Yeah, I was corrected on this privately as well. My point still stands. The US in particular is a sue-happy wasteland, and I see no reason to put out raw steaks for the ravenous lawyers. Particularly since my (c) appears on a few of the Setup files, and I don't really wish to be named as a codefendant because of something so unnecessary and so easily corrected.
-- Gary R. Van Sickle > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arturus Magi > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 2:32 AM > To: Cygwin > Subject: Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for > Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.) > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>It's simple > >>common sense. > > > > In a world where McDonalds loses a bajillion-dollar lawsuit because > > its coffee is hot, common sense is a thing of the past my > naive friend. > > > > Actually, McDonald's lost that suit not because the idiot > spilled it on her lap, but because the judge decided to do > the Department of Health's job for them. > > At the time, the styrofoam cups McDonald's used was not > actually supposed to hold coffee at the temperature that > McDonald's serves it at. > In theory, the cups would melt semi-regularly if the > customers didn't drink their coffee first, although I don't > recall that ever actually happening. > > The inspectors for the Dept. of Health apparently never > warned McDonalds that they were (more or less willingly) > endangering their customers, so the Judge decided to do it for them. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
