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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?"
A property owner harms the world far more than a worker ever will.
But maybe subby doesn't have $300k lying around for a nice new house by the coast. Or maybe that's where all his customers are and moving would destroy his business. See, the lucky ones with all the $$$ leave, and leave behind a festering blight of poverty and crime instead of solving the problems.
My favorite part about this phenomenon is the people who leave usually re-incorporate outside the city so they don't have to pay taxes, often relying on government services (education, housing, etc) while they got 'bootstrapped' enough to move to a suburb just outside the reach of the taxes they relied on.
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Fuck you, I ride harley's and I made them louder to prevent idiot drivers from cutting me off because they failed to look before changing lanes.
1) The noise cannot be heard by the driver until AFTER the bike is alongside or past the car.
2) You need to learn how to use an apostrophe correctly, you ignorant idiot.
3) Harleys are for idiots. Real motorcycle riders know Harleys are overpriced junk.
I have been riding for 43 years, which is most likely longer than your punk ass has been
alive and polluting the earth with your lowlife existence. I ride a KTM 950 Super Enduro,
which is much faster than your open pipe Harley and will kick your ass on any road in this
world.
Now take your dickeating lowlife self to the shop and buy some mufflers, Harley fag.
Do you think? The law doesn't think so.
You don't even have the balls to post your threat under a real name/moniker. I highly doubt you will have the balls to act on any of your threats. But come and try, we will put that internet black belt to use.