Can we be Jersey?

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bermuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

意外的，世界這樣的國家，也不在少數。而且還是在查GDP時發現的，個個名列前茅。然後很多都是英國搞出來的。 XD

我們可以成為聖馬利諾，安道爾或是Jersey嗎？
其實國家本來就是個虛妄的由極少數的人類所創造，再強迫大家接受的名詞。人們所需要的只是美好的生活，和親人朋友一起，這樣而已。

Estonia GDP in PPP is around 19,692 and we are 30,687 ranked 25th on the 2006 census.
We are a independent country in all aspects. I am so sick of all the 無意義爭辯定義意識型態耍嘴皮子。
how can it be so hard, to declare the most basic identity, proudly tell the world who I am and where I am from?

Ubuntu 7.10 加 Windows Vista，超華麗雙重開機

Mobile01 本站新聞:

給Ubuntu一個機會吧！
當一件東西太過出名，就會有人刻意不去用它，通常並不是因為東西不好，而是它們的粉絲太煩人了，像Apple、Sony、哈波利特等等，(I cannot agree more with it...those annoying apple fans)有點怕 Ubuntu也快步上後塵了。我並不想讓自己聽起來像Linux的盲目崇拜者，我認同並尊重Ubuntu的理念，但不會認為用Windows的就是枯燥無 聊穿西裝的白痴（不然就罵到自己了）。 Ubuntu還有許多地方要加強，很多是整個Linux社群和軟硬體廠商要一起努力的，大家不妨給Ubuntu、給眾多Linux一個機會， Mandrake、Fedora、SUSE都很好用，也都內建Compiz Fusion，越多使用者就越能鼓勵他們改進，反正它們好玩、免錢又漂亮。就算不想灌也沒關係，至少記住這些名字並留下「Linux也可以被一般人接受」 的印象。

隨著Ubuntu 7.10的釋出，Mark Shuttleworth也宣佈8.04版（代號Hardy Heron），從版號就知道將在2008年四月推出，這版的重要性是它會掛上LTS（Long Term Support），上一個LTS版已經是久遠的6.06版了。LTS代表官方會有三年的更新支援，而非一般的18個月，Ubuntu每半年就改版一次，三 年的支援是很大的承諾，通常只有非常穩定、最佳化的版本才會掛LTS，7.04和7.10都還在實驗一些新技術，8.04將會是集大成之作。用一句老話做 結尾，讓我們拭目以待吧！

Ubuntu, Mark Shutterworth and software development jardons

Mobile01 本站新聞: "萬眾期待，Ubuntu 7.10終於出了！先不要往下看，趕快去抓ISO檔比較重要（抓 PC (Intel x86) desktop CD 版本就好了），別錯過這個目前網路上話題性最高的Linux了～～"

Mark Shuttleworth - Google 搜尋
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自由軟體技術交流網 -: "XOOPS 2.0.17.1 正體中文 Big5 版 (20071017-1)

2007/10/20

the futurist - 奈恩比(John Naisbitt) - China
BBC 中文網 | 中國報導 | 科學發展觀正式寫入中共黨章
江澤民的三個代表？

中國人將書寫怎樣的未來﹖世界期待中國精彩答卷
這也太噁了吧 通篇沒有一句公正的話只是歌功頌德的形容詞堆砌
看了眼睛好痛 @@(吐) 真後悔看了他...

《包立德專欄》 把咖啡大眾化進行到底 | 專欄 | cnt.reuters.com

非洲小國 六代國王遭咒死

世界日報──國際新聞:

"非洲小國 六代國王遭咒死

【本報綜合電訊報導】奈及利亞北部境內一個回教小王國，不知受何詛咒，六代國王都「坐不穩」，大多登基不到一周就蒙主寵召。現時王子為保命不爭王位，將來王阿媽登天後由妹妹繼位。

被詛咒的小王國叫做Kumbwada，只有約50萬人口，現時由女王哈迪莎統治。55歲的她在位九年仍「很健康」，看來咒語只會「咒死」男性統治者。她說：「我的父親嘗試打破這宿命，但他失敗了。他在登基首周突然病倒，嚴重得要退位就醫，三周後就死了。」

當地人相傳，詛咒與村中一塊大石頭有關，可是所有去調查的人都一去不返，令傳說更恐怖。

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中國、印度生產生物燃料可能加劇用水短缺 | 亞洲 | cnt.reuters.com

中國、印度生產生物燃料可能加劇用水短缺 | 亞洲 | cnt.reuters.com:

路透奧斯陸10月11日電（記者Alister Doyle）---國際水管理研究院(IWMI)周四發表報告稱，中國和印度利用人工灌溉的玉米和甘蔗製造生物燃料的計劃可能會加劇用水短缺，並危及糧食生產。

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At first when i read the title, I want to scream - heeey, hands off from my food! Don't you know that you do not even have enough food for your people to eat. Give up the stupid plan first promoted by the unthoughtful westerners.

