In 2007, Myanmar also flipped a kill switch on its single Internet service provider, creating a digital blackout that lasted close to a week.

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Clint Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a tired-looking middle-aged Secret Service agent who gets wind of a plot to kill the President and marshals his flagging powers in an attempt to stop the assassin (John Malkovich).

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Police had recommended a charge of threatening to kill, but the CPS chose lesser charges, which carried community service as punishment.

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But as Reader grew in dominance, not only did it kill off much of the competition, many RSS tools started to rely in the Google service as a back-end for their apps.

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AskForCents exists because of the Turk, as does CastingWords, a service that transcribes spoken audio files using people who have computer access and some time to kill housewives, night-shift security guards and so on.

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"Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me, " Westergaard said in a statement posted on the newspaper's Web site.

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