Fully agreed. The biggest threat to whales was to be used to polish shoes, not to be eaten. Those species that did not pass the point of no return should be growing in numbers by now, regardless of current whaling.

Besides, these assholes (that do not dislike causing physical harm to people, to the point of causing permanent injuries) manage to unite and polarise the public opinion in Japan in support of whaling, where normal people usually does not care the least.

They are despicable and people giving them money are supporting criminals. Remember that even Greenpeace calls them terrorists and hides information about whalers' locations to Sea Shepherd.

Finally, whale meat is terrible, no one likes it and in Japan it mostly ends up in pet food. If no one made a fuss about it, whaling would be gone in a couple of decades. Like this it becomes a token battle for the far right and a question of national pride.

Do you really see no problem in trying to find a warming trend by comparing only the warmest years? Do you also measure the average human height by looking at NBA players?

The statistically significant information from that table is that the last 11 years are all in the top 15.

So they think it is wrong because it reveals the test scores? Are they insane?

First let's say why it is really wrong: because it identifies the student with the his performance and starts to dehumanize him, it could be mortifying and alienating if the student does not have a really strong character. Even more, who is to say that failing badly would not give you a BETTER reputation with students? In a school for lower class childrem having good scores could become a stigma, could lead to cheating, harassment and god knows what else.

But peer pressure IS important for education. I dream of a school where students think it is cool to have good scores, where a student can learn the importance of culture in a relatively innocuous way before his first job interview bites him.

To show that we have gone way too far allowing remote scripting facilities in the browser, to the point that websites can run a complete OS of their choice on our machine just because one clicked a link. Or maybe I am misunderstanding the intention? This is NOT considered a good thing, right?