[KLUG Members] LCD screens and X windows

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:09:10 -0400 (EDT)


>escaped alone to tell thee:
>>and lets face it, typically hacker coffee is pretty bad.
> !!! :(
>At this moment, Adam, I feel for you. (Unless you're atypical.)

Thank you for your compassion.
 
>>The real question is will the power not consumed by coffee pots
>>results in a significant enough drop in CO2 emmissions at the power plant and
>>thus less polar ice cap meltage to offset the drop in H20 consumed by
>>coffee pots.
>Ha! And have you forgotten that H2O vapor is an even more effective
>greenhouse 'gas' than CO2, and that less coffee produced means fewer
>steaming pots, thus less vapor, less rain, and more irrigation by
>already-strained farmers? 

Very good point,  I'll forward that to the industry lobbyists.  But the
irrigation demand by farmers may offset the water not drawn up to make those
posts of coffee.  So it may all come out in the wash (pun intended).

>And hey! You! Is that a mug of shade-grown coffee in your hand? Is
>it?!

MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,  shade grown coffee......

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