Political Correctness comes to the Tech Arena

[iamaboringperson]

It's 'un-PC' to use the terms 'master' and 'slave' on computer hardware, apparently!

"A Los Angeles county official has asked computer and video equipment vendors to consider eliminating the terms "master" and "slave" from equipment because they may be considered offensive."

Read about it here ...

[TheJackal]

Time for violence,

extreme violence.

[KennyR]

Only in LA.

[StevenJGore]

That's just silly.

Next there'll be a ban on the "Male" and "Female" terminology used for cable connectors, because same-sex couples find it offensive.

[FuZion]

I've heard some crap in my time but this...

How many computers do we have that will take offence?

Should they be called 'equal rights' channels where either hard drive and/or storage media has the right to boot first? Or not boot at all??

Pathetic!

Should we cease calling various electrical & audio connections 'Male' & 'Female' because it may be considered sexist???

Shakes head

[StevenJGore]

In addition to using "master" and "slave" terminology in the tech world, I just noticed that when I submitted my previous post I got a message saying "Thank you for your submission"... maybe there's an underlying S&M theme to more tech stuff than first meets the eye!  :-D

[Argo]

I've seen this all over in the last week. I'm amazed it took this long to get here.

Oh, it's just not about Master and Slave.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp

[Van_M]

I thougt that such things were only happening at South Park.....

[Argo]

I first saw this PC mess mentioned here:

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum7/HTML/010815.html
http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum7/HTML/010835.html

Oh, The whole Male/Female connector thing has been done...
It's now....    Receptacle and Jack.

[minator]

From a newsletter I get:

Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers,
suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave"
regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable
and offensive.  Additionally, the term "e-mail" will now be called
"e-person letter," "dumb terminals" will are now "CPU-challenged
monitors" and "Unix" will be referred to as "sexually dysfunctional
operating system."  Obviously, "fingering" is now banned entirely.

[mantisspider]

"For example, we've read of the 1999 incident in which a mayoral aide (temporarily) lost his job for using the word 'niggardly' in a staff meeting, even though the word's origins have nothing to do with race, and even though the aide used the word correctly (to mean 'miserly' or 'stingy')"

Thanks America, you gave us good things like the Hotdog and Elvis, but with your sue everyone mentality you spawned the political correctness madness that is killing us all.

Im off to kill babies

[seer]

Oh, The whole Male/Female connector thing has been done...It's now.... Receptacle and Jack.

Sjee.. Glad my name aint Jack then..  ;-)

[MAD]

Hoya!

ROTFL!!!

America is definitively the country where EVERYTHING is possible!!!

BUT, WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!

The American President is called George (OK) W (OK) BUSH!!!!!
EEEERRRRKKKKKK!!!! You American Christians should do something about this!!! It is a SEXUALLY-ORIENTED President!!!

/me LOL

Be funky

M A D

[KennyR]

Well, I say: Stuff LA.

We can Finger each others backdoors and interface our male-female connectors with slaves all we like.

[JoannaK]

Wasn't there one called *DICK* Chaney  at the office too? Was he Vice President or something? ..  Well.. at least it's quite fitting next to Bush   :roflmao: