The refugee ban is cruel — & totally misses the point
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"He obviously misses the point," the Florida Democrat told Burnett.
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I think that's hilarious, because it completely misses the point!
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But that misses the point of so much online humor.
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It may be true, but it rather misses the point.
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"Pretty darn good" — but misses the point, says Senator Warner.
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Branham, Soroka, and Wlezien say this criticism misses the point.
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To many public health officials, that argument misses the point.
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To talk about needing more jobs increasingly misses the point.
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To call their comments gaffes or blunders misses the point.
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Proponents of the coin boom say this misses the point.
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" On Friday, Franken said AT&T's response "misses the point.
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I think economists' obsession with building new houses misses the point.
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I think "data is the new oil" misses the point slightly.
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But the focus on the "W" sort of misses the point.
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But I think that debate misses the point in a serious way.
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But Sheena McCormack of University College London argues this misses the point.
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But to reject pessimism and nostalgia as simply inaccurate misses the point.
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Blaming the media for covering the Trump tweets totally misses the point.
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To dismiss this anger as bigoted or misinformed, however, misses the point.
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But he misses the point that this is exactly how that happens.
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To set "David" upon an earthquake-proof base perhaps misses the point.
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This misses the point that domination is all about users and views.
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" The voters challenging the law said that argument "misses the point entirely.
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But disagreeing with the minister's tastes (or lack thereof) misses the point.
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But this "everything is fine" objection misses the point in two ways.
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Impeachable offenses are those The bickering over collusion "crimes" misses the point.
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But that kind of criticism, easy to make, actually misses the point.
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Ring's defense misses the point and is a disservice to its customers.
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Brown seemed impressed with Tank's performance, which kind of misses the point.
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Focusing only on whether or not Pollock's interpretation is right misses the point.
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It has been called the "world's nicest prison", but this misses the point.
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Our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, says that the ban misses the point.
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He added that sexual harassment is bad for morale, which misses the point.
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Ms Adese, the associate professor, agrees, but says racial bickering misses the point.
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Any attack that's not based on Trump's nationalism and nativism misses the point.
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This approach also somewhat misses the point about the reality of military life.
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But with due respect to my former student, that answer misses the point.
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"Framing the issue as military social media policies misses the point," said Rep.
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The stories are too widespread and picking and choosing simply misses the point.
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While both arguments have some truth to them, the discussion misses the point.
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But this talk of simmering class warfare on the playa misses the point.
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But to assess American military commitments simply in economic terms misses the point.
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To say that "Americans are dreamers too" misses the point of all that.
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No one needs any of it, but that line of thinking misses the point.
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Where he misses the point is that, unfortunately or not, we're all ravenous crabs.
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But more importantly, Kim's whole argument sort of misses the point of having cities.
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Yet it misses the point of the N.C.A.A.'s malfeasance in the first place.
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One researcher who reviewed the first Nature paper thinks the controversy misses the point.
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The ad brands Trump a turncoat liberal — which also kind of misses the point.
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But other experts say forcing these elephants to breed in captivity misses the point.
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In fact, a focus on blinding the process to gender arguably misses the point.
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But some wonder if the cut-and-dried approach of today misses the point.
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Soto believes that misses the point, and that the show itself is the star.
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But she misses the point, for the series, a comedy, is not a documentary.
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But the very concept of tying transit construction to a crisis misses the point.
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But the question of how strictly China will enforce the ban misses the point.
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And that hand wringing that feminism and #MeToo "wrecked things" misses the point entirely.
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But for progressives critics, including Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, that misses the point.
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To center the conversation on how women's activism affects men misses the point entirely.
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But that argument misses the point about what made this such a popular meme.
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Still, the aforementioned response misses the point because it assumes the NBC report is true.
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The increase, physicians told Refinery29, completely misses the point and may even make things worse.
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But as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver explained on Sunday, this misses the point.
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But thinking of Sonos as just a transported Silicon Valley company misses the point entirely.
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Some people on Twitter believe that the campaign, while well intentioned, still misses the point.
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To understand why this misses the point, they should examine their own triumph in 2016.
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PETER VADNAI Katonah, N.Y. To the Editor: David Brooks misses the point about Donald Trump.
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That's why going back six years, eight years, 85033 years, 15 years, misses the point.
