They also have a very cozy intelligence relationship with the US government and, along with the UK, Canada and Australia, are in fact classed as a "2nd party partner" by the United States. [1]
Me also but have regularly checked their 2fa threads because it's a feature I'm interested in so was surprised to see them gone so soon after the hack. As you say, could be unrelated.
Living in Clapham Junction, an area that was severely affected, during the London riots in 2011 I would say the opposite was true. Whilst many parts of the city were being trashed, the news struggled to keep up. It was much worse and widespread than they were able to depict.
FWIW, earthquakes are different to riots. I did the same as you in Christchurch, New Zealand recently after the earthquake there and would agree, the majority of the city was untouched with the epicentre being destroyed.
There's a great quote from Larry Smith's TED talk "Why you will fail to have a great career" that you might like:
"What you want is passion. It is beyond interest. You need 20 interests, then one of them may grab you more than anything else and then you may have found your greatest love in comparison to all of the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is"
You select an instrument and it plays according to the graph displayed. Am seeing this on the main vistors overview page of the standard reporting tab of the new analytics version.
"Mail crashes all the time."
"Fullscreen apps have a habit of just vanishing. They’re running, but they’re not showing."
"Finder periodically decides you don’t need to see all your windows any more."
"iTunes boot time is measured in aeons."
"The “Something has crashed, send a report to Apple” window might as well be your Desktop Picture."
Happen to agree that Launchpad and Mission Control aren't great but that's just my personal opinion.