“Martin!” Steve yelled. “You’ve gotta get up here.”

Running upstairs, I breathlessly asked, “What?”

Steve had that funny look in his eyes, “Read this,” he pointed to his laptop screen.

I read, “CNN.com – Technology. Los Angeles, California. (Reuters)
“Los Angeles officials have asked that manufactures, shippers and contractors stop using the terms ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’ on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.” The article went on to say that, “Based on the cultural and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.”

“Oh, we’re in trouble now,” I said. “What are we going to call Animation:Master?”

“What are we going to call the NetRender Slave?” Steve whispered.

“And look,” warned Steve. “It says they’re doing an ‘exhaustive search’ to identify offensive equipment. And they’re seeking reparations for the descendants of slaves.”

“We don’t have the money for that!” Noel exclaimed. “My wife would kill me if I lose the kid’s college fund.”

“I know,” Steve said worriedly. “We could call them ‘Animation:Monster’ and ‘NetRender Salve’, you know like the kind you put on your feet?”

“I don’t put salve on my feet,” contradicted Noel. “I say it’s ‘Animmiester’ and we remove the ‘e’ from ‘slave’ to get ‘slav’, you know, like somebody who comes from Slovakia and the ‘meister’ part sounds kind of foreign?”

We were considering these options when the FedEx guy, who James used to work with when he was at FedEx, came in to pick up the day’s shipments. James was putting the last of the boxes out, as he does everyday.

“Hey nigger!” the FedEx guy yelled, greeting James.

“Hey, ya pimp,” James replied.

yes, but has hash, inc. disclosed any profits that may have been made from slavery in the 19th century?

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-jon

I think you need to teach Steve how to forward links via email...

Actually - that's not as funny as I thought - I email my wife whenever I'm about to brew some tea, to see if she wants some.




How many stairs do you have at Hash Towers????




Wohoo! At long last the UK have pre-empted the Americans in the "doing stupid stuff" department: I was opening up the PCs of the London Borough housing department where I worked 20 years ago to replace all the IDE cables - because they had "Master" and "Slave" printed on two of the three connectors.




Anyone from the PC brigade would have had a pop at your company name long before they took an interest in the names of the products themselves...

I remember when my wife asked me what site I was visiting that was called HASH...

I'm usually pretty quick when I am asked questions like this.... but I just sat there, mouth agape...

"Uhhh... Hash...... Ahhh, Animation:Master... The program I use for animation? Uhhhh.... Martin Hash... Ummm, he's the founder of the company. Uhhhh..."

Must've been some sort of "flashback" or something... from back in the day.... Synapses refused to fire...

So did it take effect or what?

Animation:freedom
netrender share holders

Just a suggestion-however if they are only worried about PC with computer tech talk, they have a long way to go as there is much in computer tech talk that is so full of sexual innuendos.