I'd say that the evidence is pretty much bullshit - the guy admitted as such when he mentioned the "95% percent certainty". If you are only 95% percent certain and go after 100 people, then you pretty much agree that you will falsely accuse 5 people. This is unacceptable behavior. Further more, not for a second can I believe that a seasoned professor would have such a fit about mass cheating - it happens all over the place and in many different ways and methods. So, all this show of being upset is for two reasons: bully cheaters into admitting guilt and promote narking from the "good students".
This whole affair is quite pathetic, if you ask me -there plenty of other methods to deal with something like this, much more justly and much more effectively.
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You assume too much. Specifically, about the religion part. For example, I'm an atheist, and majority of Israel's Jewish population is secular or atheist and doesn't really care for the religious claims.
The truth is that Jews as a NATIONALITY have had continuous presence in this land for thousands of years, and have a strong HISTORIC claim on it. And no sane and accepted historian can deny this, because it is based on undisputed archeological evidence.
Another thing that you probably assume is that you understand the persecution of Jews. Well, surprise to you: YOU DON'T. Only Jews who actually lived in countries with strong tradition of antisemitism can understand it. And, surprise-surprise, expatriates from these countries also happen to form the majority of Israeli population. Connect the dots yourself, if you have the brains.
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I was expecting my opinion critical of Israel to be smeared, so I'm not surprised...
I'm afraid I don't actually need to smear your opinion - your opinion is already smeared to begin with. I'm not going to comment about any of the other shit you wrote here: if you lack the brains to see the problem with your so called "opinions", then I'm not the one to educate you.
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You remind me of an old Soviet joke:
Rabinovich calls the "Rememberance Club" (a known club frequented by antisemites) and asks (in a typical Jewish accent:
- Tell me, is it true that Jews sold Mother Russia? - Yes, you dirty jew! - Oh, great, where do I get my share?
Anyhoo, I never got any free passes. Instead, I was confronted with antisemitism from the age of 6. So don't tell me about any free passes. And I'm still waiting for my share of Mother Russia.
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I'm sorry, but this Jew (me) doesn't like to be called "it".
Also, he doesn't like to be labelled a homophobe simply because he's a Jew. And I don't recall any free passes. Especially not from antisemites like him - his kind (the Ukranian antisemites) were murdering my relatives in WW2 while my grandparents fought against the nazis. So, yes, I'm labelling him an antisemite. Because I can tell. And you, apparently can't.
Hehehe, here in Montreal decent Chlamidia can be easily had for 140$ an hour;)
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Wow, what an incredible collection of anti-Israel propaganda. A real overkill in fact.
Let's break it down to it's very mundane and often repeated components, shall we?
Yes, this has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians including the blockade. Increase the pressure and use the attacks to justified the continued inhuman treatment.
Here we have the anti-Israeli double standard: Any military action done by Israel is inherently and purely OFFENSIVE in nature. Israel NEVER has any reason for self-defense and it is always the first one to attack. The hundreds of Israeli citizens murdered in cold blood are conveniently forgotten and the timeline of the conflict is inverted. No real proof of this "nice" schema is ever presented.
Truly, Dr. Goebbels would have been proud
Note the dehumanisation here. Again, this is in the context of the Palestinians being to blame for their own fate, so not only can we indulge in that human tendency to dehumanise our enemies, we can blame them for it as well.
Note the continual denial of clearly visible and openly stated facts: the continuous fall of Palestinians towards fundamental islamism, the clearly stated goals of Palestinian leaders ("Itvah El-Yahood! - Kill all Jews!), the openly stated tactics, preferred by Palestinians ("The womb of the Arab woman is my strongest weapon" - Yasser Arafat), The demographical statistics, etc. etc. Truly, it's the DENIAL OF FACTS that is the clearest sign of the modern anti-sem... sorry, anti-Israeli.;)
And that will be their last day.
I'm sure you would argue that this is an impartial statement of fact.
I can assure you that I'm getting a very different (and chilling) vibe from it.
And here we see another example of the modern left-wing anti-Israeli advocate: the idea that war can somehow be not chilling. Come on, man - it's war. People die. People kill. People suffer. People hate. You expect it to be civilized?
Israeli society is right wing and getting more right wing. At this point in time, it's probably fair to say that it's inherently right wing, bordering on fascism and that while there are probably many decent Israelis they are quite clearly in the minority and will have no political influence in the remotely forseeable future, so I have no expectation whatsoever of any change in the opposite direction.
