Our inquiry into what is dangerous will be ultimately about the fittingness of fear, even if we can use response-independent characterizations (is it likely to kill or hurt someone?) as useful rules of thumb in reasoning about danger or other evaluative features.
"If you're interviewing someone, its useful to figure out what motivates that person".
Grigory Yavlinsky, a social democrat, is still an outsider but could also be someone's useful ally.In any event, Mr Primakov still has to survive the coming months.
Chekhov helps you imagine what it's like to be someone else, a useful skill for a political leader.
There will no doubt be someone who gave useful information under [torture], and those opposed to torture can say that person might have talked without torture.
To receive a patent, an invention must be novel (substantially different from what exists), not obvious (one can't patent a new toaster simply by expanding it to handle five slices of bread), and useful (someone can't patent an invisibility machine if invisibility is impossible).
So before anyone has really even hacked the Nintendo Wii and done amazing things for it (like, you know, making it play DVDs or something useful), someone has come along and hacked a Wii Gift Card.
I hope, though, that someone finds it useful in their own process.
When you try to determine what is important to someone, it is useful to pay attention to how that person spends their time and their money.
