Selling an Xbox 360 with 4 regular controllers, RockBand Pro Drums with Goodwood heads (these are really nice. Very popular with the competitive drummers back in the day., 2 guitars, a dj hero controller, a rockband keytar, and a lot of games.

$200 or something, idk. 

This is the car I picked up for my father in law to supplement his rusting out truck, but long story short he hasn't been able to come down and get it, and has more pressing needs at the moment than a second car.

It's a 2001 Pathfinder with 195k miles. Previous owner had it for like 16 years as a family car, then used it for his summer painting work so there's various white paint marks around the interior. Has one rust area over rear passenger fender, but can only really see with the door open. It's a weird spot to rust in my mind.

Tires are great, and I've been driving it the past couple of months. Made it up to Nova last week with out missing a beat.

Just put it on CL for $3500, but talk to me if you're interested.

So bought this thing like a month ago. Not planning on doing anything crazy on it but still figured I'll make a thread about it. 





Stock ka in all it's glory.

A bit rough around the edge, peeling clear coat, kinda rusty, rough interior. BUT, it came with BC racing coilovers, 17x9.5 MB battles, KAZZ 2-Way LSD, Megan headers, ISR 3" Catback, full set of Voodoo arms, other small stuff like Kouki led taillights, front clear lenses, S15 steering wheel.
All those parts (if brand new) add up to more than what I paid for the car. Then factor in the value of a manual 240sx with all it's body panels and interior pieces.
And still has A/C (hopefully it works in summer), cruise control (doesn't work because of s15 wheel lol), and even the original evap charcoal canister!
It made the 4 hour drive back no problem, even traversing 20 miles of compacted snow on the roads in 0F temperature where the previous owner lived (was quite the experience).

The clutch was pretty sticky and grabbed a bit high, so I replaced the clutch master and slave and bypassed the clutch damper. Also had to replace a brake caliper because it leaked all the brake fluid out of the rear right while i was doing the clutch hydraulic stuff. Sadly didn't fix it. New clutch time:

Ebay goodness, XTD "stage 2" clutch, 12lb flywheel. Need to install this asap. + Redline mt90 GL4 fluid. Clutch is gonna see a lot of abuse drifting so I don't want it to start failing mid event. So needs to be replaced

Also the unopened billet aluminum adjustable Voodo13 arms that it came with: Rear upper, rear toe, rear tract, ecc lockout, front tension, and outer tie rods

Oh yeah the dude also threw me some 18" 350z wheels (anybody want to buy them? lol), spare welded diff, and an ebay catback (gave to a friend), 

Did some small stuff involving lights and horn for inspection tomorrow, *crosses fingers*. Want to start dailying it.
Besides that, the only other thing I want to do is install a bucket seat pretty much. Once it gets warmer I need to install new thermostat, aftermarket temp gauge, and silicon rad hoses. Better pads will also be needed. I want to shred off these tires on it right now then put some sticky 200tw 255's on it. Then get a set of spares for drifting.
April 20th first local drift event I plan on taking it to. So hopefully I finish everything I want to do on it by then. Also want to take it to some hpde events.

'06 Jeep Wrangler Sport
6-spd manual
Dana 44 rear
81K miles
Asking - ***SOLD***





Clean (especially for a TJ) and has been extremely reliable throughout my ownership. Street driven, has not been wheeled. Mechanically needs nothing, cosmetically very nice. Interior is extremely nice, near mint. Does have some paint bubbling under passenger door and various minor parking lot scars..it is a 13 year old Jeep. Thanks for looking guys.

Lenovo S330 Chromebook.  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/len...8LGCS31095
14" screen,  4gb ram, snappy cpu, android app compatibility.  I did my homework,  this is a good chromebook.

New, never used.   I originally bought it for my daughter for her schoolwork,  but ended up installing lubuntu on an old laptop which works well enough.
Went to return it, but was a day past the return window.   The clerk didnt bother to check that until after opening the box to make sure I wasnt returning a brick,   so the box has been opened,  but the laptop has never been turned on or used.  

Paid $180 + tax,   yours for $160 and an uplifting poem.  Pick up in Falls Church, VA.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-81JW00.../206750547

2001 Honda Civic EX (power windows, AC, cruise, sunroof, etc...). 5 speed manual. My wife is the original owner and it has been my highway commuter for the last 2 year. Currently the mileage is at 183xxx, but will go up roughly 800-1000 miles a week until it is sold as I am going to keep driving it until it sells. Oil has always been changed at 5000 mile intervals with Castrol. Until we go married it was always dealer serviced and since I have been doing it myself. It really hasn't needed much repair work except an AC compressor. The car is almost 20 years old, so please expect some road rash, scratches, etc, but cleans up very nicely. 

