A few years old, but a very very educational series of articles:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buy...

When the activity is no longer necessary, then it's a pastime. Where your goal is to inflict suffering.

It's justifiable if you will eat what you kill, other than that you are a sadist using survivalist fantasies to justify your cruelty.

I always find these kinds of responses to be far too close to

"It is impossible for you ever to be right. Your privilege allows me to judge you by any chracteristic I choose. Your wrongness is axiomatic"

The only acceptable response by anyone with any possible privilege, is to "check" that privilege and if unwilling to apologise for deviating - leave the space.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

You need to be careful quoting inflation unadjusted figures.

The failing motion picture industry is terrified of admitting the trend of ticket sales.

Completely separate from whether Frozen is any good- I haven't seen it.

The United States 2012 census found 2012 median household income to be $51,371 . Allowing for a quick estimate of inflation, you are wrong by 20%.

So, it seems that you argue publicly by relying on false information, and starting every comment with "Uh".

Someone who chooses to live in the most expensive place possible cannot complain if they don't have enough money left over. They should move to somewhere less expensive.

Welfare queens can't live in expensive places, and neither should people with million dollar houses who claim to be in the "squeezed middle"

Apart from the value of the estate. So you would be wrong.

Not mine, it isn't. This is the wealthy claiming that only Bill Gates is a little bit wealthy.

NO. It's most likely a term life policy that will pay out enough (on death occurring within a certain time period) to cover inheritance tax bills, thus avoiding the need to do things like sell property.

It is a very common thing to do amongst the wealthy enough to worry about inheritance-tax. It's often done to allow beneficiaries who can't earn money (e.g. because of age or childcare responsibilities) to pay a possible inheritance tax bill.

Your concern is that those who are literally millionaires are not getting a fair deal? There is some serious inflation going on in your notion of "middle"

It is very common indeed for the wealthy to take out term life policies to hedge against inheritance tax.

If you are in the inheritance tax-paying class and you didn't know this, get better financial advice.

A very peculiar definition of middle class.

Is it still a walled garden if 90%+ of what you encounter in an app store search is the result of search-optimising?

So much irrelevant garbage in the android store.

I really have no idea if apple is any worse or better, but I would be more likely to spend if I could actually find useful stuff.

It seems that you might be talking about clap skates.They don't seem to be

You even contradict yourself, moving from "couldn't be copied by other countries" to "Everybody uses them now". So I presume you mean skates that were adopted first by a team where speed skating is quite a big sport. I can find no evidence whatsoever that they were protected or held by one particular team, or that they were intellectual property. Wiki has a picture of a kind of clap skate from 1936.

The dutch team adopted them more quickly than anyone else, presumably because it is a big sport in that country.

Wiki says that these skates were used at the highest level from 1996-1997, not in a particular Olympics, why isn't that common knowledge for you?

Have you considered that he was adopting a negotiating position?
This would be seen as par for the course in business. A laudable, if aggressive, move to protect ones resources from unauthorised, uncompensated exploitation. A lot of people call it theft.
It was the Color Run (an alleged charity) that took things into a business arena from a cuddly "charity fun run" area. His work was plastered everywhere for commercial exploitation and he received nil compensation, and nil attribution. The guilty party is clear.

any links for that? All you get on googling is the current "invincible suits / boo hoo we lost cos of our suits stories."