Someone wasn't there during the mid '90s dot com boom. It was simply part of life during those days.

As someone pointed out, above: Dumb censors aka Automatic censorship, whether through school/business firewalls or those people who didn't opt out of their ISPs auto-censorship, etc. It's better to throw in the asterisk to reach a wider audience sometimes than to prevent a number of people from being able to load the page.

Personally, I hate the idea of automatic censorship, but it's not like I can stop it from existing.

It's bad simply that it has entered the food web and living things.

Few people type on their computer at parties. Your remark is a trite attempt at humor and/or insult, when he's actually correct and providing clarifying information on the topic.

These scientists*

scientist = one person
scientists = more than one person

The word "these" is used only on a plural. "Scientist" is singular. How do you not know the difference between singular and plural and know how to operate a computer?

If it's not necessary, then don't do it! Any time a bodily tissue or organ that undergoes any type of surgery, it will never be the same again. 20 years ago a friend in FL underwent Lasik surgery. She acquired an infection in one eye and treated her with antibiotics without success. When the doctors realized she had a fungal infection inside the eye, it was too late to save her vision. In April 2013, I experienced 4 retinal detachments at the age of 45 in the left eye requiring 3 surgeries: laser surgery; vitrectomy and laser surgery; vitrectomy and laser surgery with scleral buckle. In October 2013 I went against medical advice and had the scleral buckle removed because I couldn't tolerate the device in my eye. In April 2014, I had cataract surgery because the previous surgeries were so traumatic to the eye, causing a cataract. Over $60,000 later I now have about 90% vision in the left eye. Cause of the retinal detachment: normal aging with bad luck. Don't have elective surgery on your body if it's not medically necessary, you might regret it later.

any more*

anymore is an adverb

Whaaat? Please spell check. I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Meh.

It's visually appalling crap.

Deference and Clarity lose all the time over the Visual Context that is gained by clearly defined controls with moderate depth, shadow and lighting.

And their color scheme of garish and overly luminous colors that clash with each other? Just how is this a good thing? It isn't.

I have them. Email me at zav - at - mac - dot - com

I LOVE 10.6.8. I use it on all my home macs.

In the office, I have to use 10.8.5. It's the least visually sucky of them post Snow Leopard.

Install an SSD and Max out your RAM and stick with 10.6.8 or leave the platform like I will be doing.

Sucks that Ive's touch is destroying the Mac and iOS interface. Really sucks, but these new versions are too ugly to use.

Overly luminous colors that look like an art student's bad project? Yes. It has those.

No, it doesn't. The glassy look is all prerendered into bitmaps that are stored as PNG files.