A condescending, sarcastic voice booms through the empty station, "Would the child stop playing on the escalator..."
Around 1993 I was coming home from university at 1 AM, waiting for the once-per-half-hour late train in one of the Edmonton underground LRT stations. Alone and lost in thought with algorithms homework, I was killing time by walking up the base of a down escalator, matching its speed, unaware I was being watched by some bored killjoy monitoring a CCTV camera.
Humiliated at the time, I've since spent years watching TV cameras erected in every imaginable place and imagined authoritarian assholes staring at banks of TV screens looking for any opportunity to power trip.
Allowing transparency in government? This administration? Get serious.
Maybe since the most aggregious transgressions are safely hidden behind "national security" and conducted with off-the-book back room winks and handshakes they think they're sheilded. And anyways they can use this as political capital in the next inevitable scandal.
"We're transparent! We allowed an online budget database!"
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A condescending, sarcastic voice booms through the empty station, "Would the child stop playing on the escalator..."
Around 1993 I was coming home from university at 1 AM, waiting for the once-per-half-hour late train in one of the Edmonton underground LRT stations. Alone and lost in thought with algorithms homework, I was killing time by walking up the base of a down escalator, matching its speed, unaware I was being watched by some bored killjoy monitoring a CCTV camera.
Humiliated at the time, I've since spent years watching TV cameras erected in every imaginable place and imagined authoritarian assholes staring at banks of TV screens looking for any opportunity to power trip.
It notes that Google has yet to become a leader in any technology other than search...
Apparently "targeted advertising" isn't a technology.
Allowing transparency in government? This administration? Get serious.
Maybe since the most aggregious transgressions are safely hidden behind "national security" and conducted with off-the-book back room winks and handshakes they think they're sheilded. And anyways they can use this as political capital in the next inevitable scandal.
"We're transparent! We allowed an online budget database!"
The customers' anxiety quickly faded with the hasty installation of an air blower and a thousand five dollar bills.