As a 30 year Regional Airline pilot (retired) I can say without any hesitation that women and people of color on average are the most skilled people in the cockpit. Marginal white guys slip through, which makes a terrible headache for Captains who are responsible to babysit them. The minorities have to struggle against discrimination and only make it by being the best. The female pilot accident record can be used to prove it.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities (for careers in air traffic operations), empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” If I recall, um...let's see...who was pretending to be president at that time?
From our president: "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions..." We know he regularly engages in projection, but this time he really went above and beyond. I'm impressed.
This was my favorite projection from that press conference:
"You’re talking about extremely complex things, and if they don’t have a great brain—a great power of the brain, they’re not going to be very good at what they do, and bad things will happen."
"It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show."
--- D. H. Lawrence
I am now convinced beyond all doubt, that this is an as yet undisclosed Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing,""Newsroom") or Armando Iannucci ("Veep,""The Thick of It") project. No one else could come up with this cringe-making stuff all by themselves --- not even Demento the Clueless and his courtiers.
Getting rid of DEI programs is bad enough - hearing Tr@mp deriding disabled PEOPLE was also barf-inducing. There are plenty of disabled people and people of color who are geniuses. (At base line, smarter than this President.)
With the disappearance of Vance from the state, we have lost the last known giant stink-face chameleon. These loathsome creatures are able to instantly change their toxic and noxious emissions to suit their subject. In addition they are shape-shifters, able to look like an educated and normal one day, and in a flash transform in a flash to bloviating long-tie wearing dumbfux. We are not sorry to see this one go extinct as in fact, it is a terrible invasive species.
January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to federal agency employees
When asked how he could come to the conclusion that FAA diversity policies had something to do with the disaster, he said, "Because I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately a lot of people don't."
The Vance-tie looks like complete mimicry of Trump. We know mimicry can be deliberate or completely unconscious. In sales training videos they encourage you to use it in order to be more like the person you're selling to, in order to get what you want. However, when I used to wear a tie, the tie would cover my groin when I sat down. It was at belt-length when I was standing. All of your evidence of Vance wearing a tie "normally" is of him standing. The anomaly is him sitting down. I think your evidence does not support the conclusion of mimicry.
AND I chose PC in the Poll. I'm an IT professional, and I've used a PC since about DOS 3.3 in 1988, when I bought my first computer. I have used a Macbook professionally only in the past 10 years, and not consistently, because our CEO and our marketing department use them. (I tried to switch and used a Macbook for 6 months for my daily work, and it just wasn't cutting it for me.) It is a completely personal decision for most people. Our lead IT engineer will not use anything except a Macbook, and bless him for that. There are programs that work on one platform or another, but that gulf is disappearing as many apps are porting to the cloud and gaining multi-platform support. The biggest challenge from a corporate standpoint is that Macs are still not as easy to manage from a fleet perspective as PCs.
And from what I have observed, there does not appear to be a difference in capabilities or personalities in the people who choose one or the other.
I use both, owned the first generation of Macs (which I wish I kept, as it’s probably a collector’s item now) but I had to pick one to see the results and picked PC, maybe because I’m pissed at the iMac’s sdd dying the other day and I don’t trust my stubby fingers to open it up and replace the drive myself, which would be simple with a PC. I kinda prefer Xcode to Visual Studio and learning Swift in my old age has been fun.
His statement doesn’t make sense. It suggests that the policy of racial discrimination against people of color who want to be ATCs ends today, which of course is the opposite of what he means.
I just attended a multi-day conference during which I was the only one who wore a tie. I wear it as a protest of “post-pandemic sloppy” as the new standard in the office. This is an office I never left. This is an office where I was told to report to work “business as usual” for the duration of the pandemic as essential to keeping the government functioning. Refuse and you lose your livelihood.
One suggestion to mitigate risk was to cease wearing items that required dry cleaning as they could harbor viruses. This lead to the death of business casual. At the conference, even the presenters were wearing golf shirts, athletic shoes and similar attire.
As a 30 year Regional Airline pilot (retired) I can say without any hesitation that women and people of color on average are the most skilled people in the cockpit. Marginal white guys slip through, which makes a terrible headache for Captains who are responsible to babysit them. The minorities have to struggle against discrimination and only make it by being the best. The female pilot accident record can be used to prove it.
