My only problem with George R.R. Martin writing about penises and vaginas is that too often, the penises aren't there with the vaginas' permission.

What are you basing that on?

Yup, that's the one I was thinking of. ;)

I'd say that 99% of the male leads in romantic comedies are creepy, and that any real-life relationship modeled on them is doomed anyway. This film looks like it goes to a really dark place, though, and I'm getting the heebie-jeebies just reading about it.

I'm sorry that you've had it rough. You're definitely not alone in that. I've noticed sometimes, however, that some people who don't understand why they're not successful romantically are missing something pretty obvious. Thinking of women as "bitches" doesn't tend to go over well with women, so I thought I would…

Not necessarily. I know two guitarists that I want to beat over the head with their stupid guitars, and it's not because they're bad players.

Psst! Jane Austin didn't write "Jane Eyre".

Nope, it's not okay. I'm just not comfortable with classifying it as a "hate crime" or discrimination. It's a wrong thing to do, it's just not that specific wrong thing.

When French McDonald's restaurants start assaulting and tossing out people with pacemakers, insulin pumps, oxygen tanks, and prosthetic limbs, then I'll consider it a form of systematic discrimination.

Feed?! FEED ON WHAT?!

You know, it would be awesome if people who were untrustworthy had the fact tattooed on their foreheads. It would make things so much easier.

If you're lucky enough to never have had anyone make you question your trust in humanity, then I hope that never changes for you. Seriously. It sucks.

I don't think anyone's talking about banning things - the conversation about reasonable regulation is one worth having, however. If you were with someone that had a cybernetic implant that was capable of making recordings, wouldn't you pretty much just have to assume that it was always doing so? Can you feel safe…

Are you the Hari Seldon to Gawker's Galactic Empire?

It is going to be messy - and setting aside the individual right to privacy, what about corporate espionage? How are people going to protect their intellectual property? How are people going to exert any kind of control over images and recordings taken without their consent?

Yes, but with technological implants, wouldn't you have to assume that the people who have them are recording constantly? So you never get to have a private conversation with them? Have intimate moments with them? Talk about confidential things with them? They can just go into a company with business-sensitive…

That's the thing - I don't know anything about French law, either. But I do know that laws vary state-by-state on recording conversations without the participant's knowledge or consent. I know that everyone has camera phones, but it's generally pretty easy to tell when someone is recording you with someone. With a…

Especially because the laws differ in so many different areas. Companies have business-sensitive processes and documents. People have a reasonable expectation of privacy. While I'm all for technological progress, it's unsettling how often it outruns legislative process.

Agreed! DC, pay attention now....