Rust Free!

Service Highlights:
Timing belt, water pump were replaced at 108k
New AC compressor in June '18
Engine mounts June '18
Front control arms Nov. '18

Comes with 2 sets of wheels/tires. Snow tire are currently mounted on the factory wheels, and all season on the aftermarket wheels and all the tires are new within the last year. 

Not so good:
The right rear quarter was backed into recently while I was at work 
Right front fender has some dents. 
Large scratch/dent on the drivers door
Headliner is starting to fall 
Hood latch mount is currently safety wired together due to cheap metal failing (and has been for the last 2 years without an issue) 


Passed VA inspection in late November, but will need new brake pads soon.

It is a perfect commuter or first car. I wouldn't hesitate to drive it anywhere. My wife got an SUV and I got her hand me down Mazda 3 as my “new” commuter

$2500 

I'm just not wearing it. Being WFH, the need for quick glance notifications isn't needed. So I've been wearing my other "dumb" watches.

This is the model, it works great, and looks good. No charging, just battery replacement every year, which can be done withoit special tools.

Its flawless, as I've only worn it 7-8 times. Works for Android or IOS.

https://www.fossil.com/us/en/products/hy...71P-5927-1

$85 for MMers shipped, comes with original black leather band and I'll throw in a Black Nato with some extra spring bars (Blue nato in pic not included). Takes any 22mm band.

The other day, the CTO and other higher-level tech brains at my company held an information session in the office.  The subject was RPA, or Robotic Process Automation.  The idea being that with our new-found familiarity with AI, we could keep our eyes and ears open with our clients and report back with any processes that their staffs perform that could be done by a software robot that we could develop and sell them.  There were mentions of how the aim is to increase efficiency and not put people out of work, but in almost the same breath, the presenters demo'd how they could replace our own secretarial and partial HR staff with AI.

It was a small, stepping-stone facet into the polarizing topic of AI & automation, sure, but the implications were clear.  I've been increasingly interested in understanding the effects automation (of its various forms) can and will have on our future - to include the ethics and decision-making behind creating and deploying AI in the first place.  It's a huge topic that I think we're all at least somewhat familiar with so I'm not going to unpack the whole topic here, but rather I wanted to get a conversation going around a few points that come to mind, to start.

• Is automation inevitable?
  
  
• What do we think the broader, long term effects of automation will be on society and long-held norms of modern life?
  
  
• Is there really a historical precedent that can be used as an example to discuss the possible effects of automation?
  
  
• What avenues will be available to people who find themselves automated out of a job?
  
  
• What must be done to ensure the economical benefits of automation are equitably shared?
  

• In the short term, I think there are few business owners that could resist the profit margins possible by automating as much work as possible out of the hands of human beings.  We're far from the ideal workers - we sleep, require vacation time & health benefits, get injured, etc.  That, and competition will drive any business that doesn't adopt the efficiencies of AI to do so in the face of competing businesses getting on board.  I don't think that halting technological progress is ever the answer, but instead there has to be conversations held on a global scale that aren't narratives bought & paid for by the global elite about the effects of automation, and there's reason to be pessimistic about this.  There seems to already be evidence of an interesting duality occurring right now in which business & thought leaders on the subject are selling the idea that "compassionate automation" will be the order of the day, while behind the scenes it's a race to get AI in place ASAP, no matter what the effects (yet to be fully understood) are.
  

• I think automation could be an avenue towards some sort of quasi-Star Trek economy, long term.  In that realm, they got rid of scarcity, and adopted a mix of socialism & capatilism - the state provided the basics, and if you wanted more, you were free to explore making what profit there is to make in often creative or service industries.  Who knows what the next century holds, but as AI matures, we're going to have to investigate concepts like universal basic income if any non-managerial job not requiring creative thinking eventually ends up on the chopping block.  The more AI matures, in theory, the fewer traditional jobs remain, which would totally upend, well, pretty much all industries, taxation structures, & the way work shapes lots of people's sense of self.
  

