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D*****r
发帖数: 6791 | 2 Letters from the Earth
When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!"
He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million
stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and
away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far
frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads
sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe.
At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed.
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发帖数: 38600 | 3 http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20120807.aspx
Can't We All Just Obey China?
China recently declared that most of the 3.5 million square kilometers South
China Sea had become Sansha, the latest Chinese city. The area China claims
is within the city limits comprises over two million square kilometers of
largely open ocean and a few hundred tiny islands and reefs, many of which
are only above water during low tide. Sansha is administered from one of the
Paracel islands (Woody Islan... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****r
发帖数: 4431 | 4 圣诞已过，新年即将来临，为了戏班的繁荣昌盛和大包子，赶紧发一篇。吃吃喝喝 年
年有，没有什么新意，写写玩吧。
Langley小镇位于Whidbey岛上，如果陆地过去，从Mukilteo坐轮渡到对面的Clinton15
分钟；我们从水路过去，一个半小时。
Langley是Isand County的第三大城市，面积1.081 sq miles (2.8 km²)，人口 1
,045 (2012)。去年去Port Townsend的时候曾经在小镇的码头停留一晚，但没有上岸去
玩，早晨醒来，如梦幻般的美景，当时就说，找时间专程来玩。所以今年的圣诞假期就
定在了那里。LD为了一个surprise事先悄悄定的小镇的国宾馆Inn at Langley，每晚加
税300多，有一个做旅游的太太手里的资源不用,这样的浪漫有点代价，我的价格至少比
他直接订要好得多。
住了两天，当地的旅游资源丰富，也算是为以后的线路做考察了。鸟城是我命名的，没
有出处，从下面的图片就能看出来。
下面的图片1是宾馆餐厅，这个宾馆共有24个房间，全部是海景房，他们的老板是西雅
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发帖数: 2744 | 5 Beatdom
ABOUTSUBMISSION GUIDELINESBUY
Home/Beatdom Content/Noise Poetry: An Interview with Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore reading his poetry at Naropa University's Summer Writing
Program, 2011.
Noise Poetry: An Interview with Thurston Moore
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As an MFA fiction student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
at Naropa University (one of the longest, most consistently-made-fun-of
school names ever), I was fortunate enough to be brought face-to-face with
some of the most legendar... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******h
发帖数: 2744 | 6 You know, lyric writing to me was predicated upon the art of the rhyme. I
also knew that poetry, the way it appeared on the page as far as it being
rhyming schemes had become so quaint, a fairly passé presentation of poetry
. I didn’t really see anything wrong with that but as far as it being
lyrical in song – rhyme still worked as something that was really permanent
and substantive. I understood the relationship between the poem on the page
and the poem as a sung lyric, where the art of the rhy... 阅读全帖 |
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j****e
发帖数: 12067 | 7 好像美国人知道这首诗的不少
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFy7XidbnKw
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more."
[show]
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying... 阅读全帖 |
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R*****d
发帖数: 1148 | 8 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
joycee (买买提头号女魔头) 于 (Thu Nov 4 16:12:59 2010, 美东) 提到:
是爱伦.波，是柯南道尔，还是更古老的?
此外阿加沙.克里斯帝大家感觉如何? 为何要把伯罗设定为比利时人?
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zhangrenjunz (正人君子) 于 (Thu Nov 4 16:15:25 2010, 美东) 提到:
中国民间文艺工作者，作品：包公案，施工案...
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StationCC (Test) 于 (Thu Nov 4 16:16:47 2010, 美东) 提到:
三侠五义？
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joycee (买买提头号女魔头) 于 (Thu Nov 4 16:17:16 2010, 美东) 提到:
这个算纪实吧，不是小说
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t*******h
发帖数: 2882 | 10 http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/11/taiwan_and_japan
Breaking formation
Nov 9th 2010, 17:30 by S.C. | SEOUL
This year Taiwan’s standard of living surpassed Japan’s
IN THE 1930s the Japanese economist Kaname Akamatsu proposed a theory of how
the economies of Asia could take wing. It became known as the “flying
geese” model of development. As Akamatsu pointed out, “Wild geese fly in
orderly ranks forming an inverse V, just as airplanes fly in formation.”
Japan, the first Asian country ... 阅读全帖 |
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M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 11 隐形技术的血泪源头。（ZT）
The tearful origins of China's stealth
By Peter Lee
The recent test flight of China's J-20 stealth fighter has occasioned
certain uproar in international security circles, as well as paroxysms of
joy among China's more nationalistic netizens.
Despite no hard information on its stealthiness or its capabilities beyond
the fact that it was able to take off, fly for 15 minutes, and land, the J-
20 is already serving as justification for heightened concern and its
inevitable adjunct, h... 阅读全帖 |
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r******y
发帖数: 9892 | 12 Rescue by Bus: China Sends for Its Own
The tour bus that arrived in Onagawa last week wasn't expected. After the
tsunami that crashed into the shores of this quaint fishing village,
communication was down and the fortunate few who survived had been holed up
in a cold, cavernous gymnasium and make-shift evacuation hall.
Not all of them were Japanese. Huddled under a mountain of blankets in small
groups around the center were Chinese laborers. The bus had come for them.
Liu Xueni, a Chinese citize... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 13 On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk
high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their
husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may
know that winter is near at hand.
A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to
the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his
annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the
North Wind, footman of ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****i
发帖数: 7933 | 14 这种墙头草就难讲了，而且吃青春饭而已。人人都能成为50岁的资深程序员？而且就算
还没被lay off，工资撑死也就10万出头。
人家做quaint的根本不屑于这种工资。 |
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d**t
发帖数: 1671 | 15 http://business.time.com/2013/03/25/marxs-revenge-how-class-str
Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried. With the collapse of the
Soviet Union and China’s Great Leap Forward into capitalism, communism
faded into the quaint backdrop of James Bond movies or the deviant mantra of
Kim Jong Un. The class conflict that Marx believed determined the course of
history seemed to melt away in a prosperous era of free trade and free
enterprise. The far-reaching power of globalization, linking the most ... 阅读全帖 |
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d**t
发帖数: 1671 | 16 这个扭腰时报的文章很有意思,标题是: 马克思的复仇: 阶级斗争如何塑造世界?
Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried. With the collapse of the
Soviet Union and China’s Great Leap Forward into capitalism, communism
faded into the quaint backdrop of James Bond movies or the deviant mantra of
Kim Jong Un. The class conflict that Marx believed determined the course of
history seemed to melt away in a prosperous era of free trade and free
enterprise. The far-reaching power of globalization, linking the most remote
corners of the pla... 阅读全帖 |
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u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 17 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/india-savings-deposit-
By Yoolim Lee Jan 6, 2014 4:00 PM CT 44 Comments Email Print
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Photographer: Ashok Nath Dey/Getty Images
Investors in Sudipta Sen's Saradha companies protest in Kolkata as word of
the scam... Read More
Sudipta Sen was on the run when police arrested him on April 23 at Hotel
Snow Land, a resort with views of the Himalayas in Sonamarg, India, about 2,
700 kilometers northwest of his Kolkata bas... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 18 http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/classical
When it comes to classical music and American culture, the fat lady hasn’t
just sung. Brünnhilde has packed her bags and moved to Boca Raton.
Classical music has been circling the drain for years, of course. There’s
little doubt as to the causes: the fingernail grip of old music in a culture
that venerates the new; new classical music that, in the words of Kingsley
Amis, has about as much chance of public acceptance as pedophilia; f... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 19 (Reuters) - The steadily increasing stream of states and countries
legalizing gay marriage has dramatically changed the lives of LGBT people
and their loved ones in recent years.
