From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com>,
       Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
       "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
       Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>,
       Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:44:24 +0100
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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.
-- 
Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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