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- heartcoldfusion, on 11/13/2007, -1/+58Even if this is ***** and it doesn't benefit anyone, at least you get to increase your vocabulary...
- victorycig, on 11/14/2007, -2/+38FAQ:
FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people. - kalleanka, on 11/14/2007, -7/+42Please digg this up so more people play with it and more money gets donated to the hungry.
This shows the total of how much rice has been donated:
http://www.freerice.com/totals.html
If I know the power of Digg correctly, YOU can make a difference here and now by digging this up! - elbergel, on 11/14/2007, -5/+30I saved more lives than you did.....
- yellowsnowcone, on 11/14/2007, -6/+31Since when did mouse clicking become social activism? I swear, today's generation is so damn lazy. If you really want to make a difference, why don't you go out a volunteer? Or send some money to Doctors Without Borders?
- danielsan1701, on 11/14/2007, -1/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism
But, I guess it's better than nothing. - NeoCortex, on 11/14/2007, -11/+22I don't get this. Why only give so much rice per click. Why not just give however much race they are capable of?
- SilverBack101, on 11/14/2007, -5/+16Interesting concept. I can train myself with a vocabulary game while helping. Great combo. Lets put a Digg stamp of approval and digg this site up.
- terrordome, on 11/14/2007, -6/+15Just shut up. The same greed which keeps Americans living under bridges keep African children starving.
- X1Jack, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10The power of Digg to crash the site and deny the worlds poor food?
- dpw45, on 11/14/2007, -4/+12So because of the rate of homelessness in your country, you aren't prepared to spend 10 minutes of your time helping others for free???
- temugen, on 11/13/2007, -0/+8They don't have it, their sponsors donate money when people view the ads, so thus you have to take the quiz for them to get money to buy the rice.
- BrPyne, on 11/14/2007, -3/+10I'm just going to keep clicking the first one, over and over with 2 second intervals.
- skinfrakki, on 11/13/2007, -2/+9garsh i rekun nawt
- djphatjive, on 11/14/2007, -4/+11Seriously, that is like a 50 bags of rice. for 1500000 grains.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grains_of_rice_ ... - iticu, on 11/14/2007, -12/+19Not everything is about America.
- eliburford, on 11/14/2007, -4/+10I can see this thing being gamed... but then, that would actually be a good thing. This is a fairly hard game to play for a very good cause.
- NJank, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6anyone do a check on the company yet? Is this like the feedthedogs, clickforacure, etc etc that we saw a few weeks back where only like 9% of their profit goes to the charity, the rest goes to lining the pockets? Although, 9% of anything is more than zero, but still.
- TotalHalibut, on 11/14/2007, -3/+9He has a point. Many people seem very willing indeed to play some silly word-puzzle and then pat themselves on the back for being so kind and charitable, but ask them to actually fork out some cash and suddenly they're nowhere to be found.
- kizzbizz, on 11/14/2007, -1/+6Not a registered charity, no independent verification that the ad money he's making is actually going to pay for rice. Like somebody said, its a very "American" thing for us to donate through playing a game. However, its much MORE American to pull at the people's heartstrings in order to make a buck at their expense.
- mstoneburner, on 11/14/2007, -1/+6Actually, starvation is generally a result of poor land management, corruption, and strife. See: Zimbabwe. Nice job trotting out the "sustainable" buzzword, though.
- NJank, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5I'll rephrase for you:
Starvation is a result of "our current levels of wastefulness, laziness, selfishness, resulting in poor management with regard to" sustainable resources.
The world produces more than enough food for the current population. We just poorly distribute and waste most of what's needed. So yes, population reduction is one option for maintaining solvency in an inefficient system. The second is to correct the system. - kalvinb, on 11/14/2007, -2/+7In the time it takes to play this stupid game to earn enough rice to fill a bowl, you could have earned enough money working a real job to buy a large bag of rice containing tens of thousands of grains of rice and donated it.
- leejae, on 11/14/2007, -6/+10You're a douche.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6Tell it to the Catholics who rail against birth control
- vertinox, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Feeding people with hand outs won't solve the problem. Sending tractors, fertilizer, seeds, irrigation systems, and technical advisers will.
- skifreak107, on 11/14/2007, -8/+11Someone woke up on the wrong side of the cave this morning.
- Siriquelle, on 11/14/2007, -3/+6This is brilliant,
- TehChix0r, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Give_FREE_Rice_to_the ...
- Zuggy, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Look at the bright side. Now even the lazy bastards can contribute something to the world
- skifreak107, on 11/14/2007, -3/+6According to the website:
12 November 2007 188,987,290 grains
190 million grains/29,000 per pound = 6551 pounds of rice...
Impressive if true. - sgtbutterscotch, on 11/14/2007, -2/+5I thought I already did a couple months ago. Oh well, it's for a good cause.
- aaronwolfe, on 11/14/2007, -5/+7Can't get over 38 vocab level....is that bad?
- stugster, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3Naughty!
- smegthelight, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4"...has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people."
or line the pockets of 5 people..
Guess which one will happen. - thcobbs, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4Digging again cause it's fun AND good.
- missingnoh4x, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4Wow, motivating people to learn by providing charity for each answer you get right. That's awesome, two public services in one.
- Quakes, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2I made a similar one, except it learns as it goes (since the site tells you the correct word if you guess wrong) and saves them in a MySQL database for further use.
- Quakes, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2I made a similar one, except it learns as it goes (since the site tells you the correct word if you guess wrong) and saves them in a MySQL database for further use.
- markdr123, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3Yes.
- zengonzo, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4What is the point again? It's stupid to take best advantage of human nature to resolve problems? It's better to sit with a cup and wait for donations that people aren't going to give?
- sodomizer, on 11/14/2007, -4/+6The world suffers from overpopulation and starvation is a result of too few global and sustainable resources for the size of the population.
We'd all have plenty and could solve starvation, homelessness, and poverty if we reduced the population to a sustainable amount for the resources the earth provides. By facilitating overpopulation, well-intentioned people actually create human misery. - m6arate, on 11/14/2007, -6/+8digg this everyone!!!!
- dimplemonkey, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3Why do you need a game or an expanding vocabulary to remind you that the rest of the world is starving? Give to Operation Blessing International where the food actually gets delivered and villages are spared from having their families go hungry.
- funkyjunk3, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3um, make that in one day.
- illegalamigo, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3This whole premise is kind of messed up. What, they won't donate the rice if you get the quiz wrong? I think if people are starving we shouldn't be playing a game over if they get to eat or not.
- djphatjive, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3Oops I read that wrong, Thats billion, Wow that is a lot. Site says 1,519,627,180 as a total. Wow. Ok now i'm impressed!
- Herochan, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Wasn't this on the front page, like, a week or so ago?
- funkyjunk3, on 11/14/2007, -2/+43 tons of rice in 2 weeks for playing word games. Impressive!
- thcobbs, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Sorry, no tweezers.
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