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It's a bit fucked up that it's totally fine if one applicant's got a leg-up in getting admitted purely because his great-great grandfather was alumni, but it's expressly prohibited to consider the fact that another applicant's great-great grandfather was explicitly not eligible to attend. Is that not the definition of tilting the playing field?

If you're going to pretend to be too stupid to understand how anybody would take issue with these rulings, why the fuck do you think anybody's going to engage as if you're acting in good faith? Your go-to moves are to play dumb and then, if presented with a direct question, you point out a squirrel/deflection and hope people.....forget?

Interesting thought, Airdvr. Hey Airdvr, would you like to offer a counter? Riiiiight.

Both the 2 users above and myself are all still array in profile.. was it maybe sorted and then went back to this state? or was never sorted out completely?

No. There are other schools However, a Harvard degree will open doors that a degree from elsewhere would not. To pretend that it's not important for ALL PEOPLE to have equal access to that degree is as stupid as pretending that they do have that access, or that they would without 'government intervention '.

Is that true for conservatives, say, blaming Biden for the recession, blaming wokeness for some sort of decline in America and blaming affirmative action for bad outcomes for blacks?

IOW pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Too bad more than 300 years of institutional racism (slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc) has left you without bootstraps. Sucks to be you I guess.

And now Harvard gets sued for their program of "Affirmative Action for Rich People with Dumb Kids": AP: Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard

Brent's not here to discuss anything guys.

Credit to NerdGirl on her FB account for this. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard Abstract: We use public documents from the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University lawsuit to examine admissions preferences for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). More than 43% of white admits are ALDC; the share for African American, Asian American, and Hispanics is less than 16%. Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected absent their ALDC status. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students away from whites. And for those (such as myself) not familiar with the term "dean’s interest list", it is defined here: In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show The handful of emails — most of them sent between administrators and admissions officers — hint at the College’s behind-the-scenes fondness for applicants whose admission yields certain practical perks. Hughes referenced the emails as he quizzed Fitzsimmons on the “Dean’s Interest List,” a special and confidential list of applicants Harvard compiles every admissions cycle. Though the University closely guards the details, applicants on that list are often related to or of interest to top donors — and court filings show list members benefit from a significantly inflated acceptance rate. There went the idea students are admitted based on merit.

Let's see: Ending slavery - made society better, but conservatives hated it Allowing women to vote - made society better, but conservatives hated it Ending enforced segregation - made society better, but conservaties hated it Allowing interracial marriage - made society better, but conservatives hated it Ending bans on being gay - made society better, but conservatives hated it Allowing gay people to marry - made society better, but conservatives hated it I sense a theme here.

The rules don't change for aircraft type https://www.uspa.org/SIM/2#1I

Because lying and making counter accusations is what republicans do best. First its convenient. Second and most important for republicans its all about winner take all. Any compromise, any real or imagined interpretation of the constitution is something to be used to take and hold power. So these court interpretations of the constitution and precedent are viewed as defeats of the enemy. Or in Brent's view a "bad week for non republicans". What goes unsaid is that this court has years and years of such rulings ahead of it. With judicial overreach thrown in at regular intervals.

No tunnels available (at least accessible ones with enough wind speed for freeflying) when I learnt to fly head down so all in the sky. How long did it take me? Longer than some I jumped with but far less than others. Maybe 25-30 jumps to hold it steady down the tube, 100ish to be relatively comfortable flying relative to someone else and taking grips and perhaps 3-400 or so to feel comfortable doing bigger stuff but I also had a fair bit of coaching from some of the gods back then like Olav and his crew for example. Still though, we’re talking maybe 10 minutes of practice time on a good weekend, usually less. Skills back then weren’t what they are today because of tunnels. I don’t know why anyone would take the hard route these days. The other thing is that I developed some really bad habits which were still deeply embedded even after a near 20 year hiatus from skydiving so now I fly funny (and badly) with zero chance of ever getting rid of them. I highly recommend tunnel coaching to avoid getting those bad habits like I had.

Simply not true. Republicans made it possible, and Republicans did it. Every single part of the process by which they stacked the Supreme Court against the will of the American people was driven by their own lust for power.

That's ironic. The topic here is you assuming that a black employee you didn't like was promoted because of affirmative action, but you think I'm reading between the lines? Look, I get that you're just lashing out because you're embarrassed - but you have to understand that everyone else can see the same things that I'm pointing out.

It’s funny that Bill’s example in the last thread a week or two back was that a company which almost exclusively hired alumni from one college had a superb black employee who graduated somewhere else - so clearly he was only there because of affirmative action. My takeaway from the same story was that the black guy was probably one of the only people in the whole company who was hired purely on merit. Everyone else had preferential treatment.

Why? Well, he told us: "It's really not complicated. I didn't provide all the details, all the evidence was there."

And I've never, ever, had a male, or white male, manager who sucked. Maybe the boss's son? Or just one of the guys who hangs out, so that the rest of management knows they can "give him a chance to learn." Why is race and gender rarely remarked on when it's a white guy who's incompetent? Wendy P.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13FS-69F2ExGxwBw_nes_M1B5A9ENia8k-RQxgknw32U/edit Also, if you go to squirrels website, click on Learn. Its in there as well.

Yep. It doesn't matter what kind of aircraft it is. A freefall jump from any aircraft in flight is a skydive and can be logged. Whether or not the jump is legal is a separate question.

Any aircraft can have a problem any day and any operator can have a bad month but it shouldn't be a regular thing. Keep in mind that we use aircraft in way's the designers didn't contemplate. 30 take-offs and landings in a Caravan in a day is about half what they were designed to do in a month. Just consider the flap system: down and up for take-off, down and up for jump run, down (and maybe up) for landing. And that's just one load. All ascents and descents are performance flights. Most take-offs are at gross weight or close. So there is ample opportunity to wear things out or get a crack somewhere from metal fatigue in an airframe that is usually decades old. The list is long. All of that means we need to do a lot of maintenance and not defer items as a general matter. Good operators stay on top of things and use the off season to get ready for the next season. They tend to have very little down time.

Hi 2004, The late Jim Lowe used to say that it was OK to patch the aircraft together with bailing wire on a busy weekend. But, on Monday morning, you got it fixed properly. He was talking about Ted Mayfield's dz, where if the bailing wire was working, why change it. Jerry Baumchen

Thank you for this! It's definitely a bug, we're looking into it now to resolve.