Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753684AbXABURR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:17:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753685AbXABURR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:17:17 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:9741 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753684AbXABURQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:17:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IOOcBsbxMQyIbtlFla5t+v+YocN1D0psUJSNHizV/sVYdEXeZVHCgcWjnLBpoKHRixv/H89ghyuXRZeQk9zg1xj/xCdvJunE/Dbuzv+cM2c/d/w8jsWzH55M7xlqnR4mo6fq1LQqrQfmvyBGS6afRKg2Ev26kkCGpeA7QQMcTvk= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:17:14 -0500 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" Subject: Re: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers) Cc: "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "David Weinehall" , "Linux Kernel Development" In-Reply-To: <200701022001.l02K1ndO013509@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200612211816.kBLIGFdf024664@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200701020404.l0244n3b024582@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <3d57814d0701012230v2e8b31eeqef7e542d73fc08d9@mail.gmail.com> <1167730833.12526.35.camel@tara.firmix.at> <3d57814d0701020326o2b3b5636mcf31147ad00e82c6@mail.gmail.com> <20070102125026.GA4608@thunk.org> <20070102151503.GA28150@vasa.acc.umu.se> <200701022001.l02K1ndO013509@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1205 Lines: 27 On 1/2/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:17 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > > > > 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. > > > > Given the population size of Fahrenheit-country, 700 burns must be an > > understatement... > > And keep in mind, that's not 700 burns. That's 700 complaints that went far > enough that the lawyers were able to find documentation in McDonald's records. > The people who got burned and didn't complain, or just went in and gave the > manager an earful, aren't counted in that 700.... > How many of them stuffed the cup between their legs though? I think it she would have sqeezed the cup too hard and burned her hand and sued McDonalds for that people would be more understainding... -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/