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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator
eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."
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On February 13, 2003, a former Wisconsin Boy Scout leader was convicted of 20 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 65 years in jail.
The judge said he wanted Gary Radloff to die behind bars for his crimes against children. Judge Patrick Haughney told Radloff: "Absent a serial killer, this case doesn't get any more serious because what we have here is a serial child molester. Mr. Radloff is evil. Mr Raloff is vile. He is a child molester who ran a house of evil. I intend this to be a life sentence."
Radloff had been convicted of child molestation in Illinois in the 1980s as a Boy Scout leader, but served only two years. He moved to Wisconsin and was charged last year with molesting three boys in his Scout troop.
In Visalia, California, a police officer and two other men (one who is HIV positive) have been arrested for molesting a 16-year-old boy they met in an American Online chat room called "Fresno Male for Males." The boy became concerned about being infected with AIDS after learning that one of his molesters, Aaron Rodriguez was HIV positive. After telling his mother, she contacted the police. The investigation of Rodriguez led detectives to the arrest of police officer Bryan Pinto and Justin Helt.
These homosexual molesters face up to five years in prison if convicted.
In Long Grove, Illinois, a prominent businessman was sentenced to six years in jail and ordered to pay $15 million to two boys he molested between 1995 and 1998.
Homosexual child molester Walter Metcalf was senior vice president at the Cole Taylor Bank in Wheeling, Il., and owned a pet supply store in Long Grove.
A male Milwaukee public school teacher has been arrested for dressing like a woman and trying to sexually molest a 15-year-old boy. James Simmons was charged with one count of child enticement and one count of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
Simmons told the boy that he was a transsexual and offered to pay him money to have oral sex with him.
After he made bail, he returned to teach in his elementary school classroom at Keefe Avenue Elementary School. School officials refused to tell reporters if Simmons would be removed from his teaching position.
Simmons has a police record of prostitution-related loitering and prowling in Milwaukee.
This article comes from Traditional Values CoalitionMy God, its that creepy dude from Bare Naked Ladies!
I wonder if they are taking into account the climatic changes being created by the simulator itself...this is the silliest thing I have ever seen! Lets use it to play Unreal2k3!!
Those Jap chicks like a bit of bang bang action.
Horny bitches.
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I can only imagine that your comment is serious.
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Some users were talking about grid holes in weather forecasting. In game design, most environs are being made on the same kind of grid nodes, thus relying heavily on that concept to drive the world.
Yet, ask anyone into gaming and they'll tell you the same thing -- the more detail you have in view in a game, the slower things get, and the greater chances for show-stopper bugs to cripple the servers and clients. That said, when you have a whole real-world(TM) you've got all kinds of detail, so the natural solution is to build a bigger/better/badder computer to run the show with raw power. Likely this is not required, for the reason that while we are human and capable of perceiving the world ourselves, anyone could deduct that each of our brains are more powerful than that computer. Doesn't that tell you something?
Our brains can't be advanced enough to understand it all without some kind hack to it, but they can.
One thing is for certain: none of our brains came with the preconceived notion of grid thinking. They were organic, right? Grid thinking was imposed on us by our teachers and parents and society. Society relies heavily on grids for electricity, traffic, zoning and law. But perhaps this system is the problem! Perhaps it's what is really holding us back as a species. Perhaps the next step is to get past nodular thinking and move to something more enlightened.
Say for example you have a grid of points around the earth for monitoring weather. Each hole in the points of monitoring permits errors in readings -- even at 2 km. What if there was a way to do this without a grid? Sounds Star Trek-ish, but I bet it's even possible with our current satellite systems to behave more organically, as a way to grasp what is before them.
Our only limitation presently, is how we as a species perceive the world. Are we perceiving it correctly by wrapping a grid around it? Paving over it? Maybe that's the problem -- all these lines we draw separate ourselves when in fact we ought be trying to see how it all fits, inversely.
Likely, there are currents we could be sensing that shatter any formal grid-tracking systems due to their random nature.