The movie "The Abyss" gives a totally incorrect view about breathing liquids. People are not meant to breath liquids and don't unless they enjoy dying. As a fetus and until you are born your lungs are collapsed. It is not until birth and you take your first forceful breath does anything enter your lungs. One of the first things you have to do when a baby is born is suction out ithe nose and mouth because the amniotic fluid can cause infection in the lungs. The fetus receives oxygen through the blood stream from the placenta until birth.
As far as Flourinert being used for deep diving, I think the poster is just completely incorrect. I have seen no valid evidence of liquid breathing. Most deep divers use Trimix (a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and helium.) One of the major challenges of breathing liquids, other than your alveoli require a gas exchange not likely to happen with a liquid, is how do you circulate the liquid from inside the lungs to the outside environment. Your diaphram and accessory muscles don't have enough strenght to move mass quantities of liquid.
Chief executives and their boards should be responsible for securing their networks. Who would disagree with that?
The real question is should they be responsible to others if holes in their security causes damage to other companies or individuals networks?
To that question I would have to diagree. There are so many security holes in the software that have yet to be found and patches created, the only way a company could truly be sure their networks are secure would be to either use open source, write their own system software or prevent access to the internet.
If you are like most people, you have been led to believe that if you are an executive, professional or administrative employee, you are doomed to work 60 hours per week and receive no overtime pay for your efforts, just a set salary. However, it's time to think again.
One study has estimated that 39 billion of overtime pay is owed to "salaried" employees in the United States who should actually be paid overtime at time and a half when they work over 40 hours in a week. If you are one of these salaried executives, professionals or administrators, often called white collar employees, you might be interested in knowing how likely it is that you may be entitled to a share of this money.
The Title Game. First, there is the title game. You have a big fancy executive or professional sounding title so your employer does not pay you overtime. Unfortunately for employers, federal overtime laws say that the job title is irrelevant; it is the actual work duties that control. For example, several current and former Waffle House Managers who regularly worked 80-100 hours per week were not paid overtime because they were called "Managers," which is typically an executive position and therefore exempt from overtime pay. However, in reality, the Managers spent most of their time waiting tables, cooking and washing dishes. Hence, they recently won an award of $2.86 million for unpaid overtime when a Tennessee court held they had been misclassified as executives.
The Salary or Fee Basis Rule. Second, even if you truly are a white collar employee under the overtime laws, you must be paid on a salary basis (often called the no docking rule) or the employer loses the exemption from owing overtime pay. For professionals and administrators, employers may also pay you on a fee basis. If you are not paid according to the strict salary or fee basis rules, the employer must pay you for your overtime even if you truly are a white collar employee. These rules are frequently violated leading to enormous potential overtime exposure.
To be on a salary basis means that an employee is paid a set amount each week regardless of the hours they work, with some narrow exceptions. In one recent case, Pharmacists at Wal-Mart, who would normally not receive overtime pay as professionals, were sometimes told to go home early when work was slack, and had their pay reduced as a result. A Colorado court held that the salary basis rule was violated and the Pharmacists were owed overtime. In another case, former Managers at an auto parts store had their pay subject to deductions for cash shortages. Once again, an Ohio court held that the salary basis rule was violated and awarded unpaid overtime to the Managers.
The fee basis rule is rather simple. It means you are paid a flat fee to do a task regardless of how long the task takes. In a recent case, a professional home care nurse, Wendy Elwell, who regularly worked 60 hours per week, won over $50,000 plus her attorney's fees when the court held that her compensation arrangement did not qualify for the fee basis rule because she was paid not only a set fee for home health care visits, but also additional compensation for lengthy visits.
Independent Contractors. Another area where misclassification commonly occurs is with independent contractors. If someone is under the control of the employer and not functioning as a true free lancer in business for herself, it is likely that she is really an employee, not an independent contractor. While contractors are not covered by overtime laws, employees sure are. In one recent case, a chauffeur at Bell Atlantic won an overtime award when the court ruled him to be an employee even though Bell Atlantic treated him like an independent contractor.
