It increases the net returns from engaging in some of these intrinsically distasteful activities, and it has helped us become a rent-seeking society.
Mr. Putin, seeking his fourth presidential term after 18 years as the most powerful man in Russia, does not really need to campaign, and appears to find the activity distasteful.
Even though we have reached the point where this Court is required to force private owners to open their property for the practice there of religious activities or propaganda distasteful [p517] to the owner because of the public interest in freedom of speech and religion, there is no need for the application of such a doctrine here.
In short, the U.S. is essentially doing all the actions we find distasteful about China's cybersecurity activities, although arguably with less emphasis on blatant industrial espionage.
Furthermore, they argued last month, that while Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir's so-called "playbook" might have been distasteful, it did not condone any illegal activity and is a protected form of speech.
Well, maybe some: as Szirtes notes in his introduction, many of Sindbad's activities and ideas might be distasteful to a modern audience.
Social scientists refer to these as "dilemma actions," because they force the authorities to choose between two equally distasteful alternatives: to stand back and allow such activities to continue, taking the risk that they will build into something significant; or to impose harsh punishment on people who are engaged in a seemingly benign activity.
(Lol-ly-gag: to waste time in trifling or aimless activity). Do readers really want their information coated, like distasteful medicine, with anecdotal capsules?
Retired officers and other Defense Department employees, including civilians, must be careful to conform to federal conflict-of-interest rules that forbid direct lobbying of former Pentagon colleagues, an activity that many former four-stars say they find distasteful anyway.
Facebook's standards don't permit hate speech or bullying specifically, as well as a host of other distasteful things like attacking private figures or using the site to facilitate criminal activity.
