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I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
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You take away the looks, money, intelligence, charm and success and, really, there's no real difference between me and George Clooney.
I can totally keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't.
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Did you hear there is a coin shortage in America? We're running out of common cents.
The word "surveillance" comes from the French surveillance, which means “to watch over.” The French got the word from the Latin vigilare, which is connected to vigil meaning “watchful.” In other words, surveillance shares a connection to vigilance. This may explain why a vigilante like Batman stands perched atop skyscrapers all night. He needs to keep up his surveillance!
Surveillance is a big business, and it’s only getting bigger with newer technology and the global cultural climate. Recent forecasts suggest that the global surveillance market will be worth around $63.2 billion by 2022.
The National Security Agency, head of intelligence for the United States of America, was formed during the First World War. In July of 1917, Herbert O. Yardley was tasked with starting a unit dedicated to cipher decryption and codebreaking. A modest start, but one that eventually grew into one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Modern surveillance depends on satellites orbiting Earth. You can thank the Cold War for that! The first successful satellite launch was performed by the Soviet Union in 1957. The satellite was called Sputnik 1, and its official purpose was to test the broadcasting of radio pulses.
The first Bill against wiretapping in the United States was written in 1862 in California. Back then, wiretapping was mostly a means for private detectives and corporations to get the scoop on some unsuspecting individuals or employees.
And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.
My wife just found out I replaced our bed with a trampoline; she hit the roof.
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put "U" and "I" together.
My favorite mythical creature? The honest politician.
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The history of spying and surveillance is surprisingly long. Roman politicians had their own private surveillance networks to keep tabs on other politicians. Perhaps not surprisingly, Julius Caesar’s spy network was amongst the largest and most elaborate in Rome. So he probably should have known that, yes, it was Brutus, too.
As of 2016, there were reported to be approximately 350 million surveillance cameras around the globe. More than half of these cameras are installed in Asia.
In the 18th century, prominent English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham came up with a design for a prison that could provide the ultimate surveillance. He called his design the Panopticon. It was a circular structure with a tower, or “inspection house,” in the center where guards could keep watch over the inmates at all times. The French philosopher Michel Foucault later made the panopticon famous by using it as a metaphor for the way that modern states hold power over their citizens through surveillance.
As can be seen in the name of a building like Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, one of the roots for our ideas about surveillance goes back to Greek mythology. Argus Panoptes was a primordial giant whose name meant “all-seeing.” Panoptes is where the saying “the eyes of Argus” originated; the saying refers to when someone feels like they are being watched or followed.
CCTV stands for Closed Circuit Television, and it was one of the primary modes of surveillance for governments and corporations alike, at least until the digital age of the internet. Unlike broadcast television, CCTV limits its viewership. Only certain people can view the circuit, hence “closed.” CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) was first used in Germany in 1942. These videos weren’t meant to catch thieves in the act, though. Instead, the first CCTV system was installed in order to observe the launch of V-2 rockets.
Two fish are sitting in a tank. One looks over at the other and says: "Hey, do you know how to drive this thing?"
With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy's truck leaves him too.
It was only when I bought a motorbike that I found out that adrenaline is brown.
A stock market crash is worse than a divorce, you lose half your money and your wife is still around.
A liberal is just a conservative that hasn't been mugged yet.
What did the tree say to autumn? Leaf me alone.
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