It depends where you live. Upper middle class in Maryland is around $90k

I don't consider myself wealthy by any means, but I buy new. As long as you intend to own it for a while, it is a good thing. My truck comes with a pretty long warranty, though I have not had anything break on a car in like 10 years. The worst repair is the tires, and those just wear out over time. The battery also tends to go in about 3 years. Maybe I am wasteful, but I bought the truck for Boy Scouts, and it has been invaluable for storage space and for towing the troop trailer, a used truck just wouldn't tow as well as the longer it is driven, the less towing capacity as the cylinders wear in.

I have tried towing with a 10 year old truck, and it wasn't anywhere near the same, backing the trailer in, the truck had to actually work to move everything. My truck towing the same trailer can practically idle pushing the trailer. I also tend to only lose 2 mpg to towing, where an older truck would lose much more just in age. I can deal with my 15.4 mpg normal and 14 mpg towing.

Some insurance company will pay for them I am sure...and some AC tech might lose his job...

The company should have bought him a new fridge, but unfortunately that isn't how the world works.

We're talking about OK here...it is a southern state in the USA, it is hot on average.

I was expecting to find that the item orbiting the asteroid would be tree shaped perhaps. That would be a great find :)

I want my Archon :)

Wow, you are funny.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Nuclear missiles being brought close to the US shore in the power of a third world government that hated the US.
Vietnam: The US backed a government in a civil war, China and the Soviet Union backed the other government.

If you consider that wackjob, than every country in the world is just as guilty, each country backs countries they are allied with.

The main difference is in the industries they support. Democrats love the media industries, Republicans support most industries, but energy especially.

I have more respect for him as a SEAL than the two Bronze Stars, those aren't all that hard to earn after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal

I suppose it depends on what that service was, but still, a pretty exemplary person.

Well it depends on what continent you feel Central America fits under. It could go either way, but generally I would agree with you as most maps round out that corner of SA and attach Central to NA.

$1000. It is all in the build :)

How many designer purses were sold in the same time period? Buying iPhones is about the look more than the actual purpose. I personally don't get it, I prefer function over form, but people pay enormous amounts of money for fashion.

At max power, a GSM tower can cover a 50 km radius, so not so odd to have service out there.

I don't have individual city maps, but I have found that the visitor centers off the major highways tend to have maps for free, I have almost the entire east coast that I keep in my truck's glove box just in case. I can't say I have used one in years however...the last time I used one was when I took an exit in CT that was supposed to be in Mass and needed to figure out where I went wrong. I however always use my smartphone now, set the navigation before starting and follow it the whole way, it even updates for traffic.

FYI, Cricket uses Verizon's network, at least in my area. However, their "unlimited" plan is limited to 2GB, then it drops to unusable speed.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1507959-What-network-does-Cricket-piggy-back-on

Apparently, they have roaming agreements with all the CDMA providers.