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L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term
SlashChick writes "In an interesting twist on political correctness, L.A. County has banned the use of the terms 'Master/Slave' (commonly used to denote hard drive arrangements.) According to Snopes.com, 'someone within the County bureaucracy... had taken offense at "master/slave" references and complained to the board.' L.A. County now requires that vendors working with the county remove all 'master/slave' references. Incredible. Read the full story."
Who wants to bet it was a nigger? :-)
Seriously... what the hell are we supposed to call them?
Get over it. Primary/Secondary is a perfectly valid way to refer to drive relationships and it doesn't offend people. I've been doing this for years, myself. I don't see the problem. Unless you want to offend people because you, personally, don't see the problem. What is so hard about referring to things in a new way?
I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
Who wants to welcome our new communist overlords?
An open letter to whoever this whiny b!tch is:
Get over it you whiner!!! We can't change a whole industry's worth of labels, pamphlets and terminology just because you thought "slave? that's not very nice..."
Besides, what's a person this stupid and emotional doing in the computer business anyway? what are we supposed to call is now? The controllably challenged drive? No.
This is getting out of hand people, we need to stop. Pedophiles don't even want to be called pedophiles anymore, they want to be called priests.
~Chris Hammond
Political correctness is one of the reasons the USA will self-destruct one of these days.
It's not enough that the government is now treating its own citizens as enemies, but the tortured population actually believes it deserves it.
Wake up america, before it's too late.
Mark this as a troll, it's easier than dealing with the truth.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
The guy who recommended this needs to be fired before his ideas continue to procreate.
"He" my ass. Don't you know the most sensitive creature in the world is a professionally-degreed black female? Dollars to doughnuts a black woman started this BS.
Spread the RC luvin'
Yeah, and next thing you know they'll have to modify the terminology used in agriculture. Currently the machines used to spread insecticide are commonly referred to as "The Gestapo" and the insects that are targeted for extermination are referred to as "The Jews".
Next thing you know, some politically correct idiot is gonna make us find different terms, even though "Gestapo" and "Jews" sure seems to illustrate the concept nicely.
Remember who used the term "white n---ers" on national TV? It certainly wasn't a Republican. Your own partisan bigotry doesn't help your cause.
yeah, and there are old Democrats who use to be in the KKK *cough*Robert Bird*cough* that say on national TV "he is just a white nigger."
what kind of racism is that? the kind that gets forgiven by the black community I guess since it was.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Sorry I have to add this silly comment to your very well-written and researched one, but until your post, I thought the entire thing was ridiculous. Now I at least see that the request has a *reason* (but not really merit, in my opinion).
I had come across the story before, but didn't read too much into it. I thought the complaint was from bondage enthusasts! (Then again, that wouldn't make sense. Just goes to show how much of my brain functions on a daily basis...)
There wasn't that much that 'just happened' in the 2000 election. Also, the list that was used to do the voter roll purges was of felons, and it came from Texas. The problems were that the matching criteria was *very* loose, and if you were born on the same day or had a similar surname, you could be removed from the voter rolls... If you want something interesting, see if you can find the Greg Palast report that was on BBC, where he went to interview the polling company. Should be about 15 minutes long. There were a lot of strange goings-on during that election, including the 'grass-roots' staged protest by Republican staffers in Miami-Dade county. I could go on, but that would make it way-way-offtopic, instead of just a little.
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Is that all you have to say? A poisonous, unsubstantiated little screed about how republicans are all racists and try to keep the black folks away from the polls?
KKK == CCC? Police conspiracies to set up roadblocks?
I'm sorry, but that's exactly 100% Flamebait.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
yeah, when did that constituency change?
in 1965 the republicans were the ones pushing for Civil Rights while the Democrats were opposed to it.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Oooh. Here are some more. Which party has the most powerful black woman in the world? (Condoleeza Rice)
Which party has the most powerful black man in the world? (Clarence Thomas)
Which party is the only one with a black man in a position of congressional leadership? ( JC Watts)
Which party is the one filibustering Miguel Estrada because, in their own words: He's a latino?
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
face it, the south is a mix of Democrats and Republicans and they all are racist fucks.
Ignoring the dummest half the opposite sex will only half your chances not eliminate them, but I guess _you_ would take anything?
I'm white.
I am a descendent of slaves. (my ancestor that came over from europe paid for his boat passage by becoming an indentured servant, in a copper mine in Northern Michigan, and since the mining company owned the town, all the stores, all the rental property, and there were no other towns for 200 miles, he was effectively, and legally a slave).
I am not at all offended by the IDE master/slave terminology.
I AM offended when other descendants of slaves think they're special because of their particular cultural heritage.
But I'm mostly offended by the continued industry dominance of crappy technology (- trying to start a SCSI/IDE flamewar).
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
*SHE* learned that I am, in fact, an asshole. And proud of it.
So much for any sign of intellect out of you.. The term "asshole" means you have no feeling like the hole between your cheeks (both). "Pride" is a feeling.
It also means whatever comes out of you is crap. The only thing she did wrong was to waste her time on you and your "friends". (watch your back with those friends. er, no front, being the asshole you are.
You are talking about the crusty-gusseted bint who butted into someone else's conversation, without understanding it and without invitation, right?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."