Let's face it, the vast vast vast vaaaaaaaaast majority of games on the android market suck. The ones that don't suck usually are slightly novel and become hugely popular - then rapidly die off within a few months.

There are some "premium" games made by SquareEnix and the like, but I don't see being able to build an ecosystem around just a few vendors. The problem is a large, saturated market full of cheap, crappy, time waster games.

I know we like to make fun of the PS and Xbox game markets, but many of those games really are works of art. They have storylines, art direction, and voice acting. They are designed to be "experienced" in a sitting, whereas the vast majority of Android market games are to be consumed in little sips to kill time.

Of course, Google also has the money and the horsepower to push and help to create a real game ecosystem based around Android. They are going to face a major uphill battle though.

As a bit of a counterpoint, remember that we use middlemen *everywhere.* Amazon, Walmart, grocery stores, department stores... the list goes on and on. Damn near every single business we buy from is a middleman.

Usually it is in our best interest to go through a middleman as it ends up with savings for everyone. The middleman usually buys in bulk (thousands of items) and then sells to us (1 at a time) at a markup. The manufacturer gets the benefit of a steady, predictable cash flow while we get the convenience of buying one at a time.

Of course, that's how it usually works. Not everyone wants that though. In today's connected world we can pay a premium straight from the manufacturer for items custom created directly for what we need. Cars, as large capital investments for most people, are a perfect example of this - especially as the "premium" is usually the same price that you would be charged from the middleman anyway. For middlemen to survive they need to provide a "value added" effect to the merchandise and I do not see that happening with most car dealerships.

tl;dr version: You use middlemen every day, usually love it, but if they don't provide extra value they shouldn't exist.

Wikipedia has become so large that students and youth in particular deem it the official truth. As such governments, companies, and individuals will constantly try to spin that to their own advantage.

Do you believe you will ever be able to reconcile with governments in regards to information they deem classified showing up on Wikipedia and private citizens that consider articles about them to be libel? Or, perhaps, is that just a fight you will need to struggle against for all eternity?

In all fairness, he wasn't able to pass a detailed climate plan when the Democrats had a supermajority in Congress and the Presidency at the same time. Several years ago it was Democrats that shot down their own plan - this time they can at least point at the Republicans when this executive fiat fails. It is also important to note that within the next 10 years our emissions will likely start rising as both the economy improves and shale gas gets into full swing. When the US ends up as a net energy exporter there will an awful lot of gnashing of teeth if someone tries to shut down or restrict that revenue flow. On the plus side, dirty coal plants will be phased out no matter what the legal fallout of this new plan is. As gas supplies become cheaper due to shale gas it will be uneconomical to continue modifying coal plants to keep up with pollution controls. Burning methane in a natural gas plant usually ends up being a far "cleaner" option from a particulate point of view, though from a CO2 point of view it is pretty much a wash (less CO2 required to take it from the ground though). Of course this is supposed to be about climate change. Do you think shutting a few coal plants and building some uneconomical renewable energy will change that? There is only one power source that produces almost no CO2 emissions and keeps the vast majority of its pollution all in one place instead of spewing it into the atmosphere. Also, it's the same power source that almost no one wants to touch with a 10 foot pole.