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Investors have no idea how to value sweat equity, and I now believe it's a bad idea to let them tell you how to do it.

"I knew this was a bad idea, " she says, "trying to drink soup while talking. "

Anything that degrades the experience of paying customers has to be a bad idea , especially when it's so easy to be a non-paying customer .

You raise a valid point but I'll propose some of my own thoughts on why I think limiting random attributes can be a bad idea.

Counting on even a reasonable percentage of your users' machines to have the same fonts as you do is a bad idea.

VOICE: If atheism has produced such bad results, that would make it a bad idea.

I'm trying to learn skateboard at the moment. I tried to skate in bare feet, bad idea. I completely cut up my toes.

Which brings us back to the initial point: it would have been a bad idea for Mr Cameron to tell the nation to stop spending, wouldn't it?

Come to think of it, a little prayer might not be such a bad idea after all.

He never taught me about why it was a bad idea to date loony, but that's one I learned for myself fairly effectively later on.

Jake may have had a concussion, and it was actually a bad idea for him to stay in the game.

And that's why extending the high-end tax cuts is such a bad idea: it would deliver very little bang for a very large number of bucks.

Well, it did happen, but right now it does seem to have been a bad idea for exactly the reasons the skeptics cited.

The assignment for tomorrow was to write a memo telling me why you think it is a good or bad idea for me to give a final exam in exam week.

Now if he jumped with just a condom on, that would be a bad idea.

Third bad idea: You could have entered the amounts in chronological order. At the end of each month you could have made a sum.

Again , let us remind you that using proprietary cryptographic algorithms , including hash functions, is usually a bad idea .

If you participate in the Water Festival, it might not be a bad idea to leave the camera at home.

But just in case we are observing yet another expedient shift, it might be a good idea to understand precisely why socialism is a bad idea.

Unfortunately, this turns out to be a bad idea: It ties the reference to a specific file, on a specific file system, in a specific location.

That's my choice, but it's still not a bad idea to live as if the end is near: our mortality is certainly not vaporware.

Almost all the leaders who will turn up in London know protectionism is a bad idea.

For a president who insists it's a bad idea to get "caught up in the news cycle, " Obama has just shown a knack for controlling it.

Hector: Well, I suppose. . . To stay here with you, Julia. . . It's not a bad idea.

Despite their rowdy reputation, it would be a bad idea to think of the Fianna as merely drunken sots who can spout stories.

To say that the Internet Kill Switch is a bad idea is only scratching the surface of how wrongheaded the proposal is.

In my opinion, code has no place in configuration files anyway, and allowing users to execute arbitrary code is a bad idea.

Stock quotes are a great example of when you might use a marquee display. But for static text, it is just a bad idea for the most part.

I don't like the sound of that. Open-ended invitations are a bad idea.

Damon: "I had an hour to realize what a bad idea it was to leave you here alone, process it, and move on. "

Bad idea, it blocks physical damage, provides no regen, and maybe a bit of base damage.

It would be a bad idea to continue with energy subsidies on the assumption that commodities prices will not rebound after crisis.

Electronic surveillance would be a bad idea. Cloaks of invisibility work for Harry Potter, but are not available to the rest of us.

Now that I think about it, it's not a bad idea to get some work experience , and earn some extra cash while we're at it.

Science text books tell us how to create a nuclear reaction, and yet they contain no chapter asking if it is a good or bad idea.

Now, you've said elsewhere that you think it's a bad idea for humans to make contact with other forms of life.

People have already written why such a hype is generally a bad idea and in the case of Quora particularly.

Dr. Freedhoff said he doesn't think giving milk to children is a bad idea - but he questions the idea it should be considered "essential. "

"If someone has a bad idea, we'll probably figure out a way not to do it, " says Steele.

Even some of China's regulators have come round to believing that putting their faith in the capital markets might not be a bad idea.

This shifting of risk from bondholders was a bad idea in Ireland and generalizing it across the euro zone will not improve it.

All this does not mean better regulation and more transparency for the commodities markets is a bad idea.

If you want to be above the majority then following the crowd is always a bad idea.

