In other news.
Conceptualists
09-06-2004, 16:06
Mayor tells New Yorkers to keep the noise down (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1234427,00.html)
I can sympathise with him wanting to lessen noise pollution. But some of these things are just absurd. Dogs will only be allowed to bark for 10 minutes during the day and 5 at night. How the hell can you get dogs to follow that guideline. But the other thing New York is a city, and busy city at that. Noise will always be a problem unless he bans cars which don't run on electricity. Anyway, this story made me giggle.
Bodies Without Organs
09-06-2004, 16:11
The city hall defines an offensive sound as one that takes place between 10pm and 7am and is seven decibels above the general sound level of the given area.
Between 7am and 10pm, the threshold rises to 10 decibels.
So in order to circumvent trouble with the authorities, all that need be done is to surreptitiously raise the ambient noise level around a potential offending source of noise...?
Conceptualists
09-06-2004, 16:20
Never noticed that.
You also remember the hey-day of socialist printing (or read private eye)?
HotRodia
09-06-2004, 16:24
The city hall defines an offensive sound as one that takes place between 10pm and 7am and is seven decibels above the general sound level of the given area.
Between 7am and 10pm, the threshold rises to 10 decibels.
So in order to circumvent trouble with the authorities, all that need be done is to surreptitiously raise the ambient noise level around a potential offending source of noise...?
Shhhh...you're giving away our tactics!
Bodies Without Organs
09-06-2004, 16:29
Never noticed that.
You also remember the hey-day of socialist printing?
I would be lying if I said I remembered when it was still called the "Manchester Guardian", but I certainly think that the death of traditional hand-typesetting and design by qualified typesetters is a sad thing: a computer can give you access to innumerable different fonts and typefaces, but it does not automatically equip you with a knowledge or understanding of your craft. I would rather have a handful of errors here and there in an attractively designed and graphically balanced newspaper, than have a precise lifeless one.