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Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise?
b1tbkt writes "I live at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in my city (pop. 350k). Although I've replaced all windows, insulated, and caulked every square inch of the place, the fire trucks and cars with obnoxious stereos still regularly intrude on my home office. Most of the noise comes in through the windows. I'm considering mounting an oblong parabolic reflector in the ceiling above the windows with a steady feed of white or brownian noise directed into it (e.g., via a small speaker placed within the reflector) to create a 'wall' of sound that would act as a buffer to the outside world. Active noise cancellation would be nice, too, but that's probably more than I want to take on. I don't see any products on the market for this sort of thing. Does anyone have any experiences to share with similar homebrew noise remediation efforts?"
More like 920 of my cock.
You think that not conforming to your ideal quiet life style is not about freedom?
It's like saying, yeah, all motorcycles are about freedom except those over there that won't do what we expect of them. Let's make fun of them and say it's because they have small peckers or need attention.
I put loud exhausts on my cars and trucks because I want to. They sound good and I like the heart thumping sound of raw power. It isn't because I want anyone's approval or attention, it's because I want to do what I want to do and have something that sounds like I like it to sound. If that isn't about freedom in your book, you need to search for a better definition.
lol.. I like your style of asshatery. I already stated the reasons, I like the heart pumping sound of raw power. Not only do you declare what I am doing is because of something you demand, you then go on to tell me what I must do to be free.
Well, Fuck off..lol If I didn't want to be free, I would listen and do what you tell me to do with my money and property. But since I want to be free, you can suck my undersized whatever (that you will find to be large enough for you to doubt your own manhood) for all I care. I will do what I want for the reasons I want and you will have an easier time doing anything else then you will trying to shame me or force me to do something different.
We are free, not free as long as I do as I'm told. You remind me of someone who buys land beside a hog farm the bitches about the smell trying to run the farm out of business. You also remind me of the type of person who don't go to bars any more because they always get their ass kicked.
Like I said, it's legal. and I don't care what other think. If they can turn up their stereo, if they can argue with their spouses at the top of their lungs, of they can yell for their kids instead of going and getting them, if they can hammer something or run an electric saw or anything else that makes a loud noise, so can I.