Multi-tasking (or switch-tasking as the new buzz word goes) is usually a bad idea.

It is not a bad idea, to say the least of it.

You wanted to be a musician (a writer, astronaut, whatever) but everyone told you it was a bad idea, and you didn't even try.

"That's not a bad idea, " said Granddad gently, " I don't need so much of a blanket. "

It's not a bad idea to keep the garage door shut during the day too. An unanswered knock is as good as a sign saying no one is home.

Moving somebody out of his home quickly may sound heartless; but stretching the process out is a bad idea.

The figures seem to suggest that might not be a bad idea.

and ripping up contracts between borrowers and private lenders is usually a bad idea.

As for using the touch screen for controlling the driving experience, we all felt that would've been a bad idea.

While these projects are clearly unfortunate, you want to avoid burning up too much money before realizing that the project was a bad idea.

Paul hesitated , thinking that it might be a bad idea to take the new job.

I ve stated in the past that trying to avoid synchronization is generally a bad idea.

first I thought it was a bad idea, but upon reflection I realized she was right.

I thought this was a bad idea, because the "hedonic treadmill" would mean that they'd quickly get used to the new bed.

While it's not necessarily a bad idea as a ploy to make money, it's just a biiiiit offensive.

Fiscal tightening for America is a bad idea in its own right, but it's particularly ill advised given that stuff happens. Like Europe.

That would be a bad idea at any time; in a period when the state must tighten its belt it is an extraordinary proposal.

Using Maven WAR plugin for overriding classes, configuration or other resources in general sounds like a really bad idea.

Striving for perfection is always a bad idea, because life is messy and unpredictable and full of surprises.

Suffice it to say, it is a very bad idea to be using the sa (or any high-privileged account) for application database access.

It surely cannot be a bad idea for the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to discuss energy security and the environment.

Overloading your spouse with what you consider to be perfectly valid information is a bad idea.

It's not a bad idea, actually, to ask yourself variations on that question often.

But now it looks like a 'bad idea, ' he said.

At those rates, Citi shareholders might decide lending out their stock isn't such a bad idea after all.

It needs to appear to have been delivered with care, so to send it from the beach house in the Caribbean via BlackBerry is a bad idea.

Shunt it may not be a bad idea, reform, what final people cares still is reform " social cost and social effect " .

If there's any doubt at all, check the data before you send it to the component (in fact, it's not a bad idea to check anyway).

In other words , it was a bad idea for Houston forward Ron Artest to start trash -talking to him during Wednesday night 's game.

When a central bank communicates that it doesn't want its currency to strengthen, it's generally a bad idea to go against that central bank.

It's a bad idea to give your girlfriend a toad for her birthday. It's better to give her nothing. Yet it is best to buy her a necklace.

It could be put in place if enough governments really wanted to, but this would be a bad idea.

Now, given that, it might seem tempting in retrospect to conclude that the Plaza Accord was a bad idea.

The bathroom or a corner of the office is always a bad idea!

So in maddening situations in which anger or indignation are justified, anger is not a bad idea, the thinking goes.

In the words of Forrester Senior Analyst David Johnson, it's a bad idea for corporate IT to take a teetotaler attitude toward the Apple.

Likewise, it's a bad idea to annoy an escort who couldreveal what you're up to.

Maybe the cruel old Christian notion of original sin wasn't such a bad idea after all.

But delaying that visit to stick with a sportscast is a bad idea, especially for people with a history of heart trouble, he says.

"I think it's a really bad idea to have blood work unless something is wrong, " she said.

I-I-I know that I said I thought this was a bad idea.

Because SIGKILL cannot be handled, stopping a process with SIGKILL is generally considered a bad idea.

I told you this was a bad idea! -All right, all right! I'll get rid of the trampoline.

The new Princess Huanzhu is not the exception which proves the rule: as a general thing, remaking classic TV shows is a truly bad idea.

'Everybody thought it is not a bad idea, and it is workable, ' he said.

Indeed this subtlety is precisely why run-time exceptions are a bad idea for external conditions that should be handled by code.

It's not a bad idea, I suppose, but it may cost a lot of money.

