No, I don’t think it was a test drive. I think it was a human-made issue caused by poor change management and insufficient testing made worse by ever increasingly complicated systems, and overworked, underpaid IT departments.
Pretty sure money is just figures in computers these days anyway.
Plus I haven’t used cash in over 20 years, and if it gets to the point where I need to due to the collapse of civilisation then I’ve got bigger problems than the internet not working. And money will probably be irrelevant.
1888: Bandit's Roost. This alley, known as Bandit’s Roost, at 591⁄2 Mulberry Street, had a reputation for being one of the most dangerous and crime-ridden places in New York.
I seem to remember something about some of the people in the photo belonging to the Dead Rabbits gang, of which the movie Gangs Of New York featured. Unverified though.
It’s the distance one freedom eagle can fly before being returned to captivity.