I really don't have an issue with giving $10 to Netflix for the good content they're offering. The reason I only recently joined though is their insistence on controlling every aspect of the stream by employing the atrocity called DRM. This and them taking content down after it has been published keeps rendering their service worse than it could be. So I go back to the venerable El Dorado of pirate streams for the occasional unavailable movie. DRM meanwhile just leaves a sour after taste. While it obviously shackles me, it has yet to really annoy me, but I'm sure it will happen.
States (and governments in general) rule by force, and force alone. German points it out nicely:
force = Gewalt power = Gewalt
Do you see the similarity? That power needs to managed. That's where division of power comes in. There are many different kinds of implementations, e.g. the battered version called dictatorship or the somewhat better version "democracy", some implementations indistinguishable to dictatorship.
In either implementation, power is abused. In dictatorship the ratio between legitimate and illegitimate cases tends to be high, but democracy isn't failsafe either. I wouldn't write it on incompetence, rather I see judges wielding power with a firm grip.
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Satisfactory but still
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force = Gewalt
power = Gewalt
Do you see the similarity? That power needs to managed. That's where division of power comes in. There are many different kinds of implementations, e.g. the battered version called dictatorship or the somewhat better version "democracy", some implementations indistinguishable to dictatorship.
In either implementation, power is abused. In dictatorship the ratio between legitimate and illegitimate cases tends to be high, but democracy isn't failsafe either. I wouldn't write it on incompetence, rather I see judges wielding power with a firm grip.
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