skidoo

These involve subsidiary hosted services. I was referring to the online storefront itself. Sorry for not making the clarification! :)

I wish I shared your enthusiasm. But I think the truth is that the majority of the world's population can not possess the means to afford any digital device, internet or no. The internet is huge, but it still is merely a fraction of the total population that has even gone online. I know that I myself am the only person on my street (somewhere in the American bible belt) who owns any home computer system, and the only portable device I own is this laptop.

Also, consider that the longer the internet is around, the more that various businesses are trying desperately to monetize from it. Even the largest online businesses such as facebook or google, much of what they deal in is still considered "theoretical dollars" and not hard currencies.

As far as Bitcoin, keep in mind that bankers have had no qualms with launching massive wars in the past, so if push comes to shove they will take no issue with deafening any perceived competition as maliciously as possible.

There's even evidence of batteries in the archaic world:

https://riversfromeden.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/electricity-...

I understand some archaeologists, unwilling to accept the existence of such items, refer to them as OTTOs, or Out Of Time Objects. Personally, I wonder if the grandiose book burnings by the early Christian church might have also focused on things such as this, limiting their survival into the modern era.

They're just doing what they're told. Of course it's no coincidence. I would think persons who frequent tech news are the more paranoid at the moment, so that demographic will need the extra prompting to go along with another war effort.

The paranoid part of me sees an untimely coincidence between this and the recent outages at Google and Amazon.

I wonder- was this during or after Obama's stint as chairman of the United Nations Security Council?