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- thesmartpenguin, on 11/14/2007, -21/+329Great project.
I'm just curious as to why they don't just give away whatever rice they have.
Instead of asking me questions first. - leodavinci, on 11/14/2007, -2/+240They make money off of the advertising at the bottom of the page. Every time you answer they load some new ads, therefore making the money that is necessary to give away the rice.
- leodavinci, on 11/12/2007, -19/+218How about some Free Beer for a poor college student?
just kidding, this is a great project! (but about the beer...) - listrophy, on 11/11/2007, -2/+160I love rice. Rice is great for when you're hungry and want to eat 2000 of something.
-Mitch Hedburg - CommunistEagle, on 11/12/2007, -3/+124And for every wrong answer they kill somebody?
- masgrada, on 11/12/2007, -1/+92Good job guys. We killed it. Sigh.
- SiNN4R, on 10/25/2007, -2/+88Let them have cake.
- rAid135, on 11/12/2007, -3/+82Great.... Digg, instead of helping, just crashed their server.
So much for feeding the hungry - srodolff, on 11/12/2007, -1/+72Well, I donated a 1000 grains.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 11/12/2007, -1/+64Sorry little Timmy. I know you're hungry but no one has gotten the right word yet!
- dimplemonkey, on 11/12/2007, -9/+65if I mention "iPhone" will someone move this to the front page?
- D3koy, on 10/31/2007, -7/+57Why not double/triple the ads for triple the rice?
- dakilla91, on 11/12/2007, -3/+53The site seems to have crashed...now what...no rice?
- appetite, on 10/31/2007, -2/+51Why not a million ads for a million times the rice?
Get it? There's gotta be some balance between page real estate and income for the model to be sustainable. - Rhino2, on 11/11/2007, -9/+55Autoit : http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
They have a 'speed timer', but if you just click every 5 seconds then it won't detect your bot.
You have a 25% of 'striking rice' since there are four choices.
so, assuming you run an automated clicking bot while you sleep (average 8 hours) that is:
8 * (hours) * 60 (mintes) * 60 (seconds) = 28,800
divided by 5 seconds (per click + 1 second load time) = 4800
4800 * 25% (chance of hitting right one) equals 1200 'wins' timse 10 peices of rice equals 12,000 peice of rice per every 8 hours.
If you do this while at work (since you won't be using your computer then) also assuming 8 hours, that equals 24,000 per day (16 hours) or 168,000 per week or 720,000 per month (assuming thrity days).
This doesn't include site downtime or weekends.
But that's 3/4 of a million peice of rice per month.
In fact you could create an entire bot net of these..
Using ***** 486 computers (or VM sessions) you could get them for cheap and provide hunders of millions of rices per month.
Hell, a bunch of perl scirpts would probably be easier and you could run hunderds per server - bot spamming rice to poor people.
Obviously, they will probably put some type of better security on this - but would be nice to rice ***** these bastards for all they are worth.
Any way to "prove" if they are actually delivering rice on your clicks? - wilkil69, on 11/12/2007, -2/+45This is a very clever way of getting food to the needy. I digg it.
- jackyyll, on 11/01/2007, -5/+46I donated over nine thousand.
- AreTooDeTo, on 10/25/2007, -0/+37haha. anyone remember the article on here about how diggers always talk about doing something but never act. now we can all do something very significant without getting up. win/win!
- saucedmike, on 10/22/2007, -2/+39Because that makes the ads there less prevalent, thus making them worth less to publishers.
- Caps, on 10/22/2007, -1/+38not sperm. rice.
- cherrick, on 11/14/2007, -1/+32When you get a word wrong they get the advertising money and don't have to give any rice.
- ToastedZergling, on 11/14/2007, -8/+35I want to donate brown rice. white rice sucks
- MurderMystery, on 11/14/2007, -10/+36Just give them the rice you *****!
- inactive, on 10/19/2007, -2/+27If you get a question wrong someone goes hungry.
- terracottapai, on 10/25/2007, -1/+25Hedberg.
- orangekid13, on 11/05/2007, -1/+25That is the only time anyone will ever read "bot spamming rice to poor people" and it make ANY sense :P
- AreTooDeTo, on 10/25/2007, -1/+24Marie Antoinette was beheaded for saying that...
- D3koy, on 11/12/2007, -3/+24Why do they make these so tricky? Do they /not/ want to feed the hungry?
- mal1964, on 10/21/2007, -2/+22Give a person some rice and it helps only moments. teach them to grow rice and feed him bland food for life, because you didn't teach them how to make soy sauce.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -1/+20Chad was Hungary so he ate Turkey
- rickbauls, on 10/30/2007, -1/+19The challenge keeps you interested.
- Trigon15, on 10/25/2007, -1/+19Quick someone do the math, how long will it take to give the poor all the rice in the world
- schroeder, on 10/22/2007, -2/+20How about instead of clicking an ad and buying something so they can buy a grain of rice, send them 5 dollars so they can get a whole bag?
- jetboyterp, on 11/12/2007, -2/+19site seems to be down...and a hungry person somwhere in the world waits anxiously for 10 whole grains of rice....that'll never come.
- jokerthief, on 10/20/2007, -1/+18This is really clever and really fun. I wish they had a page where you could donate money. I think they could raise a lot of resources that way.
- TyR88, on 10/30/2007, -1/+17riceist
- pintomp3, on 10/20/2007, -2/+18to really help, there should be a site that lowers US farm subsidies by $1 for every word spelled correctly.
- cliffzdude, on 10/19/2007, -3/+19"How about some Free Beer for a poor college student? "
That's referred to as being a female college student. - markperia, on 10/20/2007, -3/+19you're just not cooking it right.
- Heelz, on 11/12/2007, -1/+15Well, now that it's on it's way to going down, no more rice. Good job guys.
- freddo, on 10/19/2007, -2/+16Be happy with what you get... http://www.ehow.com/how_2059791_make-rice-wine.htm ... :-)
- holygram, on 10/25/2007, -2/+16"We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which essentially means "let them eat a type of egg-based bread" (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that "a great princess" told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.
But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it's highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor -- which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.
However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.
A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase." - inactive, on 10/25/2007, -2/+16What about something mentioning Ron Paul?
- Ocelot13, on 10/25/2007, -1/+14it gets moved extra fast if you also say something bad about MS
- otatop, on 10/19/2007, -1/+13Rice is like $10 for 25 pounds. I think you can afford it.
- gbro, on 11/12/2007, -3/+15Site was going slow so I torrented it.
- Rhino2, on 10/19/2007, -1/+13That would filter out users also. If I go and hit the site and click though 100 times; are the only going to give 10 rice because 99 of my clicks where dupes?
- tont0r, on 10/25/2007, -4/+16"Oh I am sorry. You cant eat because Jonny America cant spell"
- Genady, on 10/25/2007, -2/+14yes.
- mrmacky, on 10/25/2007, -2/+14The digg effect apparently gave away their rice reserves to the hungry, the same rice that feeds the hamsters which power their servers.
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