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Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session
loserMcloser writes "Another Chinese man has died after spending three days in an internet cafe for an online gaming marathon session. He apparently fainted and died at the cafe from exhaustion. 'The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."'"
Scruffy gonna die the way he lived
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... the lead paint on the game controller.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
It's the sound of Jack Thompson creaming his pants
Guess we'll just have to ban online gaming. How many more have to die??
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
All you need is a beer helmet and a chick giving you a blow job and you could die with all your bases covered.
I smoked pot once. But I DID NOT inhale. Will you hire me?
He died playing WoW. Do I have any takers?
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Kinda sad, but really guys there is a reason games/consoles have started reminding you to take breaks. I guess it's better then someone getting killed over ninjaing a drop though...
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
This is coming from state-run media, it doesn't contain enough details for easy independent verification -- and the state has indicated that combating "Internet addiction" is one of its goals.
There's a lack of truthiness here.
Go Korea! hehehehe
Maybe this is China's way of making using the Interweb "scary?"
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we always see this stuff coming out of countries in Asia , are they that fanatical about these games ?
I mean geez I have hard enough time playing xbox for more then an hour without having to at least get a bottle of water. How do they do it ?
Do you think when he died he dropped any loot ?
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"game 'til you drop" was just a euphimism!
Seriously, what makes people drive themselves to die from exhaustion like this?
Looks like addiction to me.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
"WOW."
This wouldn't have happened if he had been running Linux.
This is precisely the problem with the youth of today compared to my Great Generation. Just one gamer kicks the bucket and 100 others run away from the scene scared. Come on guys, show some courage. Show some sticktoitiveness.
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Thsi is a very good point. Given the difficulties of controlling what people acess over the Internet, perhaps it's easier to just start subtly demonizing the whole thing.
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So true, not enough Linux games to play for 3 days straight. GO LINUX!
...minesweeper on Vista. It takes like 4 hours a click to actually do anything.
Double Kill
Multi Kill
Mega Kill!
ULTRA KILL!!
M-m-m-monster Kill.
LUDACRIS KILL!
H O L Y S H I T!
R E A L I T Y KILL!!!!!
The (lack of) stability of the Operating System prevents running a computer for such marathon sessions.
The US government have made it clear that we have no inalienable rights; any we do not defend vigorously will be taken.
I'm an Asian gamer with a mild addiction to warcraft 3. I don't understand how Asia can have a few of these incidents and the west has so none.Is there a distinct cultural difference to explain this? Or is it just statistic's? There i about 2.5 billion people in Asia proper vs 1 billion in all of the west. I don't understand how addiction is going to force you to sleep or drink or eat. I suppose I don't understand because all of my addictions are mild and state endorsed (women, video games, food, and tea).
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
We had a week-long LAN party during the summer between 11th and 12th grade (wow...I know I'm still quite young only 23, but DAMN that feels like a long time ago) It was quite cool the way it worked. There were a total of about 20 people or so in this one dude's basement...we would essentially play in "shifts"...10 people or so would play for 3-5hours while the others slept. Rinse and repeat.
That was a hell of a week.
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Obviously, the man was driven to death by the evil corporations dealing in virtual worlds' artifacts. His "gaming" was, in fact, earning a (hard) living. Just another casualty of America's insatiable corporate greed.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
A lot more people die from sky diving every year, and I think most of us accept that sky diving is not an epidemic social problem.
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Real problems could include: chronic disease, car accidents, criminal violence,
I think it's more of a problem that 100 people fled the scene than one guy dying from his compulsive personality disorder.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I love the quote/proverb at the bottom of my comments:
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
I know Bungie worked on Marathon, and it's a decent enough game, but certainly there are better games to kill yourself over...
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Not very hard-core, were they?
More than 60,000 Windows programs won't run on Linux.
An hour later, he was hungry for life again.
how does he expect to get a rez if the cleric can't find him...
