I prefer Tully's myself. But there are tons of independant coffee shops here in seattle. I personally enjoy my tall 2% hazelnut late at caffe ladro Now if they'd just put one in the U-district so I could get it on the way to work.
It has to do with the brewing process. Gourmet coffee's are usually using esspresso. Although the beans usually used contain less caffeine, the brewing process transfers more of it to the coffee. Now imagine if you will making espresso with a lightly roasted Robusta bean. It would taste like shit, but it would pack a kick.
You should come to seattle. There are corners here that have 2 starbucks and a seattle's best. And considering starbucks owns seattle's best, that's really 3 starbucks on one corner.
The beans used to make esspresso do have much less caffeine in them. However, the espresso is brewed much, much stronger causing the smaller amount of caffeine to become more concentrated.
Here is a list of the amount of caffeine in drinks. You'll notice 2-ounces of esspresso has almost 2x the caffeine as a coke. Most people I know get a double shot when they drink at starbucks, so you do the math:)
I prefer Tully's myself when i have to choose between the big three (Tully's, Seattle's Best, and Starbucks). I agree that starbucks over roasts their beans, and the overcompensates by adding sweeter syrups.
I actually quite liked Returner. It was a nice mind numbing movie that I could just gawk at for a few hours. I like it in the same way that I like Starship Troopers and The Fifth Element.
I have never once tried to tell anyone else how they should live. I specifically live my life the way I do to counteract the bad shit that other people do. If some one asks me why I live this way, I will galdly tell them and try to point them in the direction of free range and organic foods. But I don't preach.
I kind of touched on this in an above post. I have plenty of options now (PCC, Whole Foods, etc) to eat only grass feed free range meat. However, I don't think that really helps the fact that Americans eat way too much meat. So, I myself have cut it all out. I then try to convert people to eat less meat, and when they do to only eat free range and grass fed products. Now that I can get it quality free range products, I've thought about returning to eating it, but I believe what I do know has a greater benifit for society.
I'm not really a fan of PETA, as I think they take things too far and have bought into the idea that "there is no such thing as bad publicity." I also understand the futile nature of their arguement, you just aren't going to convice a large percentage of humans to give up meat cold turkey. I really do think that's the way they want it though. They secretly deep inside want to be morally superior and preach to people about how much better they are. That's not my thing though.
I'm not changing my diet because meat is necessairly bad for you. I'm not doing it because I think we shouldn't murder cows. Nothing is ever that simple. First of all, meat isn't necessairly bad for you. In the same way a piece of cake isn't bad for you. But Americans eat 57 pounds more meat a year than they did in 1950. When taken to extremes almost everything is bad.
So this is why I made my choice. I think America as a whole eats too much meat and processed food. Which has lead us to things like the factory farm. I know I can't change many peoples opinions, but I can change the way I eat. The fact that I eat zero meat counterbalances the increases in consumption since 1950 of about 4 other people. Plus when friends of mine who are meat eaters eat dinner at my house or go out to dinner with me we go to places that have a low meat menu (indian, thai, mediteranian, middle eastern, etc) or I cook a meatless dish at home. Again, I'm doing my part . I try to educate people as to why I'm doing what I do, and convice them to eat less meat. Hopefully eventually the whole world will be better because of it.
No I don't. But I also know most of the meat we eat in this country did not grow fat enough to market by grazing. Trust me I grew up in Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and I know a few things about cattle. The cattle are shot full of hormones, fed things that are not natural, and slaughtered in ways that lead to the spread of things like e-coli. If we were to revert back to more old school animal husbandry techniques, and a less meat centric diet I would be a happy camper.
Come to washington some time and gander all the mountains that have been clear cut. We still have a lot of forests left, and they do try to replant them, but that's not always really effective. What I hate is how they leave a narrow strip of trees near the interstates and highways to give the impression of the forrest.
And there are many vegetarians like me who might even return to eating meet if that was the way the cows were still raised. It's because of the feedlot and the factory farm that I eat the way I do.
heavier cars != safer cars. I'd rather be in a honda civic, so I could avoid the wreck that the Coupe de Ville got into in the first place. Better handling, nimble cars that also perform well in a crash with seat belts and airbags are a much better option than just throwing more weight at the problem.
The problem is yours not theirs. They support everyone's right to free speech, not just the speech you approve of. They may defend people who's speech I find offensive, but that doesn't put them on the wrong side. Tell me exactly when have they picked on school kids? Other than fighting for kids not to have to say the pledge, not to have to pray, not to have to take drug tests, not to have school publications censored, etc?
You can buy a DJ quality Technics for less than $400. I recently (1.5 years ago) purchased a belt drive Denon player for less than $200. You can still find plenty of record players in the $100 - $200 range with pretty good sound. Once you get it about the only think that can go wrong is the belt, needle, or cartridge; all of which are easily replaceable. The hard thing now is to find a stereo that has an adequate phono stage. You almost have to buy a phono preamp to listen to vinyl, and that can set you back quite a bit. Althought you can usually buy a good reciever from the 60's or 70's and it will have a very good phono stage in it.
That may be true. But the file manager is really the biggest feature in most OS's. Whether you're running gnome or kde, you can still load up mozilla, or opera, or konqueror. Nautilus is for the most part what sets the desktop apart to the average user.
I haven't tried 2.6 yet however his entire article mainly focuses on Nautilus. Speaking on one aspect of a product is like saying Windows stinks because they didn't like the features of notepad.
Not exactly. It would be like saying windows stinks because you hate the way explorer browses through folders and you can't easily change it. That might be a valid critisicm.
I've had to dive into the Windows registry many times to change/fix problems with a variety of Windows functions/apps. Most recently two mistakes in Service Pack 1 for XP.
But I've never had to retreat to the registry or edit a config file to change the way my file browser works in either windows or KDE. That's what he's complaining about.
Almost all the trails I hike already have a book you sign when you start. It asks for your time, number in your party, your destination, and length of stay. Unless someone gets really off the trail, this is all the info you need. And if they're off the trail this system wouldn't help anyway.
The best part was that the crevasse stopped as soon as it got the train and didn't keep going. It was like it was smart and just wanted to eat the damn thing. I almost peed my pants laughing.
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I prefer Tully's myself. But there are tons of independant coffee shops here in seattle. I personally enjoy my tall 2% hazelnut late at caffe ladro Now if they'd just put one in the U-district so I could get it on the way to work.
It has to do with the brewing process. Gourmet coffee's are usually using esspresso. Although the beans usually used contain less caffeine, the brewing process transfers more of it to the coffee. Now imagine if you will making espresso with a lightly roasted Robusta bean. It would taste like shit, but it would pack a kick.
You should come to seattle. There are corners here that have 2 starbucks and a seattle's best. And considering starbucks owns seattle's best, that's really 3 starbucks on one corner.
The beans used to make esspresso do have much less caffeine in them. However, the espresso is brewed much, much stronger causing the smaller amount of caffeine to become more concentrated.
Here is a list of the amount of caffeine in drinks. You'll notice 2-ounces of esspresso has almost 2x the caffeine as a coke. Most people I know get a double shot when they drink at starbucks, so you do the math :)
Starbucks own's Seattle's Best, which is probably the second biggest coffee chain in America.
I prefer Tully's myself when i have to choose between the big three (Tully's, Seattle's Best, and Starbucks). I agree that starbucks over roasts their beans, and the overcompensates by adding sweeter syrups.
Not really. It just means that it's VBR but the average BR is equal to 256Kbps. I think the songs at iTMS are 128Kbps VBR.
I actually quite liked Returner. It was a nice mind numbing movie that I could just gawk at for a few hours. I like it in the same way that I like Starship Troopers and The Fifth Element.
I have never once tried to tell anyone else how they should live. I specifically live my life the way I do to counteract the bad shit that other people do. If some one asks me why I live this way, I will galdly tell them and try to point them in the direction of free range and organic foods. But I don't preach.
I kind of touched on this in an above post. I have plenty of options now (PCC, Whole Foods, etc) to eat only grass feed free range meat. However, I don't think that really helps the fact that Americans eat way too much meat. So, I myself have cut it all out. I then try to convert people to eat less meat, and when they do to only eat free range and grass fed products. Now that I can get it quality free range products, I've thought about returning to eating it, but I believe what I do know has a greater benifit for society.