But keep reading, I found there's surely a problem. They want to lower the dependence on those countries exporting gasoline and also reduce the greenhouse gas emission. But ... biofuel is definitely not for you, those who have poor, hungry people more than half of the population.

We are people who wants to be God. We found we are run out of sources, we want to find some way to solve, we thought we got it.

But again, we only find again how stupid we are and fragile in God's hand. The wealth goes to some very small group of people, the destruction is what most people gonna take, as it always is.

The acquisition of ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
荷蘭銀行千億美元交易立下里程碑: "M&A Milestone: $101 Billion Deal For ABN Amro"

這件事總給我一種很奇妙的感覺，尤其是在今天，當一切終於塵埃落定之後。

銀行/金融業是我應該永遠不會喜歡的東西，尤其看這個事件，心中浮現的想法是，銀行就跟無臉怪一樣嘛，不停吞吃其他弱小的金融機構藉以長成巨大的怪物。

請看看這一段，"RBS將得到荷銀的投資銀行和企業金融業務，以及在亞洲的據點；Fortis拿到財富和資產管理部門；義大利和巴西分行則進入Santander 的口袋中。RBS企金業務大為增加，使它在商業銀行領域，變成英國和歐陸第1大，美國及亞洲第5大。裁員無可避免，大約1.9萬人得打包回家。"
一整個就是活人生吃阿，一群豺狼組個隊來狩獵，你吃手我吃腳，挖掉心臟再配個頭，ABN AMRO到底是怎樣在一年內歷經史上最大的銀行購併戰爭，和牽涉無數的國家規定法令爭議終於走到這一步的呢？
ABN AMRO曾經是AIESEC的驕傲阿...總而言之就是感覺很奇妙

Deal Journal - WSJ.com : The $101 Billion Lessons of ABN Amro
看到這個標題我笑了，現在是流行什麼都要寫個billion lessons嗎？
EBays Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype 這世界阿...
次級房貸和經濟衰退促進了購併風潮嗎？

BBC 以2.03億美元買下Lonely Planet

Taiwan.CNET.com : 新聞專區 : 網路通訊 : BBC 以2.03億美元買下Lonely Planet
CNET新聞專區：綜合外電　　02/10/2007

英國國家廣播電台旗下的商業部門BBC Worldwide以1億英鎊（相當於2.03億美元）買下Lonely Planet公司。

BBC週一表示，Lonely Planet創始人 Maureen 與Tony Wheeler將保留25%股權。
這對佳偶當初是在倫敦 The Regent's Park公園板凳上相遇，之後以「一輛老爺車、幾塊錢，加上一點冒險精神」歷經一次亞洲蜜月之旅後，便在1972年成立了專門以旅遊指南為主的出版社。

Wheelers在一份新聞稿中表示，「加入BBC Worldwide可讓我們的公司得以在一個全球知名媒體下繼續生存。」

Lonely Planet總部位於澳洲墨爾本，出版超過500多種旅遊指南。該公司目前有500多位員工，以及多達300位的旅遊作家。

BBC Worldwide執行長John Smith表示，這樁交易可協助BBC成為「全球領先的內容事業」。Smith表示，該公司希望能擴大線上品牌，並增加北美與澳洲的業務。

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What happened exactly with Skype in the past one year, after I left?

• At Skype, Nightmare (almost) before Christmas « GigaOM

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 3:40 PM PT
Comment:
" One need not look farther than Apple and the Spindler years to see what happens to a successfully disruptive “tech” company when it’s taken over by “Marketing” folks.

When I first heard that Skype was being aquired by eBay, I was willing to give it time to see what came of the acquisition; I haven’t been disappointed yet. I only hope that Skype continues to improve it’s client programs and network as it has in the past year.

