From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_05 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-12 13:06:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!proxad.net!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re(ally): Off Topic: Hot Coffee (was Re: Long names are doom ?) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:43:33 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9g5rd6$1bq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fjgha$blf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <35mqhtkdfma2rggv1htcaq6vfn2ihs67a1@4ax.com> <9fli1b$4aa$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9folnd$1t8$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1FE1FE.B49AE27F@noaa.gov> <9fotpi$4k6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fqkqh$mva$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B252F51.CDD3BB1E@cadence.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 992375014 1402 136.170.200.133 (12 Jun 2001 19:43:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2001 19:43:34 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8628 Date: 2001-06-12T19:43:34+00:00 List-Id: I'm afraid I'd consider that totally ridiculous. Daffy Duck was always trying to bump off Bugs Bunny and "make it look like an accident" by wiring TNT up to a piano keyboard. Would you believe that Bugs was the victim of a random accident? Do pianos often explode while being played? Would you like to buy some land here in Florida? :-) Try to get around this: Coffe is hot. Hot things burn. By the age of five, you probably had that part all figured out. When mishandling hot things in a dangerous and risky manner, and then getting burned, are you going to blame the coffee pot for making it hot? Or are you going to look in the mirror and say "Boy was I stupid for trying to juggle a hot cup of coffee!!!" But we live in a world where people smoke cigarettes and then blame the manufacturer for their health problems, or people get s**t-faced drunk & wreck their cars and then blame the bartender & the breweries, or shoot their neighbor in the head in an argument over a garden hose and then blame the gun manufacturer for making a product that functions perfectly as described in the owner's manual. Its always easy to blame some nameless, faceless, wealthy company rather than accept personal responsibility. Its also very handy when one has a political agenda that can't be won in the legislature so it gets taken to court where you don't have to persuade 51% of the population that it is important enough to side with you. But that's ANOTHER really off topic harangue! :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Paul Graham" wrote in message news:3B252F51.CDD3BB1E@cadence.com... > This may be a totally ridiculous analogy, but suppose I gave you a > keyboard to work on and told you "whatever you do, don't hit ctrl-c." > Well, one day you accidentally hit ctrl-c, and boiling water squirted > out at you and burned you. Would you blame me, or look in the mirror? >