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2003-11-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Term âMaster/Slaveâ now banned in LA County.....

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Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-25 6:43:16 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Arnie should take them at their word and cut all funding for administration automobiles to LA County. After all, they all use master/slave cylinders for their brakes, right? Don't want the bureaucrats of LA Country driving around, promoting the slave trade, right? It's only the right thing to do, and it will help him balance the Loonie-land budget.

Posted by commo 2003-11-25 6:47:17 PM|| 2003-11-25 6:47:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 What about the designation of electrical connectors as "male" (i.e., those with pins) or "female" (those with socket holes)? Isn't that sexist?

Posted by Dave D. 2003-11-25 6:54:14 PM|| 2003-11-25 6:54:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is severe ass-hattery. Just hit them in their pocketbook and don't sell to them. Master/slave brake cylinders are a good example. BTW, next will be male/female cable connectors. Try getting hemaphrodite connectors for PC situations. Shutting them down will shut off the computers to these numbsculls. Thank goodness air traffic control equipment is federal, or LA county would be in real deep s--t.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-25 6:55:20 PM|| 2003-11-25 6:55:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What about the designation of electrical connectors as "male" (i.e., those with pins) or "female" (those with socket holes)? Isn't that sexist?

That's RIGHT! Arnie can remove all the oppressive, evil, sexist electrical outlets from all LA County buildings, and hell Marin County too. Don't want the progressives to be exposed to sexist electrical outlets, right? And saving energy would be the 'green' thing to do, not to mention saving $$$.

Posted by commo 2003-11-25 6:57:27 PM|| 2003-11-25 6:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I won't mention the term 'Gender Bender' (ouch!).
This is a component to convert a male connecter into a female and visa-versa. I think another term is Gender Changer.

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-25 6:58:06 PM|| 2003-11-25 6:58:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 And what about the fact that all of these male/female electrical connectors have MULTIPLE pairs of contacts, sometimes hundreds of them all lined up in neat rows and columns, all "coupling" simultaneously? That's kinkier than... than Michael Jackson!!

Posted by Dave D. 2003-11-25 7:59:28 PM|| 2003-11-25 7:59:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 DaveD.--we were writing at the same time with the same thought. Heh heh. The male power plug will go first and that will be the end of the ass-hattery. Power to the people! Try to get electrical power to your computer without hardwiring the beast to the wall.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-25 8:32:44 PM|| 2003-11-25 8:32:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This kind of crap is why this nation is going down the tubes. "Let's not do anything that might upset anyone". Instead, we make life difficult for half the da$$$$ world. Someone should take the Los Angeles civil authority that made this decision and drop them off somewhere a few hundred miles due north of Maui, with a tube of toothpaste.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-25 8:33:51 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-25 8:33:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, of course we should be sensitive to this! Let us not make light of the tragic legacy of California's, um, slave-holding... er, past.

Posted by BH 2003-11-25 9:09:46 PM|| 2003-11-25 9:09:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I heard this on Boortz today, thought he was joking. Cyber Sarge/Frank - WTF in going on out there?

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-25 9:11:50 PM|| 2003-11-25 9:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 my plumbing box is full of nipples, long nipples, short nipples...and male couplings.

Posted by john 2003-11-25 9:14:13 PM|| 2003-11-25 9:14:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I never thought I would ask this, but is there a lawyer in the house? Methinks Joe Sandoval has overreached his authority and is setting himself up to be bitched slapped right out of his high and mighty chair. His attempt to establish local standards on terminology restrains interstate commerce (IMHO). The last time I looked the purchasing manager for LA county is not the Interstate Commerce Commission. Until this is resolved, purchasing agents across the country should refuse to buy anything made in California, LA county or otherwise.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-11-25 11:18:38 PM|| 2003-11-25 11:18:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 One such recent example included the manufacturerâs labeling of equipment where the words "Master/Slave" appeared to identify the primary and secondary sources. Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.

Not a problem! DO away with IDE because SCSI is better anyway!!! ;)

Seriously, this is about as stupid as stupid can get. My suggestion? A good caning for anyone insisting on imposing their idea of Political Correctness on everyone else. Maybe they'd think twice before dispensing this kind of bullshit.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-25 11:47:02 PM|| 2003-11-25 11:47:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Kewl!

We now have this stupid asshat's name and title...how long does everyone think it'll take until we're seeing his PICTURE all over the 'Net with the caption "AMERICA'S DUMBEST BUREAUCRAT"?

Posted by Jeff 2003-11-26 1:36:15 AM|| 2003-11-26 1:36:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Will this Sturmbannfuhrer of Sensitivity start hanging around the County's electrical-maintenance shops and writing up electricians for such gems as "I had to force the male plug into the female socket"?

Posted by Jeff 2003-11-26 1:41:54 AM|| 2003-11-26 1:41:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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