Whenever I write about the lack of third-party HD-DVRs, I inevitably receive a slew of email gently pointing me to the HD TiVo, a device DirecTV (the aforementioned benevolent dictatorship) so kindly offers.
Although turnout was low around 30% of the 3.5m voters that hardly mattered compared with the relief over a day free of fraud or violence in a country so recently emerged from dictatorship and civil conflict.
America saw her as the best way of putting a democratic face on a military dictatorship, so it helped broker the agreement that saw her return to Pakistan in October to fight elections due in January.
Myanmar's regime is a classic military dictatorship, and has been so in various forms since a coup in 1962.
When Indira Gandhi briefly imposed dictatorship on India, the so-called emergency in 1975-77, her government coerced people into having fewer children.
Both had the advantage, if you can call it that, of a bout of dictatorship before 1980, and so started from a low base.
That contempt springs from a keen nose for weakness, honed by the habits of dictatorship and based on an estimate -- so far unrefuted -- of Mr. Obama's mettle.
So the re-opened debate about General Pinochet's dictatorship has thrown the spotlight on General Banzer.
"As a union leader during the military dictatorship, he learned how to negotiate with the so-called enemy, " Valente said.
Now to force the West - the equation is, they want to force their Western, so-called, allies to choose either between the military dictatorship or between the Islamists.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator, " he added.
The life of a great moderniser is so much more congenial if he also heads what Lord Hailsham once called an elective dictatorship.
To do so he has dusted off a decree, penalising misleading advertising, approved by a military dictatorship in 1983.
To see the universal arguments about the individual and society, God and reason, good and bad and so on, and thus escape from the binding imperatives of the now - by which I mean the dictatorship of whatever ideas are most pressingly forced on us in the day-to-day by government, media, fashion, political correctness and so on.
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Denounced by conservatives as a dangerous revolutionary bandit, he embodied (all the more so as he grew older) a militantly dissident form of democracy alongside a much less attractive penchant for dictatorship.
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