From:	Gorbi gbmaill@***.de
Subject:	The History of Shadowrun
Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:59:39 +0200

Richard Tomasso wrote:
>> Reminds me of a great story. In april 1992, I was on a study-trip to
>> Eastern Europe. I told the background of SR to some fellow students, and
>> one of them contested many things that were "absolutely unrealistic".
One
>> of those were the foodriots in NY. He said that people in America were
>> content with their life, and riots on such a large scale would never happen
>> so soon.
>
> Back in 1992, it was very unlikely. Today it's much more likely. Back then
> the US kept about 6 years worth of grain reserves, today it only keeps 1.
> (Saves money in the short term. I think we exported the rest.)
> Thus all we need is one bad harvest and food shortages can happen.

Apart from bas harvest, I asked myself how realistic the riot was that
started the Seretech lawsuit: The was a strike of the truckers, but wouldn't
the army supply the people? Or worse, wouldn't the president just impose
martial law or something? Is the saying "Every city is just 24 hours and 2
meals away from barbarism" true?