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Your assertion that the word suicide should carry more weight reminds me of complaints that describing a project as "stillborn" is insensitive to parents that h
by thwarted 17y ago
Your assertion that the word suicide should carry more weight reminds me of complaints that describing a project as "stillborn" is insensitive to parents that have lost a baby, and that using the terms master/slave in technical documents is discriminatory.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
- sailormoon 17y agoNot to mention killing processes. And aborting operations!
- nfnaaron 17y agoAnd executing processes.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoDon't even get me started on the male/female ends of a cable interface.
- sailormoon 17y agoI see I am not the only one who has awkwardly tried to explain what I need to baffled sales staff.
- nfnaaron 17y agoMy ex-wife was not a native speaker, and I once asked her for the male end of an extension cord. Hilarity ensued.
- seiji 17y agoI've had customers complain that using the terms whitelist and blacklist are offensive. We switched them to "allowed" and "denied."
- ax0n 17y agoA year or so ago, I was going to help a stranger jump-start his car. He didn't have jumper cables with him, but I keep a set in all of my motorized vehicles. I generally assume (often rightly so) that folks who don't own a pair of jumper cables do not know how to correctly utilize them. Whilst giving him the 15-second explanation on their use, he interrupted me. "Man... why black always gotta be NEGATIVE?" I took my jumper cables out of his hands, tossed them into the back of my car and drove off, leaving him with his hood (and his jaw) wide open. I haven't the time for crap like that.
- mrkurt 17y agoI guess you showed him.