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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by Permit on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:30PM (#6690771)
Please. We call the "Patriot Act" the "Patriot Act". We called SOPA by its name despite disagreeing that it would "Stop Online Piracy".
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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by dragonwriter on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:08PM (#6691103)
Its not "the Patriot Act". Its "the USA PATRIOT Act". And USA PATRIOT is not just a ridiculous emotional appeal embedded into a name, its also an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by jack-r-abbit on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:21PM (#6691220)
I find it hard to believe the long title came first and just happened to condense to USA PATRIOT. That had to be at least partially a backronym[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym

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