{"id":40,"date":"2006-11-21T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.menasoft.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-01-28T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T20:15:39","slug":"things-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menasoft.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Things to worry about&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun topic i just had to write something about. I was listening to the radio today and heard the host (<a href=\"http:\/\/clarkhoward.com\/\">Clark Howard<\/a>) say I should worry about &#8220;computer addiction&#8221;. He named a bunch of warning signs and introspective questions we should each ask ourselves to see if maybe we have a problem with our use of computers. Computer addiction I was told can have all sorts of bad consequences and many people are effected by it and don\u2019t even realize it. After confirming that I have 9 out of the 10 watch signs of this dread condition, I promptly decided to ignore it. I\u2019m more or less happy with my use of the computer.<\/p>\n<p>The real point I took from this radio show was how often I hear such warnings. Every day there seems to be some new things I should worry about. Every single one of them is VERY important. The world is just full of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scaremongering\">scaremongers<\/a>. Are these people really just attention starved? They realize that scaring people is a way to be heard? So often I hear people under 30 talking about how things are &#8220;nowadays&#8221;. hehe. The world is plenty scary without inventing silly things to worry about. I figure if i have a better chance of winning the lottery than being effected by X, then its not worth worrying about. You know anyone who has won the lottery?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I started thinking about all the things I&#8217;ve been told I should worry about:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The next ice age &#8211; sounded reasonable in 1975<\/li>\n<li>Running out of oil &#8211; sounded reasonable in 1980<\/li>\n<li>Asteroids crashing into the earth &#8211; inspired several movies.<\/li>\n<li>Bird flu<\/li>\n<li>Ebola<\/li>\n<li>El Nino \/ La Nina<\/li>\n<li>Mad cow disease.<\/li>\n<li>Child kidnappers &#8211; are there really more now than there were 30 years ago?<\/li>\n<li>Estrogen in food making men sterile.<\/li>\n<li>Hairy palms, blindness, and insanity?<\/li>\n<li>Flesh eating bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Bad Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Sharks (Jaws)<\/li>\n<li>Hitchhikers<\/li>\n<li>Getting AIDS from playing basketball.<\/li>\n<li>Top soil erosion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could probably go on all day&#8230;<br \/>\nBut, Just because many worries are silly doesn&#8217;t mean they all are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communism and nuclear war &#8211; Were very real threats at one time.<\/li>\n<li>Terrorists getting there hands on nukes. More a question of when than if IMO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others I just have no idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Warming, rising oceans and climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Human Cloning,<\/li>\n<li>Super viruses.<\/li>\n<li>Nanobots and gray goo?<\/li>\n<li>Cola ruins your kidneys?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun topic i just had to write something about. I was listening to the radio today and heard the host (Clark Howard) say I should worry about &#8220;computer addiction&#8221;. 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