Venture capital, the financial lifeblood of technology companies, is puny.
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The system's chief weakness is its long tail of puny firms.
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Are they looking for ultimate control over these puny little humans?
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Estes suggests high-dividend stocks as alternatives to puny bond yields.
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That amounts to a puny $50 per paycheck twice a month.
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Rome's puny tree last year was the sorriest of holiday sights.
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Lofgren, however, described the bill as a "puny reform" to Politico.
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The rates that banks pay for savings accounts are similarly puny.
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Pletcher had a puny string of a dozen or so horses.
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"That language is too puny -- it's designed to divide," he says.
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But compared to the scene's newest visitors, they look positively puny.
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Their numbers look too puny to matter as a national voting bloc.
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The head of a human sperm is just five puny microns long.
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That's puny compared to the 100 billion genuine neurons in your cranium.
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The first, "Iron Man", took a comparatively puny $680m worldwide during 2008.
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Indeed, the most toxic scorpions in the world are all rather puny.
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For the next 16 years, amps didn't exceed a puny 10 watts.
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In the face of such mighty vested interests, it all seemed puny.
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Its own recent pivot to Asia is puny compared to these investments.
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"All My Puny Sorrows," Miriam Toews Read while directing "Anne" in Canada.
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This is a lot of hand-wringing over a relatively puny sum.
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Medium-tier publishers and independent websites will be be obsolete due to their puny platform due to their puny reach, while big-box content farms with in-page content will have a relationship that is both monetized and symbiotic.
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It uses a 3.7-megapixel CMOS sensor, which is puny by today's standards.
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NASA colorized these wavelengths in gold, allowing us puny humans to view it.
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They weigh 200 tons — enough to make this young titanosaur seem downright puny.
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Their poking over the church, with their puny interest in art, was obscene.
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Now they are playing in the Worlds and crushing your puny hockey country.
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But then, I saw an image of this puny pup—a baby gray seal.
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We don't know what's up with him being stuck in his puny human form.
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Puny M32 is the fuzzy orb to the left of Andromeda, the bright galaxy.
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A confidence booster for you, puny human: The machines don't have you beat. Yet.
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He was puny, wrote his first biographer Thomas di Celano, and his beard unkempt.
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The new "Marshall Plan" for Africa involves a puny €1.5bn of additional EU spending.
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Current sanctions against North Korea are puny compared to those we applied to Iran.
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"The Ghoul of the North," like every creature here, is enormous amid puny mortals.
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During the first presidential debate, climate change was discussed for a puny 82 seconds.
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It has this kind of puny little head that's very different from other sirens.
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And in exchange for having a puny say, Comcast will have to pay up.
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"The host galaxy is puny," Dr. Tendulkar said during the news conference in Grapevine.
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According to U.S. data, the bilateral merchandise trade last year reached a puny $27.5 billion.
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So, of course, it also feels puny in your hands like no other smartphone does.
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That's because the beast, though a fearsome hunter, possessed a pitifully puny pair of arms.
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They generate relatively little revenue abroad, and are puny in semiconductors and business-related software.
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For scifi to entertain us puny humans, most "AIs" need to be similar to us.
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Its puny $90m in funding and 700,000 bikes were no match for the market leaders.
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You know what that means... the puny little 210GB iPhone could finally be let go.
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That 400 count is puny compared to how much time he spent with Skyrim, though.
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Space stretches away from the puny pool of a smartphone flashlight into echoing, fathomless darkness.
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In 1955, these sugared donuts were photographed, and their holes are positively puny: They're small.
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But relative to their total budgets, the size of any revenue increase would be puny.
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His jokes filled you with a joy that your puny child brain could barely fathom.
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And her revenge exposes them for the puny, women-hating, pathetic men that they are.
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She finds the human world puny and insignificant, and longs to be back in space.
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As a high school freshman, Ennis said, he was a puny 20143 feet 22014 inches.
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Even narrow seats with puny pitches, the FAA argued, allow passengers to get out safely.
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Although it is meant to make O.K.C. seem big, it mostly makes it look puny.
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In Portland, the puny Lime e-scooter I rented couldn't even get up a steep street.
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The group's branding operation is puny, generating only 2120-22015% of its asset value and sales.
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Measured against the rest of the country's colossal financial system, the various fintech pieces are puny.
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Jerry Only made that puny Chicago jabroni look like a 12-sided dice-carrying Dungeon Master.
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This made the varied sops it contained to farmers, taxpayers and others look puny by comparison.
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The EU's military ambitions need not displace NATO: they will remain puny compared with America's heft.
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Apple CFO Luca Maestri attributed the puny increase to new iPad users and iPad user loyalty.
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The Vatican may be puny in size, but in soft power it is hard to match.
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They are simply too large, too looming—planetary presences that defy our puny tools of measurement.
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With February's puny growth of 0.1 percent, the year-over-year increase dropped to 2.6 percent.
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Or did they decide to bring the Martian thunder to those puny humans a second time?
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How many puny men would it take to stand up to a single, lightsaber-wielding Jedi?
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They only saw two and seven cases each, bringing the world total to a puny nine.
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American-promised money, admittedly, remains puny in comparison with the amounts touted in connection with the BRI.
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On that island, and only on that island, live nearly 6,000 puny featherballs called Inaccessible Island rails.
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Last year Deutsche's return on equity, a puny 0.4%, was its first positive figure for four years.
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What's clinically denoted by the word 'bi-polarity' is something puny compared to what's brandished by Sabbath.
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Its power is restricted by the puny amount of energy that the body is able to provide.
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It's equally true that these movies are almost wholly review-proof, making puny critics pretty well irrelevant.
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The smaller iMac isn't bad, but its screen is just too puny compared to the 27-inch.
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Russia's bridgeheads of influence -- Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria -- look puny when measured against this new Franco-German axis.
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They seemed puny compared with the watery giants sold in American supermarkets, but they tasted much better.
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I'm sure they were offended that a puny Christian shamed their reputation with that one small incident.
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There is just no way our puny little snake dance and locking arms blocks any of that.
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The medium drink was still a large, and the large still made a Big Gulp look puny.
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Evolution's purposive caprice, some inexplicable force beyond our puny human imagination, is trying out a new design.
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In one past presentation, models' penises were left dangling, like puny appendages hardly worth all the fuss.
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Or the puny crowd at his inauguration in comparison with the throngs at Obama's eight years ago.
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If this walking statue of David cannot open a puny jar of pickles, who in the world can?
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Like, whatever this Universe is and whatever rules it follows, we puny humans still struggle to understand it.
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The UFO take a few shots to bring down, but — unlike normal, puny humans — you have unlimited lives.
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But no, iPhones come with a puny 5W charger that juices up your device at a snail's pace.
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Its puny Intel Celeron processor, 4GB of RAM, and paltry 32GB of storage sounds insufficient on every level.
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Brazil's intelligence services are puny compared with those of Peru and Colombia, which fought off Marxist narco-guerrillas.
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Just as his campaign machine is improvised, he appears to have a puny apparatus to support his business.
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So why not go beyond Apple's puny Folio keyboard and actually give the Pro the treatment it deserves?
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And his puny sentence, Doocy's guest admits, is the fault of the GOP-dominated Texas legislature's sentencing guidelines.
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Volcanoes care not for your puny human schedules, so you might expect an eruption soon ... or might not.
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That isn't bad for some puny worms, but the real benefits are being sought at the genetic level.
