> http://news.msn.com/us/connecticut-could-be-1st-state-to-curb-loud-movies > > NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut could become the first state to curb > loud movies under proposed legislation that's drawing opposition from the > Motion Picture Association of America. > > The legislature's Public Safety and Security Committee is considering the > bill, which would prevent theaters from showing a film or preview that > exceeded 85 decibels. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and > Health recommends noise should be kept below 85 decibels for workers for > eight hours to minimize hearing loss. >
But there is a long history of (US) state legislatures 'doing things' --Indiana : pi=3.2 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg> --South Dakata : astrology, thermology "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following: (1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact; (2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and [etc.]" <http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/25/83917/south-dakota-legislators-tell-schools-to-teach-astrological-explanation-for-global-warming/> So ... Connecticut may have an []affect ... or not ... it's all speculative ... Michael _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
