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Critique This Film for Star Trek

MileKick — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:03:00 +0000

Check out this hilarious review of the new Star Trek movie.

You can also check out the movie trailers here.

Star Trek XI

MileKick — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:36:00 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to bring to your attention the following from J.J. Abrams, the director of Mission: Impossible III and the producer of Cloverfield, Lost and Alias: Star Trek XI.

It’s Star Trek the way you never saw it before.

In cinemas on May 8. The official movie web site is available here.

What do you think?

Rowling's Commencement Speech at Harvard

MileKick — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Last year, during the month of June, a very good friend of mine sent me the text of a commencement speech J. K. Rowling gave at Harvard University in June, 2008. I was in Provincetown at the time, working as hard as I possibly could to earn money for AUBG tuition, so I just glanced through the email and starred it for future reference after I realized it’s rather long. Unfortunately, I did not read that speech until now. In fact, the only reason I am going through this whole humiliation of telling this story, that illustrates just how awful a friend I am, is to share with you the contents of that speech. It certainly made me start thinking about things (and made me check out if Amnesty is offering any internships). You can read it from here, or view the videos of the actual speech bellow.

End Of Ze World

MileKick — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:57:00 +0000

Did you know?

MileKick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:28:00 +0000

2012: The Year The Internet Ends. Yea, Right.

MileKick — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:19:00 +0000

According to this article, the Internet as we know it will come to an end in a couple of years because all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will agree to introduce a new billing system that will look like the system used today by most cable TV companies. The system will divide all websites into packages. Before accessing a website, users will have to subscribe to the package that particular website belongs to. The change is due to come about in 2012.

The authors of the article recorded the following video in which they explain the new system and just how big a deal they think it is.

In case you haven’t figured it out so far, all this is one huge pile of BS. In order for the system to work a law would have to be passed that will require ISPs to use it. Some might claim that ISPs won’t have to be forced to switch to the new system because it is attractive to them. However, we must remember that people hate change, especially if that change requires them to pay more. Hence, new ISPs would be started that won’t use the new system. People would switch to those new ISPs and the old ones would soon be out of business.

Furthermore, the way Internet works allows programmers to easily bypass any restrictions. A simple Firefox plug-in, that uses proxy servers, would grant you access to all websites. In fact, a lot of those plug-ins already exist. Therefore, even if a law is passed that will require all ISPs to switch to this ridiculous new system, you should not panic: an adequate solution is already widely available.

Every Cigarette is Doing You Damage

MileKick — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:35:00 +0000

I just stumbled upon this video and having in mind how many people smoke where I come from, I thought I should share it.

Edited on April 8, 2009 to change the video link as the old one didn’t work anymore.