This is not particulalry an appropriate topic for the list, but I hope you will
all bear with me for a minute. I learned from the paper this morning that the
President has just signed into law the new federal ethics act. As a result of
this, I, as a federal employee, am forbidden to receive any payment for any
article I write or lecture I give, on any subject whatsoever, under penalty
of a $10,000 fine, or the amount received in payment, whichever is greater.
This takes effect as of January 1. The immediate practical consequence of this
is that I will not be able to sell any vehicle designs for inclusion in the
MegaTraveller Journal, or otherwise write for them, or for Challenge, White Wolf
or (fill in your favorite gaming magazine) and receive even a token payment.
While you can exepct that in fact they will not track me down and punish me
for taking $10 for a vehicle design, is it really worth the possibility of
a $10,000 fine?
Looks like law level A or higher to me...
Rob (thoroughly disgusted) Dean