Posts by jake 26713 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
"But even buying the higher end products involve navigating quite a bit of lying, ah, I mean marketing."
Well, yes. But that's true of pretty much everything in our modern world[0], alas. That's why the Romans had the saying "Caveat emptor, quia ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit" ...
[0] "Modern World" defined here as "since the invention of money".
"Roasting coffee is a very delicate expert process."
My Grandfather used to do it with a pair of cast iron skillets over a camp fire. One to toast the beans according to eye, nose and ear, and the second one to cool them quickly when done. Best coffee I've ever had. (Waking up in the great outdoors, many miles from civilization, no doubt improved the flavo(u)r.)
Concur about supermarket beans. Get them from a professional. Green or roasted.
Life's to short to drink shitty coffee ...but I suppose it might go well with your favorite Catshit ElRopo cigar, as long as you're killing your sense of taste anyway ...
Besides, some reports suggest that over 99% of all the coffee sold as kopi luwak is fake. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Caveat emptor.
This feels like a setup, roughly akin to "have you stopped beating your wife?", but I'll bite anyway ...
I get it pretty much at cost from a wholesaler that I do computer work for. It's pretty damn good, or I wouldn't buy it. Life's too short to drink crap coffee.
I have no idea what percentage of the price the producers get, any more than I know what percentage the producers of my rice, beans, flour, sugar and other dry goods get. Life's too short to trace everything I eat back to the individual producer. Yourself?
On the other hand, I grow most of my own fruit&veggies and meat (milk, eggs), so I know EXACTLY how much the producer receives ... and I almost never buy food (except some cheeses), I only buy ingredients. Yourself?
Friends don't let friends purchase supermarket coffee.
I get my coffee in 50lb bags for about a hundred bucks (up from about 75 a year ago). The beans are still green, so they last for a long time in a cool, dark, dry place. Maybe I have to roast 'em myself ... but at least we can survive the next earthquake (or coffee shortage) without worrying about it too much.
For those of you with less storage space, you can get 5 or 20 pound bags for around three or four bucks a pound, plus shipping. Yes, modified air-pop popcorn poppers work to roast the beans. One can probably find videos of how to go about it via your favorite search engine.
Who was being funny?
We have our fair share of tabloids, too, and they've also been all over the Harry saga since the year dot. Why I'm not really certain. (Oprah is one of those tabloids, but on telly instead of paper.) My opinion of her is based on what she tells the talking heads, usually in video clips in the "human interest" section of what passes for the news, so it's pretty much from the horse's mouth. As it were.
If they wanted to be "out of dodge" (the public eye, I assume you mean), would they have agreed to appear on Oprah? Or had corporate press releases made in their name? Seems an odd way to go about it.
But you're right, it's really none of our business. I'll drop it from here on out.
"I'm tired of seeing vaccuous or grubby stories about them and their (what should be) private disagreements with their families in the press."
But they, apparently, are not. Why else agree to be interviewed by Oprah? It would seem that they not only like rolling around in the mud, they positively revel in it.
One wonders how much Oprah paid them to flash their dirty knickers on DearOldTelly.
"Minsky's sexual assault of Giuffre at Epstein's residence"
Sadly for those of you who fervently hope[0] that that happened, it apparently did not.
Quoting Wiki: "There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences."
But don't let facts keep you from your crusade to crucify rms.
[0] Seriously, if you are one of those people, WTF is wrong with you? Seek help!
Objection! GOOG, MSFT and AAPL all use, and ship, GNU tools licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Library/Lesser General Public License (LGPL), as the case may be.
Words in italics directly from Apple's "SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR macOS Big Sur", which you can read for yourself here here. (WARNING! PDF)
If you don't like blindly clicking links (and in this day and age, who can blame you?), here's the very same link for your copy and pasting pleasure:
https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSBigSur.pdf
So you'll give a comment I make about myself the same amount of credit that an anonymous third party makes about yet another third party in a random Internet forum?
I guess "It must be true, I read it on the Internet!" goes right along with "Guilty until proven innocent.", then? Do you honestly not see anything wrong with that?
Fair enough. Now, regarding the post I was replying to, where exactly did rms cross your several somewhat orthogonal lines? How do you know? Were you there? Or are you presuming him guilty until proven innocent based on a post made by a person of unknown veracity in a somewhat obscure Internet forum?
Nah. Loggers replanting trees is the same as any other farmer ensuring a new crop. It's nothing new, country folks used to plant new trees every year to replace those lost to firewood, it only stands to reason. Also see coppicing, which Redwood trees are rather good at naturally ... and why do you think self-cut Xmas tree farms ask you to leave a lower branch? That branch becomes another tree bye and bye.
That was then, this is now. Oly was a last hold-out of old-school logging practices, which you probably know (not being disingenuous, are you?). For an insider's look at that particular situation, see this page. Note the aerial pictures showing the regrowth in a mere 30 years or so. The forests are a lot more resilient than people are given to believe.
You often won't see the intentionally planted seedlings on casual inspection, but trust me, they are usually there ... although the forest is pretty good about starting seedlings all by itself when sunlight manages to hit the ground. Sometimes a good fire helps (if you don't believe me, take a tour of the burn zones from a couple years ago here in Northern California).
Those stumps are left for all kinds of reasons. Usually it's a combination of being on a hill (the stump looks taller from the down-hill side), and the bell or flair at the bottom making for a pain in the butt hauling it out of the woods, and at the sawmill (for irregular size and sap reasons, and occasional metal embedded down low), so they cut above it. Sometimes we'll cut above a rotted heart.
No, it isn't. Greepeace should stick to sinking boats, and other things that it is good at.
Folks who actually know a thing or two about forestry know the difference between restoration of woodlands and greenwashing. And here in California, eradicating the totally useless eucalyptus weeds is weeding, not logging.
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