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Scheiss Meister

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  1. As an SFA alum (but not graduate), I would vastly prefer that they join the UT system. Bigger slice of the AUF, better governance, and higher academic expectations. I would also love to see the Forest Service put under UT/SFA and do away with the stupid Texas A&M Forest Service branding. Let it just be the Texas Forest Service, like God intended.
  2. Performance Improvement Plan - ostensibly intended to guide and encourage an employee to improving their performance and behavior while clearly explaining the consequences of failing to improve in the allotted time. In practice, at least in my experience, an extended torture session for both the supervisor and the recalcitrant employee because it is usually begun late in the discipline process, after the employee has proven repeatedly that they either cannot or will not fix the problem. They exist purely to 1) justify the existence of HR, and 2) provide documentation that you tried everything possible before firing the employee.
  3. Both of my parents were teachers and had these in their classrooms. When my dad showed it to my oldest (and at that time only) little brother and me, he told us to leave those alone because they could cut off a finger. Being the loving big brother that I am, as soon as my dad turned to something else, I tried to get my brother to put his hand on it so I could test that assertion. The sound of me struggling to put his hand in position drew my dad's attention, so I never got to find out if one really could remove a finger with one of those. But I still have time...
  4. The olds will remember that Jack in the Box restaurant signs used to have a clown head on a spring sticking out of the top of the sign, rotating around. My dad had us four boys convinced that if the clown saw you, you would be an aggy. My oldest little brother and I would watch for them, then hit the back floorboard when we saw one. If the two younger brothers got in the way, we just picked them up and threw them back in the seat. Pissed my mom off, but my dad cracked up, every time. And it must have been true. The one who usually ended up on top of the pile has a bachelor's from aggy.
  5. From the end of another meeting TEXAS!!!
  6. The G-20 summit is in Bali. Seems like airplanes disappear in that area from time to time. His should.
  7. I want to hear Snoop narrate this video.
  8. So that's what it looks like when a frog gets heartburn.
  9. People after my own heart: Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.
  10. Wakey, wakey, eggs and baky! One would think that Russian units would have watches set to look for drones while the unit slept, but one would be wrong. It is a good thing that they are so stupid.
  11. That's not how I would party, but to each their own. How would you like to have been the law enforcement that had to arrest him? If he took off, would you tackle him?
  12. Don't advertise it and let the world wonder. Better yet, blame the Saudis.
  13. I don't know the details, but I assume that this is industrial wastewater, not human waste. Any waste that is discharged directly or indirectly into the navigable waters of the State of Texas is subject to regulatory approval and oversight by TCEQ. TCEQ has a model of the current and desired conditions of the segment of the Colorado to which the wastewater will be discharged. This model determines the amount of each pollutant that can be added to the river to maintain the desired water quality for its assessed level of use. To my knowledge almost all of the Colorado is assessed as high use/high contact, so the permitted limits will be set at some of the strictest levels indicated by the model. It is impossible to economically discharge perfectly clean water from a wastewater plant, but it is quite possible to discharge water that does not pollute the receiving stream to the point that it is hazardous to human health or the environment. The company will be issued a permit regulating the quality of the wastewater to meet the requirements shown by the model. The company will have to sample their effluent regularly and report the results to TCEQ monthly. Periodically a TCEQ inspector will inspect the facility and its records. 142,500 gallons per day of properly treated wastewater will not pose any hazard to human health or the environment. That may sound like a lot of water to you, but it really isn't. The City of Austin's two domestic wastewater treatment plants are permitted for 150,000,000 gallons per day. 142,500 gallons per day is the maximum amount that they are allowed to average over a month. In practice they will discharge less than that. If they operate within their permit, this wastewater doesn't present a danger. That doesn't mean that there won't be fuckery and the State won't turn a blind eye to said fuckery. It means that if the rules are followed and enforced, there won't be a significant danger from this discharge.
  14. Pinhead, obviously.
  15. Damn, @pops. I'm sorry to hear that.
  16. He got his heart rate up whether he wanted it or not.
  17. A few squadrons of P-51s or Spitfires would knock the shit out of those drones.
  18. 300 to 400 km range? Hell yeah! Let's do it. The Kerch bridge would be toast.
  19. 3 - 2 is the most optimism that I can drag up. I think that 4 - 1 is possible, but I don't trust the defense/coaches to be consistent enough for that or 5 - 0. I would be happy to be proven too pessimistic.
  20. In the Marine Corps it's usually a sergeant or staff sergeant's job to piss troops off that much. The Russians must really be hard up for junior and senior lieutenants.
  21. So the Rooskies say that they are killing 13 Ukrainian soldiers for every two rushists killed, but they are evacuating Kherson oblast east of the Dnipro. That doesn't add up.
  22. Except that they weren't being fed or housed, I agree. Of course, the first opportunity that arises, I'm heading for the hills if they tell me that I don't exist and can't join a unit.
  23. Yeah, I should learn to read. One of these days...
  24. Stalin plus Hitler, minus their intelligence.
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