The Ford Model T cost $850 in 1909. The average hourly wage in 1909 was 22 cents per hour. That is a luxury price for a car. 5 years later as demand rose and production capacity expanded the price cut in half. The successor to the Model T was the Model A which, almost 20 years later, cost $500. Building luxury cars gets you a brand name, it brings in capital, and it lets you develop and expand production capacity. As your costs go down you can lower prices and expand into more economically priced models.

Technically the Cold War is so named because it was a time of hostility, but not outright and open conflict, between 2 powers. And power and influence-which is what the US and USSR were essentially fighting over(who would become the dominant superpower)-are very much types of resources.

So you want the FAA to take over the MLB?

They have cells in the basement?

I wondered why my date had me show up with a $50,000 money order......

With a microphone thermometer?

The best test is can you openly criticize your government. If the answer is yes then congratulations, you don't live in a dictatorship.

Come on. Even if you are desperate you should at least be trying to get 2 out of 3.

Well, the words "picture" or "photo" or, in this case, "video" sufficed just fine for decades before some idiots started to use the word "selfie".

Shame it's not in the US. Then it would hold the world record for oldest person in the world as well.

In Atlanta I would have gone in making $45,000 a year base pay had I gotten a job with APD (I have a graduate degree). The job I do right now I am making $27000 a year and tops out around $50,000 a year. Yeah, it sure is a crime how little they pay police officers.

That is probably intended more for an EMA type role. Obviously you live in a rural environment; should any kind of disaster happen in your area, the mobile command post allows local autorities to move closer to the affected area, and should the town need to be evacuated for any reason they can maintain some semblance of central control outside the evacuated zone. In all likelihood it was purchased with a lot of help from state and federal agencies because they can draw on this capability themselves if needed. Isolated commuities actually need things such as mobile command centers because they probably have responsibility over a wider area than if they were closer to other communities.

Browning still makes BARs actually. But they look a little different than they used to

They could put a pizza oven in the back instead of having to go to pizza shops. They could even offset the purchase cost of the MRAP and the pizza oven by using it as a food truck when not on duty.

There is a bit of a difference between a bush jacket and an anti-mine vehicle. Him buying a surplus MRAP would be like you buying a surplus spacesuit from NASA. Sure, it might keep you warm and dry, but it's a lot more complicated and inefficient to use than an actual jacket and makes you look like an idiot going down the street.