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> Built for extended missions, the ship should operate at ranges up to 2,000 nautical miles (3,704 kilometers/2,302 miles), maintain speeds of 12 knots (22 kilometers/13.8 miles per hour), and navigate rough seas and tight waterways.
WWII's Liberty Ships were originally capable of 11 knots or so.
Even at the sedate pace of things in WWII, that proved to be too damn slow. The next generation of cargo ships - entering service about mid-1944 - were capable of 16-ish knots.
If I was an engineering manager in an org which actually valued getting sh*t done - vs. bragging rights, head counts, and PHB politics - then I'd notice within a month that Engineer A (who the article has shipping in a couple days) got far more done then Engineer B (who needed 3 weeks).
And long before performance review time, I'd have mentioned further up that A was looking like a 5X engineer - best if we keep her happy.
$250 for a US trademark. Just fill out some forms.
I would think a US trademark plus a nasty cease and desist letter would deter most. But maybe I’m naive.
Either that or just accept that someone else has a scam site. Report it to anyone you can report it to, put a message in your software stating that it shouldn’t have ads or payments and convey the official website.
I mean fired and resigned when it became clear you'd be fired are the same thing really.
We're not actually entitled to know the exact details of someone's job ending. They worked there. Now they don't. That much is the bit we're entitled to.
For public misconduct like this, we should get to know if he was fired (or asked to resign) as opposed to his making the independent decision to find work elsewhere or retire or whatever. We should get to know if he left because the company wanted him gone or because he wanted to be gone.
Not a Brit - but I've been seeing "times get even worse for UK pubs, with yet more closing" stories for years now.
And the BBC seems torn between lambasting a corporation for screwing the little guys...and admitting that the whole works was a hopeless money-loser, with a mountain of debt.
Brewdog is pretty much a TGI Fridays that’s pretending to be edgy.
People very much don’t like their beers, the atmosphere feels fake, and there’s significantly better options in any major UK city.
It’s a shame they are closing and I feel for the employees, but nobody local really believes they are a respectable place, touristy really.
While UK nightlife/drinking/pubs like every other city in the world is slower since COVID, I still have many friends from around the world who come visit and can’t believe how busy our cities and nightlife are compared to their city back home (NYC, SF, LA, Berlin, Sydney to name a few).
Before Brewdog if you wanted IPAs in 2000s england you paid 8 quid for a single small bottle of imported Racer 5 from Utobeer in Borough Market. They weren’t the entire change but they were a big part of it.
Oh no doubt, credit where credit is due. They served a purpose, but like anything cool in life, expansion and profits ate their soul and there are obviously so many better places to enjoy a pint (or grapefruit) these days :)
I'm sure we're in agreement that, at least in UK, there's been better pubs for 200+ years. I don't know why to go to a chain-pub with some mega-factory beer when the old-local serves a fine bitter from the same county. Am I old?
Yes it's a bit of a generayional shift. In the 2000s when I moved the UK it was all real ale. If you wanted to drink a pinecone of an IPA the Utobeer option above seemed like the only option.
But I'm a millenial. Liking IPAs is a millennial trope and younger people like less intense flavours.
Hasn’t the UK had CAMRA supporting small breweries, opposing monoculture, and running beer festivals with hundreds of different beers for like 50 years?
> People very much don’t like their beers, the atmosphere feels fake
Sorry, but you don't know 'people'. Not all. You could only speak for yourself here. If you read the article you may realize that some 'people' liked it. here and there. It was not government or military contract that brough in all that money but the 'few' pints added up to the sum. You don't have to look down people to feel good, just have some drinks perhaps....
If you’re from the UK, you’d also know brewdog is not nearly as busy as it once was. Of course people like it because it’s convenient, but so is going to a spoons and paying half as much for the same quality but less cool interior.
Pubs have been in decline for years, because people don't go / drink as much, and because of our starting position: this is a country where there are pubs everywhere. But Brewdog is a chain of pubs and a brewery – this is much larger than the standard story of "village supporting three pubs can now only support two".
As for the "torn" reporting, there's no contradiction – companies can go bust ethically or unethically. You don't have to screw your retail investors / fans. You just can. And they have.
"People want to believe in Santa Claus. Your job is to make that easy for them to do." - Shopping mall manager training his seasonal workers
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