Word: uselessness
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...built his mammoth software firm from his innate programming skills. Roberts, a Wharton graduate and the son of a Philadelphia belt manufacturer turned cable entrepreneur, learned his business at his father's side. Ralph Roberts left the belt business in 1962, fearing that beltless trousers would render his product useless. Brian stepped into the president's shoes...
Sometimes even knowledge is useless. People in Texas know what to do in case of a tornado. Texans have in the past four decades endured more tornadoes and lost more lives and property to the storms than any other state. And May is the cruelest month for tornadoes. Of all the twisters recorded in the past 44 years, more than 21% hit in May. People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room...
...dwindling, and the only question is how to count them. (The question for entrepreneurs is how to make money from counting them.) The fin-de-siecle countdown is already ticking away, and cropping up around the world are timepieces great and small, digital and analog, useful and utterly useless. Warning: Some timepieces do not work after the first stroke...
...felt that the numbers were useful, and the narrative was useless at best, and usually mostly confusing," says James E. Davis, head tutor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology...
Regardless, debating whether the College is out of touch or just doesn't care about students is useless and irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that as a student, there is little way for me to be heard. As far as the administration is concerned, I'm just some guy passing through for four years...