Word: uselessness
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...Thursday self. This is Sunday night self talking. When you read this letter, your thesis will be nothing more than a hangover and a bunch of (now useless) acid-free paper. I’m sure you’ve been celebrating like crazy since Wednesday afternoon. Have a few drinks for me but, please, stay away from Sambuca. And if a bartender tells you to stop dancing on his tables, obey him without getting belligerent. Also, I hope you didn’t yak all over your boyfriend’s sheets last night. He just washed them...
...quarter-life crisis is less about depression or death wishes than dissatisfaction, confusion and apathy. I am bored with my useless concentration. I’ve only really enjoyed two classes in four semesters here. My social life has improved from last year to this, but still the monotony of the weekends—prep, pregame, party, final clubs, back to bed alone—drives me insane. One day I am confident and the next I want to do nothing but watch “TRL.” I’ve been 30 since...
...book Darwin's Black Box, Behe says this mechanism, involving more than a dozen proteins, could hardly have emerged full-blown in a single mutation. Yet it couldn't have been built one protein at a time, he says, because without any one protein it would be useless...
...demanding world. An uncomfortable conversation between Ruttledge and the leader of the local IRA chapter reveals the conflict between devoting oneself to the community and confronting the outside world. “Ruttledge knew that as he was neither a follower nor a leader he must look useless or worse than useless to this man of commitment and action. As far as Jimmy Joe was concerned he might as well be listening to the birds like an eejit on the far side of the lake...” But Ruttledge is convinced that for himself a life by the lake...
Operators express concern that occasionally the wrong IMEI could be mistakenly supplied and a bona fide customer could be incorrectly cut off. They also allege that manufacturers sometimes duplicate IMEI numbers, so barring calls from a particular IMEI could render a legitimate handset useless. Not the case, say some manufacturers, although others admit to using the same IMEI numbers in handsets destined for different parts of the world. Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes...