Those crazy Finns

This is crazy. Some men in the Finnish military are being let out of service because they can't be without the internet for the six months they are required to serve.

Back a few years when I worked for SimonDelivers.com I had a buddy who was a Finn. While working at SD.com it came time for him to serve in the military. He left for 6 months and came back pretty much the same. About the same time my brother was either in or had just come back from US Marine boot camp. The differences between the two were striking. First, we hardly ever heard from Matt because he barely had time to even write to his fiance. But Nick, he had access to the internet and email, I even heard from him a few times and I was just a friend from work! Second, the food. Matt was forced to eat MREs while in the field and in the mess hall while in camp. If I remember correctly mess food wasn't too bad but it wasn't good and it got repetative. Whereas Nick had fast food restaurants on base!

Maybe they treated their snipers differently but those idiots who got out of service should have been able to get access to the 'net at least a little. Just imagine if they had been addicted to heroin as well, they would have had to have been let out twice as fast.