Word: worthlessness
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...last year - the dearth of dot-coms. Gone from this year's lineup are Britannica.com, Lifeminders.com, OurBeginning.com, Pets.com and 10 other pretenders; this year there are only three: E*Trade (the monkey returns), Hotjobs.com and Monster.com. The lineup itself is a tech bellwether: One dot-com for dumping your worthless stock options and two to help you find...
...league announced that it would split into eight four-team divisions with Houston guaranteed a spot in the AFC, forcing somebody else to move out. Naturally, the team to move must have nothing to lose by switching conferences--in other words, a team that is flat out worthless to begin with, much like the Milwaukee Brewers when they switched leagues in baseball...
...squeeze, the tight market for gas has less to do with misguided government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for a practically worthless commodity. Now that the price has rebounded, the West Texas oil patch is hopping, with more rigs and prospectors hunting for gas than since...
Which isn't to say that all of the shows were worthless. Television's The West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation...
...huge amounts (the average inventor loses $20,000) for services that are either useless or available elsewhere for far less money. The companies' "marketing" consists mainly of blind-mail brochures to manufacturers that never look at them. Most of the patents obtained by these companies, he argues, are also worthless. And most important, virtually no invention backed by these firms ever gets to the market...