Californians Offended By Dumbest Shit Yet

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.

The request -- which has some suppliers furious and others busy re-labeling components -- came after an unidentified worker spotted a videotape machine carrying devices labeled "master" and "slave" and filed a discrimination complaint with the county's Office of Affirmative Action Compliance.

 

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guys i think we should all change our CDROM drives up to master status and put our hard drives on slave in order to break the historical cycle of oppression perpetrated within the confines of our white patriarchal computer casings

 

[avi]

 

[lizard]

I've always been surprised that someone didn't claim indignation over the use of "male" and "female" to describe cable connections.

 

[xfer]

holy shit these instructions tell me to disconnect the BLACK cable and replace it with the RED cable that's so fucking racist.

 

[lizard]

by repeating those terms you are perpetuating a CLIMATE OF HATE

 

[avi]

I'm shocked and appalled.

 

[FalseTodd]

Alex, the red cables were here first.

 

[FalseTodd]

Also do you think Christian programmers get freaked everytime they program a web daemon?

 

[FalseTodd]

Also, bussing the signals around to other jurisdictions is a screwed up policy.

 

[deadair]

Rosa Parallelcables is fighting the good fight.