Good luck Neo-Skype, if you fail where you’ve risen, I’m more than sure someone will be there to pick up the pieces…

(See Napster –> Kazaa, Spindler-Apple –> Jobs-Apple, SuprNova –> The Pirate Bay, for “torch grabbing” details)

Ian Horner on December 1st, 2006 at 8:43 am - # "

" Hmmm…

This is just a hunch, but I would guess that the pre-acquisition fire-ees are being scraped up off the London sidewalks right about now, if their buddies haven’t already tossed them into tart-filled private limos for the ride home (tart = hooker). As for the poor sods who joined Skype after the deal thinking they were joining a dynamic web 2.0 powerhouse, and then got fired a few weeks or months into the job, I guess they’ll be telling their kids “it’s scientific experiments for the lot of you”.

Suds McKenzie on November 29th, 2006 at 11:18 pm - # "

• Who’s Skype’s Daddy? Niklas Of Course « GigaOM

Friday, December 15, 2006 at 10:08 AM PT

• Skype Announces Senior Management Changes - About Skype:

Luxembourg, December 15th, 2006 – Skype today announced two key personnel changes. Alex Kazim, Skype’s President, will be leaving Skype in January to return to eBay. Kazim, an 8-year eBay veteran, joined Skype immediately following eBay’s acquisition of the company 14 months ago. He was responsible for product development and innovation at Skype and reported to Niklas Zennström, Skype’s Chief Executive Officer.

• Taiwan.CNET.com : 新聞專區 : 網路通訊 : Skype大斷訊：享受免費得忍受一點小瑕疵

2007/8/21

• Static On Skype, Zennstrom Quits « GigaOM

Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:58 AM PT

"Skype’s business model (is)was fundamentally flawed.

Adding subscribers will constantly reduce calls that generate revenue and if everyone in the world were to get skype, it will have zero revenue.

There is a critical point beyond which having to maintain infra-structure costs a lot more than revenues. With 220 Million accounts, my calculation says that Skype reached that point a while ago !!

Most businesses would love hockey stick growth, skype would collapse even if it hit halfway!

The management & VCs sold out at a good time.

As PT Barnum said .. there is sucker born every minute.

Satish Sharma on October 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pm - #"

• EBays Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

October 1, 2007, 1:19 pm
"Here’s a suggestion to every Internet executive: take a Post-It note, write “EBay wasted $3 billion on Skype” and stick it to your monitor. Stare at it the next time some hot social whatever-2.0 company comes by and talks about growing fast and finding a revenue model later."

• EBay Revises Its Ambitions for Skype - New York Times:

“Right after the bust, people started focusing on business models and revenue,” said Greg Sterling, a Silicon Valley analyst and consultant. “There has been a little bit of departure on that, with a focus on building the biggest audience and figuring that revenues will follow. That is the attitude that has prevailed over the last couple years, and it may not be sound.”

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I am wondering a issue which may trouble the investors and CEOs for long - how to evaluate a company?
Skype is where the employees are happy, kind of techie geek atmosphere. But when it comes to Wall Street and San Jose, people only care about one thing - profit.
When people do what they like, being happy, they are able to do the right thing. 大手和過於天真的小朋友，接下來的結局會是什麼呢？
因為有恩所以不能輕易說些什麼，我是一個小小小員工也未必可能做什麼，或了解其上的大人物們混亂的是什麼。
也許現在有點事後諸葛的意味，但或許當初的感覺的確正確，我喜歡其上摘錄的評論"One need not look farther than Apple and the Spindler years to see what happens to a successfully disruptive “tech” company when it’s taken over by “Marketing” folks."
Skype那種歐陸Tech guy的自由氣氛，和eBay美國的那種零售業威勢確實難以相容吧。
事後想想，從2006.9起暴增的離職信，eBay的人帶來的，親切卻不容反抗的命令，都是sign吧。
我無法說我愛Skype，但是的確在那裡度過很快樂的時光，就算最後覺得沮喪不堪。

