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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."
Tell the Francophones to SHUT THE F'UP!
Shouldn't they worry about the stench first?
No, the noise problem is actually lessened by the large pads of armpit hair. It has something to do with acoustics.
Will they measure the odors? I wonder if they could come up with any interesting smell data. Say they put electro-noses everywhere smeeling the cities of the world, would they discover anything worthwhile? Perhaps they can rfind some interesting connections between smells and neighborhoods and smells an income or even smells and crime. I once read that the piss in soccer stadium often inspired men to fight subconciously. I wish I could remember more about that as it would surely add some color to this post.
photoplankton
See, the thing about humor is that it's got to have an element of truth about it, or it's just lameness instead. This would be a pretty good definition of lame.
This just shows that you don't bother to think for yourself - you let people like Michael Moore and Tim Robbins tell you what to think.
Let me guess, you've never lived anywhere but the United States of America, you've likly never visited any other country, you've never taken a single PolSci course, you've never taken an Econ course, you've never read any actual factual books on any of the subjects you're talking about, you've basically no idea of what the poster whom you are responding too actually said.
Marx inspires them to go out and kill tens of millions of people.
Wow. We can certainly see that you've never taken the trouble to read Marx, at least. Thanks for making it so obvious, or someone might have thought you were actually serious.
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!
"You've hit on the jackpot! Many Europeans view their government to be a product of society, not a seperate entity"
Then, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Russia of Lenin and Stalin was a natural and representative product of society? This implies something really sick at the core of the European psyche.
Are they ready to goose-step and fire the ovens the next time the great Father of the Peoples steps forth to work the people's will? Given the massive French protests againsts Jewish people in general, this day might not be far off.