One of the things I really like about living in a European city with good public transportation is that I never need to drive a car, and as long as you don’t drive a car, your contacts with police are minimal, or so the theory goes, at least.
From what I’m reading from back in the States, police are stone cold busting into people’s houses and shooting them dead. You’d think you were safe in the cinema, but noooo…..
A man in Columbus, Ohio went to the movies with his wife recently, to see Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and while they were sitting there minding their own business FBI agents confronted him, seized the google glasses from off his face, and hauled them downtown for questioning.
She sees things you don’t
They said he was filming the movie. He wasn’t.
It strikes me, at first, as a piss poor allocation of law enforcement personnel. Pirating a movie? That’s a case for the FBI? Cinema personnel could have just asked him to take off the glasses.
But, reading the comments after the article, I see the issue goes deeper. A lot of people, who would gladly watch a pirated video of a current film if they got one slipped under their door for free and not feel even a tiny, little twitch of conscience, were totally taking the cops’ side.
I just hate google glass, many of them said. Glad they knocked him off his smug, arrogant, yuppie face.
This is not an argument, people. This is just jealousy. Be patient. In five years, you’ll have a pair yourself and then you’ll be pirating like Johnny Depp, and checking out the personal profiles of any linked up women you see passing by.
People who have these think they are better than others, one person said. They are unnatural, said another. Well, in the sense of being better positioned to take advantage of the social and business opportunities that surround us (and pirate movies at the very moment you’re watching them, effortlessly, which is sort of like a superpower) they do, indeed, make their wearers somewhat superior.
As far as unnatural, you know what seemed unnatural to me, at first? Mobile phones. If people want to call me, they can call me when I’m at home, I figured. The first time I got a call in the middle of a park I was hooked.
It will be the same with google glasses.
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