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发帖数: 10464 | 1 弯曲太吓人了，以后通了高铁，就住在俄勒冈州，每天往返硅谷上班也很快，哈哈哈
[在 smf (smf) 的大作中提到：]
:湾区和多伦多消费差远了。
:https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&
:city1=Toronto&country2=United+States&city2=San+Francisco,+CA
:You would need around 8,050.95$ in San Francisco, CA to maintain the same
:standard of life that you can have with 3,952.91$ (5,400.00C$) in Toronto (
:assuming you rent in both cities). This calculation uses our Cost of Living
Plus Rent Index to compare cost of living. This assumes net... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1598 | 2 BY TINA AMIRTHA8 MINUTE READ
This story contains interviews with Christian Kästner, assistant
professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Amy Hirotaka, state policy and
advocacy manager at Code.org; and Janet Siegmund, researcher at the
University of Passau.
In order to expose more students to computer science, 17 states have passed
legislation to create basic math and science requirements in the curriculum,
rather than count them as electives. But lawmakers in Texas have made
computer program... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9459 | 3 GDP per capital 只有美国的6分之一，不折不扣的落后国家。
Reconstructing World National Products in 1938
The Nominal National Products of the major powers in 1938, in current
dollars:
(1) United States: 84.7 billion
(2) Germany: 46.0 billion*
(3) UK: 27.51 billion
(4) USSR: 23.02 billion
(5) France: 16.18 billion
(6) Italy: 8.68 billion
(7) Japan: 7.49 billion
The per capita figures:
(1) United States: 649
(2) Germany: 590
(3) UK: 579
(4) USSR: 138
(5) France: 385
(6) Italy: 200
(7) Japan: 104
*Note that Germany's f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 4 Under Any Analysis, It’s Insanity to have war with North Korea
Now that the possibility of a war between the US and North Korea seems just
one harshly worded tweet away, and the window of opportunity for a
diplomatic solution, as well as for the US stopping Kim Jong-Un from
obtaining a nuclear-armed ICBM closing fast, analysts have started to
analyze President Trump’s military options, what a war between the US and
North Korea would look like, and what the global economic consequences would
be. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4283 | 5 这里的人，大概城市和农村的一半一半吧，你不能assume每个人都是农民，但也不能
assume每个人都是城市人。
在上海，70年代末就有电视机了，刚开始还有很多人自己做的，当然显像管是买来的，
80年有小部分人家有电视机了。88年已经很普及了，你想过后一年就是89 64了，64那
会儿不是天天看新闻联播么，那时谁家没电视机啊。 |
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s*****r
发帖数: 43070 | 6 88年电视普及，彩电普及应该是九十年代了
：这里的人，大概城市和农村的一半一半吧，你不能assume每个人都是农民，但也不能
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发帖数: 4185 | 7 Pressure from Beijing officials seeking Mr. Guo’s return sparks frantic
response from Trump administration—and Pennsylvania Station, JFK airport
standoffs
Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese businessman, sat in the sun room of his
apartment on the 18th-floor of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on New York’s
Fifth Avenue. With him were four officials from China’s Ministry of State
Security, whom Mr. Guo had agreed to meet.
