose not to use it even though I was a pretty heavy Dodgeball user (its predecessor which was bought out by Google and then killed) back in the day.
If you have something more complex than a flat file, then use relational databases. Even Access databases are better than a collection of text files.
That really depends on what your intended use for them is. I mean I don't know this particular fellow's situation for data collection or what tools he uses for reporting and visualization but perhaps, for him, it's a much better idea to store them in flat files. Me? I have been using flat files for all my data collection about local crime (see here, here, here, and here) for several reasons:
1. I script it all with awk/sed to scrape the data and then put it in a CSV for summary with MySQL.
2. Yes, I could use MySQL for it all but I like to easily see it in its raw format on another remote machine. I also like to use Excel to do ad-hoc pivots and this is the easiest way for me to do that.
3. I upload the data to Google Docs and use their gadgets to make charts for my dashboards and maps. If I were to store it solely in MySQL I would have to make the CSV, pipe it into the MySQL, convert it back out to CSV and then upload it. An additional step for nothing.
Hey, no method is perfect for everyone and every project is a little different and while it's hard for me, based on the information provided, to give this guy any help, automatically suggesting that he needs a relational database to do his data storage might be just a little shortsighted.
YMMV.
The US is so big, it's hard to generalize. I would say the car culture and strip malls are a near constant though.
I have lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest and have visited pools all over the country and have never felt they were overpriced.
Yes, we are a car-culture and have a proliferation of strip malls but mass and pedestrian transit alternatives are improving at least here in Minnesota.
A nearby city-owned waterpark with slides, a lazy river, a big pool, etc is similarly priced at $7-$9 (depending on height). It's even cheaper in the evenings when most people are going to go after work. 5 Euros is what, about $6.50 right now so quite reasonable as far as I'm concerned.
While I don't go to that waterpark my gym has four pools (two outdoor and two indoor) with four waterslides, hot tubs, etc and it's part of my membership. My wife and kid belong and we use it a couple of days a week in the evenings. Membership there is about $35/month for kids and ends up being super cheap compared to what you mention.
I grew up swimming for sport and visited many pools. They were always priced in the $3 to $4 range and I'm guessing that those places are now about double that. Guess my experience with US pools is a little different than yours...
I don't see how these would be any different than their existing aerial photography. All of the high resolution stuff they have is from planes with cameras at a few thousand feet.
Their's, not their competitions' who use aerial photographs from about 100m to do "Bird's Eye View". It's much better than Google's and I find myself using Bing's maps more and more. Perhaps this is so that they can do the same sort of thing w/o having to outfit a Cessna.
Oh forgive me for doing things the way I have been on Slashdot for 13+ years. Old habits are hard to break. By bad.
As you can see I quoted the parent not the summary or the article itself and was responding to him so while I appreciate your duplication of effort from what I already knew about the topic, I am not sure how it applies to what I wrote.
If our tax dollars are to be spent, they should be spent wisely. The idea that you can sell goods and services to the government at inflated prices needs to stop. Part of the problem is the government itself not doing their homework until after the fact. The other part is that everyone knows you can screw the government over. So naturally, crap like this happens.
I am a tax watchdog for the county I live in. I study government tax dollar expenditures for tons of different things ranging from website upgrades/design to large arts centers run by third party management companies. Now, I am all for keeping taxes low and thus expenditures for changes, upgrades, and the running of money making enterprises low. I think that government entities should be working hard to do that but what I don't believe is that corporations are required to make their bidding lower to the government because they aren't as capable as private entities to ensure their contracts are reasonable.
Let's take the website and arts center management for example. A simple city website redesign is going to cost my hometown nearly $80,000 because they don't know any better. They seriously feel that this is a fair price and have been saving up for 10 years to cover the costs. For the changes they want and based on the costs incurred by surrounding cities (other government entities which happily provided me with their own costs!) it would appear that they are being charged at least by $20,000 more than the other cities who have recently underwent change and probably another $10,000 on top of that.
