Any Node System whether biological or not (Nations, the Internet, your family) which experiences intermittentcommunication failures for no apparent reason which usually results in some stack overflowing (diplomacy leading to war, some random git push faceplanting Facebook, Day-after-Thanksgiving-Breakfast-When-Even-The-Cat-Is-Hungover-and-Sis-Slips-And-Drops-A-Whole-Stack-Of-Pancakes-Right-Into-The-Trash-And-Everyone-Says-Aww-But-No-One-Really-Wants-To-Say-It-Sucks-This-Is-The-Only-Way-To-Get-Through-A-#MFing-Holiday-But-There-You-Go-At-Least-We-Arent-The-Crackheads-Next-Door-Nice-Enough-People-But-They-Tend-To-Follow-You-Around-But-I-Digress-Oh-Right-I-Think-I-Made-My-Point-About-How-Everyones-Family-Is-Crazy-I-Just-Made-That-Example-Up-But-Some-Of-You-Were-Like-Well-Yeah) somewhere.