I've been accumulating cheap oil stocks. So have at it leftists. You're making rich in preparation for retirement.

Intel stock is a screaming buy. P/E of 13, yielding 3%, great growth prospects, and the best chip foundry on the planet.

I was mostly being sarcastic - there are many more things far more evil than Apple and their influence on culture.

However, I would point out that falseness / untruth / lies / misinformation is indeed evil, in my opinion. Such things are used to control people without their realizing, and are the opposite of truth / honesty / genuine intellectual pursuit of knowledge. That is, then, a degree of evil - though not on par with murder, for example.

I prefer the firing squad. It is an American tradition. No nonsense. Put 'em down with prejudice. Arguing about drugs is silly.

Political power is irresistible to left leaning scientists, particularly those who've constructed and apocalyptic narrative around their subject (climate research, cough cough...) Who wouldn't want to save the world, and line their pockets at the same time?

Yup, and then all the Apple-heads will flock to it, talk about how amazing it is (ignoring the fact that the same capabilities existed before, from other companies). Their social zeal and Apple's marketing will overwhelm the field, and at some point everyone will call all wireless chargers "iChargers" even if only half of them are, and the others are actually other brands / technologies that work similarly but pre-dated it. Such is the power - the evil power - that Apple exerts in our dark age...

Yeah, well I have made a killing in ADM stock and High Fructose Corn Syrup. Tell me you don't love it.

For comparison, fluvial landforms of the Atacama have been exposed for about ~23 million years. Channels on Mars have been exposed for 3.5 billion, a huge difference (150x by my count). Even a weak erosive force can accomplish a lot in that time. In that time wind erosion has almost entirely excavated Gale Crater to a depth of more than 5km, leaving Mount Sharp behind at a similar height.

He's a lying socialist, who puts the interests of indolent immigrants above the rights American citizens and the rule of law. But I knew that already. Let's take an honest slashdot pol. How many of you a$$holes voted for him? Thought so. What did you expect?

Good. Nice to see government employees muzzled for a change. Climate change is a fraud.

Just use Scheme. The syntax is trivial, it is interpreted and you can be teaching concepts right away. And the rabbit hole goes as deep as you want. I've been using Scheme for 20 years and have still not fully plumbed its depths. It is an amazing language.

In addition, those western flanks show solid evidence of past glaciers

I know of no instance on earth where glacial ice fills lava tubes. Lava tubes are fragile. Glaciers are very destructive. What plausible process exists where ice will non-destructively fill lava tubes? Earth has thousands of volcanoes and lots of glaciation. Mars has neither. This is a ridiculous statement even for slashdot. The Indian Mars images are impressive, for 1970.

The approach trajectory was particularly cunning considering that there was an outage of Dawn's ion thruster.

Spotify has a playlist called "ESM" for Electronic Study Music... it's a pretty good mix of "near muzak" that is better than muzak: https://play.spotify.com/user/...

In related news: Purity Ring released a new album this week: "another eternity".... it's been a good coding companion for me this week...

And of course... there is my Spotify station based on Skrillex... must have good beats while coding...