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For all the controversy he's stirred up, however, Trump's latest cultural war misses the point.
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And what he got is interesting and factual and sensitive—and mostly misses the point.
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That's why going back six years, eight years, 10 years, 15 years, misses the point.
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But that misses the point, Mr. French said, by ignoring the treatment of Africans today.
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"Taking credit for viralness because she took the photo completely misses the point," he wrote.
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Ideologues will be quick to tease meaning from every plotline, but that misses the point.
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But where Hardy misses the point is that he presents the ridiculously incongruous as representative.
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Yet, that narrative totally misses the point of what capital does, and what investment means.
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Any description of this attack that implies a 'yard dispute' justifies such violence misses the point.
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But focusing on short-term performance misses the point of choosing a laddering plan, he said.
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Another: "I'm liberal, so I can't be racist," a tautological cry that largely misses the point.
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Neil Casey and Paul Feig Jen Yamato, Daily Beast Their villainous foil misses the point, too.
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As far as their supporters are concerned, criticising the plans for their inefficiency misses the point.
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Whether that is true or not, this internet-centric narrative of the attacks misses the point.
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But the image of private equity as a parasitic form of business completely misses the point.
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You could knock the XT4 for being a slightly nicer Buick, but that misses the point.
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But to think tax brackets are the reason taxes are so complicated completely misses the point.
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But the ensuing debate over whether she did in fact eat their lunch misses the point.
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But that misses the point: The women want off the pedestal that elevates them as targets.
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Although Mr. Brooks convincingly establishes that conservatives are marginalized in academia, his argument misses the point.
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I'm afraid, in fact, your seeming scrupulousness misses the point of what ethics, properly understood, requires.
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You think like Romney — we'll just make it infallible — but that argument clearly misses the point.
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It's just so close to being funny — and yet entirely misses the point of what is funny.
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But despite the landmark casting effort and message of goodwill, the advertisement misses the point for many.
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"I think [the person who sent the note] misses the point about what Christmas is," Rowland said.
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On release, the movie was criticized for its gratuitous violence, a complaint that entirely misses the point.
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But throwing around blame for Hanoi misses the point: The summit was a mistake to begin with.
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But Galperin says this is exactly what the authorities want and misses the point of the legislation.
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At the same time, this approach misses the point entirely in terms of user privacy and security.
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If ever a band were trapped by formula, Spoon is it, but that misses the point somehow.
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While nice in theory, the tribute to the teenage climate activist misses the point of her platform.
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But those organizing the protests say that focusing on the losses of individual funds misses the point.
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It could and should be made stronger, but pounding the table about big banks misses the point.
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Any description of this attack that implies a "yard dispute" justifies such violence and misses the point.
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But defining Griffin's eight-plus years in Los Angeles by the team's postseason letdowns misses the point.
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"It misses the point that you don't manage the context, you operate in it," Mr. Baconi said.
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I think comparing him to Trump misses the point, he's not the president of the United States.
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They could be right, but I've always figured that taking acid in small amounts misses the point.
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Blaming social media misses the point: it's only one small factor in the rise of the celebrity candidate.
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To others though, that misses the point of Mulvaney's strategy, and the uniqueness of working for this President.
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However, I feel it misses the point if you try and portray that as a super-villain approach.
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Denouncing Trump as a liar, or describing him as merely entertaining, misses the point of authoritarian propaganda altogether.
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Americans tell us Mr. Trump can't leave NATO without Senate consent — a debatable notion that misses the point.
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Urging musicians to take politics out of their music is another -- and misses the point of music totally.
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To focus on just these two vulnerabilities misses the point of the transformative events now present in finance.
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" Gor added: "Any description of this attack that implies a &aposyard dispute&apos justifies such violence misses the point.
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But focusing on which romantic "team" to support misses the point of the show, according to creator Shonda Rhimes.
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Banning the import of black clothing to Hong Kong misses the point when it comes to clothing and opposition.
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Doyin Richards, a prominent "daddy" blogger and staff writer for Upworthy, says obsessing over Zuckerberg's privilege misses the point.
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Senator Cruz appears to have been deeply moved by the article (lucky me!) — but he misses the point entirely.
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Today, facial recognition technologies are receiving the brunt of the tech backlash, but focusing on them misses the point.
