b***y
发帖数: 14281 | 1 哈哈，英国小将的想法说法和本版小将简直是一模一样啊，老将们快来反驳吧。
...
The words “election” and “democracy” have become synonymous. We have
convinced ourselves that the only way to choose a representative is through
the ballot box. After all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948
states as much: “The will of the people shall be the basis of the
authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and
genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall
be held by secret vote or b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 2 This is a wonderful essay and a necessary one. But I just want to add that
much of it can be summed up by one of Marx's most important diagnoses of the
capitalism:
Capitalism is a system that is based on the exchange value of objects--the
price of a good within the market--rather than their use value, or what that
object contributes to the flourishing of an individual or community. And
this veneration of exchange value over use value is, in fact, one way to
define capitalist ideology, a kind of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 3 诺贝尔奖爆露最大丑闻，真相浮出
诺贝尔医学奖项爆露最大丑闻，把奖项给了残害无数生灵，残害人类的日本骗子科学家
。这是人类历史上最悲哀的时刻。我所有的研究都揭示癌症，老年痴呆，糖尿病现阶段
广泛地流行，是日本人几十年孜孜不倦刻意造成的，是一种人造的疾病。他们给亿万的
生灵造成了终生的痛苦，他们应该被送上反人类的法庭去审判，而不是被奖赏。他应该
被逮捕，交代日本人是用什么样的手段伤害全世界无辜的人群的，如何制造癌症，老年
痴呆，糖尿病患者的。如何通过这些人体实验，给医药公司攫取了大量的财富。今年的
获得者是Yoshinori Ohsumi. 查看了一下去年的获得者，竟然也有个日本凶手Satoshi
Omura. 他的研究更是惨不忍睹，他的一生就是罪恶的一生，不知道害死了多少无辜的
人。只有中国的获得者是无辜的，值得敬佩的，以身献身科学的。说到底，如果不是这
些可恨的美国人，日本人传播这些寄生虫，我们的科学家也不用有那么多的牺牲来攻克
这些难题。有一天，我睡在沙发上，发现有人刺进了我的鼻子里，不知道他们往我身上
注射了什么。为什么我知道，因为他们研究的这些东西都用在了我的身上，和我身边的
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发帖数: 4796 | 4 Retail Apocalypse: 23 big retailers closing stores
Some of the United States' most prominent retailers are shuttering
stores in recent months amid sagging sales in the troubled sector.
The rise of ecommerce outlets like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has made it harder
for traditional retailers to attract customers to their stores and forced
companies to change their sales strategies. Many companies have turned to
sales promotions and increased digital efforts to lure shoppers while
shutting down brick-an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 5 The 737 Max will eventually recover, from an engineering viewpoint.
Whether Boeing will ever recover is an entirely different question. One
could argue that Boeing doesn’t even deserve to recover.
I hate to relate this to politics. But we don’t expect truth or normalcy
from the Trump Administration. But we DO expect a venerated company like
Boeing to stand by its “commitment to safety.”
I don’t believe a word that comes from Trump. And now I don’t believe a
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发帖数: 1998 | 6 In Hong Kong more than 43,700 individuals in the city had
invested in HK$15.7 billion of "guaranteed mini-bonds"
(迷你債券) from Lehman.[49][50][51] Many claim that banks
and brokers mis-sold them as low-risk. Conversely, bankers
note that minibonds are indeed low-risk instruments since
they were backed by Lehman Brothers, which until just months
before its collapse was a venerable member of Wall Street
with high credit and investment ratings. The default of Lehman
Brothers was a low probability eve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2045 | 7 Air Force's U-2 aircraft get new lease on life
The draft of the federal budget for 2013 takes an ax to the rival Global
Hawk program. An Air Force general says the U-2, a design that dates to the
1950s, is "the stronger system."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57382692-76/air-forces-u-2-aircraft-get-new-lease-on-life/
Score one for old-school aircraft against the upstart drones.
