b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 1 No, you can't go back to the USSR!
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-you-cant-go-back-to-us
To be sure, many aspects of the old USSR have been happily consigned to
oblivion. Among them:
•The communist ideology: the Communist Party no longer has a monopoly
on power.
•The bloc mentality: the Warsaw Pact evaporated, leaving NATO behind
as the one hand clapping. The new system is a multipolar one.
•Central planning: replaced with a market economy
•Economic isolationism... 阅读全帖 |
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l****p
发帖数: 27354 | 2 http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-s
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did
BY WARD WILSON MAY 30, 2013
U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been
a subject of emotional debate. Initially, few questioned President Truman’
s decision to drop two atomic bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, in 1965
, historian Gar Alperovitz argued that, although the bombs did force an
immediate end to the war, Japan’s leaders had wanted to sur... 阅读全帖 |
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Y****N
发帖数: 8694 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 Faculty 讨论区 】
发信人: Highly (高妹), 信区: Faculty
标 题: 我为尹希教授做的专访
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 23 14:31:24 2015, 美东)
Interview with Dr. Xi Yin
--- By Fiona Rawsontile, Sept 2015
This interview was inspired by an earlier interview of Dr. Yin I saw on the
Internet, which made me think that we can’t expect someone who normally
writes for entertainment to understand a physicist. To “provoke” a
scientist, we need another scientist. So I volunt... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 4
Not big enough. It will evaporate via Hawkin radiation before adding enough
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发帖数: 4796 | 5 Nancy Pelosi could unexpectedly deliver Republicans their worst nightmare —
and it could lead to an electoral bloodbath
Many Democratic candidates have distanced themselves from House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi in efforts to unseat Republicans in midterm elections
this year.
Republicans have for years used Pelosi as a boogeyman - and the prospect of
that coming to an end terrifies them.
WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a favorite target for
Republican candidates and groups to... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 美国人民认为是中国的错
Seriously, do you live in a fucking cave? You haven't seen the impact of
shifting jobs and money to China? You don't realize that the power elite
have FUCKED the working man? Take a look around in these small towns out
here. Rundown cars, boarded up businesses, schools that need paint jobs. The
Detroit Syndrome has slithered its way across the United States and pounded
the shit out of ruralites.
Greedy high-end corporatists have shifted not just jobs, but the technology
that fosters ... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 7 Seriously, do you live in a fucking cave? You haven't seen the impact of
shifting jobs and money to China? You don't realize that the power elite
have FUCKED the working man? Take a look around in these small towns out
here. Rundown cars, boarded up businesses, schools that need paint jobs. The
Detroit Syndrome has slithered its way across the United States and pounded
the shit out of ruralites.
Greedy high-end corporatists have shifted not just jobs, but the technology
that fosters those jobs, ... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 8 The problem is that the horse is already out of the barn. The corporate vice
-presidents who off-shored US manufacturing capability are to blame, not the
Chinese.
When you talk about intellectual property, the Chinese are doing what anyone
would do. The US back in the early 1800s got its start in manufacturing to
a great extent smuggling in and copying British manufacturing, particularly
in textiles.
What should give pause is that China has learned to copy technology by
building products for US ... 阅读全帖 |
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M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 9
The fledgling world of AI hedge funds is claiming one of its first
casualties.
Sentient Investment Management is notifying investors of plans to liquidate
the hedge fund it started in late 2016, according to people with knowledge
of the situation. The fund managed less than $100 million and hasn’t made
money this year after gaining 4 percent in 2017, one of the people said.
Sentient, based in San Francisco, used artificial intelligence techniques,
including machine learning and so-called evolut... 阅读全帖 |
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k*******g
发帖数: 7321 | 10 美国拿着石头准备砸自己的蘑菇
Evaporative Vent Valve |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 11 Nothing was lost. 9 trillion of hot air evaporated back in to the
atmosphere. That 9 trillion was created out of thin air and now it's POOF! |
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发帖数: 4283 | 12 well, 昨天跌了660，今天三大利好（中美谈判，12月新增就业，Powell's super
dovish talk）算是打了一针强心针
中美谈判，这个很难说结果怎样了，只能拭目以待
12月新增就业，this is simply bull! the number will be revised down, and if
it doesn't, it will evaporate before you realize it
Powell's super dovish talk, this is entirely predictable, Fed is not going
to raise rate again in 2019 and this has been priced in by the market
already. But what Powell did was reassure the market that, if needed, he
wouldn't hesitate to do anything - cut rate back to zero/QE, aka mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20343 | 13 The active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin, which is a chemical
derived from the fruit of plants in the genus Capsicum, including chilis.