Overtime Remedies. Under federal law, an employee or ex-employee has two years to bring an overtime claim, three years for willful violations. Some states extend these times under their own overtime laws, and indeed grant broader overtime rights to employees than under federal law. Moreover, a successful employee will normally receive an award of DOUBLE their unpaid overtime, plus their attorney's fees in pursuing the claim.
In sum, just because you are white collar and paid on a salary does NOT mean that you should not receive overtime pay. Because sometimes you most certainly should.
Carl Khalil is a Virginia Beach, Virginia attorney and the founder of the website www.PayMyOvertime.com, which is devoted to helping employers and employees learn about their overtime rights and duties. Mr. Khalil is also the founder of www.BreakYourNonCompete.com, which has been featured on the NBC Today and in nationally syndicated career columns.
A lot of pharmacists don't fill drug bottles. Many pharmacies employ technicians that fill the drugs and then the pharmacist checks the work of the tech.
Wouldn't it be easier to create a system that allows people to vote using a touch screen system, then instead of trying to save the data (which could easily be corrupted or lost,) simply print the ballot. It could print two copies, one for the person to take home as a personal voting record and one that they put in the polling box. The ballot that is given to the state could even be encoded so that it cannot be read without a computer in order to maintain privacy, while the copy the person keeps could be in plain english, spanish, or whatever language, so that they can confirm who they voted for. I think this would be a reasonable option that would be easier to setup (maybe.) If anything goes wrong with the machine, send them to another machine and start fresh.
If modchips are not illegal why did mine get confiscated by customs? I ordered mine from Canada because it was cheaper and they refused to release it because they said it violated copyright law.
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The movie "The Abyss" gives a totally incorrect view about breathing liquids. People are not meant to breath liquids and don't unless they enjoy dying. As a fetus and until you are born your lungs are collapsed. It is not until birth and you take your first forceful breath does anything enter your lungs. One of the first things you have to do when a baby is born is suction out ithe nose and mouth because the amniotic fluid can cause infection in the lungs. The fetus receives oxygen through the blood stream from the placenta until birth.
As far as Flourinert being used for deep diving, I think the poster is just completely incorrect. I have seen no valid evidence of liquid breathing. Most deep divers use Trimix (a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and helium.) One of the major challenges of breathing liquids, other than your alveoli require a gas exchange not likely to happen with a liquid, is how do you circulate the liquid from inside the lungs to the outside environment. Your diaphram and accessory muscles don't have enough strenght to move mass quantities of liquid.
Chief executives and their boards should be responsible for securing their networks. Who would disagree with that?
The real question is should they be responsible to others if holes in their security causes damage to other companies or individuals networks?
To that question I would have to diagree. There are so many security holes in the software that have yet to be found and patches created, the only way a company could truly be sure their networks are secure would be to either use open source, write their own system software or prevent access to the internet.
So by your logic, if you don't pay your phone bill and the phone company shuts off your phone service until you pay the bill, that's extortion?
What if you buy a car and not make the payments. If the bank repo's until you get caught up on the payments is that also extortion?
I may not like his business practices and I would refuse to pay the bill but did he really need to go to jail.
That's why we wear really heavy bunker gloves, so we can touch things that are hot.
I found this article at www.troubleshooter.com
by - Carl Khalil, Esq.
June 05, 2002
If you are like most people, you have been led to believe that if you are an executive, professional or administrative employee, you are doomed to work 60 hours per week and receive no overtime pay for your efforts, just a set salary. However, it's time to think again.
One study has estimated that 39 billion of overtime pay is owed to "salaried" employees in the United States who should actually be paid overtime at time and a half when they work over 40 hours in a week. If you are one of these salaried executives, professionals or administrators, often called white collar employees, you might be interested in knowing how likely it is that you may be entitled to a share of this money.
