Smart weapons periodically go stupid, through technical faults, jamming or spoofing….
Nothing in Chicago seems to be working the way it’s supposed to.
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Your spikes have gone floppy.
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
The defective can be more than the entire.
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.
