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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "'Cygwin'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:51:15 -0600
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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.

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Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] 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.
> 
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