The State has confirmed today that it has struck a deal with Comcast to provide monitoring services stating had Comcast's service been in place, no one would have died as their Internet service would have been terminated in time to save the victim.
Comcast has yet to release a statement about the deal however the President has been heard stating in the back "It's Comcastic!!"
Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
Jack Thompson is not a chinaman
I'm going out on a limb and predict this mans life.
single (never married or recently divorced).
No job prospects (recently fired or newly graduated).
Lives alone or with parents.
Few if any friends.
Pale, scrawny, bad hair cut.
I know I pretty much described the average slashdotter but it seems these guys tend to fit a certain mold. Time will tell if I'm right about this specific case.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Did I miss something? As far as I've heard, the only other case of death from gaming exhausting happened in Korea, but the submitter says "another Chinese man"...
Companies exist in China that pay you hard dollars for each goodie you harvest in an online game. They then turn around and sell those things for even more dollars to American parents to buy for their kids.
So yeah, the guy probably died so some snot-nosed kid could get his super sword + 5 from his divorced dad for christmas.
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Screw that I wanna see the people that stayed! I wonder how many people didnt even notice lol. I wonder how many Kara raids got a tell "Holy shit some guy just died next to me LOL"
or the raid of which he was a part, flaming him for not being committed enough to finish the raid.
I wonder who was the first in the cafe to shard his epixx
etc. etc.
So Skulldilocks threw acid on the schoolchildrens' faces, cause somebody from the bible told her to do it!
A few weeks ago there was a post about a programming competition sponsored by Microsoft in which students were expected to stay up for 24 hours straight and eat soda and junk food while coding.
People here are laughing about this guy because he neglected sleep and nutrition to compete in this contest. They are saying "darwin award." Where was this same sentiment when Microsoft caused students to do the same thing for a different contest?
Health should come before work and play, people! Your job is worthless if you are dead or ill from a terrible lifestyle. Don't let your boss force this behavior on you, and don't let companies like Microsoft force it on students.
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If you can spend over 100 straight hours playing a game online, you are not really contributing anything to society anyway.
It is as bad as you think and they really are out to get you.
For those of you not up on Korean urban legands -- I present to you:
Fan Death: Menace from Above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death and http://www.fandeath.net/
The best part of Fan Death is that fans made for the Korean market have automatic timing devices that are designed to prevent "accidental" Fan Death by shutting the fan off.
It would definitely be more relevant to know whether he was using any stimulants to stay awake.
Lemon curry???
Are we sure it wasn't just the smell?
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You hear about people surviving the wild for days or weeks with little or no food and water, and these people are hiking or walking, and in very hot or cold climates. So how is that only after 3 days someone who is just sitting there using almost no muscles can die in such a short time? Are they so malnurished that any day without food and water is death? Is their brain using so much energy gaming it starves their body?
Am I the only one disturbed by that tag? That's messed up.
How funny/sad is that? No "did he have a medical condition?", no "was there evidence of foul play", no "is there an autopsy scheduled", just "what game was he playing?"
Did he drop any good loot?
Back in my day, if you died after three days of a gaming marathon, it was because one of the other gladiators had run you through with a sword. And we didn't have paramedics, either.
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Doesn't some kid hold the world record for staying awake for 11 days?
This guy stays online for three days and croaks. Funny, coming from the Chinese authorities.
I play what I consider a lot of games, lots of late nights, late to bed before a work day.... so yeah, I do play late, but NOT THREE DAYS late, i mean, wow, how does one do that???
And then:
At first I was going to blame this on the chinese govt for forcing these users to escape from reality, but look. One taiwanese, one south korean. So it's got nothing to do with politics.
Maybe the answer is a simple "because they can". I think governments should start regulating cybercafes opening and closing hours, or set a time limit for clients.
Somehow, i'm thinking that this "addiction issue" isn't what it seems to be ...
Tu long
24 hours is nothing. You've never pulled an all-nighter to get a semester project completed?
