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Wisconsin Joins the Matrix [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the suspected-of-cheese dept.

unassimilatible writes "Wired reports that Wisconsin has decided to join a controversial interstate antiterrorism database that holds billions of records of ordinary Americans' activities known as the MATRIX, or Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. Is your state next?" Update: 03/10 19:05 GMT by T : Thanks to reader philthedrill for a correction: according to an article in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin has backed out of the Matrix, effective yesterday.

6 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. I don't believe it by lowmagnet · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have to see it for myself.

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  2. Obligatory reference by smack_attack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wake Up Wisconsin...

    The MATRIX has you...

    Follow the white Republican...

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    1. Re:Obligatory reference by joshmathis · · Score: 2, Funny
      Follow the white Republican...
      But... but... WHICH ONE? THEY'RE ALL WHITE!!!!!!!111
  3. the movies were better by bluethundr · · Score: 2, Funny

    This new "MATRIX" sounds worse than the two sequels put together. And in the fictional and non-fictional sense, both matrixes were just plain bad for humanity!

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  4. Woah by Undefined+Parameter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Screw Hollywood being out of ideas, now the government has run out of ideas! I mean... MATRIX, agents, UAVs/Sentinels... haven't we already seen this three times, already?

    Crickey! Next thing you know, NASA will be announcing plans for turning the ISS into a larger, more military-oriented space station, tasked to study the sun and keep watch on the Earth, that they call the "Death Star."

    May Neo have pity on us all....

    ~UP

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  5. Guard the Cheese by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is "mission one" at this time.

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