Pay-TV looks a lot like retail banking: competition is weak not because the rules need rewriting but because customers are reluctant to switch suppliers.
This muscular approach continues a practice of rewriting rules to favour locals.
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Now it's rewriting the rules anew, this time in three dimensions.
But there would be several dangers in completely rewriting the rules.
The Vatican has been rewriting the rules to cope with an almost unprecedented situation -- Benedict is the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years.
That does not require a radical rewriting of the rules, but a more humdrum sense of right and wrong.
Mr Sarkozy undertook a prolonged charm campaign to position himself as America's new best friend, rewriting the Gaullist rules and closing a chapter of bitter Franco-America relations.
Why should Mr Orban and Mr Ponta take lectures from an organisation that has been rewriting its own rules on the hoof, tampering with sovereignty without much care for voters and blithely ditching promises made only a few years ago?
For those in Pakistan who think this way, the warming of relations between America and India especially the rewriting of global proliferation rules to forgive India for building a bomb looks like a menacing change that needs to be countered.
As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
Akamai's big idea is that by rewriting the Internet's basic rules--making some computers smarter and more equal than others--it can let the Net grow infinitely large without breaking down.
Any such rewriting would, of course, end up being to the benefit of those who write said rules, the politicians.
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