The Day After Tomorrow was not entertaining. I'd rather watch a 2 hour presentation by Al Gore.
Dawkins came up with his brilliant meme idea as merely a way to express that evolution by means of natural selection can occur outside of biology. He wanted to show that evolution was a powerful way of understanding the world in all aspects, not just biology. He was a big promoter of genetic algorithms (computers using evolution to compute stuff) and has even entertained that idea that universes could be evolving in the multiverse, where maybe (in a purely thought-experiment type way) the universes that are best able to produce complexity (including life) reproduce, which could explain why complexity exists at all and why our physical laws are the way they are.
Actually, the DSi will be an mp3 player: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2331546,00.asp
It will also take pictures with the built in camera. It's definitely adding capabilities beyond playing video games. I wouldn't be surprised if apps came out for playing videos down the road.
I haven't read the book yet, but I highly recommend the PBS NOVA documentary based on it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/
You're confusing 'is' with 'ought'. Just because the nearly universal practice of pirating can be explained by capitalist theory, it doesn't make it morally right.
This is similar to how the supporters of social darwinism misunderstood the lesson of natural selection. Just because nature chooses the fittest, it doesn't mean we 'ought' to do the same.
Why is everyone talking about '3' DVDs?
There's a 4th one you know, it just came out yesterday, and I liked it a lot.
The writers strike supposedly didn't affect writers of animated shows and feature films.
What about between six months and 5 years? Just keep the baby in a plastic bubble? I'll give my kid the recommended vaccines, you know, the ones that are proven to be safe and effective?
I never saw them go on Oprah, the most watched television show by mothers, telling mothers not to vaccinate their kids, or else they'd be responsible for giving their kids autism.
Unfortunately, not being vaccinated also affects rational people in the community. Some kids cannot get vaccines due to allergies, and there's a percentage of kids who do get vaccinated, but it is ineffective. These kids rely on other kids to be vaccinated, in order to reduce their chance of exposure. This is called her immunity. For herd immunity to be effective, it is believe that a 95% vaccination rate is required. The MMR vaccine has now fallen below that rate in the UK thanks to pseudo-scientists like Andrew Wakefield.
ooohhh, injection of doses of different things! Guess what, we also feed them doses of different things.
The fact is that there are more antigens (threats to their immune system) on the tip of their cute little nose than there are in a vaccine shot. This is the latest argument from the anti-vaccine wingnuts, "Too much too soon." It's a complete non-sequitur. They cannot define too much nor too soon and is not based on science at all. Of course, they only come to this latest tactic because their last ones have all failed: "It's the mercury stupid" or "MMR causes a bowel problem that leads to autism"
Sugar does not cause hyperactivity!
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52516
The right wing's form of anti-science tends to be evolution and global warming denial. They too think they have the 'true' science on their side, no different from lefties and their anti-vaxx and anti-synthetic chemicals propaganda.
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.