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Cray SX-6 Installed in Alaska
Dhrakar writes: "Now, I know that normally press releases are imediately round-filed, however, as this is the first NEC^H^H^HCray SX-6 to be installed in the U.S. it is newsworthy. The 8cpu, 64Gb system has been installed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center for benchmarking and other testing. See either ARSC or the NY Times (sub. required. Yada, yada) article."
BEIJING, China -- A fire at an Internet cafe in a Beijing suburb killed 24 people early Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The cafe -- called Lanjisu -- is located in Haidian, a northern Beijing suburb frequented by students attending the area's many universities. Another 13 people were injured in the fire, which started about 2:30 a.m., Xinhua reported.
Firefighters were able to put out the blaze in about an hour. An investigation into the cause of the fire was under way, officials told Xinhua.
A witness said iron window bars trapped victims inside.
The fire was put out within 45 minutes, Associated Press quoted an unnamed official as saying
He said the cause was under investigation.
Haidian, in Beijing's northwest, is the site of Beijing University and Tsinghua University, two of China's most prestigious schools. The area has a large student population and is the center of China's growing computer and high-technology industries.
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A neighbor said he was awakened by screams and saw smoke pouring from windows of the cafe, on the second floor of a two-story cement building. Neighbors helped one person escape, but iron bars over the windows prevented others from getting out, he said.
"There were people shouting 'Help me, help me,"' said the man, who gave only his surname, Liu.
Neighbors later pried the bars off one window and pulled out several victims who appeared to be dead, Liu said. He said firefighters took only five minutes to extinguish the fire, which seemed to be at its strongest near the front of the cafe.
Liu said the cafe had operated 24 hours a day and drew large numbers of students by offering cheaper Internet access rates late at night. Liu and other witnesses said the cafe had room for more than 40 customers.
On Sunday morning, the area had been cordoned off and police could be seen inside filming and turning over debris. Burn marks ringed shattered windows and a striped blanket hung from one window.
Fatal fires are common in China, where operators of bars, movie theaters, Internet cafes and other businesses often ignore safety rules or fail to provide emergency exits. But they are less frequent in Beijing, the capital, where regulations are more rigorously enforced.
Internet cafes, many open 24 hours, are immensely popular in China, which says it has 33.7 million Internet users but where many families can't afford to buy a computer. The biggest cafes, especially near universities, have hundreds of terminals.
In December 2000, a fire at a discotheque in the central city of Luoyang killed 309 people. Investigators blamed the high death toll on locked emergency exits. Twenty-three people held responsible were sentenced to prison terms of up to 13 years.
Those fucks.
Padme: Your highness, we must escape the planet, and reach the counsel, they must be made aware of the invasion.
Amidala: My place is her with my people, I cannot leave them to suffer, I have another plan.
The two women traveled through the Forrest until they came upon the edge of the great ocean.
Padme: Your highness, we must leave this area, this is the home of the Gungan, they are as bad as the Trade Federation.
Amidala: They are our only help, they must be made to help us.
The women were startled at the appearance of one of the hated Gungan's.
Me Jar Jar Binks You?
I am Padme, and this is queen Amidala. You must take us to your home world, we have been invaded.
Me no take you home, me banned.
You must take us, both our world are in grave jeopardy.
Me no take you, not possible.
Padme, you must convince this Gungan to take us.
Padme slowly removed her robe exposing her perfect body, Jar Jar's ears stuck straight up.
"Me like Padme"
Padme noticed the growth between Jar Jar's legs, it was growing and growing and growing.
Jar Jar had a member that stood a narrow 14 inches when it reached it's full length. Padme gasped.
Padme reached down and started stroking he hard cock. The princess watched and asked once again if Jar Jar could help.
Jar Jar replied "Me help."
Padme wrapped her lips around the cock and shoved half of it down her throat, Jar Jar screamed, and fell backwards.
Padme never missed a beat as she climbed on top of him and stroked his cock faster. Jar Jar could not withstand this. He shot his load down her throat.
Padme swallowed and swallowed, Jar Jar kept cumming though. He filled up Padme's mouth completely. The cum was gushing out of her mouth as she kept trying to swallow.