真奇怪我居然就這樣斷了線什麼都不知道，還是基層的小員工也不用關心上層的變動跟紛擾？

現在，大家不知道怎麼樣了呢？

WSJ, NY TIMES

華爾街日報 管美國的人在看

2007/08/01 【聯合報╱編譯陳世欽／報導】
以下這則笑話流傳已久：華爾街日報是實際在管美國的人看的報紙；紐約時報是自認為在管美國的人看的；華盛頓郵報是自認應該管美國的人看的，波士頓環球報則是老爸老媽曾經管美國的人看的。
無論這則笑話是真是假，華爾街日報的確舉足輕重，這也是該報買給梅鐸一事在美國引發莫大關切的主因。它擁有廣大的讀者群，其中包括全美的經濟與政治菁英。
平面媒體的影響力因網路蓬勃發展而大不如前，華爾街日報卻繼續提供重要的公共服務。哥倫比亞大學新聞學研究所副所長艾琳‧摩根表示：「即使不是第一，華爾街日報也是全美最優質的報紙之一。」
華爾街日報的傳統報紙發行量與網友點閱次數合計超過二百萬分（次），高居全美第二，僅次於今日美國報。逾四分之三的華爾街日報讀者擁有大學學歷，家庭年平均收入超過廿三萬美元，高於今日美國報與紐約時報的讀者。
華爾街日報擁有一群腰纏萬貫的讀者，每逢周五都會刊出私人噴射機、名貴手錶、豪宅、農場的廣告。曾任華爾街日報記者的史塔克曼表示：「華爾街日報之於華爾街與資本市場，正如紐約時報之於白宮、國務院及美國政界。它是最權威的監督者。」
【2007/08/01 聯合報】

Engadgetオフライン東京、10月4日にGoogle渋谷オフィスで開催決定 - Engadget Japanese

Engadgetオフライン東京、10月4日にGoogle渋谷オフィスで開催決定 - Engadget Japanese: "Posted Oct 1st 2007 5:25AM by kentaro"

Google很認真的拉攏日本市場呢。
好酷，我也想去shibuya office玩。

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Burma: How should the world react?

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Burma: How should the world react?:
"Added: Thursday, 27 September, 2007, 19:58 GMT 20:58 UK
'Evil happens when good men go nothing'. Go and make a cup of Indian tea, and watch people die on your Chinese plasma TV.

Colin Harrison, London England

Recommended by 13 people"

Cry for Burma

怒

中國政府真的很無恥

一方面擺出開發中國家的弱者姿態向以開發國家尋求援助，像是二氧化碳排放問題，鼓動國內的民眾，說自己受到西方強權的壓迫

一方面卻又拿出世界強權的形象杯葛有利自己的議事和議題操作

從達佛到緬甸

口口聲聲說著不干涉他國內政，國家問題自己解決，其實我懷疑那些希望中國出來主持公道的人的智商。想想也知道不可能阿！（雖然我真的很希望，真是無望的希望。哭）

1. 不干涉國內內政 －＞ 所以我的西藏台灣問題你們也別想置喙

2. 和平示威，政府對話，民主改革！ 哈哈哈哈，想要一個世上最大最流氓的專制體系間接直接支持這件事，真是笑掉我的大牙，哪有政府會搬石頭砸自己的腳，反正大部中國人對於國際議題也不關心，也感受不到這樣的權力嗎？

這世界就是這樣吧（哭）反正是沒有利用跟經濟價值的國家，盧安達、蘇丹、緬甸，別人的生命與我何干？於是安理會沈默了，美國、歐洲、中國繼續放放無關痛癢的漂亮場面話。這樣跟第二次世界大戰前的國聯有何差別！！！僵化的議事，分歧的觀點，永無止盡的討論。

其實我也曾想過，干涉國內暴行的這件事。世界的事情大多是不可逆反應，也不是在獨立環境下進行的實驗，一旦受到外國勢力的介入，在人是自利的這個大前提之下，可能會有很多更鳥的恐怖事情接連而來，但對現在正在受苦的人來說，改變和漫長的絕望相比，還是一個想要接受的選項吧。

丁丁大站的故事

「無名小站被Yahoo奇摩買下」告訴ch543兩大重點： - BSP評析 - 543部落格: "ch543 's blog Powered By F2blog v1.2 build 03.01 CopyRight 2006 - 2007 XHTML | CSS | Archiver"

Blog.XDite.net » 無名小站告訴我們的是什麼？

丁丁大站到底幹了哪些好事? « Mr./Ms. Days - 網路, 資訊, 觀察, 生活: "Posted by Mr. Friday"