Perhaps it's just a brief respite from the seemingly inevitable winds of
change propelling unmanned aircr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 8 MiG-21 fighter jets to fly into history
PTI | Dec 7, 2013, 08.35 PM IST
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/MiG-21-fighter-jets-to
IAF medical officers meetIAF to assemble 50 more Mi17 choppersIAF display at
Chabua air baseIAF competes 81 glorious years of serviceIAF chopper makes
emergency landing in Jammu
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: One of the first variants of the MiG 21 combat aircraft,
which dealt severe blows to Pakistan Air Force in the 1971 war, will fly
into the annals of history on Wedn... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 9 Dhammananda尊者（1919-2002， Venerable Dr K. Sri Dhammananda Nayake Maha
Thera）来自斯里兰卡，多年担任马来西亚佛教大长老。以下为达摩难陀尊者与一
位同性恋者的电子邮件通信。
尊敬的长老：
我在寻求您的指点之前，请允许我首先祝贺长老在佛教界五十年的服务，最重
要的是，祝贺您对人类进步的贡献。过去几年中，我那些同为同性恋的朋友们一直
向我提问，他们有兴趣了解佛教对同性恋的观点。在今日世界里，很难过地说，同
性恋仍然被当成是社会唾弃的对象，认为这些人不干正事，只思淫欲。这种根深蒂
固的形象造成了在工作单位上对同性恋的歧视，这在亚洲国家尤其严重。
根据我的理解，象伊斯兰教与基督教这样的宗教是谴责同性恋行为的，但是我
常常自问佛教是怎样的态度。作为一个信奉佛教的同性恋者，我在这点上并没有清
楚的了解。
我读过您许多很好的著作，也听过您的讲经，我甚至在网站上读过一些材料，
但没有这方面的答案。
我的问题如下：
1.佛教谴责同性恋吗？
2.假如一个真正的佛教徒，信奉佛教，然而同时也是一个同性恋，这算不算是破
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发帖数: 4174 | 10 Posted by Chris Geidner |
April 10, 2012 6:15 AM | Permalink
Today, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took what one of its lawyers
calls "a strategic step" in the national effort to advance marriage equality
by filing a federal lawsuit in Nevada seeking equal marriage rights for
eight same-sex couples in the state.
The lawsuit, Sevcik v. Sandoval, marks the first time that Lambda Legal has
sought equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in federal court,
although a staff attorney ... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 11 “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of
others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means
you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the
past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who
resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the
Russian Communists came very close to us in their metho... 阅读全帖 |
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b*d
发帖数: 161 | 12 摘要：虽然我们更喜欢老马的经济政策，可是巴马更能build consensus，作为一个宪法教授更懂得限制总统权力，以及有更好的领导素质。
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-endorse19-2008oct19,0,5966124.story
It is inherent in the American character to aspire to greatness, so it can
be disorienting when the nation stumbles or loses confidence in bedrock
principles or institutions. That's where the United States is as it prepares
to select a new president: We have seen the government take a stake in
venerable private financial houses; we have witnessed eig |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 By Bruce Thompson
President Obama's call for an increase in "STEM" (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics) majors is an acknowledgement of the
proliferation of what British education minister Margaret Hodge infamously
called Mickey Mouse degrees. Given the well-established Disney empire of
theme parks, it might be forgotten that the term "Mickey Mouse" first
entered the public mind as a dysphemism based on his famous star turn as the
Sorcerer's Apprentice in the Disney film Fantasia... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 Look--nothin' up my sleeve, presto! In a typical exercise of Old Media "
ethics," Vogue erased from the Internet its embarrassing puff piece on the
wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
In 2011, to much international derision, Vogue published "The Rose of the
Desert," a puff piece on Asma al-Assad, the wife of the dictator.
Unfortunately for Vogue, almost immediately after the piece was published
that February, the whole Assad facade began to crumble in a most precipitous
way as the revolts a... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 Mark Steyn轰奥巴马的自动减支宣传：2007年的美国联邦政府开支比现在低40%，仅仅5
年之后，那多出来的40%就变成了对大众福祉来说一点不能减少了？
Sequestageddon
By Mark Steyn
March 1, 2013 5:00 P.M.
