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Dodge's Kingdom11/28/2005 2005 bestsellers till Oct.the following list is the 2005 bestsellers in the first nine months in the US.
the most interesting thing is... all the pickups and SUVs in this list are made in the US while all the sedans are japanese brands. we can see the dominant power of the japanese passenger cars in the main stream american market.
the americans always love full-size pickups and SUVs so half of the list happen to be this kind of vehicles. but remember this is the bestsellers list in the first nine months of 2005. due to the skyrocketing oil price after the hurricanes beginning at the end of Aug. in the gulf coast area of the US (although the oil price has begun to decline steadily these days), this list may looks totally different next year...
the following ten pictures are the ten cars in the list. from the upper left to the lower right, vertically, they are Accord, Camry, Corolla, F-150, Silverado, Altima, Civic, Explorer, Ram, TrailBlazer. 11/20/2005 battle of trafalgarthis year is the 300th anniversary of the great victory of the battle of trafalgar. on oct. 21, 1805, under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson, the Royal Navy gained perhaps the greatest naval victory Britain has ever achieved. the results were the destruction of a large combined French-Spanish fleet that was prepared to invade England and the establishment of the dominant position of Britain on the sea. and of course it was a heavy blow to the French emperor Napoleon.
among the 33 ships in the French-Spanish fleet, 18 surrendered, the Achilles, burnt out of control. on the side of the British, only less than 2000 were dead, but the severest loss was that among the dead was Nelson, the most famous British naval hero and the commander of the British fleet, who was shot to death by a musket ball on the quarterdeck of his flagship, HMS Victory.
although the British had won numerous naval battles, but i think, only after the battle of trafalgar was Britain to be widely acknowledged as the dominant and first naval power all over the world.
i added three pictures to this passage today since there was something wrong with the internet connection yesterday so i could not upload pictures. the three pictures are death of Nelson, HMS Victory and a portrait of Admiral Horatio Nelson, respectively. 11/14/2005 nothingwow... ridiculous... i linked to my own space through a friend's page (actually that is a friend i haven't talked with for a long time). maybe i should put some new stuff into it... or i'd better wait until i finish my exam this saturday.
i think some historical stuff is just to my appetite.
why i think this passage is a little bit like a trailer... ha ha 7/30/2005 look at the BMW 130ia 6-cylinder 3.0-liter and 265 bhp engine in such a small car... BMW must be out of its mind, but... definitely a god damn fascinating car it must be...
by the way the author is in UK.
7/28/2005 a jokehere is a joke heard in eastern europe,
question: what is communism?
answer: the longest road from capitalism to capitalism.
ironic... of course, classic... today's new wordscomplacence, synonym of arrogance, somebody say it is also the same with satisfaction, but obviously the former one is much more negative than the latter one. its adjective, complacent.
complicity, denotes some persons joint committed to a crime. it shares the same meaning with conspiracy and collusion. in the oligopoly model of imperfect competition, the unfavorable things the participants of a cartel do are called collusion.
concave, antonym of convex, but how to describe them? use the mathematical approach... take the quadratic curve for instance, if a is negative, then the curve is called convex; and if a is positive, then the curve is called concave... wow, mathematics is really a god damn useful tool to pull you out of troubles...
concentric is to depict a group of circles have the same center, is an adjective.
concomitant, could be both adjective and noun. it is the same as accompanying, in conjunction with and associated with when it is adj. but the first one is much more precise, i guess. when it is noun, the meaning is manifest, something accompanying with other stuffs.
concurrent, adj, is the synonym of simultaneous and coincident.
the white, sweety and liquid stuff i usually put between two pieces of bread is called - condensed milk.
confer, just remember it doesn't noly have the meaning as bestow (confer sth on sb), but also the meaning as discuss, negotiate and something like that, confer with, so there will be a noun conference.
confide, verb, when you confide something to somebody else, you are telling him the most inner feeling of you, maybe the most secret stuff of yourself. its synonym, disclose, reveal and, much more, tell. so, when you confide to somebody, it is a exhibition of confidence.
confederate, same as ally and collaborator; whereas confederacy is the same as alliance.
congenial, this word reflects some person get along with each other quite well because of their common interest or disposition or something.
