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Ellison is the kind of guy who lands his private jet late at night, knowing he will have to pay fines for night noise, then sues over it.
by legohead 9y ago
Ellison is the kind of guy who lands his private jet late at night, knowing he will have to pay fines for night noise, then sues over it.
- andrewem 9y agoI hadn't heard of this, but it's true: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-clears-Ellison-for-landing-at-night-2909426.php
- oh_sigh 9y agoEhh...Larry has a point. If you care about noise levels, don't use weight as a proxy - just use noise levels. Why can a big, quiet plane not land at night, but a tiny noisy plane can?
- hawkice 9y agoNoise is ephemeral and therefore harder to prove.
- smitherfield 9y agoAs the other guy says, it's hard to prove in court which noise came from which plane, but besides that, they may have used weight as a proxy for distinguishing between military and civilian aircraft ("tiny noisy planes" tending to be military), and, also, perceived loudness[1] is a function of both decibel level[2] and pitch[3] (that is, a whistle will be at a higher decibel level than a drum we perceive as equally "loud"). It's intuitively plausible that larger planes tend to make lower-pitched sounds. [1] amplitude [2] amplitude * frequency [3] frequency
- revelation 9y ago"It is regrettable that a dispute about one airplane has consumed so large a quantity of human and economic resources and that the parties have found compromise so difficult" So much hate. Just because someone has enough money to file a lawsuit and keep it alive for years doesn't mean the other side should somehow be penalized for not compromising with the fool.
- mc32 9y agoI think the google guys did the same, no? Not that it makes the behavior better or normalizes it, but just that he's not the single exception.