From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:50:29 +0800
To: Robin Powell <rpowell@algorithmics.com>
Subject: Re: "adjust your attitude with their billy club"
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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.