I lug my laptop to work 3 days a week, and use 2 of its ports (dock, portable display).

I don't know what type of laptop you use, or how heavy it is, but I have a piece of advice for you that fits no matter what your laptop is like: if your laptop came with a case, don't ever use it. That's because the type of case you get when you buy one looks exactly like what it is, and they're all thief magnets. Get something that looks like a brief case, or even better, a backpack. Nobody's going to consider a backpack worth stealing, even if it's hanging from your hand and if you live or work in an area with lots of thieves, this simple trick can save you lots of time and money replacing things you need to do your job.

There is no difference between gravity and acceleration.

I'm not a physicist, and I don't know if a physicist would agree with you completely. I do know, however, that any effect that you can create with acceleration you can also create with gravity, and vice versa.

What gets marketed as Kona coffee does not necessarily have much Kona in it.

Right now, I'm using a Kona blend that's 10% Kona. I buy it as whole beans and grind it as needed because I use a French Press and it works best with a coarse grind that you can't find in the market.

I don't know if they still do, but there was a time when hot Dr. Pepper was provided to all of the volunteers doing the last minute prep on the floats for the Rose Parade. Considering that all the work was outdoors near the end of December, I'm told that it went down quite well. I'll try to remember to try it this winter, as I now live in snow country.

No one is "retiring obsolete ICE vehicles", they are just junking cars that no longer work.

So tell me, what is the difference between the two ways of describing the situation? The ICE cars going to the junk yards are obsolete, partly because they don't work any more and it would cost more than it's worth to repair them. All you're doing here is quibbling about the way the situation is being described.

If what you're making has no dairy in it, it isn't really ice cream any more than "fat free half and half" is really half and half.

I lived in California until seven years ago. Most but not all repair shops are licensed to do the biannual smog tests. However, if you need to get repairs to pass, you have to go to a different shop to get them because the shop that does the test is forbidden by law to make the repairs. Yes, it's a tad inconvenient, but it does prevent the shops from finding imaginary faults just to get the extra money from "fixing" them.

The difficulty is not the temperature: new algae can presumably evolve adapted grow in the new warmer environment. The difficulty is the speed of temperature change, faster than the speed of adaptation.

If we're that concerned about the speed of adaption, we can always breed them in tanks with the temperature and other important factors set to the conditions we want them to adapt to and force them to adapt much faster than they would in nature.

I think that the poster was referring to the duration of summer-like weather, not the astronomical seasons. That's what most people consider summer, and yes, that would get longer.

Precious metals such as gold and silver, have been used as treasure metals since antiquity. They're comparatively rare, they're durable and until recently the only other uses for them were as coins or ornaments. As treasure metals they've been very useful as something to store wealth that you're not currently using to buy other resources or pay your servants, including soldiers to protect the ruler's palace and seize control of more land.

Yes indeed, that's a pretty coin. It's not surprising, though, as whoever designed it borrowed head on the obverse side from the old Mercury Dime.

What I really hate are dairy substitutes that are labeled as "fat free dairy product," especially when it's a product that's normally expected to have fat in it. As an example, Half and Half is normally half whole milk and half cream, making it richer than normal milk I use it in my coffee both because I like the flavor and because I need the extra calories as I'm underweight. Once, I made the mistake of buying that fat free crap. It was awful! I've never tried fat free sour cream, and I hope I never do, but I'd bet money it's just as bad. If you must sell that fat free crap, call it "fat free half and half substitute" and be honest about it.

I've been seeing more and more twenty-something women with names that sound normal but have a weird spelling, such as "Kandie" or "Louize." I can't help but wonder if their parents thought this would help them stand out or they just didn't know the proper spelling.

Yes. Linux has worked with Samba for at least twenty years. I'm not sure if you need it just to store one file remotely, but I'd expect that you'd need it for mounting a remote drive, especially if the remote server isn't running Linux.