Los Angeles Bans ‘Master/Slave’ Labels on Electronic Equipment

(CNSNews.com) - The words “master” and “slave” - used to describe primary and secondary circuits on some electronic equipment - have been banned in Los Angeles. Under orders from the affirmative action office, county departments have taped over the words “master/slave,” using the words “primary/secondary” instead, The Los Angeles Daily News reported. “The County of Los Angeles actively promotes and is committed to ensure a work environment that is free from any discriminatory influence, be it actual or perceived,” one city official wrote in a Nov. 18 memo. Read News on the Web

Of course, for the record, every IBM PC style computer with IDE style hard drives, which has got to be at least 99.9% of all personal computers out there, have master/slave drive configurations.
Does this mean that if you live in LA, and you call Dell for tech support, and they mention changing the jumpers on your master and slave drives, you can sue?
Anyways, so starts my vacation! Back to the grind Dec. 15th. But until then, its happy time!

You can sit on the sand forever, looking out at the sea.
Seeing the waves roll in, looking out to the far horizon, All seems calm and peaceful.
The surface is marked by its usual tranquility.
You marvel at what you see.

To perceive is different than to see.
That is the moment you realize what is below the surface.
A whole world exists just below.
Underneath is pure activity and chaos.

Well, it’s back to 1977 for me: I just bought an Atari 2600 to replace the one my mom gave away to the Overfelt (quit yer snickerin’) kids down the street. And it’s a beauty: a “Heavy Sixer” <angelic choir> which for you non-Atari minded is the first run of the unit, made in Sunnyvale CA before the job was outsourced to Hong Kong. So named because it weighs half a ton and can stop 9mm bullets.
The unit has the original paddles, the original grey with black logo power supply, and the original joysticks. And best of all, I got it on eBay for an amazing price - my first big eBay purchase.

There is something sublime about playing the same games with your kid as you played when you were a kid. I even let the little guy beat me in Combat! What’s even more amazing to you programmers out there is this:

1010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010
1010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010

That’s 128 bytes - the amount RAM the thing uses to do everything.

The Atari logo is coming back, and it is quite the time capsule back to the days when disco and Jimmy Carter ruled the world. Then again, maybe I’ll fire up the PS2 and play a nice relaxing game of Half-Life….

Attention SpikeTV: You obviously have a winner with Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Take a look at the last five searches from Google:

Old Pirate Movies
Most Extreme Challenge
most extreme challenge
takeshi’s castle download
extreme challenge spike

We’ve only wrote about it here a few times and its showing up as a most popular search term. I talk to my friend Hiroki in Japan and he remembers how much people used to watch Takeshi’s Castle. I walk around at work on Fridays and people are talking about the show.
So, SpikeTV, get more episodes! I loved the snow episode the other day. Do what it takes to produce more MXC! We love MXC, just like we love South Park. Its a nice conservative show. In other words, its people out having fun, getting hurt because they chose to participate, and they don’t have lawyers following them around suing everyone. Its very un-politically correct, and it is hilarious. What a combo!
Speaking of South Park, USNews.com has commentary about that fine show:

The showpiece of antiliberal humor is one that appalls a good many conservatives: South Park, Comedy Central’s wildly popular cartoon saga of four crude and incredibly foul-mouthed little boys. The show mocks mindless lefty celebrities and takes swipes at the gay lobby and the abortion lobby. Some examples: Getting Gay With Kids is a homosexual choir that descends on the school. And the mother of one South Parker decides she wants to abort him (”It’s my body”), despite the fact that he’s 8 years old. The weekly disclaimer on the show says it is so offensive “it should not be viewed by anyone.” This is a new paradigm in pop culture: Conventional liberalism is the old, rigid establishment. The antiliberals are brash, funny, and cool. Who would have thought?

So very true. I remember the thoughts of when the conservatives lost popular culture. But they handled it far better than the kicking and screaming the libbies are producing now. The sheer terror they have at losing sole control of the soapbox is gratifying in a way.

Do the hardcore leftists in America actually froth at the mouth while walking down the street? From the comments on this post I’d say they even eat each other in a cannibalistic frenzy.
After reading the comments, I have an image of a bunch of hippies, marching in lockstep. The one of them that has an intelligent thought on their own and loses cadence is immediately crushed by the mob. Once nice and tenderized, the barbacue starts.
The commentary is about that idiot Ted Rall that I talked about a few posts ago. The posts on the site have one person attempting to call him out and say he’s just an idiot and doesn’t represent the rational left wing. The argument presented is well thought out, and presented correctly. Which is apparently the mistake. The seething hatred that the rest of the commentary has on this poor person is palpable. They don’t rebut any arguments, just call him (her?) stupid and worse. Sheesh. I’m sorry, but I don’t see that much hate at a Klan rally.

Kind Editor:
In your November 15 editorial, you argue that the Pentagon should change it’s media policy to allow press to show coffins arriving at Dover AFB. You state that without still pictures of coffins arriving from Dover, “the public doesn’t think about the number of fatalities”.

Given the fact that nearly every media outlet records the number of soldiers killed and wounded in each attack, you believe that the American public isn’t aware of the lives of our sons and daughters in foreign lands?

Has it ever occurred to you that the American public does indeed know the cost, but believes it is worth it to create a free and prosperous Iraq? One that doesn’t gas its own citizens or threaten its neighbors? One that doesn’t support terror in Israel, the Middle East and elsewhere? One that does not pursue nuclear weapons to blackmail other nations or pass along to terror groups?

In the 1980s I belonged to Amnesty International and we wrote letters to Saddam appealing to him to stop abusing human rights. Those letters didn’t stop Saddam: the American military and its allies did.