A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter announced that she was bored of American
politics and was spending her days watching Turner Classic Movies. I confess
that, when it comes to Beltway melodrama, I too am fighting vainly the old
ennui, and minded to plump up the pillows and settle back with a bucket of
bonbons and a beribboned Shih-tzu for an all-night Norma Shearer marat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 16 An aspect of the kudzu-like expansion of Sharia is the takeover by Muslims
of prayer rooms in international airports.
Here in Hong Kong, a prayer room, officially nondenominational, is located
in Terminal 1 of the Hong Kong airport, and another is located in Terminal 2
. Each “non-denominational” prayer room supports Mohammedism, to the
detriment of all other religions.
The Terminal 1 prayer room has an Islam-required washup area. It is a
permanent installation. There is a similar permanent inst... 阅读全帖 |
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p********r
发帖数: 176 | 17 The one great service of Donald Trump's extended peregrinations on
immigration policy is to have demonstrated how, in the end, there's only one
place to go.
You can rail for a year about the squishy soft, weak-kneed and stupid
politicians who have opened our borders to the wretched refuse of Mexico.
You can promise to round them up -- the refuse, that is, not the politicians
(they're next) -- and deport them. And that may win you a plurality of
Republican primary votes.
But eventually you have t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 18 Now comes the AP’s gender rewrite. In a series of tweets on Tuesday
explaining the changes first promulgated earlier this year, the AP’s
editors contended that “gender refers to a person’s social identity, while
sex refers to biological characteristics” and admonished writers to “
avoid references to being born a boy or girl.” The venerable news agency
also endorsed the language- and prose-disfiguring use of “they/them” as a
singular pronoun. It even left open the door to more exotic made-up pro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4964 | 19 #1: 2013 Toyota FJ Cruiser
The Toyota FJ Cruiser manages to be both more pleasant and more rugged than
one might guess, and offers better predicted resale value than any other
2013 model.
Resale Value
at 36 months: 76.0%
at 60 months: 63.0%
#2: 2013 Toyota Tacoma
A 10-time Best Resale Value Award winner, the Toyota Tacoma is both the
resale value and sales leader of the competitive mid-size pickup segment.
Resale Value
at 36 months: 70.3%
at 60 months: 57.0%
#3: 2013 Jeep Wrangler
Today’s Jeep W... 阅读全帖 |
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B*Z
发帖数: 7062 | 20 http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/ford-ranger-just-beat-toyota-hilu
favorite-1668955068/+pgeorge
The mighty Toyota Hilux, venerated as the ultimate unkillable work truck th
e world over, has been passed as the best selling 4x4 in South Africa for th
e first time in 34 years. The 2015 Ford Ranger, about to be redesigned to ma
tch the new Ford Everest, has taken the region's top spot.
How Do You Sell Pickup Trucks In Asia? Toyota Says 'Insane Dance Video'
In Mother 'Murica, you sell pickup trucks with... 阅读全帖 |
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s******t
发帖数: 1956 | 21 我认为“最佳”菜车的候选车型， （注意是最佳菜车，不是菜车），要满足下面几个
基本条件：
1） Truecar上报价under 30k，这是指不加options的价格。
2） 安全。iihs所有安全测试必须优良(G) .
3） 0~60mph提速7.5秒以内。
4） 有可靠的历史数据。同样车型至少存在了10年。
5） 有plus，越多越好。
我这里给个例子：
Subaru Forest 2.0XT premium
1) Truecar Price：under 28K
2) IIHS测试：全优(G)
3) 0~60mph: 6.1s （ZEROto60times数据， 2014model）
4）至少11年历史。Turbocharged XT version was first released in ＵＳ in 2004
。However, the same model had been available since the late 1990s elsewhere
in the world.
5）Plus: Symmetrical All-W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3613 | 22 2015 Volkswagen Golf GTI
0-60mph 6.6s
Safety rating All G
Fuel Economy: 25 / 34
Base MSRP $24,785
History: first version of Golf GTI was produced in 1974.
Taut, agile and quick, the latest version of Volkswagen's venerable hot
hatch is fun to drive and so much more. |
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发帖数: 1 | 23 https://youtu.be/3P1JrTe24AY
It would be a mistake to count out the internal-combustion engine as
yesterday's technology, soon to expire in a puff of exhaust gas.
