• Stores all of your personal data (name, address, email, etc) and the names of your various service providers.


• Allows you to change any piece of your personal data and then pushes the changes out to all of your providers. So, when you move, you just update this site and it automatically files a change-of-address card with the post office, notifies all of your magazine subscriptions of the new address, updates your address info on LJ/FaceBook, tells Netflix to ship to your new address, etc). Same for changes to email, phone, whatever


• Allows you to lie to certain providers while still giving correct data to others. e.g., you can notify the Crate and Barrel people that your new address is "123 NoSuch St, Notown AL 10000", and they would start shipping their unwanted catalogs there instead of to you (they would then be sent back with the postal equivalent of 404, and hopefully C&B would eventually stop shipping them)


• Allows you to keep your data encrypted when not in use with a private key that is not stored on the server. (i.e., whenever you aren't actually using the site, all of your data is gibberish that will not benefit a thief should it somehow be stolen)

Clearly this hatred is based on my heartless lack of feelings for the printer. It's been on the fritz for months and I'm only just now investigating? You can see why it's angry.

For some strange reason, attempting to print to a fax machine has highly sub-optimal results...at least, if the optimal results are anything along the general lines of "convince the magical perfect princess printer pixies to carry the words and pictures from the screen to the piece of paper!"

• Dear Mr Jackson: Please look up the word "subtlety" in a dictionary, as the concept clearly escapes you. Thank you. --Dks

• The complete lack of plot. This movie is pretty much "people commit violence, usually with weapons. Some of the people are aliens."

• The complete absence of sympathetic characters. I didn't really care about any of the characters in this movie (well, I wanted to see the bald battalion leader die). But the main characters, human and alien? Didn't give a damn. The chibi-eyed little alien kid was cute, but I didn't care much about him either--besides, his presence felt manipulative.

• The complete lack of plausibility.
  
  
  
  • 20 years, over a million compliant aliens and absolutely zero impact on humanity? Come on. They were stronger than humans, able to leap higher, and could eat just about anything vaguely organic (e.g. rubber), and their weapons and other technology worked for them. In reality they would have been hired as construction workers, biological waste disposal units, grunt troops in mercenary units, and a thousand other things. Bonus: they could have been paid in catfood.
  
  
  • The aliens were all confined to District 9. Aside from hammering home the point about apertheid, why were there signs all over Johannesburg saying "no aliens"?
  
  
  • The entire movie was predicated on the idea "we need to move them because humans are complaining that they are too close, and they commit crimes." Yet, again, I say--the aliens were confined to their camp. When exactly would humans and aliens meet?
  
  
  • Ok, let's assume that the two separate layers of razor-wire topped fence actually did not suffice to keep the aliens in, and so the crime problems were the result of aliens that slipped out of District 9. I have to think that adding more guards to keep them in would be simpler and cheaper than building a new facility and relocating all of them 200 km, where you will still need guards in order to keep them inside the new facility.
  • Um...so, hang on. You needed to give them 24 hours notice before evicting them, but you decided to go in with troops and do it right now instead? Wouldn't it have been easier to just do it the other way? You could have flown over the place in helicopters on Monday, shouting down with bullhorns "We will evict you tomorrow!", and then come back on Tuesday with the troops and armored trucks and done it.
  
  
  • In 20 years, with full access to the technology on their ship and whatever they brought down on the airlift with them, we managed to reverse engineer nothing?

• CUT IT OUT WITH THE GORRAM SHAKICAM ALREADY! When Blair Witch Project did it, it was novel and impressive. Now it's just nauseating. The premise of this movie is that it's a documentary made by real professionals. These people own Steadicams and are not afraid to use them!