The Mac wasn't new when they gave it to me

Gotcha. Your story made it sound like you got them as new swag.

You interned for free for five years?

What droid phone did you get six years ago, 1-2 years before the release of the HTC Dream (Android 1.0)?

Nope, I didn't forget that. Google's results were indeed polluted during the early 2000s, but their results were still better than anyone else's.

race and iq

Actually scientists rarely study these things, because there's no good scientific way of studying them.

Generally left to psychology and other pseudosciences.

Google's results were exactly as shitty as everyone else's,

Bullshit. When google appeared on the scene, they were a revelation. Google's algorithm for looking at relationships between pages & links rather than just counting the number of times a search term appeared on a page was orders or magnitude better than lycos, exite, altavista, etc.

It took 10 years for Google's results to become (nearly) as shitty as everyone else's.

Frankly if you think that, you probably discovered google in 2004 when the competition was catching up.

but the article didn't make a claim about the absolute number of projects using the GPL. It made a claim about the usage of the GPL

So you didn't make a claim about using - you made one about usage? There is no difference between those words in this context.

tl;dr You're a fucking idiot, so I am most pleased to see that your comments start at 0 (or is it -1 now?)

You mean the water cools down by 40 degrees C in the few minutes that the coffee needs to brew?

Of course it does you fuckwit, unless you drink it directly from the kettle, then simply pouring it into a cup will significantly lower the temperature as the warm liquid comes into contact with the room temperature vessel.

So, I maintain, unless the coffee was significantly above boiling point (100C/212F) it was reasonable.

Well, I maintain that the coffee was significantly above average coffee temperatures. And you know what? A court agreed with me. Noone agrees with you.

Wow, you replied three times without bothering to do even some basic reading about the case. Congratulations, you have restored my faith in slashdot humanity.

You know, if you could bother to take 10 seconds to do some basic research, you would have found out that they did make their coffee at nearly double the temperature you make your coffee:

Over the course of the trial, Liebeck’s team established that McDonald’s had a policy of serving its coffee at temperatures ranging from 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit to enhance flavor and ensure that to-go cups were still warm when they reached their destinations. (The coffee that you brew at home probably comes out at around 140 degrees, so there’s a significant difference.) Moreover, experts testified that skin can burn quickly when contacted by liquids at these temperatures.

More damning, though, was McDonald’s own testimony. The company admitted that in the decade before Liebeck’s incident, upwards of 700 customers had filed complaints about its coffee causing burns.