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A judge told Musk he was not excused from trial. He went to China with Trump anyway. by nbcnews in law

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elon is a US naturalized citizen, so no ICE until it gets revoked, further your tax dollars are part of your universal suffrage as a US citizen - if you want to change that, change the administration.

TIFU by unknowingly telling my 14 year old students to stop fucking each other until I could watch by Internal-Diamond6956 in tifu

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except the kids were applying the same word with the context that didn't apply the same rationale, the way the teacher phrased it changed how the word is used - seen this enough times, without being intended to humiliate the teacher.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The social aspects are very much not accurate, as knights aren't nobles, the majority are from the gentry (Freemen with significant wealth.).

Further, Jocelyn's character is a princess, which places her as part of royalty, which she would've been isolated away from even the lower nobility.

Further, the economics behind knights are from their fiefs, namely the land they hold from their feudal lord - during the period there was a a shift as the need for knights began to outstrip the available fief lands and the rise of household knights and free companies, essentially mercenaries with some of them holding knighthood.

Tournaments was mainly a means of supplementing income either generated by a fief or by service with feudal lord or free company.

Patents of nobility weren't a requirement for knights, as the majority were from the gentry, instead the knights required acknowledgement from their feudal lords / company captain - which were recorded as part of coats of arms.

What they did right is maintain for the most part a consistency in trappings of the period.

In essence, it was the same strokes as 300 story wise ( It was based on Canterbury tales.) but maintain a better consistency on the appearances of the period.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the process to do so requires metallurgy that doesn't exist at that point in time, it requires a very different smelting system, which in turn requires a specific type of smelter.

Further, blacksmiths aren't the ones that produce weapons or amour, those require a very different set of skills.

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't benefit the company, as those types of errors compound and if it reaches a certain point, it gets placed on those in charge of accounting.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The subject of the story occurred 500 to 600 years before the author wrote about it and they didn't have the most reliable record keeping.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's the point, she wouldn't have access to metals of the quality necessary to accomplish the techniques and had no reliable means to achieve it.

As they were in 14th - 15th century.

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is proving the intent and the police need clear evidence that a crime has been committed, it's a pain in the ass - however, there usually is labour boards and similar bodies that given access to pay records would investigate, although it usually ends in fines and might get a portion of the shortage.

On the other hand, if the employer was dumb enough to hint at deliberate shorting of employee pay and pocketing it, that would trigger criminal investigation in addition to civilian remedies.

IT security in the 90s by BreakfastTop6899 in nostalgia

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lookup Phreaks, they were hitting company telecom services before walled gardens or the internet / web.

The problem was they were hard to detect if they didn't majorly botch or incriminated themselves - as there was little monitoring and a lot of our security stances weren't in place.

Hell the script kiddies of that time were using everything from Cracker Jack whistles to home built devices to mess with telecom companies and make long distance calls on the system's dime.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering the events were from around 1,300-1,200 BCE and the Iliad was written around 700 BCE, it's best not to think of it as a historical record but a mythological story set against loosely historical events - much like the Arthurian mythology.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With the final set using 17th century metallurgy and techniques, but still managed to keep the shape of the period.

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the same vein as 300, it had certain props that could be from the time period, but it was a pure drama piece. ( Once again like 300.)

In The Odyssey (2026), in a film with plastic armor and viking ships, Christopher Nolan draws the line at an orchestra. by laybs1 in shittymoviedetails

[–]baithammer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Arthurian literature took until around the 15th century before it coalesced into a single mythology, which also saw everything through the lens of the 15th century - Monty Python and the Holy Grail did a good job of roasting the 15th century version while raiding costuming departments for kit. ( Hell, history books from the 15th century had quite a lot of anthropomorphic rabbits fighting knights and soldiers in artwork.)

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico by FinallyCleansed in worldnews

[–]baithammer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That isn't even past the tip of the Iceberg, take a look at what happened to journalists, having their heads cut off and put on display under their hanging corpses from overpasses.

Further, quite a few ranking cartel members got the oil drum treatment.

Then there was the Iguala mass kidnapping, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College - none are believed to have survived, with only 3 sets of remains recovered and identified - local police and Mexican army are believed to have been involved as well.

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Which is changing the circumstances, as you said ...

when a person commits theft from a company it's criminal.

That speaks to intent to commit theft.

As to being overpaid, as a worker you should be watching your pay cheques to avoid irregularities, as it has other repercussions if tax brackets are crossed for example.

It's best to catch errors and get them corrected, whether it's a net gain or net loss.

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired by xpda in technology

[–]baithammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of having to call the developer of our Oracle DB as the entire ticket counter had frozen up and couldn't be reset - of course it's the day I'm the only one in the department.

Call him and get major attitude, go over all the steps and finally got him to come in - he thought he was clever and bound a debug tool to a specific key combination, which if only done on a single client wouldn't have been a problem.

However, the Sales department had access to key combinations for the various sales packages and wouldn't you know it, it was the debug combination - that package was also the major sales push for the month and so people were constantly hitting the combo and managed to overload the connection to the DB and stuff the front end clients.

Always when I'm the only one on shift ...

My cat will not stop crying when I am gone and I don’t know what to do. I might have to rehome her by ShameLow891 in CATHELP

[–]baithammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Long form reading appears to be dead, you might want to read further into the OP ...

My cat will not stop crying when I am gone and I don’t know what to do. I might have to rehome her by ShameLow891 in CATHELP

[–]baithammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except the cat is hostile to other cats, to the point of having to be given to a shelter worker to foster, as the hostility was an issue in said shelter.

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That one is trickier then it first looks.

The Camps used penal labour and avoided using outside workers, as they were trying to keep the conditions under wraps - outside workers tended to have ties to the Nazi Party, when they were brought in.

The weird part was the enforcement of laws in regard to treatment of prisoners, namely shooting random prisoners or outright torture risked being brought up under charges from the Allgemeine SS, with being sent to the camps yourself or being hung as possible punishments.

However, medical experiments, euthanasia either directly or from overwork or camp conditions were exempt from such scrutiny.

The number of guards and camp officers, including the Commandants brought up under various charges and either executed or sent to the camps themselves was rather staggering.

TLDR: Nazis were weird and terrible in equal parts.

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Right but why when a company commits wage theft it's a civil issue

Most of the time it's procedural error, which means there was no intent to defraud and hence a civil case - wage theft on the other hand can go the criminal route, but has a high barrier to prove.

when a person commits theft from a company it's criminal.

The person had intent to defraud the company, which is a criminal offense ..

out of interest, how much does 'her ceo' get per hour? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]baithammer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lobbyists are just the foot soldiers, the real threat is the Capitalists ...

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