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I think cartoons with mice as detectives are accepted. They may even own dogs!
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#realJSOP wrote: I wonder what will become of my clutch slave cylinder.
You will forced to free it - better get used to it... and even better to do it yourself, before the activists come to you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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...and then pay reparation to it.
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If the bitches feel froggy, they are invited to jump...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I should probably post this in technical, but... I freed my IDE drives by removing all the master / slave jumpers, now my desktop won't boot up; have I done something wrong?
The sad truth is that slavery is alive and well in the modern world, but this madness sweeps it under the carpet because we will no longer have the words to describe it. What you can't talk about, you can't fix. 
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Kevin Marois wrote: WTH is wrong with people??
GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references | ZDNet
I don't see any replies with the relevant explanation but...
The intention to not offend with this terminology is actually where the "Client/Server" movement came from. If you think about it, it is pretty much the same thing backwards with different labelling. The Client makes requests, the server services those requests. A master makes a request, the slave fulfills the request.
My first observation of it in the wild was about 1976, from IBM. From what I've seen, nobody changed existing terminology but all new architectures used the new improved politically correct terminology. For example, the Unibus on Digital Equipment Corp PDP and VAX machines had bus master, slave devices, SLBI/SLBO, SWO (slave lower byte in, slave lower byte out, slave word out) etc. None of these changed names but Digital followed through with client server model in software services and for all new products.
I was suprised when I discovered Raspberry Pi in 2012 that they have an I2C interface, which contains MOSI, MISO (master in slave out, ...) pins. Wikipedia says that it (I2C) was invented about 1982 by Philips (same era but European and somewhat detached from the issue).
I suspect that things will follow the pattern from 1976 this time, but new technologies will arise in importance because they are more politically correct than (say) I2C. The old technologies will die for emotional reasons instead of technical merit.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Are brass musical instrument rentals for people who don't blow their own trumpet?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I hate to horn in on your brassy remarks, but you did piccolo bar with this one, bassoon other replies will come in.
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Hey Griff! No sax in the lounge! KSS!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I you reed where ToD has been, you already knew it Wood Wind up here, sooner or later.
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Sure but this is the Lounge. You should conductor self accordingly!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Metamorphosing adult tries to sound like cricket? (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: tries to sound like cricket
Yes, but will it come to the turtles aid? 
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That'll send them scurrying to their dictionaries. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's a word I hadn't come across before. Nice one! I'm not replying with the answer because I looked it up.
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I don't have a problem with looking obscure things up, but @jsc42 would have gotten it.
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I also had to look it up so didn't answer. I feel bad stealing one that I didn't know myself. However, there is no logic to that feeling and I have no issue with somebody else winning with a word they didn't already know.
In short, I think you should just say it and do tomorrow. 
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Sneaking in inside 4 hours.
STRIDULATE sounding like the chirping cricket, anagram of ADULT TRIES.
Came to me instantly. Been reading too much doco on str_xxxx this afternoon.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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...I really don't know what to make of it... 
Maybe it was Griff?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Build a LEGO Hospital?
Then you could do plastic surgery...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I just finished my Imperial Star Destroyer last weekend 
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pics or it didn't happen.  
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Where's the "We brake for nobody" bumper sticker?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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