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News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic
miller60 writes "Major news sites struggled to remain online yesterday evening as news of Michael Jackson's death triggered huge waves of Internet traffic. TMZ.com broke the news and was quickly overwhelmed, while Twitter turned off features to handle its load. They weren't alone. Keynote Systems reports that ABC, AOL, CBS, CNN Money, MSNBC, NBC, and Yahoo! News all experienced performance problems between 6:15 and 9 pm Eastern time, when the average availability of news sites tracked by Keynote dropped from almost 100% to 86%. The cloud computing crowd immediately jumped on the traffic jams to argue their case. 'Not have a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong — it's idiotic,' wrote one cloud blogger."
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Wooden shoes are called "sabot" in French only (as far as I know) and the root of the word "sabotage" can be translated by "sabot job".
The reason that sabotage is used in many languages is that famous (early??) anti-industrial manifestations took place in France and involved stopping the machines with shoes as you said.
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when Farrah Faucett died and went to heaven she asked god if he would protect the children, so god killed michael jackson
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