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Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube
Barence writes "British police are shaming hoax 999 callers and time-wasters on YouTube in an effort to cut down on non-emergency calls. Video clips uploaded include a lady phoning police to ask what year the internet started, the dramatic tale of a man whose wife would only provide salmon sandwiches for lunch, and another worried soul who had lost her glasses and could not see properly to peel potatoes. Anyone else think the chance of YouTube fame is more likely to encourage copycats than educate people about the wrongs of hoax calling?"
Hmm, let me check. Yep, US invades Iraq, Britain follows like lost puppy. Too bad.. Not sure why you got an insightful mod.
The temperature of the coffee was high because a lot of people order it, leave and drink it only 10 minutes later. As those people don't want to drink cold coffee, the coffee temperature had to be high.
As for reducing "amount of material", yeah right... People love when their cups are not filled up.
So here's the real case : McDonald chose to please normal people instead of thinking about idiots who would spill the coffee on themselves and then wait for a minute and a half doing nothing except waiting for their skin to burn.
Protip to moderators: "trolling" has a specific definition, so you can't just point at a random post and arbitrarily decide that it must be "trolling." If you have no idea what trolling means, then maybe you should leave moderating to people who actually do. There was no element of trolling whatsoever in my post. Expressing a sincere opinion that's on-topic cannot be trolling no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.
But ok, let's stop pretending: the real reason why Slashdotters downmod people is because they can't come up with a real counter-argument. They either lack the ability or they know the other person is right.