Jedit posted:

No it wasn't. It was the Pharisees who paid Judas, and the thirty pieces of silver was a deliberate insult because it was the blood price of a slave.

It's also been pointed out that Pilate had to be pressured into killing Jesus because Jesus hadn't done anything that would demand execution under Roman law. Judas would surely have known that as well, and as such gave Jesus to the Romans thinking that Jesus would at worst be put in his place with a flogging. He killed himself when he realised that he'd betrayed Jesus to his death.

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/1286685420022046722

2y8m seems like a lot, must have been a pretty god drat serious assault

goddamnedtwisto posted:

And how much does a new arm cost?

Trin Tragula posted:

How the Sausage is Made:

Finally, note that most prisoners in England and Wales are eligible for early release after half their sentence. Covid issues aside, Healy will almost certainly serve 1 year 4 months in prison and the remaining 1 year 4 months on licence; he can be recalled to prison if he offends again while on licence, or fails to comply with the terms of his release.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Incidentally, budget 3D printers are now getting perilously close to the hundred-quid mark, and resin printers are now under 200, both more-or-less plug-and-play, and I suspect this might be dropping it into the price range of quite a few of the WORRAMMER types ITT.

Trin Tragula posted:

use of a weapon equivalent (kicking Jones with a shoe), and so on.

justcola posted:

If you plead guilty I think you also get something like a third off your sentence?

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Not to mention the amount of people who get off with no further investigation. You're more likely to get caught and punished for speeding than you are assaulting someone.

Guavanaut posted:

english law dot pdf

Mebh posted:

In a fun aside my work told me to take some time off or be forced to be off all of December when it's cold. So I took every single Friday off til Christmas. 4 day work week for the rest of the year woo.

It'll be an interesting proof if I can get all my work done without any problems but I'm willing to bet I won't even be remotely stretched.

Trin Tragula posted:

a Newton hearing so he could deny homophobic aggravation.

justcola posted:

If you plead guilty I think you also get something like a third off your sentence? Not to mention the amount of people who get off with no further investigation. You're more likely to get caught and punished for speeding than you are assaulting someone.

Trin Tragula posted:

OK, it sounds silly, but think about this for a moment. Think about how hard you can punch, and how hard you can kick. There's a lot of small bones in the hands and feet; they break very easily if you put enough force through them to hurt someone. Now think about how much padding there is in a shoe, even a light trainer; and think about how many people wear the equivalent level of padding on their hands as a matter of course. This is why MMA fighters, or boxers, wear gloves to fight. Any kind of padding increases the amount of damage you can do to someone.

sassassin posted:

Great way to prove to your employer that you don't have enough to do. If they don't have to adjust and cover when you're not around they won't respect you.

Mr Phillby posted:

I'm not a biblical schollar but I thought a lot of the stuff about the evil Jews tricking the Romans into executing jesus was added around the time Rome was converting to Christianity and earlier tellings were more straightforwardly 'bad romans killed christ'.

Trin Tragula posted:

How the Sausage is Made:

Trin Tragula posted:

notaspy posted:

Have you lot seen this?:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/24/labour-was-warned-antisemitism-report-was-deliberately-misleading-leak-reveals

Life might not go easy for Labour and Corbyn & Co.

justcola posted:

If this was the Blitz they'd be having their curtains open every night and putting christmas lights all over their houses. I think this is a cultural thing over anything else, half a century of media idolising the maverick and the individual, the rolling back of the state and importance placed on 'self starting' and survival.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Anyone have Space Nukes for July?

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1286270855429971968?s=19

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

What I want (theoretically) is to generate a bottle which has a profile that can be modelled by a mathematical curve like the bottom math figure in the image so the 3D bottle represents that curve rotated 2pi radians around the x-axis so a student could fill the bottle with water, measure the volume and convince themselves of the accuracy of the calculation (within the limits of the thickness of the bottle sides. (I'm doing a teaching maths a-level course and have to come up with some practical ways to help students understand the maths.)
So not being experienced in the ways of 3D printers, I was asking whether it is possible to put in an equation in some form or other and have it create the object.
And now I just thought, if it can only generate a solid object, then that could be used as a form to make, say, a clay bottle.

(This is at present a theoretical exercise I don't actually have to make this thing!)

That whiskey sour glass posted by Guavanaut looks useful.

I guess another possibility is to get a selection of glasses, draw the profiles and attempt to figure out a close-fitting equation to the same end so 3D printers not necessary.

Lady Demelza posted:

This is from way back, almost as long ago as the Gospels, but....that's what happened in the Blitz. All violent crime went up during the blackout. People looted from bombed-out buildings, sometimes before the search and rescue was complete. The black market thrived and people knowingly bought stolen food and books of forged ration coupons. You can argue that people's first priority is to take care of their family, but when people invoke the 'Blitz Spirit' they don't mean neighbours pulling old Mr Smith from the rubble and helping themselves to his pocketwatch.

The photos of cheery women taking shelter on Tube platforms are misleading: the government initially refused to allow people to shelter down there, in case they wouldn't come up again and go to work in the factories for fear of bombing raids. Instead the government tried to get them to shelter in hastily-built concrete public shelters that had an unfortunate habit of collapsing with a direct hit. These deeply unpatriotic factory cannon fodder instead chose to break into the Underground anyway. They spent miserable nights with poor lighting, inadequate sanitation and an oppressive airless heat from so many people crowding into a poorly-ventilated space. The only reason those photos exist is because Churchill conceeded he'd have to go with his second choice plan of permitting poor people to Not Die during bombing raids.

baka kaba posted:

you can do this with blender (which is free and incredibly good at the same time!)

