More political correctness in computing

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Wow. You're only six days behind the times. This appeared in the Houston
Chronicle, and every other majore news source, on October 25th.


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Jbob stood up at show-n-tell, in (e-mail address removed), and
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Haha!

I meant 'major'...and:

November 25th! I must be a MONTH and SIX days behind! Guess my new
hardware is f$cking up my sense of reality!


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Strontium stood up at show-n-tell, in (e-mail address removed), and
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Jbob said:
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html
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"In June, the Los Angeles city council unanimously passed a law requiring
that any companies doing business with the city disclose profits they may
have made from slavery in the 19th Century."
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They are worried about what happened over 100 years ago, what is that like
4-5 generations ago? And THAT isn't descrimination?

Wonder when I'm going to have to pay someone money because my relatives 4
generations ago were from Germany?
 
Maybe the next one will be male/female as in screw threads, ie nut,
bolts, plumbing piping, electrical connectors.
 
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I love cleaning female plumbing....

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(e-mail address removed) stood up at show-n-tell, in
(e-mail address removed), and said:
 
Maybe the next one will be male/female as in screw threads, ie nut,
bolts, plumbing piping, electrical connectors.
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Then we would have the following news article:

"The city of Los Angeles has asked hard drive manufacturers to, again,
change the way they label hard drive positions after an unnamed worker filed
a lawsuit in the 6th district court. Apparently, the worker saw two hard
drives, with the top one (or first on the cable) labeled male and the bottom
as female. In the lawsuit, the worker claims that the naming scheme is
discriminatory because it puts females in a submissive position.

Hard drive manufacturers have been busy renaming the positions of their
drives or have switched to putting them side by side."

Also, I'm surprised that we haven't seen this news article:

"The Los Angeles city school district has asked electrical, plumbing, and
hardware manufacturers to change their naming conventions, after a lawsuit
was filed in the 99th district court. For innumerable years, the three
industries have referred to mating parts as either male or female, depending
on whether the parts have a point or a hole, which accepts that point,
respectively.

The plaintiff alleges that the parts are called male or female because they
resemble penises or vaginas. The damage, according to the plaintiff, is
done when, instead of calling the parts simply "penis" or "vagina", the
industries have equated penis with male and vagina with female. This is
harmful to youths, who, because of the three industries, have objectified
the opposite sex - it is reported that the plaintiff's young son was harmed
when a girl at his school called him a penis, after he said something
stupid. The boy told his mother and she complained to the school board.
Their was an investigation, which uncovered the use of plumbing, wire
connectors, and structural hardware in all classrooms. No one from the
school board has returned our call, asking how these parts went unnoticed
for so long.

In the meantime, the industries are changing the way they refer to products
or are suggesting that schools and daycare facilities remove plumbing,
screws and bolts, and wiring connectors from their facilities. One
representative told NewsWire that the wiring itself would be allowed to
remain."

Ok, so I took it a bit too far, but I'm bored waiting for a 250 GB drive to
format.

Dave
 
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:48:04 -0800, "Dave Hull"

Ok, so I took it a bit too far, but I'm bored waiting for a 250 GB drive to
format.

Dave
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Too far? I don't think so. We cannot stop as long as one person in the
world may be offended! It does not matter if this offense is real or
imagined!

I for one am grateful that the word "pole ax" has been removed from our
vocabulary. It sounds too much like, well, I can't even bear to say it!
I guess now I will have to visit my counselor after just thinking about
it!
 
Rich said:
Too far? I don't think so. We cannot stop as long as one person in the
world may be offended! It does not matter if this offense is real or
imagined!
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Well, I'm offended by all this @$@$#$@%^$%#% policical correctness!!!

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Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.

To reply to this message, replace everything to the left of "@" with
james.knott.
 
Well I object.

Machines have to right to be male or female, just like humans lol.
 
In another NG folks were discussing Microsoft's "beta testing" program.
I enquired as to how many beta tests must one make before they can be dubbed
"Master Beta Testers" ?
Unfortunately, in return, all I received was a detailed ramble about how to
sign up
for the program by some Russian guy named Ivan Urkinov.
Go Figure !
By the way. The master/slave reference is alive and well in the HVAC
controls industry as well.
And
Hey Piotrowski ... How many "Pole Ax" duz it take to change a light bulb ?

Good Stuff Folks. Keep this thread alive!
yellowpike
 
Dave Hull wrote:


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Also, I'm surprised that we haven't seen this news article:

"The Los Angeles city school district has asked electrical, plumbing, and
hardware manufacturers to change their naming conventions, after a lawsuit
was filed in the 99th district court. For innumerable years, the three
industries have referred to mating parts as either male or female, depending
on whether the parts have a point or a hole, which accepts that point,
respectively.

The plaintiff alleges that the parts are called male or female because they
resemble penises or vaginas. The damage, according to the plaintiff, is
done when, instead of calling the parts simply "penis" or "vagina", the
industries have equated penis with male and vagina with female. This is
harmful to youths, who, because of the three industries, have objectified
the opposite sex - it is reported that the plaintiff's young son was harmed
when a girl at his school called him a penis, after he said something
stupid. The boy told his mother and she complained to the school board.
Their was an investigation, which uncovered the use of plumbing, wire
connectors, and structural hardware in all classrooms. No one from the
school board has returned our call, asking how these parts went unnoticed
for so long.

In the meantime, the industries are changing the way they refer to products
or are suggesting that schools and daycare facilities remove plumbing,
screws and bolts, and wiring connectors from their facilities. One
representative told NewsWire that the wiring itself would be allowed to
remain."

Ok, so I took it a bit too far, but I'm bored waiting for a 250 GB drive to
format.
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No, I don't think so... you kicked the core of political correctness -
THX!

Roy
 
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