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Should Addictive Tech Come With a Health Warning?
holy_calamity writes "Academics researching how technology addiction affects businesses and employees say 'habit-forming' gadgets like Blackberries should be dispensed along with warnings about the effect they can have on your life. 'We don't want to be in a situation in a few years similar to that with fast food or tobacco today. We need to pay attention to how people react to potentially habit-forming technologies.'"
Any behavior comes with a risk of psychological addiction. To stipulate a health warning on devices is absolutely ludacris.
Exactly. Just imagine someone getting addicted to reading warning labels and the having to write a warning label that reads:
"This device can be considered addictive, get a life*.
*Reading warning labels is considered addictive, don't read.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Why didn't someone warn me about slashdot?
Company's lawyerspeak on package: Warning: This product may lead to psychological addiction, not having a life, lack of sleep, and other ill effects.
Teenage or young adult customer: COOL! I gotta have one of those!
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
(I'm psychologically addicted to hanging out at the local peeve ranch; that's one of my pet peeves.)
...but on the rare occasions that they do they shine like a clean greased albino in a mud-wrestling contest
June Cleaver: "Ward, I caught Beaver and Wally using a blackberry behind the garage --- What should We do about it?"
..."
Ward Cleaver: "I'll talk to him about it"
Later that day
Ward: "Beaver, your mother said she say you and Wally behind the garage using a blackberry. What do you have to say about yourself?"
Beav: "Gee dad, Wally and I were just seeing what it was like. All the kids at school have tried blackberries --- Some even use it at school!"
Ward: "I don't care what the other boys at school are doing. If all the other kids were smoking giant ganja bud spleefs while wearing bellbottoms and tea-shades, would you follow them?"
Beve: "Nah, I guess not dad. I'm sorry. I'll go ask wally to flush that blackberry down the toilet before we get into more trouble with it. I learned my lesson. Thanks dad."
Ward:'OK son. Now get Wally over here so I can ask him what he and Eddie Haskell were doing with that gallon of Mazola and 15 boxes of golf balls in the basement
"with a warning label this big you know it's gotta be fun!"
Warning: this quote is for hardcore fans only. If you can only relate 60% or less of your daily life to a futurama quote then please disregard this post
http://greenobyl.com/ please.... think of the children!!
Why don't we just put a warning on everything!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Then the solution is clear: make life miserable for everyone, all the time.
I have never had a half-chicken, half-steak! I know what I'm eating for dinner now...
Hence Microsoft.
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Blazing Spiders
We should put warning stickers on hot women!
After that it's just you and Darwin, stuck together by a mass of warning labels. Enjoy!
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
My box of Kleenex has a warning (no joke): "It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Use only as a facial tissue."
Makes me wonder what else I could be doing with my Kleenex...
Question your beliefs.
My girlfriend gets mad that I ignore her all the time now that I have an iPhone. It actually bothers her a lot. They should make some sort of support group. Like iAnonymous.
Have a warning "pastry may be hot when removed from toaster"; I knew we were doomed, then...
We just need to instill the lemming instinct on the Morons...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear