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Message-ID: <20070102201444.GB28150@vasa.acc.umu.se>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:44 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@....umu.se>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com>,
Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>,
"Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>,
Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...pop.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> David Weinehall <tao@....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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