Extraction of oleoresin capsicum (OC) from peppers requires capsicum to be
finely ground, from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic
solvent such as ethanol. The solvent is then evaporated, and the remaining
waxlike resin is the oleoresin capsaicin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray |
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发帖数: 2213 | 14 比如这首frank ocean的nights，里面的歌词翻译成中文简直就没法听了，不过不是母
语，听的时候完全感觉不出来究竟有多黄多脏。感觉中文歌还是接受不了这样的歌词。
刀郎写过“用你的那火热的嘴唇让我在午夜里销魂”就被骂死了。
Round the city
Round the clock
Everybody needs you
No you can't make everybody equal
Although you got beaucoup family
You don't even got nobody being honest with you
Breath till I evaporated
My whole body see through
Transportation, handmade
And I know it better than most people
I don't trust them anyways
You can't break the law with them
Get some pussy have a calm night
Shooters k... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 499 | 15 https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/the-basketball-wars-have-begun-20191008
Begun, the basketball war has
Who could have imagined that a tweet from a basketball executive would be
the flashpoint in a decoupling of the US and China.
Here is the crux of the issue: China prioritizes social cohesion above free
speech. The US system prioritizes profits.
That creates an impossible axis. When Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted
an image about standing with Hong Kong it exposed the fault line.
This is t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1282 | 16 去老美超市找。英文叫：evaporated milk，一般是用纸盒装的。 |
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发帖数: 4736 | 17 病毒发生一来，西雅图的性产业受到严重打击。 由于嫖客们担心被传染病毒，找妓女
的兴趣大减。这使得很多妓女抱怨长期的老客人现在不来了，新客人几乎没有。 因此
收入枯竭而导致一些付不起房租，有些几乎沦落成为无家可归者。
home base 妓女说，现在打电话来的几乎都是cancelation；而street base 妓女说满
大街都找不到一个客户。日子实在是没法过下去了。
同时，为了防止传染，妓女和嫖客在开始干之前需要先进行体温测试，并建立有“不亲
嘴”制度/no-kissing policy，以保护双方的安全。
Coronavirus Fears Are Decimating The Sex Industry
Michael Hobbes
HuffPost March 12, 2020 2&
#8206;:45 AM
SEATTLE — In the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak, sex... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2539 | 18 sorry I don't have Chinese input here.
those control rods (scram system) had done their work.
as a nature of nuclear reactor, the power won't go zero as it 'shutdown',
decay heat from fission products still generate a faily large amout of heat,
say, around 6.5% of its orginal normal power at the moment of reactor
shutdown, 0.4% one day later. Think of thermal power of a typical reactor is
around 1000~3000MW, decay heat is A LOT.
Now the key is to cool the core from decay heat to prevent its melt... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11 | 19 看看下面NY Times和AP的文章
Liu of China Crashes Out of 110-Meter Men’s Hurdles
By ANDREW DAS
761 words
8 August 2012
NYTimes.com Feed
NYTFEED
English
Copyright 2012. The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
LONDON — The champion hurdler Liu Xiang, the most prominent athlete from
China competing in the London Games, suffered another painful Olympic exit
on Tuesday morning.
Four years after Liu had to withdraw from the men’s 110-meter hurdles in
the Beijing Olympics, devastating his millions of ad... 阅读全帖 |
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l******8
发帖数: 11 | 20 我同意外国媒体通常是卑鄙的， 但对刘翔这次却没有落井下石 （看下面AP的两段话）
。 也可能刘翔赢了他们会挑刺。 但我们中国人对自己人的刻薄更令人伤心。
"And that is why the crowd in the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium clapped for
Liu after he pushed out of the starting blocks, took seven steps, clattered
into the first hurdle, fell and, a few minutes later, picked himself up and
hopped on his left leg the length of the straight to the finish.
