Expecting a stock to rise because you own it is as silly a notion as believing that we will never have another recession.
There's a term that's used in economics often as a derogatory term: fine tuning, in the sense that that's a silly thing to try because you can't achieve it.
Sure, that sounds a little silly, but if you bought the first-gen iPhone and wanted to stick with the platform it's the truth -- discounting the fact, of course, that no one's required to buy another Phone after two years, and even then you have to sign a new contract.
Whenever you get into one of those silly arguments and you come upon a basic disagreement about facts, it can usually be resolved with a quick Google search.
Well, one reason may be that during your interview, you were asked a number of questions that may have struck you as silly.
Of course, you can also navigate the various panels and screens with the usual hand waves and air pinches, should you feel a bit silly talking to your console.
Not you, of course, but people do say silly things, and you too have a family, don't you?
Maybe you think this is a silly question, but I think getting the answer right is worth a point or two of GDP, year in and year out.
To use a silly example to make the point, you may have been laboring so long as so hard on perfecting your idea for a VCR that you fail to see that the world has moved on to digital recorders.
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You know, it was a silly foul at the end that caused them to win the game.
There's even a silly backlight for several face buttons, should you be playing video games in a cave (you can opt to turn off the backlight, too -- we certainly did).
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After all, a witty intro, a hoodie and a bag of Silly Valley pixie dust can only get you so far with that crowd.
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Besides being rude, it was a tad silly, considering the consequences, don't you think?
While using Facebook as a tool in your job search arsenal might strike you as silly, the research suggests otherwise.
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Even the little discoveries--silly gadgets and gewgaws like a cell phone that can tell you if you've got bad breath--promise to affect our daily lives in interesting ways.
It may sound silly but ask a friend or colleague to role play an interview with you and record it.
It means doing something sufficiently silly that it ends up enraging your customers, costs you a lot of money and in general is entirely counter-productive.
To take the poster child silly example of this past year, the requirement that you have a license to do interior decorating in the State of Florida.
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If you think about it, printing out a boarding pass is almost as silly as printing out an e-mail.
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They called Anthea 'Panther', which seems silly when you read it, but when you say it it sounds a little like her name.
You know the silly season is in full swing when Metallica decide to release a double album of covers.
Ms. KIERRA "KIKI" SHEARD (Singer): I'm very silly and I will always say, thank you, Jesus, if I pass a test, or hallelujah, if, you know--just the simple things.
Then, you've been sending the BBC hundreds of pictures of creepy-crawlies and we have just some of the ones you've sent plus we find out about one woman with glasses and a silly accent who's ignited the US presidential campaign.
The diving itself is simple -- click to jump out of the airplane, hear the same silly "yeeeehaw" soundbite whether you're the male or female diver, then use a right-mouse-click to go from a spread-eagle position to a tuck, move the mouse left and right to perform various tricks, and finally click the spacebar to pull the ripcord.
You can only imagine the frustration of having months of hard work go to waste because of a silly mistake.
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