Are you telling me you can't see the difference between a voluntary competition (hint: its kinda fun to pull an all-nighter every now and then... I have a wife and 2 kids and if I come across a fun project, I still do it from time to time) and a man who was either incapable of determining his tolerance or chose to ignore it (most likely the latter)?
And I suppose you would have people oppose the voluntary fund raiser Up till Dawn as well? I mean, think of the college students that will be kept up all night and have to go to class in the morning!
If he was playing Enemy Territory, you gotta be careful on "Rail Gun". It's a real killer.
(There, I said it. Oh yes, I went there.)
That's what swollen prostates are for, God always opening a window...
3 days in a cyber cafe? Can you imagine the smell of that? What's strange in this news is that the other people left the cafe only after this guy died and not anytime before..
Here's my educated guess based on the state-run media's reporting. Some guy on a long weekend binge of unhealthy snack foods has massive seizure or heart attack. He flops around violently (thus scaring off 100 other people). Ohh, he just logged into Hello Kitty Adventure Island before he died. Now we have an example of how gaming kills. Perfect chinese government example of making the evidence prove their point.
Did he drop any phat loots?
Quick everyone, let's judge a billion Chinese people (a billion!) by the actions of this one guy! And while we're at it, let's throw in the rest of Asia too.
Cheers.
Insightful... I always thought playing Marathon was bad for you.
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I chink it's wong for so many Chinese players to die gaming? Why don't round eyes die at the same rate? It must be Bush and Cheney.
I have a friend that worked in IT at one of the American Indian Casino's. He said people would die there all the time on the gaming floor. Most of the time it was older people that would gamble so long that they wouldn't take their medication. He would say, "Christ, we'll give them a free glass of water for their pills if they'd just ask."
I heard a really good article a few weeks ago on NPR where sociologists were looking into the root cause of internet/gaming addiction in China. One interesting theory is that this generation of gamers is the product of the "one child per family" policy in China. Essentially this generation in China is full of only-children. This is bound to cause social issues, and this internet/gaming addiction is only a symptom of a larger sociological problem.
Submitting to death is a failure. Where is the WWS parse for this event?
Just like I did when I saw this article.
It was like gravel rattling down two inches of rusty drainpipe accompanied by a shallow asthmatic cough. I pity his wife.
Look on the bright side, he died after the marathon, so he got all he paid for. It would have been more embarrasing to die during the marathon. ;)
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Yay!!!! One less idiot on the planet!!!
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Theres only one sensible thing to do, ban gaming from all public places, tax em out of existence and sue the bastard software makers who brought us this deadly sin. I saw no warning labels that said these addictive things could kill. Only now are we finding out the true nature of their products. These poor hapless victims lives will not have been in vain. Put all the money to good use for a huge anti-gaming propaganda campaign.
after he left we couldnt fill the group...aiiii yahhh
back in the day we didnt have no old school
Do the math again. There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary...
I'm not good at math, so what's 1.6 BILLION minus 1 equal again?
Why is this news?
did he drop any good loot?
I've been working at a casino for about three years and I must say, that Asian people are more likely to get addicted to gambling than Europeans. I don't know why it is so, but for some reason Asians are more focused on the game itself, forgetting just about anything else. This phenomena is widely known in the gambling industry yet there were only games of chance before online MMORPG's come. So it is nothing new here, it just an Asian peculiarity (genetic, perhaps) moved to another realm.
how does adding "some" to that make it more correct?
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(I'm a physician.) To die from "exhaustion" (whatever that is) from 3 days of gaming is ridiculous. I can't even think of a metabolic condition that could kill someone that soon in the absence of some pre-existing severe disease. Hell, even missing a couple of dialysis treatments wouldn't kill most people. And sleep deprivation would take a week or more to kill you, and in fact voluntary sleep deprivation of that severity is probably impossible.
