geo Posted June 5, 2011 Read and discuss >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/229318/Kid_sells_kidney_for_ipad2_regrets_transaction.html No matter what organ you sell, I think you'd regret it at some point. 0 Share this post Link to post
Spleen Posted June 5, 2011 I'd sell my appendix for a million dollars. (My spleen is not for sale, before anyone asks.) 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted June 5, 2011 It's a stupid thing to do, but then the world's full of stupid people. 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted June 5, 2011 Kidneys are virtually priceless for someone that needs one. Selling them on the black market they usually amount from $40,000 to $100,000. Just glanced on ebay and saw the iPad 2 is about $500-$1100. Will kidneys ever become technologically out of date? 0 Share this post Link to post
Spleen Posted June 5, 2011 40oz said:Kidneys are virtually priceless for someone that needs one. Selling them on the black market they usually amount from $40,000 to $100,000. Just glanced on ebay and saw the iPad 2 is about $500-$1100. Will kidneys ever become technologically out of date? Hopefully, yes. Considering hearts already have, for the most part. As far as I know, all the organs in the body besides the nervous system can be narrowed down to doing some chemical or mechanical function, so it doesn't seem infeasible to replicate them. One of the biggest challenges, though, is storing energy as efficiently as the human body. 0 Share this post Link to post
Daiyu_Xiaoxiang Posted June 5, 2011 Chinese people nowadays love money a lot, and they also love famous brands like LV. So it's not weird for this kind of situation to happens, remember I mentioned about Beijing residents fighting in Sanlitun because of ipad? 2 months ago I indeed went to Beijing, I saw many people are inside a electronic store looking for good ipads, mobile phones etc. Indeed it's very foolish for him to do that. The traditional chinese culture is being sucked. Anyway Chinatimes also mentioned this case: http://news.chinatimes.com/mainland/11050503/112011060300163.html 0 Share this post Link to post
j4rio Posted June 5, 2011 I wonder what will he offer when iPhone5 comes up. 0 Share this post Link to post
Spleen Posted June 5, 2011 Daiyu_Xiaoxiang said:The traditional chinese culture is being sucked. Didn't the traditional Chinese culture start being sucked when Mao started his great leap backward? 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted June 5, 2011 baronofheck82 said:What a fuckin' dumbass. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted June 5, 2011 What the fuck? I can't for a second actually believe this is real. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted June 5, 2011 JefferyPowell855u said:And Darwin prevails... 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted June 5, 2011 40oz said:Kidneys are virtually priceless for someone that needs one.If only people were willing to give their organs instead of pumping them full of formaldehyde and putting them into the ground to rot. 0 Share this post Link to post
Du Mhan Yhu Posted June 5, 2011 Wow, how retarded.. I would never do such a thing. 0 Share this post Link to post
PRIMEVAL Posted June 5, 2011 The stupidity level of this action is so high it doesn't even deserve a complete 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted June 6, 2011 Daiyu_Xiaoxiang said:Anyway Chinatimes also mentioned this case: http://news.chinatimes.com/mainland/11050503/112011060300163.html Is there an English language version of that page? 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted June 6, 2011 I'm thinking this kid may have joined this forum. 0 Share this post Link to post
Daiyu_Xiaoxiang Posted June 6, 2011 Spleen said:Didn't the traditional Chinese culture start being sucked when Mao started his great leap backward? The traditional chinese culture was being sucked seriously during Mao's rule. However at early Ming Dynasty it already started to get sucked, students can only learn Eight-legged essay at that time, so it makes many stupid people coming out. At Qing Dynasty, fucking Qing dogs try their best to destroy the Han culture, and bring Manchu culture to China. Some chinese things we seen today are actually comes from Manchu culture, the best example is Qipao. At ROC period, traditional chinese culture is back to life again, however at Mao's period, it's destroyed. Great Leap Forward bring hungers to whole country, also started the period of making fake things(Still seen a lot nowadays). The period which traditional Chinese culture totally destroyed should be Culture Revolution. GreyGhost said:Is there an English language version of that page? I don't think there is, it's a Taiwan newspaper actually. Maybe I try to translate it: At Anhui China, a 17 year-old boy surname Zheng hoped for a ipad2, so he use 22000 RMB to sell his right kidney, leds to different views. According to the new report, people who wants to show off by consumers have its age getting low. In China, there's 73% of people lower than 45 years old age are expensive consumers. Zheng found help from the realtor inside a internet, he went to Hunan somewhere a hospital to removed a kidney. After his parents found that there's a expensive ipad and moblie phone, his mum was shocked so she tell the police. It was discoverd that both the hospital and realtor are fake. A kidney was missing, Zheng was getting weaker and weaker, he was guility of doing this thing. Crazy people who likes expensive products are extremly common in China. Accordint to the new report of "2010-2011 WLA report", there's a total of US107 billion money worth by China's expensive products. Most world's expensive products manufacturer thinks this is a negative impact to China's community. The report also mentioned that age between 18 to 34 hot 45% of China's expensive products, Japan and UK got 37%, that means many chinese people like to show off by consumers. A pyschology professor in Shanghai said, economy is just started to get strong in China, so people who wants to buy a lot of expensive products are just some minor pyschology problem, they need the community for help and morals. I hope you guys may understand what I am talking about. 0 Share this post Link to post