Recent content by Rakarth

My understanding of the situation is this: At the end of WW2 the Americans encouraged and gave a boost to large scale Japanese whaling to feed the starving population they were now responsible for. As a result, modern Japanese don't particularly want to eat whale meat. It's the "povo" food...

The Internet. Lets me keep in touch with people, find out what's going on in the world, and answer those niggling questions that pop in to your head that normally drive you mad.

Especially when child protection groups are also saying it's pointless and a waste of money. URLs from my previous post URLed. Facebook Group And their external site (which seems to have less info) if you don't have Facebook. Non-Facebook Link And this is an online petition: Petition

Wow great posts Saiter :)

I haven't seen this specific address mentioned. It's the Facebook group for the March 6th Internet Filter Protests. (Sorry, I have less than 5 posts so I can't make them direct URLs). w w w.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200213317223# And their external site (which seems to have less info) if...

I know what you're saying but you can't really blame them after the demoralisation Science was subjected to under Obama's predecessor :) I think what the boffins (and Nobel committee) are trying to do is highlight the change in attitude so the unwashed masses can more easily identify the...