For many months, Mr. Guo, from his self-imposed exile, had been using
Twitter to make... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19256 | 8 Cost of living 比较结果，同样生活标准，上海需3,438.94$ (22,784.71￥) VS 台北
,316.91$ (100,000.00NT$)
税后月平均收入， 上海1,365.13 $ VS 台北1,923.49 $
You would need around 3,438.94$ (22,784.71￥) in Shanghai to maintain the
same standard of life that you can have with 3,316.91$ (100,000.00NT$) in
Taipei (assuming you rent in both cities). This calculation uses our Cost of
Living Plus Rent Index to compare cost of living. This assumes net earnings
(after income tax)
Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) Taipei 1,923.49 $... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 695 | 9 appalled
heartbroken
won't stand for this
won't use the word "enemy" against the media
"enemy" dehumanized people, turns them into targets
My father knew history, and he knew what happened in Nazi Germany
Incredibly dangerous
at 4 min:
Hitler told people what he was gonna do, and assumed that no one was gonna
get in his way. And Donald Trump has assumed that no one is gonna get in his
way. And so far if you look at the silence of the Congress, he is right. |
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发帖数: 32122 | 10 我assume一个正常人不会在菌斑透露自己公司名称
所以孩子生出来就四岁了的小蒙古是假的
唯一可以assume真的就是他的政屁身份 |
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发帖数: 16092 | 11 Lessons from Hale Ross’ life at Yale
A personal essay by Hale's father
JACK ROSS 5:47 PM, MAY 05, 2018
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Editors’ Note: Please be advised, the following piece includes sensitive
material relating to depression and suicide.
Several months ago, I received a “save the date” flyer about the Yale
graduation events this May. I will not be in attendance. On Oct. 30, 2016,
my son Hale, class of 2018, ended his life.
Hale’s death was a tragedy on many levels — a profound loss not o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 12 Stone Cold Word
Longboat Key, Florida4m ago
AG Barr investigating a missing Twinkie is a joke.
So I am reading all these comments laughing and calling out "conspiracy
theories". It's easy to "throw shade"..... getting "shade to stick" is
another story.
I know this. A high profile prisoner, who supposedly tried to kill
himself just two weeks ago, this guy could not get near a 6 inch piece of
thread. Now that's not a "conspiracy theory".
The "shade slingers" want us to believe that this ego ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 13 Back in August 2018, long before WeWork's historic implosion, we discussed
how WeWork's EBITDA is "whatever you want it to be" thanks to the company's
bizarre pro forma addbacks, which transformed a $933MM net loss and a $193
million adjusted EBITDA loss, into a "positive" $233 million "community-
adusted" EBITDA for 2017, and a net loss of about $1.9 billion using
standard accounting, to a $467 million "profit" in 2018.
This is what we said:
Here, for the first time we saw not just one adjustme... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4637 | 14 https://cmmid.github.io/ncov/wuhan_early_dynamics/index.html
Analysis and projections of transmission dynamics of nCoV in Wuhan
Adam Kucharski. I am an Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where I work on mathematical
analysis of infectious disease oubreaks.
07 February, 2020
Contributors: Adam Kucharski, Tim Russell, Charlie Diamond, Yang Liu, CMMID
nCoV working group, John Edmunds, Sebastian Funk, Rosalind Eggo.
Key results
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发帖数: 1154 | 15 原文本来post在linkedin,但是被take down了。信不信由你，哥是信了，没人会闲得编
一个这样的notes出来，而且文中指名道姓了与会者
加州大学旧金山 BioHub 小组关于 COVID-19 的讨论会小结，2020 年 3 月 10 日
与会者：
• 乔·德里西：UCSF的顶级传染病研究员。 陈扎克伯格生物中心（涉及UCSF/伯
克利/斯坦福的合资企业）联席总裁。 在非典疫情中使用的芯片的共同发明者。
• 艾米莉·克劳福德：新肺特别工作组主任，诊断专家
• 克里斯蒂娜·塔托：快速反应总监， 免疫学家
• 帕特里克·艾斯库：领导疫情应对和监测，流行病学家
• 查兹·兰格利尔：UCSF传染病医生
下面基本上是小组成员发言原汁原味的记录。 少数不是原话会写在括号中。
• 主要观点：
在目前时点，美国已经错过了遏制期， 遏制基本上已是徒劳的了。 我们的遏制努力不
会减少在美国感染的人数。
现在，我们只能努力减缓传播速度，帮助医生们应对需求高峰。 换句话说，遏制的目
标是平缓曲线，以降低需求激增的峰值，减弱... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 878 | 16 Why do you assume 普通口罩就能挡住（不喷出去）飞沫（自己的）but not able to
block other's 飞沫? Why do you assume masks are either 100% effective or
100% ineffective?
