I didn't like the piddling little 4,000 copies it sold.
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After signing up with his seventh service, he'd been forced to hire temps to sub into his own temp jobs, doling out piddling percentages of the piddling percentage he got from corporate in California.
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Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals' way.
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He's not interested in anyone's piddling attempts to score the basketball.
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They don't speak or make piddling attempts at a sense of humor.
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Some she did for free, some paid a piddling sum, she added.
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But even this is small potatoes, horseplay, piddling tales about big ambitions.
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But that's a piddling problem compared with putting a person on the moon.
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When Braun came across it, it was idling at a piddling Number 36.
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That compares with 40% for car-hire and a piddling 14% for taxis.
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Sometimes the controversy they generate is silly and piddling; other times, it's enlightening.
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Kobe's mark that season was 38.74 percent, relatively piddling by Westbrook's standards this season.
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And much of the legislation that has made it through has been fairly piddling.
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It turns out art schools are both really expensive and lead to piddling salaries.
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In the past year its stockmarket value has fallen by 88%, to a piddling €440m.
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Deutsche made a piddling 0.5 percent return in 2018 and Commerzbank a paltry 3.4 percent.
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Consumers also have piddling rights over how Equifax may continue to use their credit data.
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As if we're stuck on piddling things and his bearing is nothing more than peculiar.
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Partisan pages also outperformed pages that are not politically aligned, earning a piddling 2300,22018 weekly interactions.
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For now, banks' bad-loan ratios are only about 3%, piddling by Greek or Italian standards.
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God forbid if you have the piddling 16 gigs of RAM that my work machine has.
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In 1899 "The Awakening" earned her a piddling $102 in royalties, about $3,000 in today's money.
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FROM the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, 920 feet above the ground, San Francisco's monuments look piddling.
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Mass shootings, if they provoke any reaction at all, produce piddling proposals which still cannot be passed.
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While Facebook is notorious for its endless piddling product tweaks, this one seems a substantive shift in strategic vision.
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But compared to the influencer set or even the average high school student, his social media presence is piddling.
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When the show closed on August 14th fewer than 300,000 people had seen it, piddling by the Pompidou's normal standards.
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And not just some piddling little move, where some guy you'd never heard of gets shipped out in a contract dump.
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In Hong Kong, prices for spaces can go as high as $644,000, which can make any derived rental income seem piddling.
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That is a low bar, given the piddling returns on one-month Treasury bills, which now yield less than 1 percent.
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Deal Professor For a $24.9 billion deal, it is a piddling sum: an extra $20153 million plus about $12 million in interest.
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Three years later Tumblr was among the Yahoo properties scooped up by Verizon under the new Oath banner, for a piddling $4.8 billion.
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In the battle for mind share, in the Trumpian quest to be part of every conversation, the Pixel far outweighs its piddling sales.
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But, to top it off, while it trumpeted the piddling wage increase, the company was stabbing its Sam's Club workers in the back.
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I'm not talking something fairly piddling like the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens or even the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines.
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That's cost her the piddling sum of $198,000, which she's funded through sponsors and occasional free stays in hotels in exchange for social promotion.
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And, you know, I think it's almost as hard to pass a big meaningful tax reform bill as it is to pass a small piddling.
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Ten years ago, while the feral, piddling intellects of the world scrounged like dogs for local news scraps, you had a print subscription to The Economist.
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Instead it bought web-first companies like Flickr and Tumblr, acquired pricey but piddling little startups, and tried to massage its basics in the right direction.
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At gatherings, they tend to skulk or to be over-present, like a recently uncrated Labrador leaping to lick your nose while piddling on your knees.
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The camera has a piddling 320 x 320 resolution, an FPGA chip to handle processing, and is loaded with a state of the art object recognition algorithm.
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Zuckerberg controls around 57 percent of the voting power, meaning he doesn't have to listen to a few piddling shareholders or conceivably even his board of directors.
