The arrest was the strongest of a number of recent signals that the government is tightening its grip on society and becoming more unpredictable in its exercise of power.
"The economic upheaval makes this exercise more unpredictable than it's ever been," said Tim Storey, a senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures, who was over the weekend conducting a training seminar in Providence, R.I., for 250 state lawmakers from around the country on drawing new maps and, if need be, shrinking the number of House districts.
A four-hour documentary pitting Bateman against McAdams in an epic Settlers of Catan match-up would have been significantly more interesting — more exciting, more spontaneous and possibly even more unpredictable — than this protracted exercise in yuk-yuk-bang-bang.
"We wanted to do a similar thing in Alien: Isolation but because the gameplay is so dynamic - the Alien is unpredictable - it became an exercise in creating systems.
It's a remarkable exercise that demonstrates the unpredictable interaction between spaces that can only exist in the film world and those that are more physical and can be realised in the architectural world.
Not simply when its exercise is random or unpredictable.
But the consequences of its decision to exercise that logic are unpredictable.
Practice being unpredictable.
Data scientists and engineers enter into an unpredictable, dreary, and iterative series of training exercises, tweaking the model each time and refining the data, throwing away inferior results in favor of improved outcomes.
BAGHDAD — For an Iraqi Army soldier patrolling Baghdad's unpredictable streets, each 12-hour shift is an exercise in terror and uncertainty.
On the other side is "magic," defined as everything that is intuitive, imaginative, unpredictable, that subjugates all other values to the exercise of the individual will.
