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So Anthony and Tina brought over their Sport Red Metallic 2009 G8 GT for some clean up work. Originally they were thinking just a strong clean up and buff but after re-thinking it and seeing that beautiful red metallic paint covered up by swirl-city from tunnel washes, they thankfully moved to my Option 2: Premium Enhancement package. These cell pics in the sun do it no justice at all given it really is a few shades darker and the metallic flake is outstanding. Next time I'll have actually break out a real camera I'll let Ant. & Tina chime in with what they feel about the transformation overall. After a good wash and full decontamination I dried her off and got her ready for the buffer. http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083398/original.jpg Before: Filled with swirls: The entire body was covered. Years of tunnel washes took their toll on the clear. Needless to say, the entire car looked like this: http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083397/original.jpg After: Goodbye Brillo Look. The great news is the paint is decent quality and cleans up nice. Here it is after just 3 passes with CarPro Clear Cut Compound on a purple wool pad mated to my Flex 3401 Buffer. NOTE: this stuff is so good that it's not even polished in this pic and to add to it a wool pad (think normally very hazy after). It's pricey but I LOVE seeing great new products brought to market. Compounding is the dirty/dusty part of it all and not having to work as hard in the polishing phase to bring out the depth is awesome. Hats off to a great product for sure. http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083399/original.jpg Again, the flake in the paint is outstanding and really catches the light nicely. So much so that outside, my phone couldn't pick it up. Polishing was done with CarPro Essence and a White Lake Country Hybrid Force Pad. This serves as a great base/primer for the ceramic coating. http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083400/original.jpg Gotta love when the lights clean up as well as the paint: http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083406/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083401/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083407/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083403/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083402/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083405/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/167083404/original.jpg Overall they should be set for quite a while as the vehicle is at about 90% correction level and protected by a SiO2 Ceramic Coating. Thanks to both of you for trusting in my work. Great looking car and it sounds awesome but no where near too loud. Nice!

It's going to look purdy for sure......See you tomorrow night.

You have my PM on the Red Sport. I looked at most all of those and came from a B8.5 Audi S4. The transmission is the shitty part as it's an auto and I was coming from a dual clutch. Of the ones you listed I would have driven and liked to see the G70 but as you know it wasn't out. Nicest interior of all of them IMO. I went Infiniti for lease payment as no one could come close. Car has been awesome and the dealer if they treated me any better they'd blow me. Outstanding bend over backwards service. Go to Easton, the Dublin Dealer can be dicks. I wanted to lease the Red one the owner was about to take and they had on the showroom but they said no he didn't want to give it up but would go get something for me. I said no thanks I'll go get my own over at Easton and sent the dude a pic of mine from the next day. It just shocked me that they walked a customer over a car that I was ready to take home simply because the owner was going to keep it for his demo.

240/280z and if you want power, put a 5.0l in it and enjoy. I know of a certain 280 Turbo Z (1988?) on this board that might be coxed into being sold.

Where did I say they were lies? However, since you mention it, studies are simply data sets and can be skewed or presented in many ways. Believe what you want Kerry. While you watch these studies, the market is telling us something completely different. The fact that illegals come here for work, which perhaps you don't believe, is step one. The fact that so many are paid off-the-books is another. Perhaps you don't believe they are. I value research but I don't live and die by it as reality is right in front of us and that you can't argue. Hell, the dems argue it for us by stating there's a need for illegals to be here and that they are indeed taking our jobs. They even talk about how they are contributing to the economy and they aren't doing that without having a job that an American Citizen could have instead! We are actually talking about entitlement when we look at how many are clamoring for "living wages", etc....and jobs or doing what Cali is experimenting with and paying people for just being alive. Try and twist this back in a personal way to me all you want Kerry in some odd way of trying to insult or shame me but it's not going to change the facts. You might not like it nor will those looking for a job but you're not asked to like it, you're asked to deal with it in whatever way you choose. Go complain and stomp your feet for more money because you feel it's your right or go spend evenings working a job to earn money so you can spend it on gaining skills to get a better job. It's America, and the choice is yours. It's nothing more than value-add; who adds more a person or a machine and to what short and long term cost. I would agree although tempered with the reality that there are indeed groups of people who work the system vs working a job. If you don't see that then you're blind. I also agree that there are other factors impacting things but it's up to individuals to better themselves just as companies invest in themselves through technology. It will be but it won't break my heart to see Obamaphones go by the wayside.

