We fear being useless, especially once we have issued forth our baby-making essence.

CNN: Why women love vampires and men don't

Then we walked up to 43rd Street to where I happened to know I could get someone to let me into a locked building where we could charge our now almost dead, though also useless where we live, phones.

FORBES: Robinson Crusoe in 21st Century Manhattan

The germ of a great career often lies hidden in the illegal, dangerous, or useless activities we love.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Delivered from Distraction'

We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.

FORBES: Magazine Article

And not being especially fond of perfectly-worded, useless questions, we advocate for an end to that sort of data.

FORBES: A Story About Occupying Digital Space. Or an Answer to 'How Should I Be Measuring Digital and Social Media Anyhow?'

These numbers mean that the snapshots we take today are probably useless in the near future, and that scenario planning and financial modeling are going to get harder.

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These monumental challenges place us at a crossroads: either we return to mutual recrimination, which has been so useless and so damaging in previous times, or we face and overcome these challenges together, and from there, we begin a new chapter of shared prosperity.

WHITEHOUSE: Official Arrival of President Calder��n

When we talk about dialogue for an entire millennium then it may be useless and fruitless to continue to lie to nature the way we do.

UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)

Alot of non-technical saavy people who have more power than they deserve seem to think that bandwidth speeds upwards of gigabit are useless, even though realistically this is what we need to efficiently run cloud applications across the internet.

FORBES: Microsoft Still Can't Find Its Future. Is It Too Late for the Company?

His point was that much of the explosive growth in the trading of complex financial products - CDOs, ABSs, CDS, EFTs and so on, until we were all alphabetty crazy - may have been (in his words) socially useless.

BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?

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?

ENGADGET: Skooba makes with the pictures of TSA-friendly bags (update: not really)