And over here is the funniest: our leftie historian managed to completely invert the actual history: he knows so little on the subject that he totally misses the inherently LEFT political system in Israel: It's founding, it's first 30(!) years of virtually unchallenged LEFT government, it's judicial system, almost COMPLETELY LEFT and, what's worse, virtually impossible to change in any way. The fact is, that Israelies have consistently voted LEFT throughout Israel's history, except in times when the left party in power has managed to screw things up beyond any recognition. So yeah, the government is rightwing right now - because the previous leftwing government has brought this most recent escalation of violence, and the people have had enough with the "peace at any cost" mentality.
Don't worry about it- I think there are a lot of people who have lost hope with Israel, myself included. And please don't tell me that you don't need my support or care what people like me think- that much is obvious.
Another example of the leftie's misguidedness: he thinks that his opinion should matter - it really shouldn't. It's our war, let us fight it out.
Yes, I'm impressed. You did it all on your own! The strength of Israel has absolutely *nothing* to do with the military and financial support of the world's richest and most powerful country.
And the last (but not least) - the all powerful, unquestionable assu
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OK, then, you want to dance? Let's dance:)
- Majority of the settlements are built on land bought and paid for from it's owners. Please show me a verifiable case of land being "stolen", and also point out who, specifically, it was stolen from. I would like to remind you, that since there has never been any "Palestinian state", ownership of all the land on the occupied territories can be traced to a private individual.
- Gaza houses a belligerent population, implicated in many murderous attacks on Israeli citizens. I would like to point out, that prior to the late 90's (after the start of the so called peace process), Arabs living on occupied territories enjoyed practically unrestricted movement,
- Please provide me with a verifiable timeline that shows the barriers and blockades currently imposed on the Arabs in occupied territories as an OFFENSIVE MEASURE, as opposed to DEFENSIVE. Specifically, I would like to see evidence showing increase in attacks on Israeli civilians AFTER the measure was put into place.
- You mentioned white phosphorus. Please point me to a reliable source that specifies the exact type of the munition in question. Yes, I would like to hear the EXACT TYPE, preferable with some pictures showing the shell casing fragments.
As for the US interrogation techniques - it's not my concern. I would just like to say this: use of torture is, under certain conditions (read: high stakes), almost universal in any country. The US's problem is that they get caught all too easily where other, more politically repressed countries (read: most of the Europe) are typically not. A big problem for the US - one that must be fixed ASAP.
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The Arab/Israeli conflict is greatly supported by various mercantile interests: starting from suicide bombers blowing themselves for money (their families get it afterwards), continuing to various politicians making career out of the perpetual (and quite futile) "peace process", and ending with various corporations making money on various projects (weather peace or war related).
As for charity - any kind of money-based charity is questionable (and ultimately harmful), unless you have direct and total control on how the money is spent.
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I'm afraid at this point it's actually more like 100 years.
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Could you please point me to a single case of an Likud party member setting out official goals of exterminating all Palestinian Arabs, pushing them out into the sea, calling for kidnappings of Arabs to be held hostage and denouncing Arabs' (any arabs) right to live in the geographical palestine?
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I don't talk to ukranian antisemites - go play with someone else.
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Oh, and by the way: what might be "game theory" to you is actually lives and deaths for people involved. You should be alittle bit more careful with your approach to the subject. It's basic ethics and morality - something that should come as second nature to any wannbe humanist;)
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It's interesting how you're pontificating on a subject you evidently know nothing about.
In fact, the reality of the matter is that the continuing war means doom only for one side - Palestinian. This follows from the fact that to support their war they had to continuously degenerate their own people further and further towards the stone age. At some point, they will be so low on the civilization scale that no amount of leftie wishful thinking would be enough to support them. And that will be their last day.
On the other hand, the Israeli society is stable and is getting more stable no matter how much you or other people might hope for otherwise. And this piece of news is actually a proof of that: A network of high end, independent educational institutions is a strong sign of a healthy, stable society.
The patient gets whiney because he didn't get help. The current situation is that help = prescription medicine. It used to be different - doctors would prescribe effective treatments that didn't involve pills. Various home-based procedures, recommendations, etc. It's the lack of those that created this expectation of a "magical pill" - not vice versa.
If a doctor prescribes unnecessary treatment, then the fault is with him - not with the the patient that came to him for help.
It's unfortunate that modern doctors have become such slaves to the pharmaceutical industry that they are virtually unaware about any other methods of treatment except for prescription medicines.
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.;)
I don't get the fetish everyone has with the magsafe. Using laptops exclusively for the last decade I've had the power cord tugged on hard enough to cause a problem exactly 0 times. What are you all doing? draping your power cord across the hallway?
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.
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.
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.