Everyone understood his pain. Everyone could appreciate his courage. Many
also will have understood that the London Games were Liu's... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 39 | 21 JING SHI, China (CNN) -- Tang Hui and his family prospered as migrant
workers during China's economic boom, earning $10,000 a year: enough to
build a house, send a cousin to school and pay for his grandmother's medical
bills.
But those good days are over. The family's cash earnings have evaporated,
snatched away by a manufacturing crash cascading across China caused by
falling global demand for its goods.
The nine people in the Tang family are facing an income of zero; their best
hope to survive |
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p***i
发帖数: 2119 | 22 It is their own problem until it starts to affect the rest of us. Why were
the banks bailed out but not individual home buyers? How about letting all
the banks fail (Citibank, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and so on), and let
people's savings evaporate? According to your logic, it is the problem of
those stupid savers. They should have put their money in a better bank. I'm
sure this argument would fly very well. Suppose you get fired from your
company. The consolation you get is, "stupid you, shou |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 02:51 PM
By Charles J. Little
A move to the right through back-to-back elections has turned the once-“
mavericky” Sen. John McCain into one of conservatism’s most dependable
votes, the National Journal reports. A tally of 2010 Senate ayes and nays
places McCain farthest right alongside five Republican colleagues with
considerably less fluid conservative credentials.
It’s a remarkable turnaround for a senator who used to routinely finish
near the bottom of the Journal’s an... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 “我是个科学家，曾经是靠推销全球暖化吃饭的，我理解相关的证据，我曾是个人造全
球暖化信徒，现在我是个怀疑论者”
Carbon warming too minor to be worth worrying about
By David Evans
The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is
full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who
was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an
alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing
but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools out
of our... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 By J.R. Dunn
Obama is finished. It's not so much the past six weeks, rough as they were,
as his own actions and responses that have finished him. His showdown with
Congress over the debt limit, which he then ran away from. His
bewilderment at the fact that markets responded to that level of stress with
a serious slump. The lousy job numbers, which anybody but Obama and his
kept economists could have predicted. His insistence on his precious
vacation at a time when the country was deeply sha... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 By Neil Snyder
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a cruel dictator. He believes that
killing his own citizens is collateral damage associated with governing, and
he's not alone. Arab countries have been ruled by people like Assad for
millennia. Yet the Arab Spring is changing the status quo in the Middle
East, and today's shocked Westerners may, in due course, wind up longing for
the days when the Assads of the Middle East were in charge.
A few days ago, President Assad said, "Syria is the h... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 By William L. Gensert
Barack Obama is a dream. In 2008, the dream was hope and change. In 2012,
it will be progress, thwarted by evil partisans and selfish greed. As
Gertrude Stein said, "there is no there there." He needs enemies to draw
attention from his lack of depth, for he is truly a mile wide and an inch
deep. He is an illusion -- always appearing to be more than he is, always,
more promise than reality. He is, and always has been, the sum projection
of what others want him to be. ... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 28 Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's lead in the race for the GOP presidential
nomination has evaporated, according to a new national survey.
A CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday indicates that 28% of
Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say the former House
speaker is their choice for their party's nominee, with an equal amount
supporting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In CNN's previous national
poll, conducted last month, Gingrich held a 24%-20% margin over Romne... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 29 Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private
equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake
City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Yet when it came to his considerable personal wealth, Mr. Romney never
really left Bain.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated
a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of
Bain’s profits ever since, bringing the Romney ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Robert Weissberg
How are we to understand the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement? Is it, as
many on the left insist, a commendable reaction to "obscene" inequalities in
wealth? Or is it, as according to the right, a union-financed, thinly
disguised Obama-supported ruse to stir up egalitarian envy? Both
interpretations are partially valid, but let me offer a different take, and
one that links OWS to countless similar political outcroppings that have
flourished since the 1960s.
My descriptor ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 By CHARLES FORELLE And DAVID ENRICH
LONDON—Investors fled from Spanish government debt on Monday, an immediate
rejection of the country's planned bank bailout by the constituency it most
desperately needs to impress: the buyers of its own government bonds.
