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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Headed for the Rocks in European Waters
By Daniel Hanson Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Filed under: World Watch, Culture, Economic Policy
A united Europe is impossible given cultural and economic mismatches.
The eurozone is going to split, whether through economics or politics.
Having had time to digest the latest round of euro rescue efforts, markets
do not seem to be terribly optimistic. The euro is down, equities markets
remain unsettled, and, after a brief reprieve, sovereign bond yields in
tro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By Selwyn Duke
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn
Congress for not growing it?
It's always a disturbing experience when you're accosted with a picture of
Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge Monday afternoon. But at
least his image bore a fitting caption: "MOST FUTILE EVER." I then clicked
the link and found myself at The Washington Times - normally a quite sane
organ of the media - and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was
lamenti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Christopher Helman, 04.13.11, 07:10 PM EDT
For all the outcry over GE, a number of corporate titans are paying much
higher rates than the average citizen.
image
In Detail: What The Top 20 U.S. Companies Pay In Taxes
As many Americans finish up their personal tax returns over the next few
days, they'll marvel with horror at how much hard-earned cash gets siphoned
up by the government. At times like this, it's satisfying to have a
corporate bogeyman to hate--like General Electric, which has faced ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 After graduating from Brown University in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in
comparative literature and completing a Fulbright scholarship in Brazil,
Cassie Owens was left with a few dollars on her stipend and no job in sight.
So, Ms. Owens returned home to her mother in Philadelphia.
“I moved back home pretty much for lack of money and prospects,” she says.
Owens’s cousin, Evon Burton, who also returned home after graduating from
Morehouse College in 2009, adds, “The choice is to go out and be in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 July 5, 2012 | Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Lefties everywhere have hastened to try and absolve the ObamacareTax
claiming that it really isn’t the largest tax in American history despite
that conservatives say it is. What is their proof? Well, as a percentage of
GDP ObamacareTax is smaller than other taxes we’ve instituted in the past.
This, statistic, though, is quite misleading.
LoudTalkerBlog has crunched the numbers, but the chief take away is in this
chart, and, yes, it is the largest in t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5610 | 6 看了Bordo的NBER文章吗？给你个link
http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/workpaper/2012/wp1214.pdf
很明显abstract讲的和WSJ讲的不一样。原因在NBER文章和wsj的article目标读者不一
样。NBER的文章讲有3个recession不一样，WSJ讲就2008的recession和以前不一样。
再看NBER文章里面的Table 2，1880-2011年的recession中有housing bust的只有1927-
1929，1933-1937，和2008这一次，从这个数据和文章的abstract就可以看出，NBER这
篇文章很难和WSJ的评论联系在一起，NBER因为是给研究者读的，很多是Ph.D.做教授的
,所以文章写的更严谨一点，结论下的更小心。而WSJ的评论确实偏离了文章的本意，当
然WSJ的target reader完全是没有时间看原文的。
楼主是不是属于没有时间看原文的那？
Abstract:
Do steep recoveries follow deep recessions? Does ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 7 and stutters more... haha |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By JACQUELINE PALANK
Renewable-energy company Satcon Technology Corp. SATC -72.36% filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Wednesday.
Steve Rhoades, Satcon's president and chief executive, said the Chapter 11
filing follows "a difficult time" for the cash-crunched company, which
supplies the devices that allow renewable-energy producers to convert their
energy into grid-connected electrical power.
Satcon said it has been talks with lender Silicon Valley Bank since June to
avoid falling ou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 45 | 9 http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2012/09/04/history-shows-m
股市， GDP， 公司利润
According to McGraw-Hill’s (MHP) S&P Capital IQ, the S&P 500 has rallied an
average of 12.1% per year since 1901 when Democrats occupy the White House,
compared with just 5.1% for the GOP.
Likewise, gross domestic product has increased 4.2% each year since 1949
when Democrats run the executive branch, versus 2.6% under Republicans.
Even corporate profits show a disparity: S&P 500 GAAP earnings per share
climbed a media... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16625 | 10 http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330821/total-welfare-spend
Total Welfare Spending Now at $1 Trillion
By NRO Staff
October 18, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Comments
66
Total annual spending on federal means-tested welfare programs has hit $1
trillion. The Congressional Research Service is out with a new memorandum on
spending on these programs. Senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican
on the Senate budget committee who requested the memo, has crunched the
numbers and come up with the astonishing figu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON | Wed Dec 5, 2012 6:24am EST
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renew his case for tax hikes on
wealthy Americans to avert a year-end fiscal crunch and call for a smooth
increase in the nation's borrowing limit in a speech to a business group on
Wednesday, a White House official said.
