自由思想十诫

一、凡事不要抱绝对肯定的态度;
二、不要试图隐瞒证据,因为证据最终会被暴露;  
三、不要害怕思考,因为思考总能让人有所补益;  
四、有人与你意见相左时,应该用争论去说服他们,而不是用权威去征服,因为靠权威取得的胜利是虚幻而自欺欺人的;
五、不用盲目地崇拜任何权威,因为你总能找到相反的权威;  
六、不要用权力去压制你认为有害的意见,因为如果你采取压制,其实只说明你自己受到了这些意见的压制;  
七、不要为自己持独特看法而感到害怕,因为我们现在所接受的常识都曾是独特看法;  
八、与其被动地同意别人的看法,不如理智地表示反对,因为如果你信自己的智慧,那么你的异议正表明了更多的赞同;
九、即使真相并不令人愉快,也一定要做到诚实,因为掩盖真相往往要费更大力气;  
十、不要嫉妒那些在蠢人的天堂里享受幸福的人,因为只有蠢人才以为那是幸福。
——伯特兰德.罗素——

2009年3月21日星期六

一万亿美元有多少?

http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/visualizing-one-trillion-dollars/

 

It's official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all.

One trillion dollars; it's a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar bills laid end to end would reach the sun or you spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years or one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778 Argentinosauruses (the largest known dinosaur). Fanciful as this may be, the real story behind one trillion dollars is in its economic impact. Let's investigate what one trillion dollars can do.

For more personal finance visualizations see: WallStats.com

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