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Diamonds As Room-Temperature Superconductors
Stormalong writes "This article describes research into using diamonds as room-temperature superconductors. If successful, perhaps one day you could give your love a diamond engagement CPU instead of a ring!"
A geek's best friend is a computer.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Computers are made from diamonds....
Ergo:
Girls start hanging with computers.
Waaaah! We still lose.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
dont be so pompous - the point that I was making was that there are many many places in the world where diamonds are produced. There are also many many unexploited diamond and other semi-precious stone deposits in the world.
f t io n/articles/diamond_trade/branding.html
take a look here to see some info about diamonds.
You know, its a fact that bebeers has a monopoly on diamond production - and that is largely due to the fact that many people dont do shit about it. If we as consumers were to get off our asses for once to protest (via non-purchases) of any diamonds for a year - maybe we would create a dent.
the thing is that by just being all "factual" as you are trying to be - you accomplish nothing. by saying "evey profitable business" that doesnt make you sound more intelligent - but more uninformed.
debeers is a monopoly - a recognized monpoly almost all over the world...
restaurants is a poor example in that people NEED to eat - but do we NEED diamons? no... we dont. but to MAKE a market out of people and their desires is one thing - to exploit a mraket out of peoples needs is another.
anyway - more on this later....
http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/teaching/MA/M3a.pd
http://www.diamondcuttersintl.com/diamond_educa