Who's going to pay for the training of these people? Most companies aren't going to ante-up to pay for education and training. The better alternative is to simply out-source or bring in labor from overseas. Our IT Group ended up doing both. Tons of benefits to doing it and far less risk both financially and otherwise. Again, if Johnny doesn't want to put down the joint or step-up and pay his way through night school, there are plenty of foreigners willing to do both and come take that spot. The ones outside my office are have great gigs too and all three are pumped to be here.

with all the studies you cite and the geniuses out there, one would think America wouldn't have the problems that it has related to labor rates. I guess those studies just aren't able to move the lever on supply and demand. Go figure. I'm glad for you the answer lies in a study. Meanwhile in the real-world companies will continue to keep wages low if the supply of people willing to do the job continues to exist. At the same time others will cry they are somehow entitled to more just because they have bills to pay and life is tough. Sorry, but that's now how life works. Wages are based on merit yes, but the law of supply and demand exists too. Companies aren't going to pay $20hr. if there's a waiting list of applicants willing to do help them accomplish their goals for less. not sure where anything is absolute Kerry. employers have expectations and standards, if the applicants behaviors or life actions don't match then they will go on not working at said employers. It's not the employer and their standards or their expectations that are causing that person to go without a job. people need to realize that life isn't happening to them it more often than not happens because of them. Smoke pot and look to limit your job potentials. Pretty simple. You're entitled to your opinion on the matter but employers are too. Lots of people want to sit around and debate the matter and that's fine. Again, in the mean time, they will continue to get passed over because a job they hope to get isn't going to have it's job requirements change just to suite them. Again, supply and demand. I just go through explaining the above, a labor shortage and a higher paying marketplace. We addressed both without having to compromise our principles or bring in applicants at a different level or standard than we asked our current employees to hold-to or come in at. I'm sure you would like to see things like this change and in some areas and companies they might but others they will not. I personally support the stance we have for the point brought above which is out of respect for the thousands of other employees we already have and the standards they live by. No lowering of the bar here simply because little Johnny likes to get his weed-on. If Johnny has a sense of entitlement that high now what kind of employee is he going to be when he's on the payroll? No thanks; instead Johnny learned the hard way that there are indeed options on both sides of the job opening. I'm all for it but not for free. Society as a whole can't continue to pay for others without having a fair expectation in return. Nothing is free and the one benefiting directly from things is the first one that needs to step up to account for the costs. I never put a number out there but it's not hard to find people in today's world crying out with a sense of "entitlement" to things. I'd say we're at a point where I've never seen so many people who thinks the entire fucking world owes them something. I have an 11yr old and 15yr old and have these conversations daily.

Lots of good opportunities there and on Long Island too. We have several facilities on L.I. and they are all hiring and paying more. Our company announced a $2-5hr raise for all types of hourly positions and specifically noted it was in response to the tax breaks happening. Even here in Cbus we bumped up new hire offerings. I have salaried roles that are being filled at record levels of base salaries. My last hire HR told me to offer more even! The market is strong and there is indeed a shortage for our distribution center in NY so we've pivoted to go after college students on a part time basis (20-25hrs) since the battle for full time is tough given wages. College kids however will jump on our offerings and the flexibility of hours and for us if they need to work more hours due to business volumes, we don't have to pay overtime rates to them as the hours are still within guidelines. Yes, we do have a strict drug policy and that isn't going to change any time soon. The reality is it's a solid policy all around.

Agree that it's a statement that can't be applied to "everyone" but we all know it's not and instead is just generalized statement being made. That said, I disagree that's it's a xenophobia or social program targeted comment. The reality is that low wage immigrant workers do take away from actual American's. So you don't feel drug testing is warranted? Love to hear more about that. As someone responsible for over 315 line workers in a production environment I'd love to have you take a tour and understand why it's critical. Everything from showing up on time, to safety are concerns. Not to mention not walking around with a hazy mind and productive and contributing overall are important. I'd have to check with HR To see what our disqualification rates are. So what's the solution? IMO there are tons of people walking around that do not invest in themselves and that's sad. Perhaps they should stop spending money on weed and put that towards school?

what did you decide on to replace it?

an oldie by today's 24hr news cycle standards but still a goodie. Reality is that in 2016 the FBI reported 11k murders by gun. That's about 3.4 per 100k. If you look at rifles only it's a barely measurable .12 per 100k. Subtract the number of blacks and Mexican gang members & drug related murders and factor in you live in a pretty safe city statistically speaking Kerry and you can rest easy as the chances of you being shot and killed by anyone here is pretty slim.

I believe your numbers thus no real studies are needed afterall. Let's begin by going after preventing the majority which have signs of paranoid schizophrenia and to keep the liberals at bay by avoiding racism claims, we'll ignore the race part you brought up. I actually think you provided a great example that supports my point. At least one that covers the majority. Long live the bubble!

some people don't want to hear the reality of things Brandon. It's sort of like wieght loss and the obesity problem in the US. the vast majority is simply that we eat like shit, eat a lot of shit and do no form of exercise to correct the basic imbalance of intake vs output. the solution doesn't take scientific research or complicated studies or correlate incomes analysis or economic studies, blah blah. People just need to eat better, eat less and fucking exercise. know too that as we age our metabolism slows and thus we need to either eat less and adjust diets and of course exercise more accordingly. do that and we'll fix 90% of the issues in America and go from being a nation of 50%+ fatties to only 10%.

So you consider my views on the value of our Amendments extreme? So if I call for the removal of the 4th amendment and others here say absolutely not are they being extreme? These are our rights man, not something I or many take lightly. Note how I stated Severe Infringment too.....I never said guns couldn't be regulated....hell they already are. Thus I don't consider my view extreme at all. I understand it Kerry, I just don't agree with the approach. That bullshit approach is complicated and allows for too much other politicking on both sides to take place. Make a fucking decision on what we want and make it happen. We don't need a "study" on who is coming into our country or how they are getting here to say keep illegal aliens the fuck out as they are costing us money. Keep it direct and simple and get shit done. If not, enjoy the complicated world of BS and getting nothing done while spending a lot to do it. You're out to boil the ocean when all someone wants is a cup of hot tea. Stop complicating things like lawyers do. Again, if you want to get shit done, you need to target the solution not study the world. If you want to keep 18yr olds crazy fucks from getting guns you only need to know how they are getting the guns. We know that in everyone of these cases. Most bought them legally. No study needed and the legality of what we have on the books......hasn't proven effective because 1. age isn't really a factor. An 18yr loon shooting up a school is as dangerous as a 56yr religious freak shooting up a clinic. Again, no study needed. How crazy they are or what specific drugs they were on isn't needed to put a law on the books. End-game has to do with HIPPA and what data is actually being shared from agency to agency. Start there, save the money and connect the dots and begin putting measures in place. We don't need to study and work towards perfection only to miss out on simply achieving progress or success. All that bullshit is why things here take so long to make simple changes and begin showing measurable impact. Who give a fuck. Suicide is more of a mental health issue. No study is needed to know that a gun in the bed stand of someone depressed might lead to them likely blowing their head off. Lots of people hang themselves but no one is studying the rope used to do it or if it's from a balcony or a closet rod. End game, keep guns out of hands of depression victims. Go from there.... I see no correlation at all. Most of these people are angry or crazy. Not sure I follow if it even matters what their financial situation or the market is showing. Perhaps I'm missing your point. can't speak to it as again, I don't worry too much about these studies as they are over-rated IMO and I see nothing from our gov' but bills and budgets full of pages of nothing anyone reads anyway. Keep the shit simple, effective and efficient. Complicated is not the answer. To you it may sound good but the effectiveness is what matters and we have decades of complicated not being effective at much of anything. time to fix that. results matter. let's work to get them quickly vs continuing the madness of arguing and debating. If you feel the amendments are meaningless and not the core-sacred values our country was founded on and in need of protecting then I don't expect you to understand my point. You will instead see them as extremist views as you do and accuse those of us looking to preserve our amendments. I don't consider my point extreme because 1. our constitution is not a living document and the issues around the 2A are more around the people not the guns or our gun rights. Fix the problem, don't fuck up our foundation. There are indeed people talking about repealing the 2A. You just choose to ignore it and them. I don't because the approach being taken is either extreme towards more chipping away out our rights and / or it's filled with complicated bullshit. then you need to listen better and talk less. yes, I am a moderate. Even a moderate will die for what he believes in. My brother did in a war and I would in a revolution but so have and would many moderates. Maybe you would not, but then I'm not surprised as you're willing to negotiate on our amendments and rights. I don't consider believing in our constitution an extremist view. I argue against complicated BS not facts. We don't need to solve for Pi just fix a few fucking minor issues and inject some basic common sense. If that doesn't work tweak things a bit more, and keep going. Not everything in life is complicated nor requires complex solutions.

