On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Weinehall 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?
Ah, many thanks for converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius! > > 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... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds