iwatehead

I've got a couple of grand still to go. Maybe before the year is out, I'm hoping.

BOSS!

Belching, slurping, sucking - aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh

I don't know what you do for a living, but can people now use your work easily for free without your permission and without even considering paying for it, where a few years ago they would have had to pay for the same?

So does that mean that you will pay for everything then once such a system comes into effect?

Get a pic!

...but in the meantime that's not the case...

Ocean11 I understand both sides of the coin on this one, so don't strongly believe in the points I brought up. I was just presenting them as possible reasons. Just for the fun of the discussion, here's another one.... When you say that "if they presented products that suited me better, you'd be more inclined to pay for them" - how does that reasoning hold up if you are downloading some parts of an artists work etc? Usually don't we either want and buy a product, or decide not to buy because it doesn't suit us? With many products we can't just buy the bits we like (ie the

I wasn't accusing you of anything. You just asked "Why buy when you can rent or download" and I suggested reasons. Apart from the debatable issue on record companies "stealing" from us for years....if someone steals from you, does it make it then ok to in return steal from them??

Many J guys wear wigs here? I'm sure theres a lot of guys out there, we all know they dye their hair jet black until 80, but what about wigs?

Nope - even has some beers with the local police dudes

Comes here around midday every day I think.

Why? Possible reasons >>--- - feeling bad about downloading for free ("stealing"?) and not paying for the product? - and wanting to support favorite artist - wanting to have the original product (case, booklet, etc)

You can console yourself by the fact that this is a cool winter sports forum

I saw that too, pretty neat. I like bottoms.

All of the naughy boys and their supporters should most definitely be punished.

Valentines Day and White Day. And giri choco.

How does Morioka rate folks?

Is gaijin usually meant as a derogatory term or not? (sorry if this has been discussed before, new here!)

Probably difficult to say and it depends on the weather an' all - but how do they compare generally? Thanks Rod

I'm in the US now, but am heading over to Iwate in the summer. The Japanese winter looks SWEET

Thanks for that. A good introduction. Hi all, I'll be in Iwate in time for next season Rod