"hacker collective Anonymous"
Read "unaffiliated skiddies attempting to be an entity".
A pair of Akamai researchers are warning that entities using the name and iconography of hacker collective Anonymous will soon expand a six-year distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack campaign against Japan to other whale-and-dolphin-eating nations. The operation, dubbed KillingBay, is detailed in a report [PDF] and is …
Can't say I've ever eaten badger, but if it tastes as bad as dolphin and whale do, I can see why you wouldn't want to.
When it comes to the dolphins and whales, my only objection is they taste pretty dreadful. Neither can hold a candle to a decent steak, being much tougher and unpleasantly salty with it.
Are protected and dont need to be eaten or culled.
Badgers are potential pests and are known to carry certain diseases.
Killing and eating sea mammals and culling a possible danger to the food chain are not the same thing.
Also its not like badger culling is an annual event like seal clubbing.
All this said id like to point out that we still havent had a hemp wearing vegan comment yet...am I to assume that there are no vegan techies?
If thats the case we may have identified the next minority bandwagon for our industry.
To be fair arguing with vegans would be less of a ballache than arguing with feminazis. They have less energy for a start.
That said, skinny, pale and being obnoxious is what us IT folk are generally good at so a vegan could easily blend in...until the first beer and steak night.
"..its not like badger culling is an annual event like seal clubbing."
It used to be. Once the cubs had grown big enough to be fat and worth eating. Young badgers were the preferred ones to eat: less skunky taste and more like a piglet to cook. They'd be harvested in the autumn and smoked