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However, all but nine are puny rural lenders, so it should be possible to mop up their messes.
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Initially known as the Doormat, this style was introduced in 2002 with a comparatively puny 12-inch brim.
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These weren't puny bay scallops, but big, golden Atlantic scallops thick as a stack of four poker chips.
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The group paused to snap photos of the Statue of Liberty, a puny figure beyond the Gowanus Bay.
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And all of it puny compared to the rumbling of trucks, the honking of horns, the roaring of airplanes.
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Image: Rocket LabIt's called "Humanity Star," and it's supposed to remind us of our puny place in the Universe.
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Does he solve the mystery of quantum entanglement with Future Keanu Reeves' help before Hawking crushes his puny brain?
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And natural selection algorithms can produce unique solutions that people, with their puny, fleshy brains, might never hit on.
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The boundaries, drawn up in 2011, had had reduced Democrats in the House of Delegates to a puny minority.
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Trump scoffed at the idea that such a puny figure, a party guy, would ever try such a thing.
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Apple also announced that its phones would feature greater storage capabilities, no longer offering the relatively puny 16GB options.
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That's enough to turn a puny Seth Green (5'4) into a towering Clare Grant (5' 7, and Green's wife).
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Iowa isn't important because of the puny number of delegates the state will eventually send to the national conventions.
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Like desire, it burned, burned, burned, and it made me feel puny and insignificant but also ablaze with life.
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She's like a real-life boogeyman: Everyone knows her green-colored magic can knock puny civilizations to the ground.
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It works fine, but more important, it's as dumb as the dirt it accumulates in its puny storage tank.
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Massive, symbolically weighty, alluding to death and destruction, the monumental Kiefer pieces render puny both human ambition and scale.
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So perhaps if you think of the enormity of space it makes our efforts seems puny at this time.
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For anyone who does extensive hiking, climbing and camping in the backcountry, Apple's smartwatch is far too puny and fragile.
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It uses the puny Canon LP-E22018 battery, a design that's been around for as long as digital SLRs have.
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Now SoftBank, its main backer, will throw it a $9.5bn lifeline that values the firm's equity at a puny $8bn.
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In the spirits business, for example, a puny firm, Allied Domecq, was bought, and a strong one, Diageo, expanded abroad.
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The backdrop for emerging market assets has also become more clement as returns in developed markets get ever more puny.
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The overall result, bosses grumble, is that American firms are puny in China, making 4% of their global sales there.
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In its core industrial arm, returns on capital have sunk from 20% in 2007 to a puny 5% in 2017.
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"The whole world knows what a pathetic, puny, weak piece of filth you are," she said at the news conference.
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But instead of a puny mobile image chip, you get a massive DSLR APS-C sensor that adds rich detail.
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Unobstructed views from its surrounding balcony are spectacular (look down on the puny Wythe hotel and teeming mortals in scorn).
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The EU's budget of around 1 percent of GDP is in any case puny given the scale of its ambitions.
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Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.
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Overall, it was a puny rally compared to the brutal sell-off that had started at the end of December.
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He said he was "absolutely shocked at the administration's puny request for this worldwide effort to defeat" the Islamic State.
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Investors have been flocking to dividend-paying stocks this year, because yields for long-term US Treasury bonds are puny.
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Accordingly, efforts will be required to create AIs that are capable of explaining themselves in ways we puny humans can comprehend.
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Grindr has just taken a large Chinese investment for global expansion, but next to its main rival in China, it's puny.
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If the people want to hear the same Mike Posner song played ad nauseam, who are you to disagree, puny one?
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None of the PHEV offerings from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Volvo start lower than $64,000 and all have puny EV ranges.
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Compared to the relatively puny and easy-to-destroy Demogorgon, the new Season 2 monster looks quite a bit more formidable.
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The industry makes a puny return on equity of 6.5% and investors think it is worth less than its liquidation value.
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Heedless of whether his hosts are powerful, puny or pariahs, he has flown everywhere from America to the Maldives and Zimbabwe.
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He said utilities offer only a "puny" yield compared with those of mortgage real estate investment trusts, which he recommended buying.
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That bodes ill for the economy, especially since India's capital markets are too puny to take up much of the slack.
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The GameCube rolls with a puny 240 megahertz GPU presented in muddy standard definition, with no system link or online capabilities.
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Since then, the Rays had played nine home games to increasingly puny crowds; their game against the Minnesota Twins on Sept.
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At this point, streaming platforms are pumping more movies and shows into the universe than our puny human brains can handle.
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During World War II, recruiters and draft boards were flooded with undernourished candidates who were too puny to qualify for service.
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After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
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It has no apps and with such a puny display, you already know the built-in web browser is gonna be crap.
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Its sanctions are, however, puny: cuts to financial assistance, the suspension of an aviation agreement and a pause to high-level talks.
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Because underneath all that armor, behind all those guns and bombs, and beneath those layers of attitude, you're just a puny human.
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An enormous brown bear and this man (who's not too puny himself) have a closer relationship than you and your best friend.
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"So, when you see a company with large buybacks and a puny dividend, you should be suspicious rather than bullish," Cramer added.
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Given that humans are busy warming the planet, and therefore shrinking the few, relatively puny glaciers that still exist, this question matters.
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With so little marketshare and more importantly, such a puny selection of apps, you have to wonder who will buy this phone.
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He was not a Hall of Famer, getting a puny 2.1% of the vote when his name appeared on the 1996 ballot.
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But this chest-puffing diverges from the underlying sovereignty argument, which only works if, deep down, you think Britain a bit puny.
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If you can't see the value of that investment, then good luck trying to conquer the world with a few puny spears.
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Yet if Apple were looking to hire two workers, it would not set a salary so puny that only two people applied.
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He thought constantly about "the revolving galaxies, the endless space," a scale of consideration that made human life seem puny by comparison.
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Brody Jenner and The Hills guest star Frankie struggled to row a kayak through a puny Malibu wave that made TMZ headlines.
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" Revered for his contributions to First Amendment jurisprudence, Holmes nonetheless denigrated those whose views he would protect as "poor and puny anonymities.
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It's a classic case of investors flocking to safe assets even though the returns may be puny or, in some cases, negative.
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The T.I.U. has banned three players for life for match fixing this year, but all with puny rankings: 931st, 1,536th, and 1,997th.
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Its puny cousin, the PATH train, is more like a Labradoodle, a puzzling crossbreed with its fair share of fans and detractors.
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That used to seem like a lot of money, but the Valeant debacle makes the problems with Herbalife look sort of puny.
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"So, when you see a company with large buybacks and a puny dividend, you should be suspicious rather than bullish," Cramer said.
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The rate of return on all multinational investment dropped from an average of 10% in 2005-07 to a puny 6% in 2017.
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Called "Humanity Star," it's supposed to remind us that we're all puny specks of dust living in the terrifying vastness of the Universe.
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Drones could "potentially" take jobs from people Robots are doing in one day what its takes us puny humans a month to complete.
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As such, they would not risk their careers by revealing the Kremlin's most intimate secrets for a few bucks from Steele's puny budget.
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No. They'd be too busy tearing apart our puny human flesh and recharging their batteries on our dying body's electrical currents or something.
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They might actually fight the globalization agenda in a meaningful way, not with a puny tariff to please a white steelworker in Ohio.
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"Monstrous indeed is the madness of men, who desire to subject the immeasurable to the puny measure of their own reason," Calvin exclaimed.
