@97: The camera in GG is not part of the user's eyeball. The user doesn't need to "stare directly" at the person they are recording. They just need to hold their head at the correct angle to point towards the subject. Their eyes can be looking elsewhere.

@102: Oh, sorry. You were being serious when you said you don't buy the idea that a person without a serious mental illness might claim on twitter that they were going to jump off a bridge to get attention?

I just assumed everything that was said by both of us after that was just silliness because either you are obviously full of shit or trolling.

PS. When I imagine such a person, I also can picture him demanding a service industry worker be fired because she won't let him play with his toys in a restaurant.

Oh look! Such a person exists.

I predict that within a year we'll start seeing lots of videos of people with Face Testicles getting the crap beat out of them, POV style.

And videos of Glassholes filming the view of them poking sleeping homeless people with sticks, and other such antisocial antics.

Brave new world and all.

@103: You are ADORABLE!
You accuse me of strawman arguments in one breath, and claim I'm arguing for a posting ban in the next. A classic.

The panopticon is the whole world now. We're complaining about the lack of salt in the margaritas we're sipping in lawn chairs on the deck after the Titanic has hit the iceberg.

technopathy!

@89 I'm just going to go right ahead and throw out a stereotype, (as they say, stereotype for a reason and all that) but it comes as no surprise to me that someone in tech would put the ease and convenience of their gadgets above social niceties and consideration for other people. Last week I had the privilege of going to a preview movie screening put on by a local tech company- Right in the middle of the movie, I was horrified to see a guy in front of me whip out his phone and start Googling characters! As I leaned in to say something to him, I looked down the isle and realized that there were 5 other people in the same row doing the same thing! It really was bizarre to see so many people completely oblivious to how rude they were being to the people around them. Is this a common occurrence at movie theaters in Bellevue and Redmond?

@97,

The night manager or hostess or whatever had every reason: it's company policy. And, yes, Nick Starr has every right to act like a pissy crybaby over it, and we have every right to call him a douchebag.

Won't be long until some GG-wearing man is beaten to a pulp, and made to swallow said "GGs", for filming a much larger man in a locker room.

Local bigot and noted fascist Dave Meinert is ALWAYS the bigger asshole. That guy can out douche a douche wearing google glasses.

Just another PR stunt for his patented line of fake dive bars.

Oh yeah, Cascadian Bacon's still wounded over his businesses banning guns.

I guess you have a lot in common with Glassholes in your obsession with fashion statements.

@113, a property owner making and enforcing policies is not being fascist. Don't you believe in property rights?

@113: This! From you! Of all people!
I personally don't object to Google glasses, but all he had to do was take them off when asked. Pitching a big pissy fit, and trying to get some one fired was a douche reaction and I have no sympathy for him.

@116
Yea that is all well and good but it doesn't change the fact that Meinert is a total asshole who tirelessly campaigns to get the government to change laws to increase his profit margins at the expense of the working class taxpayer.

Meinert is a vampire simultaneously bleeding the money of the working class and the character of this fair city.

@15

Meinert believes in and supports an incestuous relationship between rich business owners and lawmakers, the classical definition of fascism.

As #9 put it:
"Some rich dude (Dave Meinert) who organized the alcohol/restaurant industry to fight against the state income tax for the rich, who lobbied to impose fines against panhandlers, who lobbied to legalize gambling in bars, who successfully fought to change the sick leave law so that he's essentially exempt, who wrote a letter for the alcohol industry to fight against McGinn because he was against a non-union Whole Foods chain (that even his business partner thought crossed a line), who keeps drumming up "human interest" stories so that The Stranger & other websites keep giving him free advertising."

I could give a fuck about goodle glass.

@117: I have no love for him either, but this is about a douche throwing a tantrum. He didn't go in there to strike a blow against Meinert.
Separate douches.

@117: You really don't know what fascism means, do you?

Wow I guess we give a fuck.

And people also still bitch about people who use their cell phones just to look at because I'M RIGHT HERE TALKING TO YOU ASSHOLE..

God this behavior drives me crazy. I have a cow orker who constantly does this...is completely device addicted.

Please stop talking about this.

@122: I would be happy if the Stranger ignored everything to come from the obvious social media climbers and attention-starved, yes.

Especially when they're not all that well put-together, I think the heckling might come at a price :/

nick starr needs to climb back into whatever diseased twat shat him out. He might come back as something more than the useless parasite he is now.

I do ask for a written policy if a policy directive is stated by an unsupervised employee and not coming from the manager's mouth. I also support independent businesses' homegrown rules "We reserve the right to refuse service to..." As this directive came from the manager's mouth, the customer had the choice to turn off Google Glass or walk out of Lost Lake.

@124 I screenshot and sent my mother your words.

@126 I'm sure you're a constant source of shame and disappointment.

Yeah this Starr guy sounds like a complete dick knuckle, but getting up in arms about Google glass in restaurants while other devices with the same capabilities are considered acceptable in that setting seems silly. It is obnoxious when someone sits and plays with their phone at a restaurant, but these people would never be asked to leave.

@128 The issue isn't "playing" with a phone, it's the recording. And until Google addresses the fact that you don't know if the glass is recording or not, it's in questionable legal (e.g. wiretapping laws) ground, and just general douche-baggery.

@128: One could argue about how they could potentially be integrated into modern life if the social media companies had any interest in privacy protection, but generally it's easy to dismiss Starr and other Glasstronauts because they're entitled, aggressive pricks who throw fits when persons don't show them the deference they believe they deserve.

It's Seattle, nobody gives a shit about however many Twitter followers you've purchased.

Besides that this whole thing was likely staged to give him media attention. See? He gets all the negative attention he craves.