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    The Long Weekend

    in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry

    Posted

    Had possibly the best day of riding i've ever had, this weekend.

     

    Got out with a good crew and discovered the south face of Goryu/47. Gigantic open face with powder from the summit to base. Terrain had everything from ridges and bowls, to drops and tree runs. Felt like it was straight out of a snowboarding video. We had the whole face to ourselves so there was nothing but fresh lines the entire day... it was perfect.

     

    I've ridden niseko a few times, and this blew anything i've ridden at niseko away. I'm just afraid that everything for the rest of this season will be downhill compared to this weekend.

    Appi Kogen off-piste action?

    in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry

    Posted

    went on a group trip... so Hakkoda wasn't an option. Had a sweet bluebird day on saturday, unusually warm for that far north, and then it dumped saturday night/all-day sunday. Appi overall is a pretty tame mountain, I don't think there are any steeps at all. Some decent lift-line runs, but nothing to write home about. I had a good weekend just being in the snow, but I don't think i'll be going out of my way to make a trip back there anytime soon.

    near new york?

    in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry

    Posted

    I'd recommend Hunter, Windham (2.5-3 hour ride to upstate NY from NYC), or head up to southern vermont (4-4.5 ride) to Mount Snow (personal favorite), Killington (Huge) or Okemo (big and uncrowded).

     

    The snow in upstate NY is most likey going to be sh*t compared to japan, but Vermont usually gets decent snowfall. I'd go for the extra hour in the car for good riding in Vermont. have fun!

    Something I've noticed watching the Olympics

    in General off-topic discussions

    Posted

    decided to come out of my summer snow-japan hibernation because I heard gloves came off and blood was a flyin'!

     

    I just wanted to say... I'm a better snowboarder AND surfer than any of you. My proof is my big talk.

     

    That being said:

     

    What I post means more than what you post.

    I am a better person than you.

    I lead a better life than you.

     

    case closed.

     

    p.s. USA will kick your country's ass! Bush/Cheney 2004! wOOT!

     

    ;\)

    No more Bill

    in General off-topic discussions

    Posted

    NF - what you're saying couldn't be more true.

    FOX news is bad news. Have a look at this article about how they succesfully prevented a whistleblowing report (which was supposed to expose cancer-causing effects of milk produced with Monsanto corporations rBST drugs) from airing.

     

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    All she wanted to do was warn people about the hidden dangers of hormones in dairy products. And for that, Jane Akre lost her job, along with fellow investigative journalist Steve Wilson.

     

    Jane and Steve sued Fox Television for wrongful dismissal under Florida's whistleblower statute, which protects those who try to prevent others from breaking the law.

     

    But her appeal court judges ruled that falsifying news isn't actually against the law. So they denied Jane her whistleblower status, overturned the case, and withdrew her $425,000.00 award.

    Full Interview

     

    seriously, if more americans don't wise up very soon. The country is fukt.

    No more Bill

    in General off-topic discussions

    Posted

    This article is kind of interesting regarding Fox being #1 in the US: Link

     

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    Fox vs. everyone else

     

    Fox News Channel, then, is so far neither the choice of most people who watch cable news, nor the more successful business model. But the perception that Fox is "trouncing" CNN--based largely on the fact that the number Nielsen releases to the public emphasizes heavy viewers--is of great use to Fox, which trumpets these ratings as a vindication of its partisan, "fair & balanced" approach to the news. Reacting to a guest's charge that Fox had a right-wing bias, Brian Kilmeade, co-host of the successful Fox & Friends morning show (2/25/03), boasted: "Then what does that say about the country when they made us No. 1?"

     

    But even in the limited sense of average hourly watchers, Fox is only No. 1 among 24-hour cable news channels. Fox, like CNN, now reaches about 4 of every 5 television households, so comparisons with broadcast news shows are increasingly valid. And among all television news sources, Fox's performance is nothing to brag about.

     

    The O'Reilly Factor is the best-rated show on Fox, with about 2 million viewers a night (Daily Variety, 12/5/03). CBS Evening News, the least-watched broadcast network evening news show, routinely gets four or five times as big an audience, and that's seen as a ratings disaster. Fox's flagship news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, gets a million viewers on a good night-a few thousand more than the local newscast of New York City's WNBC (Hollywood Reporter, 10/1/03; Nielsen).

     

    Fox likes to position itself as the alternative to all the other news that's on TV. As Fox News president Roger Ailes likes to claim (New York Times, 6/24/01), "If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left." If it's true that news can be put into two categories--Fox and everything else--then when Special Report airs, everything else beats Fox by at least 30 to one.

    How do you get your music?

    in General off-topic discussions

    Posted

    Soulseek has a really good library, and search results change depending on who is signed on to the network. So if you're looking for something tough to find, add the name of the artist and/or album to your wishlist and it will automatically pop up a list of results when someone who has it signs on. If it's something I know I'll never find online like a Japan-only release, I'll just buy the CD (unless of course it's one of those 3000+ yen discs).

    How do you get your music?

    in General off-topic discussions

    Posted

    DL DL DL. I've only bought maybe a handful of albums on CD in the last two years.

     

    If the RIAA had been ahead of the curve and embraced technology instead of resisting, it could have been great for consumers and business. Instead they choose to keep trying to hold a grip on an old school business-model, dying a slow painful death. Apple store is on the right track, but $1 a song is still too expensive IMO. Buy an album with 20 tracks and you're paying the same amount of money for a lossy compressed version of an album without the nicely designed cd booklet. Seems like the consumer still gets the ish end of the stick.

     

    until prices become more reasonable, or good subscription services become available, I'll stick to soulseek. \:\)

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