I'm not really a fan of PETA, as I think they take things too far and have bought into the idea that "there is no such thing as bad publicity." I also understand the futile nature of their arguement, you just aren't going to convice a large percentage of humans to give up meat cold turkey. I really do think that's the way they want it though. They secretly deep inside want to be morally superior and preach to people about how much better they are. That's not my thing though. I'm not changing my diet because meat is necessairly bad for you. I'm not doing it because I think we shouldn't murder cows. Nothing is ever that simple. First of all, meat isn't necessairly bad for you. In the same way a piece of cake isn't bad for you. But Americans eat 57 pounds more meat a year than they did in 1950. When taken to extremes almost everything is bad. So this is why I made my choice. I think America as a whole eats too much meat and processed food. Which has lead us to things like the factory farm. I know I can't change many peoples opinions, but I can change the way I eat. The fact that I eat zero meat counterbalances the increases in consumption since 1950 of about 4 other people. Plus when friends of mine who are meat eaters eat dinner at my house or go out to dinner with me we go to places that have a low meat menu (indian, thai, mediteranian, middle eastern, etc) or I cook a meatless dish at home. Again, I'm doing my part . I try to educate people as to why I'm doing what I do, and convice them to eat less meat. Hopefully eventually the whole world will be better because of it.
No I don't. But I also know most of the meat we eat in this country did not grow fat enough to market by grazing. Trust me I grew up in Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and I know a few things about cattle. The cattle are shot full of hormones, fed things that are not natural, and slaughtered in ways that lead to the spread of things like e-coli. If we were to revert back to more old school animal husbandry techniques, and a less meat centric diet I would be a happy camper.
Come to washington some time and gander all the mountains that have been clear cut. We still have a lot of forests left, and they do try to replant them, but that's not always really effective. What I hate is how they leave a narrow strip of trees near the interstates and highways to give the impression of the forrest.
And there are many vegetarians like me who might even return to eating meet if that was the way the cows were still raised. It's because of the feedlot and the factory farm that I eat the way I do.
heavier cars != safer cars. I'd rather be in a honda civic, so I could avoid the wreck that the Coupe de Ville got into in the first place. Better handling, nimble cars that also perform well in a crash with seat belts and airbags are a much better option than just throwing more weight at the problem.
The problem is yours not theirs. They support everyone's right to free speech, not just the speech you approve of. They may defend people who's speech I find offensive, but that doesn't put them on the wrong side. Tell me exactly when have they picked on school kids? Other than fighting for kids not to have to say the pledge, not to have to pray, not to have to take drug tests, not to have school publications censored, etc?
You can buy a DJ quality Technics for less than $400. I recently (1.5 years ago) purchased a belt drive Denon player for less than $200. You can still find plenty of record players in the $100 - $200 range with pretty good sound. Once you get it about the only think that can go wrong is the belt, needle, or cartridge; all of which are easily replaceable. The hard thing now is to find a stereo that has an adequate phono stage. You almost have to buy a phono preamp to listen to vinyl, and that can set you back quite a bit. Althought you can usually buy a good reciever from the 60's or 70's and it will have a very good phono stage in it.
That may be true. But the file manager is really the biggest feature in most OS's. Whether you're running gnome or kde, you can still load up mozilla, or opera, or konqueror. Nautilus is for the most part what sets the desktop apart to the average user.
I haven't tried 2.6 yet however his entire article mainly focuses on Nautilus. Speaking on one aspect of a product is like saying Windows stinks because they didn't like the features of notepad.
Not exactly. It would be like saying windows stinks because you hate the way explorer browses through folders and you can't easily change it. That might be a valid critisicm.
I've had to dive into the Windows registry many times to change/fix problems with a variety of Windows functions/apps. Most recently two mistakes in Service Pack 1 for XP.
But I've never had to retreat to the registry or edit a config file to change the way my file browser works in either windows or KDE. That's what he's complaining about.
People said the same thing about the playstation, and look where sony is in the console market now.
My PS2 failed as well, but when sony fixed the problem with a future revision, they fixed mine for free. I didn't even have to pay shipping to them.
Almost all the trails I hike already have a book you sign when you start. It asks for your time, number in your party, your destination, and length of stay. Unless someone gets really off the trail, this is all the info you need. And if they're off the trail this system wouldn't help anyway.
Just out of curiousity, what would the PSP be backwards compatible with? You don't expect to put your PS2 or PS1 discs in a portable do you?
The best part was that the crevasse stopped as soon as it got the train and didn't keep going. It was like it was smart and just wanted to eat the damn thing. I almost peed my pants laughing.