Adding a little flavor to embedded systems testing. 

 

no more heroes

dang i remember those shirts. i also remember getting way butthurt that none of my designs were picked

I like to bake

Wow, Good luck man. It seems like it's definitely time to put that milk in the fridge.*


Now that I think about it, I don't think I know anyone who has a real problem with alcoholism.


*regardless of the hundreds of times you've dressed me down for being an idiot over the years, when I think of you I think, instead, of this video and how many times it made me laugh and how many times I tried to show it to friends who did not think it was funny. Occasionally, when I'm walking to the corner store or something, I'll just start saying "puh tha mulk inna frudge" over and over again.

I think I was 14 when I joined, I'm 23 now. My friend Garrett told me about RM2K in Geometry class and I tried to find it when I got home. I think that was back when you could actually get the program from Don Miguel's website or something like that?? iirc GW never hosted the program itself.

The first thing I ever did on GW was write an article about literary devices in games. I haven't ever been able to find it on the wayback machine. Looking back, with all of the user submitted content, GW was on the cutting-edge of the web 2.0 revolution lol.

EDIT: I found it! http://web.archive.org/web/20040815181155/http://www.gamingw.net/articles/564 I was prepared to be embarrassed, but there's nothing truly mortifying here except for my sorry attempts at humor

why have i never done this before??
 currently looking at gamingw.net/forums on the wayback machine

the mom has a stain on her blouse

reading http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=66270.0 this thread i made five years ago.

the story in the op was entirely fabricated but i am trying to figure out if the people who posted in it (how few i remember!) were genuine in their amusement or if there was some irc thing like "come post in the thread where gb is a dick." for some posts, it is hard to tell whether or not the poster believed the story in the first place.

also,

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

ezekiel 23:20

lol

I think the only one currently displaying a large amount of ignorance concerning religion here is YOU dude. You're lumping all religions together and acting as if there's a codified and unanimous opinion on the subject. You get that there are multiple faiths, right?

- nope
- yes i am
- yes i do

I don't know much about eastern or animistic religions but that doesn't matter here because we have restricted the discussion to Abrahamic religions. I don't know of one holy text belonging to an Abrahamic religion (including LDS sects like Rastafariansm and Mormonism) that isn't shot through with passages that reek of misogyny. Generalizations are often bad, but sometimes, just sometimes, you can make one fairly. This is one of those times.

Wow, several posters "called me out"? You mean three, including yourself? That totally adds great weight to your argument! That two other people posted "women aren't equal in religion". And, again, you lump all religions together in their treatment of women.

Three people out of seven made posts before mine suggesting your thoughts on equality in religion were dubious. Every response to this topic directly discussing something you said in the original post brought up this point. This isn't statistically insignificant. Regardless, i guess this is almost a valid point since the number of people who believe something doesn't dictate its correctness.

Oh, and I didn't mention persecution because that wasn't want the debate was about maybe?

Ahaha dude! Okay, first things first:

I stated earlier, many religious groups DO use religious texts to persecute

This is the sort of thing I meant when I said your post was frustrating. Before reading this, I was pretty sure you were just assuming I was making points that I wasn't; That you either weren't noticing or understanding what I was really saying. Now I come to find that you don't even know what the heck YOU are talking about! Jeez!

Second: Now that we agree you never mentioned religions belittling women, it is fair to say that your assessment of gender  equality was one-sided.

Third: This is not the first time you have tried to deflect criticism by restricting the scope of the discussion, and it's super-annoying. Religions dictate many of the standards of global society, so it is incredibly perplexing that you would say their views on women is not a valid topic of discussion in a thread about gender roles. ugh.

You also seem to be unable to see a difference between religion itself and followers of a religion. "Religion" can't treat anyone as anything. It's the interpretation of religion by religious people that deals with "treatment" of groups.

Ugh, god, this is just dumb, pointless semantics and you are ignoring the fact that it ought to be pretty darn clear to anyone with modest reading comprehension skills that when I say "religion," I mean "religious institutions and their constituents." Furthermore, I've already addressed the fact that adherents to Abrahamic faiths are promoting sexism simply by believing that every misogynist passage in their holy book is the will of an infallible god.

Show me the "word of G-d" that lists women as unequal to men. I posted scripture earlier countering the idea that they were "created unequally', so how about you post some quotes to back up this claim that the Torah defines women as inferior to men. With a commentary or explanation of HOW they show this. I mean, you're speaking as if you're pretty clued up about religion, so why not impart some of your apparent knowledge instead of just claiming straight up that I'm wrong and "calling me out" eh?

Remember when I said you weren't paying attention to what was going on in the discussion? Here is a quote from my first post, which features links to a passage in scripture. In this lovely reading we learn that, according to god, women are LITERALLY worth less than men.

dudes are worth fifty bux but women are only worth thirty

If god created men and women as equals, it sure didn't take him long to change his mind.

