Re: Sound cancellation technology?

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:27:44 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:30:23 +0000, "Kevin G. Rhoads"
><kgrhoads@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>
>>You are more likely to succeed in buying the company operating the dumpster pickup
>>and rescheduling their services than to block/cancel such noises.
>>
>>Sorry.
>
>IIRC the OP said it was someone operating a manufacturing business
>from their home.
>
>Around here that's a no-no and the city will shut them down in a
>blink.

What's a "manufacturing business" though? My "retired" neighbor makes
(expensive, high-end) handmade knives and sells them at craft shows
(and, I think, on-line). A neighbor at our last house outfitted his
garage as an office and did insurance work of some kind (the
insurance-specialized courier van came regularly). I think if you
start getting traffic, creating noise or smells then you attract
attention. If you don't have employees then it's a lot harder for them
to hassle you if you're on decently good terms with the neighbors. A
lot of white-collar people are working from their homes, full or
part-time, these days. If you don't make noises and smells, don't have
many visitors, don't put up signage, and don't take deliveries or make
shipments directly from your home, I don't see how they'd even find
out unless you tell people. A lot of the denizens of
rec.crafts.metalworking must live in rural areas or areas with weak
zoning laws, as they have more equipment in their garages/basements
than many commercial machine shops!

>We recently had a gun dealer shut down from operating a web business
>because of too much UPS (daytime) traffic.
>
>To me that seemed a bit of a stretch of the rules, but the magic word
>"gun" got all the politically-correct crowd all up in a dither.
>
> ...Jim Thompson

What about all the people selling on e-bay?


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