In honour of the growing number of places to celebrate lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender nuptials, online travel adviser Cheapflights (www.
cheapflights.com) has come up with its top 10 list of gay wedding
destinations. Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Washington, D.C. USA
Although gay marriage was only first... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1846 | 20 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/india-savings-deposit-
By Yoolim Lee Jan 6, 2014 4:00 PM CT 44 Comments Email Print
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LinkedIn
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Photographer: Ashok Nath Dey/Getty Images
Investors in Sudipta Sen's Saradha companies protest in Kolkata as word of
the scam... Read More
Sudipta Sen was on the run when police arrested him on April 23 at Hotel
Snow Land, a resort with views of the Himalayas in Sonamarg, India, about 2,
700 kilometers northwest of his Kolkata base.
Se... 阅读全帖 |
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C*******r
发帖数: 10345 | 21 From Wall Street Journal
Amid the Great Society spending boom of the 1960s, Illinois Senator Everett
Dirksen famously quipped, "A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon,
you're talking real money." How quaint. In modern Washington, trillion is
the new billion.
Barack Obama will soon request an economic stimulus package of some $775
billion over a mere two years and optimistically hopes to hold the final
figure under $1 trillion. The latest leaks say this will include targeted
tax cuts of p |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 Abe Greenwald of Commentary magazine tweets:
Is there any chance that Mark Steyn won’t use the Italian captain
fleeing the sinking ship as the lead metaphor in a column on EU collapse?
Oh, dear. You’ve got to get up early in the morning to beat me to
civilizational-collapse metaphors. Been there, done that. See page 185 of my
most recent book, where I contrast the orderly, dignified, and moving
behavior of those on the Titanic (the ship, not the mendacious Hollywood
blockbuster) with that ma... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 By J. Robert Smith
You've got to hand it to liberals. They stick to a script. On the
contraception-Catholic Church flap, the script is that most Catholic women
favor contraception (and, one guesses, abortion-inducers). Ergo, the
Catholic Church should buckle under and accept President Obama's mandate.
Conscience and religious liberty (and a little thing called the 1st
Amendment) just don't stack up against what a majority of Catholic women
want -- or what liberals say they want. You know, v... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 February 1, 2013 | by Warner Todd Huston
Texas’ newest Senator, Republican Ted Cruz, has launched a Cruz missile
right at Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the threatening letters the mayor
sent to several American banks because they do business with American gun
manufacturers. Cruz advises the banks not to be bullied by the Windy City
Mayor’s bluster.
On January 25 Chicago Mayor Emanuel, a former Obama chief of staff, sent out
letters threatening the CEOs of the Bank of America and TD Bank Group,... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 The Death of the Family
By Mark Steyn
March 29, 2013 3:00 P.M.
Gay marriage? It came up at dinner Down Under this time last year, and the
prominent Aussie politician on my right said matter-of-factly, “It’s not
about expanding marriage, it’s about destroying marriage.”
That would be the most obvious explanation as to why the same societal
groups who assured us in the Seventies that marriage was either (a) a “
meaningless piece of paper” or (b) institutionalized rape are now insisting
it’s a univ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 Son of Washington Democrat Pleads Guilty to Raping 11-Year-Old Boy
by Jammie
The kid had a hard life. His mother died when he was young, so there’s that
excuse. Besides, with the quaint rape laws we have, who’s to say this wasn
’t just young love and he’s a victim of our puritanical judicial system?
Who are we to judge!?!?
The son of a Washington state senator has pleaded guilty to rape after a
younger boy reported a series of incidents that occurred at the lawmaker’s
home.
Lewis County ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 奥巴马说‘我们还发现买保险是件复杂的事情’。多谢分享，天才，或许在政府管理1/
6美国经济之前你该多想想”
Thus Spake Obama
The incompetence of our neo-monarchy
By Mark Steyn
t is a condition of my admission to this great land that I am not allowed to
foment the overthrow of the United States government. Oh, I signed it
airily enough, but you’d be surprised, as the years go by, how often the
urge to foment starts to rise in one’s gullet. Fortunately, at least as far
as constitutional government goes, the president of the United States is
doing a g... 阅读全帖 |
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a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 28 Quinnipiac University's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is
Regional Universities North, 13. Its tuition and fees are $46,780 (2017-18).
