Do you have any idea what you're talking about? This stuff is neither ancient nor primitive. There was a company 2 years ago at siggraph which was getting a lot of attention with markerless optical motion capture. And 2 years ago it was incredibly impressive. And they only worked on a solid color background and required multiple cameras. Natal is really quite cutting edge. Especially if it works even somewhat reliably.
Apple has no obligation to tell them. And the investors have no reason to not ask. It's up to Jobs to deny requests. There's nothing legally compelling him to talk and nothing legally stopping people from talking about it. Is it polite? No. Do investors care what is polite? No. Should they? No.
If it helps them make more money what incentive is there to not and try to figure it out. If Jobs' death was imminent then they could lose money.
Those days dissapeared as soon as I discovered a thing called a power inverter. My Nintendo64/Small TV soldering escapades taught me a lot about electronics. And how to solder while moving 60mph.
Marijuana is Hemp but Hemp is not necessarily Marijuana. We could continue the ban on Marijuana and still legalize hemp. In fact Marijuana (as even cited by your own Wikipedia link) is an inferior plant for non-recreational and medicinal applications.
Well, clearly not getting second place in a state's presidential primary, as when that happened (Nevada) all of the news reports read "Romney first, McCain third", not mentioning the "Paul second" part anywhere. I agree Ron Paul had no chance of winning, but he got even less coverage than the others who had even less chance of winning.
Headline is: Clinton, Romney win in Nevada Texas' Paul to finish second in state's GOP caucuses
They don't talk much about Ron Paul in the story. Probably because he got the same number of caucus seats as McCain. So although McCain got third he actually in effect tied for second. And since Ron Paul was currently polling in the low single digits there was no reason to believe it was anything other than a fluke in an unimportant caucus won by the guy who came in third place in the end anyway. And take one look at Rudy Giuliani. If the media was to be believed then he was a shoe in. So if Huckabee could go from obscure to competitive second then there is no reason Ron Paul couldn't have as well despite minimal media coverage. The simple fact of the matter is most people think Ron Paul is a nut job because he advocates things they don't believe in nor want to vote for.
It's not really unfair so much as unjust in its judgements.
If I get busted for having illegal music on my hard drive I think it would be fair to get charged 2x the going rate for the music or maybe $300, whichever is lower like a speeding ticket. "You got me!"
If I park my car an extra 30 minutes on the street after the meter expires I think it's fair that I get charged a $20 ticket.
I have no problem with the idea of it being illegal and punishable. What I do have a problem with is $1.9m settlements for 24 songs. To me that's not really the job of copyright law. And while I do think there are situations where $80k per violation is perhaps even too little for copyright infringement. In the case of citizens using it for personal use that's more like in the realm of the $30-$200 fine. We don't even view petty theft as warranting more than a $400 fine. And that's even worse than a less tangible crime like parking too long or speeding.
Saying that the media elected Obama is an obvious lie.
1) The media wanted Hillary Clinton if anyone elected. Not Barack Obama. And yet despite the 'media bias' for Hillary (which is to say she was well known and popular before the start of the campaign). 2) George Bush won twice. Somehow the same media which covered the John Kerry "Veterans for Truth" smear campaign also has a bias for Obama? 3) We went to war with a country with almost no media investigation or inquiry. Somehow the same media which hung on Bush's every lie in the leadup to the Iraq war is the same media which wanted Obama to win?
Cable news is many things. But plotting to elect Barack Obama was not one of the accomplishments.
And Palin has NOBODY but herself to blame for being thought of as a crazy country bumpkin. "I can field dress a moose". Wow what a cultured and intellectual girl she must be! She played "I'm normal folk" from day one at the top of her lungs. The fact that people decided they didn't want a moose hunter and small town mayor as their VP is to say they listened to HER PITCH and decided that wasn't what they wanted.
And Ron Paul. People listen to Ron Paul. And people don't like Ron Paul. It's as simple as that. Notice that Ron Paul got infinitely more coverage than Dennis Kucinich.
The day that Dennis Kucinich or the Green Party gets regular media coverage is the day I'll believe there is a strong pro-liberal slant in the media.
It also could have a dual meaning of conforming with all of the other new testament teachings that shunned material wealth and instead encouraged a life helping the poor and disadvantaged.
But that second and obvious meaning is shunned by the American Christian establishment since it's too pinko-commie-socialist for their political tastes.
The modern Jesus wants you to have a hot-tub, pool, boat and nice large house while fighting tooth and nail while cutting funding to homeless shelters and other lazy bums.
