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d*f2013-02-10 08:02

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【以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区】
发信人: ccccmm (*>_标题: 美国流浪汉街头遇伯乐学编码1个月研发App软件 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 30 00:07:31 2013, 美东)
发信人: alexsung (Keep your feet on the ground.), 信区: Military
标题: 美国流浪汉街头遇伯乐学编码1个月研发App软件
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Sep 29 22:58:30 2013, 美东)
【环球网综合报道】据英国《每日邮报》9月29日报道，近日，美国纽约上演了一出“
伯乐相马”的励志故事：一个流浪汉在一名软件开发商的援助与悉心指导下，经历了一
个月的编码学习后，研发出其首个App软件并定于下月上市。
报道称，纽约流浪汉利奥的成功要归功于其“伯乐”——软件开发商帕特里克。帕特里
克是在上班途中发现利奥的，他每天都会路过这个无家可归的男人。久而久之，帕特里
克萌生了帮助这名流浪汉的想法。他起初给了利奥两个选择：100美元或者一部笔记本
电脑、编码书以及每天的编码课程。最终，利奥毅然放弃了金钱的诱惑，选择了这个千
载难逢的机会——跟帕特里克学习编码。
利奥说：“其实我几天内就能够有100美元，但是帕特里克给我提供的是一个学习的机
会，我认为这会是我的另一条出路。”
据了解，利奥曾就职于美国大都会人寿保险公司(MetLife)，直到2011年失业，也因此
被高档公寓社区驱逐出去，最终沦为无业游民，并且无家可归。也许由于这样的背景，
利奥在纽约茫茫流浪汉中脱颖而出。帕特里克亦对他心存怜惜，他说道：“利奥是个天
才，聪明、有逻辑、口才好。” 就这样，在纽约市曼哈顿西区的一个公园内，利奥开
始了他的编码学习。
然而，出乎所有人意料的是，经过短短四个星期的学习，利奥就研发出自己的应用程序
，并定于下个月上市。对于该App的详细信息，利奥则拒绝透露。对于利奥的成功，伯
乐帕特里克说：“我乐于帮助这些群体，给他们提供必要的工具、信息以及一个机会。
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t*l2013-02-10 08:02

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For decades, experimenters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have
been conducting cruel and useless taxpayer-funded "sound localization"
studies in which cats have steel coils implanted in their eyes, holes
drilled into their skulls, and electrodes implanted in their brains.
Sometimes, cats used in this experiment have had their ears cut off or are
intentionally deafened by having a toxic chemical applied to their inner ear
. The cats are then deprived of food for several days in order to coerce
them to look in the direction of sounds during experimental sessions in
which their heads are immobilized by a bolt screwed into their skulls.
Internal UW documents and photographs obtained by PETA in response to a
successful lawsuit detail the miserable life and death of one of the cats, a
gentle tabby named Double Trouble, who was abused and killed in this
barbaric experiment. In one instance, Double Trouble woke up while
experimenters were cutting into her head. Following a series of invasive
surgeries, she developed infections, became lethargic and depressed, started
to twitch, and suffered paralysis in half her face. After UW deemed the
experiment a failure, the experimenters killed and decapitated Double
Trouble so that they could examine her brain. A former UW veterinarian who
oversaw the treatment of Double Trouble and other cats used in this
laboratory recently issued a letter confirming this abuse, stating that many
of the cats "suffered unnecessarily."
Experimenters have justified the use of 30 cats like Double Trouble per year
in this cruel project not by saying that it would enhance human health but
by stating that they needed to "keep up a productive publication record that
ensures our constant funding."
Shockingly, the federal government continues to support this irrelevant and
deadly project and has provided UW with more than $3 million in grant money
to abuse animals—even though researchers at other institutions around the
world are already using modern methods with human volunteers to investigate
how the brain locates and processes sound.
You can help our efforts by contacting the National Institutes of Health and
urging the agency to cut funding for this crude and deadly project.