Even though AT&T said most of the service issues had been resolved by Monday, the smattering of technical glitches could raise concern of future problems and discourage on-the-fence consumers.
Appearing at resorts as far afield as Canada and Switzerland, downhill "slow zones" may have been introduced as a way of discouraging on-piste collisions, but they've since developed into a whole slow-food inspired philosophy.
International rules discourage the one-on-one play of the N.B.A.
"First, discourage early one-on-one dating, and, second, be very, very leery of significant age differences".
Another noted that "advertising of particular products" should be strongly discouraged on the network.
Most of the data seemed discouraging on the surface, but a closer inspection of the details offered some promise.
Homework is also "discouraged" on weekends, and teachers are prohibited from grading it or using is as punishment.
And I was further discouraged on Monday by the wording of a speech by Jerome Powell, a relatively new member of the Fed's Board of Governors.
"What weighs on me the most," he said in an interview in December, "is the caricature of the Catholic Church as crabby, nay-saying, down in the dumps, discouraging, on the run.
In case you get discouraged on your way over here, the kind folks at www.website-monitoring.com have made this impressive infographic which you should probably print out and fold into your wallet.
Similarly, while a foreign presence was encouraged on the mainland, it was strongly discouraged on Svalbard.
