>> ^pumkinandstorm:

>> ^ant:
>> ^pumkinandstorm:
>> ^ant:
dead -- "This video contains content from International Olympic Committee, who has blocked it on copyright grounds..."

Thank you. Fixed.

You're welcome. It might get yanked too. <IMG class=smiley src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/frown.gif">

There seem to be quite a few of them floating around so hopefully I'll always be able to find a replacement.


Yea. I hope you can keep up with them.

>> ^ant:
>> ^pumkinandstorm:
>> ^ant:
dead -- "This video contains content from International Olympic Committee, who has blocked it on copyright grounds..."

Thank you. Fixed.

You're welcome. It might get yanked too. <IMG class=smiley src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/frown.gif">


There seem to be quite a few of them floating around so hopefully I'll always be able to find a replacement.

>> ^pumkinandstorm:

>> ^ant:
dead -- "This video contains content from International Olympic Committee, who has blocked it on copyright grounds..."

Thank you. Fixed.


You're welcome. It might get yanked too.

>> ^ant:
dead -- "This video contains content from International Olympic Committee, who has blocked it on copyright grounds..."


Thank you. Fixed.

My brother-in-law is like this guy. He out and out refuses to do any roller coasters or big rides like this at themeparks, etc. I'm with him on some stuff, like I probably would never do this ride but I've done others slightly less extreme and enjoyed them.

I remember seeing something on this on TV years ago. That some people just have a gene switched so where others feel exhilaration and a high from big death-defying rides like this, these people feel out and out terror. You gotta feel sorry for the dad here, though he's a good dad for riding it anyway for his kid.

>> ^budzos:

I personally have never understood people's need to scream and yell on a roller coaster. So many people seem to think that's the point.


Or maybe, just maybe, they just having plain old fun and expressing themselves. Just because you don't express yourself the same way is no reason to suspect everyone else's motives.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

really @budzos?


I'm not saying you shouldn't scream on roller coasters. Do it if you feel compelled by joy. But don't do it because that's what you see people in movies and commercials do. Namsayin?

edit: the guy in the video is a dipshit. What he's doing is the same thing I'm complaining about, squared. He's putting on a performance instead of just riding the ride. Extra dipshit points for putting everyone behind him at risk of facial fractures.

I personally have never understood people's need to scream and yell on a roller coaster. So many people seem to think that's the point.

>> ^kevingrr:

@conan
I'm no lawyer, but the camera is on his property and mostly for the security of his property. Cameras are everywhere on private property that have a view of public alleys and roadways.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy here - the fedex guy is in public on a sidewalk. So there is no "invasion of privacy".
I am not familiar with German law at ALL, but if someone takes your photograph while you are in a public place is that a crime?
That is all secondary to the fact that his job is to safely deliver goods/packages.


Funny but 100% true: Yes, it is against German law to take a picture of a person in public space without their consent. You can however take pictures of "sceneries", i.e. without the main picture content being a single person. Say you take a picture of a roller coaster at Oktoberfest, there most probably will be several persons on that picture but that's perfectly okay. But if you take a picture of the good looking waitress you fancy, that's illegal. Yes that sounds strange and yes it is highly impractical but the law is the law.

And if you install a camera on your property to watch over your driveway it must not film the street or sidewalk. If it does (and anyone finds out) you'll be fined.

German law in this context does not focus on the surroundings (i.e. public / private) but on the privacy of persons. But anyhow: German privacy laws are extremely strict (therefore B2C telemarketing is illegal for example, i could name tons of other examples...).

I never dealt with US laws regarding privacy in detail, i only knew there nearly is no such thing as privacy outside your own home in the US. I just read up some details and the difference between these two countries is pretty stark.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^Deadrisenmortal:
buh, buh, buh... I wanna go NEXT!
Wow! So many questions...
How long is it distance-wise?
How fast did it get going?
What is it there for?
Why were there no other cars on the track?
How do the cars get back up to the top?

Without knowing a thing about it...
-It's got to be a good 3-4 km.
-Didn't look faster than 50km/h (30mph)
-Making money or having fun, depending on what side of the cash you're on.
-No other cars for the same reason there's only ever 1 car on any roller coaster. Collisions.
-I'd think you slide it off at the bottom and head back up the tram with it under your arm. Repeatedly.