Masks are the first line of defense, they block xx% of the cough droplets
coming to you, and then your own immune system needs to deal with the rest.
Without masks, your own immune system needs to deal with 100% of the virus
in the cough droplets you encounter. Which case gives you a better chance?
Diamond Princess teaches us a valuable lesson that we... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 17 Sen. Martha McSally is calling on the World Health Organization director
general to step down over what she deems his assistance in covering up China
's underreporting of the coronavirus, part of an escalating series of GOP
criticisms of the organization.
Arthur Ruiz
What is the logic here? Trump believed the rosy numbers coming out of China
and, after the single action of imposing a limited travel ban against people
coming from China, did nothing to prepare?
Soooo... he was dumb enough to belie... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4304 | 18 The top commander will fly f22 until the thing is resolved:
"But the Air Force kept the F-22s in the air. “We live in a community where
risk is part of our lives,” Gen. Mike Hostage, the Air Force’s top
fighter commander, said at an April ceremony in Virginia celebrating the F-
22. “Right now, we believe that risk — although it’s not as low as we
would like it — is low enough to safely operate the airplane at the current
tempo.”
Hostage said he would qualify in the F-22 and fly it regularly unti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22064 | 19 二战中美国兵因为这个被打死的很多，美国兵对这个怨声载道。
还有，这个跟人多人少有关系吗？
其实，就是拉枪栓的声音，都不这么危险：至少它不告诉对方，我没子弹了。
查到了这个，在韩战中，美军采用“双枪制”：两人配合，一个打，一个压满子弹等着
；等到“砰”一声弹夹弹出，对方露头时，压满子弹的那个就正好开火。
http://thefiringline.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-106892.html
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I once heard, that in close-up fighting, (I believe in the South Pacific),
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发帖数: 2330 | 20 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
jianglai (Veni, Vidi, Vici.) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:54:30 2012, 美东) 提到:
http://www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic-feats-raise-suspic
英帝堕落到什么地步了。。。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.3.1
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daye520 (哈哈) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:56:00 2012, 美东) 提到:
罗切特每次都被拿出来做背景。
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michaelxiaga (南京中山陵) 于 (Thu Aug 2 02:58:53 2012, 美东) 提到:
回复里面有一个哥们写的不错
其实咱们在这里说有啥用, 就得用英文反驳white trash
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发帖数: 4174 | 21 To Plaintiffs:
1. Assume the evidence shows Proposition 8 is not in fact
rationally related to a legitimate state interest. Assume
further the evidence shows voters genuinely but without
evidence believed Proposition 8 was rationally related to a
legitimate interest. Do the voters’ honest beliefs in the
absence of supporting evidence have any bearing on the
constitutionality of Proposition 8? See Hernandez v Robles,
855 NE2d 1, 7-8 (2006) (“In the absence of conclusive
scientific evidence, the L |
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发帖数: 4174 | 22 7. Assume the evidence shows that children do best when raised by
their married, biological mother and father. Assume further
the court concludes it is in the state’s interest to encourage
children to be raised by their married biological mother and
father where possible. What evidence if any shows that
Proposition 8 furthers this state interest?
8. Do California’s laws permitting same-sex couples to raise and
adopt children undermine any conclusion that encouraging
children to be raised by a ma |
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p*******r
发帖数: 145 | 23 1. Assume the evidence shows Proposition 8 is not in fact
rationally related to a legitimate state interest. Assume
further the evidence shows voters genuinely but without
evidence believed Proposition 8 was rationally related to a
legitimate interest. Do the voters’ honest beliefs in the
absence of supporting evidence have any bearing on the
constitutionality of Proposition 8? See Hernandez v Robles,
855 NE2d 1, 7-8 (2006) (“In the absence of conclusive
scientific evidence, the Legislature coul |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 24 Let us assume something- that being gay is a choice.
