R.U. Sirius has been writing for years, and was the editor of Mondo 2000 magazine during the '90s, as well as co-author of Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook with St. Jude. So yes, it's very real (and not the first time his work has found the convergence of cyberpunk and porn, either...)

Isn't a benevolent dictator, by definition, one who *isn't* bad?

Meet my good friend DNS:

Hey, Joe - check out the pics that Tonya just put online: tonyas-pc.smithhousehold.comcast.net/pics/

Just because IPV6 is coming into play doesn't mean we suddenly jettison DNS - let's not go creating problems where they don't exist...devices have been self-registering in DNS via DHCP for a looooooong time - hell, even Microsoft OSes do it ;)

Citation needed

Godwin invoked - ignore all comments below this.

"That many complaints"?

So you, as the head of a multinational conglomerate that up until recently counted their unit sales in billions with a b on their signs, would modify how you sell your product based on 700 substantiated complaints?

Good day, sir.

The range I've always heard is 195-205 degrees F for the brewing temp of the filtered water, so I agree with you on that one (although I'd posit that at 205 degrees F, unless you have an extremely thorough and even source of heat, some of that water is indeed "boiling", but IANAC (I Am Not A Chemist)). And I'd bet that my 195 degree coffee, after 20-30 minutes, is indeed around 120 degrees F as well, so as long as "served" == "when I start drinking it" I guess I'm in the acceptable range.

If that's the only way they'll learn what a three-year-old can learn otherwise, then yes, that's what I'm seriously saying. Hot coffee is hot. This shouldn't be something that requires any further explanation, disclaimers, cautionary tales, or legal proceedings. Not in any sane situation, anyway. But it seems that my post was flamebait, so whatever. I guess I'm just a cranky bastard that thinks that common sense is a valuable commodity that happens to be scarce lately.

Normally, when purchasing coffee "to go" from a restaurant, I'm actually looking to drink it 20-30 minutes later. Boiling hot coffee remains drinkably hot a half-hour later, which suits me just fine. And I don't care if you're a testosterone-lacking intellectual who thinks a nanny state is required to protect its members from something as simple as "hot things can burn." Smart people learn this at a pretty young age, and Darwin can and should take care of reinforcing the lesson as necessary.

Mod +1 Insightful, not Flamebait, you insensitive mod!

I completely disagree, and will now offer you my competing resolution:

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Er...think of the children?

With my luck, I'd get

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and I really don't feel that's worth $48 at ALL.