• When are you deemed old enough to know what it is you would like to study and don't get useless figures shoved down your throat by people who seem to think that everyone in the world cares about politics and economics so they all will study it, regardless of whether they are studying art?

    BBC: The A-level student

  • Yang Yeng, a shopkeeper selling batteries, candles, and flashlights on the street in front of his still darkened shop in the East Village, said his T-Mobile phone was useless in the area.

    WSJ: Outages Expose Wireless Carriers' Backup Plans

  • Ms Brown from Sense about Science says that if the regulator doesn't think "continuing to market useless homeopathic travel 'vaccinations' for diphtheria, malaria, polio, typhoid and encephalitis" and potentially putting lives at risk is not reckless then there's little point having regulation.

    BBC: Cases dropped against malaria homeopaths

  • When they aren't picked up, they're useless.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Rebates are useless--they don't change incentives the way lower tax rates do.

    FORBES: How Capitalism Will Save Us

  • But since their tax cuts mostly go to the wealthy and their health insurance proposals offer little more than a potentially useless tax credit, that just wasn't enough.

    CNN: Commentary: The pit bull is back

  • But if veterans don't get jobs, their prized tools can start to feel useless.

    NPR: Returning Home Can Feel Like Demotion For Vets

  • The only downside was the fact that SplashTop still isn't compatible with full-screen apps, which made it useless for controlling Media Center.

    ENGADGET: How-to: Build a multi-talented HTPC for (roughly) $1,000

  • Of course, LG's device did suffer from a few drawbacks, as the lackluster display, omitted Bluetooth, and the "virtually useless" music player and photo viewer weren't looked kindly upon.

    ENGADGET: LG's LN740 GPS navigation unit gets reviewed

  • "Everybody that I know in the graphics world works on a Mac, so it seems so useless to have these beautiful machines that you can't interface with your favorite computer, " she lamented.

    FORBES: Macworld '09

  • "American natural gas production growth is essentially useless at this particular point in time since you can't make any profit on North American natural gas, " EOG Resources Inc.

    WSJ: Natural Gas Drops Below $3

  • Shipp acknowledges that these systems can make mistakes but says the computers aren't there to take over for humans but to assist investigators by weeding out useless information.

    CNN: After Boston: The pros and cons of surveillance cameras

  • 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.

    CNN: 'Change is imminent': African CEOs look to bright future

  • 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.

    ENGADGET: Clear QAM HD isn't going anywhere! HD

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