Don't blame you. The only kinds of people who like to get down in these weeds are:
1) people whose jobs involve parsing regulations (see Pap comment);
2) coaches who are hands-on with the rules and may have worked them out in real cases; and
3) people who like getting down in the weeds, especially where it involves numbers.
All three types have participated in this thread.
I'm with Phil on his earlier comment that we ought to cut the writers some slack and am a little surprised at the persistent angry tone of some of these posts.
It's also occurred to me that writers suspecting more subjectivity than is there may have in the back of their minds the more subjective "justice will be served" waiver (as I think of it; I'm not looking it up right now) that's been granted from time to time in the past. Jamie Carey got it, I think. Imprecise thinking, I know, but generalists working under deadline can think imprecisely.
