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7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China
hackingbear writes "In China, the whole team of medical staff and their brokers were sentenced to jail yesterday over their involvement in the case of a teenager who sold a kidney to buy an iPhone and iPad. He Wei, who organized the illegal transaction in April 2011, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Beihu District People's Court in Chenzhou City. The court added that the defendants had paid compensation worth more than 1.47 million yuan (~ US $237,000) to Wang. Ministry of Health statistics show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only 10,000 operations are performed each year."
Sell somebody else's!
But you can donate your kidney...
Sounds like prostitution -- action that is perfectly legal (for free), but cannot be done/sold for money.
You wake up in a bathtub filled with ice, an ipad in your hand.
To see Apple's new iPad commercial.... A Chinese boy stripped to the waste rocking out to the latest iTunes on his iPad with a huge scar over his left hip. The captions reads "IT WAS WORTH IT!!!
If you RTFA, you will find that the donor was paid in cash. He then took this cash and bought an iPhone and an iPad. "Wang was given 22,000 yuan (US$3,529) and he bought an iPhone and an iPad with the money."
But.... don't let the facts get in the way of a good PR title....
They can't even buy a kidney with a Surface tablet.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
He said: cause I think I have seen like 3 iPads in the wild (phones yea a ton) that people owned and not just behind a case, this guy endangers his life for one, and it will be obsolete before the stink from this case ends. its just a toy people
Translation: I have seen plenty of iPhones but iPads are rarely seen by me, thus I consider them to be an expensive toy.
Tomorrow is another day...
All I had to do to get an iPad was sell my Kidney?
I wonder how long I could live off of selling all my organs?
What is the reasoning behind it being illegal to sell your non-vital organs? Is it to prevent people from being coerced into it under the guise of a legitimate transaction? Some weird pseudo prostitution thing about "selling your body"? Purely moral taboo?
Always wondered why this was the case. You'd think if this venue was opened up, there would be more organs going where they are needed without requiring the donor first have a nasty case of death.
who modded this up? it's late at night here in the us where slashdot editors live. sure, this isn't exactly the most exciting story in the world, but it's an interesting read and is related to technology in the sense that it portrays the lengths some people will go to to get their hands on hot tech products.
isn't this something slashdotters love to mock? down with consumerism and all that (while they themselves are buying gadgets faster than ever, of course ...)? i would think this'd be exactly the sort of story slashdotters would love.
I predict that someone mentally ill enough to trade his kidney for an ipad will not handle his 1.47 million yuan in a prudent manner.
cause I think I have seen like 3 iPads in the wild (phones yea a ton) that people owned and not just behind a case, this guy endangers his life for one, and it will be obsolete before the stink from this case ends.
its just a toy people
It is just a toy, yet people insist on risking it all for these 'shinys. Four Hofstra University students, who all had scholarsips and bright futures, have thrown it all away for a short term gain. "Find my iPad" saves the day again. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/colonial/2012/11/30/4-hofstra-basketball-players-charged-in-burglaries/1737957/
I knew iPad's cost an arm and a leg, but now a kidney? Apple has gone to far...
I'm honestly not trying to make a mother's basement joke here, but seriously, how much of a shut in are you, that you've only seen three iPads in the wild?
I'm virtually a hermit, and I see three uniques a week, easy.
And before you ask, no, I don't live in Cupertino, I live in New Mexico (and not Los Alamos, either), which is 47th in the country by GDP per capita.
I don't own one, I don't want one, and I'm very much not in their target demographic, and it's blindingly obvious that all of that is true of you as well, but the things are popular, massively so, and refusing to acknowledge that by making snide, derogatory comments that just flat out deny reality makes you look like either a) a zealot who is frothing at his mouth, 2) a blithering idiot or III) someone who lives in a shack in the woods and hasn't been in the same room as another human being in 10 years.
My money's on 1), but for all I know it could be C), your written presentation aside, I genuinely don't believe it's II).
I needed a sig so people would know who I am, but I was too drunk to make something witty, so you get this instead.
Like using a singular article (a) with a plural noun (people)?
It should be "it's just [some] toy people" or "it's a toy person".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Worst apostrophe EVER.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's like the time I broke three ribs playing Rugby, but still completed the game. Hurt? By the look on his face, I'd say so!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Worst apostrophe EVER.
It was meant to be 'shinys' . Critique accepted though.
Man, once you hit that "submit" button on /. , there's no going back. :-(
Once the business of organ farming starts, China is facing an enormous market for healthy, young organs and an aging population that needs them around the world. It's much simpler to simply outlaw, outright, than to start trying to manage and regulate such a business.
Hey, it is not a joke for some. When I was a kid, 'Coma' was just a scary movie, a work of fiction about a creepy organ harvesting hospital. Today, bodies are found missing body parts in different parts of the world, some people truly are 'ghouls'. Human life is cheap to some if profit$ involved. Some scary shit.
All moral concerns aside, it is also not sustainable.
If you sell a kidney in your youth, you will probably have kidney problems further in life and need a kidney transplant, in addition to all the other cases not related with early donation.
The demand will be higher than supply in a matter of decades.
they will just take them from people in prison / jails then or maybe just people on death row.
English would be a start.
Facebook is the new AOL
They could easily have made a tragic mistake, since his name is Wang.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
We hold here in high esteem the opines of anonymous cowards. Please forgive me, I must have been so wrong to attempt to point out the similarity between this erstwhile article and those championed by the esteemed tabloids to which you subscribe. You're right, this article literally screams /., because it take so little expertise to jump right into the fray and with deep emotional conviction make some bullshit up and enlighten the world with the searing light that powers your blinding insight. Again, forgive me, and allow me to stand down to make way for your in-depth analysis of this game-changing technological discovery.
Proceed.</end-sarcasm>
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body parts in the black market go for at least a quarter million. i have seen story's of that. the poor kid should have gotten much more then some apple junk.
But that's not even enough money to cover the RIAA damages for the first two songs he pirated!
Only 5 years? In surprised that they weren't executed, considering it's China.
5 years is nothing when the teen has to go through a lifetime of medical procedures...
He *wei* over his head...