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- insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -9/+254I cannot wait until these things are created in factories by the thousands. The diamond industry sucks.
- guyperson, on 10/10/2007, -3/+105They dugg it?
- acu8509, on 10/10/2007, -2/+69Trade ya Mars for it.
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+64The problem isn't the industry in general, but rather De Beers. Diamonds aren't so rare, but De Beers controls the import of them and slows it as necessary to keep the costs higher than they should be.
- shimbob, on 10/10/2007, -3/+61"...shrouded in mystery."
In other words, they dont want to outright admit it was child/slave/prisoner labor that found it. - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+61The guards standing over them with machine guns and the miners families held hostage made it quite a simple process.
- Nocturnal, on 10/10/2007, -5/+50Debeers ftl.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -3/+47Smash it up and make cutting tools out of it. At least it would be doing something useful then.
- xturmn8r, on 10/10/2007, -5/+41Yay. Another piece of carbon. Too bad it will never be useful (diamond covered bits / etc) because De Beers is so good at propaganda and now every woman in the world thinks that love = Diamond = forever. Gotta love marketing.
- purple, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Let the bidding for the world's most expensive over sized paperweight begin.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31apparently you aren't aware of the process if you consider that information "propaganda".
- Mandryx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Shine on, you crazy diamond!
- thesparrowband, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27anybody else reminded of blood diamond when they read that the origins of the discovery are unknown?
- archer104, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32In other news, seismologists detected earthquake-level activity which appears to be caused by "synchronized female orgasms".
- fearimas, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28diamonds, she'll pretty much have to
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Perhaps he's aware of the process.... from the side holding the guns that likes to deny the "propaganda".
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26I feel bad for the miner who found it. Must have been hard to hand over that fine piece of jewelry.
- MeruFM, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Blood Diamond anyone?
- Apoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Miners should have their share.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16de beers doesn't control the import of them, they buy up pretty much all the supply. sierra leone has only 7 people who are allowed to export diamonds, those guys have connections with the government and da beers. by keeping competition down, they ensure the mine owners get very little for each diamond, and even less is passed on to the diggers. da beers also bought diamonds coming out of conflict zones, funding some of the bloodiest civil wars. all this to create an artificial lower supply. it still saddens me that no one has ever been made to repay the diamonds and gold stolen from south africa by the white europeans.
- archer104, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo! - kbro, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Futurama rocks!
- yomamaisfat, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I guess Kobe's wife is getting a new ring.
- funkytaco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Please read & buy artificial diamonds.
http://www.wisebread.com/the-greatest-story-ever-sold-is-a-fantasy-covered-in-blood - coinman987, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12They already are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Not really no... diamonds make real money and people actually give a crap about them.
- hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Wanna find out about diamonds? Watch this PBS special. It gets into how diamonds are costly because of the created artificial scarcity. And how diamonds are just rocks. Emeralds are more precious than diamonds. I was happy this person dug up an old vhs copy of this special. Also the Oppenheimer family has the worldwide monopoly on diamonds.
http://tinyurl.com/22ub4t - yosempai, on 10/10/2007, -8/+19Don't you mean Da Bears?
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It's a space station?
- FatherG, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Wait no longer!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
An old article so I would hope they're a /wee/ bit further along now. - airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13All this fuss over some simple carbon. Silly humans.
- holygram, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12I hope that's not a conflict diamond...
- Lochie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12You must spokem the peace pipe.
- troye, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Yes, I did see that movie. It was sad, informational, and effected me so that I will not get my future wife a diamond. The documentary by National Geographic (i don't remember the name) about that was better.
- Angirus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12People buy diamonds because diamonds signify wealth. They signify wealth entirely because they are expensive and not because of their features. If there weren't such thing as diamonds then people would use other superficial means to display wealth. If crayons were $1000 each, people would be fawning over their wonderful properties, assuming you can get people to collectively agree that crayons are a status symbol. People *want* the existence of such trinkets and would invent them if they didn't exist. Think of all the silly people a couple days ago fawning over Rolex watches.
- CodeCobalt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Buried as inaccurate,
heres the REAL largest diamond ever found
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/17/1076779973101.html
"It weighs 2.27 thousand trillion trillion tonnes - that's 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a 1 followed by 34 zeroes. The biggest earthly jewel is one of the British crown jewels, the 530-carat Star of Africa." - outhouseinput, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Assuming you can find a wife that will accept a gift card to Bed Bath and Beyond instead of a diamond ring.
- 2xtrouble, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Rofl, this is friggin hilarious! South Africa is not like the rest of Africa! I live in North West province in South Africa, and I can assure that there is no such thing as blood diamonds here. The diamond was actually found by a property developer, and yes, he is still alive. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2172970,00.html
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10And now that the labourers are all dead, and their village wiped off the map, I guess we'll never know for sure.
- KingGorilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7we need more women like you. sensible
- vinwal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Diamonds are a rich elitists best friend
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6186684678299366197 - orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7But you didn't give him a BJ when he gave it to you I bet. Only the real diamonds get you oral.
- coinman987, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Yup diamonds are extremely common. The De Beers cartel control the supply thus artificially inflating the prices of diamonds.
- holygram, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12I hope this isn't a conflict diamond...
- FAPmaster, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10*yoink*
- Nekronaut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Diamonds, That will shut her up!
- xadhominemx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6and your [/lame] tag
- AverageJoe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6"The Cullinan, which was found near Pretoria more than a century ago...."
get out of my head family guy!!!! - s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6What better way to show your love than to support the exploitation and killing of thousands?
- drevin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8buggalos are the future.
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