Consumers preferring point-to-point air travel killed the A380.

Which is ironic as the self-proclaimed 'King of point to point', the 787, mainly flies between or from hubs.

It's the smaller and more mundane 737 Max and A320 Neo that are following the lead of the old 757 as hub-bypassers.

I also note that no reference was made to the fact that Boeing has broken-up two early, unsaleable, 787s and took a $1.25 billion charge for doing so. Billion.

The very early 787 production after those two units were sold to Ethiopian at a significant discount. They are far overweight and were plagued with a series of defects requiring warranty service.

Isn’t it in Boeing’s interest to have that figure as high as possible for tax reasons?

Unless list for a 787 is 600m and there no salvagable parts these figures see way wrong

I'm guessing, but they're probably unsellable because they're pre-production testbeds. Those will cost much more than a production plane.

It also tells you exactly nothing about the market for 787s...

And have the privilege of not suffering from other life stresses...

Such as parenthood?

No, I meant stresses other than parenthood. When you have to work 2 jobs, have to decide whether to use your paycheck to pay overdue bills or buy groceries, and never get enough sleep, it's quite difficult to remain rational while your child is acting irrationally. The stresses of parenthood (never enough sleep, worrying if you are doing the right thing) just exacerbates those. After all, we aren't robots. Emotional state is a tough thing to override.

Which you're not, seeing as how you're human and all.

It's certainly possible, and very much worth doing, but I wouldn't call it easy.

When your kids destroy your sleep pattern and cry most of the time when they are awake during the day, good luck staying rational and yourself. Everyone has limits and kids are very good at finding them.

Kids don't destroy your sleep pattern unless you abuse them by going against millions of years of co-sleeping and throw them in a crib in a different room (doubling their risk of SIDS). In a year and a half we've had exactly one "troubled night" and that's because she had hand foot and mouth disease. Children cry because something is wrong. Sometimes that may be "I want to pull the cats tail but she's running away" but more often than not it's something that can be addressed by a parent. Love, attention, and affection has solved every bout of crying so far.

Are you suggesting there's only a single pattern of kids and that all kids follow your experience? Because I can tell you, it's not the case.

I think you were lucky. My sister's kids were all different. One was extremely easy and the other one was very difficult the first few years. Same parents, same methods, different outcome. People are different,so are kids.

err... I don't know about easy, I'd go with hard, but doable

Old MacBooks, just because I like osx.

I use this all the time, it's great.

$10

Why not just regularly back up your machine? I wouldn't expect apple store techs to recover my data anyway if I had to bring in a machine for repairs.

Yes, but we are a small group with modest needs.

Dell ultrasharp

That infographic left out Alaska, Canada and Mexico.

Not true at all. Out side of progressive areas like major coastal cities posession of marijuana can in some cases be a felony offense. Contrary to what you have stated, people ARE arrested regularly for simple possession of the drug, almost always meaning very limited life prospects in the future.