By far the most likely explanation is a blood clot in the leg (deep venous thrombosis or "DVT") that embolized to the lung (pulmonary embolism or "PE"). In some individuals, blood clots can develop from just hours of being motionless; this is why you should flex your calves and preferably get up and walk around during long flights.
This news story was useless. Not even a reference to a pending autopsy? WTF?
"No, they may not be the latest fancy 3D games, but classic games have something the latest games totally lack: gameplay."
Apparently the latest games are also lacking fan boys who start every other sentence with "Back in my day...".
At least 100 people in the room, (plus presumably the staff of wherever this was) and no-one had the sense to smack him in the head (make him go eat/sleep/whatever) before he keeled over? What's this world coming to?
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Is buying a Harley Davidson as your first motorcycle since you were 16 at age 49 a midlife crisis issue?
... farming is.
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Well, ok, it sort of happens here. But instead of dropping dead themselves these people were letting their kids do it.
It's news for nerds man, that's what we care about.
Laying aside the whole, "Moment of silence for the fallen geek/Bell tolls for thee" moment, I really have very few questions. I'd be interested in knowing if he was hammering down the stimulants during his marathon session; that would make sense. But besides that, I really only care about what game he was playing.
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Just 3 days? I've been at LAN competitions where I've stayed up for 3 days a number of times, the trick is getting enough calories and vitamins or your body feels tired - the longer you stay up the more susceptible you become to any fatigued state - also, the proper choice of stimulant is very important, you dont want to be drinking Coke or anything with large quantities of sugar - which includes many of those 500ml canned energy drinks. You'll go up, and so long as you maintain that high you'll be fine, but eventually you will start wavering and then crash. A better technique is to consume something like Bawls which I find is a more stable stimulant, or caffeine mints/pills, those work great. Also, lots of water.
If you keep on top of your body your mind can function competitively for 3 days without issue.
I know a guy who pulled 5 days up straight in germany partying/raving, and I myself went 104 hours (my personal record) in Amsterdam. My guess is its not the gaming at all or the addiction but malnutrition that killed him.
At some point during this 3 day marathon, didn't he have to pee? If he didn't, maybe that's what killed him!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
"What part of 'sudden death' didn't you understand?"
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
"The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
cyberSARS?
e-vian flu?
Likely just scared of the implications and officials descending on the place, but it has to make you chuckle.
The story the other night showed McDonalds in China and their challenges. When they opened drive-thrus, people would dutifully use the drive thru to get their food, park the car and come inside to eat the food they picked up. With no precedent, people assume some amazing things.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
With xmame, I have thousands of classic arcade games at my fingertips.
Yeah, but what if you'd like to have some decent games to play without breaking the law?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Will HE have to get permission from the Chinese government before he can re-spawn or reincarnate?
Even if he's not going to be a Tibetan monk, he could return to China as another non-rural, unauthorized baby to be fed. (Assuming he isn't reincarnated in India, Africa, someplace in the US, or some other hunger-ridden place in this world, etc.... They won't mind if he reincarnates on some OTHER world, as long as there is no nexus/slipstream/wormhole for him to visit and rob food...))
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But so so true. I've pulled all nighters and all weekers and all kinds of other crap. Did it for fun, did it for work, did it just because I didn't feel like "wasting time" with crap like sleep.
It's not about why you stay up, it's about your willingness to abuse your body to stay up. I abused the living crap out of legal stimulants, and I still have issues with it. Crap, I even drank too much coffee today, and I damn well should know better by now, but there is that persistent "The meat is weak" idea, where the mind is transcendent and the body is just a wimpy anchor holding you back.
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I didn't get how his edit made it better, and I asked. Quit being a douche. Anyway, the implication that the war is only on some drugs, and not on alcohol or "legal" drugs, is false. I think changing the statement to war on some drugs actually makes it cheaper by detracting attention from the egregious treatment of people who drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. These people are also under attack.
