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  1. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    She didn't pour it down her pants. It spilled while she tried to open it because the foam was defective. And at 180 degrees it doesn't matter how much you drink, one touch with coffee that hot and not only do your lips instantly swell, your stomach instantly burns. And it's hard to get it out of your stomach in less than three seconds, which is necessary to prevent third-degree burns.

  2. Re:Seperation of action and consiquence on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1
    -law - the 'cost' to hold someone responsible for their actions is getting higher and higher
    Unfortunately, frivolous lawsuits get much more press than the out-of-court settlements of legitimate complaints.
  3. Re:I FUCKING HATE LAWYERS AND JUDGES on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you forgot the people who don't like getting cancer from asbestos.

    You also forgot the people who were told that smoking was perfectly healthy and then got lung cancer.

    So yes, you forgot quite a few people to fucking hate. Because if it weren't for frivolous lawsuits like this we'd still be sucking down asbestos.

  4. Re:There are no defective wrist straps. on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, then why did Nintendo consider using a stronger strap originally?

  5. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    No, they don't. They don't, they don't, they don't. Nobody prefers coffee to be that hot, except psychopaths and sadists. 180 degrees Fahrenheit means that the coffee burns your stomach and skin. The preferred temperature is closer to 140 degrees. Your coffeemaker may start out at 180 degrees but while it's filling up for 5 minutes it shares heat with the air, increasing entropy and decreasing the temperature of the coffee to about 140 degrees. Espresso, although it is made a cup at a time in a few seconds, drops for about five seconds, sharing heat with the air, increasing entropy, and decreasing the temperature of the coffee.

    I wish Slashdot would stop defending McDonalds here. Stella may not be the best example but I would rather five million frauds run away with huge class-action settlements than one corporation fuck over one worker.

  6. Re:Wrong. on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    Except McDonalds was serving it at 180 degrees. At this temperature it burns your skin. They were also serving it in cups so flimsy that when she tried to pull the cup open it collapsed on her. She's also 79 years old, she wasn't able to immediately clean up the mess, especially because she was wearing sweatpants. By the time those came off the damage would already be done.

  7. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    McDonalds was the one who directly gave a woman coffee at a temperature that would burn her mouth and stomach if she drank it immediately. But because of McDonalds' fucking profit motive(keep the drive-through lines going as fast as possible) they serve it immediately from their broken brewing process(which forces the water through the grounds under pressure to save money on grounds) to you, the customer.

  8. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    McDonalds not only used foam that became damn near useless at those temperatures, they also served it immediately, something you're not supposed to do. At that temperature the coffee burns your mouth and stomach, and there have been other cases about that. They were settled out of court.

  9. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    But very few people want it in a state that literally burns your stomach.

  10. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    In addition, Espresso falls down a few inches before going into the cup and contact with the colder air cools it down to levels that won't kill you if you drink it. There have been other cases involving McDonalds coffee causing damage to the stomach because it was too hot.

  11. Re:Gets it wrong on Revisiting the Physics of Buckaroo Banzai · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. Especially if the page isn't cached by Google.

  12. Indeed on Are You Switching to 64-bit Processors? · · Score: 1

    I can't remember whether I have it set to amd64 or ~amd64 though.

  13. Re:Fun with Dick on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 1

    Landry: Oh crap, they're having the blind hunt this thing. We need to kill this beast quickly; we don't want it to turn into the OK Corral.
    Mitchell: Or a Vice-Presidential duck hunt.

  14. Re:Too much thinking on a non-issue. on Word of the Year - "Truthiness" · · Score: 1

    There have never been more than a few hundred Esperanto speakers, ever.

  15. Re:Wrong Interpretation on Vista the End of An Era? · · Score: 1

    The other problem is that Microsoft is simply too big. Paul Graham described it as a mountain that could walk--it's amazing they do anything at all. It's like the Roman Empire, they had to split that up.

  16. Re:IPv4 space on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    With only twice as much information as IPv6 gives us we could tag every atom on the planet IIRC.

  17. Re:xkcd on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, I don't think Randall Munroe uses dresses. To indicate a woman he just puts long hair on her. No hair == probably a man.

  18. After Vista, Windows will die on Vista the End of An Era? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not even Microsoft has the resources to continue the desktop Windows line. The costs are ballooning.

  19. Re:This line explains a thing or two on Bjarne Stroustrups and More Problems With Programming · · Score: 1

    So that's why the whole world is programming in Simula, Smalltalk and Lisp ;) On the other hand, notice how quickly Python and Ruby grew. Admittedly they're not as 'clean' as Smalltalk or Lisp(both of which are used in surprising places--I'm pretty sure most of your car companies use Smalltalk for some pretty important stuff) but they're fucking god compared to C++, Perl, and Java.
  20. Re:'truth that comes from the gut, not books.' on Word of the Year - "Truthiness" · · Score: 1

    My gut says your gut is wrong. What now?

  21. Re:I see two products making money in my Xtal ball on Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    Xtal? It's not Chrystal ball, and that's what the X is, the greek letter chi which becomes ch in Roman letters.

  22. Re:in much simpler to understand terms... on Moglen on Social Justice and OSS · · Score: 1

    He never left academia although his friends did. He created the GPL, FSF, and GNU because to get the source to a buggy printer driver he had to sign an NDA.

  23. Re:Stroustrups on Bjarne Stroustrups and More Problems With Programming · · Score: 1

    In other words, to write programs that were both elegant and efficient. And yet C++ comes out as neither.
  24. Re:Linux on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? I guess the anti-non-suckage mods have mod points today...

  25. Re:What the fuck man, have you no compassion? on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And this is the sort of humor we will lose if we all move to Lojbania.