Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso 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.
[1]

>Water boils at 100°C.  How the hell do 
>people expect coffee to be made without boiling water?  Magic?

Boil or not - I've done a test some years ago with some friend
arguing about what the best temperature for tea is. Result of an
experiment involving actual temperature sensors: my default tea is 40
deg celsius. Theirs was about 60. And to note, drinking 60 deg water
already starts to scald my tongue slightly so that it 'itches' for a
while. So nothing[1] is unreasonable.

>> 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.  If they
>cannot handle hot coffee, they can order ice coffee or ask for a
>refill of their cola.

Reminds me of http://qdb.us/4753


	-`J'
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