Web Addiction=No Draft/Conscription?
Totally OT. I'm not really sure what to say about this other than I find it amusing, at least. In truth, service isn't dismissed, just postponed until they "grow up". 
Web Addiction Gets Finnish Conscripts Out of Army
Tue Aug 3, 2004 10:53 AM ET
Read full story here.
HELSINKI (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 on Tuesday.
Doctors have found the young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces.
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"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," Kivela said.
Tue Aug 3, 2004 10:53 AM ET
Read full story here.
HELSINKI (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 on Tuesday.
Doctors have found the young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces.
** snip snip **
"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," Kivela said.
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