Quinnipiac University is located in the quaint New Haven suburb of Hamden,
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发帖数: 1 | 29 在伯克希尔哈撒韦的年度股东大会上，公司董事长兼CEO巴菲特与特斯拉CEO马斯克“杠
”上了。
巴菲特的价值投资以“护城河”理论（moat）闻名，即好的企业应有强劲的品牌或商业
模式，为竞争者设置更高的入场壁垒。但本周三的特斯拉一季报电话会上，马斯克却表
示，护城河的概念很逊（lame），也很古旧（quaint）：
“如果你对抗入侵敌人的唯一壁垒就是护城河，你坚持不了多久，真正重要的是创新节
奏，这才是保持住竞争力的核心要素。”
被问到如何看待马斯克的言论时，94岁的伯克希尔副董事长芒格率先反击称，马斯克指
“护城河老旧”恐怕只是在形容历史上真正的护城河，这是很滑稽的言论（ridiculous
），因为巴菲特也不想建设一个真的护城河做防御工事。
87岁的巴菲特表示，他承认某些行业的“护城河”被摧毁速度在最近几年加速，但相信
企业会继续想方设法保持自己的竞争优势，而且也不认为科技已经摧毁了每一个行业的
“护城河”。他表示，创新的速度确实加快，令更多企业抵挡不住竞争，却不代表现在
可以完全否定“护城河”理论：
“显然，你应该改善自己的护城河，在任何时候都捍卫自己的护城河。仍有一些非常好
的护... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 30 【 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: 读书了，警察与赞美诗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 21 17:26:50 2011, 美东)
On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk
high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their
husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may
know that winter is near at hand.
A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to
the regular denizens of Madison Square, and giv... 阅读全帖 |
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b*******u
发帖数: 481 | 31 Honda has had to take a couple of mulligans lately. When the ninth-gen 2012
Civic launch fizzled, the car got a do-over for '14, bringing much-needed
styling and powertrain upgrades. Similarly, the fourth-gen 2012 CR-V missed
the small-overlap crash-test boat, earning a "marginal" rating that nixed
its chances at the coveted Top Safety Pick ranking. It also drew criticism
for being less fun to drive than its rivals, due in part to its quaint old
five-speed automatic. The fix: a 2015 reboot, and ... 阅读全帖 |
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m****s
发帖数: 8992 | 32 This Just OUT!
Lowest price in affluent town of Englewood Cliffs in Bergen County, New
Jersey. Right across the river.
3 bed, 1 full, 1 half, 2 car garage, steps to express bus to NYC (30 minutes
to Time Square/Midtown)
priced under 600k!!! annual property tax: 5k !!!!
A PLEASURE FOR ME to show to buyers who understands 600K in E Cliffs and
appreciates 5k for a year of property tax!
traditional Republican town, currently run by progressive Democrats.
