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Europe Begins Noise Mapping Effort
Makarand writes "The European continent has begun its fight against noise pollution by initiating a
program
to map noise levels for cities in the European Union with more than 250,000 people.
As placing microphones on every building in London or Paris to measure noise
was not practical, data on the amount of traffic carried by roads and the noise levels was fed into computers to generate a model of noise levels across the city. The model's accuracy was verified by taking readings with microphones at 100 points in the city and was found to be accurate on average to within 1 decibel.
The noise maps will allow planning to insulate the public from noise by directing traffic away from residential areas and making funds available to sound-proof thin walled homes."
The person buying the sub-standard house might not be able to afford a better one? Why shouldn't our tax money be used to improve their standard of living?
Well, why stop at standard of living? What if they only have a 27 inch TV. Don't they deserve a better one? Why shouldn't we use someone else's money ("our tax dollars") to give them a better TV? What, the poor person isn't eating rack of lamb and otoro sashimi every night? Don't they deserve to eat better than that? Why shouldn't we use someone else's money to improve their eating standards?
No, it doesn't. The "ill concieved government program" is helping improve the country's housing stock. Eventually all houses will be well sound proofed and you've improved everyone's standard of living. What's wrong with that?
It's wrong because it's paid for with looted money.
The problem with far right and the far left is that there are things wrong with both capitalism and socialism. Ayn Rand is just as bad a Karl Marx.
Ayn Rand didn't have it all right; she did think that men must necessarily dominate women sexually and that homosexuality was immoral. But you have failed to say anything that is reasonable or a rational refutation of anything that Ayn Rand has stated.
Individual property rights + free enterprise = captialism
This is why those of the Leftist religion hate both individual property rights and free enterprise.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
Amen!
The handouts from Uncle Sam are reserved for the mega rich, oil and arms barons. How dare you suggest otherwise?
That was classic intercourse!