The bottom line is that giving someone a cupful of boiling hot liquid is just asking for trouble if you do not warn them first. As far as coffee machines and boiling temperatures, the drops of coffee that percolate out of the grounds have cooled quite a bit by the time they get into the carafe, so they aren't boiling anymore.
We expect warnings for all sorts of things these days, such as peanut allergies, toxic hairspray.
Hell, even microwaved popcorn has warnings on it about hot steam.
I'm tired of arguing this with you, and since you clearly can't see how dangerous it is for any place, McD's or no, to serve boiling hot liquid of any sort without proper warnings, I'm going to end this discussion here and now.
If you're willing to fight to the bitter end to get the last word in, go right ahead. As for me, I have better things to do with my time than pound a cluestick into someone with a head as thick as yours.
Actually, McD's was on the high end for coffee temperature. Not even Starbucks made it that hot. Nor, mind you, does my coffee machine.
I find it ridiculous that I have to convince you that it was at least partly McD's fault here. She should have gotten most of the blame, I happily concede that without being asked.
Serving boiling hot coffee is reckless. Even if she didn't put it in her lap, careless handling by the server could have just as easily caused the same injury.
Yes she was a moron for putting hot coffee in her lap, but any substance that can give you THIRD degree burns is outrageously dangerous and could have burned her mouth anyway.
As for knowingly selling defective software, the EULA is full of disclaimers so unless it can be proven that MS is somehow grossly negligent or reckless or otherwise beyond the protective reach of the EULA, it is immune.
There is a cure for cancer, it's called body alkalinization and is a fairly easy thing to do.
Unfortunately for us Big Pharma is raking in obscene profits treating and "curing" this disease so there's a firmly entrenched political motivation to not do so.
Which is one of the reasons the FDA, in its lordly regulatory fiat, decrees that "only a drug may cure, prevent, or treat a disease". Logically, this gives drug companies a monopoly
Therefore the only ones in a position to actually cure cancer have a vested interest in perpetuating it.
Being an honest politician is flat out impossible in this country.
One of the following will happen:
1) Corporate influence will tempt you to take a bribe or otherwise make promises in exchange for corporate campaign support, thus putting you in office but with strings.
2) Standing up for what you believe in will leave you out-cashed as all the campaign dollars go towards the guy who WILL take them, knocking you out of the race as the media focuses on the virtues of the bad guy.
3) You do number 1 and break your word and soil your honesty. And probably make corporate interests tempted to push for an impeachment to boot.
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What I'm more concerned about is medical equipment being forced onto students at their own expense.
The bottom line is that giving someone a cupful of boiling hot liquid is just asking for trouble if you do not warn them first. As far as coffee machines and boiling temperatures, the drops of coffee that percolate out of the grounds have cooled quite a bit by the time they get into the carafe, so they aren't boiling anymore.
We expect warnings for all sorts of things these days, such as peanut allergies, toxic hairspray.
Hell, even microwaved popcorn has warnings on it about hot steam.
I'm tired of arguing this with you, and since you clearly can't see how dangerous it is for any place, McD's or no, to serve boiling hot liquid of any sort without proper warnings, I'm going to end this discussion here and now.
If you're willing to fight to the bitter end to get the last word in, go right ahead. As for me, I have better things to do with my time than pound a cluestick into someone with a head as thick as yours.
Actually, McD's was on the high end for coffee temperature. Not even Starbucks made it that hot. Nor, mind you, does my coffee machine.
I find it ridiculous that I have to convince you that it was at least partly McD's fault here. She should have gotten most of the blame, I happily concede that without being asked.
Serving boiling hot coffee is reckless. Even if she didn't put it in her lap, careless handling by the server could have just as easily caused the same injury.
100 C is 212 F and that's friggin hot.
The McCoffee case was interesting.
Yes she was a moron for putting hot coffee in her lap, but any substance that can give you THIRD degree burns is outrageously dangerous and could have burned her mouth anyway.
As for knowingly selling defective software, the EULA is full of disclaimers so unless it can be proven that MS is somehow grossly negligent or reckless or otherwise beyond the protective reach of the EULA, it is immune.
The problem is that we've already had assholish ISPs use DPI as a means of discriminating against legitimate traffic.
Before I would allow an ISP to do that to me they'd need to earn my trust first.
There is a cure for cancer, it's called body alkalinization and is a fairly easy thing to do.
Unfortunately for us Big Pharma is raking in obscene profits treating and "curing" this disease so there's a firmly entrenched political motivation to not do so.
Which is one of the reasons the FDA, in its lordly regulatory fiat, decrees that "only a drug may cure, prevent, or treat a disease". Logically, this gives drug companies a monopoly
Therefore the only ones in a position to actually cure cancer have a vested interest in perpetuating it.
Do you happen to have hardware accelerated codecs by chance?
Would it be ok to intercept *encrypted* communications without a warrant?
Being an honest politician is flat out impossible in this country.
One of the following will happen:
1) Corporate influence will tempt you to take a bribe or otherwise make promises in exchange for corporate campaign support, thus putting you in office but with strings.
2) Standing up for what you believe in will leave you out-cashed as all the campaign dollars go towards the guy who WILL take them, knocking you out of the race as the media focuses on the virtues of the bad guy.
3) You do number 1 and break your word and soil your honesty. And probably make corporate interests tempted to push for an impeachment to boot.
And even if it were I doubt that someone can legally give consent on behalf of a neighbor.
No jury trial?
The person you know is an idiot for not appealing.
It could be that having a red car makes them think you're richer, rather than more likely to have an accident.
Or, it could be that red cars are simply more valuable and need a bigger premium to be fully insured.
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You forgot Start...
Geek card please!
Pass good samaratin laws that allow researchers to nuke botnets. Or heck, let the FBI or NSA take care of that.
I think that would be even more awesome than when Goonswarm took over BoB.
Impeachment trials are a simple vote by the senate.
Apart from that, there is no right to due process. If the senate says you're out, then you're out no matter how innocent you are.
Which is probably one of the many checks and balances the framers put into the Big C.
Not only is it a flagrant violation of my privacy, but it's a serious security hole that a geeky stalker would love to exploit.
Not to mention it's just one more thing that uncle sam can subpoena.
So....eBay is a monopoly?
"Promote the general welfare"
Strangely, Donald Trump made that exact same quote word for word when interviewed about solutions for Iraq.
I swear there's a Chuck Norris joke in there somewhere...
In other words, it was a de facto standard before it was an official standard.
You own your tweets
It's just that by posting them with twitter you grant twitter a license.
Why whine? You can't retract your slashdot posts either.