It was at this show that Steve Jobs asked Gursharan Sidhu a seemingly innocuous question, " Why has networking not caught on?

In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", he begins by saying that he would like to see how far a seemingly innocuous and widely endorsed principle can take us ; the principle is that one is morally required to forgo a small pleasure to relieve someone else's immense pain.

These are the sources of information about Ninian of Whithorn, and all provide seemingly innocuous personal details about his life.

At the start of his long stay in the Needle, Peter manages to send a note to the judge who convicted him, Anders Peyna, with the seemingly innocuous requests to have his mother's old dollhouse and napkins with his meals.

Another instance of double entendre involves responding to a seemingly innocuous sentence that could have a sexual meaning with the phrase " that's what she said ".

" The sufferer may also experience other types of delusions concurrently with erotomania, such as delusions of reference, wherein the perceived admirer secretly communicates his or her love by subtle methods such as body posture, arrangement of household objects, and other seemingly innocuous acts ( or, if the person is a public figure, through clues in the media ).

* Typical Tom Fiasco, a seemingly innocuous event that mushrooms into a failure

This seemingly innocuous choice would drastically change the course of mankind forever.

Often the villains in his stories experience their downfall because of a lack of respect for other alien species or seemingly innocuous bits of their surroundings.

Unwanted vibration may be caused by environmental forces acting on a structure, such as wind or earthquake, or by a seemingly innocuous vibration source causing resonance that may be destructive, unpleasant or simply inconvenient.

Despite this seemingly innocuous change in the name and notation, coproducts can be and typically are dramatically different from products.

726 ( 1940 ) was a seemingly innocuous case involving a challenge raised by a private citizen to a traffic regulation banning kalesas from Manila streets during certain afternoon hours.

There is a large body of research in psychology, economics, and human biology that has assessed the relationship between several seemingly innocuous physical features ( e. g., body height ) and occupational success.

Beginning on July 17, 1922, the strip would take a momentous turn in popularity with the seemingly innocuous introduction of an endearing race horse named " Spark Plug ".

Typically HG opened by asking some seemingly innocuous questions ( some of which had a subtle sting ) and he was followed by Roy, who had a much more probing and sarcastic manner and specialised in asking questions that put the guest " on the spot ".

During take-off on a wave estimated at 18 – 20 feet ( Hawaiian scale ), Foo experienced a seemingly innocuous wipeout which resulted in his drowning.

* In the Emilie Autumn song " Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches ," the concept of seemingly dark / profane phrases turning into innocuous words is taken further, although sung in the same style and tune as the original.

Here the film descends from the innocuous and normal beginning with natural lighting and balanced visuals to very sureal, sharply contrasted and / or colored lighting, and seemingly hallucinatory visions and surrealistic visuals and events as well as chaotic and improbable happenings and reaches a chaotic finale where some of the issues come to a head.

A bald dwarf who flies around on a jet pack, Gizmo is a genius inventor who can turn seemingly innocuous objects like vacuum cleaners into dangerous weapons.

The camera enters this seemingly innocuous setting as the family inside is discussing what to watch on television.

This is humorously referenced on several occasions, with Greg making a seemingly innocuous comment, which later either occurs or is referenced.

His work centers on expressing issues and concerns of postwar Japanese society through what are usually seemingly innocuous forms.

At Athens, Cleon, his seemingly mad promise fulfilled, was the man of the hour ; he was granted meals at the state's expense in the prytaneum ( the same reward granted to Olympic champions ), and most scholars see his hand in the legislation of the following months, the most prominent item of which was an increased levy of tribute on the empire.

# Face – Does the item or theory make sense, and is it seemingly correct to the expert reader?

McGee's usual fee is half the value of the item ( if recovered ) with McGee risking expenses, and those who object to such a seemingly high fee are reminded that getting back half of something is better than nothing at all.

For example, the seemingly different items “ children movie ” and “ children film ” are actually referring to the same item.

The use of the animal form went further than just ornament, these seemingly imbuing the owner of the item with similar prowess & powers of the animal which was depicted.

Fusing Kinstones is an action that Link can do with many people, animals, and seemingly inanimate objects throughout the game, which influences the game world, often only in some minor way, to give Link access to an item or new area.

Tim has referred to Nannerpus as a real breakfast item, seemingly unaware that it is in fact a parody food intended to make fun if things like IHOP's Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity breakfast.

Modern commercially manufactured cigarettes are seemingly simple objects consisting mainly of a tobacco blend, paper, PVA glue to bond the outer layer of paper together, and often also a cellulose acetate – based filter.

This identification departed from the prevailing belief that the protein content of chromosomes probably was the anatomical structure of genes, although it would take another decade — till Watson and Crick's 1953 paper in Nature indicating DNA's molecular structure suggesting how a molecule as seemingly simple as DNA could encode the structure of proteins — for the interpretation of DNA as genes to become widely accepted.

In his paper " De la baguette ", Chevreul explains how human muscular reactions, totally involuntary and subconscious, are responsible for seemingly magical movements.

One such example is Alan Sokal's " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " ( 1996 ), in which Sokal submitted a seemingly real, but nonsensical, paper to the Journal Social Text in order to show that a supposedly serious journal in postmodern theory would accept a meaningless paper if it used sufficiently impenetrable language.

Study of the Pompeii worm's seemingly life-sustaining bacteria could lead to significant advances in the biochemical, pharmaceutical, textile, paper and detergent industries.

With seemingly few commercial prospects for the current facility, Atlanta leaders quoted by the paper speculate Fanplex may ultimately be swept up in large-scale redevelopment of areas around the stadium.

Not only had the roadbuilders remembered their patron, but Ellington was also backed vehemently by the usually Republican Nashville Banner, the evening rival to the Tennessean, seemingly in part because Hooker was backed by the other paper, but also because he did seem to be the more conservative of the two major candidates.

" The expression is explained in the opening of Thieves ' Nights ( 1929 ): " Here ... were seemingly the same hawkers ... selling the same goods ... here too was the confusion, the babble of tongues of many lands, the restless, shoving throng containing faces and features of a thousand racial castes, and last but not least, here on Halsted and Maxwell streets, Chicago, were the same dirt, flying bits of torn paper, and confusion that graced the junction of Middlesex and Whitechapel High streets far across the globe.

These flashes appear seemingly randomly, from staring at a crumpled piece of paper in the gutter to picking up a rock on the beach.

Having forged a successful alliance with General Bindiga, the dictator of Zinariya, and publicly supporting him through his paper in spite of blatant human rights violations in that country, Mark has seemingly stopped listening to his conscience altogether.

The paper also enjoyed seemingly much more lax editorial restrictions, publishing scandalous ( at the time ) articles and using challenging imagery to provoke students and faculty.

Reading the paper one morning, Sherlock Holmes seizes upon one seemingly unimportant notice: the Tower of London has been closed for " reasons of security.

On paper, the PICE had seemingly contradictory goals: to stimulate the entry of foreign companies while increasing local innovation.