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Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States

Posted by timothy on from the over-your-shoulder dept.

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.)"

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  1. M.A.T.R.I.X?? by Cyberllama · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How exactly do they get MATRIX from Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange? There are about twenty things wrong with that.

    For starters, it stands for MATIE. Which, if you think about it, would make peoples reactions to the project all the more apt sounding (Argh! MATIE!). Which brings me to yet another interesting point, where on earth did they get the "R" in matrix. I can kinda see taking the second character of exchange as the "x", making it x-change or something equally stupid, but I can't for the life of me figure out where they snagged an "R" from.

    Second of all, shouldn't multi-state be hyphonated like anti-terrorism is? This seeems like a conveinant misuses of punctuation. Would it really have ruined their day just to call it MSATIE instead of MATRIX? Did they truly need that extra layer of irony built into the name?