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By a quirk of British law, Mr. Davis has to pay the prince for the privilege of living on his land, piddling as the checks may be.
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The International Labor Organization reports that Americans who rack up 50 or more work hours per week are less likely than ever to take their piddling 10-day vacation.
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Her mentors apologized for the piddling $8 per hour the position paid, half of what conservatory workers had made a decade earlier, but emphasized the health insurance and pension.
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But China, because most of its foreign assets are in the form of U.S. Treasuries and the government securities of other advanced economies, is earning piddling rates of return.
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The more we learn about what led them to think that, it boggles the mind that professionals would actually have started any investigation at all over these very piddling things.
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Traders say they are hoping to make up for piddling margins by selling more of the product, since the ETF business is a bulk-volume one that is rapidly growing.
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Russia's trade with Asia accounts for a piddling 1% of the region's total, and Asia's economic miracle has scarcely touched the 6.4m Russians in the dilapidated cities of Russia's Far East.
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But hey, if you have longer hair and an absolute disdain for the piddling five-hour battery life most truly wireless earphones provide, this TM2 idea is intriguing, maybe even compelling.
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Yet the Green New Deal leapfrogs these ideas, which its creators deem too piddling and also too market-based to meet the proposal's second objective: eliminating the excesses of late capitalism.
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That's 10,000 times hotter than the Carolina reaper, the world's hottest pepper, and 45,000 times hotter than the hottest of habaneros, and 4.5 million times hotter than a piddling little jalapeno.
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The resulting thrust is piddling compared to traditional engines, and that's OK—the spacecraft is floating through the vacuum of space, so the shower of ions accelerate the aircraft bit by bit.
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"Why take into custody an individual who has been here for 15 to 20 years, has U.S. children, and one arrest for harassment, public intoxication or some such piddling infraction?" he asked.
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For the same reason, I keep a laptop in the living room for piddling around, a desktop computer in my home office for doing serious work and a Kindle for reading books.
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The fact that something as piddling as a bacon sneak preview is a matter of federal concern is funny for the same reason it's funny to see a monkey dressed in a suit.
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But the Commonwealth of Virginia is spending a piddling $22,000 per job in the initial phase of development in Arlington, and payments will max out at $750 million if Amazon creates 37,850 jobs.
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None of these questions were answered by the show, either — although it is to the showrunners' credit that we leave Bran's Small Council arguing about the kind of piddling issues they'll confront going forward.
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While the gig itself took place in 2010, a Memegenerator page for "Axl Rose Fat" has existed for just over four years, and contains a piddling 931 entries at the time of this writing.
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Attaching a dollar figure to a program of reparations resembles a "Wheel of Fortune" spin, with amounts ranging from the piddling ($71.08 per recipient under Forman's plan) to the astronomical ($163 trillion in total).
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Ultimately, bearing in mind the NFL's mind-boggling revenue and the fact that many NFL players make millions, knowing that cheerleaders continue to earn such piddling paychecks could certainly be enough to sour the game.
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A boat show attendee of 35 years, wearing an anchor cravat, salmon cashmere scarf, and a navy blue blazer, he reckoned most buyers in Hong Kong were unlikely to bother with such a piddling event.
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But in China, duty is the purest expression of love: the acts, considerations, inconveniences, unacknowledged self-sacrifices, and extra labor are what you do in order to spare someone else pain, no matter how piddling.
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The United States has done even worse: The Obama administration declared eight months ago that it would resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees, a piddling number, but so far it has admitted barely a fourth of that total.
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But even if it was, it's curious the MTA, which has an operating budget of $22005 billion for this year alone, would concern itself with the piddling revenues lost from one subway map sold on Etsy.
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But in addition to being proud I was also keenly embarrassed—my own social anxiety had left me wondering for weeks whether I'd attend the women's march before I quelled my piddling fears and just showed up.
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And while he won't reveal the moonshot factory's employee count or operating budget, he makes clear that no matter how much money you might think X spends, it's piddling compared to the value of what it creates.
