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California misses budget deadline, readies "IOUs"
联邦政府见死不救，加州政府无奈“打白条”
加州州长施瓦辛格，曾经的“终结者”
California's lawmakers failed to agree on a balanced budget by the start of its new fiscal year on Wednesday morning, clearing the way to suspend payments owed to the state's vendors and local agencies, who instead will get "IOU" notes promising payment.
The notes will mark the first time in 17 years the most populous U.S. state's government will have to resort to the unusual and dramatic measure.
原文链接
本周三早晨，在加州新财年开始的日子里，加州立法者否决了平衡政府预算赤字的请求，这样以来该州房产卖主和本地中介机构想获得政府现金清欠款的路就此被堵死，取而代之的是将得到一张“白条”。
这也标志着17年来，这个美国人口最多的州政府首次需要凭借“打白条”这种非同寻常的伎俩来解决问题。
版主点评：再酷的“终结者”也得感叹时运不济，一分钱难倒英雄汉。
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Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google
微软Bing搜索引擎扒走Google市场份额
Microsoft Corp's new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on Wednesday.
Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and 7.21 percent in April, said Internet data firm StatCounter.
Google lost share slightly, dipping to 78.48 percent from 78.72 percent before Bing. Yahoo Inc, the perennial No. 2 in the market, rose to 11.04 percent from 10.99 percent.
原文链接
周三发表的最新统计数据显示，微软公司新发布的搜索引擎Bing在投放市场的第一个月已经夺取了一定市场份额，但仍然落后于占统治地位的竞争对手Google公司。
英特网数据统计公司StatCounter表示， 6月3日正式上线运营的Bing在六月份占据了美国互联网搜索市场份额的8.23%，高于微软之前首次展示搜索引擎时的7.81%和4月份的7.21%。
Google损失的市场份额微乎其微，从Bing未发布之前的78.72%掉到现在的78.48%，而市场中的“万年老二”雅虎公司则从10.99%上升至11.04%。
版主点评：习惯了在市场上叱咤风云的微软居然为了0.4%的市场份额提升而雀跃不已，Google的强大可见一斑。
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Britain's most profitable rail line to be nationalised英国最赚钱的铁路线将收归国有
Britain's most profitable rail service will be nationalised after National Express announced it would default on its operating franchise. The East Coast Main Line, the country's busiest inter-city route, will be taken into public hands for "about a year" while a new company is found to run it.
原文链接
在National Express公司（英国最大的公路交通运输公司）宣布放弃特许经营权后，英国最具盈利性的铁路运营线路将收归国有。
东岸线（The East Coast Main Line）是英国最繁忙的城际铁路线，在有新公司接手以前，政府将运营“大约1年”。
版主点评：看到这则新闻我就在想，如果中国的铁老大也能像英国那样运营，我想“春运”，“站票”，“票贩子”这些词汇将不会那么刺耳了。
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China's Internet backdown lauded by firms, activists
企业和网民赞赏政府收回命令
China's ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as activists and industry groups welcomed an abrupt delay of the contentious plan.
The surprise climbdown was reported late on Tuesday by Xinhua news agency, which said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would "delay the mandatory installation of the controversial 'Green Dam-Youth Escort' filtering software on new computers.
Officials said the software was intended to stamp out Internet pornography, and computer companies had originally been told that from Wednesday they had to bundle "Green Dam" with any personal computers heading to stores for sale in the country.
原文链接
新闻提示：中国政府表示暂缓执行强制安装“绿坝”软件，各企业和活跃网民表示支持。
译文：
本周三，由于活跃网民和企业强烈要求推迟实施这项富有争议的计划，中国政府试图通过过滤软件来加强网络监控的雄心壮志最终演变成了表明其控制能力有限的一场闹剧。
周二，新华社最初报道了（中国政府）这个突然的让步，报道指出，工信部称“将暂缓在新装电脑上强制安装备受争议的“绿坝-花季护航”过滤软件。
官方称，这个软件旨在消除网络色情，起初，电脑公司被要求从周三起国内销售的每台个人电脑都必须捆绑销售绿坝软件。
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最后由 shenxiaohong 于 2009-07-02 22:55:26编辑
