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View Poll Results: Will you be "shutting down"?
Yes 20 11.63%
No 118 68.60%
Maybe 34 19.77%
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Old 02-18-07   #1 (permalink)
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Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
Anybody here actually going to not use their computers for the entire day of March 24th (12AM to 12PM) ? I might try

http://shutdownday.com/

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www.shutdownday.org "You dont have to turn your computer on to have fun with it".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMijrTVBU

LMAO
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i dnt think so. 24hours without folding... nae chance
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i would

but i just dont want to
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i would

but i just dont want to
Well a lot of people, like me, don't want to.. but I want to try it.. I havn't not used my computer for 24 hours in like 5 years.
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I went 5 days w/o computer, radio, MP3, or TV. None of my friends believed me knowing my computer using rep =P.
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Haha, I HIGHLY doubt I would do that, Global Shutdown FTL!
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you probably could easily go for 1day without a pc. just one day tho. and we would probably be sittin at our desks waiting for the clock to chime 12; fingers at the power button. lol
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