With the press for the public option and single payer there were, in fact, people pressing to nationalize the insurance industry.
Also, utilities are, usually, kinda heavily regulated to make up for having a monopoly on a necessity.
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- Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:52 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Health Care Bill Passed. Fallout?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 15040
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:14 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Health Care Bill Passed. Fallout?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 15040
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Health Care Bill Passed. Fallout?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 15040
@Gelare's one bolded part: Oh noes! I'm really failing to see where I should be affording any sympathy to someone that essentially wants to privatize gains and socialize losses. If you save $2-5K a year by not buying health insurance, for whatever reason, how does that help any of the rest of us? I...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:07 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: [Tome] Giant Frog
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13894
Re: [Tome] Giant Frog
This ability Giant Frog (Su): You gain a blue slaad alternate form. This grants you the movement, size, natural attacks, special attacks, and special qualities of a blue slaad, as well as the following attribute adjustments: Strength +6, Constitution +4, Dexterity +2, Charisma -2, Intelligence -4, W...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: New Frank & K Tome pdf
- Replies: 668
- Views: 168286
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Embezzlement in Catalyst
- Replies: 372
- Views: 120453
I think it would be best for everyone if we discarded the notion that embezzlement shouldn't be as considered of a bad crime as burglary/larceny/robbery. Embezzlers should get the same kind of punishments other thieves get. This is ridicuous. Yeah, but embezzlement's something rich people do. Burgl...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Kitchen Sink Roleplaying
- Replies: 218
- Views: 67419
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Monster Classes, sometimes just plain necessary?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1883
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
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But if you go by the first definition of bigot listed in Merriam Webster, just about everyone here qualifies as a bigot: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices . Seriously, can you be assed to have just one ounce of intellectual honesty here? Nobody i...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Planning for inevitable power creep.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4154
I've often thought that books should just admit the power creep. Like, they should just errata all the old powers when they put out the next level of creep and power them up to match the new ones. So you might have a Complete Arcane-type book with new classes like Warlock, and then in the back you ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:36 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Why are Conservatives and Republicans not funny?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3918
- Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What use a Monster Manual (II)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1871
I could see a compilation of monsters being useful, where you compile all the new monsters released since the last monster book, bunch them together, maybe polish them a bit, and call it a Monster Manual. But, yes, a more full monster collection in specialized and setting books (Monsters of Setting,...
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Steve the Ogre
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2267
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:09 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Pokemon as D&D monsters
- Replies: 425
- Views: 96870
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Kitchen Sink Roleplaying
- Replies: 218
- Views: 67419
- Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:27 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Wizard (Revised)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3611
School of magic doesn't mean anything, either. There's a bit of game mechanics to it: evocation is direct damage, mostly, while Abjuration has most of the defenses, but for some reason Mage Armor is Conjuration. Then there's Necromancy, which does everything, but in a creepy bad-guy way. As for the ...
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When is it ok to give Caster progression to Monster HD?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3223
Yeah. Leadership is provably broked. One level N character = CR N monster = EL N encounter. The EL system says that two Level N-2 characters = two CR N-2 monsters = EL N encounter. In other words, two cohorts is supposed to double your strength and basically make you another character on your own. T...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: New Frank & K Tome pdf
- Replies: 668
- Views: 168286
I'm in the process of writing a feat that allows you to use Raw Chaos to make either magic items or demiplanes. I'd be interested in seeing that. Game On, fbmf The main problem I've been running into with the Demiplane rules is that even after taking all of the general Create a Demiplane rules and ...
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Power recharge schedules?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1799
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: New Frank & K Tome pdf
- Replies: 668
- Views: 168286
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Badass Magic Items
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2948
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:42 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Why Is It Okay To Hate Openly Gay People?
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33399
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: LotR gets filtered from D&D more with each edition.
- Replies: 265
- Views: 59459
Uruk-Hai were, IIRC, orcs and goblin-men. Normal orcs were corrupted elves, though.Prak_Anima wrote:No, but it did have two or three, High Elves, Wood Elves, and IIRC, Uruk Hai were basically half elves or something...CatharzGodfoot wrote:It's less star trek and more star wars. As far as I know LotR never had 10k types of elf.
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Why Is It Okay To Hate Openly Gay People?
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33399
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:35 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Why Is It Okay To Hate Openly Gay People?
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33399
So gay people can't be open about their sexual preferences in the military. Ok. As far as I'm concerned, sexual preferences aren't something to be open about ANYWAYS be you straight, gay, or giant fucking frog. So I'm not sure what the fucking problem is at all. A straight man is allowed to talk ab...