I expected something a bit more "minority report", instead I got something that's too real to be enjoyed. In the show you get good-hearted vigilantes. In reality you get Orwellian hyper-profiling, and unless the justice system keeps deteriorating the way it's doing now, we'll soon get the first scandals for abusing…

You mean PoI? I watch it, it's entertaining, but it's pretty little science-fictional, based on:

No, but there is machine learning, and there are tons of cameras everywhere, and there's face recognition software and pattern recognition software, so, yeah, with a large enough training set (a big American city for example), and enough computing power, you can predict a huge chunk of crimes that are about to happen…

I call it "that procedural that was featured in io9 for no reason".

The acting was generally bad. I didn't see TC as Lestat for a second, Pitt was bad, Antonio Banderas was the laughing stock of cinema talk for a while after that (he was really big here before that, and it was like "he gives the jump to Hollywood to play that crap").

I probably read it here, but just in case: Hergé said he wanted Spielberg to be the one who directed it if there ever was a Tintin movie, so suck it, purists

The "add me to the waitlist" doesn't seem to work. I click and an empty square appears and that's it.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. There's no need for the portal at all! They even sent some pilgrimages before there was one!

Yeah, I meant JG. Perhaps it'll get old fast, I don't know.

Really? I just started it and I think it's kind of funny. It seems I have a very dark sense of humor.

Yeah, apparently it's still possible

Exactly yhe same for me, and some women (and very rarely, men) seem to notice that something I'm wearing is mismatched, something I wouldn't even think possible.

Yeah, but the same applies to everything. For example most people wouldn't notice your use of "your" en vez de "you're", but others would go ballistic about it. When I say "nobody gives a crap about that", half the time I found out that people do give a crap about that.

Well, all that proves is that YOU don't care enough to make mental notes. I don't either, but I've seen people mock others for stuff like that, things I would have ever noticed if it weren't pointed out to me. Clothing seems to be extremely important to some people.

Doing it doesn't make you a hipster. Saying it aloud does

It's not that they are intelligent. They are politicians, and things like "cult", "right", "wrong" or "criminal" are uncorrelated with what they support or not. They support or bash things based on whether it earns them votes and support or enemies. And apparently the people who will vote based on politicians doing…

Actually, I think the "offensive" bit is most often in the eye of the beholder, then in intention, and finally in the statement itself.

The problem is this study can't be done right. Well, it can, but it'd need thousands of subjects classifying thousands of sentences each. Because when you have people selecting "this one is relevant" they'd take out the "yeah, she said know but I knew she wanted it so I did it anyway, and then I threatened to kill her…

Judging by the bench one, they already do, don't they?