What the #$@% happened to the big yawn board?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I think that was Sam...
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
 

Originally posted by ggdoubleballs (tm):
 [QB] Why are you so upset about posting your pic? Maybe some nice little 9:30 board girl will be turned on and ask you out on a date....although you do look like an emaciated midget.        
 
 

 I bet Eddie would put an extra dab of eyeliner on for him...(it was Eddie who wore the eyeliner wasn't it?) [/b]

[TheGrimace]

Originally posted by redsock:
  Now I'm gonna go ahead and stick up for the guy...leave thegrimace alone. He is just trying to make a point, albeit a wrong one. At least he is trying to be rational, unlike many of his compatriots in the rebellion.

thanks man! i'm honestly not a bad guy.  and i'll try and do something about my hair for you guys, hahaha  

[ggw]

Originally posted by redsock:
  Now I'm gonna go ahead and stick up for the guy...leave thegrimace alone. He is just trying to make a point, albeit a wrong one. At least he is trying to be rational, unlike many of his compatriots in the rebellion.

Can I post his picture on BigYawn.net?

[Bags]

Originally posted by TheGrimace:
  I posted on the big yawn forum but i didn't personally post 50 million times or something.  also, i didn't e-mail any of you! i'm just trying to tell you guys where the people that did those things are coming from. you know, be the voice of reason or whatever.

That's important information -- it certainly appeared that all the posters on the HFStival thread on this were involved in the emailing, board flooding, etc.  It's the full discussions on the HFS site that I've thought are just insane, and make me happy to be here.
 
 As Markie did for us over there, you've been an emissary here...it was worth talking it through.
 
 I know the bigyawn admin, though, and one email to him would have gone a LONG way and been oh so reasonable.

[Bags]

What's funny is this long debate about the No Electronic Theft Act is that the hfstivalnuts posted it themselves on bigyawn -- right there to read!!
 
 "SEC. 2. CRIMINAL INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS.
 (a) DEFINITION OF FINANCIAL GAIN- Section 101 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the undesignated paragraph relating to the term `display', the following new paragraph:
 
 `The term `financial gain' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works.'.
 
 ( CRIMINAL OFFENSES- Section 506(a) of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
 
 `(a) CRIMINAL INFRINGEMENT- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either--
 
 `(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
 
 `(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,..."

[godsshoeshine]

redsock and markie clearly getting rich off of this. please buy me an ipod

[thirsty moore]

We all go through some rough spots with haircuts.  I certainly can't throw stones.
 
 Either way, I'm sure you understand that posting on this board was a very easy way for a lot of people who have been receiving junk email to vent.
 
 I've said some spiteful things and I'm apologizing for them.  Hopefully you spend some more time on both BigYawn -- a great review site -- and the 930 forum.  HFS is no way to hear new music!
 
 

Originally posted by TheGrimace:
 thanks man! i'm honestly not a bad guy.  and i'll try and do something about my hair for you guys, hahaha    

[Bags]

Yeah, check out the Soundtrack of our Lives review from a couple weeks ago, and today's on the Get Up Kids.  Nice to see the GUPs get props for growing...I've never understood why they get so slammed with all the other sh*t that's out there.

[helicon1]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  redsock and markie clearly getting rich off of this. please buy me an ipod

I'm not usually old-fashioned. But I'm not buying into the IPOD phenomenen. CD quality is still so much better. Also, the battery issue bothers me along with the fact that something better is coming around (See today's Post Business section).... And I'm not intentionally trying to change the topic  

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by helicon1:
 I'm not usually old-fashioned. But I'm not buying into the IPOD phenomenen. CD quality is still so much better. Also, the battery issue bothers me along with the fact that something better is coming around (See today's Post Business section).... And I'm not intentionally trying to change the topic    

[Celeste]

Originally posted by helicon1:
  CD quality is still so much better [than ipod].

wouldn't that depend on the speakers?

[Bags]

The crazy part is this is the confirmed (I believe) portion of the festival that brought all this hulabaloo about:
 
 Violent Femmes
 Cypress Hill
 New Found Glory
 POD
 Blindside
 Hazen St.
 Lacuna Coil
 Stars Hide Fire
 
 Now, is *anyone* going to this?!?    

[godsshoeshine]

i think alot of the quality issue has to do with the rate you rip your mp3s. i never put on a cd at home, just go to itunes, have the computer hooked up to the stereo. can't tell the difference. besides, i listen to alot of lofi stuff anyway. i'm sure they will come out with something better soon, but will it work with osx?

[markie]

Originally posted by helicon1:
  I'm not usually old-fashioned. But I'm not buying into the IPOD phenomenen. CD quality is still so much better. Also, the battery issue bothers me along with the fact that something better is coming around (See today's Post Business section).... And I'm not intentionally trying to change the topic      

Nice change of topic. I didnt think the ipod was a great idea either. But I got one for $100 and now if it broke, I would have to get a new one tomorrow. The battery issue is pretty rare. I dont have it. And the sound quality is great. Certainly better than my old panasonic portable CD player. Anything CD with shock protection is unlikely to sound better than a decent quality MP3.

[Bags]

My iPod is 18 months old and no problems...