congenital, adj. be born with, just the same as innate and inborn.
connoisseur, means specialist, expert or professional. looks like a little bit weird, maybe a french word.
at last, there are some synonym of consequence, they are result, aftermath and outcome, maybe some more... just there waiting our discovery. 7/26/2005 something about the economic growththe neoclassical model of economic growth with capital accumulation says: there is a long-run steady point at which the capital-labor ratio stops growing, output per worker and real wages stagnate and, the equilibrium is reached. but where is this point? i'll try to find it.
first of all, there is a basic hypothesis of the discussion below, that is, there is no technological change along with the capital accumulation. ok, let's go...
step 1: when capital deepens, i.e. the stock of capital grows more rapidly than the labor force (K/L increases), the marginal product of this capital declines because of the law of diminishing returns. what's more, as the amount of capital per worker increases, output per worker also increases for the workers could work with more capital, what's more important is, the economy grows and it must have a ceiling point (i.e. the long-run steady state mentioned above) unless our hypothesis changes. so our task then is to find this ceiling point.
step 2: as the marginal product of the capital which is deepening declines, the return on capital decreases for the return on capital is proportional to its marginal product under perfect competition. if we use the rate of return to denote this, we could get a diminishing percentage number.
(by the way, in samuelson's <<economics>>, he explains the two steps this way: 'cause we always invest from the most worthwhile projects to the least valuable ones, so the return declines as the process of capital deepening occurs for there are less and less valuable projects available when there are more and more investments took place.)
step 3: once we get the rate of return on capital, we can compare it with the price of investments to figure out whether it is profitable or totally a loss. the yardstick we take is, of course, the market interest rate which is the price of borrowing money for investment. so, if the rate of return is higher than the market interest rate, there will be more and more investment and the capital accumulation will never stop. this will last until the rate of return falls below the market interest rate because, with the diminishing property, the rate of return will definitely falls with the process of capital deepening.
finally, we could get that equilibrium point at the place where the rate of return equals the market interest rate. hence, the so-called long-run steady state will happen when the rate of return just equals the interest rate.
p.s. we have already linked the economic growth with the market interest rate and then the financial market and the whole economy. so we can see how the economic growth and the macro economy is interconnected with each other through our analysis.
when the interest rate is low, the process of capital deepening goes... very deep, then the output per worker is high because of the relatively large amount of capital per worker which is induced by the low interest rate, so the economic growth rate is high and that is called the economic growth through capital deepening. that's also why low interest rate could stimulate the economic growth.
6/22/2005 today's new wordsrevere, is verb, a little bit like respect, but absolutely much more than respect. what's more, in the movie "patriot", mel gibson calls the priest "reverend". revolution, it also can be the noun of revolve. the earth revolves round the sun. riddle, just remember its exact meaning. rig, one of its important meanings, the same as manipulate, control, but i think it is much like manipulate. rigid, not flexible. rigorous, strict. it is often used to describe the proof in the academic areas. rinse, clean, wash, etc. rise is vi. while raise is vt. roam, so many words share the same meaning with it. they are wander, ramble, stray (it also has the meaning of lost one's way), rove, meander, gad... maybe there are still so many i haven't found.
at last, fuck the statistics... it really sucks, especially the concept part, why we must take the questions about the boring concepts in the exam? if we master the way it works, fuck the god damn boring concepts. the only purpose of our learning of such subjects is to apply it rather than just remember the concepts, then rack our brains to solve the tricky questions about the useless concepts... god damn it... 6/20/2005 today's new wordsretrieve; retort; resonance (n.); repel; renounce; renovate. repercussion, that is, bad effect. retaliate, has the same meaning as avenge, revenge & reprisal. retarded, maybe, shares the same meaning with idiot, fool, nut, etc. but it is an adjective. retrospect, its adjective, retrospective is the same as nostalgic. resent, the same as complaint and grudge. e.g. the architect resents criticism. reproach could be both noun & verb, is equal to criticize, blame, deplore & condemn. but i guess the last two may be a little bit different to reproach. repress, suppress, crack down, squash, a little more, restrain, constrain, refrain,restrict, bridle, curb, but the tone of the last six is obviously much lighter.
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