Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:44 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers) |
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but > >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that > >> will produce third-degree burns almost immediately, and > > > > That's less than 90°C. Water boils at 100°C. How the hell do > > people expect coffee to be made without boiling water? Magic? > > The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. > > >> 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people > >> had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if > >> mcdonald's was unaware of the danger, yet continued to ignore it. > > > > No, the customers continued to prove to be total morons by total > > ignorance of the fact that coffee *is* hot when fresh. > > So everybody at McDrive should wait for five minutes to let it cool down.
Don't drink and drive just got another application =)
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