Just assume that being gay is a choice and that the bulk of humanity is
inherently bisexual. What does that mean in terms of the battle for rights?
Absolutely nothing.
You see, this assumption has a lot to do with something else. Read, sometime
, the Nun’s Tale from Canterbury Tales and what you find is a story full of
anti-Semitic stereotypes. There are tons of anti-Catholic stereotypes in
the works of Samuel Johnson and Johnathan Swift, and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8729 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 NJU 讨论区 】
发信人: gobigred (我是tony), 信区: NJU
标 题: 智力题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Mar 18 19:17:02 2011, 美东)
================================================== ==
1. Look at the numbers below. What number should come next?
27 9 3 1 1/3 1/9 ?
2. Assume the first 2 statements are true. Is the third statement true
or false?
The boy plays for the Tigers. All the players on the Tigers wear white
sneakers. The boy wears white sneakers.
3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3620 | 26 LITITZ, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously
disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has
surfaced in Florida and has told police she traveled there on a whim with
homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by scavenging food
and panhandling, authorities said Wednesday.
Brenda Heist, 53, had been declared legally dead, Lititz Borough Police Det.
John Schofield said. The detective said he met with her in Florida on
Monday and she expresse... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 27 Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is
finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates
Japanese man and woman lean away from each other
Arm’s length: 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or
despise sexual contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way.
Photograph: Eric Rechsteiner
Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow
three-storey home on a Tokyo back st... 阅读全帖 |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 28
I take a big issue with that statement - even bigger than
I do with anti-gay-marriage.
I didn't say that there was any difference in terms of
whether the killing was premeditated. Let's assume
both are premediated. In fact, let's assume that
everything else is equal, except that the victim was
gay in murder 2, and wasn't in murder 1.
Now we are back to the same question - why should
a murderer be punished more severely just because
his intention was to murder a gay person, compared
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发帖数: 1613 | 29 You entire argument is wrong.
OK, let's assume being gay is not something they are born with, it is simply
their choice, and it can be converted, so what? It becomes a sin all of a
sudden just because they decide to have spend life with the sex same instead
of the opposite?
Your argument is based on the wrong assumption that UNLESS they can't do
anything about it, they don't deserve the right to get married. You assume
everyone is responsible for getting married with the opposite sex and
having |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Adam Yoshida
I have longed argued that one of the primary problems with the thinking of
our well-meaning liberal friends is that they tend to live in the world of "
wouldn't it be nice" and then attempt to argue that people who dissent from
this view are just plain bad. Nowhere is that tendency better exemplified
than in the battle over Climate Change.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of the "prisoner's dilemma." It's
an exercise in game theory where two men are arrested for a crime... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 But your 'leccy bill will keep going up to buy more of it
By Lewis Page
Posted in Environment, 7th April 2011 09:36 GMT
A new analysis of wind energy supplied to the UK National Grid in recent
years has shown that wind farms produce significantly less electricity than
had been thought, and that they cause more problems for the Grid than had
been believed.
The report (28-page PDF/944 KB) was commissioned by conservation charity the
John Muir Trust and carried out by consulting engineer Stuart You... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 By Phil Boehmke
Over the course of his lengthy career with the Memphis Police Department, J.