The Title Game. First, there is the title game. You have a big fancy executive or professional sounding title so your employer does not pay you overtime. Unfortunately for employers, federal overtime laws say that the job title is irrelevant; it is the actual work duties that control. For example, several current and former Waffle House Managers who regularly worked 80-100 hours per week were not paid overtime because they were called "Managers," which is typically an executive position and therefore exempt from overtime pay. However, in reality, the Managers spent most of their time waiting tables, cooking and washing dishes. Hence, they recently won an award of $2.86 million for unpaid overtime when a Tennessee court held they had been misclassified as executives.
The Salary or Fee Basis Rule. Second, even if you truly are a white collar employee under the overtime laws, you must be paid on a salary basis (often called the no docking rule) or the employer loses the exemption from owing overtime pay. For professionals and administrators, employers may also pay you on a fee basis. If you are not paid according to the strict salary or fee basis rules, the employer must pay you for your overtime even if you truly are a white collar employee. These rules are frequently violated leading to enormous potential overtime exposure.
To be on a salary basis means that an employee is paid a set amount each week regardless of the hours they work, with some narrow exceptions. In one recent case, Pharmacists at Wal-Mart, who would normally not receive overtime pay as professionals, were sometimes told to go home early when work was slack, and had their pay reduced as a result. A Colorado court held that the salary basis rule was violated and the Pharmacists were owed overtime. In another case, former Managers at an auto parts store had their pay subject to deductions for cash shortages. Once again, an Ohio court held that the salary basis rule was violated and awarded unpaid overtime to the Managers.
The fee basis rule is rather simple. It means you are paid a flat fee to do a task regardless of how long the task takes. In a recent case, a professional home care nurse, Wendy Elwell, who regularly worked 60 hours per week, won over $50,000 plus her attorney's fees when the court held that her compensation arrangement did not qualify for the fee basis rule because she was paid not only a set fee for home health care visits, but also additional compensation for lengthy visits.
Independent Contractors. Another area where misclassification commonly occurs is with independent contractors. If someone is under the control of the employer and not functioning as a true free lancer in business for herself, it is likely that she is really an employee, not an independent contractor. While contractors are not covered by overtime laws, employees sure are. In one recent case, a chauffeur at Bell Atlantic won an overtime award when the court ruled him to be an employee even though Bell Atlantic treated him like an independent contractor.
Overtime Remedies. Under federal law, an employee or ex-employee has two years to bring an overtime claim, three years for willful violations. Some states extend these times under their own overtime laws, and indeed grant broader overtime rights to employees than under federal law. Moreover, a successful employee will normally receive an award of DOUBLE their unpaid overtime, plus their attorney's fees in pursuing the claim.
In sum, just because you are white collar and paid on a salary does NOT mean that you should not receive overtime pay. Because sometimes you most certainly should.
Carl Khalil is a Virginia Beach, Virginia attorney and the founder of the website www.PayMyOvertime.com, which is devoted to helping employers and employees learn about their overtime rights and duties. Mr. Khalil is also the founder of www.BreakYourNonCompete.com, which has been featured on the NBC Today and in nationally syndicated career columns.
A lot of pharmacists don't fill drug bottles. Many pharmacies employ technicians that fill the drugs and then the pharmacist checks the work of the tech.
Wouldn't it be easier to create a system that allows people to vote using a touch screen system, then instead of trying to save the data (which could easily be corrupted or lost,) simply print the ballot. It could print two copies, one for the person to take home as a personal voting record and one that they put in the polling box. The ballot that is given to the state could even be encoded so that it cannot be read without a computer in order to maintain privacy, while the copy the person keeps could be in plain english, spanish, or whatever language, so that they can confirm who they voted for. I think this would be a reasonable option that would be easier to setup (maybe.) If anything goes wrong with the machine, send them to another machine and start fresh.
If modchips are not illegal why did mine get confiscated by customs? I ordered mine from Canada because it was cheaper and they refused to release it because they said it violated copyright law.