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There is Gualicho shinyae, a newly discovered dinosaur from Argentina that was also a member of the Late Cretaceous period's puny-arm club.
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Critical Shopper The puny width of your ambition becomes clear as soon as you walk into the new Stone Island store in SoHo.
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"Are we, the puny town of Ossining, going to choose to go up against the president's company?" said Dana Levenberg, the town supervisor.
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It stemmed from my brief stint with meditation and is about whether knowing that you're a puny mortal human is terrifying or comforting.
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That's not for me—I like a big brawler, clunking and donking his way around the screen, swatting puny opponents out of the air.
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The EU is understandably worried that the actions of these machines will be increasingly incomprehensible to the puny humans who manufacture and use them.
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That's because the caucuses' massive importance isn't from the puny number of delegates the state will eventually send to the party conventions this summer.
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Making matters even worse, electrical potentials propagating inside a computer transfer information way, way faster than the action potentials in our puny little brains.
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Tired of the puny TV you bought in 24 while all your friends are upgrading to 22K TVs that are 2998 inches or bigger?
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Maybe you're not convinced, and you think that somehow, a ten thousand degree ball of fire can't light up our entire puny little rock.
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They are wary of cleaner-energy ventures such as electricity, where Shell has taken its first steps; returns are steadier, but puny (say 4%).
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What happened: Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski's March 1974 report on Nixon and Watergate was practically puny compared to the reports that came after it.
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Puny humans can take heart in the fact that only the more powerful Rare, Epic, and Legendary weapons drop in this limited time mode.
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PSG's follower count, a puny 8.9m, rose by 10% in the week after news of his transfer broke, according to Socialblade, an analytics firm.
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That might seem like a puny number to some, but it was the first time that Macau had any growth since May of 2014.
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Had variation in cognitive abilities not hit on this adaptation, puny creatures like us would never have survived in the face of savanna megafauna.
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He admonished Cole for raising what he deemed to be a puny amount of money — about $13 million — instead of setting his sights higher.
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Horner argued that T. rex was too slow and lumbering, its arms too puny and its eyesight too poor, to prey on other creatures.
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The broader point, though, is that blockbusters don't need the respect of puny critics, as Hulk might say, to attract audiences and thrive commercially.
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As a share of Liberia's puny economy (which is smaller than that of the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast) foreign aid remains enormous.
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Godwin denied that in interviews, but on Wednesday, he, or someone at the farm, removed the photo of the now-puny gator from its page.
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Image: NASA, ESA, LEGUS teamSpace is mind-bogglingly vast, and it's practically impossible for our puny brains to comprehend just how huge it really is.
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After all the mystery around "Ricky Dee" in "Fire Walk," we learn the Riverdale youth isn't exactly the puny victim of some Gargoyle Gang stranglers.
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But puny propellers don't cut it for serious jobs, which is why military missions and humanitarian aid drops use unmanned aerial drones that resemble airplanes.
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Aam Aadmi sought to widen its appeal on the national stage, while the far more powerful BJP aimed to stifle its puny rival at birth.
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People forget that, when it debuted in 2008, the MacBook Air with the then-revolutionary, but puny, 64GB solid state drive cost a breathtaking $3,100.
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Israel is now trying to purge "itself" of this Ashkenazi "them"—this puny desexualized sect that delegitimates the country by reminding it of its paternity.
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For a dinosaur whose scientific name literally translates to tyrant lizard king, Tyrannosaurus rex gets a whole lot of shit for its hilariously puny arms.
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Mrs Merkel's colleagues in the EPP, such as Leo Varadkar of Ireland, objected that the parliament job was too puny a prize for coming first.
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By comparison, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is puny, at only four million times the mass of the Sun.
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The International Energy Agency has estimated that gasoline demand will grow by "a puny" 80,000 barrels per day in 2018, the slowest expansion since 2011.
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True, the monster television that Chayefsky condemned, in which minds were numbed and massaged through a central household set, looks kind of puny these days.
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Great swoops of cable arc from one pylon to the next, each tower a child's line drawing of a robot standing astride our puny world.
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Some species have no heart at all, and even in those that do have one, it is usually too puny to seem equal to the task.
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Size matters: If you've read our Facts Matter, then you know the MOAB, despite weighing 21,600 pounds, is actually pretty puny compared to other nuclear bombs.
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The Lumia 950 and 950 XL are Microsoft's best smartphones, but Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile's biggest problem still remains: The app ecosystem is puny.
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We're here to lead you from your puny level 3 days in Brooklyn to your epic march through the Dark Zone once you hit max level.
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The hope is that well paid office workers won't be put off by puny salaries and will be attracted by the excitement of a fresh start.
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Tax campaigners have long pointed out that many internet giants pay taxes that seem puny compared with how much business they do in a particular country.
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To really drive home how puny Pixel sales were: It only took Apple 6.5 days and Samsung 4.4 days to sell the same number of phones.
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Distance from Mars to Phobos (Image: Public domain/Ryan F Mandelbaum via Wikimedia Commons) Orbiting our dusty red neighbor are two puny potatoes, Phobos and Deimos.
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People forget that, when it debuted in 2008, the MacBook Air with the then-revolutionary, but puny, 64G gigabyte solid-state drive cost a breathtaking $3,100.
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But India's e-commerce market as a whole is worth a puny $15bn or so, compared with nearly $500bn in America and double that in China.
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This kind of song was frankly pushing it for Levine, the contrast of his voice--and message--sounding puny against 22014 and Eminem's well-publicized struggles.
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Unfortunately, the crowd was not prepared for the scorcher 30 degree Celsius (86 degree Fahrenheit) heat which would evaporate their puny bottles sooner than they thought.
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A defection on this scale would not work in the same way that the puny, 1503-MP SDP one did a third of a century ago.
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"Nobody moves away from Winnipeg, especially to Toronto, and escapes condemnation," she wrote, in " All My Puny Sorrows ," her novel about her sister's illness and death.
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That didn't save Yahoo from drifting off into oblivion – its main brand was sold off to Verizon Communications in 2017 for a relatively puny $4.5 billion.
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People forget that, when it debuted in 2008, the MacBook Air with the then-revolutionary, but puny, 64 gigabyte solid-state drive cost a breathtaking $3,100.
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All that exists are the cast's puny grunts, yelps, and imagined vocalization of what it would sound like to get sucked out of the plane midair.
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Now, as with the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire results aren't important because of the puny number of delegates the state sends to the party conventions.
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In "All My Puny Sorrows," a woman giving a eulogy is interrupted by her toddler, who opens the urn and scoops the ashes into his mouth.
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This week's United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York brought forth pledges and proposals, but the financial resources being committed to the problem are puny.
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After Donald Trump took umbrage to the size of his comparatively puny inauguration crowd in January, the photo from Wednesday was almost too good to be true.
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Among the big economies, only the United States has increased the policy rate, and even then to a still-puny range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent.
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But while the company is marketing the device as ideal for streaming videos and playing games, the puny 2GB of RAM will likely be quickly filled up.
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That is a good thing in a country where only 1% of citizens pay income tax, and where government revenues amount to a puny 20% of GDP.
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To those who believe liberal democracy is doomed to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions something so puny will make no difference to our fate.
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This time around, he and his team crunched some numbers and ranked which of a giant impact's effects would inflict the most damage to us puny humans.
