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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bitwelder on July 03, 2020, 09:10:13 am ---Has a replacement term already been chosen for the academic degree between bachelor and doctor?
(BTW, degree probably hold by many of those who are proposing this terminology change).
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Or for a male who is too young to be a "Mister"?
Kjelt:
--- Quote from: bitwelder on July 03, 2020, 09:10:13 am ---Has a replacement term already been chosen for the academic degree between bachelor and doctor?
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For an EE I vote for Megger, A Megger in the science of Electrical Engineering, sound perfect for me if the name was not a trademark.
nuclearcat:
I feel sorry to refuel this topic, but i think this article of Ray Bradbury from 1979 is very relevant: http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/451/451.html
--- Quote --- The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist / Unitarian, Irish / Italian / Octogenarian / Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feel it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by the minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from the book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the library closed forever.
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coppercone2:
i thought they were just perverted, I never figured the race relationship
how about stop being lazy and call it a control chip and a controlled chip. its too advanced for mashed potato explainations
I personally like it because it uses more ink if you write a uni directional control channel. too many confusing distillations, usually used to keep education and skill level costs down, at the expense of causing massive confusion down the line.
bd139:
--- Quote from: nuclearcat on July 04, 2020, 01:57:39 am ---I feel sorry to refuel this topic, but i think this article of Ray Bradbury from 1979 is very relevant: http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/451/451.html
--- Quote --- The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist / Unitarian, Irish / Italian / Octogenarian / Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feel it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by the minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from the book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the library closed forever.
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That was an exceptionally good read. Right on point.
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