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Read the book The Language Police by Diane Ravitch. This kind of crap really has gotten completely out of hand.
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Well, normally I'd say its a bit absurd. But in this case, whatever. I mean SATA drives are almost the same price as normal ATA drives, it won't take all that long for the ATA to simply be phased out. So it happens by default. *shrug*
Just checked. The cheapest SATA drive is exactly the same price as its same brand/same capacity counterpart at 110 CDN. Yep.
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This didn't need to go any further than the supervisor calmly and rationally explaining to this person the way this technology operates. It's completely understandable that someone unfamiliar with this would take offense, but with sufficient explanation, any reasonable person would certainly have to realize that these terms merely refer to the nature of the relationship between these drives. Obviously slavery was a dark and terrible chapter in US history, and we are clearly still feeling the ramifications of that horrible injustice, but this incident simply has nothing to do with intentionally invoking that history. Our efforts and concerns would be far better spent battling those eggregrious incidents of real and malicious racism.
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"how do i know she can read it? Maybe she couldn't.. and if she couldn't - then it could be viewed as racist!"
Well, you could have said "can you read it?", rather than "What does it say?"
Still, the way I'd deal with people like that is, well, ignoring them.
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The funny thing is, my computer's "name" for network purposes is "Master"...but it's a Dell, so the box is black! So am I a racist or am I all for black power?
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Oh, boo hoo! Someone got offended by a hard-drive!
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Jason: "...but it's a Dell, so the box is black!"
I've got a Dell Dimension 8200, but it's not really black. It's more black/purple, like an eggplant. I wonder, is this good or bad?
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I think I'm going to relabel my hard drives. Instead of "slave" I will put a sticker "filthy Nigger-scum" there, and "master" will become "Arian"...
I think America is really going over the top in many ways:
quote: "But we are culturally sensitive and we have 90,000 employees," he said. "We have to take these things seriously."
Since when do employers give a damn about employees. Here you can be glad if you have a job. Start complaining about some crazy P.C. crap and be sure to find yourself on the street in no time. Planety of others waiting to take your former job.
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