Having that many outfielders who are that useless is a problem in its own right, but also a symptom of something else, like an inability to develop or acquire certain kinds of talent.
Left to savor are virtuoso touches, like a flock of birds that becomes useless paper, a train that glides along the surface of a lake, and one of the great villains of all time, Yubaba, who looks like a bobble-headed grandmother on speed.
An expense of resources that is useless or harmful is worse than the alternative, which is to do nothing, however dreadful that might be.
It fundamentally changed our relationship with music, that most useless and invaluable of our arts.
The idea that our useless babies are really useful learners is appealing, but what kind of evidence could support (or refute) it?
Now, unlike those perishables, sports can be recycled through highlight films and cable TV, but those are after-market products that are useless without the live events.
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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.
Well, those that cause real harm to patients are worse than those that are merely useless.
So if I went on to rap about it in Kashmiri, that would be useless.
Some of the rest regulates the genes, but most consists of stuff that is apparently useless or, worse, parasitic.
Eventually, though, and this might take a long time, but it is finite, everyone will have tried Facebook ads and know that they are useless.
Working on postparade cleanups in warm weather, I quickly learned that it was useless to ask lingering bystanders to move back a little from the barricades.
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But Dr Shogren's thesis was that wimpy, useless hunters were the ones who stayed at home and crafted objects, while the real men went out and killed things.
While the survey shows more than 90 percent of businesses are using firewalls and anti-virus solutions to protect their networks, that protection is useless once employees use a remote connection to access work-related documents.
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Zynga has a forum that is virtually useless.
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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.
The Frenchman Christophe de Ponfilly, a committed activist filmmaker, returned to Afghanistan again and again over a seventeen-year period, even after he halfway convinced himself that it was useless to point a camera at a war.
I'm sure you'll agree that New York would be a better, more hospitable and harmonious place if every useless bank that's gone up over the past decade were replaced by a pastry shop that sold some version of the Trianon.
It is true that a player with such a speed-based game is vulnerable to a leg injury rendering him nearly useless, but that is true of everyone.
He also claims that he can solve the power problem that rendered Iridium phones useless inside buildings.
Applbaum and his team started going through it, before realizing that it was pretty useless.
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It was math and crafted algorithms that prove real math useless in demonstrating accuracy.
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Some firms have also realised that ethics manuals are useless unless they can be enforced.
They both say, in effect, that new information is useless, largely because it has already been used.
Even a cursory glance at Exhibit 4 reveals that economists are simply useless when it comes to forecasting.
Or had they already made up their minds that any intervention was useless?
Do you ever catch yourself repeating useless behaviors that get you nowhere?
"Often, they think that they're useless because they're in prison, " Basnet said.
Museums were the worst: I always considered them an unnecessary collection of largely useless facts that I breezed through while my parents took an eternity to finish.
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