No more Master/Slave Hard drives - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

The_Dude · 11-25-2003, 09:20 AM

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

it looks better on the site, rather than copy paste.

they think that the master/slave terms are racist and they cant use them anymore.

i just thought it was really funny.

Crack · 11-25-2003, 10:59 AM

My family has been in the Window making business for years all the way back to my grandfather, we have made many windows over the years, and I find the term "Microsoft Windows" very degrading to all of us out there who make actual windows... Can we all stop using that term as well?

Redlemon · 11-25-2003, 11:11 AM

And, of course, you won't be able to specify if the connectors on your cables are "male" or "female".

And forget about using UNIX, it sounds too much like eunuchs.

Cynthetiq · 11-25-2003, 11:12 AM

micah67 · 11-25-2003, 11:20 AM

All because one person complained...

merkerguitars · 11-25-2003, 12:24 PM

Yeah like they will change the terminology....someone needs to quit their damn whining

jujueye · 11-25-2003, 12:51 PM

oh brother. I ask again: don't these people have anything better to do?

charliex · 11-25-2003, 02:42 PM

our tax dollars hard at work.

Blistex · 11-25-2003, 07:27 PM

It's times like these that I wish there were more snipers and terrorists loose so that people stop focusing their energies into useless things to piss others off.

What next? Joystick offends the clinically depressed? Mouse is offensive to Mice? CPU offends people with chronic BO?

sailor · 11-25-2003, 07:40 PM

Im glad to see that California has its priorities straight. Balance your f*cking budget first, then worry about trite things like this.

Finchie · 11-25-2003, 08:36 PM

Haha, I wonder if computer manufacturers will actually agree to this. It would be such a waste making labels JUST for California. Personally, I wouldn't bother. Maybe the state will stop being so damn sensitive if companies refuse to sell them hard drives.

shakran · 11-25-2003, 09:21 PM

the manufacturers ought to band together and collectively refuse to play ball. That'll screw California up when they can't buy hard drives from anyone.

lessee.

We shouldn't call it a monitor. Sounds too supervisory, and we're all team members right? Call them visual information conveyance devices

no hard drives. Too sexual. Should be semi-permanent information storage and retrieval devices.

No floppy drives. See hard drives. Should be temporary. . .no wait that would offend temp workers. . . maybe swappable storage medium readers. naw, that would offend the "special people" and "indigo children" that can't read. . .. Screw it, floppies aren't used much anymore. Call them Legacies of non-PC PC's

I never did like the power supply or the power switch. Too authoritarian.

Motherboard implies slavement of womyn, because it just has to sit there doing what all the cards tell it to do.

I don't like sound cards either, because the deaf. .er. . hearing imparired. . .er. . hearingly challenged might get offended that other people can hear sounds.

What the hell are all these white papers coming out of Microsoft? Are they with the KKK or something?

i think we should change the connectors on soundcards from miniplug to RCA, because the miniplug might offend height-impared people.

PC is such total ultra-moronic horseshit.

Snakebyt · 11-25-2003, 09:44 PM

what the hell are they going to come up with next to whine about... that is so pathetic

propaganda · 11-25-2003, 09:56 PM

Wow that made my day... some people seriously need to find things to bother themselves with

TheFirstDuffMan · 11-25-2003, 10:26 PM

Heh... I thought this thread was going to be about Serial ATA

guthmund · 11-25-2003, 11:02 PM

I envision a world where political correctness has taken over as national language. Where gender biased words are a thing of the past and where descriptions of products and what they do are so ambiguous that nobody nows what in the hell they're describing or what they do exactly.

imagine it, my friends. Because after reading that article I fear it isn't too far beyond the corner.

Stargazer01 · 11-25-2003, 11:37 PM

crock of BS, this is totally stupid =\

Jam · 11-25-2003, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Finchie
Haha, I wonder if computer manufacturers will actually agree to this. It would be such a waste making labels JUST for California. Personally, I wouldn't bother. Maybe the state will stop being so damn sensitive if companies refuse to sell them hard drives.

and motherboards... the BIOS say master/slave in it too... special californian friendly BIOS version

Halx · 11-26-2003, 09:48 AM

I'm so ashamed.. I tell you.

losthellhound · 11-26-2003, 10:49 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

Possibly the stupidest thing Ive ever heard of from California (and thats saying alot right there)

The_Dude · 11-26-2003, 11:00 AM

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=37090

beat ya to it!

losthellhound · 11-26-2003, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by The_Dude
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=37090

beat ya to it!

