Regarding the Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has held the "excessive fines" clause inapplicable to civil jury awards of punitive damages in cases between private parties, "when the government neither has prosecuted the action nor has any right to receive a share of the damages awarded." (Browning-Ferris Industries v. Kelco Disposal, Inc., 492 U.S. 257 (1989))
Therefore, while leaving open the issue of whether the clause has any applicability to civil penalties, the Court determined that "the Excessive Fines Clause was intended to limit only those fines directly imposed by, and payable to, the government." (Id. at 268.)
"In a separate experiment revealing another unusual business potential for cow dung, another group of researchers has successfully extracted an aromatic ingredient of vanilla from cattle dung, said Miki Tsuruta, a Sekisui Chemical Co. spokeswoman. The extracted ingredient, vanillin, can be used as fragrance in shampoo and candles, she said."
The thing about these Japanese corporate researchers is, they all think that their shit doesn't stink.
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My taste in music is my business and I don't want other people knowing that my most listened to album is Tom Dooley and Other Hits by The Kingston Trio.
Yeah, that must be why you just posted it on Slashdot.
Please don't tell anyone in Japan that the MiniDisc was a "collossal" failure, the surprise might cause them to fall backwards and crush the hundreds of MiniDiscs they or their kids have been collecting and using for the last 10 years...
I think what he is trying to say is that the title of the game is ironic, because although you go around killing people, it's called Halo, like what an angel has on his head.
The poster then makes the questionable leap of logic that Bungie would be well-served to create the converse of Halo, a first-person "helper" game entitled Horns (like what devils have) where you help people instead of killing them.
While I can reluctantly admit that this makes some sort of vague sense in the most rudimentary way, what I'm struggling to wrap my brain around is in what stunted, embarrasingly awkward fashion the poster thought this type of comment would be amusing to other human beings.
De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but you really got to wonder sometimes...
Great footage, but why-oh-why did the first guy who got to play the Halo 2 beta and have his footage recorded and distributed around the world have to suck so bad? I'm waiting to see the laser sword in the hands of someone who can actually do more than run around in circles waving it like a third-string high school flag girl while he gets lit up by players whose recorded games might have been far more interesting...
Haven't played the Pirates mod yet, but I assume that as with other BF mods, the real struggle will be building any type of regular server/player base for it. With the exception of an extremely limited group of "premier" mods, i.e. Desert Combat and Eve of Destruction (in the pre-BF:Vietnam days) most mods don't garner enough interest to achieve critical mass in terms of user and host support. The end result is a wide variety of interesting (and even well-designed and executed) mods with no real playability, precisely because not enough people regularly play them. (And we all know how much fun a solo game of BF is.) I suppose/assume these mods might be fun for LAN parties or the like, but for gamers like myself who have no local opponents and rely on the greater community of complete strangers for regular opponents, these mods invariably become momentarily intriguing but quickly discarded diversions.
For those following the far-reaching effects of the US Mad Cow scare in Japan, the next version of this title is going to have to be referred to as Yoshinoya 2: Pork Bowl Simulator...
As it stands now, the only beef bowl you're going to get from Yoshinoya here in Japan is a virtual one.
Damn those prions for robbing me of the delicious taste of shredded beef-flavored fat delicately slopped over greasy rice with a garnish of radioactive ginger!
Trust me, unless your taste runs toward mindlessly repetitive, squeaky bubblegum J-pop, tragically comic hip-hop where Laker-jersey-garbed b-boys spout strings of Engrish punctuated by the occasional "Yo!" or highlights from last New Year's Japan-wide karaoke competition, you probably really don't want to listen to what the Japanese market listens to...
We will take note, however, that the author himself has been coopted by the apparently insidious (and to this point unnoted by me) use of the abbridgment in question...
However, he does demonstrate some internal inconsistency with the description for another creation:
"Defeat autocreated huge battleships. Shootem up game, 'rRootage'.
The barrages are created by BulletML and Bulletsmorph."
Ah the pernicious and pandemic Nihonglish--until I actually moved to Tokyo I merely was an idle observer, but now I sample and grade each syntactically garbled fragment like fine wine...
Just out of idle trivial benevolence -- the airline date syntax is directly derived from the US military's administrative notational format for dates, which itself is a derivation of the ubiquitous but slightly obtuse military "date-time-group" by which military message traffic is catalogued, i.e. 010800 APR 04. This translates in civilian to 8 a.m. on the morning of All Fooles Day, in the Year of "Our" Lord, 2004.
In effect, the dominant date/hour paradigm is jumbled/juggled on a extremely regular basis even by the powers that "be"...
Far as I remember, the Sega Genesis had the capacity to play the games of its predecessor, Sega Master System... And although not "consoles" per se, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance both are capable of using their precursors cartridges.