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The quest to enact Right to Try legislation misses the point about what is wrong with the status quo.
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In the economic sphere, the best counterpoint to trickle-down alarmism is to explain that it misses the point.
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The discussion of whether this will resonate with Trump's base then is deeply cynical and totally misses the point.
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But as promising or productive as these protest activities may prove to be, one of their premises misses the point.
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Activists say that the phrase "all lives matter" misses the point of the Black Lives Matter movement or dismisses it.
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Some people speak of FANG and FAANG (adding Netflix), but it misses the point, referring not exclusively to big tech.
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Shimkus's comment also misses the point about how health insurance works — we can't pick and choose what we pay for.
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Comparing these against things like the recent $999 Focal Elear misses the point of why you'd buy the Sony set.
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This misses the point of how a great photograph achieves greatness: by establishing a clear emotional connection with the viewer.
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So while defenders of the European Union have evidence to show that the bloc is democratic, this misses the point.
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To cover it as though it is misses the point -- again, whether you like what he doing or hate it.
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"The macro argument about however many millions hunting brings into the country misses the point," Mr. 't Sas-Rolfes said.
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Collegiate opinion leaders said that the president "misses the point," or that campus free expression is already in great shape.
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But to people who've been targeted or harassed by Sanders supporters, this is yet another question that misses the point.
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But that just misses the point of talking about celebrities, and also the point of celebrities themselves, in the first place.
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Sadly, that misses the point entirely: if your business model is a monopoly, then you're not actually providing a good service.
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So when CRISPR is used in movies to genetically transform crocodiles into enormous, savage creatures, that misses the point, Urnov says.
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But calling for everyone to do so in this way misses the point and risks alienating more people than it unites.
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TechHire has seen solid traction, but evaluating this effort through a short-term lens misses the point of its grand ambitions.
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That sole issue -- as if safety is some on-off switch between holding the event or not -- completely misses the point.
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" Lieu went on to say that a debate about whether Trump suggested paying for the story in cash "misses the point.
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JOANNE DAUS DIMEFF, DALLAS To the Editor: Honor Jones misses the point on wearing form-fitting, stretchy pants for working out.
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Yet this misses the point, said Susie Green, chief executive of Mermaids, a charity that supports transgender children and their families.
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The argument that there's nothing to worry about because Mr. Trump's Ukraine scheme didn't work in the end misses the point.
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But this kind of speculation misses the point: The Jesse Jackson '88 "content" is the least important aspect of the shirt.
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But cheering for a number rather than a plan misses the point: the goal isn't to spend more, it's to achieve outcomes.
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The problem with Cruz's logic -- and I strongly suspect he knew this going into the hearing -- is that it misses the point.
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Undue focus on what is missing by virtue of MacPhee's decision making, or his vinyl-purchasing budget, however, misses the point entirely.
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To an extent, the debate misses the point: Mr Jackson's conflation of eligibility for a role with experience is an unnecessary one.
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The worst resource-collecting game on iPhone also misses the point of fidget spinners They're mindless toys that barely require any attention.
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The fatal problem, I believe, is that FwdForce is all about ideas, which misses the point of why people care about crowdfunding.
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CHRISTOPHER SWAIN Maldon, England To the Editor: "Experts Find Flaws in Trump Plan for Wall" (front page, May 20) misses the point.
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"Framing the issue as military social media policies misses the point," said Speier, the top Democrat on the Committee's subpanel on personnel.
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He misses the point: Parks invites us not to empathize with Leo, but rather to think about the ineradicable legacy of slavery.
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But DOE's proposed near-term solution — ordering electrical grip operators to buy electricity from coal and nuclear power producers — misses the point.
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Sherri W. MorrLos Angeles To the Editor: Kim Brooks misses the point about good parenting completely in her sadly self-pitying piece.
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Whether Trump's discussions with Comey about Flynn do or don't constitute the crime of obstructions "misses the point," Vladeck writes on Twitter.
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The Watergate-era cliché "The cover-up is worse than the crime" misses the point that the cover-up is a crime.
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It also completely misses the point of the Clean Water Act, which is to protect the health of all the nation's waters.
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Of course, some measure congressional "activity" by days in session, bills introduced, or bills passed – a metric that largely misses the point.
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But some argue that this misses the point because property values will probably go under water long before the properties themselves do.
