>German laws might work different

Ja, there must be order.

I've used Calibre with the KFX Output plugin for years, never had an issue with converting pirated epubs.

Not exactly the most ambitious project, is it. Besides the fact that both ARD and ZDF majorly struggle with the content itself in terms of quality and availability (it's not an archive, everything disappears quickly). One day they'll figure out this internet neuland thing ;)

Unfortunately, not making archived content available longer is due to the legal obligations that the public broadcasters face and that the German Government and the governments of the federal states themselves have put in place because of anti-competitive fear mongering.

I wouldn't call it "anti-competitive fear mongering" when one player in the market can rely on a virtually guaranteed income (you'd have to be homeless to avoid the Rundfunktbeitrag) while newspapers, private TV and radio have to fight for survival. ARD and ZDF buying and thus supporting the insane amounts that some sport events cost in license fees doesn't do FIFA and IOC any good as scandals of recent years have shown. Carlos Nuzman who ran the 2016 games got 30 years for his corruption schemes.

Are you saying that the German legislature cannot change the law?

Of course they can and are welcome to, but even though I agree with many things any variations of the past German governments have brought into law it doesn't mean I have to agree on all of them. And let's be honest: The TV and radio landscape has opened a lot over the past nine decades, unlike print media it had a few decades of being shielded from competition but why does it have to continue like this?

How many decades of well known mutually assured destruction would you consider adequate to release this information?

Not exactly a new system, surely has been inspected many times by all major nuclear powers over the years.

I think they mean free at the point of text, ie not paying per message, not that the plan is free.

Wouldn't 15 be pretty cheap for a phone plan anyway? That's less than Netflix costs now?

Exactly. When my wife and I were younger we would easily send over 3000 sms messages to each other per month; I remember the number because my family saw it on my phone bill and thought it was absurd. Jumping on an unlimited sms plan for an extra $10-15 per month was a no brainer versus paying $0.10 per sms.

With user permission (allow installation from unknown sources or something), that must've been possible for a decade or so already.

Is this change just whitelisting a bunch of widely used app stores by default (especially in China)?

> With user permission (allow installation from unknown sources or something), that must've been possible for a decade or so already.

> Is this change just whitelisting a bunch of widely used app stores by default (especially in China)?

I am not an Android developer so this is just my understanding and could be wrong.

No, this is not about installing new applications. This is about allowing updates for apps already installed with user permission. All usual caveats apply. Update must be signed with the same key (it is an actual update, not an uninstall old + install new), yada yada

Is this an advertisement for a "promise"? Entirely worthless until there's something to show. It smells.

>to make that possible we are studying ways to reduce manufacturing costs

Varespladib has a very simple molecule, doesn't it? Kinda resembles indolecarboxamides like AB-BICA or something like that (the kind of things you can buy for $2000/kg).