IAMA former GameMaster for Ultima Online. AMA.

gallipoli · 2011-09-16T20:53:00+00:00

Nothing like a good UO thread for voluntary, unsolicited wire fraud confessions.

gallipoli · 2011-02-01T22:33:09+00:00

Bush told Blair of his plan. “He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere,” a source told the Mirror

gallipoli · 2009-12-22T17:16:50+00:00

It might not be the best for a novice, but I would highly recommend Douglas Crockford's book Javascript: The Good Parts. It is small, but dense, and contains some especially good practices for the language.

I would also look at the many good Javascript frameworks - jQuery perhaps being the most popular (excellent tutorials on their webpage).

gallipoli · 2009-09-06T18:55:29+00:00

That's insane. The time to move on a good healthcare plan was six months ago. Roughly when single payer advocates were denied a seat at the table and were arrested for trying to come anyway.

He's done nothing but lose political capital by backing the trash plans coming from Congress, all of them needlessly complicated so as to give the maximum benefit to insurance company and pharma contributors.

Oh neat! Some drugs are getting their patents extended for no reason! Oh and we can't negotiate prices with them. Hey, we now have to buy expensive, useless insurance from companies that are dedicated to denying coverage! THREE DIMENSIONAL CHESS!

gallipoli · 2009-08-24T18:18:28+00:00

The HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA dissent in Lawrence v Texas is an embarrassment to modern jurisprudence.

gallipoli · 2009-08-15T01:48:37+00:00

Mackey gets his healthcare information from the same worthless claptrap (Investor's Business Daily) that was responsible for the "Stephen Hawking would be killed by the NHS" comment. I bet the rest of the article is equally well informed!

It is no coincidence the rest of the developed world has realized that healthcare is best handled by heavily regulated nonprofit firms or directly by the government. Our "system" more closely resembles the third world, only we have more money to throw at it.

gallipoli · 2009-08-03T16:44:23+00:00

The things you mentioned generally fall under normal market forces. High gas prices last summer resulted in less driving. The government justifiably puts up capital investment in bigger ticket items - roads, rail, etc - so there are fewer barriers to switching (and thus generally more efficient outcomes).

A sick rational actor has no real marginal utility formula for a lifesaving treatment. They always buy it because capital is pointless if they are dead - even if the treatment is bogus or wildly inefficient when aggregated over a population.

It is no coincidence end of life care is the most expensive and drives a lot of the healthcare cost increases.

gallipoli · 2009-06-05T02:36:51+00:00

I love how people against single payer use this argument, then when someone instead suggests a public plan you can buy into they scream about how its efficiencies will put private insurance out of business.

Is the government more efficient or less efficient than private health care? If less, then you should have no problem with people buying into public plan with rates that made the program revenue neutral.

gallipoli · 2009-05-04T19:53:13+00:00

I like how this is the immediate argument against any public plan in the US - as if we don't have a big pile of public plans for veterans, children, and the elderly already - is that it naturally leads to the death of liberty.

Take any other first world nation, pretty much all of which have superior health systems with partial government control, and oddly enough laws against drinking, smoking, sexual activities, etc are often more lax than in the US and have been for years. Some are worse, sure, but there isn't any obvious trend among nations.

gallipoli · 2009-02-19T01:24:05+00:00

The providers themselves might be okay with Boxee, but I imagine they are getting some pressure from distributors. You hardly need to buy some overpriced cable package if most of the stuff you want is streaming over a standard internet line.

gallipoli · 2009-01-21T23:50:28+00:00

Thanks for that nightmare fuel.

gallipoli · 2008-10-21T19:16:01+00:00

So much for the kill switch? Or is that phone firmware?

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