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Elliott MillerBala Cynwyd, Pa. To the Editor: The discussion regarding Joe Biden's handling of the Anita Hill hearings often misses the point.
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The rest is a mawkish, retrograde misfire that tries hard to recall an earlier era of filmmaking, but misses the point altogether.
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"It is cruel and misses the point," said Juan Camilo Mendez Guzman, an immigration attorney at the San Francisco–based Pangea Legal Services.
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As such, just promising to soak the rich—by calling for new wealth taxes, say, as the leftists are doing—misses the point.
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People like Richard Rohr, Peter Enns, and Rob Bell showed how looking at the Bible as an instruction manual misses the point entirely.
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Like "Oh you already know," but that to me misses the point of what it means for her to be headlining Coachella completely.
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It's quite possibly the worst resource-collecting game I've ever played on an iPhone, and it completely misses the point of fidget spinners.
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The current narrative points to the defeat of President Trump's effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, but that narrative often misses the point.
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But this new scheme misses the point and the huge opportunity to truly impact efficiency and cost effectiveness without compromising quality or access.
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It's fashionable to point fingers at social-justice-drunk "snowflakes" for devaluing the First Amendment in higher education, but that misses the point.
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Fund manager David Schuchman put it another way for Forbes that year, arguing that focusing on the study's Excel error misses the point.
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But social media has its limits, and condemning lawmakers who accept NRA contributions as the root cause of gun deregulation misses the point.
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Calling what happened in the White House on Wednesday a "shakeup" misses the point a bit, as the White House's resting state is kinetic.
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That defense largely misses the point, however, which is that someone like Manafort was ever close to a major presidential candidate to begin with.
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In the present, it's easy to use that line as a way to take Refused down a peg, but that almost misses the point.
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KEN FRIEDEN, SYRACUSE To the Editor: "Don't Meditate at Work" misses the point that mindfulness is not something gained through a short meditation practice.
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But when mendacity crosses all media and all social institutions, when it becomes embedded in the culture, focusing on digital platforms misses the point.
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Though all of the black participants have psychological cofactors, including obsessive-compulsive disorders, it misses the point to say the deck has been stacked.
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Racism." But for Mr. Starr, this well-intentioned remark misses the point: "Both the anthem and the flag are symbols of white hegemony. Freedom?
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Max Lyttle, director of instruction at Eagle Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., argued that pitting schools against one another misses the point.
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She is unfazed by the judge's verdict that her report on wolves falls into the category of natural history and so misses the point.
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Unfortunately, Sobel's essay about "The Bowing Machine" misses the point pretty egregiously, reducing Moore and Beyer's spellbinding aesthetic dexterity to a lamely topical reading.
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But that response also misses the point that there's a larger tragedy here: What are the human consequences when a state mandates full-scale doping?
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Oh, and yes, the episode also showed that making the breakup of big banks the be-all and end-all of reform misses the point.
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Asked about the rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the US, Trump completely misses the point by bragging about moving the US embassy to Israel.
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Worse, when the effort to reduce learning to a list of job-ready skills goes too far, it misses the point of a university education.
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In an essay published Thursday in Science, Dr. Shansky questions whether simply adding female organisms to experiments or looking for sex differences misses the point.
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Instead it is the objection that a white artist has no right to paint a subject like a lynching victim that entirely misses the point.
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The political right is insisting that no one should have to pay for someone else's care (which entirely misses the point of insurance risk pools).
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But the threat now, it seems, is very different to that faced 15 years ago – and getting caught up in the labels misses the point.
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The finale is a trip, but Mr. Eggers suggests that when crops and sanity each fail it misses the point to ask if the Devil exists.
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That leads to little or no differentiation to what gamers can find elsewhere and, he says, misses the point and huge opportunity of a new platform.
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And Season 2's third episode is a defiant mess of thinkpiece-bait that tries to damn the Internet outrage machine, but completely misses the point.
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"Short-term pessimism misses the point that it [regulation] could make the ecosystem thrive in the long term," said Charles Hayter, founder of London-based Cryptocompare.
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This misses the point completely, because people upset by the term shouldn't be labeled weak — and shouldn't have to develop "thick skin" to battle casual homophobia.
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We live in different times, and viewing Patchett's novel through present-day cultural and medical norms misses the point and does a disservice to potential readers.
