Web addiction gets Finnish conscripts out of army

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Web Addiction Gets Conscripts Out of
Army (Reuters)

Web Addiction Gets Conscripts Out of
Army (Reuters) 08/03/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish Defense Forces said Tuesday.

Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army

Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army 08/04/2004 01:23 AM

Finnish army 'drops web addicts'

Finnish army 'drops web addicts' 08/04/2004 08:53 PM
A number of Finnish recruits have had their military service slashed due to internet addiction, the army says.

'internet Addiction' Get Finnish
Soldiers Out Of Army

'internet Addiction' Get Finnish
Soldiers Out Of Army 08/03/2004 04:21 PM
story.news.yahoo.com via Drudge Report Aug 3 2004 8:11PM GMT

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up'

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up' 08/04/2004 09:56 PM
BBC Aug 5 2004 1:57AM GMT

Rush's forced conscripts

Rush's forced conscripts 05/26/2004 07:40 AM
American Forces Radio fires a daily barrage of Rush Limbaugh at its million uniformed listeners. So why are liberals kept off the military's airwaves?

New addiction...

New addiction... 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Peanut Butter M&Ms! Yum!...

U.S. Army Deploys Autonomy for Army
Knowledge Online Portal

U.S. Army Deploys Autonomy for Army
Knowledge Online Portal 06/21/2004 05:56 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Mon Jun 21, 08:46 am GMT

U.S. Army Selects Verity for its Army
Knowledge Online Portal

U.S. Army Selects Verity for its Army
Knowledge Online Portal 03/15/2003 01:23 PM

Blogging Addiction

Blogging Addiction 05/27/2004 10:46 AM

For Some, the Blogging Never Stops: Please don't let me become like this. Interesting story about blogging addiction.

To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West, Fla. Early on the morning of their anniversary, Ms. Matthews heard her husband get up and go into the bathroom. He stayed there for a long time.

"I didn't hear any water running, so I wondered what was going on," Ms. Matthews said. When she knocked on the door, she found him seated with his laptop balanced on his knees, typing into his Web log, a collection of observations about the technical world, over a wireless link.

Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up.

Via MetaFilter.

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Gadgets: the electronic addiction

Gadgets: the electronic addiction 01/04/2004 10:50 PM
ZDNet Australia Jan 4 2004 9:42PM ET

Internet Addiction Gets Your Out Of The
Military?

Internet Addiction Gets Your Out Of The
Military? 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
Many stories about "internet addiction" have been based on some random psychologist who was mostly trying to drum up some new (and potentially lucrative) business. However, people continue to take it seriously. The latest, amazingly enough, is that the Finnish military is letting people get out of military service if they're addicted to the internet. Apparently "young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces." However, the Commander-Captain of conscription doesn't seem to have much of a problem with young men staying home and playing games instead of serving their country: "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big shock." Of course, they're not completely out of it: "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come back and we ask if they are OK ... they will have had time to grow up." I wonder if the cases of "internet addiction" will increase, now that kids know they can skip out on service and play games instead.

Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction?

Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? 01/01/2004 06:20 PM
ethanms writes "I'm pretty sure that I'm addicted to caffeine... I get nasty headaches if I skip coffee and soda for a day. If I go even longer, then the ...

Call to address cocaine addiction

Call to address cocaine addiction 03/31/2005 03:12 AM
The number of people using cocaine has doubled in Scotland in the past four years, drug workers warn.

Internet addiction a growing problem

Internet addiction a growing problem 04/01/2005 12:21 PM
Expatica Belgium Apr 1 2005 2:55PM GMT

Gays Mobilize Against Meth Addiction
(AP)

Gays Mobilize Against Meth Addiction
(AP) 04/03/2005 08:06 PM
AP - It's a Friday evening, traditional kickoff time for the party scene in New York's gay community, but the 75 men packed into a small room at a gay health center aren't in a partying mood. Through a humbling 12-step program modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, they are battling to kick their addiction to methamphetamine, and in doing so escape an epidemic that is roiling urban gay communities nationwide with disease, despair, embarrassment and anger.