More to the point, however, is of what utility really is backwards compatability? After playing Super Nintendo games, did NES games really hold that much attraction, apart from nostalgia value? Look at an original PS game lately after going a couple rounds on the PS2?
I'm not denying it would be a nice feature, but if the melancholic urge to relive past glories gets too overpowering, you can always just grab an emulator...
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Regarding the Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has held the "excessive fines" clause inapplicable to civil jury awards of punitive damages in cases between private parties, "when the government neither has prosecuted the action nor has any right to receive a share of the damages awarded." (Browning-Ferris Industries v. Kelco Disposal, Inc., 492 U.S. 257 (1989)) Therefore, while leaving open the issue of whether the clause has any applicability to civil penalties, the Court determined that "the Excessive Fines Clause was intended to limit only those fines directly imposed by, and payable to, the government." (Id. at 268.)
"Education is not something you can squander, like a fish or money or even a temporary home."
Sure, just ask the Cornell French Lit major currently engaged in making your copies at Kinkos.
The thing about these Japanese corporate researchers is, they all think that their shit doesn't stink.
My taste in music is my business and I don't want other people knowing that my most listened to album is Tom Dooley and Other Hits by The Kingston Trio.
Yeah, that must be why you just posted it on Slashdot.
Perhaps that is what really seperated us from the animal herd, is that we SEEKED out things to challenge us...
Including grammar!
Please don't tell anyone in Japan that the MiniDisc was a "collossal" failure, the surprise might cause them to fall backwards and crush the hundreds of MiniDiscs they or their kids have been collecting and using for the last 10 years...
Substitute "What's up, bitch" for "Why are you in the same prison with me?" and you've got it...
I think what he is trying to say is that the title of the game is ironic, because although you go around killing people, it's called Halo, like what an angel has on his head. The poster then makes the questionable leap of logic that Bungie would be well-served to create the converse of Halo, a first-person "helper" game entitled Horns (like what devils have) where you help people instead of killing them. While I can reluctantly admit that this makes some sort of vague sense in the most rudimentary way, what I'm struggling to wrap my brain around is in what stunted, embarrasingly awkward fashion the poster thought this type of comment would be amusing to other human beings. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but you really got to wonder sometimes...
Great footage, but why-oh-why did the first guy who got to play the Halo 2 beta and have his footage recorded and distributed around the world have to suck so bad? I'm waiting to see the laser sword in the hands of someone who can actually do more than run around in circles waving it like a third-string high school flag girl while he gets lit up by players whose recorded games might have been far more interesting...
Haven't played the Pirates mod yet, but I assume that as with other BF mods, the real struggle will be building any type of regular server/player base for it. With the exception of an extremely limited group of "premier" mods, i.e. Desert Combat and Eve of Destruction (in the pre-BF:Vietnam days) most mods don't garner enough interest to achieve critical mass in terms of user and host support. The end result is a wide variety of interesting (and even well-designed and executed) mods with no real playability, precisely because not enough people regularly play them. (And we all know how much fun a solo game of BF is.) I suppose/assume these mods might be fun for LAN parties or the like, but for gamers like myself who have no local opponents and rely on the greater community of complete strangers for regular opponents, these mods invariably become momentarily intriguing but quickly discarded diversions.
For those following the far-reaching effects of the US Mad Cow scare in Japan, the next version of this title is going to have to be referred to as Yoshinoya 2: Pork Bowl Simulator... As it stands now, the only beef bowl you're going to get from Yoshinoya here in Japan is a virtual one. Damn those prions for robbing me of the delicious taste of shredded beef-flavored fat delicately slopped over greasy rice with a garnish of radioactive ginger!
Trust me, unless your taste runs toward mindlessly repetitive, squeaky bubblegum J-pop, tragically comic hip-hop where Laker-jersey-garbed b-boys spout strings of Engrish punctuated by the occasional "Yo!" or highlights from last New Year's Japan-wide karaoke competition, you probably really don't want to listen to what the Japanese market listens to...
Just out of idle trivial benevolence -- the airline date syntax is directly derived from the US military's administrative notational format for dates, which itself is a derivation of the ubiquitous but slightly obtuse military "date-time-group" by which military message traffic is catalogued, i.e. 010800 APR 04. This translates in civilian to 8 a.m. on the morning of All Fooles Day, in the Year of "Our" Lord, 2004.
In effect, the dominant date/hour paradigm is jumbled/juggled on a extremely regular basis even by the powers that "be"...
Far as I remember, the Sega Genesis had the capacity to play the games of its predecessor, Sega Master System... And although not "consoles" per se, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance both are capable of using their precursors cartridges. More to the point, however, is of what utility really is backwards compatability? After playing Super Nintendo games, did NES games really hold that much attraction, apart from nostalgia value? Look at an original PS game lately after going a couple rounds on the PS2? I'm not denying it would be a nice feature, but if the melancholic urge to relive past glories gets too overpowering, you can always just grab an emulator...