16 carats in diamond would be close to 3 mil depending on cut quality and clarity

Well screw you guys then! I'm buyin' my own plane.

what will the likelihood be of pics getting posted??

I'd rather just steal my fortune, Heat style.

?...don't buy a lot of jewellery I'm guessing.

Carat size Cost per carat (US$) Total cost (US$)
0.5 carat (50 points) 3,000 1,500
1.0 carat 6,500 6,500
1.5 carats 8,500 12,750
2.0 carats 13,000 26,000
3.0 carats 17,000 51,000
5.0 carats 23,000 115,000

Give it a rest. Its impossible to estimate how much it would cost. It could be 100 .16 carat diamonds which would not go for 'that much' or it could be two 8 carat diamonds or one 16 carat diamond that could easily go for millions. They don't say though so put your dick back in your pants.

Also keep telling your dad to buy your mom more bling. Takes attention away from her face. Diamonds are the biggest scam on earth.

Are you sure about that?

http://www.blingh2o.com/store/images/glass_pink.jpg

http://www.blingh2o.com/store/produc...products_id=49

Scam?...but it comes with "genuine" Swarovski crystals on the bottle. makes it worth the price shurely.

There's also a lot of social manipulation involved with the diamond industry. DeBeers is probably the most evil entity on the entire face of the planet - they pretty much control the entire market.

There was a very interesting article on digg a while back about this.

Like 666 ^ 666

Here it is: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond

Yup.

rob, buy this:
http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/297319693.html
cheap cheap

Along those lines. For today only PBK is selling Conti GP4000's for $30 cad shipped.
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=Y2020

I'd buy those, but I don't have a geared bike anymore. Interesting accessory here:

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/296637246.html

I know, thats why I find it funny when people brag about how much they spend on diamonds. Hooray, you're getting some dudes in Antwerp unbelievably rich wasting your money on a product with artificially inflated prices that is useless in your application. I am waiting for when they perfect diamond generation so debeers can be forced out of business for good. They have made incredible 10 carat 'artificial' (still 100% authentic) diamonds, so its not far away. Then we can use diamonds excessively for industrial purposes and tools and actually make use of their amazing hardness and other physical properties.

Diamonds are trashy in my opinion. Put them on saw blades!

No doubt Debeers is going to be doing everything they can to subvert these developements.

Good luck. Business is business. Even if you're freaking evil.

There are currently two startups in Florida manufacturing Diamonds..Wired back issue somewhere.
Can't be told from the real thing as they are the real thing. the market they want though is diamond based computer processors as opposed to silicone....thus bringing us upto the kind of clock speeds that will really bring the Information age to fruition...worth more than bling in the long run.. They are trying to figure out now how to "grow" them in sheets.

They are already trying to differentiate their product by extolling the virtues of diamonds "au naturel". Bastards should die in a fire.

such a good book

That just reminded me of the crazy nanotech in Idoru by gibson. Those little bastards were building entire cities that constantly reconfigured themselves. Pretty sweet. I need to read more cyberpunk. All i have right now is a selection of short stories and excerpts by PK Dick

Stephenson's vision of a nanotech embedded world is complete and fantastically detailed.
I WANNA RIDE!!!!

Wow, that sounds like an awesome book! PK Dick is awesome...

Definitely worth the read.. you will not be disappointed.

I just started Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and yeah, it is great so far. I haven't been this into a book since I read Ender's Game when I was 16, god I loved that book!

Snow Crash is probably one of the most entertaining books I've ever read. Total page-turner.. I <3 Neal Stephenson. Ender's Game also was amazing, obviously. I don't <3 Orson Scott Card though... Mr. Intelligent Design. Yikes.

I think i'm possibly the only one who didn't like Enders game. A book filled with super children doesn't really strike me as super c00L pwnage material.

That or I was forced to read it. The hobbit - same story.

Yeah, the forcing to read bit probably didn't help.

Who'd like to bust out the mtn bikes for a fun early season ride this weekend?

I'd be up for it if I can keep up on my heavy ass SS commuter that I have never ridden on a trail before. I've done it on the cross bike before though...

I agree with everyone about how great Snow Crash and Diamond Age are, but my favourite of Stephenson's is Cryptonomicon (all about WW2/modern day cryptography). I like all three of these books enough that I'll re-read them every once in a while.

On the flip side, I just can't seem to finish his "Baroque Cycle" series - whereas Quicksilver started out strong, the last book (System of the World) just seems to keep dragging on and on. At this point, I couldn't care less about the characters and just want to get it over with and back on the bookshelf..

Well, you can always bust out the Soma instead.

Yeah, I actually like Cryptonomicon more than the Diamond Age as well. The Diamond Age was the 2nd book (after a friend recommended Snow Crash) that I read by him actually, and I didn't really enjoy it the first time through. I re-read it last year though after having read pretty much everything else he's written and enjoyed it much more. I actually felt the same way about the Baroque Cycle, it was a downward spiral of interest for me, right to the end. Sorry I can give you any words of encouragement.. I just figured I'd already read a couple thousand pages, I might as well stick with it to the end. :P

I'm thinking it will be very very gross and muddy, so I'd really rather take my SS as my CX is set up for road right now. I'll think about it.