My apologies.. I did a quick scan but I guess I didnt look hard enough

Holo · 11-26-2003, 11:01 AM

So I guess calling my drive configs whitey and nigger are wrong?

*

This is just too stupid. We need to make Californians take a PC test and all those who fail(meaning they're not PC) are allowed to stay in the USA. Then we saw Cali off the mainland let them have a sovereign nation of people with poles stuck up their asses. I really wonder what the hell ppl like this are thinking.

*this is a joke btw.

juanvaldes · 11-26-2003, 11:16 AM

It must be said again this is ONLY LA COUNTY!!!

Holo · 11-26-2003, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by juanvaldes
It must be said again this is ONLY LA COUNTY!!!

yes, but 90% of all PC crap comes from Cali. I feel bad for those of you that have to actually put up with this while the rest of us point and laugh....and dread the time it comes to our part of the country. Like smoking bans...they just started that in florida after following Cali's lead. I'm amazed you can even have any lives there....doesn't breathing offend someone?

charliex · 11-26-2003, 11:41 AM

yeah but most people who live in LA , aren't from LA

i heard the story on NPR this morning too, i guess it'll pick up momentum.

Holo · 11-26-2003, 11:44 AM

What I want to know is if all BIOS manufacturers are gonna change all BIOS chips to reflect this new "idea". and I Maxtor and WD gonna redo all their manuals and HDD Jumper patterns to reflect this? so much wasted money and guess who's gonna pay for this? You guessed it.

oh and guys don't forget to save your IDE drive manuals. They've now become a piece of sociological history.

test

ARTelevision · 11-26-2003, 01:50 PM

I just heard about this- doh.

yeah man, (some) people are funny.
not funny "ha ha" not funny "ironic" but funny "pathetic"

supafly · 11-26-2003, 02:47 PM

Some people just have nothing better to do than bullshitting all the time on things like this. It's pathetic.

User Name · 11-26-2003, 03:25 PM

They should make hard drives with and without the master and slave labels, but the items with the politically correct labels should cost twice as much. That way, the PC idiots are pissed, and that's what we all want, right?

juanvaldes · 11-26-2003, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Holo
yes, but 90% of all PC crap comes from Cali. I feel bad for those of you that have to actually put up with this while the rest of us point and laugh....and dread the time it comes to our part of the country. Like smoking bans...they just started that in florida after following Cali's lead. I'm amazed you can even have any lives there....doesn't breathing offend someone?

Most of the manufactures are north in the bay area and this is only about selling HD's to the county itself.

Still does not excuse how stupid it is but at least the most it will effect us is the time we spend laughing at how stupid it is here.

kurty[B] · 11-26-2003, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by User Name
They should make hard drives with and without the master and slave labels, but the items with the politically correct labels should cost twice as much. That way, the PC idiots are pissed, and that's what we all want, right?

Sounds like a plan to me. But then the PC idiots would file some PC lawsuit about being excluded, and because of Johnny Cockrane and the Wookie Defense they'd win, and prices would hike and hike in reply to all this PCism. Needless to say it's a waste of a lot of peoples time.

debaser · 11-26-2003, 06:14 PM

Thats OK, I've been refering to mine as "The Man" and "His Bitch", for years now, so I guess I'm safe from this whole PC thing...

Jam · 11-26-2003, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by debaser
Thats OK, I've been refering to mine as "The Man" and "His Bitch", for years now, so I guess I'm safe from this whole PC thing...

yeah, you should be safe

Philipr · 11-27-2003, 12:22 AM

What terms should be used?? Domimant and submissive? Hmmm... There's an idea. And may bring in a whole new group of people who may not have found computers otherwise.

And how about other offensive term? RAM... ROM... PEEK... POKE... SCSI ("It sounds strange, so MUST be rude")... Plug in.

Sometimes a cigar is really JUST A CIGAR, people.

P.

Amarth · 11-27-2003, 02:07 AM

Hahaha. Flaming liberals are almost as funny as flaming conservatists.

shakran · 11-28-2003, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Holo
So I guess calling my drive configs whitey and nigger are wrong? *

ROFL! holy crap, we're both going to hell. You for saying it and me for finding it hilarious!

VF19 · 11-30-2003, 03:46 PM

Blame the goddamn queer who is running my state.

Kllr Wolf · 12-01-2003, 03:15 PM

this is a bunch of bull. why cant people relize they are just words that describe a connection with the fewest amount of words and keep the average person form being confused by it?