The market rout puts Spain and the euro zone in a dire position. The bailout
plan—in which Spain agreed to accept up to €100 billion ($125
billion) to recapitalize banks—was hatched to alleviate the concern that
Spain itself could be d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 32 Obama’s rejection of hope and change
By Marc A. Thiessen, Monday, November 5, 9:40 AM
In the midst of the GOP primaries last year, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney
told me the strategy the campaign expected President Obama to use this fall
headed in the right direction, Obama would have to acknowledge his failures
and say to the American people, “I ask permission to start over.” It was
the only way Americans would listen to him; he had to ask for a second
chance. He might wait as late as a week... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 How did the U.S. reach a 'fiscal cliff' and what does it mean? Here are the
facts.
Posted on November 30, 2012
Summary
The U.S. faces the possibility of another recession — the third in 11 years
— if President Obama and Congress cannot find a way to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff. The one-two combination of massive tax increases and spending
cuts scheduled to take effect, beginning Jan. 1, would push the
unemployment rate back above 9 percent, according to the Congressional
Budget Office.
Ther... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 December 8, 2014 - 4:06 PM
By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't blame man-made global warming for the devastating
California drought, a new federal report says.
A report issued Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration said natural variations — mostly a La Nina weather
oscillation — were the primary drivers behind the drought that has now
stretched to three years.
Study lead author Richard Seager of Columbia University said the paper has
not yet been p... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 35 GAO: Gov't waste of natural gas costing taxpayers millions
By HOPE YEN | May 6, 2015 | 3:15 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Significant amounts of natural gas on federal lands are
being wasted, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year and
adding to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a congressional investigation
has found.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office also said the Bureau of
Land Management failed to conduct production inspections for hundreds of
high-priority oil and ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 Americans Pay IRS Penalty to Escape From ObamaCare
by John Hayward4 Jan 2016116
Even the New York Times is conceding that the huge number of Americans
willing to pay a special tax to escape from ObamaCare is newsworthy,
although the paper tries to sugar-coat the bad news as much as possible:
Two years after the Affordable Care Act began requiring most Americans
to have health insurance, 10.5 million who are eligible to buy coverage
through the law’s new insurance exchanges were still uninsur... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 37 50 YEARS OF FAILURE
http://www.freemansperspective.com/50-years-failure/
So, I know what people in that time were hoping to get out of politics…
what they firmly believed they would get out of politics. Here’s the list:
A solution to the race problem.
An end to a pointless war.
A solution to the Middle East problem.
To improve education.
A solution to the problems of poverty and welfare.
An elimination of police brutality.
The race problem
Race problems have shifted over the past 50 years, but t... 阅读全帖 |
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b**********s
发帖数: 9531 | 38 From Ben White writing at Politico:
This Monday, assorted bankers, traders and Wall Street lawyers will gather
inside the neo-Georgian walls of the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan to
write big checks to an unlikely recipient: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97%
.
Cruz, who attended Harvard Law School, isn’t one to trade too heavily on
old school ties and friendships at the likes of Goldman Sachs, where his
wife works. On the campaign trail, the Texas senator has railed against Wall
Street “crony capitalis... 阅读全帖 |
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D****e
发帖数: 2283 | 39 Republican letter urges party to cut Trump's funding
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37055398
More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party's National
Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump's campaign.
They said Mr Trump's "divisiveness" and "incompetence" risked drowning the
party in November's election.
The letter said that the party should instead focus on protecting vulnerable
candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Former... 阅读全帖 |
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M******e
发帖数: 1193 | 40 转一段评论。
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/52vpan/wikileaks_drops_tpp_tisa
_and_ttip_leak/d7nu7jl
I'm wading through TiSA and a few things stood out to me: Any business
setting up shop in a foreign country is allowed to bring in unlimited
amounts of cash, and cannot be restricted in terms of how many shops it sets
up, nor its output/quantity. No municipality can establish laws that treat
these foreign businesses different to local businesses (so, the foreign
company can't be charged hig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 42 November 29, 2016
Guess how much a CEO at PBS makes
By John Dietrich
One of the reasons progressives are in panic mode is because many of their
favorite programs are in jeopardy. These programs consume hundreds of
billions of dollars. Their numbers increase with time, and efforts to
eliminate them have been unsuccessful. With Republican control of both
houses of Congress and a businessman as chief executive, this seemingly
impossible task is within reach.
