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When I saw this thread, I thought I'd taken a wrong turn at bondage &
discipline! ; )))
Thank gawd there aren't worse bits of jargonese out there!
> Every time I open a manual and I see a reference to a master/slave
> relationship, I feel a strange little twinge. I can't explain it, but it's
> there.
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"The world we have created today...
has problems which cannot be solved
by thinking the way we thought when
we created them."
..............................Albert Einstein