My good friend, retired ATC, seconds your statement.
dad, Bravo to you for your service and statement. Nelson has reason to be proud.
The assumption that straight white Christian men are naturally superior in everything is barf-inducing
Barf-inducing is the perfect sentiment for it.
Please consider adding one more qualifier: straight white Christian men with money......
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities (for careers in air traffic operations), empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” If I recall, um...let's see...who was pretending to be president at that time?
From our president: "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions..." We know he regularly engages in projection, but this time he really went above and beyond. I'm impressed.
Severe intellectual disabilities: check
Psychiatric problems: check
Other mental and physical conditions: check
Donald Trump, YOU'RE HIRED!
This was my favorite projection from that press conference:
"You’re talking about extremely complex things, and if they don’t have a great brain—a great power of the brain, they’re not going to be very good at what they do, and bad things will happen."
wow... just wow
"It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show."
--- D. H. Lawrence
I am now convinced beyond all doubt, that this is an as yet undisclosed Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing,""Newsroom") or Armando Iannucci ("Veep,""The Thick of It") project. No one else could come up with this cringe-making stuff all by themselves --- not even Demento the Clueless and his courtiers.
... hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers ....
Name one. He has no moral fiber.
Getting rid of DEI programs is bad enough - hearing Tr@mp deriding disabled PEOPLE was also barf-inducing. There are plenty of disabled people and people of color who are geniuses. (At base line, smarter than this President.)
With the disappearance of Vance from the state, we have lost the last known giant stink-face chameleon. These loathsome creatures are able to instantly change their toxic and noxious emissions to suit their subject. In addition they are shape-shifters, able to look like an educated and normal one day, and in a flash transform in a flash to bloviating long-tie wearing dumbfux. We are not sorry to see this one go extinct as in fact, it is a terrible invasive species.
I remember when he was Jethro Bodine
January 20: FAA director fired
January 21: ATC hiring freeze
January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to federal agency employees
When asked how he could come to the conclusion that FAA diversity policies had something to do with the disaster, he said, "Because I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately a lot of people don't."
The Vance-tie looks like complete mimicry of Trump. We know mimicry can be deliberate or completely unconscious. In sales training videos they encourage you to use it in order to be more like the person you're selling to, in order to get what you want. However, when I used to wear a tie, the tie would cover my groin when I sat down. It was at belt-length when I was standing. All of your evidence of Vance wearing a tie "normally" is of him standing. The anomaly is him sitting down. I think your evidence does not support the conclusion of mimicry.
AND I chose PC in the Poll. I'm an IT professional, and I've used a PC since about DOS 3.3 in 1988, when I bought my first computer. I have used a Macbook professionally only in the past 10 years, and not consistently, because our CEO and our marketing department use them. (I tried to switch and used a Macbook for 6 months for my daily work, and it just wasn't cutting it for me.) It is a completely personal decision for most people. Our lead IT engineer will not use anything except a Macbook, and bless him for that. There are programs that work on one platform or another, but that gulf is disappearing as many apps are porting to the cloud and gaining multi-platform support. The biggest challenge from a corporate standpoint is that Macs are still not as easy to manage from a fleet perspective as PCs.
And from what I have observed, there does not appear to be a difference in capabilities or personalities in the people who choose one or the other.
I use both, owned the first generation of Macs (which I wish I kept, as it’s probably a collector’s item now) but I had to pick one to see the results and picked PC, maybe because I’m pissed at the iMac’s sdd dying the other day and I don’t trust my stubby fingers to open it up and replace the drive myself, which would be simple with a PC. I kinda prefer Xcode to Visual Studio and learning Swift in my old age has been fun.
His statement doesn’t make sense. It suggests that the policy of racial discrimination against people of color who want to be ATCs ends today, which of course is the opposite of what he means.
I just attended a multi-day conference during which I was the only one who wore a tie. I wear it as a protest of “post-pandemic sloppy” as the new standard in the office. This is an office I never left. This is an office where I was told to report to work “business as usual” for the duration of the pandemic as essential to keeping the government functioning. Refuse and you lose your livelihood.
One suggestion to mitigate risk was to cease wearing items that required dry cleaning as they could harbor viruses. This lead to the death of business casual. At the conference, even the presenters were wearing golf shirts, athletic shoes and similar attire.
A tie that binds.