Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Of course, a smartphone is useless as a travel tool unless you load it up with apps.
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No, we don't think this Xbox 360 case mod oddity takes the cake, but it ranks fairly high up there in the long list of mods that are impressive from a technical standpoint, but next to useless from a practicality stance.
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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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The Eaton Vance product carries a 2.25% front-end load, making it useless for a short-term investor.
However, the apps are all useless without a registered account with that provider, which the enterprise would need to pay for and provision.
Then it is useless as a tool for improving performance.
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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.
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.
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.
The Australian maneuver had the effect of converting a mostly useless capital loss deduction into a valuable interest deduction.
"It is a message to Bernard Arnault that it will be useless to pursue a takeover attempt because the family has relinquished its right to sell, " says Patrick Albaladejo, executive vice president for strategic development and image and close adviser to Thomas.
We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.
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.
And 18-year-old Simoti Majhi struggles through life with a hunched back and a useless right hand.
There is a useless machine battling another useless machine, turning each other on and off, over and over.
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Business sustainability is in essence a useless catchphrase, said Dunn, unless employee engagement and empowerment is factored in.
However, when connectivity and applications are used with mobile devices, the largely useless product becomes a product of services.
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This made it useless for making a valid comparison of costs, it said.
Because if you are strong and successful as an animal, you can afford to invest energy in such a useless thing.
Loyalty programs can show that a person is not a useless customer, if the firm knows how to use the information.
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Driving for 30 minutes at commuting speeds yields a useless dozen miles.
The move effectively made links to FileSonic-hosted files useless and precipitated a sharp drop in the number of people using the site.
"For all intents and purposes it is a useless document, " he said.
All the other scientists who had attempted this, including the glass experts at Corning, found that their concoctions were gelling too early, resulting in a useless product.
Speaking at the end of the Africa-Europe summit, she said it was extraordinary criticism from a government that was wasting resources on what she said was a useless border war with Eritrea.
One would think that Speaker Boehner and his staff would have had more important things to do on this particular Sunday morning than wasting time engaging in a useless school yard fight.
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