"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys."
Even a cursory glance at the new testament reveals that Jesus was a socialist, advocated socialism and would be more likely to side with Sweden than the US on just economic policy..
We don't think they hate the poor. We just think conservatives view the poor as poor by choice. That if they just weren't so lazy like those damn Mexicans they would be rich like them. That the system is fair and balanced to give everyone a fair shot and that if you don't go to Harvard it was because you just didn't pull yourself up by your boot straps and work hard enough.
Liberals view the problem as largely one of an entrenched class structure in which upbringing and opportunities presented to the wealthy often aren't available to those born into poverty. They recognize that less than 10% of Americans rise up a class during their lifetime.
Who said anything about shooting government officials? Or anything of the sort? I think you tried to read far too much into this than I ever meant
Probably the freest kind of cell phone you could have, which the Iranian people do not seem to have, is any cell phone securely taped to a Smith & Wesson
Sorry my bad. I didn't understand that Freedom by Smith and Wesson meant you would use the gun to fire small little 140 character notes taped to bullets out to friends a few streets down. Silly me jumping to the conclusion that you meant use the gun to shoot people. Again. My bad.
I'm always forgetting the about the less conventional uses of firearms in revolutions. (They also make a great place to hide messages since cops won't look down the barrel!)
I've been following the NY Times and Huffington live blogs all day. Here are representative posts:
Twitter Source: "People are very angry...they are screaming like a banshee...this ain't aloha akbar anymore"
"unrest today confirmed in Tehran, Esfahan, Rasht, & Shiraz."
Email Source: "There were thousands of people out on the streets the police were using tear gas - the whole experience was terrifying. Towhid (Unity) Square looked like a battle ground. There were lots of female protestors - I saw a guard attack one women and then she went back up to him and grabbed him by the collar and said 'why are you doing this? Are you not an Iranian?' - he was totally disarmed and didn't know what to do but her actions stopped him."
"...I don't know where this uprising is leading. I do know some police units are wavering. That commander talking about his family was not alone. There were other policemen complaining about the unruly Basij. Some security forces just stood and watched. "All together, all together, don't be scared," the crowd shouted.
I also know that Iran's women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I've seen them urging less courageous men on. I've seen them get beaten and return to the fray. "Why are you sitting there?" one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. "Get up! Get up!"
Another green-eyed woman, Mahin, aged 52, staggered into an alley clutching her face and in tears. Then, against the urging of those around her, she limped back into the crowd moving west toward Freedom Square. Cries of "Death to the dictator!" and "We want liberty!" accompanied her.
There were people of all ages. I saw an old man on crutches, middle-aged office workers and bands of teenagers. Unlike the student revolts of 2003 and 1999, this movement is broad. [...]"
Society has become soft. A few hundred years ago, whole populations would gladly give up their lives for a cause they believed in. Now it seems like that this number is down to a select few.
I think it's more cultural than temporal.
I've been reading that Martyrdom is an important aspect of Iranian culture and mythology. One of their 'founding fathers' was martyred by a tyrannical government. As such there is great respect and emotional power to someone being killed by the government in a protest. The Iranian Revolution was largely a series of ever growing 'vigils' for the fallen martyrs taken and killed by the Government. Every person killed brings more people to the next vigil. Popular opinion finally completely overwhelms the government as it simply becomes an armed but unrecognized squatter by the people. Iran is also very young. Youngsters tend to be more active and impatient for culture and political change.
China on the other hand is/was a demographically older nation. They also have a strong tradition of respect for authority even in democratic nations such as Japan. As such I would extrapolate that there isn't the same sort of tradition of rebellion and insurrection as we have in Western Cultures. The Tienanmen demonstraters were largely students. They were largely unorganized and they didn't have the organization or precedent for change. It was a case of a culture being inconducive to revolution. But it's largely a question of details. The same eastern "people before self" mantra presents itself dramatically differently in Buddhist nations where self immolation is an accepted form of demonstration. The ego matters so little that people relatively readily give their lives for a cause (after all if you're just going to reincarnate what does it really matter?) (On an off topic this creates very very interesting traffic systems.)
If you go back a few hundreds years in Western Cultures we also had dramatically less stomach for insurrection and opposition. The state was endorsed by God. We were good God fearing people and to question the state was the question the divine.
I suspect the reason people are less ready to give their lives in western cultures is because our governments are relatively stable Go back a little over 100 years and I think you would find that Americans of the North and South were more than ready to give up their lives by the hundreds of thousands for a cause.
