From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I've done my service (not armed, but in civil service system) so that's not
me, but could be my kid brother. He's 19 now, and has barely any life
outside the computer screen. Sad, really.

Mind you, I do have other hobbies - why, just last night I was out drinking
till 4 in the morning! See, I'm one of the healthy youth!


Antti Kurenniemi

"John Beamish"  wrote in
message news:41103d66{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5591247/?GT1=4529
>
> HELSINKI - Some Finnish conscripts have been excused from their full term
of
> military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish
> Defense Forces said Tuesday.
>
> Doctors have found the young men miss their computers too much to cope
with
> their compulsory six months in the forces.
>
> "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," said
> Cmdr.-Capt. Jyrki Kivela at the military conscription unit.
>
>

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