Re: Practice the Black Arts in class, get fired.

In article <oj3634td8ikhcreekt1f9q1537edori4p5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 09:42:53 -0700, David Friedman
> <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >Or in other words, some customers would prefer that the coffee be
served 
> >very hot in order that it will be still hot when they get where they
are 
> >going and drink it, and some would prefer that be served at drinking 
> >temperature. A company that specializes in takeout then has to decide 
> >which customers it will provide for. Apparently MacDonalds concluded 
> >that it was better off providing for the first group, and I can see no 
> >reason to suppose that your guess, or mine, is better, or even as good,

> >as theirs.
> 
> Which is why we have courts, to decide whose guess is better (or at
> least, sounds better to the court/jury).

But they aren't really deciding that, and they wouldn't be competent to 
decide it. Did anyone in the case introduce evidence on what fraction of 
the customers drink the coffee immediately, and what fraction at what 
later interval?

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