Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:44 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Cc: "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
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 =)


Regards: David
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