笑吧，笑有出頭天 - 無名小站的過去、現在、與未來

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10/9/2007 12:30:12 PM

Taiwan.CNET.com : 新聞專區 : 企業軟體 : Yahoo總經理洪小玲：不可能做到零抱怨

補上一篇洪小玲的專訪，
只能說，官樣文章也可以官樣的誠意一點阿，看了這篇只覺得非常噁心，從本來的沒有感覺變成絕對負面，哼哼，真是好宣傳阿。以為換了一個執行長會是怎樣的人物，結果真的是，討厭到一種想要笑的感覺了。好險我從來不用他們的服務。
以為只要有爛到不行的知識就可以了嗎？
訴諸多數的作法真的是不專業的令人感到噁心，以為責任分散就可以振振有詞的說"為了大多數人的權利"？哪一個獨裁者沒說過這樣的話，看看一樣業者在做，Google, Yahoo!可有像這麼多批評排山倒海而來嗎？不好好反省自己只會講一堆屁話，真是令人心寒。

Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007

Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007

Darling you have to check this! It's super cool. And immediately identify with the complicated dazzling lovely Tokyo metro map!

Pirate Bay, Sealand, and the independence of Republic of China

正版音樂商反被BT業者提告! 全球最大BT網The Pirate Bay提告Sony, EMI,… « Mr./Ms. Days - 網路, 資訊, 觀察, 生活: "Sep 24th, 2007 by Days"

買下Sealand！BT組織Pirate Bay準備建國！？ - Engadget 癮科技: "
如 果此收購「西蘭公國」失敗的話，Pirate Bay也將會轉為購買其他小島，然後宣佈建國；言下之意就是說Pirate Bay不管能不能買下「西蘭」，這個組織就是想建國創造相當獨特的歷史紀錄，我想很多人對於「西蘭」相當陌生吧？有興趣可以跳轉，來看看「西蘭公國」的到 底有啥特殊之處。"

Bilog II: Pirate Bay 準備買島建國啦！

Pirate Bay seems to be cool並且熟知如何操作話題。No copyright, no vip account, no... a Peter Pan land for pirates? :p

Buying an island and crowning oneself is no longer impossible ( as long as you have money XD). Sealand, sorry to be offensive looks like a kuso for world history and geography. But the comment of the independence of ROC amused me much!

Municipal Wi-Fi | Reality bites | Economist.com

Municipal Wi-Fi | Reality bites | Economist.com

American cities' plans for ubiquitous internet access are running into trouble

IT WAS supposed to democratise the internet and turn America's city-dwellers into citizen-surfers. In 2004 the mayors of Philadelphia and San Francisco unveiled ambitious plans to provide free wireless-internet access to all residents using Wi-Fi, a technology commonly used to link computers to the internet in homes, offices, schools and coffee-shops. Across America, hundreds of cities followed suit. Yet many municipal Wi-Fi projects have since been hit by mounting costs, poor coverage and weak demand. This week Chicago became the first big city to abandon its plans for a city-wide network. “Everyone would like something for free,” says Chuck Haas of MetroFi, a supplier of municipal Wi-Fi systems. But the numbers do not add up.

Most city governments did not want to build or run the Wi-Fi systems themselves, so they farmed the job out to specialist firms such as EarthLink and MetroFi. These companies initially agreed to bear all expenses, expecting to sign up 10-25% of each city's population for a fee-based wireless service. In some places this was to have been supplemented by a free service at lower speed, or supported by advertising. Some cities also planned to subsidise access for poor residents.

But municipal Wi-Fi schemes have been struggling to make ends meet. EarthLink, which runs networks in Philadelphia and New Orleans, recently admitted that “the Wi-Fi business as currently constituted will not provide an acceptable return.” This week the firm said it would lay off 900 workers, including the head of its municipal Wi-Fi division, the future of which is now in doubt.

The root of the problem is that city-wide Wi-Fi, which relies on outdoor radio transmitters, does not provide good access inside buildings, since it uses weak signals which do not always penetrate thick exterior walls. Proponents of the technology also underestimated the number of transmitters that would be needed to provide blanket coverage. Most networks deployed between 2004 and 2006 used between 20% and 100% more nodes than expected, which pushed up costs.

Worse, the networks that have been completed have attracted few users. Taipei's city-wide WiFly system, the largest such network in the world, was reckoned to need 250,000 regular subscribers by the end of 2006 in order to break even, but had attracted only 30,000 by April 2007. America's biggest network, around Tempe, Arizona, was aiming for 32,000 subscribers, but had only 600 in April 2006 and has not provided figures since.

