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Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States
Annoying Cowwart writes "Looks like TIA is coming back, this time through the by-the States-but-all-together backdoor. Now called M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). See the
Washington Post article for details. I wonder: do they have to try hard to find such apt names for their projects or does it come naturally? (For German speakers, there is another article about this in Der Spiegel.)"
The Skynet funding bill just passed.
Considering that this is coming around "through the back door" I'd suggest a change from "the over-your-shoulder dept."...
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You mean that there are people whose job it is to come up with these stupid acronyms?
That makes my life so much easier. I thought I was going to have to break into each organization one by one and go through old memos to figure out which weenie first proposed each one before I could cleanly and silently exterminate them.
If these people actually congregate and have offices, I can get a group rate. Awesome.
lysergically yours
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Now, how the hell do you get MATRIX out of that?
More like MATIE, as in:
"ARR MATIE, we be getting the blackmail goods on the serfs, arrr!"
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Melchior-1, Balthasar-2, and Casper-3 just entered QA testing. It's expected that when all 3 systems are deployed to production, the M.A.T.R.I.X system will use the MAGI computers to determine if the citizen in question should be eliminated.
Matrix takes domestic surveillance TO THE EXTREME!
TAKE THE RED PILL!!!
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
Actually you get M.A.T.I.E. as in "Ahoy Matie!"
You see, secretly they are pirates and this whole MATRIX thing is just an elaborate cover-up.
lysergically yours
"We'll call it Matrix, that way all those geeks that oppose tyrrany will thank it's cool."
"But Boss, wasn't the Matrix an evil, tyrranical computer that wanted to subjugate and/or destroy humanity and free thought?"
***VOIP***
You get a nickle if you get the reference. And, I don't mean the generic The Matrix reference.
Oh crap. Ahmed - get the goats...we're leaving!
Actually, if you read only the first letters, it spells "MATIE". I suppose they weren't going for much of a pirate theme though. "Yarr, matie, we be catchin' us some terrorists, arr.."
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
Sure, you may joke, but there's an important reason for government surveillance of consumer habits.
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Terrorists are everywhere. Yes, even in your breakfast cereal. Did you ever doubt it when they started checking supermarket discount records?
Now you tell me: who's going to protect you when terrorists hitch a ride straight to your basement in that new Sears washer box?
http://safetystate.com/ss.cgi?action=material&id=
I just use SLIP through my shell account instead of spending another $20 for PPP access!
This side up.
Of course, you'll know all too well, when the CIA goons come crashing through the front door.
If 9/11 and Iraq proved anything; it's that the CIA is the least of our worries. Now the NSA. Them some scary ass Mo-Fo's! Like, I remember one time I saw these guys in black......
WHACK!
(thud)
Man: Move along. Nothing to See Here...
-B
God, what is this, a comic book? Every government agency has to have some stupid acryonym? Or even better, one from a sci-fi film full of sex-symbol actors?
Well, why not. Here are some other suggestions:
Antiterrorist Reactive Security Entity (ARSE)
Compendium Linking Investigations To Open Records or Information Systems (CLITORIS)
Security Council of Republics Opposed to Terrorist and Uberterrorist Masterplans (SCROTUM)
Or maybe this is a bad idea...
Yes we Americans can certainly be daft in our naming our laws.
This is on par with the godawfully named P.A.T.R.I.O.T act.
I'm still waiting for the J.I.N.G.O.I.S.M act.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Maybe they can use idle CPU cycles to recount ballots in the next election too.
there's no place like ~
"I'm spending all my time here at work trying to think up a TIA for T.E.R.M.I.N.A.T.O.R."
Terrorist Estimate Report Management Institute Nationally Authorized To Obscure Reality
Who's with me to get off the network? I got it all figured out. We live in RVs, pay in cash, and use public libraries. And work as freelance technical support using prepaid cellphones. mmwahh hahahah
Do you work for the state of Florida?
