freerice.com

[RedAnarchist]

http://www.freerice.com/about.html

What do people think of this site? Basically, you have a sort of spelling test - for every word you get right, the site donates 10g of rice through the UN to feed hungry people.

[marcocosm]

whaatt?/??/...people will sit there n count tha rice???????? IDK :ph34r:

[RedAnarchist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24, 2007 05:57 pm
whaatt?/??/...people will sit there n count tha rice???????? IDK :ph34r:
What happenes if that each time you get an answer right, ther are adverts at the bottom. The site gets paid for having those adverts there, so can buy the rice and donate it.

[Red Scare]

Umm...

It is a good idea, but it is kind of weird making a game out of food donation.

But it will get younger people (like kids) to do it and provide entertainment along with actually helping people.

So far I have 210 grains.

[MarxSchmarx]

I kept getting the questions wrong, so out of exasperation I started reloading my browser on:

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1

[marcocosm]

Originally posted by Red_Anarchist+October 24, 2007 05:10 pm--> (Red_Anarchist @ October 24, 2007 05:10 pm)
[email protected] 24, 2007 05:57 pm
whaatt?/??/...people will sit there n count tha rice???????? IDK :ph34r:
What happenes if that each time you get an answer right, ther are adverts at the bottom. The site gets paid for having those adverts there, so can buy the rice and donate it. [/b]
thats cool...i like it

[Jude]

I think that it would be a good site to advertise... i saw it on the news.

Something like this would be the kind of thing that you email to everyone you know.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by from the site
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life.

That's called horseshit.

[Pawn Power]

Why do we have to play games for rice to be donated? Why can they just give them fucking rice.

[Jude]

I was just thinking that...

But on that same note, why hasn't the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland made good on their promises to donate to Africa?

[YSR]

I've been playing to improve my vocabulary.

Charity is bullshit.

[Jude]

um... why?

[R_P_A_S]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 07:47 pm
um... why?
many many reasons.. check this thread out...

http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=71890&hl=

[Jude]

Okay, but you can't sit here and say that charity in any of its forms is not in any way productive...

What you are telling me is that if I became a corporate tycoon, and then gave all of my money, say 200 million, to a charity in east Africa, that it wouldn't improve the quality of life for anyone? Granted it wouldn't be a total solution, and more than monetary contributions have to be made, but damn it, it definitely cannot do much harm...

[R_P_A_S]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 08:13 pm
Okay, but you can't sit here and say that charity in any of its forms is not in any way productive...

What you are telling me is that if I became a corporate tycoon, and then gave all of my money, say 200 million, to a charity in east Africa, that it wouldn't improve the quality of life for anyone? Granted it wouldn't be a total solution, and more than monetary contributions have to be made, but damn it, it definitely cannot do much harm...
first of all if you became a corporate tycoon and gave away 200 million dollars you would piss off a lot of people and you'd be a charity case your self.

[Jude]

it was a poor example, but that wasn't the point

[bezdomni]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 08:13 pm
Okay, but you can't sit here and say that charity in any of its forms is not in any way productive...

What you are telling me is that if I became a corporate tycoon, and then gave all of my money, say 200 million, to a charity in east Africa, that it wouldn't improve the quality of life for anyone? Granted it wouldn't be a total solution, and more than monetary contributions have to be made, but damn it, it definitely cannot do much harm...
Yeah, and where do you think that 20 million dollars would come from?

Are you a radical or are you a liberal?

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Originally posted by Pawn [email protected] 16, 2007 01:53 am
Why do we have to play games for rice to be donated? Why can they just give them fucking rice.
The site can't just give away rice because it doesn't have the money, it needs the game so that people stay on the site, so they see the advertisements, so the advertisers donate the money for the rice.

[Jude]

Originally posted by SovietPants+November 18, 2007 06:29 pm--> (SovietPants @ November 18, 2007 06:29 pm)
[email protected] 18, 2007 08:13 pm
Okay, but you can't sit here and say that charity in any of its forms is not in any way productive...

What you are telling me is that if I became a corporate tycoon, and then gave all of my money, say 200 million, to a charity in east Africa, that it wouldn't improve the quality of life for anyone? Granted it wouldn't be a total solution, and more than monetary contributions have to be made, but damn it, it definitely cannot do much harm...
Yeah, and where do you think that 20 million dollars would come from?

Are you a radical or are you a liberal? [/b]
um, im just someone who gave a bad example, and subsequently admitted to it...

[Comrade J]

One of those threads where armchair revolutionaries congregate to moan about what somebody else is doing for the poor.

Sure it's not a long-term solution, but if you saw a starving kid you wouldn't decline giving him your last fucking sandwich would you, because it's not a 'long term solution'? :rolleyes:

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 19, 2007 12:53 am
One of those threads where armchair revolutionaries congregate to moan about what somebody else is doing for the poor.

Sure it's not a long-term solution, but if you saw a starving kid you wouldn't decline giving him your last fucking sandwich would you, because it's not a 'long term solution'? :rolleyes:
Yeah, I hate those pseudo-communists who give money to poor people.

This is one of the best site ideas I've seen in a while.

[bezdomni]

Originally posted by RedStar1916+November 19, 2007 12:55 am--> (RedStar1916 @ November 19, 2007 12:55 am)
Comrade [email protected] 19, 2007 12:53 am
One of those threads where armchair revolutionaries congregate to moan about what somebody else is doing for the poor.

Sure it's not a long-term solution, but if you saw a starving kid you wouldn't decline giving him your last fucking sandwich would you, because it's not a 'long term solution'? :rolleyes:
Yeah, I hate those pseudo-communists who give money to poor people.

This is one of the best site ideas I've seen in a while. [/b]
I hate pseudo-communists who don't understand where surplus value comes from!

Yeah, it's nice to give a person who lives on the street whatever you can....but that is really not at all a political act. And I think this website is something very different from that (because you're going through the U.N.).

Simply giving more money to the poor isn't the solution. To think that this website in any way "helps" anybody except for the capitalists is liberalism.

There is no such thing as "free rice". The entire thing rests on an entirely absurd idea that does nothing other than play to the guilt of middle class liberals.

In fact, the "free rice" (whatever the capitalists can't sell, basically) is probably going right back to the people who picked it and processed it.