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How about a Nap Penalty? And we shouldn't stop at games or 24 hours. I won't stop fighting until we mandate 30 minute naps for anyone who pushes themselves through 6 hours of work (lunch and break included). In today's day and age there is no reason for people to be pushing their bodies through the post lunch sleepy time. By doing so they are putting everyone's life at risk! Studies have shown that more accidents occur when people are tired. Enforcing nap time will cut down on work related fatalities! And if you're not for that, you MUST be a terrorist!
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These news make me wanna play nethack :P
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In careful study after doing the post (who has time to do research before posting anyway!), I found out that wicked sick only belongs to the killing sprees, which of course can't be the case here. Still "wicked sick" is such an awesome thing to say, that it should be mentioned as much as possible.
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But there is still most definitely a war on alcohol and nicotine going on. In fact, there are plenty of dry counties around, and liquor laws are used to control all sorts of things beyond their scope (behavior in private clubs, for example).
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pff. what a wuss. most people dont die until after 8 days or so.
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Well this is natural selection... :/
Let's hope he died naked, I mean, it just sucks to have to pay the extra 10% repair bill for offing yourself on the scenery.
This guy was in perfect health, had a good diet, etc., before this three-day marathon?
Or might he have died anyway, the games being irrelevant?
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Having (lots of) brothers is actually belonging to a small community, in fact it's belonging to a network of communities.
It helps a lot with social skills.
So yes, I do suggest, as the GP does, that being an only child predisposes children to become obsessed with games, and with anything obsessive.
Unless you go to a school without extreme competition and/or bulling. This rules out the USA, China, Korea and Japan. Everywhere else in the world is safe to be an only child.
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
Here's my take on this, I call my opinion natural selection.
Any idiot who plays a game so long he dies deserves his fucking fate.
What kind of person could really be that stupid? There had to be some sort of brain malfunction with this man. The world is better with people like this removing themselves from the gene pool by their own hand.
This is basically no different then a drug overdose in my mind. Except that drugs prevent you from utilizing your conscious mind to make intelligent decisions and games do not. If anything, this is far worse than a drug overdose for just that reason.
Maybe he was trying to reach nirvana or something, in which case I wish him well in his ascension to the sublime plane of existence that so many have died trying to reach.
Mostly I'd say it's his own fault, but there are ways to prevent people from doing these terrible things to themselves. How about closing the cafe for an hour a day?
People shape laws. Not the other way around.
Fainting is /brb. Dying is probably /afk.
Didn't they even stick around to give him a rez?
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It's the same with nuclear weapons. By restricting their sale and manufacture, the government has done NOTHING to keep them from the evil-doers, only out of the hands of private, law-abiding citizens. I think every man, woman and child should have their own tactical nuclear weapon - it's the only way to guarantee our safety and security. MAD works!
It was the lead based Red Bull.
If only this poor bastard could have made it to the next Jump Pad. God damn Pfhor.
To a nail, every person with a hammer looks like a problem.
Has anyone actually verified the facts in this story? Seems like every year or so, there's a report of this happening somewehere in Asia, but the hard facts (i.e. the name of the victim, the actual cafe where it occurred) are elusive. I seem to recall that in the other reported incidents turned out to be hoaxes.
But if you gotta go, what a way to go! Die doing what you love... Die Hard!!
I'm pretty dissapointed in the HaHa type responses here.
I'm not a shrink, but I'd lay good money that this poor bastard was bipolar, on a serious manic phase. Worse shit than this has happened on manic phases.
Bipolar kills.
....one less gold farmer to worry about.
The only tragedy is that he didn't die in a fire!
There are 2 groups of people you can make fun of on the Internet without fear of attack. The illiterate, and the Amish.
One can always trust the /. to publish any and all stories, without any check for its validity or actually being true...
So what else is new around here?
If all else fails, pull the plug and get out...
The Life is out there...
and take your stupid me-too comment with you.
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Evolution isn't necessarily a function of biological birth and death anymore, at least for humans. We are as much a product of our genes as we are of technology and society which are side-effects of our existance yet are primarily the basis for our food-chain superiority and (relative) well being/happiness.