The president is embarked on an aggressive campaign to pressure
congressional Republicans to compromise on steps to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff. He will argue to corporate ex... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 931 | 12 Time杂志最近一期专辑。
1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March
that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get
him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been
treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors
and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Because Stephanie and her husband had recently started their own small
techn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Citizens take law into own hands after cash-strapped Ore. county guts
sheriff's office
When budget woes reduced the sheriff's department in one rural Oregon county
to a bare-bones force, residents decided to take matters into their own
hands -- creating armed patrol groups in defiance of local officials.
Their decision has raised safety concerns with the county government, which
would prefer residents instead hike their own taxes to fund the hiring of
trained deputies. But despite the risks, the... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like
to forget.
In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-
care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly
seems even worse.
WND has discovered that during his transition into the White House in 2008-
09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to “make the VA a
leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care
possible.”
However, in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Warner Todd Huston August 25, 2014
Fraser Nelson of The Spectator did some number crunching recently and found
a shocking fact: Britain is poorer than every State in the USA but one.
As Nelson wrote on August 22, “if Britain were to somehow leave the EU and
join the US … we’d be the 2nd-poorest state in the union, poorer than
Missouri. Poorer than the much-maligned Kansas and Alabama. Poorer than any
state other than Mississippi, and if you take out the south east we’d be
poorer than that too.”... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Recession Recovery: Cities that Have Improved the Most
by Sreekar Jasthi via NerdWallet Credit Card Blog
The Great Recession began in December 2007 when the U.S. housing market was
hit hard by subprime mortgage losses. The fallout led to a decline in
consumer spending and business investment, which was followed by massive job
losses — in 2008 and 2009, the U.S. workforce lost at least 8.7 million
jobs.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession
officially ended in June ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 263 | 17 美国华人最近几年日益注意到华人维权的重要性。 鸡毛(Jimmy Kimmel) “杀光中国人
”和加州的SCA5试图搞种族名额教育制都引起华人的很大关注。 问题是这种热情还没
有常态化。还没有做到持之以恒的从自己做起，有人出人，有钱出钱。 导致现有的华
人维权组织都难以维持。 80-20 Initiative 的S.B. Woo 已经做志愿者为北美华人维
权十几年。 他现在年高要退休，却找不到愿意接替的人。想筹点款来雇个职业
lobbyist也进展缓慢。 看看下面S.B. Woo的passionate email, 你就知道我们面临的
窘困局面。
80-20 Is Dying
Most Asian Am wish to have Jewish community's political clout.
Most Asian Americans overlook that
(1) AIPAC has a $67 million per year budget as opposed to 80-20's $
100,000 - a difference of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 80-Year Record Inventory of Crude Oil Straining Nation’s Storage Capacity
March 26, 2015 - 4:17 PM
By Barbara Hollingsworth
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. energy companies are producing so much crude oil these
days that they are running out of places to store it.
“U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve) increased by 8.2 million barrels from the previous week,
” according to the March 20 weekly summary issued by the Energy Information
Administration (EIA).... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Déjà Vu Weather? No, It's a Recession!
New Seasonal Pattern?
Yesterday Fed Governor Stanley Fischer proclaimed U.S. Economy Should
Rebound After ‘Poor’ First Quarter.
“There’s definitely a rebound on the way already, and we’ll see at
what speed it proceeds,” Mr. Fischer said during an interview on CNBC. “
The first quarter was poor. That seems to be a new seasonal pattern. It’s
been that way for about four of the last five years.
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said Wednesday that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Clinton supporter Ariana Grande on video: 'I hate Americans. I hate America'
July 8, 2015 1:22 PM MST
Pop star Ariana Grande heard expressing hate for America.
Pop star Ariana Grande heard expressing hate for America.
Larry Busacca/Getty Images
On Wednesday, TMZ posted footage from a security camera located at Wolfee
Donuts in Lake Elsinore, California, showing pop star Ariana Grande with a "
new boyfriend." In the video, Grande, a supporter of Democratic Party
presidential candidate Hillary Cli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Elusive crime wave data shows frightening toll of illegal immigrant
criminals
By Malia ZimmermanPublished September 16, 2015
The federal government can tell you how many "Native Hawaiian or Other
Pacific Islanders" stole a car, the precise number of "American Indian or
Alaska Natives" who were arrested for vagrancy or how many whites were
busted for counterfeiting in any given year. But the government agencies
that crunch crime numbers are utterly unable -- or unwilling -- to pinpoint
for the pu... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 谁支持, 谁付钱． 但是你们支持让纳税人付钱. 尼玛这个是什么逻辑？
Published on CNS News http://www.cnsnews.com
Backers fight for children's health insurance in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — A fight is intensifying in the Arizona Legislature over the
Senate leader's refusal to restore a program providing health insurance to
poor children, a stance that would maintain the state's position as the only
one in the nation that doesn't participate in the plan.
