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This is why Internet Explorer sucks and Microsoft is guilty of false advertising. http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_dim_max-height.asp The above is a link to the w3c's website explaining a particular CSS2 element - "max-height" http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/compare/default.aspx This is Microsoft's page comparing the major browsers. Notice how their own product, of course, has more ticks against it than the other browsers. I could go through each one of those explaining why the missing ticks should not be missing, or why the tick should actually be a cross, but instead I will just focus on the claim that it supports CSS2.1 - admittedly it does not say it supports all of CSS2.1, but the w3c site says that IE supports the property. As do other sites I have visited. These sites are wrong. IE does not support max-height. I did a little experiment to prove this. The following pictures are cropped screenshots comparing Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet E...

This morning on the news it was revealed that hospitals that take in the same patient twice in a month, where the second time they come in is a direct concequence of being discharged too early, the hopsital will be "fined" Now, why does this annoy me? Think about what a fine is - it is a cost. You park in the wrong place, you get charged money etc Now, in this case, the word fine is wholey inappropriate. Here is how it was explained to me: When someone enters a hospital for treatment, the NHS pays the hospital a lump sum. The same pateint gets discharged early, comes back in because they haven't fully recovered, and the hospital gets another lump sum. What is being suggested is that in such cases the hospital would not get the second lump sum. Essentially, because the patient hadn't finished being treated adequately, then their return to the hospital is still part of the first treatment. This is not a fine, just an extension of the rules as they stand to prevent abuse...