It had just been shut down by state law.

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In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down.

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Unfortunately it shut down just months later.

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In fact, it might be cheaper for Amazon to just shut down its offices in Massachusetts so it can avoid that sales tax.

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The PDE immediately switched over to a back-up chain, and it also shut itself down just in case the anomaly was a problem in the electronics rather than in the physical system itself.

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In the same way, they hibernate by going into torpor, they can do the same thing on a very short-term basis through the summer - if it is wet and windy and there is no food then they just shut down their body temperature and they just sleep it out.

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Mr. RUSSELL WHATLEY (Car Dealer): We were given three weeks to shut down operations, and it just pretty threw everybody for a loop.

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It doesn't cover "regular" insolvencies, where a bank is just shut down, its assets frozen and liquidated.

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Investigators are reported to be relying on a stream of automated messages sent out just before the crash, which suggested the plane's systems shut down as it flew through high thunderstorms.

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Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.

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