Also patriotism sent millions of young men over seas not more than 50 years ago filled with nationalistic pride. I'm not quite certain when you think we became 'soft'.
Right because that's what will build the sort of popular uprising that has overthrown numerous governments in the past (including the last Iranian form of government)... armed rebellion.
There is nothing the Iranian government would love more right now than a bunch of armed self righteous knuckle draggers to start shooting police and militiamen. You instantly change it from a popular peaceful movement into a legitimate civil war and the Government has full authority to start fighting said war. The Iranian government is losing the respect of its people more and more every day due to its heavy handed over reaction to peaceful and unarmed civilians. But by all means break out the ol' Smith and Wesson and start shooting government officials. I'm certain the ensuing civil war will result in a peaceful and democratic government on top. Not a charismatic warlord.
Soviet Union, Ukraine, India, Iran 1979... the list goes on and on of successful popular uprisings and bloodless transitions of power. It's often then violent transitions which result in unstable and repressive replacement regimes.
All of this is kind of a moot point to me. If you need all of this encryption what you really need a few dozen million of your closest friends to demand change. The Iranian Revolution took place with no cell phones or internet. The Berlin wall fell without twitter. China still has Twitter and YouTube but it hasn't facilitated a popular movement for mass change.
Twitter has been fun for CNN to browse all day but as far as an organizational tool and effective means of rebellion I imagine its actual use has been extremely overblown. People could have just as easily emailed these news posts directly to news organizations, bloggers and friends. And considering most of the important ones have been longer than 140 characters I suspect emailing is still the preferred means of communicating the current state of Iran.
I hear a lot of about twitter but I haven't heard any useful news with it cited as a source.
The current effort will build on what has been completed under these previous contracts as well as requirements to provide the Navy with data for potential applications of AGEE with a delivered item, wiffleball 8 (WB8) and options for a modified wiffleball 8 (WB8.1) and modified ion gun.
God I hope they fail. I don't think humanity could ever overcome the shame of having something called a wiffleball be the ultimate source of our power.
Interesting approach to keeping them in the right spot. I was curious if they used a line or some sort of stabilization system.
Nope. They just let them float away. But they come down after 24 hours and are just tracked down with GPS and replaced.
The balloons come down every 24 hours due to the limitations of battery life -- and to keep them from floating into territories that don't subscribe to the service. "You're looking at a wide geographic area -- there's a wide jet stream at near space -- and that allows balloons to keep on floating without stop," Anyasi explains. "It's cheap to bring them down, as balloons cost only about $50, and since they are equipped with a GPS, it is easy to locate them and reuse them."
Is this the next level of the Cash For Gold commercials that seem to be everywhere? Buy gold off of people at a ridiculously low price,s melt it down, resell it at a stupidly high price, and the keep repeating the cycle.
I am neither a geophysicist nor am I an oceonographer nor am I any sort of natural scientist. BUT there is a place for this sort of theory. You're essentially advocating the watchmaker theory.
"Since all sophisticated machine whose origins we have observed are by an intelligent creator all sophisticated machines are therefore created through intelligent design."
The alternate scientific theory is that "While intelligent designers do create things (including potentially life) we think the more likely explanation free of unnecessary supposition is natural Evolution."
Occam's razor in this case is not necessary because as TFA states we don't necessarily have proof of a molten iron dynamo. Therefore there could be multiple causes of magnetospheres and on earth our cause might not be the same as on other planets.
I wouldn't give this theory as strong of a likelihood but it's certainly not an superfluous claim subject to Occam's razor just an alternate one.
Europa's ocean may not have strong currents though. Also there could be multiple causes that don't match every planet. Our sample size is pretty small on the subject. Ganymede might have a magnetic field due to its liquid iron core. And we might have a magnetic field due to our oceans. And Planet X might have a magnetic field due to something else all together.
Even if 100% of mac and linux users made more than 100k a year and 7% of windows users made more than 100k a year. The TOTAL number of affluent users is higher on Windows.
Percentiles don't mean jack to developers. What they care about are totals. What is your potential market?
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Do you have any idea what you're talking about? This stuff is neither ancient nor primitive. There was a company 2 years ago at siggraph which was getting a lot of attention with markerless optical motion capture. And 2 years ago it was incredibly impressive. And they only worked on a solid color background and required multiple cameras. Natal is really quite cutting edge. Especially if it works even somewhat reliably.
