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Re:European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip The... by DanBC on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:47AM (#9749235)
A lot of local government are not strictly bureaucrats but are people providing services.
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Re:European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip The... by psykovsky on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:35AM (#9749377)
Bureaucracy services, mostly.
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Re:European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip The... by DanBC on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:07AM (#9749416)
Teaching? Libraries? Rubbish collection? Street cleaning? Public health? Social care; adult social services, child protection social services?

Most of that isn't what people think when they hear bureaucracy.

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Re:European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip The... by psykovsky on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:55AM (#9749737)
All those services are surrounded by huge bureaucratic machines. As is any private company who wishes to make business.
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Re:European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip The... by bnolsen on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:30AM (#9749914)
you left out the most important..national defense...oh sorry, most of the EU dumped that on the US so it could afford all these social programs!
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