As you can see by Dr. Nielsen's accreditation, his mentioning that using password masking is a bad idea isn't something to be taken lightly.

Whether it turns out to be a good idea or bad idea, we'll find out.

"Most people [at Facebook] thought it was a bad idea and was going to ruin the site. "

Some of the super-rich will run for office, but this can be a bad idea.

Note that it's a bad idea to 'get in character' with this -- rolling your d20 like a bowling ball will only cause problems.

I knew you were a bad idea, but I had to have you anyway.

That would be a bad idea, agree all of the analysts who have posted notes tonight.

As always, trying to write hybrid code is a bad idea.

That's why you see so many "experts" proclaiming that long distance relationships are a bad idea and don't work.

Tom: Not a bad idea. Let's first write out a shopping list. That will save a lot of time.

Stutesman also advises that sometimes "avoidance is actually not such a bad idea. "

If you feel that your baby's fussiness is not normal, it's never a bad idea to get baby checked by the doctor to rule out any illness.

If you feel that your babys fussiness is not normal, its never a bad idea to get baby checked by the doctor to rule out any illness.

"And of course valuations are depressed, so it's not a bad idea to buy at these levels for a long-term strategic investor. "

Ignoring the fact that allocating a single buffer for the entire file is a bad idea, what could go wrong in this method?

It may turn out that Flash on mobiles is a bad idea, but at least now you'll have a choice.

In fact, doing so gives you the advantage of a slightly more optimized system and may not be a bad idea either way.

In this case, it's pretty clear that adding the directory these are in to the system-wide search path would be a bad idea.

Publicly recognize that rewarding outcomes is a bad idea, particularly for companies that deal in complex and unpredictable environments.

So in maddening situations in which anger is proved, anger is not a bad idea, the thinking goes.

These patterns show that statistically it has been a bad idea to buy Baidu shares ahead of Q3 earnings releases.

Translation memories are valuable assets, and being tied to a proprietary database format is a bad idea.

There is no one but me and a few of my friends who go to both graves. Some people think it's a bad idea. Some people think it's heroic.

Bad: It is a bad idea to abbreviate enumerations; the user will have no idea which value to use.

And I assure you, imitating Matz is not a bad idea for most of us.

Managing multiple configurations just for the sake of having different command-line arguments is a bad idea in most situations.

As a matter of fact, in future shootouts it wouldn't be a bad idea even to test popular frameworks like Rails or Merb.

But putting it in your pocket would be a bad idea - it's full of molten metal.

though on second thought perhaps that's not such a bad idea.

Long term, the move may not be such a bad idea.

Maybe dating and dumping Serena wasn 't such a bad idea.

In contrast, the term "anti-pattern, " is now often used to represent anything that is a bad idea, or, if you will, a "bad practice" .

Unfortunately, many designers have still not learnt that the special NULL pointer or null object is an equally bad idea.

It won't work; to start with, it's a bad idea, and secondly, it'll cost too much.

Hey, that's not such a bad idea. I think I might just do that!

Hayes continued. "And that it's a really bad idea to walk around with all your cash there at night? "

While it's still a bad idea to go too crazy with images, it seems like using image-based text (or graphical text) is the wave of the future.

I think it may not be a bad idea. . . Let the misunderstanding ends here.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to be second-choice behind Buffon. Though his dream remains Brazil.

No, it was a bad idea, as Wynn had acted without consulting a physician.

Google has finally realized that it's a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you've sent an email.

It's not a bad idea but it doesn't explain why these objects have the same spherical shape and are located so close to each other.

Sure, there are a million reasons why this might sound like a bad idea in regards to long term debt.

Even the Soviets learned what a bad idea it was to allow this to happen.

I go up dawn a bad idea to which question.

But going private would be a bad idea for Dow, he believes.

I knew this vest was a bad idea, but the gay guy in my office told me they're back.

This is why it may not be a bad idea to try changing your pillowcase every night and see if that helps.

Bottom line: Multivitamins aren't a bad idea if "you're on the go, " Anderson says. "But don't expect major lifesaving benefits. "

Who said that? Who said it? - I knew this was a bad idea.

It's not a bad idea to put motion detectors up there too.

