Cooperative corvids

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Why Grandma, what big load averages you have...

So is it bad for a Linux server that usually runs with a load average less than 1 to suddenly jump to 100?
What about 250?
770?
Over 1000? (note... when it's over 1000 you have to get the data center to push the red button for you)

escape with me

Oh great, if I provide tech support to someone the regime doesn't like, they block my accounts?

Or for that matter, if I sell them a photo (providing goods and services). http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

And as I rise above the tree line and the clouds

... I look down, hearing the sound of the things you've said today.