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That's performance on-par with the 13-inch MacBook Air and far more power than the 23-inch MacBook, which uses a puny Intel Core M processor.
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You have a huge assortment of options, starting with the puny iPhone SE ($350) and going all the way up to the super-powered iPhone X ($1,000).
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So there's Mars, filling the screen, its reddish desert revealed as a landscape of mountains and valleys that make the Grand Canyon look like a puny arroyo.
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That's a mistake: With no personality defects to exploit and only imaginary antagonists (all puny) to shake a fist at, this Abzug unbound gives Fierstein no resistance.
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Compared to quakes here on Earth, the marsquakes were pretty puny, but the new data could provide planetary scientists with more information about the interior of Mars.
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The U.S., in particular, would also have a chance to increase its puny $45.3 billion exports (data for the first nine months of this year) to Germany.
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By the time you get this guy up in the air, it's time for it to come back down with a puny 7-9 minute flight time.
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While some have criticized the line as puny, Gene Russianoff, the longtime leader of the Straphangers Campaign, a riders' advocacy group, said it was an important start.
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The lingering boll weevil problem is all the more remarkable — and, for American cotton growers, frustrating — considering the relatively puny size of the cotton industry in Tamaulipas.
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Britain's flotilla of seven warships in the Gulf looks puny next to America's 40, complete with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with decks the area of three football pitches.
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That being said, we shouldn't mistake the small beginnings of Google's time as a hardware maker and its comparatively puny Pixel phone sales for a lack of influence.
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Wednesday night's $620 million Powerball jackpot looked sort of puny given all the attention lavished on the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won in South Carolina on Tuesday.
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So did Mr Knausgaard's craggy good looks; had he been pimply and puny, he might have found a much smaller audience for his thoughts on masturbation and Hitler.
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In the meantime, for those hoping to become thin but not puny, various apps allow you to determine the percentage of your diet that is composed of protein.
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Continuity isn't an option given HSBC's one-year total shareholder return of 6%, which is puny compared with Standard Chartered's 10% and Citi's 27%, according to Refinitiv data.
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Designing such a chip is impossible without help from other computers that can boil down that complexity into simpler, more abstract concepts that puny human minds can understand.
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Morty—he of puny arms and weak constitution—becomes a ruthless killing machine after Rick transplants the "muscle memory" of a fallen warrior into one of Morty's arms.
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Does it ever feel like the aging politicians running your country are too busy getting their jowls jiggled by some lobbyist to keep your puny life in mind?
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Some analysts said they expected the prospect of higher yields to bolster the demand for the dollar at a time Treasury yields remain puny in other developed markets.
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In order for the galaxy to form in the first place, its "food" usually constitutes puny, gas-rich dwarf galaxies that allow it to build outwards and stretch.
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They ain't got nothin', though, on waters of our planet's polar regions, where frigid temperatures and considerable pressures would snuff a puny human like you in a heartbeat.
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And three of those movies were solely devoted to Rogers, a puny runt who, with the aid of super soldier serum, turns into the superpowered patriot Captain America.
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The puny trade links between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are compared with the umbilical cords that bind South-East Asia and which have made it richer.
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The swinging lights are sensational in the theater, giving a sense of both climax and danger, but on the broadcast the technique came across as sort of puny.
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Sending a claimed 82 horsepower to the rear wheels, the e-Bulli's electric motor seems mighty puny, but remember that the bus originally made do with just 43.
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With the Miata and its puny 25-liter four cylinder pushing out 25 horsepower, you can cane it on every back road between here and the Kentucky line.
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As Economist Films reported earlier this year, WADA's puny annual budget of barely $30m means that it has only limited resources to monitor the wealthy world of sport.
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It's like exercising one set of muscles and not another; when it comes to language, I have massive upper-body strength and puny, spindly legs (er, metaphorically speaking).
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I suppose if there's one takeaway for us puny Earthlings, it's that there are mind-bogglingly vast forces shaping our universe in ways we've only just begun to understand.
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Stumpf actually tried the alibi that, because the $190 million fine was so puny relative to Wells Fargo's $5.6 billion in quarterly profits, the investigation wasn't material at all!
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Voestalpine was too puny to compete with the Mittals of this world when it came to exporting cheap, bog-standard steel to feed China's construction boom, Mr Eder reasoned.
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Although that is puny next to America or Britain, China is important because it can act as a shock absorber, moving into a country when others are pulling out.
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From the beginning of April 2018 to the end of September, his fund is up 62.4% — making the S&P 500's return of 16.1% look puny in comparison.
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He had at first resisted the invitation, fearing a political trap in which Mr. Netanyahu would get to play the statesman while Mr. Gantz would look puny by comparison.
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Given the puny student activists they are up against, not to mention a general sense in Hong Kong of protest fatigue, it is hard to imagine a more unequal contest.
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This is yet another area where robots are poised to replace us puny humans—but when it comes to building Ikea furniture, they're more than welcome to take the job.
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That power can be contained and harnessed using tools like the Infinity Gauntlet, but we're meant to understand from the movies that these aren't toys for your typical puny human.
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Whoever the Republicans nominate will be committed to destroying Obamacare and slashing taxes on the wealthy — in fact, the current G.O.P. tax-cut plans make the Bush cuts look puny.
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The depth of many black smokers means that life around them is subjected to crushing pressures that alien microbes on a gravitationally puny moon would have no experience with, either.
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For reference as to how huge this deal is, just know that the best deal you could find on Airpods for Black Friday was a puny $9 discount on Ebay.
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Reuters Health - Some teens who see themselves as puny and exercise to gain weight may be more likely to develop so-called muscularity-related eating disorders, a U.S. study suggests.
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In "All My Puny Sorrows," Marj is Elfrieda Von Riesen, a celebrated classical pianist, and Toews is Yoli, a young-adult writer who is struggling to finish a literary novel.
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Over the last several days, Politico published a story noting that Trump's vice-presidential finalists may come down to the puny band of miscreants who can bear to say yes.
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Still scary after all these years: The centerpiece of the exhibit, the adult T. rex model is based on the latest research, highlighting the dinosaur's puny forearms and feathery adornments.
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The utility of puny arms, the scientific term for which is reduced forelimbs, has been a long-standing mystery in paleontology since they were first discovered on the T. rex.
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Driven I LEARNED to drive a manual transmission in a first-generation Honda Civic when others in my driver's ed class turned up their noses at such a puny machine.
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I am a puny, sensitive creature, and my best hope was that my tall and intimidating sister would sling me over one shoulder while blowing up the baddies one-handed.
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"Justice League" (21999) took in $21970 million, a puny sum by superhero standards, and "Live by Night" (225), a period gangster drama that he also directed, flatlined with $23 million.
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This is why NASA has telescopes like Spitzer that orbit the Earth looking at the universe in infrared, showing us stuff our puny eyes could never see on their own.
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It's not 4K, but it's plenty enough resolution that I don't see individual pixels when I'm working and it's not so hi-res that my puny laptop struggles when pushing it.
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A puny rock called 1950 DA, which is a mere 1.1 kilometers across, and according to NASA models has at best a 203 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2880.
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Gods of Tomorrow is 12 tracks of hazy hip-hop that manages to feel both fresh and effortless, in case you don't already feel shamed about your own puny creative output.
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While we're at it, we risk teaching our children to expect that any effort, no matter how puny or how enabled, should be enough to earn them the results they desire.