Home of CNBC, LG, UniLever (联合利华), 法拉利(US) a... 阅读全帖 |
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z****0
发帖数: 3942 | 33 Quaint = small
Charming = small or odd
Classic = dated and or small
Sparkling = no decrepit
Stunning = tasteful
Elegant = tasteful but somewhat personalized
Stunning + elegant = not so tasteful but done with expensive materials
Newly renovated = done for resale and all money was spent on apperances,
none on systems
Gleaming = polished to hide blemishes
Fresh = whitewashed |
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发帖数: 1208 | 34 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 35 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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L********r
发帖数: 758 | 36 下面的文章要读一读。
文章摘要如下：鸡头>凤尾原则是被广泛观察到的现象所支持的。同一入学新生，相比
于去与自己水平相当的大学，选择去比自己水平高很多的藤校是很不明智的。所以AA造
成对黑青年“毁人>诲人”。
如斯成立，则亚裔家长推自个的娃也须小心。如家长推了10年娃也没学会自推，那靠补
习班、凑活动经验上了藤校也是去给牛娃当分母做尾巴去了，也许不如去一州校帮助大
。学费省下来还可以投资给娃当个天使基金啥的。
发信人: yariguy (yari guy), 信区: Parenting
标 题: Re: Support Asian American students!!!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 21 10:52:51 2013, 美东)
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5352 | 37 https://kp.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl
Job Description
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Epidemiology)(Job Number: 280850)
Working for an organization with the size and resources of Kaiser Permanente
Southern California means having the potential to positively affect the
health and well-being of entire communities. That`s because each of us-from
our finance, business, and IT experts to our RNs, allied health
professionals, and physicians-shares a commitment to providing the best
... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1972 | 38 Why Netflix Is Smarter Than Its Customers
Rick Newman, On Tuesday September 20, 2011, 12:20 pm EDT
Video-rental service Netflix has provoked a consumer firestorm--and probably
a few business-school case studies--with its recent plan to split its
operations in two. Its traditional business of delivering DVDs by mail will
henceforth be known as Qwikster, while "Netflix" will be reserved for the
service that streams video over the Internet. Customers used to getting both
services bundled together w... 阅读全帖 |
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y***n
发帖数: 2318 | 39 Musk这个巨蟹男典型的善于为自己宣传，以及在别人都不看好的情况下，执迷不悟走自
己的路。
尽管中短期不看好TSLA,还是希望他能坚持下来，从而彻底革命汽车工业。
巴菲特捍卫“护城河”理论 马斯克：要开糖果店硬杠
信源：华尔街见闻｜编辑：2018-05-05｜
特斯拉CEO马斯克本周表示，“护城河”理论很古旧，创新才是保持竞争力的关键。巴
菲特则称，科技没有颠覆每一个行业的护城河，在糖果生意胜过马斯克。结果马斯克回
复道：我要开始做糖了。
在伯克希尔哈撒韦的年度股东大会上，公司董事长兼CEO巴菲特与特斯拉CEO马斯克“杠
”上了。
巴菲特的价值投资以“护城河”理论（moat）闻名，即好的企业应有强劲的品牌或商业
模式，为竞争者设置更高的入场壁垒。但本周三的特斯拉一季报电话会上，马斯克却表
示，护城河的概念很逊（lame），也很古旧（quaint）：
如果你对抗入侵敌人的唯一壁垒就是护城河，你坚持不了多久，真正重要的是创新节奏
，这才是保持住竞争力的核心要素。
被问到如何看待马斯克的言论时，94岁的伯克希尔副董事长芒格率先反击称，马斯克指
“护城河老旧”恐怕只是在形容历史上真正的护城河，... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1721 | 40 佛州GOP参议员认为EO会促进保守移民立法，而巴马也会妥协签字
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-how-the-gop
The natural instinct is to poke back — an eye for an eye. But one
Republican, at least, has a better idea. “Rather than poke him in the eye,
I’d rather put legislation on his desk,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) told me
Thursday.
The idea of Congress legislating seems quaint these days, but Flake’s
counterintuitive view is that Obama’s unilateral action will increase
pressure on the president to accept co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 221 | 41 迟到的情书（2）
Tante Sanna would bring in dishes of sweet, sweet, sticky candy,
or a great bowl of grapes or peaches, and Great-aunt Stephina would
converse gravely about happenings on the farm ,and, more rarely, of
the outer world.
桑娜阿姨每次都要端出几碟粘乎乎的南非糖果和一钵葡萄或桃子给我们吃。斯
蒂菲娜老姑总是一本正经他说些农场里的事，偶尔也谈些外边世界发生的事。
When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany
us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending
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发帖数: 1481 | 42 http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/faq.htm
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its
name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (USA)
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of gum
trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them. You can scare
them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia? (USA)
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 43 Marvel at the fiery shades of fall before they're gone:
10 best locales for leaf peeping.