EarthLink and MetroFi have responded by asking city governments to act as “anchor tenants” and agree to spend a guaranteed sum on the service. Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon, accepted such contracts from the beginning; their Wi-Fi schemes are proceeding relatively smoothly. But most cities have balked at the change. Chicago's plans foundered when EarthLink and AT&T, the two firms bidding to build its network, demanded anchor-tenant commitments. MetroFi has lost four contracts since April after asking municipalities to subscribe upfront. The consortium planning to build a Wi-Fi network across 1,500 square miles (3,885 square km) of Silicon Valley also wants to switch to an anchor-tenant model.

One problem with the anchor-tenant approach is that few municipalities are in a position to do much with the networks. Despite vague talk about wireless parking meters and enabling building inspectors to submit reports using Wi-Fi hand-helds, most cities lack the back-office systems needed to do such things. “You're building them a better track,” says Craig Settles, a telecoms consultant, “but they don't even have running shoes yet.”

The one bright spot for municipal Wi-Fi is public safety. After the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, governments at all levels in America set about improving communications between emergency workers. Dedicated radio spectrum has been set aside, and several cities have built Wi-Fi networks to transmit images from surveillance cameras and the like. The hope is that separate systems providing internet access can piggyback on these networks, as EarthLink has done with a Wi-Fi system originally built for public-safety purposes in New Orleans. Equipment providers now make nodes that put both the necessary transmitters into a single box, making such roll-outs cheaper.

Some cities will be able to make this approach work, and may then be able to offer their residents free, or at least relatively cheap, Wi-Fi access too. But many others will not, and will have to follow Chicago in abandoning their utopian dreams of city-wide networks. With Wi-Fi, as with most things, you get what you pay for.

Two BBC producers are forced out as more vote-rigging cases emerge - Times Online

Two BBC producers are forced out as more vote-rigging cases emerge - Times Online by Dan Sabbagh and Adam Sherwin

Two senior producers were forced to quit the BBC yesterday, after the corporation admitted that producers had fixed four more audience votes and competitions.

Richard Marson, a former editor of Blue Peter, was dismissed, and Ric Blaxill, the head of programmes for the digital radio station 6 Music resigned – taking the total number of enforced departures at the broadcaster to three.

Mr Blaxill, a former Top of the Pops executive producer and creative director of Capital Radio, is the most senior of the casualties. He quit as the BBC admitted that production staff invented fictitious winners on the Clare McDonnell show and the Tom Robinson programme, both on 6 Music.

Mr Marson was forced out after the BBC also confirmed The Times’s report that producers had overruled an audience vote on the naming of the current Blue Peter cat, Socks.

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喔 真的超糟糕
我尊敬的prestigious BBC
is it the time that all values and authorities degenerate, seduced by the evil?

台灣的電視...

美國信貸風暴重創日本家庭主婦

美國信貸風暴重創日本家庭主婦

DWNEWS.COM-- 2007年9月17日5:50:36(京港臺時間) --多維新聞網"

中國時報楊明�/今年夏天﹐美國信貸危機撼動全球金融市場﹐不僅令許多專業交易商蒙受巨大損失﹐一群看似不相干的投資客也在這場危機中遭殃﹐那就是為數甚眾的日本中產階級家庭主婦。她們通常在忙完家事後﹐或趁著夜深人靜﹐透過網路進行外匯投機交易。(chinesenewsnet.com)

家住名古屋的伊藤太太便是其中之一。她不願全名曝光﹐因為她丈夫不知道這件事。每天傍晚她洗完碗盤後﹐便上網買賣英鎊和澳元。(chinesenewsnet.com)

上個月全球匯市出現動蕩﹐伊藤太太一整個禮拜沒睡﹐眼睜睜看著她的投資在市場上化為泡沫。她幾乎賠光家裡全部10萬美元積蓄。36歲的伊藤太太說﹕“我想增加我們的儲蓄﹐結果莫名其妙栽進去。”(chinesenewsnet.com)

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Pocket Surfer 2: Free mobile Internet, unbelievably fast - Crave at CNET.co.uk

Pocket Surfer 2: Free mobile Internet, unbelievably fast - Crave at CNET.co.uk