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The Patriotic Millionaires might see my own income—taken together with my student-loan debt and my lack of family inheritance—as piddling, yet I live a comfortable life, owing to my citizenship status and my white privilege.
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Imagine two online furniture companies, he wrote: a piddling one located in South Dakota and a major retailer just across the border in Nebraska featuring a "sophisticated website with a virtual showroom accessible in every state, including South Dakota".
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Yet, if you really want to grow fast — so fast that you can go from piddling startup to $1.7 billion-valued banking unicorn in less than four years — then there are only so many ways to do that ethically.
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But, whether it's a piddling score on the SAT, a history of drinking on the job, or a " constitutionally illegitimate " congressional inquiry, there's always a way to put a positive spin on it when searching for the next gig.
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Naturally, that means many of us want to maximize the piddling comfort of the roughly 3.7 square feet of space airlines give us by slapping on a neck pillow, leaning our seats back, and enjoying some mid-quality in-flight entertainment.
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UK politics by comparison Set alongside the gargantuan, horrifically mesmerizing personality of Trump, the charisma and energy of Macron, the steadfastness and longevity of Merkel, even the scariness of Putin, our politics comes over as being somewhat piddling by comparison.
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References to catastrophic global upheaval in recent decades could explain the relatively modest pace of computational progress—one of the most dated lines in the book refers to a piddling three megabytes of RAM—while accounting for the comparatively fleshed-out space travel industry.
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Also: Calamitous. Irresponsible. Inexperienced. Unprepared. Undisciplined. Uninformed. Unimproved. Unpopular. Bumbling. Embarrassing. Flimsy. Flailing. Failing. Harmful. Hurtful. Hateful. Shortsighted. Half-baked. Irrelevant. Puny. Piddling. Paltry. Petty. Immature. Infantile. Impulsive. Trite. Tiresome. Stale. Superficial. Small. Meager. Impotent. Limp. Obstructive. Destructive. Damaging. Distracted. Despised. Backwards. Reckless. Bumbling. Bungling. Blind. Arrogant. Rude. Mean. Tacky.
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Piddletown is an extinct town in Ralls County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community took its name from nearby Piddletown School. According to tradition, the schoolhouse was named after a local family who often were seen doing nothing or "piddling". The Piddletown School is now defunct.
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According to sound engineer Damon Lyon-Shaw: > "I was the one that actually devised it, Mike Claydon was the one who took > the credit for it, but i was actually piddling around at the time as his > junior. On the mixer at the time, we had compressors, Maurice was playing at > piano at the time, just piddling around [and] I started feeding the piano > into a series of these compressors and then screwed them up until he got his > lovely metallic sort of sucking sound, and that was the birth of that sound, > Maurice, assumed it was Michael, so he took the credits. Another sound engineer John Pantry offered to put things in a proper perspective: > "Well, Damon didn't make the compressor/limiter, and my memory is that we > all used to use that sound once we discovered what it did to piano notes. As > to who got there first is open to debate.
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This was an unheard-of percentage for such a large contract; in 1870 alone, it amounted to $175,000 ($3 million today) for Kingsley. In 1873, after Tweed has fallen from power, Kingsley's contract with the Bridge Company was renegotiated, and his payment was slashed to a relatively piddling flat fee of $10,000 (equal to $182,000 today) per year. In 1875, Kingsley joined the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Bridge, and succeeded Henry Cruse Murphy as president of the board in 1882, upon Murphy's death.
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Pissant is an epithet for an inconsequential, irrelevant, or worthless person, especially one who is irritating or contemptible out of proportion to his or her perceived significance. A Virginia politician is said to have silenced a heckler by saying, "I'm a big dog on a big hunt and I don't have time for a piss-ant on a melon stalk." The term piss-ant also may be used as an adjective, usually as a pejorative, to mean insignificant and annoying. In conversations with his advisors during the Vietnam War, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to Vietnam as "a piddling piss-ant little country".