Appalachian Trail (Mount Greylock): Lanesborough, Mass.
The state's highest peak offers splendid views of the Adirondacks.
Athens to Georgia/N.C. State Border: Athens, Ga.
Follow an old Indian trail to quaint villages and Georgia's first tourist
attraction.
Blue Ridge Parkway: Asheville, N.C.
A 469-mile stretch along the Appalachian chain is a favorite autumnal drive.
Killington: Killington, Vt.
Ride |
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发帖数: 53 | 44 Beautiful 3-beds end unit townhouse -- perfect location, 10 score schools.
In a very nice complex.
1.5 bath, fireplace, basement, washer and dryer included.
Unit features: an open kitchen design, hardwd flrs, formal fireplaced living
rm overlooking a charming coutryd, skylighted MBR with 1/2 bath and large
double closets. Large basement laundry/storage roomm with washer and drier.
A deeded parking space steps from the rear door!
Heat, hot water, snow removal, landscaping included
Lincoln Element... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 164 | 45 Essex Steam Train & Riverboat's 2½-hour journey begins at the
historic 1892 Essex Station for a 12-mile, narrated round-trip into the
heart of the unspoiled Connecticut River Valley - designated "one of the
last great places on earth" by the Nature Conservancy.
The steam locomotive pulls vintage coaches at 20 mph through the
quintessential New England towns of Deep River and Chester. The picturesque
countryside includes pristine meadows, a quaint farm, a millpond with
waterfall, and trest... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 164 | 46 Essex Steam Train & Riverboat's 2½-hour journey begins at the
historic 1892 Essex Station for a 12-mile, narrated round-trip into the
heart of the unspoiled Connecticut River Valley - designated "one of the
last great places on earth" by the Nature Conservancy.
The steam locomotive pulls vintage coaches at 20 mph through the
quintessential New England towns of Deep River and Chester. The picturesque
countryside includes pristine meadows, a quaint farm, a millpond with
waterfall, and trest... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 893 | 47 Boston, General: Costs outweigh the benefits - 7/8/2007
Boston is like the old verse about the little girl whose hair curled down in
the middle of her forehead: “When she was good she was very, very good,
and when she was bad she was horrid.” As in the case of that little girl,
many of Boston’s good points are really nice, while the negatives are
pretty bad. A picturesque setting where a river makes a wide sweep into a
bay; a location two hours’ drive or less from beaches, mountains, and lakes
;... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 289 | 48 i'd recommend staying in door county instead of greenbay. if you like
camping, peninsular state park is your best choice. you'd have to reserve
months in advance for july/august but it's still early in the season so
worth a try. or stay in any of the quaint tourist towns north of egg harbor.
many things to do from all kinds of outdoor/water activities to art gallery,
theatre, winery tours... you really have to stay 2 or more nights to enjoy
what it has to offer |
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发帖数: 4761 | 49 SEAL BEACH, Calif. — A gunman opened fire Wednesday in a busy Southern
California hair salon, killing eight people and critically wounding another.
Seal Beach police Sgt. Steve Bowles said two of three victims who were
transported to a hospital in critical condition died.
The other six victims died at the scene, where bodies lay scattered
throughout the business in a normally sedate beach community.
The gunman, whose name was not released, got into a white truck and drove
away from Salon Merita... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 173 | 50 旅游玩商
Deamtrips.com:
Orange County includes some of the most celebrated zip codes in America,
where world-class theme parks, havens for the rich and famous, and some
superb Southern California coastline converge in sumptuous style. The cities
of Irvine, Santa Ana and Anaheim are packed with historical and cultural
attractions, from Santa Ana’s quaint-but-fascinating Heritage Museum of
Orange County to big-time tourist magnets such as Disneyland® in
Anaheim and Knott’s Berry Farm® in Bue... 阅读全帖 |
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