"It's incredibly misleading and borderline useless to every investor in the stock market, because it does not capture the essence of Black November – where all the deals were pulled up, people were email-bombed the day after Halloween.
"Two weeks later, this useless Ph.D. becomes incredibly valuable," Professor Kramer said.
Although mucus may seem nasty and useless, it's incredibly important: it contains lots of helpful antibodies that are designed to prevent illness, and it doubles as a sort of flypaper that traps would-be intruders (bacteria) before they have time to fully get into your system.
Let Us Just Love was the soundtrack for South Korean workplace romantic comedy television series Protect the Boss, about, according to Wikipedia, "an incredibly immature young man who is useless at his job".
Unfortunately, they are entirely useless for anybody who doesn't have one, leaving their target market as incredibly small.
It's a ridiculous, useless piece of irrelevant information, which the Daily Mail wants you to believe is incredibly important.
Presenting a research paper at a specific computer science conference might be incredibly prestigious, but if no recruiter understands the signal inherent in such a talk, then it is mostly useless from a labor market perspective.
What is dismissed as "useless" or without value by the dominant cultural establishment can at times be transformed into an incredibly functional uselessness - one which facilitates other ways of doing and existing.
"Most of us were feeling pretty useless in the face of what had taken place there; finding a way to be involved was incredibly fulfilling.