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:(
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I'd say that the evidence is pretty much bullshit - the guy admitted as such when he mentioned the "95% percent certainty". If you are only 95% percent certain and go after 100 people, then you pretty much agree that you will falsely accuse 5 people. This is unacceptable behavior.
Further more, not for a second can I believe that a seasoned professor would have such a fit about mass cheating - it happens all over the place and in many different ways and methods.
So, all this show of being upset is for two reasons: bully cheaters into admitting guilt and promote narking from the "good students".
This whole affair is quite pathetic, if you ask me -there plenty of other methods to deal with something like this, much more justly and much more effectively.
You assume too much. Specifically, about the religion part. For example, I'm an atheist, and majority of Israel's Jewish population is secular or atheist and doesn't really care for the religious claims.
The truth is that Jews as a NATIONALITY have had continuous presence in this land for thousands of years, and have a strong HISTORIC claim on it. And no sane and accepted historian can deny this, because it is based on undisputed archeological evidence.
Another thing that you probably assume is that you understand the persecution of Jews. Well, surprise to you: YOU DON'T. Only Jews who actually lived in countries with strong tradition of antisemitism can understand it. And, surprise-surprise, expatriates from these countries also happen to form the majority of Israeli population. Connect the dots yourself, if you have the brains.
I was expecting my opinion critical of Israel to be smeared, so I'm not surprised...
I'm afraid I don't actually need to smear your opinion - your opinion is already smeared to begin with.
I'm not going to comment about any of the other shit you wrote here: if you lack the brains to see the problem with your so called "opinions", then I'm not the one to educate you.
You remind me of an old Soviet joke:
Rabinovich calls the "Rememberance Club" (a known club frequented by antisemites) and asks (in a typical Jewish accent:
- Tell me, is it true that Jews sold Mother Russia?
- Yes, you dirty jew!
- Oh, great, where do I get my share?
Anyhoo, I never got any free passes. Instead, I was confronted with antisemitism from the age of 6. So don't tell me about any free passes. And I'm still waiting for my share of Mother Russia.
I'm sorry, but this Jew (me) doesn't like to be called "it".
Also, he doesn't like to be labelled a homophobe simply because he's a Jew.
And I don't recall any free passes. Especially not from antisemites like him - his kind (the Ukranian antisemites) were murdering my relatives in WW2 while my grandparents fought against the nazis. So, yes, I'm labelling him an antisemite. Because I can tell. And you, apparently can't.
Deal with it.
Hehehe, here in Montreal decent Chlamidia can be easily had for 140$ an hour ;)
Wow, what an incredible collection of anti-Israel propaganda. A real overkill in fact.
Let's break it down to it's very mundane and often repeated components, shall we?
Yes, this has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians including the blockade. Increase the pressure and use the attacks to justified the continued inhuman treatment.
Here we have the anti-Israeli double standard: Any military action done by Israel is inherently and purely OFFENSIVE in nature. Israel NEVER has any reason for self-defense and it is always the first one to attack. The hundreds of Israeli citizens murdered in cold blood are conveniently forgotten and the timeline of the conflict is inverted. No real proof of this "nice" schema is ever presented.
Truly, Dr. Goebbels would have been proud
Note the dehumanisation here. Again, this is in the context of the Palestinians being to blame for their own fate, so not only can we indulge in that human tendency to dehumanise our enemies, we can blame them for it as well.
Note the continual denial of clearly visible and openly stated facts: the continuous fall of Palestinians towards fundamental islamism, the clearly stated goals of Palestinian leaders ("Itvah El-Yahood! - Kill all Jews!), the openly stated tactics, preferred by Palestinians ("The womb of the Arab woman is my strongest weapon" - Yasser Arafat), The demographical statistics, etc. etc. ;)
Truly, it's the DENIAL OF FACTS that is the clearest sign of the modern anti-sem... sorry, anti-Israeli.
And that will be their last day.
I'm sure you would argue that this is an impartial statement of fact.
I can assure you that I'm getting a very different (and chilling) vibe from it.
And here we see another example of the modern left-wing anti-Israeli advocate: the idea that war can somehow be not chilling.
Come on, man - it's war. People die. People kill. People suffer. People hate. You expect it to be civilized?
Israeli society is right wing and getting more right wing. At this point in time, it's probably fair to say that it's inherently right wing, bordering on fascism and that while there are probably many decent Israelis they are quite clearly in the minority and will have no political influence in the remotely forseeable future, so I have no expectation whatsoever of any change in the opposite direction.
