Free Rice

[Bullislander05]

Actually, not for you.  Soz.

Anyways, //www.freerice.com is a website you can visit to do two things.  Namely, increase your vocabulary, and feed hungry people from around the world.

It's a simple website.  You answer vocabulary questions (4-choice multiple choice) and for every question you get right, the supporters of freerice.com donate 10 grains of rice to poor, hungry people in third-world countries.

It's a win-win situation.  You expand your vocabulary, and the hungry people of the world get dinner.

-Bull

[Death On Ice]

I've discovered this previously (though not by much) and agree with you, it's  a win-win situation. Also on their site is a link to their "sister" site: Poverty

[Lava Croft]

Why doesn't that website have any reference from or to a less clandestine organization? This looks like a good way to make money.

[CreatureofHell]

Got to 200 and got bored. Nice site though.

[Bullislander05]

Why doesn't that website have any reference from or to a less clandestine organization? This looks like a good way to make money.

Make money?  How?

Anyways, there is no way to tell for sure whether or not the website sends out every single grain, or any at all for that matter, of rice that it says it will.  It claims that the businesses whose names appear on the bottom of the screen with each word are the ones that donate the rice.

Also, what do you mean by less clandestine organization?

-Bull

[Jalaco]

ok I have a question if they took the people who seperate the rice grains and used their pay to just buy more rice or if their volunteers had them work to make money or maybe even cook the rice 0_o sorry but this seems quite odd to me...

\\^// Jalaco \\^//

[Steely Ann]

Jalaco

Where in there was a question mark?  Did I miss it?

// Did 300.  "Jingoism" FTW.  Kind of fun, actually.

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

1010

Good fun, I like complicated words.

[mooseberry]

1010

Good fun, I like complicated words.

http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=96232&highlight=#96232

:eek:  :roll:

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

Well...my life includes...er...giving...rice to...people?

It was addictive, I, I couldnt resist.

[PIE]

With the money I save from not buying a dictionary I can buy a couple of sacks of rice.

[Caveman]

Somehow I really doubt that anybody sits there and counts the grains.
Looking at the site there are some strange points....

- NO imprint
- NO sponsor
- Site is registered to a PO-Box
- Name on the registration is a consumer address that comes with a broadband plan.
- The site is a add-image-trap from linksynergy that pays for PIs.

So if you want to be part of this "rice for the needy" best send the money directly and don't fill the pockets of hoaxes like this.

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

NOOOOOOO!!!!

I just gave 1010 grains of rice to Communism!!!!


NOOOOOO!!!!

[Bullislander05]

Somehow I really doubt that anybody sits there and counts the grains.
Looking at the site there are some strange points....

- NO imprint
- NO sponsor
- Site is registered to a PO-Box
- Name on the registration is a consumer address that comes with a broadband plan.
- The site is a add-image-trap from linksynergy that pays for PIs.

So if you want to be part of this "rice for the needy" best send the money directly and don't fill the pockets of hoaxes like this.

By imprint, I don't know what you mean.

Answer simply one question, and you'd see three companies logos on the bottom of the page.  Those are the sponsors.

No response to your other three points.

Also, even if you do fill the pockets of those "hoaxes," you're still expanding your vocabulary in the process.  They deserve at least some recognition for that.

Another thing, they probably don't have to count every single grain of rice.  If you can establish the average weight of ten grains of rice, or even 1,000, etc... then you can give out your rice in realistically accurate amounts from weighing them.  Of course, you'll end up off by +/- 1000 grains or so when you get up into the millions, but it's still easier than counting 30,000,000 grains of rice.