What's the point of you storing physical copies? Is this deal only valid at the time of sale, so you could essentially just put the physical copy back on the shelf if they want the ebook, and then just grab a copy if they wanted to exchange? Or are you planning on dedicating a large amount of storage space to the specific book each customer purchased and then wanted the ebook of?
We benefit from the bottomless DoD budget for sure. We have the ability to spend as much as it takes on material and training to ensure reliability and safety for the crew. And it shows. We've had several undersea collisions (SSN-711 in 2005 and SSN-22 in 2021), and while both incidents were extremely serious, both boats made it safely back to port for repair.
SUBSAFE was implemented in 1963 following the loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593). It's a remarkably strict QA program for systems and components exposed to seawater/operating pressure. To our credit, we've only lost one submarine since 1963 (USS Scorpion, SSN-589, and she was never SUBSAFE-certified), so the program works.
Similarly stringent controls for the Titan would have either caught all the manufacturing defects in the carbon fiber, or prevented anyone from thinking it's a good idea to begin with. A big part of innovation is learning what rules you can reasonably bend/break, and which should never be touched. I tend to think pressure hull construction falls in the "never touch" category, at least not without a mountain of testing, data collection, fatigue life calculation, etc. along with communication with regulatory bodies to ensure you meet the principles of the regulation, if not the exact words (again, innovation has it's place).
I work on submarines. Everything that company was doing gave me a panic attack. The SUBSAFE program exists for a reason. Like, there's a time and place for innovation, and when people's lives are on the line is NOT it.
Let's also not forget that there was no way to exit the submersible from the inside. The door was bolted on by the surface team. So if they had just lost power (instead of being crushed), they would've been floating on the surface with no way out. That's the another obvious horrendous design choice.
Helldivers 2, and the recently announced requirement starting at the end of the month to have a PSN account for a game many people bought a month or so ago on Steam.
The key word in the guidance is "persistently" misgendering. So if someone gets the pronouns right 95% of the time, that's hardly "persistent". These guidelines target employers/people who willfully and purposefully mis gender/discriminate. If you're trying to claim these rules make you afraid to talk to trans people, you might want to take a long hard look at your own biases/phobias.
That's basically the story of Apple in the last decade or so. They create a "solution", realize it doesn't actually solve anything, and then they break some other things to make their solution actually work.
So I'm anticipating that the next iPhone won't have a screen unless viewed through a Vision Pro.
Forgive my potential lack of understanding, but when a federal law and a state law clash, isn't the federal law the winner? So if the state law requires monthly payment of premiums, but federal law requires 12 months of coverage from a single premium, Florida is supposed to be SOL?
Well Castro came to power via revolution in 1959, which pissed off the US, and started the push towards the Soviet Union. The nation also hosted Soviet nukes for a very brief time in 1962.
More detailed timeline found here, if you're interested.
It seems pretty ironic that, in future studies of critical race theory, the current era of trying to ban the teaching of CRT will be used as a textbook example of how ingrained in our culture racism really is
Damage is damage. Anything that keeps those ships in yard and not useful to the Russians is a good thing. Especially because now Russia has to sink men, money, and time that they may not necessarily have into fixing them
What's the point of you storing physical copies? Is this deal only valid at the time of sale, so you could essentially just put the physical copy back on the shelf if they want the ebook, and then just grab a copy if they wanted to exchange? Or are you planning on dedicating a large amount of storage space to the specific book each customer purchased and then wanted the ebook of?