Teen Sells Kidney for iPad 2
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doubt anyone would ever want my organs but if i was in a pinch i could see this being a good one time cash grab
The sad thing is that it'll just be obsolete when the ipad 3 releases. And you only have one spare kidney.
Steve Jobs is just so fucking masterful it's crushing. Who else could create a doodad with so much appeal that kids will have their organs gouged out just to own one? Gates? Feh!
I don't feel even a little bad, but I bet this kid will in about 10 years, when his kidney-pad is in a drawer somewhere completely forgotten, and his body is appropriately thanking him for removing his organ.
I don't feel even a little bad, but I bet this kid will in about 10 years, when his kidney-pad is in a drawer somewhere completely forgotten, and his body is appropriately thanking him for removing his organ.
This was my first thought as well. Actually, you find someone desperate enough to cling to life I imagine you could get significantly more. 3 grand for a kidney seems low-balling, even by humble Chinese economy standards (hint their people are poor).The Random One said:
It really bothers me that anyone would do this for any kind of electronic gadget, but it especially disturbs me that anyone would do this for an Apple product.
P.S.: Do you see the scar on that dude? Christ, what did they open him up with, a bandsaw? Remind me to never get illegal surgery in China...
My opinion of Apple is that they make decent products that could be extraordinary. A lot of their stuff (iPod, iPhone, iPad) have been revolutionary ideas, that were crippled by Apple's insistence on keeping a closed platform and refusing to support essential features (No Flash support on the iPad? Piss off, Jobs.). Not to mention them signing an exclusive deal with a single wireless provider for their Internet phone that they know will create a huge strain on network resources.
Really, I doubt it would have mattered if it had been AT&T, Verizon, T Mobile, or any other network; if you force a single network to support that many high-bandwidth devices, shitty service is the only possible result.
Then, when they finally let their choke chain go slack a little, and let Verizon carry the iPhone, lo and behold, Verizon gets an iPhone that's almost a whole generation behind the AT&T iPhone. If you looked up the definition of "dick move" in the dictionary, that would be the first example.
Then you hear about how Apple is straight-up copying applications for tethering and multitasking that were already developed by their users, and then letting AT&T charge their customers a monthly fee to get access to the capabilities their devices should have had from the beginning.
And everyone is pissed at Sony for suing Geohot over the PS3 crack. Let me tell you, if Sony is the Antichrist of the corporate world, Apple is the Devil himself.
The only reason Apple's products are doing so well is because of Apple's marketing strategies, which, in my opinion, are nothing less than poisonous. Apple is really good at making their products look cool, deprecating their competition in ways that don't get them sued (while making their customers feel smarter than anyone who goes with a competitor's product), and churning out new versions of their products at a breakneck pace to keep the tech junkies hooked (because you can't upgrade anything that Apple sells).
Apple is not revolutionizing the world with their products. They're just exploiting you. Granted, that's what EVERY company does, but it's the smug, stuck-up, superiority complex Apple projects that really squeezes the rage out of me, especially when I see how desperate people get to have Apple's latest 'thing'.
If my theory that manufactured goods qualify as symbiotic entities (i.e., semi-living things that reproduce using humans as their surrogates) then Apple products are all parasites.
Really, I doubt it would have mattered if it had been AT&T, Verizon, T Mobile, or any other network; if you force a single network to support that many high-bandwidth devices, shitty service is the only possible result.
Then, when they finally let their choke chain go slack a little, and let Verizon carry the iPhone, lo and behold, Verizon gets an iPhone that's almost a whole generation behind the AT&T iPhone. If you looked up the definition of "dick move" in the dictionary, that would be the first example.
Then you hear about how Apple is straight-up copying applications for tethering and multitasking that were already developed by their users, and then letting AT&T charge their customers a monthly fee to get access to the capabilities their devices should have had from the beginning.
And everyone is pissed at Sony for suing Geohot over the PS3 crack. Let me tell you, if Sony is the Antichrist of the corporate world, Apple is the Devil himself.
The only reason Apple's products are doing so well is because of Apple's marketing strategies, which, in my opinion, are nothing less than poisonous. Apple is really good at making their products look cool, deprecating their competition in ways that don't get them sued (while making their customers feel smarter than anyone who goes with a competitor's product), and churning out new versions of their products at a breakneck pace to keep the tech junkies hooked (because you can't upgrade anything that Apple sells).
Apple is not revolutionizing the world with their products. They're just exploiting you. Granted, that's what EVERY company does, but it's the smug, stuck-up, superiority complex Apple projects that really squeezes the rage out of me, especially when I see how desperate people get to have Apple's latest 'thing'.
If my theory that manufactured goods qualify as symbiotic entities (i.e., semi-living things that reproduce using humans as their surrogates) then Apple products are all parasites.
P.S.: Do you see the scar on that dude? Christ, what did they open him up with, a bandsaw? Remind me to never get illegal surgery in China...
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Sorry but at 17 you should know to not sell your frikin organs. This wasn't breaking and entering, he voluntarily sold a precious organ for a couple thousand dollars.vansau said:
Heck, he wasn't even duped into it he literally read an add then made his decision.
You gotta be messed if you think that's a good idea.
if you wanna see stupid go to the clients from hell website. your faith in human intelligence will begin to approach zero after number 5. and an apple product? really? not food for a starving family or a life-saving operation, an ipad. balls to this idiot if he's over 15
i agree, but this would be a bigger story if he sold an organ that was important... well more important anyway.The Bandit said:
admins won't consider that trolling will they? i won't get banned for saying trolling will I???
oh shit
It's things like this that makes me proud of my totally irrational and baseless insistence with keeping the oldest model possible as long as it will function. I never had an iPad, but I was so so sad when I lost my phone from the 1990s...
When we get stories of someone in South Korea selling their kidney for a Motorolla Xoom, or someone here in Australia selling part of their liver for Windows7, then you can make that call.vansau said:
This kind of obsession with technology is really rare: Apple command the highest (but by no means all) calibre of this obsession I've noticed.