• I see lots of parallels being drawn between the industrial revolution & automation, and I'm not sure they're entirely accurate.  It was absolutely the case that a couple hundred years ago, there were industries and endeavors that had the growth potential to absorb vast quantities of people.  Agricultural jobs that were destroyed were replaced by factory jobs building or maintaining machinery, for example.  Today, with globalization added into the equation, there are many, many jobs at risk of being replaced by AI on a global scale, and as I already pointed out, there are theoretically only so many data scientist, app developer, & big data specialist roles that can be created.  The Industrial Revolution was about mechanizing the processes of human labor to increase profits per person; the automation revolution is about replacing those people entirely.  I definitely see the long-term benefits possible from the automation revolution, but I think the process for getting there could be much more painful if not handled properly - and in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, we had two major Communist revolutions that killed over 100 million people.  I'm not even touching on climate change and the possible resource wars that could occur, or other conflicts from mass migration.
  

• How sustainable is large-scale job-loss due to automation, on what kind of timeline?  Even if we don't call it job-loss - say, "career reorganization", plenty of people are advertising that, at least in the short term, people can just re-train into careers that are still in-demand and not automated.  Software developers being the #1 cited career.  This is of course assuming there will be a 1-to-1 demand for a software developer for each job automated out of existence.  We're currently (in America) experiencing a lack of qualified tech-industry employees, so this may be true for a certain period of time (assuming everyone who is out of a job is willing and able to re-train).  On a long enough timeline, enough jobs (including in the tech sector) may be automated or otherwise streamlined to the point that large swaths of people just get left out of the equation.  This could eventually go above and beyond the unknown jobs that could be created by automation (robot servicing? there's already talk of automating automation...)
  

• There's already evidence that businesses might try to shirk some responsibility for implementing automation in the name of increasing profits.  Companies are in the business of making money, and one could argue that even the products or services they provide are incidental in that goal, and you could add employing people to that list.  Some important conversations are being had, given the foregone inevitability of automation, that the real issue to discuss is how to ensure that the broad changes to our socioeconomic systems don't just benefit those at the top.  I'm not sure what this would look like - transitioning businesses large and small into co-ops that pay out to current & former employees, pension style, from the profits grown from increasing automation?  Henry Ford had it figured out that his workers need to be able to afford the very product they're making for his business to be sustainable.  Large businesses and industries need to be able to maintain the buying power of the populace as a whole to survive.
  

After three years at JMU, it's finally starting to sink in that I won't be here too much longer. I always looked forward to graduating, getting a real job, and being on my own. Now that the reality is coming closer with every passing scantron exam, I am starting to wonder about how life will actually play out after I walk across that stage. I want to see what you all did, what you didn't, what you wished you did, and everything in between.

This came about when I was looking between getting a project race car and dd, or just a fun daily that could also do track duty. I started making me wonder how much free time do you actually have when you get out of school and start your first job. Are you working so hard to impress your bosses that free time is a thing of the past? Or are you sitting at your desk on GroupMe harassing college students over the internet? 

Did you stay in the state where you grew up/where JMU was, or did you take a job in another state? I've been thinking of eventually moving out to Colorado after growing up in VA all my life. Thinking it might be a smarter move to get a job in VA first, then transfer over to whatever state once I get comfortable in my industry. Is this how you get trapped in a state forever though? Do you wish you had gone to a new state right out of college for your first job? 

Was money tighter than you expected when you started budgeting for yourself, buying furniture for apartments, going out to eat with colleagues, etc? Do you wish you had refrained from spending on anything, or maybe wished you had spent more on bars for networking or furniture for your empty apartment? Did you ask for your first raise to accommodate your lifestyle, or was it given to you over time?

What else did I miss? How were your first few years out of college? Lay the truth on me, scare me from ever leaving, convince me to take up a double major and become the first ever 10th year at JMU.

Getting back into the forum, so I guess I’ll start a thread for my baby. My 2010 corvette grand sport. So to start the story off I originally had sold the Elise and was looking for a C6 zr1 when I stumbled upon my now vette. It was right around the price of the zr1 I was looking at and after taking such a massive loss on the Camaro when I sold it the idea of buying one well sorted with most the money already spent really got me going. After having it checked out I bought it. So for the car itself, tr6060, triple disk clutch, forged bottom end 416 stroker, paxton 2200r, pfadt coilovers, weld racing wheels with Mickey Thompson’s for the strip, forgestars with r888’s for twisties, and everything to support those things. Since I’ve bought it I’ve cleaned runs up, had a safer retune (859whp), quieter dual mode exhaust, and just cleaned it up. Also added an ethanol content sensor but I’ll jeed some bigger injectors before that.


   

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