Re: IMO

From: Eirik Seim (eirik@mi.uib.no)
Date: 04/29/02 

From: eirik@mi.uib.no (Eirik Seim)
Date: 29 Apr 2002 21:01:07 GMT

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:12:27 GMT, x y wrote:
> I'd like to see them link my advice to my email address / IP address. It's
> hard enough to prosecute a hacker and place the hacker at the keyboard of
> that computer, based on IP address alone.

Agreed. And even for me who posts under my real name, with my real email
address, who can prove this was not spoofed in any way?

> "Eirik Seim" <eirik@mi.uib.no> wrote in message
> news:slrnacqn2r.pnf.eirik@kain.mi.uib.no...
> > I guess you are talking about the US. For a country where people sue
> > McDonalds[1] for not labeling their coffe mugs with 'caution! hot!', and
> > actually win their trial, I'm not surprised.
>
> I actually think McDonalds deserved to lose that one. Unless I am
> misinformed, that McDonalds was serving their coffee hotter than McDonalds
> standards permit, in order to save a few cents by using fewer grounds. The
> woman had third degree burns and required reconstructive surgery. If you
> spilled coffee on yourself and required reconstructive surgery for it, I bet
> you'd sue too. You should.

Well, the story I've been told was of a woman placing that take-away cup of
coffe between her thighs in her car, squeezing it so hard it spilled coffe
while driving off. If this (as the story goes here in Norway, at least) is
correct, then I'd say she was responsible herself. If she had third degree
burns and reconstructive surgery, it would still be her own stupidity to
blame.

As with the woman (why is it always a woman?) who tried to dry up her pet
in a microwave oven. Pure old stupidity.. Anyone know details about this
story? I'm dying to hear them.

Can this possibly get more off topic? :)

- Eirik 

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