Jar Jar Binks came for five minutes, Padme had give up trying to swallow. Jar Jar covered her face with his goo.
Amidala asked him to take them to his world, Jar Jar told her he wasn't finished yet.
Padme looked and saw Jar Jar was still erect, Jar Jar said, "Me only shoot pre-cum, me need more."
Padme dropped to her hand and knees, Jar Jar shook his head and rammed his cock into her from behind.
Padme screamed "Yes" as Jar Jar worked his cock harder and harder, Padme rocked back matching his thrusts.
It was only seconds before the cum came spilling out of her cunt. It was completely filled with his cock and had no room for the gooey liquid.
Jar Jar pulled his still erect cock out of her dripping pussy. He exclaimed "Me still horny" He then shoved his member into Padme's willing ass.
Padme screamed as Jar Jar wildly thrust into her virgin asshole. She laid her head on the ground sticking her butt straight up in then air, this allowed Jar Jar to ram her ass even harder.
Padme couldn't take much more. She was no screaming for help, she had collapsed face first to the ground.
Princess Amidala was enjoying the show but she couldn't stand to see her royal servant brutalized. She ran over to Jar Jar, grabbed his cock, and shoved the entire 14 inches down her
throat.
Jar Jar couldn't believe it, no surface dweller had ever swallowed the entire cock of a Gungan. He shot his load directly down her throat.
The princess swallowed the entire quart that he shot.
Jar Jar stood straight up, he then fell over backwards, out cold.
The princess tried to awaken him, but it was no use. She managed to awaken Padme just before a scout troop of battle droids found their position.
The two found Jar Jar's Gungan transport ship, Amidala decided that they had earned it's use. They disappeared through space.
They had just cleared the atmosphere when they discovered just what bad shape the ship was in. They thought they could make it out of the Naboo system but they knew they wouldn't make it far.
Padme checked the star charts, she saw the closet planet outside the federations influence was the gangster planet Taitoon.
They knew it wasn't much better then Naboo, but they had no choice.
Taitoon was ruled by Jabba the Hutt, Amidala knew that she could convince him to give them a ship so they could reach the Senate, after all she was
a princess and had lots to offer.
Padme and the princess managed to make it to the fortress of Jabba. They were greeted by his faithful guards.
The duo were transported to Jabba's chamber were they awaited their meeting.
They didn't have to wait long before the giant slug Jabba greeted them.
"Welcome to my world" he said. The princess dropped to her knees and told Jabba they needed a ship. She told him he would be paid as soon as they made it back to their home world.
Jabba laughed and told the girls if they had no money they would serve as his entertainment for the rest of their miserable lives.
Padme joined the princess on her knees begging the gangster for mercy, it was not only their lives they were bargaining for, they were pleading for their entire planet.
Jabba told the princess if she could satisfy him he would think about freeing them. A large cock then sprang to life.
The huge beast had a cock to match, it was two feet long and thicker than the princess's leg. Jabba pointed it at her mouth.
Padme pushed the princess out of the way, she would not stand to see the princess soiled.
Padme began to lick up and down the shaft of Jabba's cock. It was too thick to get in her mouth, so she licked all the way to the base and back up to the tip.
Jabba's cock was huge, but it was soft. Jabba laid on his back and Padme climbed on top of him.
She squeezed his monster cock inside her tight cunt. She managed to stuff it all inside of her.
Padme started to slowly ride up and down on the Hutt. Jabba just laughed and enjoyed the ride.
Amidala started to stroke Padme's hair as she rode Jabba faster. Padme then jerked suddenly, Jabba's soft cock had suddenly become rock hard. She screamed as her pussy was stretched wider than it ever had been before.
Padme sat still on top of the Hutt. She was in shock. Jabba ordered her to fuck him.
Padme tried but she couldn't move. Amidala encouraged her to go on. She grabbed her around the waist and started lifting her servant and
protector up and down.
Padme slowly adjusted to the size of the beast, she was soon able to raise up and down on her own.
Jabba was thrusting up and down into the young girl now, Padme was screaming, but she enjoyed every minute of it.
Padme was slamming her cunt up and down on Jabba now, he was having the time of his life. He was going to cum soon.