That we can identify sources of risk and proactively eliminate them (rather than waiting for behaviorial conditioning over generations to do that work; i.e. fear of snakes, heights, etc.) means that social institutions can make us adapt our behavior much faster than biological means; this is critical to our further proliferation.
Insects can adapt to niches quickly because they have short lifespans and lots of offspring. Humans do the opposite. We assimilate and analyze data quickly to adapt to change using technology, while rearing few children with long lifespans (to better steward and disseminate the human-life-span outliving accumulated human knowledge and culture).
Our social systems are an evolutionary product; our continued evolution occurs in a cultural space, not so much the meat space, if you will.
So uh, yeah. No particular need to subject our children to sure bodily harm. Although learning-by-mistake is a powerful mechanism which I still think is valuable. A balance needs to be achieved, clearly.
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Help control China's human population, have them online playing games or at a factory. They both work.
First, you need sleep. It's not a good idea to go 3 days without sleep. If you look at what a body needs to live, in order of the length of time we can go without it are:
1. Proper temperature. You won't survive a millisecond at a million degrees C.
2. Reasonably clean air to breath. You might make it 15-30 minutes without air if you're a pearldiver, but otherwise, you're lucky to hold your breath for 2 minutes.
3. Sleep + Water. You'll need sleep and water within 3-5 days.
4. Food. You can go weeks without food.
Second, this over-gamer just got where we're all headed, but a little faster than most. Probably has something to do with powerleveling through real life.
To start with, not sleeping will kill you. However we are talking months of not sleeping, this is obviously something you cannot do without a specific brain injury and is why you don't see it happen. People don't die from staying awake for 3 days, you might hallucinate, but you will have no long term ill effects. Lets add in the computer games, I cant think of one deadly aspect of computer gaming, maybe some severe rsi? :p
This really leaves you with a few options of huge doses of caffeine or drugs. So thats what killed him, not being awake or computer games, which is whats mentioned. But hey, who can really trust the two of three stories the Chinese government decide to make public, it couldn't be for some self serving reason could it???
Come on slashdot. This is Big Brother propaganda story.
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This has been the reason the Chinese government has been using when discussing to install monitoring equipment in all internet cafeés in the whole of China (not a few). This story was told about two years ago, and apperently it has been told again.
Did this man really exist, or the story just created to legitimatize further crackdowns on Chinese internetuse? Last time, the story went something like "Since our young are using internet too much, we need to create a surveillance program to protect them. Noone should enter an internet café without being registered on a camera
On a personal side, I wouldn't notice if anyone of the geeks in my internetcafé died, it is dark, everyone is staring at their own screen, and sometimes someone is sleeping in front of their computer. I find it difficult to see hundreds of people screaming and running.
... that's seriously GOOD coffee. Anyone got the address?
Laws against alcohol and nicotine are on the rise, and so is over-zealous enforcement. It's also a free pass for police to beat someone, claiming they were drunk (like that guy in New Orleans they left in a pool of blood). They definitely like anything that is an excuse to pull you over and fuck with you, so criminalizing things is going to be supported by the police, even if it's not in their best interest due to the tax income issue.
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if the financial arm of the government was in charge, we wouldn't have a national debt. It wasn't in the government's best interest to prohibit alcohol, either. Yet there are still plenty of areas where it is not legal to possess alcohol.
-Clio
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And if you really want crack cocaine of some sort in this country, it's not difficult to find either. Difficulty in procurement is not an indicator of whether it is banned or not.
-Clio
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They can usually get marijuana far easier than alcohol. In fact, this creates some interesting trades....
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Did he drop any epix?
Yes lets give governments that have quite literally killed hundreds of millions in the last hundred years a sole monopoly on firepower. Give the big murders the most guns and the weak and defenseless no defense, really smart. Who is going to guard the guard again? I keep forgetting...
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?