On a lark, Mr. Minsky spent some time "inventing useless things, " he says, such as a "gravity machine, " a device that would ring a bell if the force of gravity changed.
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Suppose you are like me, and once you fire up your laptop to check your email, you are in danger of spending the whole morning on the Net, doing increasingly useless things.
Typically this meant plowing money into commodities, land, and other scarce if useless things (such as fine art), on the assumption that investment vehicles definitively limited in supply would hold their value in the context of dollar weakness.
On its best days, communist economic history is that of commissars ordering quotas of production and the useless stuff piling up outside, the shops empty of things that matter.
In an utterly useless stab at playing characters, they say "quirky" things and talk to each other about the importance of having a family.
"I've included all sorts of little things - his Vickers machine gun, bombed and rendered useless, but the man, the spirit of the man survives, " said Mr Doubleday.
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.
"If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.
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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.
The evidence is incomplete, but I'd bet that "completely useless" Human Rights Campaign equals-sign demonstration led people to do exactly all the things that Moylan suggests would be more valuable than clicking a button on Facebook.
And why is it that these same lawmakers are always among the ones crying foul when taxpayer money is spent on things such as healthcare for children or food stamps for the hungry but gladly blow big money on useless challenges to the United States Constitution?
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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.
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