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Justapspfan
07/28/09

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So what about the girlfriend, does she get a PC now?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/28/09

@Justapspfan: According to Microsoft, the Apple costs more, and therefor would be the bigger compensation amount.
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player_of_games
07/28/09

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So really Foxconn are admitting responsibility for the man's death? I'm sure things work differently in China then here in Western Europe but isn't that's a strange thing to do considering the rumours of shady goings on?

He wasn't killed in a workplace accident so there would be no reason for them to give such a payment to the family except PR, guilt and/or as a deal.

I can imagine the police investigation that follows being thwarted at every turn, a la Beverly Hills Cop III.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/28/09

@player_of_games: Actually, the CEO of motorola (or Old CEO?) is reported to have worked the guy who invented the RAZR into an early grave.
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player_of_games
07/29/09

@Lite: That's awful. But just the kind of behaviour I'd expect from the company that helped create the G5, one of the most evil chips in the history of computing.

I believe the original prototype is currently being kept underground in a secret bunker and sprayed round the clock with liquid nitrogen to keep the chip frozen and the world safe from its terrible power.

If it were to escape ... [shudders]
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pdditty
07/28/09

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A lump sum payment of $52K and $4K on an annual basis aint bad at all. They dont get paid a lot over there so I'm equating this as the family hitting a small lotto. Remember Foxconn did not have to pay them anything at all
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/28/09

@pdditty: Actually, they did. Otherwise the general growing outrage would cost them a lot of money in companies jumping ship eventually.
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Hi, I'm God
07/28/09

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50 grand is a ton of money in China. You could buy... 150 iPhones, a bottle of scotch, a sweatshop, and Tawain.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/28/09

@Hi, I'm God: Well let's see:

Get harassed until you kill yourself in China: Get $52,600 + residuals until Foxconn kills the parents.
Die because you're an idiot and a freight car crushes your skull in the US: $200,000
Dump your fucking coffee from McDonalds in your lap because you're a tool in the US: $2,700,000

Apparently the labor in China isn't the only thing that is cheap.
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Toastie
07/28/09

@Lite: is on a boat.: To this day I pray that the lady who sued mcdonalds over the coffee spill dies a terrible and painful death. Along with any other idiot who discovers that their hot coffee is hot! (yes I know the coffee was hotter than it should have been, but I hate that this lady got so much money. 2 million of that cash should have been donated to other burn victims, her surgery and work opportunity cost probably cost her less than $700,00)
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Kaiser-Machead
07/28/09

@Toastie: Actually, the woman who sued McDonalds only went after them for the medical bills alone. She didn't actually look for any profit. While that in itself may still seem questionable, at the very least, it wasn't out of greed. She was awarded a large lump sum for punitive damages simply because she was shrugged off when she approached them, but the award was reduced in appeals afterwards.
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Toastie
07/28/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Well, I silence myself momentarily in observance of my own ignorance. May she live a happy life and die peacefully in her sleep from old age. I guess the 90's is becoming a blur to me, or at least the unimportant parts of it.
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cpthook
07/28/09

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If you work at apple and kill yourself, do you think Jobs provides you with a sleek aluminum casket, or does he just yell at your corpse until it spontaneously cremates?
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eagles3 speeeedin
07/28/09

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BREAKING

Foxxconn employee kills himself, after being interrogated for releasing sensitive information regarding compensation of previous suicide victim.
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Shawn Pero
07/28/09

@Lance eagles3strong: Family to receive $50,000, as reported by a Foxconn official, who is later interrogated...
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