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This principle gives the court, whose budget is a puny $5m, the power, in theory at least, to compel signatories of the human-rights convention to change their constitutions and laws.
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Despite the puny resolution (for Vivo's standards), the rear cameras actually have nice features: both have optical and electronic image stabilization, large 2256-micrometer pixel sensors, and a f/4983 aperture.
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Sora Kashiwagi and his school friends spend time raising and caring for an eclectic cast of adorable creatures, including a small dragon, a puny Japanese demon, and an adorably small mummy.
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How can that be unfair when they argue she is the intellectual equivalent of Goliath to Trump's puny David armed only with a slingshot full of racist slogans and bigoted bluster?
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And as Facebook presses its chief advantage in social media — that is has the largest audience — sharing that data with users is likely to make rival services look puny in comparison.
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No one on this planet knows what the hell Matt Bellamy is singing about but it doesn't matter because who said he was singing to this planet and its puny lifeforms?
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To be sure, the size of Australia's shadow banking sector is puny, at around 6 percent of financial system assets, and is relatively smaller than in a number of large economies.
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To be sure, the size of Australia's shadow banking sector is puny, at around 6 percent of financial system assets, and is relatively smaller than in a number of large economies.
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But for people who are still using crystals to alter their chakras, Kadlec claims you need to see and feel the energy from the object—an impossibility with my puny otoconia.
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LAS VEGAS — You really can't blame smartphone makers for not building Windows 24 Mobile phones, what with the platform's puny 23% worldwide market share according to the most recent Gartner numbers.
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Over the last five years, the return on Germany's DAX (in dollar terms) has been a puny 3.7% per year, compared with the stellar 13% on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Photo: APOne of the most egregious myths about automation is that it is a faceless and elemental force of nature that we puny humans are capable only of scrambling to adapt to.
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This wasn't an issue even two or three years ago when the TV money all coming into the league over the course of two seasons made those old-CBA contracts look puny.
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Experts warn that we're entering a "post-antibiotic era" full of microbes that eat our puny drugs for breakfast while fomenting new infections that are as untreatable as infections were centuries ago.
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But its fearsome image was undermined a little by the ridiculousness of its puny arms, which were among the smallest of all dinosaurs when considered proportionally against the size of its body.
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Although the Electoral Commission is empowered to hand out only puny fines of up to £20,000 per breach, it can pass on information to the police if it comes across criminal behaviour.
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The 85-inch Q900FN, announced ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin, has four times the pixels than your typical puny 4K TV, and it'll arrive to U.S. stores this October.
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Giganotosaurus, which lived about 17 million years before Murusraptor, had a massively built skull and large teeth for killing prey, along with puny arms that would have done little good in hunting.
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One challenge, though, is that TV can sometimes turn theater spectacle into something puny: "She Loves Me" is set in a twinkling perfumery that sadly seemed wan and scanty on the screen.
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When an army of sleek, burnished chrome robots inevitably rises up to smash our puny bones into dust, remember this: You knew it was coming, and you did nothing to stop it.
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Small government, I believe, has proved to be no match for its social ills, too puny to offer much resistance to rampant inequality, stubborn infant mortality or off-the-charts opioid addiction.
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How puny is my vocabulary in Hindi, I realized, how muddled my thinking, how equivocal and hesitant I become; it's as if something of myself as a child has been preserved there.
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The Houston Chronicle reports that Christy Kroboth from Houston's Gator Squad was already called in to capture a five-foot alligator (five feet is fairly puny given how large they can actually grow).
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With the new Chromecast, you can sort of turn your TV into a picture frame with Google's new Live Photos feature, which seems like puny addition to the standard pretty picture screensaver option.
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My savings were made up of the puny pension fund I'd been able to save up in Switzerland, which was augmented only through the financial support of my in-laws and my mother.
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It is about how trees that once "rejected the puny efforts of men" would be demolished as successive generations razed hectares of land and imposed their sense of order upon the entire continent.
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He rightly wants to expand the powers of the job, which is puny in comparison with its New York equivalent, and seems to get London's dire need for more and better public transport.
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With stockmarkets around Europe crashing, recriminations whizzing through the ether and the full weight of Britain's terrible decision to leave the EU looming over them, his achievements in office seemed, however unfairly, puny.
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Many in the nascent tech industry didn't foresee the rise of the personal computer and thought it laughable that people would want a small computer, with its puny processing power, in their home.
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In it, she is sitting on a bed, a pale and puny young woman dressed in clothes that are somehow institutional-looking, with a sheaf of long hair falling around her elfin face.
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The program that followed was characteristic of the company's current methods, juxtaposing the mighty past with a puny present that included the world premiere of "Inner Resources" by the Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard.
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When other candidates took jabs at him, he didn't mock them with demeaning nicknames—no "little Marco" for Rubio, no "lyin' Ted" for Cruz—or tell them how puny their poll numbers were.
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A few of us—two beach volleyball players from Australia and me and my team of rowers—went for a full frontal assault, thinking we could take those puny dweebs without much trouble.
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First, there was the bloodthirsty squirrel uprising, then the "zombie" raccoon outbreak, and now, it looks like another member of the animal kingdom is gearing up to fight back against us puny humans.
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" ALLISON, Texas "If I saw warnings about dull dialogue, ungainly steps, heaving bosoms, senseless witticisms, overwrung hand-wringing, puny plots and such, I'd say thanks for saving me the price of a ticket.
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"Some people think there was no need to worry, that they could never win independence and their forces are too puny," Zou Pingxue, a professor of law in Shenzhen, China, said by telephone.
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Just in time for the big game, Israeli researchers observed boxer crabs and their adorable habit: Grasping onto sea anemones like puny pom-poms, ready to cheer you and your team on this weekend.
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But political elite of powerful western nations has not acted to stop relatively puny Caribbean nations from undermining the integrity of the global tax system — largely because western economic elites don't want them to.
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For all that, it wasn't too bad: Mr Osborne's proposals, though designed primarily to woo Eurosceptic Tories and annex political ground abandoned by leftward-marching Labour, were for the most part prudent, if puny.
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In their first few weeks of existence the larvae are at the mercy of currents, still too puny to get around on their own, gathering by their millions in surface "slicks" where currents meet.
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Leaders from the European People's Party (EPP), the centre-right group to which Mr Weber and Angela Merkel belong, reckon the parliament presidency too puny a prize for coming first in the European elections.
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Yes, this tweet a further debasement of the office of President, a steaming hot dump on decent human values and the weight that his title would carry if it wasn't in his puny hands.
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O.K., he was drunk — from his appearance, a career alcoholic — but it was the first time we two puny feature writers had laid hands on anyone in a confrontation, and did we feel tough!
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Der Spiegel also claimed that Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), two nouveau-riche clubs backed by sheikhs from the Gulf, had negotiated with administrators to receive only puny fines after breaking FFP rules.
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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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Yet suddenly, at the very seat of the national government, a puny upstart party running a shoestring anti-corruption campaign had nabbed no fewer than 67 of the 70 seats in the city's main legislature.
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That might be a random fluctuation; or it might be due to the number of puny opponents that they have faced in qualification matches, which robs them of chances to practise in a competitive environment.
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Directed by Bryant himself, the up to 15-minute episodes follow character "Puny" Pete, as he navigates a variety of activities — each with their own unique obstacle and solution — with his group of diverse friends.
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But the political elite of powerful Western nations have not acted to stop relatively puny Caribbean nations from undermining the integrity of the global tax system — largely because Western economic elites don't want them to.
