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chased by clouds
It would be great to catch a rain line on film: you know, when you can clearly see dry and wet road in front of you. I've seen it myself, moving about 3 times as fast as my car.
2005-11-01
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noise pollution
Stichting BAM: Bescherming Akoestisch Milieu (Protection of the Acoustic Environment) for people who are highly sensitive to noise. Their goal is to fight "imposed noise".
They do activism and have information on quiet holiday resorts, and I would suggest make guides to quiet places to go out in the city. Most of the members are musicians, writers or journalists, and it turns out that Pamela Hemelrijk (libertarian journalist) and Paul Vitanyi (who wrote the Kolmogorov Complexity book) are among them.
A high-tech libertarian solution for this might be for each of us to adjust our own sensitivity... i.e. "standardize", but I think our technology isn't good enough to make wearing the appropriate equipment comfortable.
Another solution would be for sound producers to only broadcast to the intended recipients. Directional sound is a big step in the right direction. You-know-who-you-are: you've got your work cut out for you.
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What's the difference between The Mute and noise-cancelling earphones? The Mute samples the undesired noise, but they can hardly assume that children screaming makes a constant sound.
They do activism and have information on quiet holiday resorts, and I would suggest make guides to quiet places to go out in the city. Most of the members are musicians, writers or journalists, and it turns out that Pamela Hemelrijk (libertarian journalist) and Paul Vitanyi (who wrote the Kolmogorov Complexity book) are among them.
A high-tech libertarian solution for this might be for each of us to adjust our own sensitivity... i.e. "standardize", but I think our technology isn't good enough to make wearing the appropriate equipment comfortable.
Another solution would be for sound producers to only broadcast to the intended recipients. Directional sound is a big step in the right direction. You-know-who-you-are: you've got your work cut out for you.
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What's the difference between The Mute and noise-cancelling earphones? The Mute samples the undesired noise, but they can hardly assume that children screaming makes a constant sound.
WikiTravel
http://wikitravel.org/ is a nice idea, based on the WikiPedia. It's probably useful too.
One obvious problem is that it's for a general audience. Another is that they will need to deal with biases once commercially-interested parties catch on to this.
One obvious problem is that it's for a general audience. Another is that they will need to deal with biases once commercially-interested parties catch on to this.