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Comment Tradition (Score 1) 1067

by sctprog on Sunday January 04, 2009 @01:37PM (#26321093) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...

You know.

These people have been living in hatred for thousands of years. There is no blame to be laid upon now, except perhaps to their own ancestors.

These people are taught from child birth to hate the other side because that is what their parents taught them.

How does one compete with thousands of years of tradition? You can't change it. You can't tell them that they're wrong and they should learn to just live in peace.

It's not going to change just because the Americans hold a military 'peacemaking' presence in Iraq.

Things are never as simple as we, the western world, want them to be.

China Defines Internet Addiction 201

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 10, 2008 @05:45PM from the one-more-addiction-to-the-list dept.

narramissic writes "Three years after the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing, Chinese doctors have now officially defined it as an ailment. Those afflicted with this ailment spend six or more hours a day online and exhibit at least one of the following symptoms: difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress. Do you meet the criteria? You're in good company: About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said."

Comment Increased mortality (Score 2, Funny) 304

by sctprog on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @05:23AM (#23914247) Attached to: Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death

Last I checked the mortality rate was 100%

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