Even pumped up to max, the screen just seemed a bit too dark for our tastes.
Reddit and Wikipedia went dark for one day in January and brought SOPA grinding to a halt.
About 650, 000 homes and businesses were left without electricity, and some could be cold and dark for days.
About 650, 000 New Yorkers are still without power, and many will continue to be in the dark for more than another week.
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And a telephone and taxi strike kept delegates and reporters inside in the dark for hours about what was going on outside.
It was a huge step into the dark for a conservative sport built on convention, but F1's first night race was universally acclaimed.
Rubbish collectors left 70 bin bags to rot at a block of flats in Essex as "it was too dark for them to go inside".
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For one thing, the tactic of sites like Wikipedia and Reddit going dark for a whole day to protest the law is a powerful one.
Bruce and his family recently sat in the dark for a few days because he had to choose between paying his electric bill and buying groceries.
Because these giants of the internet have joined a mass online revolution of over 7, 000 other websites which will leave us in the dark for 24 hours.
It means strengthening power systems with smarter designs to prevent the multi-day outages that left hundreds of thousands in the cold and dark for days following the storm.
One problem is that it is amazingly easy to get false positive results when scanning through complicated data sets and searching in the dark for correlations between genes and disease.
Shnaider later replaced Daewoo with his own Russian engineers--and raised another ruckus by shutting off power to any deadbeats, including the public areas of Yerevan, which went dark for a day over a weekend.
You might be the first human to see a newborn giraffe or follow a pride of lions on a hunt, go out after dark for a night safari or even try a safari by foot.
In 1810, the Court moved into a different room in the Capitol, where a figure of Justice, decorating the chamber, had no blindfold but, as the joke went, the room was too dark for her to see anything anyway.
Often sitting in a studio in the dark for long stretches of time, they exchange personal stories and jokes to pass the time, and as a consequence, learn a great deal about each other in a short amount of time.
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In two of the trials, the box was dark for 12 minutes and then illuminated for 48 minutes with either long-wavelength red light or short-wavelength blue light directed at the subjects' corneas. (Light color is determined by its wavelength.) The box was dark in a control experiment.
My daughters and I managed to rouse ourselves one afternoon after skiing at Moonlight Basin to go to the spa and one night to take a Sno-Cat ride two miles into the back country in the dark for an excellent dinner (tenderloin and mashed potatoes followed by chocolate fondue) in a big, heated yurt, courtesy of Moonlight Dinners.
"If you take all the experiments that have reported results to date, we will surpass them within four days of operating, " says Mr. Gaitskell, who has been searching for dark matter for 24 years.
Primack proposed an idea for dark matter in 1982 that is still a leading contender: The notion that supersymmetry is responsible for dark matter.
"I think the hate groups are desperately looking for a silver lining in a very dark cloud for them, " Potok said.
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For a variety of reasons, these are dark days for journalism, with the public's appetite to hand over money in return for quality reporting apparently in inexorable decline.
My candles are burning all over this land, light the dark road for the man passing by.
During the mission, his eyes dart nervously as he scans the dark roads for any sign of danger.
Such form saw them touted as many people's dark horses for the title.
Disappointing total volume, including smartphones, emphasises that these are dark days for Nokia.
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