Glued to the PC? It's time to check for
Net addiction

Glued to the PC? It's time to check for
Net addiction 12/22/2003 12:55 AM
Gulf News Dec 21 2003 11:36PM ET

Scientists May Use Drugs to Stop
Addiction (AP)

Scientists May Use Drugs to Stop
Addiction (AP) 08/29/2004 12:51 PM
AP - Can Prozac help you kick cocaine? Can Ritalin? How about a blood pressure pill or medicine for muscle spasms? If you're an alcoholic, could you get help staying sober by taking an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients?

Americans must fight petroleum addiction

Americans must fight petroleum addiction 06/06/2004 06:34 AM
SiliconValley.com Jun 6 2004 10:40AM GMT

Maybe e-mail addiction is a good thing

Maybe e-mail addiction is a good thing 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
Also: Are virus writers creating a super worm?

bl0g from the members of jane's
addiction

bl0g from the members of jane's
addiction 06/23/2004 06:55 PM
powered by typepad, but now i just wish i knew if jane's addiction had broken up

Alert issued over internet addiction

Alert issued over internet addiction 04/28/2004 01:35 AM
iafrica.com Apr 28 2004 5:53AM GMT

Iran warns of internet addiction

Iran warns of internet addiction 04/26/2004 11:34 AM
iafrica.com Apr 26 2004 3:34PM GMT

Casinos Bet on Gambling Addiction Web
Site (Reuters)

Casinos Bet on Gambling Addiction Web
Site (Reuters) 04/12/2004 10:01 AM
Reuters - Compulsive Australian gamblers seeking help from Gamblers Anonymous are being hit with online casino pop-up advertisements when they visit the Web site of the self-help group, the Daily Telegraph newspaper says.

CNN.com - 'Law & Order' a dangerous
addiction - Apr 22, 2004

CNN.com - 'Law & Order' a dangerous
addiction - Apr 22, 2004 04/23/2004 09:32 AM
CNN.com - 'Law & Order' a dangerous addiction - Apr 22, 2004 .. aren't the only ones with Law & Order addictions .. a short but amusing article

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Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower

Shelving My Addiction or Promiscuous
Corpse Flower 06/22/2005 02:57 AM
I've got a seriously bad "anime addiction". So much so that I've completely run out of room to store my...

"England thinks about vaccinating
children against drug addiction"

"England thinks about vaccinating
children against drug addiction" 07/26/2004 04:08 AM

Finnish Fun

Finnish Fun 05/19/2004 01:13 PM
Sorry, Finns only:

Heli kirjoitti pienen mukavan tarinan uljaas ta prinssistä, joka uponnee jokaiseen naiseen, joka on ikinä seurustellut nörtin kanssa. On suorastaan pelottavaa tunnistaa itsensä. (Ei se komeuskohta. Mutta se muu...)

Kiitos! :-D

Oz teen's crime spree financed mobile
phone addiction

Oz teen's crime spree financed mobile
phone addiction 08/05/2004 08:49 AM
Steal-as-you-go

Iranian police warns youth againt
Internet addiction

Iranian police warns youth againt
Internet addiction 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
Middle East Online Apr 26 2004 1:22PM GMT

Stop Smoking Laser Clinic Frees Teens
from Addiction

Stop Smoking Laser Clinic Frees Teens
from Addiction 04/15/2005 03:34 PM
Freedom Laser Therapy discounts their quit smoking laser treatment to help young adults [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

"review (in Finnish)"

"review (in Finnish)" 07/05/2004 09:37 AM

Finnish CC Licence

Finnish CC Licence 05/27/2004 11:05 AM
Finland is the third country after the US and Japan to go ahead with their fully-fledged CC licences. After several months of legal deliberation the Finnish project lead Herkko Hietanen felt able to clear the licence draft and present it to the Finnish public last Monday, thus marking a major milestone in the development of iCommons. The Finns are widely seen as one of the technologically most advanced countries in Europe.

In Finnish, for a change.

In Finnish, for a change. 09/01/2004 03:46 PM
Sain tänään ihanan sähköpostin, joka sanoi kaiken oleellisen:

Sinä puuhaat keittiössä. Laitat paikkoja kuntoon.
Minä kuuntelen sitä, rakastan sinua
ja kaikki on sitä myöten selvää.

