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CHIEF

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  1. Tell him to be sure to have his handkerchief and his summer frock. Oh, and don't listen to "Southampton Dock" by Pink Floyd, kinda depressing and very PTSDy. CHIEF
  2. Ryan Watts will be gone next year, but the defensive backfield is definitely filled with stud sophomores, RS freshmen, and true freshmen. Manny looks like he is already in the two deep behind Watts. Its formidable competition. He possibly wouldn't even see action until an offense goes five wide his second year. CHIEF
  3. I definitely don't "pity da fool." CHIEF
  4. I'm pushing her pretty hard to get this done. There is nothing I hate worse than a thief, and that includes murderers. Murderers usually have a reason, unless they are a thief that murders. CHIEF
  5. People that refer to any part of the US that is not densely urban as "flyover" country, and anyone that chooses not to live in that shit as "rubes." People that have "fur babies." People that are inconsiderate with their boat wakes. People from the extremes of both political properties. People that talk constantly about their kid's sports. People that have not truly "grown up" and always try to get you to do stuff with them that would cause spousal conflict. CHIEF
  6. Awesome, she just happens to have a life long family friend that just became a Texas Ranger in her speed dial. She is pretty sure all the activity is within the state. She, and the customer service rep are giving the guy a little more rope to make sure the noose is big enough to hang himself. CHIEF
  7. So Mrs. CHIEF's company sells storage containers. Mrs. CHIEF would make a grade A private investigator. They have a questionable guy that just became a customer a couple of days ago. Here is the scam that she believes he is pulling: 1. Offers storage containers at half the going rate. 2. Has his customers put down 100% to get the "great rate". 3. Calls and gives her company credit card number of the scammer's client, for the down payment 4. Asks her company to deliver them to his yard in San Juan, Texas. When the company gave her company three different credit card numbers that were from all over Texas on the first day, she saw a red flag, especially with the containers all going to the same location. The scammer said he had no scanner to print and sign POs, and to just bring the paperwork to his location, but was dodgy on where that was specifically. Mrs. CHIEF checked the reviews on his website, he was said to be a crook and credit card thief. Her company hasn't delivered anything, so they haven't really been harmed, but, consumers that are trusting this guy to deliver them a container, have been, and will be out a substantial financial sum. This is over multiple counties, and the scammer is getting access to multiple credit card numbers hourly, and daily, so it needs to be snuffed out quickly. Is this a job for the FBI, each county's sheriffs department, a state level agency? CHIEF
  8. At my wife's company, WFH is a privilege that you must earn. If you can show that you can get as much accomplished at home, as you did in a supervised setting, then you earn that privilege. If your productivity goes down, it's back to the office. She has one guy that will never be able to work from home. Luckily his Dad doesn't have the room in his apartment for an office, so he goes in every day and keeps him productive. They are able to operate their whole Fortune 500 company out of an office space with only four offices at the executive level. They will rotate new hires in for training and put them in one of their small regional offices, if they work out, they are offered the opportunity to WFH, and their productivity is monitored. CHIEF
  9. That's what I meant by no on-site production (manufacturing, industrial, civil and residential services, food services, doctors, dentists, etc.) It would only work for those that can do their job from home (programmers, help desk, inside sales, paralegal, professional assistants, etc.) We are already in a no population growth situation, here, in the US, with declining populations in many other parts of the World (China, Russia, Japan, and many Western European countries). Its time to bring some of those manufacturing jobs back home, and to the Western Hemisphere. High end manufacturing, like microchips, components for the military industrial complex and the like, here, in the US. All the cheap China shit can be manufactured in Mexico, and Central America.