Don't you guys don't know Sommerrodelbahnen? :-)

They are very popular in Alps' tourist regions (i.e. Austria, Switzerland and southern parts of Germany). I'd go so far and say every ski area has at least one of them. They serve a single purpose: entertain tourists in summer months.

Nearly every time there's other cars on the track. That's why its not so easy to go down without braking. most of the time you have some mom with their kid (usually there's one and two seated cars) in front of you. So braking is not a question of braveness but of collision prevention ;-)

Mieders is one of the longest tracks but a bit more boring compared to others which offer 360 curves etc.

The carts get pulled up on a seperate track, on older tracks you wear seatbelts, some have racing car like "H" belts and the newest and fastest have the same metal "bars" that roller coasters have. the cars cannot slip of the track because it's built something like that:

__cccc
cccccccc
cccccccc
cc_TT_cc
ccc__ccc

Where "c" is cart and "T" is track, "_" can be ignored ;-)

The only downside: A ride usually is pretty expensive.

It seems to me i just got a promising business idea for the US :-D But i guess those tracks are not popular in the Rockys etc. because you guys have 12 months of snow in your ski areas i assume whereas in most ski areas of the alps ski season is from early november to late march.

>> ^Deadrisenmortal:

buh, buh, buh... I wanna go NEXT!
Wow! So many questions...
How long is it distance-wise?
How fast did it get going?
What is it there for?
Why were there no other cars on the track?
How do the cars get back up to the top?


Without knowing a thing about it...

-It's got to be a good 3-4 km.
-Didn't look faster than 50km/h (30mph)
-Making money or having fun, depending on what side of the cash you're on.
-No other cars for the same reason there's only ever 1 car on any roller coaster. Collisions.
-I'd think you slide it off at the bottom and head back up the tram with it under your arm. Repeatedly.

The world hasn't "moved on" and never will, due the constant known as "human nature".

The reason there appears to be "no difference" between the two parties is because people want it that way. Imagine having to hand over your guns every time a taxocrat assumes office, then get them back when the other team is elected, or taxes being stuck on a permanent roller coaster, making it impossible for businesses to plan ahead. It's best that radical changes don't arrive on a weekly basis.

If anyone really believes there's "no difference" then please vote against taxocrats, they'll make you poorer, faster.




>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
@quantumushroom
Stop pretending there's a difference between republicans and democrats.
Occupy Wall Street has proven this.
Bush Obama are the same administration just different colors.
Stop fantasying that Republicans controlled by Corporate Lobbyist are favorable to Democrats controlled by the same Corporate Lobbyists.

Agreed, qm needs to wake out of his slumber, the world has moved on but his view of the world and politics hasn't. We're all getting the shaft from the same people going under different banners, and the genius of it is that for all this time they've had us fighting amongst ourselves.

Blind me! Sorry to be a bit of a snob, but what a garbage of a trailer? From what I can see, it's more like a Michael Bay movie with Chinese gravity. Ya it was fun when Crouching tiger hidden dragon came out, but it has gotten really old.

The quality of movies exported from China just get worse and worse! What the hell happened to the absolute gems that Zhang Yi Mou used to make which got banned in China? What about the emotional roller coasters of Chen Kai Ge? The best movies of his I watched in recent years is "Forever Enthralled", even that was nothing more than a rehash of "Farewell my concubine".

*sign* Jiang Wen is the only director keeping my hope up, I just hope his next movie is better than "Let bullets fly".

>> ^nosro:

This is the same principle used to brake some of the newer roller coasters like Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbN3NU4hIZg. In the roller coaster, the train has the magnet which passes over vertical copper fins that you can see protruding up from the track at the end of the ride.


LOL - even better are the times when it goes backwards. Or simply gets stuck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeOEZqbCjzQ&feature=related

This is the same principle used to brake some of the newer roller coasters like Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbN3NU4hIZg. In the roller coaster, the train has the magnet which passes over vertical copper fins that you can see protruding up from the track at the end of the ride.