response 75 of 90:

Apr 15 16:05 UTC 2002

Here is a solution.  Last Saturday our upstairs neighbor, who is 
usually pretty quiet, had some friends over and they were making a ton 
of noise.  Jon and I went and asked them to be quiet three times.  The 
first two times we asked them, they were quiet for a grand total of 
probably thirty seconds.  The third time, they actually packed 
themselves up and left.

I asked my father about it the next day and he gave me some real good 
advice.  First of all, it helps to know that, in the city of Yakima, 
there is a law that states that any loud noises after 10PM are 
classified as a "disturbance of the peace".  I don't know if you have 
anything like that where you live.  It would probably be good to find 
out.  My father said, if it happens again, given that my neighbor is 
usually pretty good about being quiet late at night, I should go 
upstairs and say, "Listen, there are people downstairs who are 
attempting to sleep.  Now, either you keep your noise down or take it 
elsewhere, or I will call the police.  I don't want to have to deal 
with this again, and I won't.  Good night."

That is reasonably polite.

In the case of morning horn honking, I think you would just have to go 
over to the house and say, maybe, "Excuse me.  I don't mean to bother 
you, but there are some of us across the street who sleep during the 
day.  Do you think you could, maybe, get your visitor to refrain from 
honking his horn?  Thank you."

Then, depending on what the law says, you could do something a little 
more firm.

response 77 of 90:

Apr 16 21:49 UTC 2002

I think the whole 'be polite' thing can go a long way. A year or so ago 
I lived in the apartment beneath four frat kids who had the occassional 
loud party (generally on weekends and usually not too bad). One day I 
was home from work with a migraine and trying to sleep when they put on 
something with really heavy bass. This did not help- so I had to go 
upstairs. I politely explained to the kid who answered the door that 
while the music usually wouldn't be a problem at this time of day due 
to my work schedule, it just so happened that I had a migraine and I 
Would really appreciate it if he could at least turn the bass down 
before I got homicidal (the last was said in such a way that he would 
know it was a joke). He apologized for the volume and turned it down. 
This was fine. Unfortunately that doesn't always work. 

Though, I really do like Marcus' #61, and John- you may not 'do beer' 
but that really wouldn't be the point of the joke... now would it?

response 79 of 90:

Apr 18 19:31 UTC 2002

You could put a note on it. Or you could break the window and steal the 
stereo and *then* put a note on it. 

response 81 of 90:

Apr 18 20:46 UTC 2002

Put a voltage sensor on their phone line, so you can see when they are on the
phone.  Every time they are, sneak by and set off the car alarm.

response 83 of 90:

Apr 19 04:53 UTC 2002

Re #78:  A noise complaint to the police several times a night,
giving the location and license plate of the car, might do it.
If the parking space is private property you might be able to
invoke some kind of lease terms and have the owner cited or even
have the car towed.

response 85 of 90:

Jun 18 00:03 UTC 2002

re;  "#553 (keesan): Is Israel self-sufficient in food?"
And in a world of trade, what does that question have to do with the price
of tea in China?

re:  "#558 (scott)  From my own perspective, I'm attempting to provide some
counter-programming to Leeron's heavily biased assertions on the situation."

Those familiar with irony will enjoy the previous sentence.

re:  "#560 (slynne)  Please. Saying that "all Muslims" believe"

That is not ever close to what he said!

and 

re:  "russ is at least as much of a bigot who is full of hatred as he accuses
Muslims of being. He is so full of hatred that he cant even imagine a  people
who arent."

Why don't you try reading what he writes, rather than trying to read his
mind??

re:  "#567 (scott)  And while it's awful for people to have to live under the
conditions you describe, haven't you given any thought to how your hardline
attitudes"

What are leeron's "hardline attitudes"?  Thinking that the Arabs should have
a country in the disputed territories and live in peace with Israel??

and 

re:  "by attempting to further the conflict"

scottie, you're hallucinating.

response 87 of 90:

Jun 18 14:25 UTC 2002

I was jusst about to say that it is perhaps a response to a much earlier 
post, and then I saw the #s he was referring to.  This could be any 
of the ME items.  Nearly the same conversation seems to be going on in 
all of them.

response 89 of 90:

Jun 19 14:43 UTC 2002

<snorts>