Unfortunately, the problem is not in a particular case(s) of misuse, but in the generally low professionalism of medical professionals.

For example, here in Canada it has become increasingly difficult to get an antibiotic prescription. Doctors fight tooth and nail when it comes to antibiotics, and as a result, a lot of people get treated late.

I think the situation is best described by an old russian proverb: Make a fool pray, and he'll crack his forehead.

Actually, it begs to ask also which institution gave them the degree? For example, various "West Bank" and Gaza universities (yes, there are several) are pretty much a write off when it comes to quality of education. They mostly serve as recruiting grounds for HAMAS and the likes. So, yes, that next suicide bomber might have had an engineering degree from some monkey ass "university", but that doesn't make him a real engineer. ;)

It's the gospel of Saint-Jobs: that magsafe thingy is pretty much the only really well-designed feature of macbooks - the rest is just pretentious expensive posturing.

Sure, FOX News is bad. But why is this used as an excuse for RT? What, journalism doesn't have to be objective anymore? Cutting out inconvenient sections from video footage is OK? Blindingly repeating government propaganda is fine? Spreading drool over every little thing that the PM or Prez did today is news? Spreading libelous statements about sovereign countries is acceptable?

And one more thing: You are Australian, and probably not of Russian origin. I, however, am of Russian (Soviet) origin, so I recognize the propaganda very well. Fuck, they even have days commemorating various past Soviet leaders, like tgey did with Andropov the other day. They actually say that "he fought corruption and slackers" - anybody who actually lived in this time and had any personal experience with his policies can tell you how ridiculous they were.

Anyhoo, if you like RT then watch it.

My friend, you can't even imagine how much worse it is in Russia. The stuff shown on news there is mind-numbingly RIDICULOUS. I'm well aware of US propaganda, but it doesn't even come close to it's Russian counterpart and for one reason: US media (and people) are infinitely less obsessed about Russia - frankly, they don't care. Russians, however, are heavily obsessed with the "American enemy" and the government is actively cultivating this obsession.

Also, in US you have a choice: don't like this channel, watch another one. Most channels are privately owned, etc. At least you can get different brands of propaganda if you want it. On Russian TV there is no choice: ALL of Russian TV and most radio stations are directly owned by the government. Independent radio stations are weak and routinely shut down by government officials when they get to loud (their antennas get cut off, literally).

Oh, and another little tidbit of information about the modern Russia: Internet forums have been recognized as a major source of information for the population outside of government control. So, the government employs people to continuously troll and flood the forums with crap, destroying their ability to function. It's a major problem nowadays - almost every significant Russian language forum is under constant attack by these assholes and a lot just can't take the pressure.

LOL, that's actually the funny part.

You see, ICQ is very popular in Russia - hence the interest to buy it. RT, being a propaganda horn of the lowest caliber, doesn't realize that by issuing such generalizations it actually reaffirms the public's view of modern Russia: criminal and corrupt. Which, by the way, is actually true :)

Anyhoo, anything coming from RT must be taken with a grain of salt - it is a propaganda channel after all....

A warning to people out here: RT is the Russian international propaganda channel - ANYTHING it reports should be taken with a grain of salt and verified through other sources.

RT is a farely new Russian government owned news channel, and has been gaining more and more presence everywhere lately. Their journalism is extremely untrustworthy - fabrications are common and government anti-america propaganda is rampant.

ACID, CSS, Active-X....

The truth is, that IE's delinquent bugs are far from limited to these areas. For example, IE has big troubles with cookies.
I recently spent 2 days on troubleshooting a web application issue under IE that was caused by IE not handling domain/subdomain cookie collisions properly. For example: if a browser has a cookie ABC set for "www.abc.com" and another time for "abc.com", then when you load "www.abc.com" it will send out BOTH COOKIES in unpredictable order. This is a bug (albeit somewhat obscure) that has been known for years and is present in IE6,7 and 8. But MS doesn't fix it :(

I currently own a Samsung CLP-310n printer. Colour laser with network built in, supported by everything. Can be had for less than 150CAD. Overall I'm very happy with it.

Human transcription performed on industrial scale by non-native speakers is nothing new. For example, medical imaging texts are typed up by Cheap Foreign Labour from voice messages recorded by doctors.
So remember this next time you read the analysis of your expensive MRI test. ;)