Computer terminology and political correctness

Did anyone hear that some bureaucrat, in charge of purchasing for the city of Los Angles, has sent a letter to all of the city's suppliers of equipment, asking them not to use the "insenstive" words "master" and "slave" in relation to equipment sold to the city? Maybe this means that there will be a glut of politically incorrect surplus computer equipment and documentation available there. Of course, they'd probably recycle it into scrap so as to not risk offending purchasers... too bad they don't just recycle the political correctness into something else. -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.