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But even this misses the point, which is that there are in fact enormous villains in the climate story, but they don't work at environmental groups.
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This defense misses the point that granting unfettered access to raw data makes it technically and legally difficult to enforce limitations on data usage and sharing.
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When the economy is only measured according to metrics of infinite growth, it misses the point that we live on a finite planet with finite resources.
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But asking why people with expensive computers are upset about paying a bit more misses the point: that the Oculus Rift started out as VR's great democratizer.
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But while he was right to look to the Cold War for insights on today's ideological struggle, his focus on the exclusion of communists misses the point.
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The foolish idea that capitalism is the enemy of the environment misses the point that environmentalism is itself a luxury that few poor countries can adequately afford.
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Trump has also declared, in several interviews, that the 1941 epic Citizen Kane is his favorite movie — but his take on the film entirely misses the point.
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Even if some of the words Biden says are prudent and expressive of good intent, he misses the point of changing the culture around normalizing domestic violence.
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According to Brynjolfsson and McAfee, such talk misses the point: trying to save jobs by tearing up trade deals is like applying leeches to a head wound.
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A recent rush of developers flooded the App Store with fidget spinner apps, even though the idea totally misses the point of fidget spinners in the first place.
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"To me, this filing misses the point and I have a hard time believing that an [administrative law judge] is going to take it that seriously," he said.
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But admonishing the cast of Black Panther or Crazy Rich Asians for not using their monumental films to raise awareness of representation in fashion misses the point entirely.
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The legendary investor revealed his company's massive stake in Apple and said obsessing over iPhone X sales in the near term "totally misses the point" on the stock.
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To point out how expensive it is misses the point of what strategic deterrence is and how it protects U.S. interests as well as those of South Korea.
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Unfortunately, this current debate, while sexy to discuss, kind of misses the point that those types of grand projects can actually change the face of the human condition.
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And much like DADT, maintaining that transgender people can continue to serve so long as they do so only expressing their sex assigned at birth, misses the point.
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As with the boycott of the inauguration, this protest misses the point of the State of the Union and, more importantly, the role played by members of Congress.
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"Debate that centres on making one fossil fuel appear more climate-friendly than another misses the point," Mackenzie said, according to a copy of his speech to Peking University.
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But critics argue that his fixation on a wall misses the point that the real problem is in a system overwhelmed by asylum claims made at ports of entry.
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Optimised jobs boards (like JobToday, for instance) still uses the volume of candidates that they can send an employer as a selling point — we think that this misses the point.
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You can also upload your own images, so in theory, nothing is stopping you from making the EO2 a glorified selfie picture frame, but I think that misses the point.
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Some former diplomats argue that the intense focus on the peace plan misses the point: The Trump administration has utterly transformed the paradigm for American engagement in the Middle East.
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Not all carbs are created equalWeinandy says she sometimes hears from patients that in order to cut down on carbs, they&aposve cut out eating fruit, which misses the point.
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"Asking what the first amendment is going to be actually misses the point, because anybody that's got a better idea can offer that and nobody can stop them," said Sen.
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"Any description of this attack that implies a 'yard dispute' justifies such violence and misses the point," Sergio Gor, a spokesman for Mr. Paul, said in a statement last year.
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But multiple doctors (and Vox's Julia Belluz) have pointed out that this is straight up inaccurate and also completely misses the point: We all need, and deserve, better birth control.
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The letter also says arguing that parents bear ultimate responsibility for their kids' device and social media use ultimately "misses the point," because parents still need the support of tech companies.
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"The new decree completely misses the point when it comes to finding ways for Venezuela to crawl out of the deep crisis it has been submerged in for years," Rosas said.
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Which is why Mr. Runde's suggestion that "many African countries may be more receptive to advisory services on issues related to conflict and violence," rather than the High22019s, misses the point.
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So while the importance of 1971 cannot be overstressed for Bangladeshis, to think that partition has only been subsumed here by a bigger and more recent event also misses the point.
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But all that misses the point because it overlooks that compulsory voting changes more than the number of voters: It changes who runs for office and the policy proposals they support.
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Daniel Biss' campaign's response: "Chris Kennedy is biting the hand that fed him in asking Joe Berrios to resign, and he misses the point entirely," said Biss campaign manager Abby Witt.
