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My given right to decimate my auditory system.
Come on now, really now our governments are gonna try and pull this. what is your guys take on it.
CTV British Columbia - B.C. medical journal calls for cap on iPod volumes - CTV News |
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Actually, it's worse to be a classical musician, playing in orchestras professionally. Over time the average hearing loss for a classical musician is about 50%. It's less for rock musicians and general listeners. I read this in a journal article I looked up for a school project, and if I find it again I will try and reference it here.
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The EU have been pulling this shit for years.
I wish I had an American IPod :( |
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But seriously, that kind of scares me. Quote:
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I dont understand the desperate need to have the sound deafeningly high, but respect people's choice to have it so. I would guess that most people turn up the volume too high to block out noise from elsewhere, so maybe if the governments want us to lower the volume they should either a) reduce noise in the world so music listening on headphones doesnt get distracted - which of course is unreasonable and illogical, or b) enforce a law that all iPods/mp3 players must come with noise cancelling headphones, instead of the shítty 'let everything except the music be heard' type headphones.
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on another note, they should enact a global ordinance barring the sale of ridiculous car sound systems. it's enough for the morons who buy them to render themselves stupid while driving, but for fucks sake don't roll your goddamn windows down. btdubs, your bass sounds like SHIT. |
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I don't particularly care either way, probably because I've never been one to blow my own ear drums. I'm the loser wearing earplugs at the concert.
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I support this idea. If we can eliminate one more idiot in the library or computer lab from blasting his music 10X too loud, then I'm all for it.
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****ing nanny state cocksuckers.
I hate this ****. Once a nation transitions from "how do we have the best possible infrastructure?" to "geeze, how can we convince people to stop smoking?" - the **** is in free-fall. Although I'm not Canadian, this is one reason why I fully support making national parliaments/legislatures strictly part-time. Give them enough time to handle real issues; when these ****s are sitting year round, we get sin taxes, sin regulations, and idiotic moral grand-standing on issues like *** buttsex and women's (wymyn's?) right to be fire fighters, even if that means lowering the standards for femi****s. ****. Goddamned cocksuckers. |
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Pedestrian, i feel you on that for some shows. Can't do Dinosaur Jr. without earbuds, it's earbleed nation for a reason. |
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Who actually cares if they limit it?! If I want to listen to music loud then there's plenty other ways it can be achieved. iPods arent the only form of music, not even in this generation.
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Well obviously there is that, but once they have their mind set on something.
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Eh, you guys are all old enough to make conscious decisions though. I don't think eight, nine, and ten year olds should be given the resources to render themselves deaf. Why don't they just make the standard earbuds a bit weaker and if the rest of us want louder headphones, we buy them? I got skullcandys for ten bucks a while back. Ugly as hell but brand new and great sound quality.
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you can adjust the sound yourself on your ipod. atleast I can on my iTouch and my iPhone.
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You can put volume locks on Ipods anyway.
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Thats what I meant by adjusting the sound. My post looks retarded.
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Or you could just slap the whiny brat across the face & tell him he can have an ipod when he can afford one & not before.
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yeah, all valid points, but my worry is that once they try regulating something like this they go overboard and apply it to all manufactures of headphones. And if they can take this right from us, what stops them from making laws like if you go jogging u need to wear a f'n helmet, lol. does the government have the right to try and protect us from ourselves this much.
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I need my Swans at the highest volume level possible, it's just not the same otherwise.
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Well, there goes the fun in Merzbow.
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Everywhere I look the government is trying to play mommy and daddy for everybody "protecting" us from ourselves. What ever happened to the freedom of choice? People need to just live and let live.
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