FSVO "smoothly". I question whether you've ever run full-fat Windows 7 on an Atom, especially in situations where antivirus is mandatory.

He's got enough money he could be idle the rest of his life, but...

maybe he'd want to run for a Senate seat or governorship. He already owns a whole island in Hawaii.

Chromebooks don't support dialup to the best of my knowledge. Some models have cellular modems, however, and that might be an option here.

I would not be surprised to learn that a large percentage of existing Cobol is one of the archaic dialects that cares about which column you put things into; further, that most of the users of said dialects have no interest in the expense and risk of modernizing their code to a less painful version of the spec.

Besides that, there's the sheer verbosity of the language. Writing out DIVIDE 20 BY 4 GIVING RESULT vs. x=20/4, for instance, is simply annoying.

If I absolutely had to I could wear a suit. I draw the line at wearing a goddamn tie, though, especially one that must be tied.

The tanker DC-10 is designated KC-10. The '135s are close to but not quite the Boeing 707; they're closer to being a derivative of the Dash-80 prototype that became the 707.

^^^ That's a place where "average" can be quite deceiving. The sun's atmosphere is rarefied but its core's density is up to 150 g/cm3, or 150x that of water.

And you'd be factually wrong. There is such a thing as being so open-minded your brains fall out, and you're unwittingly demonstrating this with your false equivalence.

His "argument" about Al Gore was hardly nuanced, he's just giving the argumentum ad Goram cover because he happens to sympathize with the deniers, and that's enough in my book.

Deniers have nothing interesting or worthwhile, or even reality-based to say at this point, so there's no point in annoying myself by reading their drivel.

Last winter's polar air mass stooging around the middle US for weeks was a surprise to everyone.

Oh, you're a denier.

*plonk*

You're wasting your time: you can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into.

Concern troll is concerned.

Your objection is completely meaningless and is a logical fallacy besides.