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From: jdk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Diskman, etc. considered harmful
Message-ID: <1604@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 10:48:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 10:48:47 1985
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References: <972@gitpyr.UUCP> <223@opus.UUCP>
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In article <223@opus.UUCP> rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) writes:
>> If anyone has actually used a "Diskman" style CD player as a portable, 
>>I would
>> be interested in your review.  I want to use one for skiing (downhill in
>> the white stuff...the  only kind of real skiing).
>
>If anyone can explain why people use portable tape or CD players with
>headphones when skiing or bicycling, I would be interested in your
>explanation.  I dearly love those little portables for having music around
>(e.g., even as I type) but I cannot for the life of me understand why
>anyone would endanger life & limb by blocking out most possibility of
>audible warnings.  If you're truly into skiing or bicycling absolutely
>solo, maybe yes (but then don't you appreciate the non-human-noise-polluted
>world?), but if there are other people around you really shouldn't be
>blocking out the occasional "Track" or "On yer left".
>-- 
>Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086

~=:-)   Let's be grateful that such prejudice probably won't be 
        revealed to the "endangered" skiing and bicycling deaf 
        through net.audio.