- Pentti Saarikoski -

(<idlewonder>Lieneekö yhden runon lainaaminen tekijänoikeusrikkomus? Sehän on itsenäinen teos, ja pikkaisesta runosta on aika vaikea lainata pelkkää osaa tekijänoikeuslain 22§:n tarkoittamalla tavalla. Hum.</idlewonder>)

Finnish Thanksgiving

Finnish Thanksgiving 12/19/2004 02:59 PM

« The bas-relief on this slab of dark granite becomes a cool bit of snowy art. A Thanksgiving day postprandial gallery of pictures from a November Snow to gape at in a turkey induced coma. »

Thanksgiving, a treasured holiday that involves lots of food, family and no religious obligations. A day that likely makes all the surviving Native Americans wonder what in the hell the Wampanoag tribe was thinking when they helped those prissy pilgrims survive the first few winters instead of taking care of the problem early. So much romanticism is imbued in the whole idea of Thanksgiving that even Plymouth Rock is a major tourist attraction which, I can tell you from personal experience, is the saddest bit of rock anyone might waste their time travelling down two hours from Boston to gape at.

In the annual fit of family and patriotic turkey eating frenzy, the Pilgrims were, in fact, immigrants celebrating the fact that they managed to survive a year or two in their new homeland, one that they either chose to or were forced to move to. Not that everyone shouldn't have something to reflect happily upon in the previous 365 days, but people who move to an alien land have a completely different need to do so since, like with the Pilgrims, there are lots of days where the misery you knew back home seems a lot more comfortable than the misery you are just beginning to make friends with. Simple things you once took for granted are a new challenge and few things come easily.

I didn't go home this year, much as I wanted to, but we had a 'Finnish Thanksgiving' dinner of turkey meatballs, mashed potatoes with aura cheese and garlic, and lingonberry sauce. It wasn't the same as a full spread of turkey, stuffing, giblet gravy, yams, cranberry relish, pumpkin pie, and piles of other food you try to cram in before you feel so full that you feel sick, but it was good. I don't feel much like a pilgrim but, like them, I've managed to survive so far and that's something worth treating yourself to a big meal that would drop a moose in 50 paces. Of course, this year I have something to be quite thankful for and that is, after much waiting and hoping, I finally got a job. Not only a job, but a job at the one place I wanted to work for above all the others. :) I'm happy, too, that I'll be working somewhere that I'll be, I think, the only native English speaker and where the operating language is Finnish and I will have no choice but to finally start speaking a bit more Finnish. I hope I survive the awkward stage. Getting back into a regular workday routine is going to feel really strange for a week or three I think. :)

Also, this week's paper had a story about Korttelit.fi, a pictorial map of every building in downtown Helsinki. The interface is very nicely done and the pictures are good as well. It's not finished as the person who created it is doing it himself, but I suspect there will be some commercial interest in it to make it worth his while.

Research Reveals Faulty Biological Clock
Genes Could Influence Addiction

Research Reveals Faulty Biological Clock
Genes Could Influence Addiction 06/17/2005 03:48 PM

Finnish Blog Awards

Finnish Blog Awards 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Jaakko of Fabula suggests that there should be Finnish blog awards. This is a very, very dumb idea that is certain to cause a lot of grief, tears and hate across the Finnish blogosphere, and whoever does it will completely lose all respect and will be spit upon on the streets.

How could I not do this?

Apologizes to all English readers - here's the official announcement:

Kultainen Kuukkeli 2003 - palkinto tullaan jakamaan useammassa blogikategoriassa, ml. paras suomalainen blogi. Lisäinfoa on sivulla Kultainen Kuukkeli 2003.

Ehdotuksia kategorioista voi joko lähettää meilitse tai jättämällä kommenti tähän merkintään.

Mikäli joku haluaa sponsoroida palkintoja, ole hyvä ja ilmoita itsestäsi ylläolevin keinoin.

Stupid Finnish poetry

Stupid Finnish poetry 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

Apologies to my foreign readers. It would be worse in English, trust me :-). I just had to put this one in the form of a tanka poem. I have no explanation.

Cory's DRM talk in Finnish

Cory's DRM talk in Finnish 08/31/2004 11:39 AM
Cory Doctorow: Herkko Hietanen, Tero Tilus, Antti Vähä-Sipilä and Kuisma Lappalainen from EF Finland have translated my Microsoft DRM talk into Finnish, bringing the total number of translations up to 10 (with two more that I know of underway). Freaking cool. Link
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