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Plurk was aggrieved by Microsoft when MSN China attempted to use Plurk code as their own.

The only downside to Will Call is that, in order to use it the carrier has to have attempted a delivery.

He attempted to put the larger guy in an armbar and the larger guy basically just did a bicep curl with him.

There are a number of service that have attempted this (Flattr being on the top of my head) but none have made it seamless.

It attempted to explain open source, javascript performance and the independent tabs.

Is the info about the attempted coup d'état wrong then?

Because those were operational flights, not test flights, every single one of them attempted to stay as much in the center of the performance envelope as possible.

The distinctions also weakened their attempted argument of conflating the morality and legality of personal sharing, format shifting and time shifting with commercial infringement and outright theft.

I went through Google's once and got cut off pretty early in the process, and never attempted a large Co's interview process again after that.

Things that either haven't been attempted (at least publicly) before and/or rely on physics or other underlying behavior that isn't widely understood have a much better chance of getting funded.

And as pointed out by /u/Kaligraphic it started with an attempted coup: - removing access from everyone not involved with the coup and seizing the bug tracker, mailing lists, etc.

* Immediate serious bodily harm to a person (attempted, threatened or witnessed (see law)).

Attempted to file support ticket and that timed out, when the request finished it had created 10 duplicated tickets and still waiting on the phone call from AWS RE ticket.