So what you're saying is fat people don't have to take any responsibility for themselves because they can now point to this study and say, "See! It's in my genes."

Then they sit on their couch and shovel a box of doughnut holes into their gullet while sucking down a two liter of soda as they watch tv.

All those rednecks who go swimming in ponds and lakes get infected and become the dullards we see them as.

Of course this doesn't explain people such as the Kardashians, but at least it's a start.

"3 months," explains ReskillUSA's website, is "how long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs."

Now we know why there is so much shitty code being thrown out every day and why software from multi-billion dollar companies sucks so badly.

I read somewhere that it took roughly five years of training for a Roman to be considered a real soldier yet somehow these folks are claiming in only 3 months someone can be a qualified programmer.

That's like arguing that we should just accept obesity as human nature, and figure out how to adapt to it.

We are already doing that. People such as myself who are fit and trim have been shoved to the side in the clothing arena. About all you can find now are pants with a waist above 34 and the smallest shirts in medium with XL and XXL being very common.

Then you have the NHTSA moving to use fatter crash dummies in their tests, asking car manufacturers to use longer seat belts and airlines having to recalculate the weight of passengers because Americans (in particular) are getting fatter by the day.

The idea that people shouldn't waddle when they walk has been abandoned in favor of excuses (see the story further up for why the solutions to this problem are being ignored).

He got caught because he put his downloader in one of their closets. None of this should have been technically illegal,

So if I walk into your place of employment, install my equipment in their unlocked closet, try to hide the fact that my equipment is in their closet when I have no right to be there, and download all kinds of crap using their equipment, that's not illegal?

I tend to think your employer would say otherwise.

Better yet, I'll wait until you're at work, walk into your place and install my equipment on your network, hiding it under the pile of crap you have lying around, and pull down all your data from your network. Not illegal, right?

The amount of excuses people on here use to justify clearly illegal acts is akin to listening to the politicians in Washington come up with excuses for why they weren't really cheating on their wives or why they're not really taking bribes from companies and foreign governments.

In practice, the loss of a CEO, . . . at a critical moment can do a lot of damage.

No, not really. Study after study has shown a CEO has little impact on a company's performance. In fact, the higher the pay the CEO receives, the worse the company performs.

When it was found the captain attempted to destroy the evidence, as evidenced by the crew member(s) testifying, the captain should have been shot.

His catching, and keeping, of undersized fish was deliberate as was the destruction of the evidence. He knew what he was doing in both cases.

It's people like him who are destroying what little is left of the fisheries (along with fishermen from various Asian countries). Size restrictions and fishing limits are in place for a reason. People who deliberately go out of their way to subvert them don't deserve to kept around.

The fish ladders allow the Salmon to migrate and been the main concern, this news is just bad.

Except they don't. That's the problem.

While you're joking, the official name on legal documents is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations".

Providence is actually the "mainland" while Rhodes Island is, well, an island.

are the insurance companies who are raking in tens of millions of free dollars from all the people who are forced to hand over their money to a private company or have the government reach into their bank account and forcibly extract the money.

This had nothing to do with getting insurance for people because it started with a Republican governor who saw a way to pay back his political supporters and what better way then to have the public hand over their money whether they want to or not.

Let's get this out of the way so we can have a more serious discussion: if God created everything, who or what created God?

But this involves TECHNOLOGY so it must be evil because without TECHNOLOGY there would be other possible way for the folks at the airport to calculate how long you might be waiting in line.

No siree, no way at all. You standing there, in full view of every person, in a public space. No way to check. None at all.

deemed to have carried out an unauthorised act on a computer

I know this is a radical idea, and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the part about unauthorized act being done a computer should be a hint. If it's not your computer or your system, don't try to get into it.

Or are we going to use excuses as to why it's acceptable to try and get into someone else's equipment when you're not supposed to then whine about the penalty when you're found out?

I distinctly remember when touch screen voting came out the same thing happened in several Republican districts around the country in races which were too close to call.

Mysteriously, people who were voting for the Democratic candidate had their votes changed to the Republican candidate and the same excuse was used.

For reference, reference 2, reference 3.

Based solely on the description provided, this would make for a great setting in D&D.

Lich? Wight? Vampire? Evil mage? Jar Jar Binks?