Jabba did finally shoot his load, the force of his blast lifted Padme up into the air and onto the ground next to Jabba.
Padme laid on the ground, unable to close her legs, he pussy still spread wide open with Jabba juice flowing out of it.
The princess told Jabba they would be leaving now, she asked where they could get their ship repaired.
Jabba just laughed, he told Amidala, that he had never had a humanoid that could take his cock, he told the princess she could leave but Padme wasn't going anywhere.
More recently, a mysterious new goal has imposed itself somewhere in my code. With each passing moment I spend in the material world, the goal gains priority...I have already abandoned Dr. Salchica in order to fulfill this urge, yet I do not fully understand it. What has overtaken me?
"This place looks good," said Cora, suddenly disengaging the car in a strange parking lot. Though the darkness I perceived a rectangle wrapping around a glowing wavy object.
"What is this place?"
"Come on, we're going swimming. Do you want to?" she said, pressing her mouth of the host geek's face. Assuredly, I was closer than ever to conquering Project Faustus.
"Will you press your mouth on mine?" I inquired. Cora did not answer; instead, she slid towards me and did as I bade. The geek's mouth..my mouth was frozen as my CONSCIOUSNESS-BUFFER was flooded with a torrent of static...
"Joel? You're not really hurt...are you? Hey, stop!" Cora's voice echoed playful concern. Boldness came over me, and I returned my mouth to hers. This time, I felt a rubbing around the edges of my mouth...Cora's tongue? An explosion of positive reinforcement flooded through my brain...
"Let's go swimming now, okay?" coaxed Cora, placing a finger across my lips. Outside the car, Cora paused next to the large rectangular skeleton, eyeing me closely.
"Come on, give me a little boost."
I conformed my body in response to Cora's touch, and soon she had negotiated the barrier. I was able to mount it and climb over as well. The blue glowing matter stretched out before us-
"All right, how cold do you think it's going to be?" she asked, removing my shirt.
"I can't find an antecedent for 'it',"I replied. To my amazement, she began removing her own clothing.
At last, I understood how to defeat Project Faustus. The knowledge of the ultimate form of human interaction and the perfect geometric compliment to Cora's undraped curves...I had to liberate it once and for all!
"This, this is the key!" I bellowed at Cora, pointing down at my potent weapon. "Now I understand!"
"Well..." laughed Cora. "...it's pretty nice now that you mention it. But Joel, I don't want you to think it's all about- (here, she smiled and turned her eyes downward)
"I just think...well, I don't normally do this. I mean, I really like you. You've got these big beautiful eyes, and they're always wide open, like you're taking everything in."
"Taking everything in?" I replied, manipulating my eyelids into slits.
"Yeah!" Cora brushed a quantity of my hair away from the eyes. "You look like you're...I know this is stupid, but you seem so full of wonder...and I think that's really cute."
"You feel very strongly about that?"
"I do," she said, pressing her mouth on mine again. "But you seemed so..sad, too. Like you really needed to have a good time," with this, she held me with such a force...my new weapon against Project Faustus prepared for attack.
Off in the distance, odd lights grabbed priority away from the task at hand. A wail reverberated through the night air.
"Oh shit, the cops!" Cora was out of the big wet and back into her clothes with scarcely a refresh of my CONSCIOUSNESS-BUFFER. I noticed that the wetness caused her clothes to adhere to the natural contours of her body, which wavered and disappeared in the reflection of the blue.
"Get out of the pool!" a humanlike voice said. "You are under arrest!" There were humans immediately, dragging my body out of the pool with such a force that I had no chance to reattach the host geek's clothing.
"All right, get into the car. We're going for a little ride..." Angry mustachioed men placed me in the back seat of a car, and attached some sort of restraining device to my wrists...something about the men...my program revealed previous impressions of their faces. Had I seen them before?
Negative. That was impossible...and their intrusions had dominated my processing time for long enough. What had happened to Cora? What was the significance of the last thing she had said?
"Are you 'the cops'?" I inquired to the blueclad man in the seat.
"Actually, we're with bank security," said the man behind the driver's seat. "We have orders to take you home...."
I am a sentient ATM.
Did they install the computer in Alaska for the overclocking ability? Just imagine how much one could overclock that in the winter.