"I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction, " he says.
Older farmers who remember that crisis and see the big swarms nowadays "stop farming, because they know that it's useless, " said Huynh, the FAO's emergency and rehabilitation coordinator in Madagascar.
That also means it's pretty useless if you only want to schlep one bag around, so it looks like we're stuck with the Bucket Dance for now -- hey TSA, would pockets on the sides be such a threat to our nation's security?
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"It's totally useless, " said blogger Bakanabe, who researched the Fujitsu smartphone before sticking with his existing phone.
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"For a British company to be selling a piece of technology that is useless when it's meant to be saving lives is abhorrent, " Lou McGrath, chief executive of the charity, Mines Advisory Group, told Newsnight.
After that, it's a question of protecting the data and rendering the computer useless in case someone walks off with it while your back is turned at Starbucks.
We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.
As things stand, the U.S. data are next to useless, since it takes several minutes to have other secret signals extracted prior to reaching Japanese forces, according to defense analyst Okabe.
At worst, if the French were to turn away from the treaty, it would be rendered toothless and useless, because of France's muscle within the eurozone.
Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.
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But the U.S. is currently delaying data several minutes, as it separates out other secret signals, rendering them next to useless.
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