Sentences with phrase «making arbitrary rules»

BUT overall, I think it is better for most people to have a revenue model as it is egalitarian, which leads to companies not making arbitrary rules that hurt 80 % of customers because of the 20 % who game the system.

Too often we see government making arbitrary rules for businesses based on false or incomplete data.

As soon as we start making arbitrary rules, it quickly becomes impossible to live them out consistently.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

Not exact matches

because of arbitrary rules they made up.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

«I think Labour's arrived at the right position on this issue, not ruling out a referendum in any circumstances, but neither making an open - ended, arbitrary commitment to one in three years» time,» the Labour peer said.

DeScioli says our rule - making system is arbitrary, producing the belief that masturbation is «bad», for instance.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

Unlike that other 2010 movie that made such a big deal of explaining arbitrary rules for getting from one level of storytelling to another, «The Social Network» just does it.

Truly, «Mad Max: Fury Road» and my No. 2 pick are both the best films of 2015 in my mind — and incredibly different in what makes them the best — but the arbitrary rules of list - making dictate that I must choose.

What is the main issue is all of the other rules and regulations (some of which are incredibly arbitrary) that go along with these programs make it undesirable to participate in the program.

And even when I try to pay to boost them, they often get rejected because they have «more than 20 % text on them,» a completely arbitrary rule that makes no sense.

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

Essentially, this ruling now makes breed specific legislation in Ohio for anything beyond «purebred» American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers very problematic — meaning that they would have to go through all due processes and puts more pressure on cities with laws pertaining to mixed breeds and other breeds, like cane corsos, that declaring these types of dogs dangerous without due process is «unreasonable and arbitrary.»

Taken together with the way it locks off so much content until you hit arbitrary levels it feels bizarrely restrictive, forcing players into a grind - like trajectory that gradually dishes out tools that make gameplay more interesting, even as the deliberately limited combinations of rules, maps and modes chip away at the initially intoxicating sugar rush appeal.

An intense interest in the disquieting operations of arbitrary, rule - based systems makes a certain sense for an African American artist raised into the perversity of the Jim Crow South.

Stephenson was interested in making deliberate and carefully controlled studies, the «rules» and proportions of which had been pre-determined, from paintings which were arbitrary.

So it makes no sense to assign an arbitrary rule for one of the greenhouse gases.

Where there are no published rules, there will always be a perception or suspicion of arbitrary or capricious decision making.

Don't sacrifice your resume's readability to make it conform to any arbitrary «rules» about resume length.