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Rinswind 2th
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Den Haag: The Royal Residence
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 11-26-2003 19:46

For everyone who missed it. The LA county wants their supliers to stop using the words master/slave in their equipment. They think it's offensive.... http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp


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synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 11-26-2003 20:09

LA thinks something is offensive... Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black...



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eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 11-26-2003 20:36

BAH!!!!! HAhahaahaahaa

edit... lost my sig



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moaiz
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 11-27-2003 02:47

Aren't those the same jokers that tried to ban lap dances?



Alevice
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Mexico
Insane since: Dec 2002

posted posted 11-27-2003 06:13

Quoted from someone who goes to another forum i visit:

quote:
I wonder how much fur would fly if the Slave driver was painted black.



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MindBender
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: a pocket dimention...
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted posted 11-27-2003 08:36

I wonder what the L.A. BDSM community has to say on this issue


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Nimraw
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Styx
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 11-27-2003 09:11

This is just sooo funny... and tragic.

This was an appropriate comment I found on the subject:
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Well, how should they handle Unix then, with commands like: touch, unzip, strip, finger, mount (Just the other day, I myself uttered the suggestive phrase "I should just be able to mount you" to a friend when we tried to set up a network.) and fsck. Also the characters / (slash), # (has[c]h) and

Petskull
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From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 11-27-2003 17:30

yeah, caught this on CNN yesterday.... some people have to seriously find something to do with their lives...


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Rameses Niblik the Third
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: From:From:
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 11-28-2003 13:35

There's a lot of funny stuff in here relating to this.

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-28-2003 14:21

Isn't the assumption that the terms "master" and "slave" refer to white and black the racist aspect and not the use of the terms itself?

Ruski
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 11-28-2003 14:32

err.. hope its all a joke..

Quarath
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Magna, UT
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-29-2003 08:58

Had almost the exact same thread in another forum and I Posted this:

"A new terminology has been selected to replace the MASTER/SLAVE referance to HDD relationship on the BUS. It has been approved as adequate and unoffensive by LA County. This terminology will now be known as the PIMP/HO relationship."



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