Advocates who want the program restarted rallied at the Capitol on Monday in
a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 24 he got guts. my stomach crunches as I watch CNN, MSNBC ETC.. |
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发帖数: 2555 | 25 An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be
literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as
possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker
charged Thursday.
The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office
chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the
unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the
election year.”
“The Field Office due to the elect... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 26 Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens '
due to election'
By Malia Zimmerman Published September 22, 2016 FoxNews.com
An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be
literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as
possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker
charged Thursday.
The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office
chief and part of a chain of corresponde... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 27064 | 27 那是丫的卖股票的缘故吧
The IRS does crunch data on the top 400 earners each year. For 2009, the
most recent period available, the top 400 earners paid a total of $16
billion in taxes, with an average tax bill of $40 million each.
Zuckerberg's tax bill could be more than 50 times that amount. |
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l****r
发帖数: 637 | 28 Little bit less than him.
The truth is: whatever poll number, they can crunch it. Change the sample
data. |
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发帖数: 2053 | 29 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-
and-himself-to-the-precipice.html
Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to
a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his
ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
By MIKE ISAACAPRIL 23, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple
’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the
iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading.
Fo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 31 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: Military
标 题: 床铺的移民政策即使成功实施也只能将白人成为少民进程推迟5年
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 6 17:13:06 2018, 美东)
床铺螳臂当车，白人成为少民已是大势所趋。美国即使现在完全停止移民，白人最终也
将成为少民。只是时间早晚问题。
ANALYSIS
President Trump's proposal to cut legal immigration rates would
delay the date that white Americans become a minority of the population by&#
160;as few as one or as many as five additional years,
according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
The plan, released by the White... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 32 这些公司有病才会Pay down debt，都是几年前利率低的时候发的长期债券。回来的现
金只会做两件事，Dividend 和buy back。美国国内投资？且不说现在己经接近全就业
，这么多年了除了在08年附近Liquidity crunch的时候，这些Multinational on
average 什么时候是因为没钱才不投资的？
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发帖数: 17544 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: EUV (奶特都是卖国贼), 信区: Military
标 题: 科普，手机付款，MD新潮流，来着tg的价值输出
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 21 17:37:27 2011, 美东)
http://www.saxum.com/industry-expertise/your-cellphone-is-final
Your Cellphone is (Finally) a Digital Wallet
June 14th, 2011 by admin. Posted in Industry Expertise
The Promise: For years, marketers have sworn that our cellphones will be
used more for financial transactions and information-gathering than for
telephone calls. For years, I have waited and waited. And... 阅读全帖 |
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q**i
发帖数: 174 | 34 there is no synchronizer on reverse. so if,
for some reason, your car is moving before
you shift into reverse, you may hear gears
crunching.
if this always happens while the car is in
complete standstill (with the engine on),
your clutch isn't completely disengaged.
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发帖数: 131 | 35 大家新年好，小妹最近要买旧车，在网上看到了一个很便宜很便宜的deal我怕是骗人，
希望大家帮我
看看这里面有可能有什么样的骗局呢？车是Lexus。有相片，很漂亮。只要4500.
这个是那个人给我的信：
Hi,
The car is available. It starts just like you would expect a Lexus IS350
to do. It rides and drives like new. There are no unusual noises,
squeaks, or vibrations. The car accelerates athletically, tracks
straight down the road, and stops without pulling. No problems.
Everything on the car works like it is new.
This is a very reluctant sale because I'm going through a divorce right
now, and I... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3476 | 36 Hi Scott,
Thank you for your interest in my Lexus. The car is available and here is
the info: it has 26,000 miles, all wheel drive, a clean title, like new
condition inside and out, no accidents, the engine runs perfectly, no
mechanical difficulties, non-smoker, it is paid off and there is no lien on
it. I'm the registered owner with the title in hand.
This is a very reluctant sale because I'm going through a divorce right now.
I'm in a time crunch, which forces me to sell it under market value.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2885 | 37 08年主要是金融危机，liquidity 出现问题，aka credit crunch,所以暂停了lease
program.
