Comments for department zed http://blog.dept-z.com ramblings from the great white north Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 Comment on The Debut of Morning Society’s Aerial by Neil Roberts http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=41#comment-5798 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:04:35 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=41#comment-5798 Sold out on Amazon! Sold out on Amazon!

]]> Comment on Technical difficulties. by Charlotte Cicale http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=28#comment-5791 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:37:31 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=28#comment-5791 I'm beyond frustrated with uplinkearth. They are history... I'm too angry to even write about it. After MANY years of good service... last year started the spiral downhill at 60 miles an hour. My wish for them would be to lose every customer they have. They deserve that much. I’m beyond frustrated with uplinkearth. They are history… I’m too angry to even write about it. After MANY years of good service… last year started the spiral downhill at 60 miles an hour. My wish for them would be to lose every customer they have. They deserve that much.

]]> Comment on Health Insurance: a follow-up. by Bryan http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=38#comment-5751 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:47:50 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=38#comment-5751 Yeah, the system is broken. But we need to look at *why* it's broken before we just throw money at it. It used to be that insurance was only for catastrophic things like needing to get your leg amputated. Now with doctors needing 4 or 5 different kinds of insurance to protect themselves from the sue-happy idiots out there, they have to charge more and insurance picks that up. Kind of ironic that insurance pays for insurance. Now, don't pigeon-hole me and put me in the camp that thinks the current situation is good: it's not. But, like diagnostic medicine these days, people aren't looking at the *cause* of the problem, only the symptom. How do we decrease medical costs AND keep doctors from losing money? I don't have a solution, but I agree with you that we have to stop the shouting (from both sides) and start looking for a solution that doesn't just put a band-aid over the problem. Yeah, the system is broken. But we need to look at *why* it’s broken before we just throw money at it. It used to be that insurance was only for catastrophic things like needing to get your leg amputated. Now with doctors needing 4 or 5 different kinds of insurance to protect themselves from the sue-happy idiots out there, they have to charge more and insurance picks that up. Kind of ironic that insurance pays for insurance. Now, don’t pigeon-hole me and put me in the camp that thinks the current situation is good: it’s not. But, like diagnostic medicine these days, people aren’t looking at the *cause* of the problem, only the symptom. How do we decrease medical costs AND keep doctors from losing money? I don’t have a solution, but I agree with you that we have to stop the shouting (from both sides) and start looking for a solution that doesn’t just put a band-aid over the problem.

]]> Comment on WRT to SCHIP and health insurance. by department zed » Health Insurance: a follow-up. http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=25#comment-5567 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:24:41 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=25#comment-5567 [...] A while ago, I wrote a post about SCHIP and Health Insurance. This was a general reaction to something Paul Krugman wrote, whom I respect and admire—but whose information (like pretty much everything else out there) I don’t take for granted. [...] […] A while ago, I wrote a post about SCHIP and Health Insurance. This was a general reaction to something Paul Krugman wrote, whom I respect and admire—but whose information (like pretty much everything else out there) I don’t take for granted. […]

]]> Comment on WRT to SCHIP and health insurance. by department zed WRT to SCHIP and health insurance | Weak Bladder http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=25#comment-5566 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:17:58 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=25#comment-5566 [...] department zed WRT to SCHIP and health insurance Posted by root 4 hours ago (http://blog.dept-z.com) For many it costs close to or even more for health insurance than it does to own a home a home post a comment or leave a trackback trackback url Discuss  |  Bury |  News | department zed WRT to SCHIP and health insurance [...] […] department zed WRT to SCHIP and health insurance Posted by root 4 hours ago (http://blog.dept-z.com) For many it costs close to or even more for health insurance than it does to own a home a home post a comment or leave a trackback trackback url Discuss  |  Bury |  News | department zed WRT to SCHIP and health insurance […]

]]> Comment on un-user friendly. by Tom Trenka http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=29#comment-5314 Sat, 02 May 2009 17:30:35 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=29#comment-5314 Hi Glenn, Yeah, I think I would agree with you; the issue for me was definitely more with DarwinPorts than pngcrush itself. Thanks for finding this old-ish post though ;) Hi Glenn,

Yeah, I think I would agree with you; the issue for me was definitely more with DarwinPorts than pngcrush itself.

Thanks for finding this old-ish post though ;)

]]> Comment on un-user friendly. by Glenn Randers-Pehrso http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=29#comment-5313 Fri, 01 May 2009 18:35:29 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=29#comment-5313 I am the author of pngcrush. I think your complaints are really with the downstream packager of DarwinPorts, not with the pngcrush author. '“cd opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/pngcrush” is what you are told,' That instruction is nowhere in the upstream pngcrush distribution. Thanks for persisting with the installation, though. Glenn I am the author of pngcrush. I think your complaints are really with the downstream packager of DarwinPorts, not with the pngcrush author.

‘“cd opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/pngcrush” is what you are told,’

That instruction is nowhere in the upstream pngcrush distribution.

Thanks for persisting with the installation, though.

Glenn

]]> Comment on On the VP debate. by Tom Trenka http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4828 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:32:09 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4828 Yeah, I didn't really have a choice (my girlfriend prefers CNN), but I hear you: PBS the next time. (And yeah, I think "Brokaw" is the correct spelling.) Yeah, I didn’t really have a choice (my girlfriend prefers CNN), but I hear you: PBS the next time.

(And yeah, I think “Brokaw” is the correct spelling.)

]]> Comment on On the VP debate. by ibrahim http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4827 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:39:09 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4827 I felt the same way when I saw the Obama-McCain debate on CNN. They're getting a little too smug about this whole "most trusted news" on television thing. I saw the Biden-Palin debate on PBS - which was much much much better. No gimmicks, just the debate. After the debate, Tom Brokaw (sorry, don't know how to spell his name, too lazy to find out) spoke with some historians and some experts about what was said and the significance of it. It was actually a little insightful (although, i didn't stay to watch the whole thing). I guess what I'm trying to say is watch the next on PBS. I felt the same way when I saw the Obama-McCain debate on CNN. They’re getting a little too smug about this whole “most trusted news” on television thing. I saw the Biden-Palin debate on PBS - which was much much much better. No gimmicks, just the debate. After the debate, Tom Brokaw (sorry, don’t know how to spell his name, too lazy to find out) spoke with some historians and some experts about what was said and the significance of it. It was actually a little insightful (although, i didn’t stay to watch the whole thing). I guess what I’m trying to say is watch the next on PBS.

]]> Comment on On the VP debate. by Chris http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4821 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:45:43 +0000 http://blog.dept-z.com/?p=33#comment-4821 I started on CNN HD, and the CNN value add crapturned me off as well...so I switched to Fox where it wasn't in HD, but just showed the debaters with no additional network commentary or data. I started on CNN HD, and the CNN value add crapturned me off as well…so I switched to Fox where it wasn’t in HD, but just showed the debaters with no additional network commentary or data.

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