Because there is a horde of insightful/trolls that jump on every time one shows up and up post counts. Just like all the Apple articles people bitch about, bitching also ups post counts, advertising clicks, and all the things that drive the site. If all the ACs with sticks would jump on *nix articles and stir up stuff there, there would be more *nix articles on /. but as it is, we get social issues and Apple.

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1) We are. The specific examples given are aeronatical and interplanetary radar which we are radiating in all directions.
2) Also from the given specific examples, they have figured out what they can detect from such systems based on what we are currently using.
Unlike other radio waves, active radar is something that a more advanced race will need more powerful versions of to track things in their solar system and must use a limited range of frequencies for due to the physics of the job.

From what I've read of the linked articles, the specific examples they are giving are for radar, both aeronautical and interplanetary. Active radar will have use long after the use other radio waves have been reduced. The natural and unnatural sources for such are probably fairly well understood and recognizable, the band they exist in is due to practical uses that all races would need, and a more advanced civilization with need to scan their solar system for objects in space would probably have an increased need for more powerful versions as they grow. It seems a fairly decent assumption that such things would be found with physics as we currently know it. If nothing else, they will have the radar observations from thousands of systems and galaxies that will probably keep astrophysics grad students and hopeful PhDs busy for decades.

OMG! You're right!

They're in on it! There must be a conspiracy involving all the major nations of the Earth. If that's true, then they aren't really at odds. The Cold War was also faked, and this is all part of their grand plan. What is their real goal?

Just pondering, but I have seen plenty of instances in the application world where somebody will form a company, make a program, and sell it to a larger company. They then take that money to make themselves rich and form a new company which will make a new version of the program, which they will probably sell to a larger company because the larger company never did anything with the original program they purchased. Wash, rinse, and repeat. IN this case, Nokia probably is a larger company and without insider information as to why the Microsoft deal actually happened, or at least their opinion of why, it would be hard to tell what they might plan.

Well, that goes both ways. If he had R next to his name, all the people (like my family members) who were talking about how "he is obviosly sick in his sexual predatoriness", would be going "it a private matter we shouldn't be worrying about" just like they have done for the other Rs caught in such things. When you mix political parties you are invoking knee jerk factionalism that will color everything else.

For some of the same reasons that settlements on Earth are far apart. Settlements will probably be based on natural resources, and it's doubtful you'll find them all close together. On Mars, it will probably be based on different mineral and ore mines, and they'll have to be mined where they can be found.

When the last recession started in 2008 or what not and people were taking about the great depression, I started looking into the Great Depression, the 1950's and standards of living. In the course, I found some studies that dealt with increasing standard of living in the 1950's. You can still living like they did in the 1950's. Just cut your salary in half and get rid of all but three of your electric appliances. Then, every year give yourself a 5% raise and buy a new electric appliance and you'll pretty much approximate what it was like in the 50's including standard of living. The 50's were considered good times not because they were a great standard of living but because it was a time of increasing standard of living. Even then, the middle class standards of the 1950's were of such that if we were reduced to it today, it would be near apocalyptic. The study I was looking was done in the 50's on what they considered "middle class" and studied things like amount of clothes owned, time spent on chores, and amount of money spent on food. The average middle class family had less than two weeks worth of clean clothes. The wife had to stay at home because it took a full time person to do washing, cleaning, and cooking without electric appliances. The 50's stereotype of the father getting eggs and bacon while the family getting porridge is because that is all the family could afford as food was such a high percentage of the families income at the time. It would not be hard at all to live at the 1950's standard of living for the average middle class family in todays salaries if you are willing to do without.

Originally, Yoda had a very heavy and identifiable muppet accent.

Essentially, you are at a 1st level helpdesk. Human body or computer, there's no quick track that skips proper troubleshooting, and proper troubleshooting sometimes takes time. Trouble is that there is no tier 2 helpdesk that isn't dedicated to a specific field, which they will send you to once they determine what it is. From there, if they can figure out the specific issue, you can go to a tier 3 helpdesk of a specialist. Patients, like users might try and skip the tier 1 helpdesk, but chances are, the tier 2 guy issuing to have to do the same troubleshooting, just at an increased cost and perhaps send you back to tier 1 because you are seeing somebody in the wrong friend, because patients, like users, using have no idea what they are doing and if they think they do, are usually wrong. That being said, there does exist a wide range of experience and competence at all tier levels.

From my reading, that was actually Europe, mostly France and Italy. They were willing to push their agenda and get rid of Qaddafi, got Europe involved, and then realized that they couldn't carry out such a mission without NATO resources, which meant dragging in the US. I can't find real reference to it, but I suspect that Europe basically said "we supported you in Iraq, now you can support us in this" and we had to get involved in North Africa to scratch Europe's back. Notice that that was the NATO operation that we were not in charge of.

We didn't put him up to it, but he did approach us diplomatically three times, twice in person, to make sure we weren't going to mass our troops on his border if he did invade Kuwait and kept all of it, to which we replied "We have no opinion on your Arab – Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait." After that, it becomes a much different issue of saving face and maintaining power in his own country, and not believing anything the US has to say.

My understanding it that is all comes down to a end of WW2 agreement with Saudi Arabia. We aid and protect them and they will keep the oil flowing. The invasion of Kuwait really put a emphasis on this as at the time Iraq and a five million man army while Saudi Arabia had 15 million total population. that's why we still deal with them even though it is the well spring of anti-American terrorism in the middle east and why they still deal with us although they support our enemies.