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- Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?
- Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?Wow, a powerful question...Dana;Excellent question. A very thought-provoking question indeed.First, allow me to tell you a bit about myself and then I'll go from there. I suffered a nearly fatal motorcycle accident where I was left for dead. A hit and...
- Tags: Talk about ignorance, addiction, addict, memory, Dana
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Experts oppose video game addiction designation
- Experts oppose video game addiction designationExperts oppose video game addiction designationJust like "Experts oppose the concept of human caused global warming"?Video games aren't addictiveAt least not physically addictive so you can't even compare it to alcoholism. If you stop playing video games you don't get physical withdrawal symptoms.Years ago in...
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, video game, video, game, addiction
- Discussion threads 2007-06-24
- Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money
- Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money"It seems"?If you're going to claim that as much as 80% of juvenile crime might be perpetrated by 'internet addicts', you'd better back it up with more than just "it seems"...parental murderApparently, China doesn't understand that the epidemic they are now seeing has...
- Tags: INTERNET, media, heaven, addiction, devil
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- 12-step program to help e-mail addicts?
- 12-step program to help e-mail addicts?So TrueI know many people like this.addiction?This isn't addiction. I can think of another a word for these people, (ends with 'holes') but addiction doesn't cut it. This is a lifestyle choice. Our modern liberal society likes to tag any bad behavior...
- Tags: e-mail, addiction
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Today's Links: Internet addiction? Test yourself
- "TODAY’S LINKS" October 30, 2006“Today’s Links” is an eclectic round up pointing to noteworthy news and worthy analysis from all around the World Wide Web.TODAY’S LINKS October 30, 2006: Internet Addiction Complusive Disorder? Find Out.Internet Addiction Self-Test, Center for Internet Addiction RecoveryInternet addiction is a type of compulsive disorder and as...
- Tags: AniTa, addiction, Internet addiction, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Pick your poison: Porn or World of Warcraft
- Pick your poison: Porn or World of WarcraftAnd the difference is?Would you rather spend your life grinding away accumulating funds to pay the bills with your skills ignored, your promotions suborned and talentless people moving up the ladder away from you? All so you can own a house or...
- Tags: antidote, real world, Addiction, World of Warcraft
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- Shanghai addresses teen internet addiction
- Shanghai has recognized that the Internet can be an addiction like any other and has opened a facility where young addicts can go for counseling and spend the night, reports School CIO Based on a program in Hong Kong, the program offers a place where teens can do...
- Tags: addiction
- Blog posts 2006-09-08
- Can employers be liable for your BlackBerry addiction?
- Can employers be liable for your BlackBerry addiction?What's a BlackBerry......and what does it give an employer that a cell phone or even pager doesn't? Can it be turned off? If so, what's the problem?Carl RapsonA New Type of Employer Liability?I have recently started to compile a list of the different...
- Tags: Handhelds, Blogging, Games, RIM BlackBerry, addiction
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- Can employers be liable for your BlackBerry addiction?
- I just read a news blurb on Geek.com that links to a discussion of an upcoming Rutgers University study that suggests employers may eventually be legally liable for the "BlackBerry" addiction. The key to discovering whether or not an employer is liable is whether the employer manipulates an employee...
- Tags: addiction
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Morphine relief without addiction?
- Morphine relief without addiction?HopeLast time they just found heroine. Hope this one turns out better :)Great...but how do they know it won't also mirror the addiction? nt*Me tooThis tory is less about effective pain relief than it is about finding another pain relief drug that can be patented and marketed...
- Tags: pain relief, addiction
- Discussion threads 2006-08-20
- Asia tackles online game addiction
- Asia tackles online game addictionIs this really addictionOr is it irresponsiblity?What are the effects on a person when you stop them from gaming? Do they go into withdrawl?I think this falls into that area of debate over addiction that gambling, shopping and such have.My personal opinion is that if a...
- Tags: Games, game, addiction, online game addiction, online game
- Discussion threads 2005-09-14
- Average MMORPG gamer spends 20-25 hours a week on the game
- Approximately 85% of MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) gamers are male and 15% are female. About 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leader researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met...
- Tags: Internet Addiction, MMORPG
- Blog posts 2005-03-10
- Average MMORPG gamer spends 20-25 hours a week on the game
- Approximately 85% of MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) gamers are male and 15% are female. About 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leader researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met...
- Tags: Internet Addiction, MMORPG
- Blog posts 2005-03-10
- Web Addiction Gets Finnish Conscripts Out of Army
- Web Addiction Gets Finnish Conscripts Out of ArmyWeb Addiction Gets Finnish Conscripts Out of ArmyWow, more proof that nothing good ever came out of Finland.would Internet get you out of Iraq?That's an army!:)Who said ?Lot of good things come out of Finland.Go figure...http://www.microsoft.com/finland/default.mspx
- Tags: Channel management, Finnish conscript, conscript, Web addiction, Web, addiction
- Discussion threads 2004-08-03
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- The role of media in the Internet age
- The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...
- Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?
- If a drug could wipe away the environmental cues of your past drug addiction, would you take it? How about if it wiped out the cues of your post traumatic stress? That's what scientists may soon ask, turning off so-called glutamate receptors. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Cue, Memory, Addict, Drug, Wiki, Flash Memory, Productivity, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- BBC News educates you as you read the news
- I couldn't think of a fancy title. Had I done so I would have called it "Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Book of Sudoku"; nevertheless it'll do. After my daily hourly in some cases browse through the BBC News website to quash my horrid addiction to...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Everywhere I look, I see Clouds
- No, not a comment on the weather in East Yorkshire this 'summer,' but rather a reflection on the recent eruption of content related to Cloud computing. Having taken a long weekend away from the computer, punctuated by occasional iPhone-powered checking of my feeds to sate the addiction, it really did...
- Tags: Software, Web, Cloud Computing, Web 3.0, Cloud, Linked Data Movement, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Search the web visually with Viewzi
- If you use the web a lot, you probably use Google a lot. It's a habit for you to plug in keywords and you can easily browse the search results page to find what you are looking for. But isn't that sort of... robotic? Dallas-based Viewzi is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, View, Viewzi, Search Freak, Gallucci, iPhone Development, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
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