A fork of Rural Dictionary
A plea for mercy, as in "Please don't taser, beat, kick, shoot, etc... me." An ironic warring about the use of excessive force, even if the person screaming it was asking for it. (Term from the Florida student who cried out the phrase.)
It's just a rough definition. Don't tase me, bro!
Acronym: total information awareness. The goal of the NSA, FBI, AT&T, and Google. The god-like ability to find, compile, interpret, and control data.
Google and AT&T are competing for TIA with our private data.
A question of cause-and-effect or sequence of actions, possibly unanswerable. From the eternal question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Did an earthquake cause the mine collapse, or was the collapse itself registered as the quake? This could be a chicken-or-egg problem.