The attribute portion-unit now modifies portion-size, which as I've mentioned is a bad idea.

For this reason, excessive function calls in a loop are generally a bad idea.

Unless the company faces bankruptcy, it is a bad idea to do much in the first 100 days.

With antibiotic resistance on the rise, having more weapons in our antibacterial arsenal is not a bad idea.

It is generally a bad idea to break something that already exists, especially in this case.

Even so, Mr. Altman says he thinks pay limits are a bad idea, even if his company stands to benefit.

You can hear this distribution under that complaint. And you can see why, from Ballmer's point of view, that's a bad idea, right?

The idea that you shouldn't wake a sleepwalker up is a myth, but it's probably also a bad idea to startle him or her.

That does not mean that the Shareholder Executive is a bad idea.

What you might imagine as the most obvious way to convert relational database data to XML is also generally a bad idea.

But extending unemployment benefits beyond the standard six-month limit is a bad idea.

Work tips S: Don't be too stubborn. Sometimes listening to others is not a bad idea.

But 12seconds co-founder Sol Lipman doesn't think the Skittles campaign was a bad idea at all.

i know it's a bad idea. but i can't stop myself something from bringing up past relationship.

Perhaps it's a bad idea to cultivate or strengnow it here ratIT dawn to wait to the time of we're on we deathbed to lament.

Programming experience: Learning a language with OS development is considered a bad idea.

The bad idea within the proposals is that banks should have to pay a further tax on their profits before pay. It is not clear why.

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

Damming the Delaware is a poignant story about the demise of a bad idea.

But it should not take a volcanic eruption to show what a bad idea it is for so many to go on holiday at the same time.

Ordinarily it is a bad idea to give a class conversions to or from two built-in types. We do so here to illustrate the pitfalls involved.

If your vehicle starts running away then by all means feather the brakes, but stomping on them is a bad idea.

But even for rich countries, systematically overpaying for foreign assets is a bad idea.

It's a bad idea for an application, rather than the user, to move the mouse cursor.

Um, yeah. Let me tell you why this is a bad idea.

"So, frankly I think staying that course is not a bad idea. I would say it's a good idea. "

As a result, it is a bad idea to use floating point to try to represent exact quantities like monetary amounts.

First and foremost, working on interaction to the exclusion of information design, or the converse, is a bad idea.

Was it something you ate? 'Cause I toId Shrek those rats was a bad idea.

Now that he had seen and heard the man himself, that struck him as a very bad idea.

That's not a bad idea, but I can't afford the time.

I'm giving her the A shit. Nothing. She thought our web page was a bad idea.

Yeah this probably was a bad idea; yeah this probably was a bad idea.

Critics of cloud computing argue that it is a bad idea to lose total control of information.

I guess Dad thought it was a bad idea. - [Ella] Why?

It doesn't strike me as a bad idea to put one outside the kitchen.

Taking carry-on food on an airline flight isn't a bad idea, either.

PUTTING something aside for a rainy day is rarely a bad idea.

Counseling couples on the virtues of marriage isn't a bad idea -- as long as their participation isn't coerced in any way.

At first I thought it was a bad idea, but upon reflection I realized she.

instigating a morning fitness regime is not a bad idea.

In general, it is a bad idea to declare a function locally . Function declarations should go in header files.

I've been taught that's a bad idea, but it makes people feel excited and gets them involved.

Given the current economic gloom perhaps renaming the whole stock exchange wouldn't be a bad idea.

The Lesson: Undergarments are our friends, and graceful car exits aren't a bad idea, either.

Yet despite our love of science fiction, this coming trend in robo-aesthetics is a bad idea.

One way of looking at the issue is that modularity is powerful because it makes it easier to replace a bad idea with a good one.

Floating a bad idea does not instill confidence.

Then we discovered it was a bad idea because we couldn't use each other's terminals .

McKinley convinced the people that the Free Silver Movement was a bad idea.

Though I'm focusing on change here, it's never a bad idea to recognize and embrace the positive, too.

It should be clear by now that turning off buffering is a really bad idea for most applications.

