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Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break
UgLyPuNk writes "A group of inmates at the Huai'an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they'd had enough of the 'monotonous work and intensive training.' Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it. The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town — but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare."
First I escaped Slashdot Addiction Camp, and now this! What a perfect day.
which is totally what she said
Who's the tank and who's the buffer?
Achievement Unlocked: "Prison Break"!
Not really. People training for the clown car trick typically practice in China.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
You know what would be the perfect "abuse of authority/prison-industrial complex" scandal story?
Using inmates at an internet-addiction boot camp as slave labor for your WoW gold-farming business...
Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
So, people claim that these kids ain't addicted or have a problem. But they assault their supervisor and have one most of the most ill out escape plans in history. Really, what was their destination going to be? Home? Their parents send them there. No money. Well HOW ABOUT WALKING THEN? No, lets hail a cab (more likely a bus service with 14 people but I guess Americans never heard of public transport) with no money in camouflage gear...
The Three Stooges could not have done it better.
This does for the proof that there is no such thing as game addiction what "I will beat up anyone who says games make me violent" does for the "video games don't cause violence" crowd. Or Jeremy Clarkson does for any issue. He is such a twat that anything he stands for is automatically a lost cause because if he is for it, it has got to be wrong. If you don't know who Jeremy Clarkson is, he is part of a program that tours Vietnam on a motorcycle with american songs blaring in the background. It is a blessing he wasn't born in America, or he would have thought driving through Vietnam on an motor painted in the American flag with Bruce Springsteen blaring from speakers was a good idea.
Anyway, back op topic. Spoiled kids escape from military school. Cry me a river. Beat them harder next time. If you game for 28 hours straight, you have a problem. Constipation for one.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
"Game Over"
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I wanted to mod you up, but there's no option for "drug induced rambling."
I imagine a boot camp with scenes reminiscent of the conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange".
No! No! No!, not Ludwig Von.....
Tisha Hayes
I was thinking the same thing. It's a really sick world. I also have crystal meth addiction but I'm not bothering anybody and don't have nagging parents telling me to get off the ice. I remembered when I was young I had my pipe taken away (parents thought that the pipe was the meth), little did they know I had a few spare pipes under the bed. Up all night in HS sleeping during class, but know what I still got A's. People are different, just because someone behaves different than the others you shouldn't lock them up if they are not hurting anybody or bothering anyone else.
There I fixed that for you...though you could substitute just about anything from prostitutes to religions. This is large scale social engineering. They are "culling the herd" like cattle. Traits that they want to remove, they remove. Just be glad they don't want to remove genetic traits or else you might find yourself castrated.
Its really in NO WAY different from what we do here. .
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
No, no, no... you want to break them of the habit you make them game testers.
They'll want to chop off their own hands and gouge out their eyes before using a computer again.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
that's such a brilliant idea that I would be surprised if it hasn't already happened.
Perhaps Jeff Bezos will try to patent that too!
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
The dude is a multi-billionaire and gets to use the "I was the first man on Mars" line at every club he walks into. He deserves no apologies for any of us regular losers.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
24800 experience for escaping from the prison warden, they get to keep their clothes and choose between steel handcuffs or plastic ties!