[UA] Explain American laws to me

[Kevin Mowery]

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Subject: Re: [UA] Explain American laws to me


> >     We've had 'em for a while, too.  There's a long, long history of
> > lotteries in America . . . lemme see . . . since at least 1776 when the
> > Continental Congress held one to help pay expenses for that little
> > revolution thing.  Most of the proceeds disappeared into the pockets of
the
> > lottery's organizers.
>
> I thought the lottery was a tax on people that won't do math.

    There's that, too: "Okay, we have to take about a quarter of your
income."  "Hey, using the money I have left, I entered the lottery and won a
million dollars!" "Oh, we have to take *half* of that!"

    That said, spending a buck for the chance to win half a million isn't
bad.

> >     If you're planning on having a lot of cops in your game, I recommend
> > David Simon's _Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets_.  The book is
> > nonfiction set in Baltimore, which is far away from nearly everyplace
you're
> > considering, but the principles of American policework are pretty much
the
> > same everywhere, and if you use the Baltimore PD's organization in
another
> > city, odds are no one in your game will ever question it.  Heck, I
recommend
> > it even if you don't use the police a lot.  It's just a good sourcebook
for
> > law enforcement.
>
> Awesome book. A good one for the daily grind of an FBI agent is _Burn,
Sugar
> Burn_ by Gary Clifton.

    I'll have to find that one.

>
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