Yes Apple's laptops are pricey, but you can still resell it 2 or 3 years later to finance the next one.

Try that with a vanilla brand laptop, even HP or Lenovo.

One generation more of tech people and if you ask them who is IBM they will have go search in Wikipedia to know what that company is or was in the future. How could a company lost brand name so fast. Now instead of having IBM stores (and app stores) have only Apple stores. Apple shows that hardware is profitable not only in profits but also in brand recognition. What is not profitable is bad management. Fortunately HP realized it before too late.

Also try to navigate IBM support web pages is a nightmare. Cannot find anything. The quality of information for IBM acquired software is terrible: Rational, telelogic, etc. Better let the former company support team manage support.

When company profits depends n shedding people, it takes not long until it goes toast.

Just give people the option to choose. Set up two types of flight, one with full TSA screening and the other with pre 2001 screening. Those who want to fly secured by current TSA security screening procedures chose first option, those who do not agree with TSA procedures choose second option.

Just eat the surplus humans on that patch of land. Less humans and more land.

In my last trip to Dominique republic from Europe I made the bad decisions to chose a flight with transit connection in Miami. Even being a transit connection we were photographed, finger printed and had to fill up exhaustive forms. It took 3 hours to get to the connection flight! Almost lost it.

Never again fly through the US.

Wait for nomad planet, red darf, to pass nearby. Settle on or near it Use nomad planet/red darf materials to survive (may need special technology) Wait until a new interesting place is near enough. Move to it or send some settlers and continue travel. May consider change from nomad planet/red darf on the way if materials and/or direction is more convenient. Slow but safer

So I can get cool air and light on hot summer nights?

Typical american bomb-guzzler!

Why don't take an U2 an equip it to make a drone out of it? It will take the limits of human crew out, and the price would be cheaper than a new plane. If the engineers are smart enough the same U2 could be converted between man an unmanned operation in short time, depending on the mission requirements.

Intel lost a lot of time with high end processors for desktop and servers thinking it was the most profitable market. It seems more profitable market, or at least markets that be considered as part of core strategu, are in mobile devices where computational efficiency is a must ( energy consumption per computation) Computational efficiency is not only relevant in mobile devices but also in server farms where hundreds if not thousands of CPU are running in parallel.