17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Robin Powell wrote:
Burning toxic waste is intrisically damaging to other people, blasting your boombox is not (unless it is so loud as to actually cause ear damage to bystanders, but given the volume of music tolerated at rock concerts, I find this highly unlikely).
"Given the loss of privacy tolerated by 99.9999% of American citizens in the past twenty years, no one has a right to complain about the government taking new powers for itself." You cannot have it both ways. If you are free to define what is or is not a public nuisance when you do it; likewise am I.