Fight Club had it backwards. Instead of attacking the banks to wipe out people’s credit someone should release everyone’s SSN. The mass fraud will make credit useless.

In this context, yes. But I can also mean that the device could not be reached or the recipient switched to android. But for the sake of the joke it means they were blocked.

That’s a good point.

That’s a good point.

The movie already set that as the reason so Animatrix had to follow.

Yup. A lot of companies benefiting off the inefficiency of commuting.