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Because the meme goes all the way back to when Mexico was still a colony of Spain, though, it actually misses the point when Mexico really could have used a wall.
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Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad is about 15 years too late and it totally misses the point, according to Rosario Dawson, who once used cola to mock soda companies that exploited social injustice.
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Now, I'm sure the very nature of this platform is enough needed for many of you to sign off on poking me with a "HIPSTER" branding iron, but that misses the point.
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If you don't expect funding in any other important areas to increase if we hold back on the accelerator, then doing cost-benefit analyses on the accelerator misses the point a little.
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"Asking what the first amendment is going to be actually misses the point, because anybody that's got a better idea can offer that and there's no way to stop them," said Sen.
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To call Trump a flip-flopper then is unfair and misses the point in the same way trying to force his various thoughts, tweets and policy statements into a cohesive whole does.
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This hyperbolic demand misses the point: A lot of foreign assistance goes toward addressing humanitarian needs in countries with which we have adversarial relationships and to economic development in those same societies.
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Yet investing such resources into ensuring timely payments of child support misses the point, since such mechanisms do nothing to shift the underlying causal factors of stagnant earnings, unemployment, incarceration and economic disadvantage.
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But that misses the point of the exercise, which is partly to encourage companies to innovate in how social programmes might be delivered, says Amit Tandon of IiAS, an adviser on corporate governance.
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"The idea that you're going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone X ... are going to be sold in a 3 month period totally misses the point," Buffett says.
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Though some might wonder if a calm and bloodless novel about 9/11 misses the point, its poise allows "Nine, Ten" to honor the emotional distance many kids today feel from the tragedy.
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"The idea that you're going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone X ... are going to be sold in a three-month period totally misses the point," he said.
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"I think the question of good versus bad misses the point," Cristina Jiménez, the director of United We Dream, a group that supports immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, told me.
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To the Editor: Re "Pelosi Says Trump Is 'Just Not Worth' Effort to Impeach" (news article, March 12): Nancy Pelosi's "he's just not worth it" justification against impeachment is infuriating and misses the point.
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This spinoff often misses the point, but at least there is none of the egregious brand placement or useless cruelty, the silly, artificial editing or dramatic music that ruins so many American cooking competitions.
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Firstly, in order for a puny human brain to interpret large and complex data sets, the data sets must first be made "smaller" via aggregation, summarization, description and presentation, which kind of misses the point.
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It misses the point of telling a story about someone with a double life, because it never once tries to make us understand why a double life would be so attractive to someone like Jean.
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But just as it would be an oversimplification to say that the championship was decided last week, it misses the point a little to suggest it was all determined in those eight days in September.
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When President Trump wonders why former President Obama was not blamed for the shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, he either misses the point completely or is not listening.
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This line of reasoning is not only deeply problematic, it also gravely misses the point: If we are as American and human as you, we are unconditionally entitled to the exact same rights as you.
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Focusing too hard on the Trump administration in some ways misses the point, since most of the signs at the protest were about the bigger picture: higher temperatures, melting ice, rising oceans and — crucially — climate justice.
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The Office of Planetary Protection is expected to help protect Earth from possible contamination by alien microbes that might hitch a ride back to our planet through sample return, but just stopping there misses the point.
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The problem is that simply telling people, particularly millennials (ages 2150 to 27), that they have a spending problem or recommending they trim their budget if they're struggling to afford expenses misses the point, experts say.
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But that misses the point: Republicans have spent the past seven years claiming incessantly that Mr. Obama's policies are a "job killing" disaster, destroying business incentives, so it's important news if the economy has performed well.
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But this rather misses the point, which is that inequality between the top 1% and the rest of the population remains very high and there is a widespread belief in society that it is too high.
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Hyperallergic reached out to the Metropolitan Museum for a response and they provided the following statement about Salmon's article: Mr. Salmon's analysis misses the point: as costs have risen, admissions revenue has not kept sufficient pace.
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But in a way, that misses the point, which is this: Democrats desperately need to expand the playing field to have any sort of margin for error in their quest to win back the Senate in 2020.
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As he and others point out, it appears that this all-male team of developers misses the point on female pleasure entirely, opting instead for a pair of shorts attached to a dildo and a nipple-twisting bra.