Elitegibson · 12-01-2003, 03:28 PM

I think we should call the Master drives cracka, and the Slave drives nigger. Maybe we could start calling the slave drives Jew and the Masters Catholic. How about calling the Masters working men and the slaves housewives. I can't believe how far some people are willing to take this Political Correctness bullshit. The devices are named that way because it made the most sense at the time to whomever named it.

11-25-2003, 09:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
The_Dude The GrandDaddy of them all! Location: Austin, TX	No more Master/Slave Hard drives http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp it looks better on the site, rather than copy paste. they think that the master/slave terms are racist and they cant use them anymore. i just thought it was really funny. __________________ "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Darrel K Royal

11-25-2003, 10:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
Crack Misanthropic Location: Ohio! yay!	My family has been in the Window making business for years all the way back to my grandfather, we have made many windows over the years, and I find the term "Microsoft Windows" very degrading to all of us out there who make actual windows... Can we all stop using that term as well? __________________ Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex. ~Halx

11-25-2003, 11:11 AM	#3 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	And, of course, you won't be able to specify if the connectors on your cables are "male" or "female". And forget about using UNIX, it sounds too much like eunuchs. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

11-25-2003, 11:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
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11-25-2003, 11:20 AM	#5 (permalink)
micah67 Thor Location: 33:08:12N 117:10:23W	All because one person complained... __________________ ~micah

11-25-2003, 12:24 PM	#6 (permalink)
merkerguitars Buffering......... Location: Wisconsin...	Yeah like they will change the terminology....someone needs to quit their damn whining __________________ Donate now! Ask me How! Please use the search function it is your friend. Look at my mustang please feel free to comment! http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=26985

11-25-2003, 12:51 PM	#7 (permalink)
jujueye alpaca lunch for the trip Location: in my computer	oh brother. I ask again: don't these people have anything better to do?

11-25-2003, 02:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	our tax dollars hard at work.

11-25-2003, 07:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
Blistex Psycho Location: Tiger I Turret	It's times like these that I wish there were more snipers and terrorists loose so that people stop focusing their energies into useless things to piss others off. What next? Joystick offends the clinically depressed? Mouse is offensive to Mice? CPU offends people with chronic BO?

11-25-2003, 07:40 PM	#10 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	Im glad to see that California has its priorities straight. Balance your f*cking budget first, then worry about trite things like this. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

11-25-2003, 08:36 PM	#11 (permalink)
Finchie Tilted	Haha, I wonder if computer manufacturers will actually agree to this. It would be such a waste making labels JUST for California. Personally, I wouldn't bother. Maybe the state will stop being so damn sensitive if companies refuse to sell them hard drives.

11-25-2003, 09:21 PM	#12 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	the manufacturers ought to band together and collectively refuse to play ball. That'll screw California up when they can't buy hard drives from anyone. lessee. We shouldn't call it a monitor. Sounds too supervisory, and we're all team members right? Call them visual information conveyance devices no hard drives. Too sexual. Should be semi-permanent information storage and retrieval devices. No floppy drives. See hard drives. Should be temporary. . .no wait that would offend temp workers. . . maybe swappable storage medium readers. naw, that would offend the "special people" and "indigo children" that can't read. . .. Screw it, floppies aren't used much anymore. Call them Legacies of non-PC PC's I never did like the power supply or the power switch. Too authoritarian. Motherboard implies slavement of womyn, because it just has to sit there doing what all the cards tell it to do. I don't like sound cards either, because the deaf. .er. . hearing imparired. . .er. . hearingly challenged might get offended that other people can hear sounds. What the hell are all these white papers coming out of Microsoft? Are they with the KKK or something? i think we should change the connectors on soundcards from miniplug to RCA, because the miniplug might offend height-impared people. PC is such total ultra-moronic horseshit.

11-25-2003, 09:44 PM	#13 (permalink)
Snakebyt Psycho Location: Lubbock Texas	what the hell are they going to come up with next to whine about... that is so pathetic

11-25-2003, 09:56 PM	#14 (permalink)
propaganda Psycho	Wow that made my day... some people seriously need to find things to bother themselves with

11-25-2003, 10:26 PM	#15 (permalink)
TheFirstDuffMan Tilted	Heh... I thought this thread was going to be about Serial ATA

11-25-2003, 11:02 PM	#16 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	I envision a world where political correctness has taken over as national language. Where gender biased words are a thing of the past and where descriptions of products and what they do are so ambiguous that nobody nows what in the hell they're describing or what they do exactly. imagine it, my friends. Because after reading that article I fear it isn't too far beyond the corner. __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.