here's where studies don't matter. in both this and the below, you're looking for some type of answer from a study when all we as society have to do is make a fucking call / decision to correlates to the result we want to see. I don't need to know to what degree crazy or sick someone is to determine if they should be able to buy a gun. again, what specifically are you looking for or to solve? we don't need a study to be commission to find out what 10 shooters were taking in terms of medications. The NRA isn't standing in the way of an autopsy and drug work up on people.

That's a chick? :fuckyeah: :fuuuu: :lolguy: GTFO!!!

not sure where you get that from but if that's your opening statement then it sounds like you've got some pretty poor sources of information. in fact I would say when someone asks you a question and notes that it's a real questions vs rhetorical or sarcastic that you might consider taking that at face value. YMMV though. so what information are you looking to reveal? again, serious question. how do you ask questions or conduct a study if you can't list out the end-game? define "isn't effective" or perhaps are you asking how to make it more effective? if the latter, where specifically isn't it effective? is it because mentally ill people have guns, felons get guns, kids are getting guns? fair question and perhaps one of the key ones. I will say we don't need a study on "guns" to perhaps get the answer as semi-auto guns and rifles have been around for years and that's not what has changed, so I'm sure you can see why the focus of everyone on guns is in question. clarify as I'm not sure what you mean but would like to. Kinda goes with the above about the root-cause right? clarify if it's more. I don't even see that as a correlation in school shootings so I'm not sure if you're referencing school shootings or shootings in general. I'm not concerned with what the 1990's showed or what everyone's pitch was back then. I wouldn't say you're "always" anything with or without something. Too many variables involved to claim such certainties. I do think the shootings alone prove that without a force multiplier like a gun, you're odds of a direct confrontation with a shooter a classroom is going to yield you being killed. No studies needed for that. In the case of this Florida shooting and even the CT School shooting, the teachers who dove in front and took the initial rounds to save their kids would have likely had a better chance living and accomplishing a better outcome had they put a round down range at him and on-target vs using themselves as a human shield. YMMV on that though. again, you've made up your mind so it really seems you're the extremist in this exchange not me. I'm the one who is asking you the questions, thus I'm the one looking to engage. If I was being an extremist I would simply not give a shit what you have to say on the matter. Clearly, I'm interested. More assumptions on your part. Must be a bad day at work? I agree that emotions need removed. I'm not holding my stance on guns for emotional reasons at all. In fact, I would say quite the opposite. That said, I'm not one for "studies" where studies may not be needed. 2+2 is 4, I don't need a congressional study to determine that. If it shocked you then what does that say of your understanding of me? should you be putting words in my mouth and stating I'm an extremist or perhaps you should "engage" a bit more and put down your hard-line stance a bit? Would I be asking you to clarify your stance and specifics around questions if I didn't want to hear the answers or gain clarity on them? Not sure why you try and personalize it with the use of my name and the word "afraid" as if to provoke something from me but whatever floats your boat. We already know each other man, you don't have to patronize me. Keep it real and perhaps less snarky and perhaps peeps will respond better to you overall. As you would say, don't stoop to that level.

