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| 0culus:
So if a drunk driver kills an innocent person, was murder (vehicular homicide) sufficient punishment for the unfortunate person caught at the wrong place and time?? Give me a break. |
| Fred Basset:
Master and slave might seem ugly words now, but they do clearly give an idea of what each board or circuit is doing. Primary and secondary seem good, but it could just be referring to the sequence in which they process a signal - Not making clear one controls the other's response. The problem is that I cannot think of any answers either. The best I came up with was Mother and Daughter as in computers Motherboards and Daughterboards. Clearly that would be unacceptable also, so my best answer is now "Base" and "Module". Does anyone find any merit in those descriptors? |
| paulca:
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| TimFox:
A quick review of Roget did not give me any appropriate terms to replace "Master" and "Slave". ["Motherboard" and "Daughterboard"], and ["Base" and "Module"] relate to physical configuration, since the latter normally plugs into the former, but do not really specify the logical and causal relationship. "Commander" could work to replace "Master", but the other would have to be "Commanded", and the use of two forms of the same root would cause confusion. "Sergeant" and "Private" seem silly. |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: 0culus on June 17, 2020, 02:35:45 pm ---So if a drunk driver kills an innocent person, was murder (vehicular homicide) sufficient punishment for the unfortunate person caught at the wrong place and time?? Give me a break. --- End quote --- When they kill someone they can be punished with the equivalent punishment for vehicular homicide. And drink driving should still be punished. The man shouldn't just walk free. But I don't think shooting twice in the back is a proportionate response, giving him a DUI and forcing him to drive with a breathalyzer or pay a income-proportional fine or do 30 days labour would be all more appropriate than murder. And all of those can be done at the speed of normal justice. Where is the guy going to go? Do we really think it would be impossible to track down someone with an 8yr old daughter, family, car, job, house and implement an appropriate response through the system that exists...? |
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