D. Sewell has been in hot water a number of times, but the union was always
there to save his bacon. The MPD veteran eventually took over as president
of the Memphis Police Association (MPA) due in part to his proficiency in
gaming the system, but now Sewell finds himself in hot water with the union.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that Sewell has been suspended by the
union. Although the MPA chi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 By Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
Paul Ryan and the House Republicans' 2012 budget cuts 5.8 trillion in
government spending over the next decade and reduces the federal debt by 4.4
trillion relative to the CBO baseline. Tax reform is a key element of the
Ryan proposal that has already come under attack from the left. Democrats
falsely believe that a return to Clinton era taxes, especially on "the rich,
" is a prerequisite for increasing revenue and bringing down the debt over
the coming years... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 Ann Coulter历数从马克思到萨特到波兰斯基等各色著名左派是如何对待女性的；“二
百年的龌龊”
To Liberals, Every Woman Looks Like a Hotel Maid
by Ann Coulter
05/18/2011
I suppose we'll know the truth when the DNA testing comes back, but close
observers of privileged liberal men are not shocked by the accusations
against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the socialist head of the International
Monetary Fund. (And you thought you were getting screwed by your banker!)
Only in Hollywood movies are handsome lacrosse players from nice families
seen as ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 35 Now we turn from the mostly meaningless college gap to the mostly
nonexistent wage gap. It is quoted ad-nauseum that women make 75 cents for
each dollar a man makes for the exact same work (it used to be 59 cents, now
it ranges from 75 to 80). In response to this, Nancy Pelosi helped push
through congress the Fair Pay Act. (1) Furthermore, April 20th, 2010 not
only represents a day we should all get stoned out of our gourds, it’s “
Equal Pay Day.” This holiday (of sorts) symbolizes how far into ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Peter Wilson
President Obama has suggested in his last 147 television appearances that he
inherited the national debt from President Bush, who squandered the Clinton
surplus with his "tax cuts for the rich" and his unnecessary wars.
Now someone at whitehouse.gov, apparently not an accountant or an economist,
has put together an "infographic" that assigns hard numbers to these vague
assertions, explaining in detail how "$12.7 Trillion [was] Added to the Debt
Over the Last Decade." The graphi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 By James Pethokoukis
January 31, 2012, 11:27 am
The Congressional Budget Office has released its updated 10-year budget and
economic forecast. Actually, the CBO offers two forecasts. It has a baseline
forecast, which assumes current law stays in place. It also has an “
alternative” forecast which assumes current tax and spending policy stays
in place as is—even if the law says it must change in coming years. That
scenario incorporates the following assumptions:
– Expiring tax provisions (oth... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 By Timothy Dalrymple, February 11, 2012 6:17 pm
My recent post on NBA insta-celebrity Jeremy Lin — “Jeremy Lin and the
Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” — garnered a fair amount of controversy.
To supply some backstory: shortly after Jeremy’s outstanding off-the-
bench performance against the New Jersey Nets, a friend forwarded the video
highlights to me with a note that some of her Asian-American male friends
were deeply moved at the sight of someone “like them” succeeding on the
highest stag... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 By John O'Sullivan
March 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Where is conservatism heading in the English-speaking world? This question
is currently being answered in the four countries of the Anglosphere —
namely, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain — in four distinctive ways.
THE UNITED STATES
I will assume that American readers have a rough grasp of the state of
conservatism in the U.S. as revealed in the Republican primaries. It is
currently — as it has been for many years — a struggle for dominance in
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 “The main problem for young black men is not violent white men chasing them
. It is black on black violence.”
March 25, 2012 Posted by Rick Rice
I watched a local news report yesterday focused on a rally in support of
Trayvon Martin. The reporter was interviewing a mother who was near
hysterical in voicing her fear that her teenage son might also be set upon
by an assailant because her son is black and because her son wears a hoodie.
