I guess I’m kind of a jerk, but I think this device is really funny.
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Defending the liberal tradition in history, science, and philosophy.
I guess I’m kind of a jerk, but I think this device is really funny.
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"They describe it as a weapon that infringes on the basic rights of young people, and claim it could even have unknown long-term health effects."
I claim it could have unknown long-term health benefits.
Hey, if we’re gonna legislate based on unknown long-term effects, why imagine only the bad ones?
I like this quote from a criminologist: "There is a significant problem with giving people a tool like this and empowering the public to take over the tasks of law enforcement,"
Yeah, we can’t have untrained civilians doing stuff like shooing away loiterers. It’s best to leave that sort of delicate work to the trained professionals. When you start empowering the public to have unsupervised interaction with other members of the public, who knows where it will lead?
I do wonder how teen-selective it really is, though. I’m in my 30′s and I can still hear high-pitched sounds like the flyback transformer whine in old CRTs, buzzing lightbulbs about to burn out, etc. And I understand that women retain that kind of hearing longer than most men do.
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And the part right before that quote:
"But James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston’s Northeastern University, said crowd-monitoring devices in the hands of private businesses and citizens is ‘dangerous.’"
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Yeah, because private citizens monitoring what happens on their own property is dangerous. Uh-huh.
Sheesh, pretty soon we’ll have an advocacy group saying that the proles can’t be trusted with a Kleenex and the government needs to form the Department of Nose Wiping. For crying out loud, it’s a machine that makes annoying noises. Hey, if they ban this can I get them to ban the thugmobiles with 5000 watts of subwoofer? I find that just as annoying.
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I’m waiting for some older gentleman to start blaring this at 120 dB in a residential neighborhood, his younger and better-hearinged neighbors call the cops with a noise complaint, and the officers who respond to the call turn out to be unable to hear the tone.
In all seriousness, I find the technology obnoxious, but it should be legal provided it’s subject to the same noise-nuissance laws that lower frequency sounds are subject to.
Yes!
Available at all large retail outlets everywhere?
We have a province up here called Manitoba…there they have resorted to using real mosquitos.
Bastards!
Socially concientious people that they are. Oh! and enviromentally friendly too.Surely use of this device is protected by the First Amendment. Where is the ACLU? All out of town this week, again?
"I do wonder how teen-selective it really is, though. I’m in my 30’s and I can still hear high-pitched sounds like the flyback transformer whine in old CRTs, buzzing lightbulbs about to burn out, etc. And I understand that women retain that kind of hearing longer than most men do."
Yeah, I’m pretty much at that level as well. I attribute it to careful care of my hearing— earplugs at concerts, playing music at sane levels, and so on.
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