The sysadmin doesn't control it either; it's the new version of Movable Type Enterprise, afaik. Either we need the spam filter, or we need registration; this seems like the lesser of two evils. You'd miss the off-topic comments on my ancestry, morals, and personal income . . .
There appear to be ways to configure Movable Type to automatically approve posts from people registered through TypeKey (bypassing the spam filter completely) while still allowing unregistered posters to take their chances with the existing setup. Believe me, I would sign up for this in a minute to avoid having my posts randomly snapped up by the Bermuda Triangle of your spam filter.
If you're interested in this, an intellignet, religiously minded friend of mine has an article complaining about the certainty with which these various discoveries are unveiled.
Personally, I was a little shocked to find that the article didn't even mention the "RNA world hypothesis," given the title. RNA, which is capable of enzymatic function and replication without the complex setup used by modern cells to make proteins, is sometimes claimed to be the actual precursor to life as we know it.
First, I love how early in the section they put "theory" as in the theory of evolution, in quotations, as if to smugly and begrudgingly acknowledge its status as a theory (which it is), to nay-sayers and backwards nonbelievers in the most perfunctory fashion.
Second,
"and, for reasons of ethics, many experiments on them are proscribed"
This, to me is equivalent to murder by inaction. If indeed it would speed up the process significantly to use primates as subjects for experimentation in order to research treatment and cures for AIDS, to prohibit such testing on the grounds of ethics is lunacy. Our number one priority is the life of our species. We do not, in the case of an epidemic, piddle about for the sake of which animals it is more ethical to test on. I say, if it speeds the process, kill as many monkeys as you need to. Human life is worth it to me. How can anyone choose one over the other?
For reasons of ethics, like it says. Also, any idea how many human lives could be saved by providing clean water, basic sanitation, inexpensive food, mosquito nets, and easy-to-produce drugs in developing countries? (Hint: a lot).
Oh come on. All I said was, "then again, he might not" and I get clobbered by the spam filter? What's up with that? Give me a break, here. Honestly.
I don't run the spam filter! Sorry . . . but it's Movable Type, not me . . .
I know, I was just griping in general, but it's silly. Who's your sysadmin over there, he/she needs to get some grief over this.
I think Darwin would be much more surprised at his own reappearing.
The sysadmin doesn't control it either; it's the new version of Movable Type Enterprise, afaik. Either we need the spam filter, or we need registration; this seems like the lesser of two evils. You'd miss the off-topic comments on my ancestry, morals, and personal income . . .
Undoubtedly.
You can do both. (And I don't see registration as evil, as long as you allow pseudonymous regs.) Have your sysadmin check out this link:
http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/comment_spam#typekey
There appear to be ways to configure Movable Type to automatically approve posts from people registered through TypeKey (bypassing the spam filter completely) while still allowing unregistered posters to take their chances with the existing setup. Believe me, I would sign up for this in a minute to avoid having my posts randomly snapped up by the Bermuda Triangle of your spam filter.
If you're interested in this, an intellignet, religiously minded friend of mine has an article complaining about the certainty with which these various discoveries are unveiled.
link
Personally, I was a little shocked to find that the article didn't even mention the "RNA world hypothesis," given the title. RNA, which is capable of enzymatic function and replication without the complex setup used by modern cells to make proteins, is sometimes claimed to be the actual precursor to life as we know it.
First, I love how early in the section they put "theory" as in the theory of evolution, in quotations, as if to smugly and begrudgingly acknowledge its status as a theory (which it is), to nay-sayers and backwards nonbelievers in the most perfunctory fashion.
Second,
"and, for reasons of ethics, many experiments on them are proscribed"
This, to me is equivalent to murder by inaction. If indeed it would speed up the process significantly to use primates as subjects for experimentation in order to research treatment and cures for AIDS, to prohibit such testing on the grounds of ethics is lunacy. Our number one priority is the life of our species. We do not, in the case of an epidemic, piddle about for the sake of which animals it is more ethical to test on. I say, if it speeds the process, kill as many monkeys as you need to. Human life is worth it to me. How can anyone choose one over the other?
For reasons of ethics, like it says. Also, any idea how many human lives could be saved by providing clean water, basic sanitation, inexpensive food, mosquito nets, and easy-to-produce drugs in developing countries? (Hint: a lot).
How about all those Bible questions at the GOP debate tonight? What would Darwin think about that?
There was a debate?
OK, there is apparently a minimum length required to get past the spam filter. At least there is for me.