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...their bullet-proof vests. German helicopters, according to a source at the International Security Assistance Force (NATO's military arm in Afghanistan), can't fly at night because they do not have the required navigation equipment. "They are fundamentally good helicopters," says the ISAF source, "but they are fundamentally useless." Then there is training: one in four German soldiers, according to a recent parliamentary report, do not exercise. Some 40% are overweight and 8.5% are obese...
...Ivory Tower, but the very nature of the academic project. Ignatieff’s article attempted to draw distinctions between the judgment of academics—his past profession—and politicians, what he is today. “In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with,” he wrote. “In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions, and useless ones can waste precious resources.”Coming from a man who recently moved from academia to politics, it?...
basically useless (and agonizingly uninteresting...
What do you think is the most useless statistic in baseball today...
...There are so many candidates. You get really useless stats when you break them down into very small at-bats. So the stuff that appears on centerfield scoreboards during ballgames, a very high percentage of it tends to be totally useless. It's of the nature of - and I'm not trying to parody it - it's of the nature of, "John Robinson hit .396 after the sixth inning this year." You know, as if he had an ability to hit after the sixth inning. It's virtually impossible to explain how such a thing happens. Looking at the data...