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In an effort to bridge the growing gap between man and machine, the Pentagon is launching a new program to create machines that can explain their actions in a way we puny humans can understand.
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The relatively puny sales volume of small aircraft — just 3,293 general aviation aircraft, including helicopters, were delivered last year worldwide, in contrast to more than 80 million cars — has depressed innovation and kept prices high.
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Members of China's elite and the general public alike have not concealed their outrage that so powerful a figure—a member of the corporate aristocracy—could be arrested by a country as puny as Canada.
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Maybe the sheer magnificence of the replica sent our assailant spiraling out of control, filled with an unbearable jealousy, knowing that his puny hands could never carve such a perfect facsimile of the human form.
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" The book nods to Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer," though Henry's despair is not spiritual alienation but "metaphysical dislocation," a melancholy brought on by being "another among legions of puny figurines in the vast synthetic exhibit.
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They're also hulking lords of the wild who can sink your puny human face in with a single swipe of a paw and don't take kindly to you coming too close to their baby cubs.
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Because they would rather stop doing business with Iran and its relatively puny $400 billion economy than lose access to the U.S. and its $19 trillion economy, by far the largest market in the world.
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But after standing in front of it at the company's IFA booth for what felt like forever and getting lost in the sheer amount of screen real estate, smaller displays now look pathetically puny in comparison.
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On Thursday morning, HBO released a brand-new trailer for the show's second season, and from the look of it, the puny human meat bags at Delos don't stand a chance against Dolores's army of hosts.
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The article goes on to refer to the IACHR's "puny" budget of $220m and draws a comparison with the European Court of Human Rights, which "spends nearly 224 times that amount" and "has no such power".
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Sure, it might not seem like Atlas is ready to rise up and lay waste to us puny meat bags just yet: The robot's running abilities are jerky and methodical, and it isn't all that fast.
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But there are systematic biases and errors our puny human brains tend to make repeatedly when we try to predict the future, some of which are evident in the biggest political and sports upsets of 2016.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and Algeria are both larger than Greenland, but they often look puny in comparison when they're displayed on a Mercator map, a common template for world maps that scales down continents.
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That work, as valuable as it almost certainly was, looks kind of puny compared to what some young people are doing: trying to save the planet by suing the government to force action on climate change.
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If you are tired of that puny 27-inch gaming screen on your desk and you want a more immersive gaming experience on a really big screen — say 65-inches — then Nvidia has something new for you.
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Though they feature some 2,920 athletes from 92 countries, the Olympic village in South Korea is puny compared with the one in Rio de Janeiro that hosted 11,238 competitors from 207 teams at the 533 summer games.
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By using a technique called radar statistical reconnaissance, the team was able to ascertain the size of Titan's puny waves—apparently, at the time of measurement they only reached about 1 centimeter high and 20 centimeters long.
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The underlying causes of the deficit are not new: British manufacturing exports are puny, and a successful service sector is not nearly enough to counteract a low savings rate and buy-to-let and consumer debt binge.
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The world is full of Action Jack types, who have the power to force creative people to work within the confines of a puny imagination, and Richard and the gang gripe about it constantly, as they should.
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Take a look at this terrifying, upright, two-legged harbinger of doom known as Atlas, which opens doors, walks through the forest, gets knocked over by a puny human, and gets right back up on its own.
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They tell you how puny you are, how frail really, which is why you try to supplicate them, as the Buddhists who are from those mountains do, by stacking one stone on top of another in prayer.
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Nothing like a bare minimum of knowledge to make a person ultimately incurious about the true state of things, which is this: Grasping algorithms just enough, thinking they're within our puny reach, only makes them more powerful.
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Kayla, the slump-shouldered loner at the heart of "Eighth Grade," is stupefied by her crush, and when his puny body emerges glistening from a pool, it is in slow motion and set to thumping stripper music.
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The United States stockpile, estimated at three million mines, is significantly reduced from pre-treaty years; it's puny compared with the 26 million mines that Russia has on hand, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
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Indeed, how could a $3.8 trillion economy, presently sliding into an estimated 0.5 percent growth recession, swiftly recover to a 1.5 percent upturn next year on the strength of a puny 0.3 percent of GDP (hypothetical) fiscal stimulus?
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Closer to home, there should be measures to strengthen the euro's stability, a drive to remove terrorist content from the internet faster and a big increase in the staffing and powers of the EU's puny border- and coastguard.
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Aiming to demonstrate this second theory at home tends to involve a small spotlight, a globe, and some kind of ball on a stick— not exactly sound stand-ins for our massive sun and the comparably puny moon.
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Such is their puny size and such is the muscular role they seek to play, now is not the time for nuance; something which Lib Dems—who like restraint and middle ways—will have to get used to.
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While Trump's doctor has stated that his "laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent" and his "physical strength and stamina are extraordinary" (which is all very official doctor jargon), Trump's puny coughs don't even register on our collective radar.
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SEATTLE — Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful program that can recognize thousands of objects.
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Just imagine how much better Ellen's famous Oscar selfie would have looked if it wasn't limited to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3's puny 2-megapixel selfie camera, but instead had 13 megapixels of resolution to play with.
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Your puny waves may be too weak to register with LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, but LIGO can pick up the stretching and squeezing of spacetime that happens when, say, black holes crash into each other.
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Increasingly sophisticated and sensitive robotic arms can now work side-by-side on assembly lines with people without flinging our puny bodies across the room, doing the heavy lifting and leaving the fine manipulation of parts to us.
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The marvelous coincidence that makes the enormous sun and puny moon appear the same size in earth's skies to create the dazzling vision that we will see does not repeat from the vantage point of any other planet.
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Iantha Carley, the owner of Iantha Carley Interiors, told Insider that the chair rail is a "puny strip of wood" that doesn't do much beyond awkwardly splitting a room in half, thus making the entire space look smaller.
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Click here to view original GIFThis week's robotic skiing competition, which is not an official event at this year's Olympics, is just what the doctor ordered for puny humans like ourselves who want to feel superior while we can.
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Artificial intelligence, automated robotics, mechanized factories; each of these concepts gets rolled together in a lumpen ball of futurity, the only definitive commonality being that they all, in one way or another, threaten the autonomy of we puny humans.
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I know we think we are important because we are the only apes who can read news articles on the computer, but we are very puny compared to our Earth, whose surface area is nearly 2180 million square miles.
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But Andrew Young, an atmospheric scientist at San Diego State University, cautions that even the most extreme mirages are not easily noticed by the casual observer because the vertical extent of the distorted images at the horizon is puny.
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If you know anyone who plays their video games primarily on PC, you've probably heard them mention that it's the best way to play and that your puny console will never stand up to their beast of a desktop.
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It technically can help flex our forearm at the elbow and hand at the wrist, but it is so puny—most times it is just a thin ribbon of tendon—that its contribution to these actions must be negligible.
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Calling Saudi leaders "puny Satans" beholden to the United States, Ayatollah Khamenei also said that Saudi Arabia had "reduced the pilgrimage to a religious-tourist trip" and called for new management of the holy sites in Mecca and Medina.
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But you'll have to check back on Thursday to find out, and either make fun of us for buying the rumors or to celebrate the fact that puny Earthlings like us have, at last, caught the ultimate cosmic wave.
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The movie complicates Mr. Chiang's story, adding action scenes and political notes, which comes off as pretty puny compared with its larger, grander adventure about a woman who, in staring into the void, leaps into life and finds herself.
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Despite a U.S. economy that largely has healed since the Great Recession, they argue that increasing globalization, the shift by shoppers to cheaper online goods, and puny gains in worker output will continue to constrain wage and price increases.
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A second hitch is that the K-15 missiles aboard the Arihant can only fly a puny 750km, which means that the submarine would have to park itself dangerously close to China's coastline to have a hope of striking big cities.
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The kingdom's advisers say privately that the decision to list in New York or London has been postponed, and that the plan "for now" is to issue shares on Riyadh's puny Tadawul exchange, with a private placement possibly to Chinese investors.
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In a preview of its first-quarter earnings with the announcement that talks had failed, it said it had made only a puny €200m ($227m) or so in net profit, with corporate and investment-banking revenues down on a year earlier.
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Watching Kovacs attempt to unravel the murder of Lauren Bancroft is pure old-school noir, futurized by the whiz-bang theatrics of neon-colored cities, technologically enhanced bad guys, and fight sequences we can barely conceive with our puny 2018 brains.
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But English teaching contracts are flexible: although they state that a full-time teacher must work a relatively puny 1,265 hours a year, teachers must also put in "reasonable additional hours" to plan lessons, assess pupil performance and mark homework.
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The shallow depth of field that you can produce with a full-frame sensor — which is to say, your phone's portrait mode but achieved through optics rather than error-prone software — can't be touched by a phone's comparatively puny camera.
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Perhaps Ms. Mendelsohn wanted to underscore the mythic aspects of her story (the fall of the House of Atreus, etc.), but her hyperventilated writing instead has the perverse effect of making her characters' lives seem puny and etiolated in contrast.
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According to the guidelines of Thailand's new Computer Crimes law, Facebook would be liable for fines — which would be puny in comparison to the company's revenue — but there is also the possibility that Facebook's regional manager could be arrested and jailed.
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Maybe I end up with three Hopoo Feathers and gain the ability to quadruple jump, making engagement with aerial enemies considerably easier, but more importantly giving me the ability to traverse levels much faster than intended by puny single-jumping characters.
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In a follow-up interview after the markup was postponed, Lofgren called the initial bill a "puny reform" and said she will "soon" offer a separate bill that would revive one piece of the FISA law set to expire next month.
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Where the equally pricey Bugatti Chiron summons 1,500 horsepower from an 8-liter W16 engine that can empty a 26-gallon gas tank in eight minutes, the Project One relies on a puny 1.6-liter V6 engine and a few electric motors.
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The current AirPods case can neither receive (a Qi-compatible case has been announced, but isn't shipping) nor transmit wireless charging, and it has a comparatively puny 398mAh battery inside it, hardly enough to be a valuable external battery for an iPhone.
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Until she summoned a lightsaber in The Force Awakens, leading women in the Star Wars movies had never wielded the saga's signature weapon; Padmé and Leia, in the few instances they were allowed to fight, had to make do with puny blasters.
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Compared with the rocket hit by Giancarlo Stanton two innings later, a high-arcing rainbow that traveled an estimated 226 feet and landed in a remote section of the right-center-field bleachers beyond the Yankees' bullpen, Torres's groundout appeared downright puny.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are marveling over the exquisitely preserved skull of what appears to be the smallest-known bird - tinier than any hummingbird - encased in 99-million-year-old amber and boasting many odd traits including jaws studded with numerous puny teeth.
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Yet what remains rare are scenarios where the reverse is the case—in which the gullible masses sing the praises of powered individuals who they believe are protecting them, but who in fact exploit them and hold their puny lives in contempt.
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Despite its puny length for a par 3 that has no water hazard, the ninth hole will most likely take a star turn and be a featured element of the television broadcast this week when Erin Hills hosts its first major championship.
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As a basis for comparison, Intel's new 10-core processor for home computing sounds positively puny next to the TaihuLight's 1653 million cores, which is considerably higher than the 560,000 cores of the U.S.'s top supercomputer — Titan, a Cray XK7 system.
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Microsoft's Surface Go seemed like it had the most potential â€" it starts at only $400 and it runs full Windows 10 â€" but ultimately its puny Intel processor and poor Windows 10 optimization for a 10-inch touchscreen held it back.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: TimeSeeing as the Earth is a puny nugget of metal sitting atop a nearly 2000 mile-thick mantle of high-pressure flowing rock, it's no surprise that the rock occasionally seeps out, either slowly or explosively, through the surface.
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In this clip, clever players used explosives to launch a tank into the air, as US Marine Corps training manuals instructed soldiers to do during World War II. The puny jets of the enemy were no match for the firepower of the flying tank.
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But she soon grows to love her biracial daughter, gives her the nickname Tommy, and they eke out their survival in a dreary bed-sit infested with cockroaches, heated only by puny gas fires that require feeding with coins, of which Bella never has enough.
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When Manuela Giannini, a 35-year-old designer who makes ceramic dinnerware and linen napkins under Giannini Home and will soon launch Ma Basics, a line of jeans, bodysuits and more, purchased the 846-square-foot space last spring, it had one puny closet.
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Investors are willing to lend money to Uncle Sam at negative or zero real interest rates on IOUs of up to five years of maturity, and they seem happy even with a puny 0.5 percent real return on the Treasury's benchmark 10-year note.
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But this could make a big difference, as MacBook's biggest drawback (besides lack of ports) is its puny Intel Core m3 processor (the device can be configured with a somewhat more powerful Intel Core m7 processor), which is simply not powerful enough for many users.
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Photo: Hudson Hongo (Gizmodo)When discussing a big-screen TV, size is bound to be the primary topic of conversation, but with Hisense's 100-inch Ultra HD Laser TV, bigness approaches a thought-terminating cliche—one I have been happy to let take over my puny mind.
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Why it matters: The hawks worry that if Trump allows any further extension of his truce he will get sucked into China's favorite game: a never ending "strategic economic dialogue" that produces puny concessions and avoids doing anything hard or important like stopping stealing from American companies.
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Luckily for us puny humans, most of us can't even get very far in the ocean to see all the monsters down there because of decompression sickness (which occurs around 320 feet below) and, well, eventual death (the water pressure is crazy down there, I hear).
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High returns in the sector in comparison with puny interest rates in the developed world have encouraged new players to compete for reinsurance business, while a relatively low number of major natural catastrophes has depressed the prices households and businesses are prepared to pay for protection.
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Like Alibaba, which completed its debut loan in 2012, Tencent has made significant progress since its first loan signed in May 2014 – a puny US$200m five-year facility that paid a top-level all-in of 159bp based on a margin of 151bp over Libor.
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Mr. Murray's contribution was puny compared with the $1 million apiece from other coal industry giants, including J. Clifford Forrest, who owned Freedom Industries, the company charged with leaking a coal-processing chemical into a river in Charleston, W.Va., poisoning the water supply for thousands of residents.
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" The idea was to start with medical applications — tracking neurons to help with research, treatment and so on — but eventually to allow puny human brains to keep up with AI by bypassing all that pesky talking and translation of thought into speech or action, which Musk frames as "compression.
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If that long list of projects isn't enough to make your puny life pale in comparison to Peele's, here's one more for you: The guy has yet another brand-new series dropping next month—and from the looks of the trailer, it's going to be completely goddamn bonkers.
