I call BS on that post.

The blacklist people don't block anything. All they do is publish a list with IP addresses. Isn't that covered under your precious free speech thingy?

Its the providers that use the blacklist that you should worry about.

I feel your pain, but as a small-time hosting provider the dynamic-IP blocklists reduce spam by about 90%. In reality there are very very few legitimate mail servers located on a dynamic range. You are an unfortunate example. I currently get less than 1 complaint per year on false-positive rejection. For me this is an unfortunate but acceptable loss compared to the large amount of spam I no longer receive.

Well stated (sorry i dont have modpoints today)

Because for ex-windows admin the learning is too steep otherwise. I always give new admins a gui and discover that after a year, they stopped using it and use the command shell instead.. Without the gui they stop before they even started...

Translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

You can access x windows via windows using putty

the answer is the amount of fat that is added. Anyone claiming their bread lasts over 2 days and is still edible either has no taste or simply adds some form of fat into the dough. Cheap UK bread always lasted for a month as was still not stale.

So is fabrication of fire arms, but both are not evolution in theway we have defined the term evolution.

But even if you define genetic drift as change in variation due to random sampling, there STILL is selection, just not a biased selection. You refer to bottle-neck populations such as pioneers or disaster survivors. That is however not what tfa is about.

If you wish to continue this discussion stop posting as ac, as i will no longer read these posts

I should add that selection based on culture (love, pre-arranged weddings etc) rather than fitness also does not help evolution.

According to your definition any genetic alteration is evolution (indluding being exposed to gamma sources). But then you bring genetic drift as an example, which is strange as genetic drift is not an increase in variation, but a SELECTION of a specific allele within a pool, resulting in increased frequency.

Acquisition of mutations is not evolution. Evolution is the combination of variations AND selection of those traits that increase fitness. The fact that we only acquire more genetic mutations means that selectionhas gone down and evolution with it. The simple explanation is that healt care enabled us to cheat on selection.

This is such horse shit. Nih pays at max a few million for starter projects. The 1billion generally required for phase II and III never comes from NIH. If you dont know how pharma works dont act like you do.