decrees

That gives a lot more local representation than the generally top-down decrees of Euro states - and that's on top of whatever the hell the EU is and all of its trans-national top-down decrees.

Branches of foreign banks are subject to tax at 20% of their profits under the banking tax decrees.

It's not something completely external, and education shouldn't be a game to guess what these external decrees are.

For Foucault, power is best understood by studying our everyday interactions, instead of examining decrees from those in authority.

There are countless agencies that have varying authorities and can issue decrees that apply within certain constraints.

But as far as ancient athens goes, every male regardless of wealth or status got to vote the laws and decrees.

Perhaps that's because according to AngelList you're an investor in Square, which has signed two consent decrees for violating money transmission laws.

Do not engage with autocratic decrees and programming equivalencies of heretic and kosher.

Not to mention, that a lot of top-down decrees in China look good on paper, but end up being implemented by corrupt local governments.

> But as far as ancient athens goes, every male regardless of wealth or status got to vote the laws and decrees.

I'm assuming the judge decrees a sentence and the convicted serve it, not that you're given the choice between going to jail and paying a fine.

An aggressive monopolist drive is built in to GPL as it decrees incompatiblity with other licenses not on base of licensing conditions, but on base of not being originated from the FSF.

We actually have detailed corporate standards on what to do with LEDs but I've also heard some interesting decrees like "User shall never see a red LED because it looks like the product is broken."

A little study of context tells us that many shamans and prophets and priests of various religions would "invoke" the name of their god when making decrees to lend authority to their statements.

> "China’s Maoist ideologues are resurgent after languishing in the political desert, buoyed by President Xi Jinping’s traditionalist tilt and emboldened by internal party decrees that have declared open season on Chinese academics, artists and party cadres seen as insufficiently red." This doesn't seem in keeping with what he's actually been doing vis-a-vis China's "reds", which is mostly suppressing them.

From PHK's email on bikes-heds, "somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is paying attention, that he is here." The project manager needs to show that's he's here and actually doing things, and so decrees changes like getting rid of the duck or changing the color of the buttons from taupe to mauve.

In Czechoslovakia, there were Beneš Decrees[1] which meant the loss of citizenship and expropriation of the property of about three million Germans and Hungarians.

Decrees did nothing to make people plant them, but declaring the potato to be a royal food and nobody but the king could eat it caused people to plant it either out of spite or a desire to flout the rules.