From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language
Date: 1997/08/18
Date: 1997-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.871925787@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33F771E2.363E18E9@hotmail.com
Asbjrn said
<<Oh, don't be so sure, remeber, McDonalds got sued because their coffee was
too hot...>>
Always be careful about summarizing legal cases so facilely.
In fact McDonalds was deliberately superheating the coffee to higher than
normal temperatures, and internal memos were alledged to show that they
knew that there might be safety problems.
Furthermore, aand most importantly, a jury was
convinced that there was indeed a problem of liability.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-08 0:00 International Algorithmic language Ralph Silverman
1997-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-08-12 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-08-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-08-30 0:00 ` script_name variable returning html page name calling script ?? Mickael
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Eric James DeArment
1997-08-13 0:00 ` International Algorithmic language Nick Wagg
1997-08-19 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Rune Moberg
1997-08-22 0:00 ` R.E.Donais
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-08-17 0:00 ` Nick Andrew
1997-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-18 0:00 ` Nick Andrew
1997-08-20 0:00 ` Rune Moberg
[not found] ` <33F771E2.363E18E9@hotmail.com>
1997-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-08-20 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1997-08-26 0:00 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] <5s7tpq$gjt@nntp.seflin.org>
1997-08-05 0:00 ` International Algorithmic Language Borg
1997-08-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-06 0:00 ` John M. Mills
1997-08-06 0:00 ` John Gluth
1997-08-06 0:00 ` John Gluth
[not found] ` <5sa97g$o4l@falcon.le.ac.uk>
1997-08-06 0:00 ` Chris Waters
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