Newspapers like yours that believe war is never justified cannot understand a public that can support a war. You believe that we are brainwashed, and that pictures of coffins will break the administration’s hold over us. Such an opinion is elitist and shows that you have no respect for the common citizen to make up our own minds. We don’t need the media, the UN, the Arab Street or France to decide for us. We can decide for ourselves.

Regards,
Scott Kirwin

PS: These guys need a spanky really bad….

BTW, for those readers in New Castle county, Delaware.
New Japanese restaurant, and its, well, great. Ohama Restaurant (click for directions) is pretty new, and its not a huge restaurant, but a sushi bar/grill in a small strip mall just south of the Summit Bridge airport. We’ve been having software meetings there the past few weeks. I’m afraid they don’t have a website yet.
The staff is the most friendly I’ve ever met. They really try working with you to see what foods you are interested in having, especially if you have never had sushi or other <nihonryoori> before.
But let me say, they have a teriaki steak that is better than any steak I have ever had in any steak place before. Two good size filets, cooked *perfectly* with a drizzle of teriaki steak over it. Not marinated in it so that all you taste is teriaki and salt.
Had a spicy tuna roll there which was incredibly good. The appetizers we have had so far have been delicious.
Can you tell I’m running out of praise words for this place? Best thing is, its less than 10 minutes away. Next I’ll try either Oyako Don or maybe Yakitori. But I think that most commentary on websites is derogatory, so I like to praise something done well when I find it.

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Lets just say, Horrors of Horrors. Michael Jackson was whipped as a kid. Not beaten. Hmmm… Maybe it should have been a beating.
Also needing a beating, Ted Rall. I’ve always known he was a nutcase. I think news editors use him to “fair and balance” the center to left wing political commentary they normally use with something so far left they can claim that they are responding to a broad spectrum of thought. If you can call some of this drivel actual thought.

Because we destroyed our weapons of mass destruction, we were unable to defend ourselves against the American invasion. This was their plan all along. Now our only option is guerilla warfare: we must kill as many Americans as possible at a minimum risk to ourselves.

Yes, that is what he had published in many newspapers across America. Now you know why I dropped my subscriptions. Asshole.

This is definitely worthy of a view. Given the fact that the counter at the bottom reads over 1.2 million, I’d say that over a million souls agree.

Money quote:

I am amazed anyine pays more then a dollar a piece for these things. What happened to collecting STAMPS? Pay what you want for them! IT ALL GOES TO HOMEDEPOT !!!!!! and BEER!

Someone actually searched on “GOOGLES NAKED POLICE GIRLS” and found it here. Sad part is that there are 19 hits above mine!

Regarding the last post. It looks like that post is so popular that it crashed the rest of his website. Scary stuff that there is such a reponse to a post like this.
Mostly because it is true.
We’ve turned into a land of feelings instead of actions. Its more important to feel your pain than to fix it. Ahh, what disgusting times we live in.
The WWII generation had real men in it. Men of action. Deeds not words, so the saying goes from Megaforce. Then the 60’s experiment. What went wrong? In the old days you were afraid of offending someone because they would kick your ass. Now you’re afraid they’ll sick the lawyers on you. What made that generation of the 60’s so wierd, so clueless, so whacked out? Oh yeah, right, the drugs. Now they’re in charge of the entertainment industry, where they’re still doing all the drugs they can buy. Kim’s example:

And it doesn’t take much to see when all the things I love are being threatened: for instance, when Tim Allen’s excellent comedy routine on being a man is reduced to a fucking sitcom called Home Improvement. The show should have been called Man Improvement, because that’s what every single plotline entailed: turning a man into a “better” person, instead of just leaving him alone to work on restoring the vintage sports car in his garage. I stopped watching the show after about four episodes.

Nailed it. The show is funny on the surface, until you see that every little thing Tim does is wrong, and he has to get the “new way” from his wife, or his neighbor. That clarifies why I was always slightly turned off by that show, even though I also loved the initial comedy routine. No wonder Tim Allen is a left wing anti-war wuss now.
I will let it be known that real men find Most Extreme Elimination Challenge the funniest thing on television. While I find Queer Eye rather amusing also, the only thing I learned from it was to shave slower. They’re right in that taking a razor and quickly slashing at your face is bad. But old movies show real men who shave slow, usually with a straight razor. Beyond that there isn’t much that I’d prefer to do myself. Flannel and denim will always win over a new beret. Those worn out looking jeans look pretty disgusting. The best thing they do for the men on the show are clean their apartments and buy them new furniture.
Now people, its okay to tell dirty jokes. Even Shakespeare did it, and he wore tights. Its also ok to leer. And make approving comments about a fine woman’s figure.
Be a real man before all memory of it is forgotten. Not a caricature of a real man, but the real deal. Before we turn into one of those weird Sci-Fi societies where everyone walks around in white rooms wearing white jumpsuits and no one talks to or touches anyone else!

Kim du Toit has a must read: The Pussification of the Western Male. Be sure to pass it along to the wife. Seriously. I’m convinced that wives are conflicted between domesticating men and being attracted to their rougher, wilder nature.

Looking to read this post?  Go here…

Another one over. Happy birthday to Katie yesterday, happy birthday to Christi today.
Thought there were supposed to be a lot of Pirates, yesterday only saw two. More ninjas than anything, actually they were Warrior Ninjas. As opposed to Accountant Ninjas. Or Lunch Line Lady Ninjas. Now that’s scary.
Not much time at all lately to hit the blog world. Andrew Ian Dodge writes about a Halloween roundup with curious emails about Cthulhu. Its okay, I can speak his name here. Remember, most of the eldritch gods came from the sea…
But what really rocks is Colorado Conservative’s favorite haunted pictures post. It rocks, look for all the ghosts. Some may be fakes, but they’re still pretty darn creepy.