11-25-2003, 11:37 PM	#17 (permalink)
Stargazer01 Tilted	crock of BS, this is totally stupid =\

11-26-2003, 09:48 AM	#19 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I'm so ashamed.. I tell you. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

11-26-2003, 10:49 AM	#20 (permalink)
losthellhound Thats MR. Muffin Face now Location: Everywhere work sends me	Equality for slow harddrives??? http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html Possibly the stupidest thing Ive ever heard of from California (and thats saying alot right there) __________________ "Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?" -- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

11-26-2003, 11:00 AM	#21 (permalink)
The_Dude The GrandDaddy of them all! Location: Austin, TX	http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=37090 beat ya to it! __________________ "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Darrel K Royal

11-26-2003, 11:01 AM	#23 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	So I guess calling my drive configs whitey and nigger are wrong? * This is just too stupid. We need to make Californians take a PC test and all those who fail(meaning they're not PC) are allowed to stay in the USA. Then we saw Cali off the mainland let them have a sovereign nation of people with poles stuck up their asses. I really wonder what the hell ppl like this are thinking. this is a joke btw. __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince Last edited by Holo; 11-26-2003 at 11:04 AM..*

11-26-2003, 11:16 AM	#24 (permalink)
juanvaldes Banned Location: shittown, CA	It must be said again this is ONLY LA COUNTY!!!

11-26-2003, 11:41 AM	#26 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	yeah but most people who live in LA , aren't from LA i heard the story on NPR this morning too, i guess it'll pick up momentum.

11-26-2003, 11:44 AM	#27 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	What I want to know is if all BIOS manufacturers are gonna change all BIOS chips to reflect this new "idea". and I Maxtor and WD gonna redo all their manuals and HDD Jumper patterns to reflect this? so much wasted money and guess who's gonna pay for this? You guessed it. oh and guys don't forget to save your IDE drive manuals. They've now become a piece of sociological history. test __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince Last edited by Holo; 11-27-2003 at 07:57 PM..

11-26-2003, 01:50 PM	#28 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	I just heard about this- doh. yeah man, (some) people are funny. not funny "ha ha" not funny "ironic" but funny "pathetic" __________________ create evolution

11-26-2003, 02:47 PM	#29 (permalink)
supafly Psycho Location: Rotterdam	Some people just have nothing better to do than bullshitting all the time on things like this. It's pathetic. __________________ Thumbs up

11-26-2003, 03:25 PM	#30 (permalink)
User Name Banned Location: Urf	They should make hard drives with and without the master and slave labels, but the items with the politically correct labels should cost twice as much. That way, the PC idiots are pissed, and that's what we all want, right?

11-26-2003, 06:14 PM	#33 (permalink)
debaser Sir, I have a plan... Location: 38S NC20943324	Thats OK, I've been refering to mine as "The Man" and "His Bitch", for years now, so I guess I'm safe from this whole PC thing... __________________ Fortunato became immured to the sound of the trowel after a while.

11-27-2003, 12:22 AM	#35 (permalink)
Philipr Upright	What terms should be used?? Domimant and submissive? Hmmm... There's an idea. And may bring in a whole new group of people who may not have found computers otherwise. And how about other offensive term? RAM... ROM... PEEK... POKE... SCSI ("It sounds strange, so MUST be rude")... Plug in. Sometimes a cigar is really JUST A CIGAR, people. P.

11-27-2003, 02:07 AM	#36 (permalink)
Amarth Loser Location: About 50,000 feet in the air... oh shit.	Hahaha. Flaming liberals are almost as funny as flaming conservatists.

11-30-2003, 03:46 PM	#38 (permalink)
VF19 Banned Location: back to my old location	Blame the goddamn queer who is running my state.

12-01-2003, 03:15 PM	#39 (permalink)
Kllr Wolf Psycho Location: Lubbock, TX	this is a bunch of bull. why cant people relize they are just words that describe a connection with the fewest amount of words and keep the average person form being confused by it? __________________ Caffeine - the molecule of life.

12-01-2003, 03:28 PM	#40 (permalink)
Elitegibson More Freedom, Less Bullshit Location: Tulsa, OK	I think we should call the Master drives cracka, and the Slave drives nigger. Maybe we could start calling the slave drives Jew and the Masters Catholic. How about calling the Masters working men and the slaves housewives. I can't believe how far some people are willing to take this Political Correctness bullshit. The devices are named that way because it made the most sense at the time to whomever named it. __________________ -Erik Stupid people shouldn't breed.