Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder

Several readers sent in word that Google has served a Cease and Desist order to Cyanogen, one of the most prolific Android modders: his CyanogenMod is enjoyed by 30,000 users. The move is puzzling. Gizmodo wonders what Google's game is, and Lauren Weinstein calls the move "not of the high 'Googley' caliber" that one would expect of the company.

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Capitalism means crisis

[Anonymous Coward]

particularly in U.S.A..

Marx was correct.

Yours In Samarkand,
Philboyd Studge

Re:Capitalism means crisis

[CannonballHead]

quality of life that exists under these systems for the brief periods that they exist?

Ah... but just how brief are those brief periods, and just how bloody are the times surrounding the brief periods? It seems that communism tends to be quite bloody surrounding the "brief" times of peace and "prosperity." Incidentally, I'm not sure how many communist countries have been prosperous. For people other than the leaders, I mean.

And by the way, you're still going to have terrorists and the like, even if USA was communist. The current wacko Islamic terrorists aren't anti-USA because of capitalism and because of how inhumane the USA is or something.

Re:Capitalism means crisis

[gunnk]

Actually, a fiat currency IS a type of planned economy. With a fiat currency the government can manipulate the value of its currency. In many, many cases said government finally gets too greedy and manipulates the currency to the point that no one trusts it and the value plummets towards zero. In any case, though, controlling the nominal value of the currency is a tool governments with fiat currencies use to manipulate (i.e.: plan) their economy.

I think fiat currencies are inherently risky due to the high probability of government overreach, but I disagree with your comment that all fiat currencies are doomed to fail. The only failed fiat currencies that can be mentioned in history books are those that have failed. Ones that haven't failed still exist, so their failure is not recorded. You therefore cannot invoke history to claim that all fiat currencies fail as long as there are fiat currencies still in existence that have been viable for long time periods. (This is not to say they won't fail, only the the "history shows" argument is fallacious).

Finally, saying that "all systems of humanity eventually fail" suffers from the same sort of problems. I can point to many human systems that have existed for millennia and continue to work for us (think agriculture, trade, language, writing... none have passed away and few seem destined to do so in the foreseeable future).