And over here is the funniest: our leftie historian managed to completely invert the actual history: he knows so little on the subject that he totally misses the inherently LEFT political system in Israel: It's founding, it's first 30(!) years of virtually unchallenged LEFT government, it's judicial system, almost COMPLETELY LEFT and, what's worse, virtually impossible to change in any way. The fact is, that Israelies have consistently voted LEFT throughout Israel's history, except in times when the left party in power has managed to screw things up beyond any recognition. So yeah, the government is rightwing right now - because the previous leftwing government has brought this most recent escalation of violence, and the people have had enough with the "peace at any cost" mentality.
Don't worry about it- I think there are a lot of people who have lost hope with Israel, myself included. And please don't tell me that you don't need my support or care what people like me think- that much is obvious.
Another example of the leftie's misguidedness: he thinks that his opinion should matter - it really shouldn't. It's our war, let us fight it out.
Yes, I'm impressed. You did it all on your own! The strength of Israel has absolutely *nothing* to do with the military and financial support of the world's richest and most powerful country.
And the last (but not least) - the all powerful, unquestionable assu
OK, then, you want to dance? Let's dance :)
- Majority of the settlements are built on land bought and paid for from it's owners. Please show me a verifiable case of land being "stolen", and also point out who, specifically, it was stolen from. I would like to remind you, that since there has never been any "Palestinian state", ownership of all the land on the occupied territories can be traced to a private individual.
- Gaza houses a belligerent population, implicated in many murderous attacks on Israeli citizens. I would like to point out, that prior to the late 90's (after the start of the so called peace process), Arabs living on occupied territories enjoyed practically unrestricted movement,
- Please provide me with a verifiable timeline that shows the barriers and blockades currently imposed on the Arabs in occupied territories as an OFFENSIVE MEASURE, as opposed to DEFENSIVE. Specifically, I would like to see evidence showing increase in attacks on Israeli civilians AFTER the measure was put into place.
- You mentioned white phosphorus. Please point me to a reliable source that specifies the exact type of the munition in question. Yes, I would like to hear the EXACT TYPE, preferable with some pictures showing the shell casing fragments.
As for the US interrogation techniques - it's not my concern. I would just like to say this: use of torture is, under certain conditions (read: high stakes), almost universal in any country. The US's problem is that they get caught all too easily where other, more politically repressed countries (read: most of the Europe) are typically not. A big problem for the US - one that must be fixed ASAP.
The Arab/Israeli conflict is greatly supported by various mercantile interests: starting from suicide bombers blowing themselves for money (their families get it afterwards), continuing to various politicians making career out of the perpetual (and quite futile) "peace process", and ending with various corporations making money on various projects (weather peace or war related).
As for charity - any kind of money-based charity is questionable (and ultimately harmful), unless you have direct and total control on how the money is spent.
I'm afraid at this point it's actually more like 100 years.
Could you please point me to a single case of an Likud party member setting out official goals of exterminating all Palestinian Arabs, pushing them out into the sea, calling for kidnappings of Arabs to be held hostage and denouncing Arabs' (any arabs) right to live in the geographical palestine?
I don't talk to ukranian antisemites - go play with someone else.
Oh, and by the way: what might be "game theory" to you is actually lives and deaths for people involved. You should be alittle bit more careful with your approach to the subject. It's basic ethics and morality - something that should come as second nature to any wannbe humanist ;)
It's interesting how you're pontificating on a subject you evidently know nothing about.
In fact, the reality of the matter is that the continuing war means doom only for one side - Palestinian. This follows from the fact that to support their war they had to continuously degenerate their own people further and further towards the stone age. At some point, they will be so low on the civilization scale that no amount of leftie wishful thinking would be enough to support them. And that will be their last day.
On the other hand, the Israeli society is stable and is getting more stable no matter how much you or other people might hope for otherwise. And this piece of news is actually a proof of that: A network of high end, independent educational institutions is a strong sign of a healthy, stable society.
The patient gets whiney because he didn't get help. The current situation is that help = prescription medicine. It used to be different - doctors would prescribe effective treatments that didn't involve pills. Various home-based procedures, recommendations, etc. It's the lack of those that created this expectation of a "magical pill" - not vice versa.
If a doctor prescribes unnecessary treatment, then the fault is with him - not with the the patient that came to him for help.
It's unfortunate that modern doctors have become such slaves to the pharmaceutical industry that they are virtually unaware about any other methods of treatment except for prescription medicines.
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. ;)
I don't get the fetish everyone has with the magsafe. Using laptops exclusively for the last decade I've had the power cord tugged on hard enough to cause a problem exactly 0 times. What are you all doing? draping your power cord across the hallway?
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
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