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Operation: Bring Light to Hades
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From: Mike Kallay <kal...@ghostrider.org>
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Re: Operation: Bring Light to Hades
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In article <ak8pb1dbvpcebeoe47f25til0j1q9vc...@4ax.com>,
rast...@kingwoodXXXXXcable.net says...
> Perhaps the owner, who apparently is a real bad judge of character,
> talking with you, doesn't expect a bunch of drunks taking lighting
> equipment and cameras on a coaster that goes 60 mph in the dark.
Hey dickhead, you don't know me, and you got some nerve calling me or
anyone else in my group a drunk. Because not one of us is close to
something like that.
Secondly, every train I saw go out at Mt. Olympus had at least one
person with a still camera, so get the sand out of your vaJayJay and
shut up. You have zero ground to be righteous.
> You realize this sorta shit is going to cost Holiday World a few
> million soon, right? Enthusiasts flaunting rules violations, and
> leaving visual proof on teh internet will come back and haunt parks.
Sounds like you speak through experience. Those two who surprisingly
tolerated you left up their own video even after the incident and after
requests to take it down. Trying to compare a video with a lapbar
practically perpendicular to the seat to a video with a flashlight ride
is asinine, especially when the other video was concrete proof of rider
irresponsibility indirectly condoned by said park.
> You can bet if someone gets injured in that tunnel some day, this
> thread will be brought up by the plaintiffs lawyer in settlement
> negotiations.
I'll take it down next week when those who want to see it have seen it.
If someone is killed by a stray Eveready flashlight in the future, I'll
gladly cooperate with the park/authorities and the flashlight industry.
Dick.
> You know damn good and well that doing that and then flaunting it on
> here will lower the reputation of coaster enthusiasts even more. Let
> alone you put everyone behind you in danger since none of the
> equipment was fully secured. What you did was dispicable. It doesn't
> surprise me folks like you and douchebag Flare do such things on
> coaster trips.
Dispicable (sic)? Worse than just a camera? Worse than a still camera? I
don't think so. Like I said, not one ride operator stopped us. Look at
my POV and see me hold the camera out of and back into the station.
Would I have done that if I was hiding things? Not a chance. They
permitted it.
I'm certainly not flaunting it. I figured some people might like to see
it. Which is certainly true as I see over 300 unique IPs have hit that
resource today. And, if I find some IP issued by your ISP, I am
personally going to come to Houston and kick your sorry ass for being
such a righteous prick.
> Was Mamoosh there? He acts all professional with his calendar
> pictures, and then pulls a stunt like this? Right up there with
> Assassist throwing beer off of California Screaming, which I beleive
> both of you were accomplices of.
Matthew wasn't there. You sure do have vendettas, Jason, don't you?
Matthew, Miller, and Flare. All guys you can't wait to drag into your
shit pool of self woe. They sure as hell don't deserve to be there with
your ignorant, racist, and homophobic self. Each one of those guys is
twice the man you could hope to be.
> I wouldn't have associated with you if you were pulling your little
> stunts.
I didn't want to associate with you. I just wanted to see the Mullet in
person and see if you're as big a shit as you are on-line. Some people
have said 'no,' but I think you're just too much of puss to be as brash
in person as you are on-line. Typical pansy turned 'Net loudmouth.
> I could download it in a matter of minutes. But I have no desire. I
> rode the thing. Luckily, there wasn't some jackass in front of me
> holding shit in his hands while tearing through the tunnel at 60 miles
> an hour. If you had a brain, you'd realize a 30 second video can be
> compressed to about 10 megs with no loss of quality. You realize 30
> seconds of DVD takes up less space than your video, right?
No loss of quality? BullFuckingShit. You're going to keep a 720*480 DV
stream lossless at 10mb? Bullshit. You do understand what the hell video
compression does, don't you? You do understand that DVD is a LOSSY
compression, don't you? Even at 10mps bitrate, which is high for a DVD,
you're looking at a 88mb file, cockbag.
Anything compressed on that source video is throwing away shit via
keyframes, especially with all that action. Practically the only real
benefit compression could do would be with a mostly static shot. And,
with that amount of horizontal and vertical lines with the supports,
you're talking about a real loss of visual clarity if you do compress. I
have the space for that download, I have unlimited bandwidth, and it was
offered up for broadband geeks. Plus, it didn't tie my f'ing machine up
all day long doing a bullshit compression to save fuckwads like you from
complaining, so piss off, 'ya 'ignant bastard.
/mike
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