Having had a ruptured Achilles tendon recently, this would be wonderful. The hardest part of recovery is regaining strength after months of having zero load on the calf muscle. The quicker you can begin physical therapy, the less muscle you will lose. It often takes a year or more to regain strength, unless you are a young athlete with personal trainers and full time PT of course.

It has always been pretty easy to convert ebooks. Just install Calibre and do a batch convert. You can also convert your amazon ebooks to other formats.

It seems like Amazon is the poster boy for "Companies that need an employee union."

I imagine there will be quite a bit of outrage. I am somewhat impressed that Google seems to be in the minority. In the past it seems that neutrality for $ was more the rule for large corporations. Now it seems that the entire free world is coming together to reject expansionist warmongers.

One Ringtone to rule them all,
One Ringtone to find them,
One Ringtone to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

So I can own the one true ringtone.

I don't see that happening. The free world has reacted with surprising unity and intensity. I don't think we're seeing a half hearted response for the cameras.

It does nothing to deter Putin in the short term, but perhaps serves as a wake up call for Russians long term. Perhaps there is more pressure to democratize going forward. The Soviet Union had as little care for common opinion as Putin but they fell eventually to external and internal pressure.

Also to ensure that when state propaganda tells the Russian people that the world agrees with Putin and wants him to end the nazi threat in Ukraine, people will know better.

I'm not sure. It certainly won't change Putin's mind directly, but a barrage of similar bans may begin to crack the wall of propaganda in Russia that Putin is building around his actions. Perhaps it will convince some of his citizens that this is not a just war of de-nazification but actually the exact opposite. A nazi style war of aggression. If similar messages from sports, math conferences, etc. also convince their cohort then Putin may find that he has lost a lot of support at home. It would be nice to think that the interconnectedness of society makes war more difficult for the imperialists of the world.

And in case you are wondering, I have certainly seen the reports of mass arrests of antiwar protesters in Russia. So I'm not naïve enough to think this kind of thing will solve war and tyrrany, but perhaps it will help.

Waiting may only make nuclear war more probable. Putin with two or three new countries under his control might be emboldened to try for the rest. The USSR and now Russia have always thought they could win a nuclear war. That is why they invested in large numbers of civilian bunkers and training for the general population. The US relies on MAD instead and has not done as much to secure the populace from the effects of nuclear bombardment.

History shows that those who thought they could negotiate their way out of WWII were fools. But not just fools. The appeasement of Hitler probably made the war far more costly in terms of lives lost than a full on military response as early as possible. The US is not lauded for waiting to join till after Pearl Harbor. So while the consequences of early military intervention are truly horrific there is good evidences that the alternative could be worse.

Firing those who sexually harass coworkers would be a more direct approach to the problem.

If this is literally true then is 3-5 years of production an sales the natural term of a patent?

If the patented tech has been popular enough to be reverse engineered by everyone + dog, and the patent holder has moved on to newer technologies, then what is the use of the next 20 years of patent "protection"?

I ask the question with the understanding that some edge cases are indeed highly profitable even just in patent obeying countries for the full term of the patent, but that most probably are not.

Who even says mainframe anymore? It's a server right?