The reporter was eating it up. The crowd around the mothe... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 March 25, 2012 Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic
A young black man is dead and across the country people are demanding
justice. I don’t have any strong feelings about this incident one way or
the other. Frankly, I’d prefer the nation be talking about the injustice
of bequeathing one hundred-plus trillion dollars in debt to our children be
they black, white, brown, yellow, red, or some combination thereof. Then
again, I’d prefer that’s all the nation talked about all the time. But
Trayvon Marti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 42 —By Tim Murphy| Thu May. 17, 2012 6:16 AM PDT
The New York Times won the morning on Thursday with an A1 story on a new
anti-Obama super-PAC, Character Matters, that's planning on spending $10
million on an ad campaign linking President Obama—a "metrosexual, black
Abraham Lincoln"—to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Character Matters is hoping
to get either Jon Voight or an "extremely literate conservative African-
American" to narrate the spots, which would be produced by GOP ad guru Fred
Davis (of "De... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 161 | 43 您这个数据不错，说得也很有道理，谢谢，不过，我年年自己填税，感到要把gross
income20万Itemized deduction 到14万好像是件很困难的事情，能够到16万都已经不
容易了。另外，home mortgage deduction带来的税收好处，一下子就让AMT抵消掉了。
到头来税是高了还是低了，要找几个实际例子来算算才行。
以下是Romney税收Plan的一个总结：
Description of Plan
Governor Romney would permanently extend all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts now
scheduled to expire in 2013, repeal the AMT and certain tax provisions in
the 2010 health reform legislation, and cut individual income tax rates by
an additional 20 percent. He would also expand the tax base ... 阅读全帖 |
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n****n
发帖数: 568 | 44 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: rosaic (Robert), 信区: Military
标 题: 受不了THR了，你说40万要多交4，5万哪里来的数据和假设
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 4 02:19:50 2012, 美东)
除非你morgage 8千一个月
AMT Exemption Amounts for 2011
Legislated as part of the 2010 Tax Relief Act:
$48,450 for single and head of household filers,
$74,450 for married people filing jointly and for qualifying widows or
widowers, and
$37,225 for married people filing separately.
AMT Tax Rates
The exemption amounts mean that this amount of AMT taxable income is ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2324 | 45 CBS correspondent said it is Romney's strategy not to attack Obama on
anything. Assume he is already there's ident, look presidential, and assume
Obama is the under dog. And only underdog will attack. The president just
need to answer questions.
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发帖数: 4324 | 46 Something very much like that appears to be happening again. I say that for
two reasons. First, it has been mystifying to watch as pollster after
pollster has assumed a 2008 turnout model, with a result that their
weighting has assumed Democrat advantages of seven or more points throughout
the post-Labor Day campaign.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/romney-will-win-because-its-1980- |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 by Quin Hillyer
I've had enough, more than enough, of Barack Obama saying that we should be
"our brothers' keepers." All of us should utterly reject that notion. I
explain why here.
Obama did it again during his official Thanksgiving proclamation. I explain
why the claim is misguided both in terms of faith and of the American
political tradition.
From the standpoint of faith:
In not a single place in the Bible is it ever written that we are
indeed our brothers' keepers. (Look it up!) And ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2140 | 48 If you want, (though you chose not to) you can find 10 times more cases in
which lives were lost to guns initially obtained legally. Can you give your
honest answer to the following questions?
Assume half of the shoppers in a busy mall carry concealed weapons, and
assume you decide to have a killing spree in the mall and have several guns,
probably some semiautomatic.
1. How many people do you think you can kill before you got killed?
2. How many guns do you think will be fired at you?
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 January 9, 2013 by Baron Von Ottomatic
So sayeth New York Governor Andrew “Son of Mario” Cuomo in his State of
the State speech today as he railed against the semi-automatic rifles with a
detachable magazine politicians refer to as assault weapons and high-
capacity magazines used in said assault weapons and many modern handguns.
As much as I hate to agree with anything spouted by the gun-grabber high
command, it’s very tough for me to find fault in that statement. No one
should need ten bul... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 5th, 2013 at 04:24 PM |
We’ve all been waiting to see the updated CBO Budget and Economic Outlook
for 2013 and the next ten years. Most of the news articles are focusing
their headlines on the deficit and debt numbers projected in the CBO report.
But remember that the reason why CBO deficit projections always understate
the reality is because they overstate the amount of revenue they expect to
come into the Treasury.
CBO projects the gross federal d... 阅读全帖 |
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