I know you probably have no idea what the hell half of that meant, but hopefully the process looks manageable enough that you might want to learn! It's pretty simple once you get the basics and that there is really a recipe for making a curve and then spinning it into a solid shape. And it's free which is good for students. Dunno if any CAD packages will do it more easily though

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It's not clear. But the media seem to be picking up on the fighting fund and going nutso accusing the 'hard left' of going nuts and destroying Labour. Haven't read much of it, just seeing the headlines on google.

What is interesting is that the number of donations is approx half the number of 'shares'. That seems a prettty good return on sharing to me!

The Question IRL posted:

Assaults are definitely something that you are more likely to be caught and punished for.

Disnesquick posted:

Seems like destroying Labour is a worthwhile goal at this point?

Lady Demelza posted:

This is from way back, almost as long ago as the Gospels, but....that's what happened in the Blitz. All violent crime went up during the blackout. People looted from bombed-out buildings, sometimes before the search and rescue was complete. The black market thrived and people knowingly bought stolen food and books of forged ration coupons. You can argue that people's first priority is to take care of their family, but when people invoke the 'Blitz Spirit' they don't mean neighbours pulling old Mr Smith from the rubble and helping themselves to his pocketwatch.

The photos of cheery women taking shelter on Tube platforms are misleading: the government initially refused to allow people to shelter down there, in case they wouldn't come up again and go to work in the factories for fear of bombing raids. Instead the government tried to get them to shelter in hastily-built concrete public shelters that had an unfortunate habit of collapsing with a direct hit. These deeply unpatriotic factory cannon fodder instead chose to break into the Underground anyway. They spent miserable nights with poor lighting, inadequate sanitation and an oppressive airless heat from so many people crowding into a poorly-ventilated space. The only reason those photos exist is because Churchill conceeded he'd have to go with his second choice plan of permitting poor people to Not Die during bombing raids.

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The cases are fewer now, but still they come: food-wasters, black-market buyers and thieves, people wangling goods in excess of quota, people taking God-knows-what profit on the sale and re-sale of things they had hardly heard of in peacetime. Imagine what bloody fools we feel, knowing that a convoy of what we thought vital supplies has really gone to the comfort and profit of such people: the comfort of stupid folk who cannot visualize the price in blood of what they are wasting, the profit of assorted vermin who see, in a shipload of necessaries, only the chance of a squeeze.

I once overhead, at a restaurant table next to mine, one favoured citizen say to another: "I'd have cleaned up another clear thousand quid if I'd held on till the end of the month." Held on to what? Not to a section of front-line trench, I'll bet...It was almost certainly some necessary or other, delivered to his doorstep by the valour and endurance of brave men. Back from a rough convoy, it makes the food stick in your throat. Is such a man concentrating on winning the war? Who is he trying to beat? It doesn't sound like Hitler. And yet the game goes on - checked at one point, slopping over at another: the goods are passed from hand to hand, the margin grows, the money involved gets bigger and dirtier. If ever men should be singled out and shot for looting, these are the prime candidates.

You can understand how it looks to sailors: these men are rats, and we are the saps who keep them alive. And ten such men are not worth the right arm of a Merchant Navy survivor picked off a raft in mid-Atlantic.

Petrol-wranglers, like traitors, merit a special hell. Probably enough has been written about the hazards of bringing an oil-tanker across the Atlantic, and the fate of the ones that don't make it, to establish the background and impress it on the dullet mind. None of it has been exaggerated: tankers are dynamite and their crews are heroes of a particular quality.

What then, is one to make of people who license their private cars as taxis, in order to get extra coupons: who obtain additional petrol to attend church on Sunday and then don't go: who play golf by taxi (an isolated bit of lunacy, this): who drive hundreds of miles to a race-meeting already served by special trains: who treat petrol as if it could be got from a tap? What sort of men are they? Stupid? Incurably selfish? Traitorous? Do they feel clever when they've got their extra whack? Does it give them a sense of power to know that men, foolishy valorous, have fought and perished in hundreds, just to keep their cars ticking over sweetly?

Lady Demelza posted:

This is from way back, almost as long ago as the Gospels, but....that's what happened in the Blitz. All violent crime went up during the blackout. People looted from bombed-out buildings, sometimes before the search and rescue was complete. The black market thrived and people knowingly bought stolen food and books of forged ration coupons. You can argue that people's first priority is to take care of their family, but when people invoke the 'Blitz Spirit' they don't mean neighbours pulling old Mr Smith from the rubble and helping themselves to his pocketwatch.

The photos of cheery women taking shelter on Tube platforms are misleading: the government initially refused to allow people to shelter down there, in case they wouldn't come up again and go to work in the factories for fear of bombing raids. Instead the government tried to get them to shelter in hastily-built concrete public shelters that had an unfortunate habit of collapsing with a direct hit. These deeply unpatriotic factory cannon fodder instead chose to break into the Underground anyway. They spent miserable nights with poor lighting, inadequate sanitation and an oppressive airless heat from so many people crowding into a poorly-ventilated space. The only reason those photos exist is because Churchill conceeded he'd have to go with his second choice plan of permitting poor people to Not Die during bombing raids.

justcola posted:

I have a wee job working at a solicitors. The amount of stuff that goes through to court is minimal in respect of what people are initially charged for. They are more likely to chase up drug dealing than they are any other crime. Domestic violence and rape almost never get charged and seem to take years to process, whilst a drug conviction can turn around in just a few weeks. Most of the stuff that goes to trial tends to be PWITS, then S47 assaults and public order offences, then theft and burglary and everything else just being on the backburner.