Electrification is coming, but meanwhile engineers have offered more
innovation for the venerable gas engine in the last three years than they
did in the previous 20. The result is 40 mpg on the highway, from four-
cylinder power plants with the same performance as older V-6s or even V-8s.
Achates Power typifies the new thinking. Its t... 阅读全帖 |
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 26 实在不想继续听Bose 901了，想换一对稍好一点的音箱。 以下是几种2.1的选则，想请
有经验的给拿个主意。
B＆W 685
B＆W CM5
Sonus Faber Venere 1.5
685 和 CM5都在Bestbuy 听过了，可能他们没链接好，觉得两者差别不大。 世霸的只
听了2.5，确实很好，但是不知道他家的1.5和CM5比怎样，毕竟比CM5便宜几百。
1500的预算还可以买一对B＆W 683落地箱，也听过了，感觉明显比685中低音更有
detail，但是和世霸的2.5比差距还是很明显的。纠结啊，是买一对便宜的先听着呢，
还是攒点钱，直接上世霸的2.5。
房间不大，感觉落地箱有点占地方，又觉得1500买对CM5 不见得会比683的效果好。主
要听blues，classics，偶尔也想听点pop，哪个选择比较兼顾呢？sale说世霸很好，但
是别用来听90年以后的。
国内一叫 秋叶原 的音箱线怎么样，有用过的吗？
求拔草！ 谢啦。 |
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发帖数: 16048 | 27 venere新出来的 第一次开始made in china 还不知道情况 |
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 28 说来惭愧了，三年前一朋友说国内Bose 901 卖的比较火，硬是要从这里背一对回去
，陪他到Bose的店里听了一下901，觉得不错后来也买了一对。那时候Bestbuy里面还没
有BW的音箱，要是有的话绝对不会在Bose身上交学费。 当时买的功放就是照着901的需
要买的。
我的音乐基本上都是笔记本里的FLAC，接了一个creative 的 USB 声卡，用声卡的
toslink连接 一台 HK 3490 receiver，上面连着901和一台 velodyne 的 12寸 sub。
我觉得就这个功放，买太好的箱子都白瞎了，也就685， 683之流听听动静算啦。 要是
能把901出掉的话，换台Marantz 的
PM6004， 可能还值得买一对 Venere 1.5或者 CM5之类的听听。你们说的好多牌子我都
还是第一次听说，有时间得找个dealer试听一下。 |
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发帖数: 672 | 29 瞄着书架箱盯了一个多月了，Sonus Faber venere 1.5 没地方听，还是没敢下手，最
后还是定了一对儿 B&W CM5， 周五提货。还有两天，怎么也等不及了啊。 |
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 30 我对音响是外行，基本上处于对比一下每公斤多少钱的水平。入B&W而没有选择别的牌
子的原因说来很WS，因为B&W用的是铝合金和kevlar，心想是不是会比fabric dom 和各
种塑料扬声器更耐用一点呵呵。。。Sales说Venere不适合听90年以后的东西，这一点
让我没敢下手，因为我偶尔还想听一听dubstep之类的，等我今天把东西拉回家听几天
再来写感想呵呵。 |
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j***k
发帖数: 2719 | 32 你是在哪里啊？BB应该不会有好的听音环境，而且喇叭都是切换的，而不是功放直接接
的。换根喇叭线音质就差很多，不要说切换了。
应按找个好HIFI店，仔细听听。。
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t********s
发帖数: 1534 | 33 Sonus faber应该是不错的，kevlar单元的声音对我来说太硬了
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8 |
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发帖数: 2719 | 34 SF的东西我也一直很喜欢。
就是觉得这个BB店里的功放太一般了。DENON，MARANTZ，MCINTOSH其实背后的老板是同
一个，发现MARANTZ，５步之内必有MCINTOSH。有时候你觉得喇叭差不多也可能是功放
的限制。就像法拉力跑车开在长岛高速上，不一定可以跑得比COROLLA快多少。限速是
５５M，TRAFFIC再能让你慢个１０－２０M。。。但就凭次，我们也不能说法拉力和
COROLLA差不多。因此DEMO，和如何地DEMO是很重要的。 |
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L*****k
发帖数: 13042 | 35 SF的东西算好推的了。
receiver我都用过，稍微調一下EQ就不错了。 |
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j***k
发帖数: 2719 | 36 I know.. SF is good with pretty much any amp... but, B&W 804D is not..
