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ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms
ScentCone writes "The ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has claimed responsibility for destroying the primary AM towers used by radio station KRKO in Washington state. From their statement: 'AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines.' The poor intercom performance must have been the last straw."
Give it up. Nuclear weapons may be "intended" to destroy property, but they directly and indirectly kill scads of people. ELF didn't "intend" to kill anyone by knocking out the EBS system (a side-effect of knocking out the radio tower), so you aren't even doing an apples-to-apples (intent-to-intent) comparison here, never mind that the number of expected deaths from a temporary EBS knockout is tiny, never mind that your description of the "intent" of nuclear weapons is ludicrous.
There are legal distinctions here, and though ELF may have broken a batch of laws, I don't think that they've committed any official "crimes of violence", meaning battery, torture, rape, or murder.
ELF does not fit the "kills people" definition of terrorist, so they do not fit "every definition" of terrorist.
>It is easy for us on Slashdot to see how stupid this is.
Look, there's a lot of stupidity on slashdot too, like how everyone wants to completely dismantle the government and heaven forbid you mention UFOs or 9/11, because the nutters will come out of the woodwork.
That said, its unfair to judge slashdot by a minority of vocal nuts and the moderators that support them, the same way its unfair to judge the majority of Americans by focusing on a minority of nuts. Every survey shows the US to be a science loving country, with about 15% who dont care for it. Ignoring hot button issues like global warming and evolution, we're not bad on a global scale, especially compared to homeopathy/traditional loving countries like Germany, China, and Russia. If people werent being brainwashed over evolution by conservative media outlets, their churches, etc it would be much better.
Not to mention pollsters dont understand alternative medicine, and I suspect many loudmouth US critics dont either. For instance, I take a multivitamin (I have a poor diet) and fish oil daily and occasional kava kava if I have insomnia. There are no shortage of studies to support these things, yet many polls would group me in with people who do homeopathy or visit a psychic.
I guess its easy to just complain about the US as being the worst thing ever and it sure gets you mod points here, but in reality you're the irrational one. Youre making unsupported generalizations about a very wide and general topic. Id like to see how a plurality of Americans pride themselves on science ignorance and dismiss the scientific method because such evidence doesnt exist. I guess you cant keep pointing to evolution or global warming, but those are still highly politicized and largly more media issues than anything else. A general dismissal of science? Not really.
I hate people that complain about modern usage of the word irony, but that's completely not ironic by any definition of the word—it's just coincidental.
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XLR isn't about the stereo or the speakers, it's all about recording the sound. Once you have the sound on your computer/amp/mixer whatever when you output it to the speakers it's a simple 2 conductor operation (banana plug, bare wire,1/4" cable etc.) To get started with XLR you need:
1. Mic that uses XLR connector, a really good mic is the SURE 57. (about $100)
2. Mic preamp. Almost all preamps use XLR, some mixers have preamps built into them. (another $50 at least)
3. Something to record on. I'm guessing you're using a computer.
There are specialized sound cards made just for recording, they start pretty cheap ($100 e.g.: emu), but you won't get an XLR input on a sound card for less than $200, if you're happy using your mic preamp and going into the balanced 1/4" a $100 card you can still get a very good recording, but really you should have XLR inputs on the card itself so it's "XLR" ([sic]eXtremly Low Resistance) all the way to the card. And then there's the software. I like Sonar. Some people like cubebase, even others like fruity loops and if you have a mac there is the ubiquitous pro tools. Really you're looking at spending about $300 for the whole setup, and then you can finally get rid of that stupid hum. Don't forget, if you have an electric guitar/bass that you will need to shield the pickups using some a-foil around the wires pots and any crossovers etc. that may be contain electrical pathways. Also, make sure you've attached your bridge to the ground wire so it grounds on your fingers.
Here are some low cost pro sound cards:
http://www.emu.com/
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?ID=recording&do=products.family