"Imagine trying to ready text on a translucent button that is peeking through to something animated and very visually busy. Not great."

That's a problem with transparency, not translucency. With enough frosting, whatever lies beneath is mostly filtered out.

Yeah, you would have to cover 20 or 30%. Oh noes.

What you want for cooling is to increase forest extent. By definition that means planting trees where they are not already.

Ethanol is a dumb general purpose motor fuel because of the low energy density and the hygroscopicity. You could make butanol with the same feedstocks. It would keep longer and not draw as much water into the fuel system. And even better you could make it from agricultural waste or from algae instead of growing crops for it.

" Who thinks promiscuity brings women happiness? It doesn't. It's empty. Too many men permanently damages a woman's ability to pair bond. "

God damn you're a worthless troll.

"Sex outside of marriage clearly leads to the spread of quite a lot of disease"

So does sex inside of marriage, when people are too brainwashed to get tested because they think only dirty people do that, and don't recognize the symptoms of their STDs because they were taught that knowing things about their body is bad. You denialists are responsible for that.

I just wish they weren't so caught up in making sure that women got it that they wouldn't allow men to have it for the most part until recently. Because men never spread it apparently?

The admins will ban his trolls as soon as people stop responding to them. Anything at all that inflates post count is ok with these cryptocucks.

"Put Norton Desktop 3 on Windows 3 and you have the most immediately understandable and usable general UI ever done."

Yes, because it was a successful copy of what was going into Unix at the time. Windows 3's interface and Motif grew from the same root.

Actually, the warning was first sounded the warning was Svante Arrhenius in 1896, when he determined the UV absorption properties of CO2 and came to the pretty fucking obvious conclusion, based on chemistry and thermodynamics, that if you increase CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, you will inevitably, as a basic function of physics, increase energy absorption.

So we can add chemistry to the list of things you're deliberately ignorant of.

Fuck, is stupidity and willful ignorance now viewed as a virtue? Or is it just sociopathy?

Mostly the ACK, but thanks for the food for thought. But I keep thinking they should get a better financial model that could support some actual improvements...

Thanks for clarifying. His description did not ring that bell--but I rarely see it. Perhaps my timezone is out of sync?

[citation needed]

You sure do spend a lot of time thinking about what I think, too bad you aren't any good at thinking or you might learn something.

Who needs an argument when you can cherry pick a range of years to make it seem like you have one! Fuck off, ass clown.