Apple has no obligation to tell them. And the investors have no reason to not ask. It's up to Jobs to deny requests. There's nothing legally compelling him to talk and nothing legally stopping people from talking about it. Is it polite? No. Do investors care what is polite? No. Should they? No.
If it helps them make more money what incentive is there to not and try to figure it out. If Jobs' death was imminent then they could lose money.
Those days dissapeared as soon as I discovered a thing called a power inverter. My Nintendo64/Small TV soldering escapades taught me a lot about electronics. And how to solder while moving 60mph.
Marijuana is Hemp but Hemp is not necessarily Marijuana. We could continue the ban on Marijuana and still legalize hemp. In fact Marijuana (as even cited by your own Wikipedia link) is an inferior plant for non-recreational and medicinal applications.
End your ignorance.
Also tidal energy which we would get even if the sun went away thanks to our friend the moon.
[...]when you legalize it you would also allow for new industries to thrive[...]
You're really stretching the plural on that one. I was unaware that making bongs was considered a potential new growth industry.
Well, clearly not getting second place in a state's presidential primary, as when that happened (Nevada) all of the news reports read "Romney first, McCain third", not mentioning the "Paul second" part anywhere. I agree Ron Paul had no chance of winning, but he got even less coverage than the others who had even less chance of winning.
Maybe because your story isn't true?
I just Googled Nevada GOP Primary. Clicked the first news story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22739349/
Headline is:
Clinton, Romney win in Nevada
Texas' Paul to finish second in state's GOP caucuses
They don't talk much about Ron Paul in the story. Probably because he got the same number of caucus seats as McCain. So although McCain got third he actually in effect tied for second. And since Ron Paul was currently polling in the low single digits there was no reason to believe it was anything other than a fluke in an unimportant caucus won by the guy who came in third place in the end anyway. And take one look at Rudy Giuliani. If the media was to be believed then he was a shoe in. So if Huckabee could go from obscure to competitive second then there is no reason Ron Paul couldn't have as well despite minimal media coverage. The simple fact of the matter is most people think Ron Paul is a nut job because he advocates things they don't believe in nor want to vote for.
It's not really unfair so much as unjust in its judgements.
If I get busted for having illegal music on my hard drive I think it would be fair to get charged 2x the going rate for the music or maybe $300, whichever is lower like a speeding ticket. "You got me!"
If I park my car an extra 30 minutes on the street after the meter expires I think it's fair that I get charged a $20 ticket.
I have no problem with the idea of it being illegal and punishable. What I do have a problem with is $1.9m settlements for 24 songs. To me that's not really the job of copyright law. And while I do think there are situations where $80k per violation is perhaps even too little for copyright infringement. In the case of citizens using it for personal use that's more like in the realm of the $30-$200 fine. We don't even view petty theft as warranting more than a $400 fine. And that's even worse than a less tangible crime like parking too long or speeding.
Saying that the media elected Obama is an obvious lie.
1) The media wanted Hillary Clinton if anyone elected. Not Barack Obama. And yet despite the 'media bias' for Hillary (which is to say she was well known and popular before the start of the campaign).
2) George Bush won twice. Somehow the same media which covered the John Kerry "Veterans for Truth" smear campaign also has a bias for Obama?
3) We went to war with a country with almost no media investigation or inquiry. Somehow the same media which hung on Bush's every lie in the leadup to the Iraq war is the same media which wanted Obama to win?
Cable news is many things. But plotting to elect Barack Obama was not one of the accomplishments.
And Palin has NOBODY but herself to blame for being thought of as a crazy country bumpkin. "I can field dress a moose". Wow what a cultured and intellectual girl she must be! She played "I'm normal folk" from day one at the top of her lungs. The fact that people decided they didn't want a moose hunter and small town mayor as their VP is to say they listened to HER PITCH and decided that wasn't what they wanted.
And Ron Paul. People listen to Ron Paul. And people don't like Ron Paul. It's as simple as that. Notice that Ron Paul got infinitely more coverage than Dennis Kucinich.
The day that Dennis Kucinich or the Green Party gets regular media coverage is the day I'll believe there is a strong pro-liberal slant in the media.
It also could have a dual meaning of conforming with all of the other new testament teachings that shunned material wealth and instead encouraged a life helping the poor and disadvantaged.
But that second and obvious meaning is shunned by the American Christian establishment since it's too pinko-commie-socialist for their political tastes.
The modern Jesus wants you to have a hot-tub, pool, boat and nice large house while fighting tooth and nail while cutting funding to homeless shelters and other lazy bums.