As for the arts center, several other government agencies have utilized the management company that another local city is using. All of those other outfits have been running at unacceptable losses for more than five years and now guess what? The city adjacent to mine is as well. Why did the city management and councils allow these things to happen?
Simple: because they're not able to make sound business decisions on their own and the real world sucks. Do I think that private companies should be able to take advantage of anyone who is stupid enough not to do their homework? Yup. That's how businesses make money.
Let's stop this happy fucking horseshit world we have suddenly found ourselves in where it's someone else's fault that the government got overcharged. Either hire competent people to oversee the bidding on expenditures such as these and allow those people the freedom to make tough choices to save money or suffer the consequences. Stop meddling in private business because you are inept when it comes to dealing in the real world.
Government wants to pretend its like the private world in so many ways, especially at reelection time, but then it goes off and does something like this. And they wonder why they get taken advantage of. Ugh.
They have trade schools and a lot of them. Unfortunately they force a liberal arts education on those who attend--just like those in traditional college/university settings. :et's go back to the way trade schools were in the 1970s and 1980s and get rid of the liberal arts education nonsense. Problem is that this won't work as the courses required to master a trade generally only take a year and the additional year of liberal arts credits helps with the school's bottom line.
What I want to know is why they believe it's ok if I've allowed ANOTHER party to have my GPS data that I should automatically be opted in to allow them to have my data by default. Just because I gave a single application my permission to use my location data, one time only (that's how I do it for say Google Maps), does not mean that Steve can find out where my bars are dropping because I'm holding his phone wrong (no, I don't have an iPhone4 nor will I).
Now instead of just having to deal with one asshole company (AT&T), I have to deal with two. I can't wait to see the responses from the Worshipers explaining this one.
We have been vacationing on Hilton Head Island for over 20 years. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s we were ripped off in a hotel employee scam. My mother would always pay in cash. Four crisp 100 dollar bills were laid on the counter and slid across to the staffer behind for our week long stay in paradise (we always found it hilarious that it was 1/6th as expensive as a shitty two bed hotel room on the Jersey shore). This year, however, the clerk requested that we put down a credit card to cover any damages which may occur during our stay. My mother, not one for hucksters, agreed reluctantly only because a young boy of no more than 10 or 11 was whining in the backseat of the minivan about how he had to pee.
After another excellent vacation we arrived home and a letter came in the mail with our receipt of a credit card charge in the amount of $400. My mother knowing this had to be a mistake as she had a similar receipt for $400 in cash called and explained the situation and expected it to be cleared up--after all we always paid with cash and never had problems before. After accusations of lying and trying to scam the resort out of money it was later determined that 7 or 8 other families met similar fates.
One of the employees was pocketing the cash and charging the credit cards. We were later begged to stay, free of charge, the next summer. My parents ignored the request and we spent the next few years in a far less cozy location on the other side of the island.
So yeah, some employees truly do suck--always have and always will.
An apparent gorgeous, six-pack stomached, bikini wearing, beauty queen interested in bi-sexual encounters.
Fuck, I knew what this was and I almost clicked "Add as Friend" too.
While I have never seen the speed increases that everyone has (yes, studies, studies, studies -- but in my real world use it doesn't make a difference) Chrome simply doesn't have a viable AdBlock and thus is totally useless for me. YMMV.
I only resort to TicketBastard as a last resort. I have seen many shows in the last two years and I never had to go through TicketBastard to get my tickets. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to have to wait in line at the Will Call line (the last show I went to, at the end of June, the Will Call line was moving faster than the "I already have my TicketBastard ticket" line so YMMV) but at least I don't have to pay their crazy fees and put up with their bullshit.
People, do your homework and see if you can get a ticket from somewhere else. If people would stop patronizing TicketBastard they would eventually go out of business.
I hate the entire story. It's as if they're trying to detract from real news and we needed a new set of terrorists to hate. "Well we haven't hated the Russians since the early 1990s, let's get back to that."