Re: HELMETS!!!

Bill Zaumen wrote:
> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
>> Bill Zaumen wrote:
>>> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>>
>>>> Jym Dyer wrote:
>>>>> =v= In response to a rather nice advert:
>>>>> http://www.thespincycle.com/files/2006LoriCommercial.pdf
>>>>>
>>>> It is nice to see that someone is sensible enough to realize that a
>>>> foam bicycle hat is NOT necessary for utility cycling. Oh wait, the
>>>> much more safety conscious northern Europeans (relative to USians)
>>>> generally do not wear the foam hats while cycling, except for the
>>>> racer types.
>>> When I looked at the PDF file, it showed some sort of screen snapshot
>>> with large black areas and some tiny yellow icons. It was completely
>>> meaningless.  Maybe there was something my PDF viewer didn't
recognize,
>>> but nothing I saw had anything to do with helmets.
>>> Is Sherman imagining things or just ranting?
>>>
>> Yo Zaumem - Victor Kan posted the link and Jym Dyer commented on
>> it. Are they just ranting also? Sheesh!
> 
> Don't know about Victor Kan (never having read his posts) but Jym Dyer,
> unlike you, doesn't have an anti-helmet agenda.
> 
Which has nothing at all to do whether a video link can be viewed on a 
webpage, does it now?

I do not have an anti-helmet agenda, I have an anti-misinformation 
agenda. Bicycle foam hats can provide useful bump and scrape protection.

>> When opening the link, you should get an Adobe® Clip Notes® video
>> window that plays a commercial for "The Spin Cycle" which is a bicycle
>> shop in Cary, NC. In the video, the woman cyclist featured is NOT
>> wearing a foam bicycle hat (but the Lycra® wearing roadie hitting on
>> her is).
>>
>> The link works in Firefox 2.0.0.14.
> 
> I'm running the lastest firefox available on the particular Linux
> distribution I'm using, and it starts "evince" as a PDF viewer.  It
> didn't show anything meaningful.
> 
You are the computer expert with the best system - you tell me why the 
link is not working. My guess [1] is that since it asks for Windows 
Media Player, it may not be Linux compatible.

[1] n.b.

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