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Comment How to get rid of pigeons (Score 1) 733

I used to work at a large downtown church and there were hundreds of pigeons that roosted on the church after a nearby building was torn down. The janitors had to sweep and wash down the steps daily to keep the droppings down to the point where people wouldn't have to wade through the mess every time they came into the church.
We started live trapping them, using water for bait and after they were live trapped we sold them to a shooting club. That way they didn't come back. Ever.
After a couple of months of trapping and a hawk moving in to one of the bell towers we no longer had a problem.

Comment One computer (Score 1) 632

Not even one to rule them all just one computer on the entire campus. Actually there was only the one computer that ran the schedules for that college, all of the high schools in that part of the state and at least three different colleges.
Fortran students submitted their cards to be run and it usually took a week or so for an entire class to be run.
Calculators were rare and expensive, they cost about $350 for a TI.
In 1977 my wife took the Fortran programing class in Grad school.
Her cards were run once, there was no more time to run them again.

Comment Re:too much regulation! (Score 1) 251

Yes, I did.
On more than one of the most egregious of them I called their 888 or 800 number and complained to the poor powerless little girl that answered the phone. One insurance company called me back, some VP and asked what the problem was and I told him. About a week later all of a sudden the ads got quieter.
Before my complaint I had to come in from the other room to mute their ad because it was too loud. The lawyer never bothered to call me back.

Comment Re:too much regulation! (Score 4, Interesting) 251

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Sorry I ran out of breath to laugh any longer.
I have a decibel meter app on my phone and I've seen levels go from the middle 50s during the program to the upper 60s during the ads.
The app isn't probably that accurate but that is a really big jump, enough to cause me pain sometimes. There is one ad from a local lawyer that jumps up to 70 at one point.
Guess who I won't be calling for legal services.
The industry has listened to and ignored citizen complaints for 50 years. What makes you think they will change now?

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