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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."
Damn!
then they'll froze in horror: UPC/EAN barcodes use symbol "6" as a designator for stop, end and block separator. That way "6" is never used as a numerical part or "payload" in the code - it exists only in the coded stripe form: (6)block1(6)block2(6)
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As todays barcodes consist of 2 blocks, practically every barcode carries the "6-6-6" on it.
Same thing: the inventors tried to avoid any "six"="sex"-references and "*666*"-occurances. Of course this means every product bears the mark of the beast as described in the bible meaning the end is near.
No joke, try to find a human-readable number 6 on a barcode
Harrr harr the end is nigh!!!1!!!11
I mean it. Life is just so wonderful. Yay.
as discrimination based upon race, gender, or physical condition has become less socially acceptable, we began to frown upon the use of pejorative terms associated with race
Um, does anyone else think that referring to master and slave as perjorative terms associated with race is MUCH more offensive than using the terms to refer to hard drives?
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
jesus f'ing christ.
go stick a niggardly accountant's schlong in your ear, and take your politically correct garbage back to mexico where it belongs. damn LA beaners...
*De gozaru!*
It's not a Christmas play, it's a Winter Celebration. He's not short, he's height-challenged.
I grew up in a world where the left were protecting babies, blacks, impoverished, women, pretty much everyone. But what's happened?
Now the left wants abortion, even at birth-time. (the so-called partial birth thing.)
Black groups only stand in front of cameras for black people who don't/won't work, but ignore hard-working black men defending their home turf with legal (in Florida, from which he moved) handguns.
Women's groups are no longer about discovering and solving earnings-based problems in the women's workplace, but instead are there now just to hate men and tell women it's ok to be lesbian.
The impoverished? Well, those roles have declined a lot from the 60's and 70's...so there's less to do. But when anyone wants to do it, it's giving homeless men warm places to do their drugs- not telling them they can have a house as long as they're clean.
Now this master-slave thing.
Does it get any sillier? Has everyone forgotten how bad things used to be, and the original goals of these various groups?
And they have the GALL to call conservatives Fascists!
(Does water run uphill yet? I haven't checked.)
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Goddamn it, I never seem to have mod points when I want them......
Good one!
A sentence you'll never see on an Internet discussion board: "You know what? You're right."
Well, at least in Florida, yes.
Florida governor Jeb Bush and Florida secretary of state Kathleen Harris illegally removed tens of thousands of eligible Democratic voters from the voting rolls by wrongly claiming they were felons, who Jeb Bush declared are not allowed to vote. In fact virtually none were felons, and anyway Bush was wrong: reformed felons can vote in Florida. Why did they do it? A large percentage of the people targetted by Bush and Harris were Democrats. What they did was against Florida election laws and the election officials had informed they were breaking those laws. But to ensure that Democrats wouldn't vote, Harris then also avoided counting over 100,000 ballots from mainly black-dominated (usually Democratic) counties. The end result of this caper was Jeb's brother G.W. Bush being wrongly declared President, and the democratic process being subverted.
Harris and the Bushes were aided in their misdoings by the company that had been contracted to provide "scrub lists", which identify which citizens aren't allowed to vote--this company it turns out made essentially no effort to verify that people on the lists they were providing were not allowed to vote, and made apparently deliberate errors in misidentifying voters, such as wrongly matching a hypothetical felon who recently moved to FL from Georgia named Eric J Jones to Floridian non-felon Erica L Jones, preventing Erica from voting. Social security numbers were not used for matching. Although the Floida legislature has since passed a law requiring that Harris not use a private company to produce scrub lists, she has deliberately broken that law and hired a company anyway.
Source: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by investigative reporter Greg Palast.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - BF
"Leviticus 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?"
t ml
From a popular list of things Leviticus found at
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/Leviticus1.h
You might wish to note that this implies that your definition of "conservative" is equivalent to their definition of "leftist libertarian", not that their quiz is "wrong".
"America has done some terrible things. But I know that Americans don't cheer when innocents die." -Dave Barry
Discrimination! What about the XXX and XYY minority? :)
- Peter
INsigNIFICANT
DOH! :-)