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
Well, at least a drug-smuggling-pilot-turned-snitch is a somewhat better person to have in charge of all of our personal information than Disgraced Iran-Contra Felon John Poindexter (as El Reg tends to call him... or something similar).
Anyone who can remember back to the year 2000 knows that the State of Florida can certainly be trusted to handle millions of documents in an appropriate fashion.
Take them both.
It will cause a logic fault in the system, bringing it crashing to the ground.
You'll be a hero. Seriously.
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
"Ass pirates off the starboard bow, ARRRRR!"
"Do not be swept up in the momentum of mediocrity." - anon
American Secret Service Reconnaissance Extraction And Misuse
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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FROM: Jeb Bush, Satrap of Florida
TO: George Bush II, Emperor of Amerika and Scourge of Liberty
CC: Carl "Grima Wormtongue" Rove; "Tricky Dickie" Cheney; Donald "Shrug" Rumsfeld; John "Hang 'Em High" Ashcroft; Tom "Gestapo" Ridge; Condoleezza "I Didn't Say That!" Rice
BCC: The Eye of Sauron; Lux Ferre, First of The Fallen; The Illuminated Seers of Bavaria; Baba Yaga; the Fenris-Wolf Who Shalt Devour the Sun; He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named c/o Slytherin House; the Hungry Shades of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot.
RE: T.I.A. (HomeSec Censor: Please, "Terrorist"! We've warned you before, Sir!) Information Awareness Project
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Bro,
How's it hanging? (So, can I borrow your padded flight suit and the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan next month or not? I got a thing scheduled...)
Now that you've got the nation focused on the federal-level T.I.A. and PATRIOT Act hearings and our good buddy Poindexter is doing the fall guy thing for P.A.M. (not to mention our highly publicised "spat" over Cuban returnees having lowered everyone's sights from me. Brilliant! Thank Rove again for coming up with *that* one. Heheheh.), I'm going ahead with Phase One our real plan of slipping in Operation Eye in the Pyramid state-by-state under the media and federal oversee committee radar.
Full details to follow later: Got me a press feeding to conduct in a few minutes.
You'll love the code name for this one: M.A.T.R.I.X. !!! Boy-o-boy, *that's* almost as good a name as the FBI's CARNIVORE Phone/Net intercept operation (yeah, yeah -- I heard some bleeding-heart convinced some wuss in the J. Edgar. Hoover Building downtown to change it to "DCS1000". As if the average Joe even cares to look behind *any* curtain in Oz...)
Love to Pops. Don't forget to up his drugs again : I'm a bit worried after that last "no comment" thing in response to media queries to his opinion of you a few months ago...
Novus Ordo Seclorum! (Or as you like to say, "Bring It On!")
Affectionately,
Jeb
Government coders all over the country marvelled at the cutting edge technology used
select user_name from everyone where last_purchase = 'box cutter';
FEMA is a real agency. Indeed, they were the ones in charge of New York during the 9-11 circus. Between them and the Patriot act, and various other creepy laws, (some of which are discussed breifly here ) once a crisis has been declared, it will be entirely 'legal' to put virtually anybody in prison for whatever reason some chump in a uniform decides is good enough for him.
If the sliver of perspective you have leads you to feel safe and secure, then that's fine. That's your choice. But don't describe my concerns as "Fantasy" and "Paranoia".
Not when the current government is filled with liars, who through their lies send kids off to war against nations which posed no threat, and who do it for no other reason than Greed. There is no argument here. None. If you give me one, it had better be good, because I've heard all the bullshit there is so far, and it all comes from people who don't think and who don't read anything but the state and Zionist-owned idiot media. Bush and his gang are LIARS, plain and simple. --And if you bothered to look at some of the information which is freely available, you would not only recognize this, but also the fact that those lies are directly responsible for the current miserable state of the economy, and of War against straw-man villains.
When the axe falls, and it WILL, you sound like you're a ripe candidate for the 4th option, (the one I specifically decided not to mention last post); and that is, "Be one of the assholes shooting civilians."
How was it put. . . "The people would rather believe a simple lie than a complex truth."
-FL