OMG is anyone watching Diane Fienstien and the POTUS? She is so old-school and over dramatic that her and Pelosi flat out need to go. She's ridiculous.

What are you top 5-10 things these studies will reveal? real question as the above you mentioned is silly as the law of supply and demand impact on pricing doesn't need a gov't study. Stores know how to price guns as do manufacturers. The reallity of the above is smart people know that semi automatic rifles don't kill people nor are they the root-cause, thus the reason I have no care in the world about what gun was used in any of these shootings. Not sure if you're just being silly here but that's how I feel. see my above question. not sure what questions your looking to have asked.

I support their having the ability to do what they did. It's thier company and their call. Same goes for those removing NRA discounts. I don't have to approve or support them and can vote with my wallet if I choose. Just the same, I don't support elected officials taking away the tax breaks of Delta for their removing discounts. That IMO is not the role gov't should play. Just like with Dicks, let the market sort itself out. IMO the whole removal of discounts is likely more of a financial play that happens to correspond to the political climate than it is a true act of good. That's me being cynical though. They have all likely done the math and made a business decision just like any of us would.

Kerry stills needs to buy that Porsche [emoji2] Sent from my Galaxy Note 8 using Tapatalk

Do we need to phone in a tip to the FBI for this or should we just book the entire cars and coffee event to show up and help keep the good times rolling

LOL that it's exactly like that at all of our offices. To get in or out at any time other than fire drills or emergencies, there's only a single point of entry / exit and it's guarded by multiple individuals and the cameras at all locations are monitored remotely-live in real time. One time we had a delivery guy go a bit pissy due to an order being messed up and it being refused. He was deer in headlights frozen when 3-4 people confronted him and the monitor behind the guard changed over to a live view of the remote security team also chiming in to address the situation and make sure the local people had it under control. He was overwhelmed by the attention that came his way so quickly.

Freedom isn't and never has been any different. And the grand scheme even over the past 10 years not that many people overall have been killed in these types of shootings. The absence of Big Ideas has been void from both sides. All that's being discussed is the same old partisan politics. On one side you have a group that enjoys our freedoms and on the other a group that wants more regulated and managed freedoms Sent from my Galaxy Note 8 using Tapatalk

anyone else have a 2A like ours? any other country have a culture and history like ours which includes such a right? true and those other countries don't celebrate the same freedoms as us. The US is about the most free country one can live in and enjoy all that we have to offer. the real problem isn't guns and the cost of lives per year in events like this are perhaps the cost we pay to have the freedoms and life we do have. I'm okay with it as other countries have people die too. Life sucks at times but I'll take my right and your right to have access to weapons as we do regardless of the cost we are paying. We don't have to sacrifice that right to fix the problem and everyone knows it. The solution just doesn't fit the agenda that they want which is to remove guns from our society. Sorry but I don't WANT to be LIKE those other countries. Again, people who don't like our 2A should get the fuck out and move to the UK or elsewhere as you're no longer looking to be a true American.