Anyway, asking me to provide scriptural evidence of misogyny is possibly the most obnoxious thing you could do. You insinuate that I don't know what I'm talking about, that I'm not familiar with scriptures like the Bible, but the fact that you don't think it talks straight shit about women proves that you've never read the damn thing yourself. Open it up and see if you can go fifty pages without running into something blatantly misogynistic. If you're still having a hard time finding what I'm talking about try reading the letters of Paul. Half of these things are just tirades against women.

Plenty of Suras in the Koran outline a husband's dominance over his wife. One, (I forget which) explicitly states that god made men superior to women. Furthermore, There is a passage from Hadith rattling around in my head that says the population of hell primarily consists of women, because women are often disobedient to their husbands.

In terms of Judaism, it means female rabbis and women being allowed to read from the Torah.

Ahaha man, I wonder what happens when they get to chapter three.


You never explicitly said this, but I am inferring you are a Christian?? Do you believe in the entire bible, or do you pick and chose? If someone in your church insisted that every passage in the bible is infallible, would you have the nuts to call them out?

Open Class: Screening and Discussion of “Mirroring Privilege: Making White Visible”
3:30 to 4:45 p.m., Hayward Hall, Room 213
"Mirrors of Privilege," a simply made but surprisingly compelling film, introduces Caucasians to the part of their “whiteness” that they have learned not to see. The film moves through a series of conversations with Caucasians who have thought deeply about race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAljja0vi2M&feature=related

man i was curious to know what part of my whiteness i have learned not to see but ahahaha this movie is just a bunch of white people crying about how black people hate them because other white people (NOT THEM!) are racists

advertisers have tv writers by the nutz

idk if that's a bad thing - the sooner tv is totally run by ad men the sooner people will stop giving a shit about tv (hopefully??)

WHERE THE HECK ARE MY PIPS!?!? WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ASTERISK? ??? ?

blah blah blah etc... etc... etc..

wow, that was a very frustrating post! you seem to have this weird schism in your head with a desire for women to be treated as full members of society on one side, and ignorance of religion's philosophy of women's roles on the other

i'll try not to belabor this point because it's pretty clear that we're on the same side of this issue, but man!

Hmm, quite emotive, but I get your point. You're right - as I stated earlier, many religious groups DO use religious texts to persecute, and not just women. However, like I said, many of the branches of the major Abrahamic faiths don't. To claim that I'm being "mad dumb" for bringing up information based on the religious positions of various faiths is a little weird.

first of all, i'm pretty sure you never mentioned religions persecuting anyone until this post. i don't know if you, yourself, are religious but your posts were a pretty one-sided defense of religion's treatment of women. that's why several posters in this thread, and i, felt the need to call you out on it. just sayin'.

second, just because a religion doesn't obviously persecute women doesn't mean they consider women to be equal. the torah, bible, and koran are the foundation of the abrahamic religions. these organizations' laws and attitudes are fundamentally tied to books that relegate women to roles in society that are separate and unequal from men. regardless of how egalitarian some splinters of these religions might try to portray themselves, they still believe in a "word of god" that lists women as unequal to men.

movin on

 

Oh, and where did I say that gender equality actually, or fully, exists? I said "considers". Just because you consider men and women to be equals doesn't mean that gender problems in society are going to suddenly be fixed. Men earn around 1/5 more money than women in the same positions when you get into the non-public sector professional world, yet we live in a society where women are proclaimed to be equal. Considering us to be equal, and then acting upon that, is not necessarily the reality.

i never said that you said that.

your insistence that 'saying you believe in gender equality does not necessarily equate with adopting gender equality' actually reinforces my point that "progressive" religions are only paying lip service to the idea of women as full members of society. 

many of the major branches of the world's Abrahamic faiths believe in gender equality.

when i read this sentence the image of a geyser of shit spewing feces mightily into the upper atmosphere just popped (pooped) into my head out of nowhere

one out of every six people on the planet belong to a religion which says that women can't serve as clergy, which is to say that only men are fit to relay the will of god.

the old testament is filled this crap that essentially amounts to "slut-shaming," and other gems like dudes are worth fifty bux but women are only worth thirty

and oh man oh man islam is not any better. they've got your run-of-the-mill gender fascism plus an influential extremist minority to boot!


it might be fair to say that many of the major branches of the world's Abrahamic faiths don't really treat women like absolute shit, but to suggest that anything approaching gender equality exists in more than a thimblefull of abrahamic organizations is mad dumb. 

western men are trained by our culture to be sexist and the only way we western males can keep from being sexist is to think about not being sexist every minute of every day forever

that's what i do.

man over the years i always thought dada was horribly ugly but now i guess he's very handsome?

i think the difference might be that train photo is the first one i've seen of him not taken by an awful webcam lit solely by the glow of the monitor

For the last three or four years running, sredni vashtar has made the picture thread. well fuck that guy, IM MAKING THE PICTURE THREAD NOW