True. That's to be seen, but it's better to let society regulate it, rather than force it to disappear because "I don't like it".

That's unrelated to the true purpose of a smartphone. Some people are bound to fall prey to extremes. I check my smartphone to see what time it is (few times a day) and verify work e-mail (few times a day). I also read e-books while in the subway. That's all. Social networks don't appeal to me.

It's an advance because it allows you to do other things than just calls/SMS. If you choose to become its slave, it's a fully personal choice.
Your take is wrong. it's like me saying "wines are tasty" and you replying "yeah but look at all those alcoholics out there". Disclaimer: I don't drink.

...which, by the way, other people fight.
Google Glass is just a smaller GoPro Hero action cam. I had one (Hero 2) for a while and used it while riding my bike in the city. naturally, I went into various stores to buy stuff, with my cam on and recording. Apart from a couple looks, nobody ever said anything.

The GG is just the next step. regulate it? You also need to regulate cams of all sorts. If I tape a mobile phone to my chest and use that to record, it's basically a makeshift Google Glass. What are you going to do about it?

A-ha.
Exactly the same has been told about trains, cars, electricity, computers, free travel rights, European Union, shorter skirts, homosexuality, black people rights and more recently Tesla cars and vaping. To name a few.

How did those go?

There are still people who cling to their dumb phones, my wife included. However, ignoring technological (and social, for that matter) advance doesn't make it go away. In the long run, it kind of makes *you* go away.

"The future is on its way, and it is going to be on your face. We need to think about it and be ready for it in a way we weren’t with smartphones."

You can't fight time.

I Ctrl+F-ed to get here. ISK would have had my vote as well.

Or PLEX, for that matter. Concentrated ISK. I carry them around in an Ibis :)

I'm creating a fast food joint that just sells centrifuged french fries. This is AWESOME!!!!

Without that tax write off, they likely would not have closed the stores. They probably would of tried to sell them for say a $100 million. In which case they might have been kept open by new owners.

The government allows them to write it off as a $400 million dollar loss. This "fake loss" then balances out the $500 million profit they got from selling off their Canada division.

Pay more than double both the upper and lower classes

A projection is.

In my definition, it is "if I have x, y, z, and it continues on path q, I can project that it will continue to do so with a given accuracy". But as soon as I open my big fat mouth and say that "q will be such", I've changed from a projection of a model to a prediction. And when ALL of those predictions are wrong and revised. You start sounding like the religious nutjob on the corner who keeps changing his sign reading the "End of the World is October 2011"

And yes, Newtonian physics fails at certain speeds. But at least Newton was able to replicate with a modicum of repeatability and prediction.

Something none of the GWA models have done. And we're not talking 1-2 years, but 1-2 decades of being off. That based on a mere 2-3 decades of seeming warming.

I'm not even saying the earth can't be warming. I'm just saying that those shouting it from rooftops have less accuracy than a JW.

Surely, the bully who beat you up in elementary school wasn't the ONLY kid bullying other kids. Therefore it's okay that he did it.

Is that REALLY THE !@#$% LOGIC YOU'RE USING?

Yup....

Rather, it just gave the government broad emergency powers that were hitherto thought only acceptable to use against enemies of the state during war time. The Patriot Act further expanded.

If the nation has "Most Favored Nation Status" (aka China), they can't be an enemy state, now can they?