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But whether Watchmen is pro-cop or not misses the point, I think, because the show is successfully arguing that being anti-cop is only one small tendril of a huge, squidlike apparatus that's rotten from the core.
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But it's narrower than a lot of existing research on racial disparities in criminal justice — so narrow, in fact, that it kind of misses the point of why police killings of young black men are so frequently outrageous.
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In this modern hypersensitized age of "feelings," the notion of empathy also misses the point of the golden rule, which is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not feel as they feel.
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"The idea that you're going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone X ... are going to be sold in a three-month period totally misses the point," the Oracle of Omaha told CNBC's Becky Quick.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Plan to Save the State Department" (Op-Ed, March 14): Samantha Power's call to Mike Pompeo, the nominee for secretary of state, to strengthen the Foreign Service is welcome, but misses the point.
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This was brought up as an affirmation of MMA as a tool for empowering women, but obviously misses the point that Ronda Rousey bragged in her book about beating the snot out of an ex boyfriend without physical provocation.
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"The idea that you're going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone Xs ... are going to be sold in a three-month period totally misses the point," Buffett said in a "Squawk Box " interview last year.
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But I think this misses the point that, for a lot of people, these amount to the same thing—a fact that seems not unrelated to the explosion of interest in developing drugs people take illegally to actually treat psychiatric disease.
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"The argument that we need to subsidize insurers more misses the point that they also need to have the flexibility to [offer] products to people," he said, arguing that stiffer mandates are unlikely to drive more people into the exchanges.
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"Some reviewers and commenters on social media have taken elements of the book at face value, which, we believe, misses the point of the book as a work of artistic parody and satire," read a company statement, released via Twitter.
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" In addition to his comments on James, Rodgers also voiced support for NFL players who have elected to kneel during the national anthem, saying that much of the anger over the protests misses "the point of what this was all about.
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"If you speak to most border residents, the whole idea of this competition kind of misses the point," said Vicki Gaubeca, the director of the ACLU-New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights, who lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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"The new decree completely misses the point when it comes to finding ways for Venezuela to crawl out of the deep crisis it has been submerged in for years," Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said in Thursday's statement.
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By now, many, many people have explained, with analogies about family dinners and cartoons about burning houses and tweets about saving the rainforest, why "all lives matter" both misses the point and is an offensive dismissal of a real problem.
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Dana Schutz stating that her painting is not for sale misses the point entirely: transactions of worth are built on imaginaries, just as the continued non-abstract violence that happens to Black bodies is built on a certain kind of imaginary.
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That narrative, regardless of whether one embraces it (think Rachel Maddow) or rejects it (think Glenn Greenwald), misses the point of what the careful, sober, primarily US-based reporting on Russiagate actually tells us about the biggest political scandal in recent history.
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A story published by The Hill last month about two studies claiming that "immigrants commit less crime than U.S. born citizens" misses the point that President Trump and other Americans are concerned over the crimes committed by illegal aliens, not legal immigrants.
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Although Lee completely misses the point — confusingly claiming the object of his obsession, Kenny, is playing "the race card" — the moment makes Will look like a hero, since no one else has stood up to the villainous Lee in such a way.
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So yeah, the mobile battery life is only a few hours, and the controllers feel cheap, and the undocked screen is ONLY 720p, but that line of thinking misses the point so much that I worry no one will every try this thing.
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Kathy Murphy, president of Fidelity's personal investing business, said in an interview on CNBC on Wednesday afternoon that focusing on the inability to make money from no-fee funds misses the point about how the company can best leverage its scale with customers.
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Charles Goodell was actually something of a "liberal hero" who opposed the Vietnam War, but that misses the point: Roger Goodell is a son of privilege using vague tropes of patriotism and the American flag to deflect the substance of Kaepernick's message.
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The recent obsession with whether Barack Obama and James Comey did the right thing when confronted with evidence of Russian cyberattacks in 2016 misses the point: No one—no world leader, no FBI director, no masterful subredditor—knows exactly what to do about cyberattacks.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Mistrust of Doctors That Runs Deeper Than One Study" (The Upshot, June 23): Dr. Aaron E. Carroll's commentary on our working paper is a thoughtful reflection on the Tuskegee experiment but sometimes misses the point of our research.