"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys."
Even a cursory glance at the new testament reveals that Jesus was a socialist, advocated socialism and would be more likely to side with Sweden than the US on just economic policy..
We don't think they hate the poor. We just think conservatives view the poor as poor by choice. That if they just weren't so lazy like those damn Mexicans they would be rich like them. That the system is fair and balanced to give everyone a fair shot and that if you don't go to Harvard it was because you just didn't pull yourself up by your boot straps and work hard enough.
Liberals view the problem as largely one of an entrenched class structure in which upbringing and opportunities presented to the wealthy often aren't available to those born into poverty. They recognize that less than 10% of Americans rise up a class during their lifetime.
Who said anything about shooting government officials? Or anything of the sort? I think you tried to read far too much into this than I ever meant
Probably the freest kind of cell phone you could have, which the Iranian people do not seem to have, is any cell phone securely taped to a Smith & Wesson
Sorry my bad. I didn't understand that Freedom by Smith and Wesson meant you would use the gun to fire small little 140 character notes taped to bullets out to friends a few streets down. Silly me jumping to the conclusion that you meant use the gun to shoot people. Again. My bad.
I'm always forgetting the about the less conventional uses of firearms in revolutions. (They also make a great place to hide messages since cops won't look down the barrel!)
I've been following the NY Times and Huffington live blogs all day. Here are representative posts:
Twitter Source:
"People are very angry...they are screaming like a banshee...this ain't aloha akbar anymore"
"unrest today confirmed in Tehran, Esfahan, Rasht, & Shiraz."
Email Source:
"There were thousands of people out on the streets the police were using tear gas - the whole experience was terrifying. Towhid (Unity) Square looked like a battle ground.
There were lots of female protestors - I saw a guard attack one women and then she went back up to him and grabbed him by the collar and said 'why are you doing this? Are you not an Iranian?' - he was totally disarmed and didn't know what to do but her actions stopped him."
"...I don't know where this uprising is leading. I do know some police units are wavering. That commander talking about his family was not alone. There were other policemen complaining about the unruly Basij. Some security forces just stood and watched. "All together, all together, don't be scared," the crowd shouted.
I also know that Iran's women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I've seen them urging less courageous men on. I've seen them get beaten and return to the fray. "Why are you sitting there?" one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. "Get up! Get up!"
Another green-eyed woman, Mahin, aged 52, staggered into an alley clutching her face and in tears. Then, against the urging of those around her, she limped back into the crowd moving west toward Freedom Square. Cries of "Death to the dictator!" and "We want liberty!" accompanied her.
There were people of all ages. I saw an old man on crutches, middle-aged office workers and bands of teenagers. Unlike the student revolts of 2003 and 1999, this movement is broad. [...]"
Society has become soft. A few hundred years ago, whole populations would gladly give up their lives for a cause they believed in. Now it seems like that this number is down to a select few.
I think it's more cultural than temporal.
I've been reading that Martyrdom is an important aspect of Iranian culture and mythology. One of their 'founding fathers' was martyred by a tyrannical government. As such there is great respect and emotional power to someone being killed by the government in a protest. The Iranian Revolution was largely a series of ever growing 'vigils' for the fallen martyrs taken and killed by the Government. Every person killed brings more people to the next vigil. Popular opinion finally completely overwhelms the government as it simply becomes an armed but unrecognized squatter by the people. Iran is also very young. Youngsters tend to be more active and impatient for culture and political change.
China on the other hand is/was a demographically older nation. They also have a strong tradition of respect for authority even in democratic nations such as Japan. As such I would extrapolate that there isn't the same sort of tradition of rebellion and insurrection as we have in Western Cultures. The Tienanmen demonstraters were largely students. They were largely unorganized and they didn't have the organization or precedent for change. It was a case of a culture being inconducive to revolution. But it's largely a question of details. The same eastern "people before self" mantra presents itself dramatically differently in Buddhist nations where self immolation is an accepted form of demonstration. The ego matters so little that people relatively readily give their lives for a cause (after all if you're just going to reincarnate what does it really matter?) (On an off topic this creates very very interesting traffic systems.)
If you go back a few hundreds years in Western Cultures we also had dramatically less stomach for insurrection and opposition. The state was endorsed by God. We were good God fearing people and to question the state was the question the divine.
I suspect the reason people are less ready to give their lives in western cultures is because our governments are relatively stable Go back a little over 100 years and I think you would find that Americans of the North and South were more than ready to give up their lives by the hundreds of thousands for a cause.
