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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:22:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 16:22:31 1985
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> I didn't much care for pop music when I was a teen, and I still don't.
> I am FED UP with having others musical preferences forced on me.

Are you suggesting that you want your musical preferences forced on others?

> * At play *  Around here, all the city owned swimming pools are
>            equipped with metal horn loudspeakers -- the better to
>            blare top 40 MOR music with.  The park district people
>            respond "but most people using the pools like it".
>            Maybe so, but it is my pool too - I pay taxes to
>            maintain and operate it.

Big whoop!  So do the other people that use the pool.  Remember this is a
democracy, majority rules.  If you don't like it move somewhere else.

> * At home *  My city gov't thinks it's a great idea to allow
>            the merchants assoc. to hire rock bands to play in
>            city parking lots -- LOUD, you can hear it over a
>            mile away.  I don't LIKE being forced out of my home
>            by city hall.

It is a great idea.  It gives kids something to do and it keeps them amused.
And again here, its a democracy.  If you don't like it vote for other
city leaders.

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
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