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For example, Amazon announced that it will have to continue using puny humans for labor for at least a decade, scientists believe that Alzheimer's may be a "double-prion" disease, fake meat is getting better, and Twitter might have a secret tool to track the political leanings of journalists.
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By kitting out the first president in Roman costume — which Jefferson encouraged; he thought American military uniforms "have a very puny effect" — the artist attempted to elevate Washington out of his historical circumstances and into a pantheon of classical heroes, and to inspire moral elevation more than individual remembrance.
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When they at last confront Weinstein, in a Times conference room and later on speakerphone, he's the mouse that roared, the Great and Powerful Oz turned puny humbug, swerving from incoherent rants to self-pitying whimpers ("I'm already dead") to sycophantic claims of just being one of them.
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But seriously, the family horror thriller A Quiet Place was the year's first surprise blockbuster, taking in $210 million worldwide against a puny $103 million budget, skyrocketing director John Krasinski's filmmaking career and reinforcing the first months of the year as prime real estate for scaring the crap out of people.
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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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So after voicing his concerns earlier this week about Gronk's puny suspension, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Mike Mitchell decided to let reporters know exactly what he thought has become a horrendous double standard in the league: And if you think he's taking a 'let the boys play' (and get concussed) angle, reconsider.
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"Swing Low" is a memoir told in the voice of her father, who killed himself in 1998, stepping in front of a train; her novel "All My Puny Sorrows" is based, in part, on the story of her older sister, who killed herself in the same way 12 years later.
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Given what he called the "puny" size of those settlements, Mr. Specter argued in court filings that lawyers should take less in so-called common benefit fees — up to 5 percent of the $8 billion that will be shared among the firms that did the most work on the federal litigation.
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When Mother Gaia isn't trying to suffocate us, burn our puny skeletons to a crisp, or swallow us all alive with ocean water in retribution for the way we have ravaged and ruined everything of hers we've slapped our genocidal paws on, she apparently keeps busy laying down some pretty sick beats.
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As for wireless charging, In most cases it won't charge up your device as quickly as a cable does—not unless your phone has a puny low-wattage wired charger and you've splurged on an expensive high-wattage wireless pad (like the 10W stand that Google ships for the Pixel 3 phones).
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To help tease out the puny wiggle of a passing gravitational wave from a noisy background, LIGO's algorithms constantly compare the lengths of the twin detectors' arms, which oscillate when agitated by a passing gravitational wave or background noise, to "template waveforms" — possible gravitational-wave signals calculated from Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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But as they float around in outer space, their bodies finely toned, their life-force rejuvenated by the blood of 20-year-olds, their bank accounts swollen from three commas to four, they will still be, in their deepest selves, the puny nerd who cowered, sweating and miserable, before some muscle-bound jock.
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When you hail as I do from Washington, D.C. — a city teeming with overachievers, and correspondingly full of restaurants bent on underachievement — there are places you encounter elsewhere that feel so right so immediately that you are overcome with grief for the absence of such a spot in your own puny world.
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But I wept when I reached the part of the book where she reprints a poem that Nelson wrote about her, titled "Morning En Route to the Hospital:" Snow wafts off the little lakealong Route 66, momentarily encasing the car in a trance of glitter Live with your puny, vulnerable selfLive with her.
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The tic of Buffy repeatedly weeping at the idea of Xander and Anya breaking up gets old quickly, but Anya and Willow teaming up against Olaf the troll is a terrific use of an underexplored dynamic, and Olaf's caps-lock rants ("PUNY RECEPTACLE!" he yells at a dumpster) are a solid comedic gag.
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Blade's Shadow cloud PCs aren't puny Chromebook-power machines — they're the equivalent of a $2100,21 gaming PC with a bleeding-edge 2000-core Intel Xeon Core i7 processor with 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a high-end Nvidia graphics card with 8.2 teraflops of processing power and 16GB of VRAM.
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Sometimes you're just minding your own business, basking in the ocean or trying to take a really good photo for Instagram or whatever, and then some hungry beast from the great depths reminds you that your puny status as a social media influencer doesn't mean much against a shark's razor-sharp teeth.
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"There are hints from recent exoplanet discoveries that relatively puny planets may be even more common around red dwarfs than Earth mass or larger ones, in which case there may indeed be a bonanza of potentially habitable planets whirling around these cool red stars," said Imperial college of London and study co-author Subhanjoy Mohanty.
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The senator from Texas will do Mr Kasich the same service in New Mexico and Oregon, which have 52 delegates up for grabs between them and enough moderate voters to give the governor of Ohio a hope of adding to his puny total of 148 delegates—which is 696 fewer than Mr Trump has.
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The resulting jitters, exacerbated by economic stagnation and mostly small but widespread protests that erupted this summer, have left Russia's numerous law-enforcement bodies scrambling to prove their mettle against potential threats, no matter how puny, and secure their future in a country they all view as a fortress besieged by enemies at home and abroad.
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His crooked prophetic cry is nearer at heart to the majestic voice of Job's God: he knows what he knows, and if fear, lust, rage, greed, deceit, domination, revulsion, hurt — all the dire passions — are portioned among the play's dramatis personae, only the Fool can weigh these all at once and put them in their puny place.
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The least-loved of Marvel's Phase Two films is pretty pivotal — the team is facing a threat whose capacity for collateral damage makes Loki look like a puny god — but there's not too much here you'll actually need, other than to see the level of destruction and some passing references to Wakanda (the fictional African country from which Black Panther hails).
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" In "All My Puny Sorrows," Toews describes a character based on her mother as "a short, fat seventy-six-year-old Mennonite prairie woman who has lived most of her life in one of the country's most conservative small towns, who has been tossed repeatedly through life's wringer," yet who remains "jovial and curious and delighted and oblivious to snottiness.
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More on this... Massive 'monster planet' found orbiting puny star leaves astronomers stunned Doctor uses iPhone accessory to diagnose his own cancer Researchers uncover massive prehistoric "sea monster" measuring nearly 20 feet According to this newest round of data, the impact would have released significantly more sulfur gas than previously though, by a factor of three, which would have had a devastating effect on Earth&aposs temperatures.
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A harmless bottle cap or errant piece of cilantro will elicit the same response as a spill of clear liquid that someone could genuinely slip and injure themselves on, which means that in certain cases an employee may have to take time that could be spent interacting with a customer to walk across the store and grab a puny little grape that escaped a bag.
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And one of the key facts here is the reason he has to plead guilty was he was being threaten by the prosecutor with an additional five-year sentence for obstruction of justice on top of the two years, which is the penalty for the fairly puny offense of less than $25,000-- INGRAHAM: They turn the screws on people all the time and I am speaking as a former criminal defence attorney, that&aposs kind of in my blood.
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"12 Reasons Robots Will Always Have An Advantage Over HumansWe puny humans can be depressingly fragile and flawed, a realization that&aposs all the more…Read more ReadBrin figures that some experts will be able to tell when they're being manipulated by one of these bots, but "that will matter about as much as it does today, as millions of voters cast their ballots based on emotional cues, defying their own clear self-interest or reason.
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I look around at all the ways I've tried to help — at the reusable grocery bags and the solar-field subscription, at the pollinator garden and the little meadow of wildflowers, at the lawn mower blades set high enough to harm no snakes or nesting cottontails, at the recycle bins and the worm composter, at the nest box for the bluebirds and the nest box for the house wrens and the nest box claimed this year by a red wasp — and it all strikes me as puny, laughable, at best a way to feel better about myself.
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