that was my point... |
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 37 原来如此，怪不得他们不卖Rotel，NAD的东西。
应该说是一辆没见过的车和法拉利在一条不认识的路上飚车，结果不相上下。如果天天
只走这条路，结果还是有参考价值的。
So how to get the performance out of the extra 5500 dollars invested in the
804D?
Spend another 10K on amps lol... |
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t********s
发帖数: 1534 | 38 10k可能多了，7，8k差不多。
the
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8 |
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h*****n
发帖数: 99 | 39 二手的话7-8K 可以买到非常好的但件了。我的观点是：正规的有历史的大厂出的东西
，LIST PRICE 一万以上的都以相当好了。所谓高下往往只是个人喜好之别。 |
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t********s
发帖数: 1534 | 40 是的，以及跟系统其他部件的搭配
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8 |
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y**i
发帖数: 357 | 41 B&W的看看能不能便宜点买到？ 我2005年买803 Nautailus只花了$3500，dealer的
demo unit。
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 42 买了个二手功放后看开了，觉得箱子大可不必买新的，越贵的越要买二手的才好。 |
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z*****d
发帖数: 672 | 43 唉其实这堆东西我觉得物有所值的就三样：DAC+MA，秋叶原的铜线 和 那台马兰士
PM15S2（craigslist 上几百块钱淘来的，三年新，遥控器丢了）。
收到DAC之前的配置：Sound Blaster X-Fi 5.1 Pro 连接到PM15S2的CD输入。 马兰士
自己有Tone control, 总体来讲声音和团购DAC的风格不一样。我感觉风格上各有千秋
，但是解析度感觉明显不同，团购DAC的效果是立竿见影的。 用DAC之前听FLAC file和
MP3差别不是很明显，但是现在后悔没多下点儿Flac音乐了。
至于音箱，我觉得CM5比Sonus Faber venere 2.0还是要差点，确实乐感不足。要是搞
影院CM5绝对出彩，用这套设备看好声音很不错。听音乐，也就能听听jazz了。
整体效果和HD650 + Headroom 的 micro DAC+AMP 对比，有DAC之前音箱能达到耳机70%
的解析度，当然音场感觉更大，乐感上650略好于箱子，可是现在觉得这套耳机已经彻
底没有任何优势了。 |
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发帖数: 587 | 45 呵呵省略的我这挠心呀，大大多说两句吧，推荐Venere 3.0? 怎么好？ |
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c****n
发帖数: 587 | 46 这个价钱还有什么选择？本来打算感恩节去bestbuy砍价买Venere 3的，贵些买Cremona
M感觉是大提升呀？
我不是发烧友，平时一半时间听听pop,blues,classic,一半时间看电影。世霸也是版上
的朋友推荐的，因为我不打算上低音炮。 |
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c****n
发帖数: 587 | 48 venere是挺垃圾的，可我预算有限呀。
我想兼顾低音，而且摆在相对开放一些的客厅，是不是落地的更合适？ |
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D*****t
发帖数: 558 | 49 I have been slowly increasing my emerging mkt exposure too (through index of
course) recently. what's wrong with state-owned enterprises? have you
considered VMMSX for actively managed EM fund? It's managed by venerable
firms with excellent one year performance since its recent inception. Small
and nimble. Its ER (.92%) is a tad rich for me to swallow though. |
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M********r
发帖数: 278 | 50 Vanguard Equity Income is a fund that focus on large cap dividend stocks and
would be a great choice to pair with Vanguard Primecap to get exposure to
large cap value and growth. I am not familiar with hartford small Cap Growth
, but Hartford is a venerable firm.
If I were you, I would either put all money in one of the Vanguard Target
Retirement Fund, or build a protfolio with VG Primecap + VG Equity Income +
Dodge and Cox International + SSGA SMID Cap + Blackrock US Debt index |
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