Fixed that for ya. 
Posted on 09/04/2012 5:37:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
We shall see, won’t we? If 90% of cell phones in a confict area are shut down, it takes away the phone service to the 99% of the population that is not rioting, causing more hardship. But 10%, who have phones on different exchanges, will still have service. That will be enough for the flash mobs.
BFL
AKA the Zombie apocalypse.
But 10%, who have phones on different exchanges, will still have service. That will be enough for the flash mobs.
Could you command a force if you could only communicate with 10% of it?
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In the back of a pickup, pickin’ off the “yutes”??? Yeah.
They can "keep the EBT cards working," but they can't make the electronic digits worth anything if the currency has collapsed. You are mistaking flashing digits for value. Flashing digits do not always have value. An EBT card that "works" but conveys only digits that have no value, is no better than an EBT card honestly flashing zeroes.
I find that to be unlikely. The Commodity Credit Corporation under the USDA, Americold Corporation, the surplus retained for emergency foreign food aid, etc., all still point to vast ongoing storage.
Importantly, it may not currently be directly *assigned* to price stabilization surplus, but it can all be shuffled around for whatever purposes are needed. A collapse of the EBT system would be one such purpose.
Jack Black maintains the CW2 list.
I think it’s important to remember things don’t happen in real life like they do in the movies.
NO they’re worse.Much worse.
That's for sure. But at 5,600 words, I had to stop the scenario escalations somewhere. I sort of covered that with the infrastructure channels being at risk, but you are right. And sometimes, gangs put the lights out on purpose, by cutting lines to adjoining areas, to make them easier to rob and loot. That can begin a deadly cascade of events all on its own.
If the 10% were distributed among groups and could verbally relay info to the rest of the group, yes. The drug gangs also use walkie-talkies.
I can’t help but wonder how long the “urban gang” model would hold up. The lack of resource situation would escalate quickly, and gang members would be competing between themselves for food, etc.
Cities would soon become little more than ghost towns
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
1. The SNAP programs are run by the states, with monies sent by the FedGov. If the states sense that FedGov is close to a situation where it is not going to re-imburse them, they will have various reactions. Some, like New York and California, will just keep pumping out SNAP cards, spending money like there is no tomorrow. But a state like Texas or Oklahoma might say NO to fronting the money for SNAP cards. So, at least early on, we might not see LA or NY explode. We might see Houston, Oklahoma City, or other smaller urban enclaves with high minority populations go first.
2. It might not even take a federal bankruptcy to trigger an EBT system failure. There are people who want the EBT system to fail. Consider the fact that the race-baiters believe that more suffering among "their" people might actually achieve their ends. Also, there are elements nominally on the side of FreeFor that might want to give the chaos an artificial push, to stop the federal entitlement monster.
A clever database hack in the state-level (but privately-owned) systems that process EBT cards could temporarily disable transactions on those cards. Such a crude hack would be found and fixed in a matter of days or a week, but if multiple states had their systems attacked at once, the MUY might begin to think the jig is up, and the rioting would start.
Such an artificial "push" might actually cause a WORSE result than an organic financial failure of the EBT system. The race baiters, whether they caused the failure or not, would be screaming at the top of their lungs for vengeance on their racial opposites.
3. Since there are so many people using EBTs, there has begun to exist a pattern that might be exploited by the forces of #2 above: On the night before EBT accounts are filled in that particular state, welfare dependents shop in large chain stores, and then wait for midnight for their "Obama Money" to appear.
These stores have an Achilles heel: their satellite network connection, which is used, among other things, for EBT card verification.
At several large stores in a strategically-chosen city, the operator need only disable the microwave dish on the roof a few seconds or minutes before midnight. This could be done with a standoff weapon like a rifle, or it could be done with a pair of wire cutters on the LNB cable at the dish, if roof access could be had. A very small remotely-detonated explosive squib could cut the cable, too. It could even be done with a private UAV.
The result will be the MUY immediately suspecting "whitey" or the GOP or whomever has denied them "their" benefit. The result will be immediate looting and rioting of the people lined up in the stores, and later, in the streets. It would be hours or days before the stores' uplinks were restored.
Again, the result might even be worse than an organic federal financial failure.
I do not say these things to encourage them, but if we do not face the situation and plan for it, it will overtake us.
That is also including the insertion of at least 6 stripper clips or 3 mag changes.
The .303 SMLE is also a healthy kicker. 38 rounds within 60 seconds is abusive.
Five minutes after they find out they've been duped, they'll be back on your property with a vengence. May want to just give them the real thing but have other caches they don't know about.
Fixed that for ya.
Review the case of the DC snipers.
(If I focused on the few areas I thought were in some error, don't let that overshadow the overall A+ nature of the effort. It's like after one of your successful missions: You go over your afteraction and see where you could improve, but it's implied that the mission is a success)
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