至于租和买哪个合适，无非就是计算车的贬值快慢，和占用资本的time value的多少。
hard
because
months,
can
elsewhere |
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发帖数: 11748 | 38 Car accident and Small Claim Court（纪录+经验+吐槽向） 作者： 姜杉
本文要描述的是我自从去年感恩节被involve into a car accident以来经历的一系列
事情。思来想去，事情之所以拖的这么久，一方面因为肇事者实在是过于奇葩，另一方
面是因为自己对于美国的一些办事的流程以及司法体系不甚了解，以至于某些环节上走
了一些弯路。在此写下自己校内的第一篇正式日志，记录这8个月来的种种经历，并且
从自己的经历总结一下遇到类似情景时的处理方法，还有我的一些闷在心里大实话（吐
槽发泄啊！）。
我感觉我有好几年没有正式写过这种文章再加上每天讲中文实在少，文笔不通还望见谅
。以下均为自己从自己的经验上整理，大家如果有补充一定要告诉我免得我误导别人了。
事情发生在2012的感恩节12月22号中午，我开着车哼着歌载着我的学弟一块去UCLA参加
一个感恩节的party。前方红灯，于是我停在快车道的最前面 in full stop。等着红灯
和学弟聊着天，突然就感觉车身一震然后整个被push forward with a big crunching
soun... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1825 | 39 http://www.american.edu/kogod/autoindex/2015.cfm
An annual report from the Kogod School of Business at American University
reveals which cars are truly domestic and which aren’t. Kogod crunches data
automakers are required to provide the government on where major components
of each model come from. The rankings also include scores for where the
parent company reports its earnings, where research and development takes
place, and other corporate information. The rankings are meant to reveal
which ... 阅读全帖 |
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a**e
发帖数: 1072 | 40 打不着火这个情况我现在有非常有经验 因为我有两个车都经历过太久没开没电的情况
症状和声音都是完全一样的，没电的时候，都是 急促的click的连续响声 但是不确定
这个是不是starter crunch的声音 我只是想说我两个车没电的时候拧钥匙声音都是一
样的 冲了10分钟但是还是不够的时候你拧 感觉点 将要 马上能发动但是还没发动的那
种感觉
平时开的时候到没感觉fuel pump有啥问题，mpg也算正常，高速25左右，加速加到80啥
的也没出过问题 我感觉是这个刹车是不是用了不少车的电能和液压部分能力 会不会电
池质量不好 这样 导致电池功率不够不能电喷了造成的 这个电池是aap好歹也应该算是
合格产品吧 |
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发帖数: 109 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 Investment 讨论区 】
发信人: armor (我爱宝贝纯纯), 信区: Investment
标 题: Worse than LTCM (ZT)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Aug 14 11:46:13 2007)
Worse than LTCM: Not Just a Liquidity Crisis; Rather a Credit Crisis and
Crunch
Nouriel Roubini | Aug 09, 2007
The global market turmoil got ugly today forcing the ECB and the Fed to
inject liquidity in the financial system as the concerns about subprime,
credit and debt turned into a full blown liquidity run and crisis. As in
1998 at the time of the LTCM crisis, th |
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V********T
发帖数: 878 | 43 Anthropologie Mulling Spice Dress
全新,有Tag。尺寸 6号。后面有松紧调节，所以穿小号的都合适。
原价118。在华人换来的。大小合适，就是我的肤色不适合。
29.95+tax(9.75%)
Velvety soft, fine-wale corduroy in a festive wine hue is fitted and flared
and ready to add zing to leaf-crunching walks through the park. By Maeve.
* Two pockets
* Side zip
* Cotton
* Machine wash
* 35"L
style #933184
Non-cc paypal 请选择personal---payment owned
邮寄方式，买家选择。默认为first class+DC |
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发帖数: 2534 | 44 google 一句流传很广的名言是 不做恶(Don't be evil.)
到底 google 是不是如它所说，看看最近的新闻吧。
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/21/apple-google-receive-
In the case of Google, according to new research by security analyst Samy
Kamkar, an HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and
transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also
transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi
networks, as well as a unique phone identifier.
也就是说，google会把使用者的名字，地址和无线网等信息不停地... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 534 | 46 BEIJING (AP) — In a China awash with fake iPhones, pirated DVDs and
knockoff Louis Vuitton bags, rice trader Lin Chunping took fakery to a whole
new level: He invented a U.S. bank and claimed he bought it.
The little-known businessman shot to fame in January when state media
reported that he had taken over Delaware-based Atlantic Bank. The
unprecedented acquisition brought him praise: His hometown gave him a
prestigious political appointment and state media called his business
experience "legend... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2041 | 47 Few year ago when California was under a budget crunch. Several professors'
salaries were published in the news (they are public record). One of the
highest paid professor is an assistant professor with state salary of about
60K but with a bonus of over 6 million dollars. I think he is an engineer
and the bonus has something to do with a cellular technology. |
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发帖数: 19 | 48 ARLINGTON, Texas -- The story so far: Massive open online courses have yet
to live up to their potential. But unlocking that potential could already be
a pilot at a community college, state university or private institution.
More than 200 scholars from institutions all over the world have gathered
here at a conference hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington to hear
preliminary results from the MOOC Research Initiative, a grant program
founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a... 阅读全帖 |
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B*******s
发帖数: 690 | 49 It depends on your background and what you really like to do?
for example:
Are you good at math (Statistics, Economics)? or Do you like business (deal
with people & numbers)? or good at talking and arguing (Law), or just
crunching numbers (accounting, financial planning).
Or drawing/arts (design for computers) etc...
If you can share that, then others can make some suggestions for you! |
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