Today, I learnt that eating McDonald's, Twisties, Chocolate and popcorn, then regretting it and going to the gym is a bad idea.

If it's not already obvious, getting cosmetic surgery that a US doctor wouldn't do in Brazil is a really bad idea.

There are many reasons why tattoos are a bad idea, and at the top of the list is regret.

Drinking coffee late at night to stay up and watch the Olympics is bad idea.

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea if you passed that certification test before trying this one!

Resolving the internal imbalances by worsening global ones is a bad idea.

Presenting too many choices to a client is a bad idea.

As much as I hated to miss work, editing in that condition is a bad idea.

On hindsight , being up there was probably a bad idea.

It's probably not a bad idea for Microsoft to work on Vista's image.

On reflection, perhaps that is not such a bad idea.

The response to a bad idea, like, say, a tungsten light bulb , is a better idea. Okay ?

Sometimes listening to others is not a bad idea.

I told you it was a bad idea to have a king.

While in theory we could have retrofitted the kinds of features we wanted on fakeroot, it seemed like a bad idea.

If you're still unsure what to do, then changing the values to the root user and root group isn't a bad idea, either.

The federal government thinks that's a bad idea, but that's not stopping the milk-sharing.

Does this imply that European bonds are a bad idea in general?

That's absolutely indispensable, and it's a bad idea to sacrifice it in pursuit of something else.

Setting an attribute named xmlns through this DTD mechanism is a bad idea.

Legal or regulatory barriers to drug tests are a bad idea.

It's not a bad idea to do some sanity checking on input fields.

Damrning the Delaware is a poignant story about the demise of a bad idea.

Not everyone needs, wants or can afford a coach or trainer, but if you really want to find your potential it's not a bad idea.

The world's trade economists are as close to unanimous as they get: this is a bad idea.

Maybe the elevated highway was a bad idea.

Impudent , open , arrogant, which I do not belong, so please do not arbitrary your bad idea to harass me .

So for a power hitter to cork his bat is a bad idea.

You could try to use mkdtemp(3), but this is generally a bad idea because temp cleaners may decide to erase them.

You are willing to speak out if customer has bad idea and you know what works and what fails, your experience should have you at this level.

Inreality we never got aspect-oriented programming because the academics could not agree on whether this was a good idea or bad idea.

and this no-faces thing might not be a bad idea.

A strange illness killed Isaksen's pets, and she now thinks that keeping foreign pets is a bad idea.

Many people are allergic to colognes, so skipping it altogether might not be a bad idea.

It's usually a bad idea to personally attack someone to get your point across.

But, before the cash starts flowing to Detroit, here are three reasons this bail-out is a bad idea.

There is an obvious lesson here: unless you are childless, going into politics is a bad idea.

Some people say reading in bed is a bad idea. . . that you should only sleep in bed.

Mixing these two approaches is an especially bad idea.

Diversified financial conglomerates are a bad idea for customers because they are riddled with conflicts of interest.

Such conversation assures even if the most muddleheaded husband, also won't meet of bad idea.

Now, after the marriage ceremony Slue-foot Sue got a really bad idea.

And this isn't a bad idea, even if you are still pushing CSPs away from your door.

Simply removing them may be legal, but it is a demonstrably bad idea.

But I think it is a bad idea to miss payments, whether you are a homeowner, a company or a government.

Therefore, if we concentrate boys in PE class, and girls in Fine Arts class, it is not a bad idea.

You don't have to necessarily bring money or food for them (although that wouldn't be a bad idea).

If you follow the advice of the study I mentioned previously, then telling other people your goals is a bad idea.

Yeah. . . bad idea. Help organize political events in your own country instead.

When that happens, a similarly bad idea is born in the mind of another producer, and the cycle continues.

This is done in the hopes that it will impress people, but it's a terribly bad idea and does not work.

If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

But, in general, helping a specific industry is a bad idea.

That's not a bad idea. I've always wanted to go to New Zealand, or Thailand or the U. K.

If not a mad idea, however, partition is a bad idea.

This is a bad idea for an overcentralised country like Turkey, and no other party is likely to accept it.

When one person says the change is a bad idea, others say the same.