YIKES. The phrase "Grinning like a mule eatin' briars" comes to mind.
Posted on 02/25/2014 8:58:19 AM PST by rawhide
*Is there an investment way to short the bar trade?*
Interesting idea.
Maybe we can trade options and profit from their lack of profit.
Such videos usually are good evidence when the assault case comes to trial.
You’re reading WAY more into what I said. I never advocated violence. I stated that my belief was that this product would be publicly disapproved of. The phone has a communications purpose. Google glass is specifically designed as a computer you control with your eyes.
If you were at a mall and someone was walking around with a digital camera taking pictures of people and came up to you and just took your picture without asking and kept walking, would you feel okay with that? Or would you stop that person and ask why they took your picture?
If you were at a coffee shop and someone was sitting at a table with a laptop and very obviously using it to take pictures of the area or record conversations, would you feel comfortable being seen with someone or talking to that person about personal things?
I understand that technology is getting smaller and easier to conceal. I understand that people can take long distance pictures with their phones and cameras. I understand that people can surreptitiously record audio of their surroundings. I do not, however, approve of everyone having a wireless-Internet-connected headset beaming a live stream of everyone’s surroundings to any computer or database in the world. That is, quite frankly, terrifying.
Deserving of assault? I never said that. Deserving of extreme scrutiny and general rules? Absolutely.
I don’t like this technology either. This woman must think that because she’s desperate for attention that everyone else is as well. Evidently, she was wrong.
Would you punch out a woman that pulls out her phone and takes a picture?
This is the liberal left in San Francisco being mad that a corporations is successful, they probably would have had the same reaction if she wore a WalMart Tshirt.
They are chanting at Google buses because the employees make too much money, go figure.
This is the best feel good story I’ve read in weeks!
This could well be a story not so much about a new technology, but instead about merely being in a bar at “last call” time.
Some patrons at that time are ready to fight about anything. Glasses. Boots. Broads.
Those who are scoping strangers are using pen cameras and other hidden devices.
Google glasses are a communication device just like a phone.
Union rent-a-mobs (astroturf in the common vernacular) are blocking the buses and police are not intervening.
This nation has no law enforcement services anymore.
True, although those are used covertly. With something like Google Glass it's out in the open.
It’s San Francisco. No guns.
They’ve had less conspicuous eyeglasses with video recording for some time now. “Mystery Diners” on Food Network puts them to use in every episode.
My FIL has been video taping with prescription “spy glasses” for the last couple of years, it constantly records all day if something interesting happens you tap a button on the side and several minutes before hitting the button is saved and continues until the button is hit again. They just look like old man glasses.
At least the Googles glasses are recognizable.
He wears them because he’s afraid of losing his drivers license because of his age. If he gets into an accident, he wants documentation of what really happened, kind of like a dash camera.
Check out the quote from the article:
“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters …” Slocum wrote on her Facebook page.
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So, a three-letter word that someone felt obligated to censor? Hmmm.
Dashcams are not a bad idea. I have set up a GoPro on my 4Runner dashboard after nearly being sideswiped by another driver in a hit-and-run. Then my SUV was rear-ended by another hit-and-run driver so now I have to mount one at the rear. All this effort to try to get the license plate number of the other driver. I don’t know about you and others here, but it really bugs me when some don’t accept responsibility for their bad driving.
If you just want to video someone there are many options available now that are almost impossible to tell with a casual look.
Of course those don’t let you upload that video within seconds to a local police hotlink (coming soon I bet) or facebook either.
Or should I say yet...
Gogle Glass wasn’t developed for regular people. Some professions could use a heads-up display, obviously. But for regular people, the purpose of Google Glass is to normalize the concept and experience of 24/7 surveillance. And of course, the perfect people to shove this rape of privacy down everyone’s throats are Silicon Valley liberals.
If Stalin was alive today, he would gaze in mute awe at Silicon Valley liberals. Millions of intelligent, hardworking people who are deliberately turned themselves into perfect communist tools, custom-made useful idiots, for sale to the highest bidder, and accompanied by literally insane levels of collective - not just obedience, but - worship.
Las Vegas is not how the world ends. Silicon Valley is how the world ends.
Nobody does have any privacy. In this modern world with surveillance videos everywhere and people recording half their lives with their cellphones the brouhaha over Google Glasses is both asinine and hilarious.
Just your every day modern version of town versus gown. I miss the old glass ashtrays that would allow you to fight your way out of a corner.
YIKES. The phrase "Grinning like a mule eatin' briars" comes to mind.
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