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But if some are inclined to use the coronavirus as an opportunity to write globalization's obituary, others say that misses the point of an outbreak born in a global manufacturing hub, propelled by modern air travel and spread by the irrepressible human impulse to move around.
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But even just in terms of his hotels, this completely misses the point: Once Trump receives benefits from a foreign country, he has violated the Emoluments Clause no matter what he chooses to do with those benefits, including using them to bolster his image as a generous charitable donor.
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The letter says that blaming parents or arguing that the research isn't definitive misses the point; it cites data from the nonprofit Common Sense Media showing that the average American teenager with a smartphone spends more than 4.5 hours a day on the device, excluding texting and talking.
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Proponents of the movement say that that argument misses the point of Black Lives Matter -- that by highlighting the disproportionate number of African-American men's deaths at the hands of law enforcement only serves to highlight the apparent disregard for black lives, not claim that black lives take precedence.
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Maybe it's possible (maybe) that those encounters would have been just as likely to escalate to the point of lethal force if each of those men had been white — but it kind of misses the point to say that, because if they'd been white, the encounters probably never would have happened.
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"The idea that you're going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone X ... are going to be sold in a three-month period totally misses the point," Buffett told CNBC's Becky Quick on Thursday evening just ahead of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Emphasizing the fact that a final proposal has not yet been submitted "intentionally misses the point," Bryant said, because the CCLA argues that Waterfront Toronto didn't have the authority to enter into the partnership in the first place, on top of arguably letting Sidewalk Labs take the lead on privacy frameworks.
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This misses the point, and comically so: Women have been dealing with this shit for years, and most of us have gotten pretty good at telling the difference between being asked out on a date and being deterred from doing good work because we're being molested by a guy twice our size.
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But Powell misses the point out of the gate: nobody is predicting that commerce is going to disappear, or that internet giants like Amazon won't be able to afford whatever byzantine backroom deals the ISPs come up with that shave more money off the bottom lines of companies that use the network.
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That's why he made such a convincing presence onscreen, and why the hagiography that inevitably follows a major celebrity death misses the point, as does any sort of biography, really: not only is our knowledge of Bowie the human being limited and unverified (just try tallying all the times his interviews contradict each other), it's totally irrelevant.
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If a 215% threshold had been applied (as in the first Scottish referendum in 1979), we would not now be about to waste years of parliamentary time debating, and years of government time negotiating, our exit from the EU. KEITH RAFFANLiberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament, 1999-2005London Stressing the economic benefits of migration misses the point.
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While speculation abounds as to whether President Trump's Russia policy is in fact driven by something other than what he thinks is best for our country, the administration's oft-repeated and oft-discounted claim that President Trump has been tougher on Russia than his predecessors misses the point -- we are still under live attack by Russia.
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But weirdly enough, a running theme through some of the first reviews is that its bonkersness at least has a lurid, irresistible charm, that it commits so hard that you can't help but be sucked in, that criticising it at all misses the point, that it feels almost cruel to tear it to shreds because it believes in itself so much.
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As Jonathan Morduch writes: Incomes are seldom steady and predictable; needs vary as well: families need to pay for schools, medicines, and food during slow periods…Evidence that microfinance loans are used to fund non-business needs (even if for education or health) is sometimes used to criticize microfinance, but that misses the point....poor families, like richer families, need broad financial tools.
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Focusing on the existence of the leaks, though, misses the point, just as the debate over the validity of financial fair play rules — whether European soccer needs someone telling its owners how to spend their money — does, and just as the dispute over whether the Champions League would be better or worse if it was played on a Saturday did a week or so ago.
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JC: No. There are so many different types of intelligence, and there are so many different ways of thinking about what is smart or not smart that I think that for CS folks to try to go after a human definition of general intelligence sort of misses the point in the same way that the Wright brothers, if they built a bird, they would have missed the point of aircraft.
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White House press secretary's Stephanie GrishamStephanie GrishamWhite House predicts Senate trial will last less than two weeks Federal judge blocks Trump order allowing states to refuse to settle refugees Trump accuses Democrats of a 'con job' as impeachment managers are announced MORE's cavalier dismissal of a letter from 13 former White House press secretaries, Foreign Service and military officials about the time-honored value of daily press briefings by the White House press secretary and urging their resumption misses the point.
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