However, while a treaty without targets may end up resembling a football match without goal posts, it would not necessarily make the exercise a complete waste of time.

虽然缺乏目标的条约就象没有球门的足球赛一样，但是这些行动也并不全然是浪费时间。

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In many cases if we don't have time for this whole process, we often end up doing nothing when realistically we could have fit in some form of exercise in by taking a more balanced approach.

很多情形下，如果我们没有时间做这整套步骤，我们常常放弃，索性什么都不做，更现实地寻找其他平衡的方式。

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When I first started this exercise to examine the effectiveness of Hotspot applied lock optimizations, I figured it would take a couple hours of my time and in the end I've have a useful blog entry.

当我刚开始这个实验，解释应用各种锁优化的Hotspot的有效性的时候，我估计它将花费我几个小时的时间，最终这会丰富我的blog的内容。

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That's because if you don't sell ISO stock by the end of the calendar year in which you exercised your options, the paper profit at the time of exercise is taxed in the AMT as ordinary income at rates of around 28%, regardless of whether you ever realize that paper profit.

FORBES: Poof! A Tax Credit