In the government's version, the students left the bus station with three more buses, beyond their initial two, but then quickly abandoned and "destroyed" one just outside the station because it was malfunctioning.
In the early moments of the disaster, a fire chief who didn't know how to activate the device decided — mistakenly — that it was malfunctioning, a decision that may have cost some rescue workers their lives.
The Neptune fountain, on the Promenade, is cracked and faulty pipes mean it is malfunctioning.
For example, Joe's pineal gland could have the function to secrete melatonin even if it cannot secrete melatonin because it is malfunctioning.
The detail of the psychiatrist's reports which made up much of the story felt real, however, creating a clear sense of how powerless patients can be made to feel when it's their mind that's malfunctioning, rather than their body.
"We can't tell if it's a malfunction or a dysfunction," one of the workmen explains to the worried homeowner.
It has been malfunctioning much as usual on the mere wreckage of one since March 23rd, when President Boris Yeltsin sacked his prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the cabinet with him.
If an accident resulted from the computer's malfunction, it's reasonable to assume that the fault would then point back to the manufacturer.
6. Neuroscience benefits us by understanding the physical apparatus of the brain (and fixing it when there are malfunctions), but the entire area of reality that includes the self, mind, truth, beauty, idealism, compassion, and all other human traits - including the negative ones - is nonphysical.
Sometimes it's an equipment malfunction, not a human one.
