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Old 06-03-2015, 03:58 AM
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British market is on drugs. Buba just picked up his Mrk II 6.GT3 last month for approx. 1/3rd of that...

This one would be my pick. I know the previous owner, traded at 56k GBP just recently - extremely tidy example as he looked after it really well and did alot of preventative maintenance.


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I rest my case: Porsche GB demonstrator (done approx 30,000km on track and at hands of journalists) for sale on Pistonheads at the bargain price of 70,000 NZD above its original optioned list price! Its actually the cheapest for sale out of 30 on Pistonheads. They are asking up to $150,000 NZD premium on cars that in RHD config only stopped production a few weeks ago (and are still being made in LHD).

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...ed-war/4249673
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Originally Posted by 993 Targa
Yes well as part of what I have been watching I concluded by watching this TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howa...ge=en#t-478895

It spends a while showing how advanced computers already are, much more than one would think, and then points out at the end, there won't be many jobs left. When computers can do services and robotics can do manual work there isn't much left for people to get paid for. His solution is to change the system and separate productivity from income earning, good luck doing that! As you have said, problems for the future but I always think long term and worry for my as yet unborn children.

Having a little while ago read an economics piece showing a pie chart of how the London Stock Exchange was broken up by industry in the late 1800s versus today almost all of the industries are different. Railroads were huge, try making money off one of them these days! Those who don't think ahead quickly get left behind.
Its Back to the Future mate! Robots of the future doing manual labour at very low cost like the black slaves of the past...Hasta La Vista Baby!
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Originally Posted by Macca
Its Back to the Future mate! Robots of the future doing manual labour at very low cost like the black slaves of the past...Hasta La Vista Baby!
I, for one, welcome our new mechanical overlords...

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These Lesbots are hot to trott tonight!!!
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and their thread sisters eg:

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Old 06-03-2015, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Macca
Its Back to the Future mate! Robots of the future doing manual labour at very low cost like the black slaves of the past...Hasta La Vista Baby!
Indeed. Time to buy a DeLorean then?
Old 06-03-2015, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 996tnz
I, for one, welcome our new mechanical overlords...



and their thread sisters eg:

https://rennlist.com/forums/rennlist...aland-104.html


This is Bettina. I found her in the barn, she was shirking her responsibilities cutting cane in the back paddock for the biomass generators. She had been a naughty robot so I had to reprimand her...Brown Sugar...you make me feel so good!
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That's got me thinking. Making/playing Sport, pornography and Music. If you are good at those things it will take a while for AI & Robots to take over your job I reckon ;-). Tell the future fruit of your loins.
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Originally Posted by 993 Targa
Indeed. Time to buy a DeLorean then?
Its a good idea. I could go into the past to when I had a house in Auckland with a double garage and leave it there solving my storage issues permanently!
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Originally Posted by Macca
Its a good idea. I could go into the past to when I had a house in Auckland with a double garage and leave it there solving my storage issues permanently!
Actually its a stupid idea. If I could go into the past why would I be bothered to sort out my storage problems. I would dial in 1992, steal a Lancia Integrale, ram raid a bank, run from the law out driving them with my awesome skilz and buy 200,000 Apples shares at $7 each (now worth 25MM) and leave them with a solicitor in perpetual trust for myself with his fees prepaid for 25 years!
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Originally Posted by Macca
That's got me thinking. Making/playing Sport, pornography and Music. If you are good at those things it will take a while for AI & Robots to take over your job I reckon ;-). Tell the future fruit of your loins.
Hmm. Pornographic sport to music - guess we'll know humanity is truly lost when machines beat us at synchronised swimming!
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Reminds me of this 80's creation.

Cherry 2000!
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/


Originally Posted by Macca
This is Bettina. I found her in the barn, she was shirking her responsibilities cutting cane in the back paddock for the biomass generators. She had been a naughty robot so I had to reprimand her...Brown Sugar...you make me feel so good!
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Originally Posted by CS Mende
Reminds me of this 80's creation. Cherry 2000! http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/
Oh gosh. I actually remember that! Scary!
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Originally Posted by Pel
Can anyone point me to the best spot to get calipers repainted. Haslers want $350 per caliper.
I prepped my 964 C4 calliper set (removed from car, sanded thoroughly, degrease washed - takes a while) and Europacific repainted them and applied Porsche Graphics in the process. Very happy with them. Not their main work but they have done a fair few in the past. Maybe give Steve a call as an alternative.
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Originally Posted by O2GO
I prepped my 964 C4 calliper set (removed from car, sanded thoroughly, degrease washed - takes a while) and Europacific repainted them and applied Porsche Graphics in the process. Very happy with them. Not their main work but they have done a fair few in the past. Maybe give Steve a call as an alternative.
Thanks Doug & Nik for the info, it's for the 996
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