National Public Radio (NPR) and the C... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******i
发帖数: 2018 | 43 WSJ读者现在大部分都挺川了。3月份就算真的遣返DACA也没啥大不了的。到时候舒默再
流鳄鱼泪没人信了。
“By proposing a plan that is way more generous to illegals than it should
be, Trump will expose the Dems for the frauds that they are. Chuck and
Nancy will say stupid things like it is racist, white supremacist, etc.
This "strategy" of resist will boomerang on the Dems particularly within the
environment of a booming economy. Their dream of retaking Congress is
evaporating quickly.”
“Democrats are befuddled. Trump, as a Republican, is no... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 46 讀讀這兩段吧，雖然不是個大家一致接受的結論、觀察時間也不夠久，但至少它對於氣
候暖化與渦漩南下的關係提供了一個理論。
A study in 2001 found that stratospheric circulation can have anomalous
effects on weather regimes.[29] In the same year researchers found a
statistical correlation between weak polar vortex and outbreaks of severe
cold in the Northern Hemisphere.[30][31] In more recent years scientists
identified interactions with Arctic sea ice decline, reduced snow cover,
evapotranspiration patterns, NAO anomalies or weather anomalies which are
linked... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 39 | 47 JING SHI, China (CNN) -- Tang Hui and his family prospered as migrant
workers during China's economic boom, earning $10,000 a year: enough to
build a house, send a cousin to school and pay for his grandmother's medical
bills.
But those good days are over. The family's cash earnings have evaporated,
snatched away by a manufacturing crash cascading across China caused by
falling global demand for its goods.
The nine people in the Tang family are facing an income of zero; their best
hope to survive |
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N*V
发帖数: 350 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: wayofflying (小破熊), 信区: Military
标 题: 人类第一台真空能发动机即将在中国攻关成功
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 14 22:28:25 2011, 美东)
高歌，现任北京航空航天大学能源动力学院动力工程及工程热物理学科一级责任教授，
航空发动机气动热力国防重点实验室副主任，长期从事动力工程、工程热物理及流体力
学领域的教学与科研工作，并在基础科研和多学科的应用技术领域取得了一系列国际领
先水平的创新性科研成果。
他在1984年发明的"沙丘驻涡火焰稳定器"，获国家发明一等奖，钱学森同志称之为"一
项长中国人志气的重要发明"。该成果广泛应用于我国多种军用航空发动机中，取得了
数以亿元计的经济效益，至今仍保有先进水平。本刊记者于今年10月采访了高歌教授，
了解到了他近期从事的一些前沿科研工作的最新进展，尤其是他对龙卷风的研究及其工
程应用价值，让人耳目一新。
高歌教授在采访中提到，传统的航空发动机技术虽然还在不停地改进提高之中，但
受到原理和材料工艺上的限制，已经逐渐逼近了性能发... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****y
发帖数: 142 | 49 发信人: superfeiyun (superfeiyun), 信区: Automobile
标 题: 空调修理记之管路清洗篇
发信站: The unknown SPACE (Mon Jun 24 15:59:28 2002) [1m [32mWWW-POST [0m [0m
空调修理记之管路清洗篇
管路清洗,英文名为 flush. 为空调修理中最耗时,最困难的一项工作.
主要包括清洗condensor, high press pipe, low press pipe and evaporator.
而compressor绝对不能清洗. Accumulator 也不能清洗. 根据要求,空调
系统被拆开后,必须更换Accumulator. 所以必须将以上部件全部分离拆
开后分别清洗. 而要拆开各部分,需要专用工具, A/C and fuel line separator.
AUTOZONE有售,$10. 清洗可不能用水,必须使用专用A/C flush oil.
也可以在AUTOZONE买到,$14.
用漏斗将少量A/C flush oil由condensor的入口倒入, 等待3分钟 |
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发帖数: 1795 | 50 MSN AUTO不错，他们的数据是AIS提供的，很准确，唯一的不足是修车的价格只是估计
，修理费用很容易被人忽悠，除非DIY。
http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/Reliability.aspx?year=2002&make=Toyota&model=Camry
Occasional problems on this vehicle are failures of the Air Fuel Ratio
Sensors, Evaporative (EVAP) Emission system and the Engine. Failure of Air
Fuel Ratio Sensors and EVAP system will cause the Check Engine Light to
illuminate. The common failure of the Engine is excessive oil usage caused
by engine oil gelling. However, when proper maintenance sc |
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