Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #33
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Originally Posted by osiris
They might as well advertise stapling testicles to a woman's hand, with the woman saying "good boy" afterwards.
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Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #34
FYI, there are synthetic diamonds on the market that are indistinguishable by the human eye. There are also some coming on the market that are indistinguishable even using machines…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #35
I am seeding these kinds of stories to my gf, in an attempt to sway her opinion towards this stupid industry. I don't have a problem buying her something expensive if it's worth it…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #36
So is the reality of the diamond the same as the reality of the dollar?
Does a diamond have any real value?
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #37
There's quite a bit of misinformation in this thread about diamonds and I'm not going to try to dispel it all. But if you really think that synthetic moissanite is a good replaceme…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #38
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Originally Posted by Fireball XL5
There are tons of diamonds under Antwerp. Tons. They just leave them there to keep the price up.
Saw it on 60 minutes last year.
Rubie…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #39
Funny how people look at De Beers and scream "cartel" and "illegal" but they don't do the same for Microsoft or any of the other occidental companies that have large market shares.…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #40
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There are many reasons to purchase synthetic diamonds instead of the mined variety. The prices charged for mined diamonds are, in the very best verbiage, an illus…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #41
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
]I'll buy Moissanite instead
Even I could tell the difference between a diamond and a moissanite with nothing more but a good magnify…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #42
There is also Apollo Dimonds which are real diamonds grown in a lab.
I think the Apollo Diamonds offer the best alternative to mined diamonds, to be honest.
I've really learned a…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #43
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Originally Posted by Jellytussle
You: not married.
You're not married yet when you give the ring. Plenty of time to empty out the bank accounts before she gets her c…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #44
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
I guess the best diamond substitute is the Diamond Nexus gemstone according to this Link.
Diamond Nexus Site.
Notice how all of the co…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #45
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Diamond prices are ... not a fair reflection of diamond scarcity.
WTF?! Is the price of any product sold in the US solely a reflection of the scarcity o…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #46
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Originally Posted by Troll
Notice how all of the companies listed in that article are American. What's really going on here?
Yeah it's a conspiracy!
BTW, does this …
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #47
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Trollbait
The sense of entitlement to other people's resources is so damn ingrained in the psyche that Cody Dawg feels some kind of entitlement to diamonds at cos…
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #48
Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #49
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.
Skip The Diamond: They're Worthless (Excellent Diamond History Article) — #50
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Originally Posted by Cody Dawg
I just thought it was a great article since I live in an area where flaunting wealth vis-a-vis jewelry is de rigeur.
That's a complete …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #1
i've downloaded various movies and things from various share and pay forums and for some reason toast hates 'em
toast usually won't even recognize it as a file to burn
and on th…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #2
oh, btw, they're always either avi's or mpgs, etc., in case that wasn't clear
any help greatly appreciated!
i would love to put 500 short avi's (totally only 2-3 gig) onto a 4.3 …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #3
Are you burning DVD Data or DVD Video?
You need to convert all the clips to MPEG2 (which will make them larger or lower quality) and burn a DVD Video if you want it to work in set-…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #4
i download movies from limewire as well as pay sites i belong to, and they DL as avi's or mpgs or mov's. so it's video (they're movies - - not data), rt?
are you saying i need to…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #5
You are not understanding.
If you want these to work in a DVD player, then they will have to be converted to "video DVD", and one of the things along that process is converting th…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #6
you sound very very knowledgeable
ok, so i have this FFmpegX converter thingy
can i put these avi's in a format playable by a dvd player by selecting, what?, "DVD mpeg2enc"?
or …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #7
btw, i'm experimenting converting an ".avi" to dvd mpeg 2 enc, and just so you know, it is VERY slow going. it's a 700 MB file, and it will prob take hours. it's at 3% done after…