OT: The flying dude (video)

RV7Factory · #1 06-15-2006, 11:31 AM

Here's one for all you skydivers out there...
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17893

pierre smith · #2 06-15-2006, 02:27 PM

How do you get the video to open? I've been to this site twice and don't see what to click on.........?
Thanks,

Jamie · #3 06-15-2006, 02:55 PM

Pierre:

I believe that video player is flash based, so make sure you install the latest flash plug-in.

That video is CRAZY. Major cojones.

Alex · #4 06-16-2006, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by JCN247DE

My point is, if you are going to post something like that to share, please make sure it is "contained" in a sterile domain without the other visual garbage and links to questionable areas for our kids!

Ditto, I opened the link at work. I think this URL is ok:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17893

RV7Factory · #5 06-16-2006, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JCN247DE

My point is, if you are going to post something like that to share, please make sure it is "contained" in a sterile domain without the other visual garbage and links to questionable areas for our kids!

Jeff, point well taken. It was a link sent to me by a pilot buddy, and I hadn't noticed the other stuff until you pointed it out. I spend so much time online (for work) that I tend to just miss all the noise on the page (ads and such). Had I noticed it, I certainly wouldn't have posted it in the format that I did. My apologies, I will be more careful in the future.

PS - I updated the original link to Alex's cleaner version.

airtime · #6 06-16-2006, 10:06 PM

That video gives me "groundrush". Those wing/bird suits are getting quite popular in the sport. Groups get together to jump and call them "flock" dives. There is a fellow who thinks he can safely land one but has yet put his theory to practice. I"ll continue to use my RV or a parachute for my landings.

Blue skies - Rob

szicree · #7 06-16-2006, 10:20 PM

I'd say this guy's nuts-to-brains ratio is a bit out of whack.

RV7Factory · #8 06-17-2006, 01:36 AM

Steve, LOL! I'm going to have to remember that one.

After watching the vid, a friend of mine said, "I did that once, when I tripped going down the stairs, but it didn't end as well."

rv8ch · #9 06-17-2006, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by JCN247DE

... I should have checked it out first but there are a few areas on the web that I assume to be family safe. The VAF forums are one of them.

This is a difficult problem, since the advertisements are dynamic, location based, and even "behavior" based.

You might go to a site and see only innocuous ads, but come back later the same day and see something a bit more racy. If someone has used a PC to surf to more adult-oriented sites (I don't mean "porn", but things that adults typically read), then the cookies on that PC can tell advertisers it's not a kid, but an adult, so they can put out different advertisements.

The IP address of the computer also changes the ads. It's easy to tell a home user from a corporate user - and again the ads will change.

If I write words like "Home Mortgage" in this post, Google ads will see this string, and start putting up advertisements for those products. (Gee, I hope they don't pick up on the "adult" content I mentioned above!)

I don't have an answer, but it sounds like what you are doing with your son is the right thing - surf with them. I've got a couple more years until I have this issue with my girls, so hopefully someone will have come up with some better solutions by then.