Also patriotism sent millions of young men over seas not more than 50 years ago filled with nationalistic pride. I'm not quite certain when you think we became 'soft'.
Right because that's what will build the sort of popular uprising that has overthrown numerous governments in the past (including the last Iranian form of government)... armed rebellion.
There is nothing the Iranian government would love more right now than a bunch of armed self righteous knuckle draggers to start shooting police and militiamen. You instantly change it from a popular peaceful movement into a legitimate civil war and the Government has full authority to start fighting said war. The Iranian government is losing the respect of its people more and more every day due to its heavy handed over reaction to peaceful and unarmed civilians. But by all means break out the ol' Smith and Wesson and start shooting government officials. I'm certain the ensuing civil war will result in a peaceful and democratic government on top. Not a charismatic warlord.
Soviet Union, Ukraine, India, Iran 1979... the list goes on and on of successful popular uprisings and bloodless transitions of power. It's often then violent transitions which result in unstable and repressive replacement regimes.
Or you could use Windows Mobile and a secure VPN.
All of this is kind of a moot point to me. If you need all of this encryption what you really need a few dozen million of your closest friends to demand change. The Iranian Revolution took place with no cell phones or internet. The Berlin wall fell without twitter. China still has Twitter and YouTube but it hasn't facilitated a popular movement for mass change.
Twitter has been fun for CNN to browse all day but as far as an organizational tool and effective means of rebellion I imagine its actual use has been extremely overblown. People could have just as easily emailed these news posts directly to news organizations, bloggers and friends. And considering most of the important ones have been longer than 140 characters I suspect emailing is still the preferred means of communicating the current state of Iran.
I hear a lot of about twitter but I haven't heard any useful news with it cited as a source.
And yet I can manage to keep all my important data around for decades on digital media... weird.
Meanwhile I have almost no printed copies of much of that material. (And I did have printed copies.)
The current effort will build on what has been completed under these previous contracts as well as requirements to provide the Navy with data for potential applications of AGEE with a delivered item, wiffleball 8 (WB8) and options for a modified wiffleball 8 (WB8.1) and modified ion gun.
God I hope they fail. I don't think humanity could ever overcome the shame of having something called a wiffleball be the ultimate source of our power.
Total failure would either cancel the project or move it in some other direction. Probably the former.
You must not work in the defense industry.
Interesting approach to keeping them in the right spot. I was curious if they used a line or some sort of stabilization system.
Nope. They just let them float away. But they come down after 24 hours and are just tracked down with GPS and replaced.
The balloons come down every 24 hours due to the limitations of battery life -- and to keep them from floating into territories that don't subscribe to the service. "You're looking at a wide geographic area -- there's a wide jet stream at near space -- and that allows balloons to keep on floating without stop," Anyasi explains. "It's cheap to bring them down, as balloons cost only about $50, and since they are equipped with a GPS, it is easy to locate them and reuse them."
Is this the next level of the Cash For Gold commercials that seem to be everywhere? Buy gold off of people at a ridiculously low price,s melt it down, resell it at a stupidly high price, and the keep repeating the cycle.
I think we finally uncovered Ron Paul's endgame.
I am neither a geophysicist nor am I an oceonographer nor am I any sort of natural scientist. BUT there is a place for this sort of theory. You're essentially advocating the watchmaker theory.
"Since all sophisticated machine whose origins we have observed are by an intelligent creator all sophisticated machines are therefore created through intelligent design."
The alternate scientific theory is that "While intelligent designers do create things (including potentially life) we think the more likely explanation free of unnecessary supposition is natural Evolution."
Occam's razor in this case is not necessary because as TFA states we don't necessarily have proof of a molten iron dynamo. Therefore there could be multiple causes of magnetospheres and on earth our cause might not be the same as on other planets.
I wouldn't give this theory as strong of a likelihood but it's certainly not an superfluous claim subject to Occam's razor just an alternate one.
Europa's ocean may not have strong currents though. Also there could be multiple causes that don't match every planet. Our sample size is pretty small on the subject. Ganymede might have a magnetic field due to its liquid iron core. And we might have a magnetic field due to our oceans. And Planet X might have a magnetic field due to something else all together.
Even if 100% of mac and linux users made more than 100k a year and 7% of windows users made more than 100k a year. The TOTAL number of affluent users is higher on Windows.
Percentiles don't mean jack to developers. What they care about are totals. What is your potential market?