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I still agree with > Byatt that the idea of female-specific subject matter is spurious, but I > don't think that's what the prize rewards. In 2012 Cynthia Ozick, writing in The New York Times, said the Prize "was not born into an innocent republic of letters" when it comes to a history of women writers being discriminated against. She concluded, "For readers and writers, in sum, the more prizes the better, however they are structured, and philosophy be damned." In 1999 Lola Young, chair of the judges' panel, claimed that British female literature fell into two categories, either "insular and parochial" or "domestic in a piddling kind of way".
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" Touchingly, he noticed the habits of the people: "at weekends when you are flush and filled with drink or the prospect of drink", and when one might feel "as dry as a lime-burner's clog." He loved "the sunken bricks of his garden path." and even a visit to the gents could become an inspiring revelation: "as I stand piddling in the crazed urinal stall I can see the red and green tail lights of some night plane moving across this area of infinite velvet over the darkened hoop of the world." Berry's love of North Staffordshire was deep and permanent; he indulged an incurable addiction to the place. He "had an inexplicable attraction to the place and...was attached to the area by "an invisible umbilical cord", which could never be cut.
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His best- known songs are preserved in a 78rpm vinyl record made in 1947. The songs are performed by faculty and students of the "State University of Iowa" (now the University of Iowa). His song Take away your billion dollars (1948) inveighs against Berkelitis, the mega-project mania inspired by the huge growth of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s and later by the Manhattan project that took over physics research after World War II; and he calls for a return to brains-before-dollars science: :It seems that I'm a failure, just a piddling dilettante, Within six months a mere ten thousand bucks is all I've spent With love and string and sealing wax was physics kept alive Let not the wealth of Midas hide the goal for which we strive.Robert L. Weber, A random walk in science. In The Cyclotronist’s Nightmare (1947) he painted a farcical image of the heroic life in a cyclotron lab.
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Much harsher is the opinion of Théophile Thoré, the major critic of Dutch art in the 19th century: in his Musées de la Hollande, a catalogue of the most important works of art exposed in the Netherlands, the French connoisseur blatantly despised Willem van Mieris, labeling his paintings as "harsh, cold, piddling, and unsurpassably insipid". All things considered, no other kind of statement could be expected from Thoré on a painter such as Van Mieris: the Dutch painter embodied the new, classicizing tendency of Dutch art in the 18th century, a tendency that Thoré viewed as the death and destruction of the Golden Age. In fact, the French critic idealized Dutch 17th-century painting as the most complete expression of freedom and independence ever achieved by European art, with Rembrandt and Vermeer as icons of a popular, real and truthful way of painting. On the other hand, the Leiden fijnschilders and the Italianate painters were regarded as traitors of this exceptional artistic movement, being still imprisoned by the old and aristocratic canons of classicizing beauty.
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Dennett argues that, if we > understand Darwin's dangerous idea, we are forced to reject or modify much > of our current intellectual baggage...New York Review of Books: John Maynard > Smith "Genes, Memes, & Minds", 1995 Writing in the same publication, Stephen Jay Gould criticised Darwin's Dangerous Idea for being an "influential but misguided ultra-Darwinian manifesto": > Daniel Dennett devotes the longest chapter in Darwin's Dangerous Idea to an > excoriating caricature of my ideas, all in order to bolster his defense of > Darwinian fundamentalism. If an argued case can be discerned at all amid the > slurs and sneers, it would have to be described as an effort to claim that I > have, thanks to some literary skill, tried to raise a few piddling, > insignificant, and basically conventional ideas to "revolutionary" status, > challenging what he takes to be the true Darwinian scripture. Since Dennett > shows so little understanding of evolutionary theory beyond natural > selection, his critique of my work amounts to little more than sniping at > false targets of his own construction. He never deals with my ideas as such, > but proceeds by hint, innuendo, false attribution, and error.
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