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Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief

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From: trent
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:11
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Rob Bullock wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:59:38 -0600, trent <oozenet@trentland.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > a muffler on a car is an everyday example of 'passive cancellation'.
> >
> > I don't think muffling is considered cancellation, outside of the Bose
> > Marketing Department anyway.
> 
> Mufflers don't actually 'muffle' anyway. It's not like they're filled
> with some sound-deadening foam or anything. They're largely empty
> chambers that are tuned to reverberate sound waves *into* each other,
> and produce a cancellation.

Good point.  I was thinking absorbtion, not cancellation, like the
fiberglass on my dirt bike.

trent
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From: trent <oozenet@trentland.com>
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Subject: Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
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