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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
Instead of playing WoW, are they just living it now?
but shouldn't 14 people in a single cab still be considered somewhat suspicious on it's own?
Who's the tank and who's the buffer?
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Lat time I read about it was how some "patients" were beaten to death. One wonders what will happen to escapees ...
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
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.
What's the age of [whateveritscalled] in China? i.e. Why do over 16/18 (?) year olds need to "escape"? Pressure from the government, or parents, or honour, or something else?
So, in China, you can pay a private firm to kidnap, lock up and abuse an adult, and if they escape, then the police will return them to the kidnappers?
So, do you just get to pick any adult, and is there a menu for the particular abuse that you want them to be subjected to? The mind boggles at the possibilities.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I wanted to mod you up, but there's no option for "drug induced rambling."
Sorry, but 22 can be a child as can 28, well dependent or child take your choice.
Like any law we have here, it opens doors for new expansion to other laws basing some of their rules on previous. Recently health care laws were changed to designate that adults up to 28 are dependents to their parents if so chosen. How is this different than the story in China? Someone is paying to put these children/adults/dependents into these camps to get them back on the road to a productive life. Reading the article the government seems to support their usage but I cannot tell if they pay the costs.
Your really reading far too much into the story. China already locks up who it wants so your scenario exists in the standard method - government oppression. This story is about parents or guardians voluntarily placing dependents into the care of a business whose job is to correct behavior. We have those in the US too. No need to tin foil hat this.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
I imagine a boot camp with scenes reminiscent of the conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange".
No! No! No!, not Ludwig Von.....
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and considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave, i can understand why so many in china would be addicted to video games. i would be too if i lived in china
there exists in china the lives of the rich in the coastal cities, who are able to afford some degree of freedom
but for the rest of the country, the majority, you have some sort of nightmare where the worst excesses of communist authoritarianism combine with completely unbridled capitalist rapaciousness, to produce a distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor in china. the state has no problem abusing you and propagandizing you, and the corporations have no problem working you like a mule, and will bribe the corrupt state authorities to get away with it
it really is not surprising that some workers are committing suicide in flocks:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/foxconn-says-personal-issues-not-wages-led-workers-to-suicide.html
modern china is a brutal corporatist authoritarian nightmare, the worst of communism and capitalism, mushed together as a hybrid schizophrenic hell
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Hitroll--
Aspartame isn't going to do it. It takes high fructose corn syrup and the consciousness of a pigeon to really do the job.
Uh, legal adulthood? I live in a civilised country, not China or the US, so I'm not sure why you think pointing out equally nobbed up US laws would be a compelling argument.
You're really reading far too little into the story. The (alleged) motivations behind the kidnappers is a strawman - would you support Scientology's right to kidnap, hold and abuse adults in order to "correct behaviour"? What matters is that victims are being held against their will by private individuals, with no recourse to help from the State.
Is that worse than the abuses carried out by the Chinese State? No, but it's a new type of abuse, and cold comfort to these new victims.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
did Victorian England have legions of party workers censoring every little post on internet forums and tracking those who were too uppity? did Victorian England have absolute authority and control over the media?
the industrial revolution gave birth to communism and capitalism in its modern forms. China has adopted the modern forms of communism and capitalism, and then went through the industrial revolution. Combine that with a throughly Chinese obsession with learned bureaucratic efficiency (it's not hard to understand the derivation of the term "mandarin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)), and the absolute power wielded by the grumpy old technocrats in Beijing, and you have the makings of a slave state unlike any that has existed in the history of the world.
China is special, and not in a good way. It takes the worst excesses of Communist and Capitalist philosophies to derive a brutal machine of production. Which is fine if you are rich and live in Shanghai. Not so good if you are a poor slave, which is what the majority of Chinese are becoming. Denied the right to express themselves or speak openly, denied a justice system which has their best interests in mind, and ruled over by alternately corrupt local bosses and ideologues concerned about building a modern colossus, regardless of the human and environmental costs, and you have the life of the modern Chinese slave.
Its not pretty and the machine is growing in power every day. Worry about that. China needs human rights, or soon we won't have human rights.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
If you thought boomer's children were being coddled, wait until you see what happens in China. With the one-child policy in place three decades now, each child has six adult relatives to pamper them. Therefore many rarley learn important life skills like cooking, laundry and dating.
Saying that "Parents can choose to leave their kids on their Health Care plan until they are 28" is nowhere near the same as saying that kids are legal dependents of their parents until they are 28. An 18 year old is legally an adult in all ways that matter. They are not allowed to drink and gamble in some jurisdictions, but those are considered additional privileges above and beyond majority (stupid in my opinion, but legally and logically defensible). At the age of 18 you can choose to do whatever you like, though there may be consequences to those choices. If you're 18 and your parents tell you to go to rehab, you can say "no" and they can't make you. They can stop supporting you, tell you that you can longer live in their house, or cut off your health insurance, but they can't employ any sort of physical or legal force to make you go.
That is the definition of legal adulthood. You are freed of any requirement to obey your parents, they are freed of any financial responsibility for you. Now, having said that, many people, probably a large majority of people, continue to provide some level of support to their young adult children out of love and affection. Many, probably a large majority, of these young adult children chose to accept that support and continue to respect their parents advice or even obey their orders. Usually out of a combination of reciprocal love and affection and a mercenary desire to not lose the extra support. One should not confuse this voluntary symbiotic relationship with a legal status of required dependency.
The *only* people in the US who are both over 18 years of age *and* in a legally required dependent status are people that have been declared mentally incompetent in a court of law.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
the interbalance in the game between military strength, economic strength, strategic resources, domestic tranquility, and scientific research is compelling and "can also be a unique tool for understanding the world" as you say
that being said, i was a fucking addict. its hard to say the same thing about books and magazines. the timesuck represented by the "just one more turn" impulse, and watching the sun rise when you thought it was evening: that's addiction, and its dangerous, and its real
stop making excuses for bad behavior
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it