Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)
From: David Weinehall
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 15:15:18 EST
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> David Weinehall <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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