Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break 177
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."
Re:Reeeeroy Jenkiiiiiins (Score:1, Informative)
Reeeroy? Seriously?
Re:USians don't need to jail their netjunkies (Score:3, Informative)
Hitroll--
Aspartame isn't going to do it. It takes high fructose corn syrup [mayoclinic.com] and the consciousness of a pigeon to really do the job.
Re:22, 28, what does the number have to do with it (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:video games are an escape from reality (Score:3, Informative)
considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave
Please, stop. Just stop. Don't post about China any more because you have Z-E-R-O idea what you're talking about. The state does not treat everyone as a slave.
distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor
Oh, come ON. Things are better in China, for everyone, than ANY TIME IN THE FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHINA'S HISTORY. Ever since Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people's revolution onto the capitalist road, every year has been better than the last. Yes, even for the workers. Please stop regurgitating what you read in Newsweek or Business Week. It's amazing how much ignorance there is about China. China these days is just a blank slate upon which Westerners project their undesirable thoughts, because they just plain don't know any better. Come here, live for a few years, learn Chinese, actually TALK to the workers (shock, horror, firsthand information) and then you can have your permission to comment back.