  10. I've WFH going on 12 or so years now. Mrs. CHIEF worked from home, but now drives the 20 minutes into the office, a day or two per week, to train new employees, fresh out of college that she says, "lack the discipline," to work from home. She says she is twice as productive when working at home, as there are far fewer interruptions. You would think there will be coming government incentives to have as many people work from home as possible, the environmental impact alone is staggering. Tens of millions of fewer cars on the road, reducing emissions, stuck in rush hour traffic. Less need for suburban sprawl to be near work. No need to keep building out commercial property. The hidden economic benefit to employees. Cars will last longer with the reduced mileage requirements. Extra money in their pockets with lower fuel bills, savings from eating at home. Cheaper clothing bills. Longer work hours, or productivity from not having to sit in traffic a couple of hours daily. Not having to pay for child care for children that are self sufficient, but too young to stay at home by themselves over summer. If I were to start a business that required no onsite production facilities, just an office with desks, I would plan for the whole business to be ran as WFH. CHIEF
  11. The charade of "we would have won the last 12 in a row," is coming home to roost. There is a reason they don't want to play Texas every year, and have "bigger fish to fry." They call that condition a micropenis. CHIEF
  12. If they were hostile, I think we would have FAFO'ed. It seems as though each side has been as cool as the other side of the pillow. The objects entering restricted airspace does not necessarily constitute a hostile act. Maybe they are ESL. CHIEF
  13. CHIEF

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    I was just coming here to see if anyone had tried it. I'm trying to get my football home game weekend restaurant hit list together, and watched a YouTube video on KG BBQ. He seems like a sincere and passionate dude: CHIEF
  14. You would have to think that, and with what happened last time they pulled this shit. Knock out their AD, and circle three or four AC-130 gunships overhead, and there wouldn't be anything left but little sheriff meatballs. CHIEF
  15. So, does the US do a preemptive strike, or wait to react? Are these regular Russian troops, or all Wagner mercs? CHIEF
  16. Alright, alright, alright.... CHIEF
  17. So, how long until they put a Buc-ee's on Pluto? CHIEF
  18. This just may be the greatest story I have ever heard. CHIEF
  19. No, but you wouldn't be eating USDA Prime at a relatively inexpensive price. You can bet they have backgrounds in genetics, food safety, feedlot efficiency, cost streamlining, and a myriad of other like classes totaling a mere 36 hours of their major. They have another 90 or so hours in classes like history, foreign language, Wester Civilization, biology, and zoology, to make them an educated, and well-rounded (but delusional) individual. And agriculture majors don't just go for four years to learn to put a seed in the ground to grow a plant. They are genetically engineering different strains of grains, fruits, and vegetables, to be drought and disease resistant, so you don't have to eat that $10 banana that always gets posted on here. Our ability to feed our nation is our greatest National Security asset. Food is cheaper in the US, when compared to the average consumer expenditure, then anywhere else in the World. I'm no aggy fan, but the US is a leading food producer, and a net exporter thanks to the years of research and work put in by our nation'a land grant universities and colleges. CHIEF
  20. Not to be a dick, but if you think that all you need to know about meat is if it is rotten or not, I am going to assume you eat Walmart sirloins, well done, with ketchup. CHIEF
  21. https://www.john15.rocks/list-intellectual-atheists-scientists-became-christians-believed-god-bible/ C S Lewis as well. We are here because of an uncaused cause, some of us call that uncaused cause God. Christopher Hitchens', probably the most outspoken atheist, today, has a brother that was also an atheist, Peter, that converted. Madalyn Murray O'Hare's own son was a convert, William J. Murray. This is all the thread derailment I am going to be responsible for. I am just tired of the Christians, on this board, being mocked and ridiculed, and just had enough of it. It is my belief that people that yell "there is no God" without an alternative explanation of why there is a cosmos and life are disingenuous. If that is your belief, you better damn sure be right. CHIEF
  22. If an alien wants me to be their "pet", and treat me the way my dog gets treated, please, sign me up. CHIEF
  23. I don't struggle with faith, but I am sometimes curious about others belief, and how they explain their belief in God. I certainly believe in evolution, life on other planets, and look at intellectual and scientific debates between apologists and atheists. I believe there are many more atheists that have become believers, then believers that have become atheists, in the scientific and intellectual community. Those of you that think all Christians just believe in "a man floating in the clouds" are either disingenuous, or just plain stupid. Listen to Frank Turek, or John Maddox (an Oxford mathematician) and draw this conclusion. They have debates on many of your issues. I urge you to go down this rabbit hole, as I have done. CHIEF
  24. An EMP that took out their TVs and cell phones, they would drink themselves to death within the month. In the US, it would probably take 3-4 months. CHIEF
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