The germ of a great career often lies hidden in the illegal, dangerous, or useless activities we love.
What follows is simply what I have come to believe useful or useless, central or idiosyncratic, feasible or out of touch.
Prodding Russia to change direction will be all the harder, because the West gave it much bad or useless advice in the past.
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He recognises that aid can be useless, or worse than useless, in countries with bad governments, either because the money is simply wasted or else because it helps to keep corrupt rulers in place.
Their homes and farms were razed by the Taleban, destroyed by US bombing or made useless by minefields.
"One of the characteristics of hoarding is that people feel this sense of discomfort if they feel like they may be giving away something that they could use in future, " says Hollander, explaining that patients often become greatly distressed or even angry if they are pushed to give up apparently useless or excess possessions.
But they are also aware that lecturing the Kremlin about its behaviour at home or abroad is useless.
Some of the rest regulates the genes, but most consists of stuff that is apparently useless or, worse, parasitic.
Research is risky: miracle molecules often turn out to be useless or dangerous.
As it turns out, a growing body of research finds that many disclaimers are useless or even worse actually mislead consumers into making inferior decisions.
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As a reward, the government and its allies are attacked every day in the press for being useless or corrupt, which is encouraging too.
An expense of resources that is useless or harmful is worse than the alternative, which is to do nothing, however dreadful that might be.
The notion that advertising is evil, to use a favorite term of Google critics, or at least useless is a longstanding meme in Silicon Valley.
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At the time, the United States prevented a move in the UN to impose economic sanctions against Iraq, saying that the sanctions would be useless or counterproductive.
Together with Harper, who runs a technology consulting firm, they came up with a list of invited contributors, asking each to bring an invention--useless or practical--an idea or at least good conversation.
But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
Starting a business is not always straight forward in may countries in Africa, the business ecosystem is almost non existent in many countries, we still have electricity issues, getting funding to start a business is still challenging in most parts of Africa, people aren't trained enough to execute essentials jobs, degrees gained by most African are useless or have no purpose in the job markets.
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They argue that a gun separated from its ammunition, disabled or locked away is useless in an emergency.
These rules are, however, near useless if governments or central banks circumvent them in other ways.
Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction, making them useless, chaotic or a burden.
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It is useless to discuss or to consider a no-fly zone unless you are thinking beyond it, unless you are already then starting to plan.
Cash back rewards and miles will be rendered mostly useless or at least much less valuable if businesses adopt a credit card surcharge.
Security solutions based on physical infrastructure, and policy expressed in terms of a particular device, the corporate PC, an IP address, network port, or application protocol are becoming useless in a mobile, borderless world.
Now we hate all the feet dragging by cable operators in the US as much as the next, and wish the FCC would enforce the Telecommunications Act of 1996 already, but that doesn't mean that everything big cable does is evil, or that the FCC is useless.
Or a new supervisory role for euro-zone governments, or, heaven forbid, the useless European Parliament?
What if a remote kill switch could be thrown to "fry" a stolen smartphone or tablet, making it truly useless?
Whether it is the Saad and Gosaibi case shrouded in layers upon layers of useless and expensive secrecy or the real numbers of health and safety accidents, it seems countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are not particularly known for prioritizing transparency.
At the United Nations last week, he went a step further, putting the "world body" on notice that more of the same from Saddam had better be unacceptable to the UN as well, or it will render itself as useless as the League of Nations became in the late 1930s.
Worrying about a trade deficit, or a trade surplus, is largely useless.
Managers who had cut their teeth on the 1970s had to have a new brainwave, or their enterprises were going to prove useless.
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