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SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China will pass the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gasses this year, an official with the International Energy Agency was quoted as saying.
China had been forecast to surpass the U.S. in 2010, but its sizzling economic growth has pushed the date forward, the IEA's chief economist, Fatih Birol, was quoted as saying in an interview appearing in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal newspaper.
"In the past couple of months, economic growth and related coal consumption has grown at such an unexpected rate," Birol was quoted as saying. China's rising emissions will effectively cancel out attempts by other countries to reduce their own, he said.
Those comments follow the weekend release of a Chinese government report detailing the costs of climate change but asserting that the country should focus on development before cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Higher than average temperatures meant spreading deserts, worsening droughts, shrinking glaciers and increased spread of diseases, said the report, compiled by more than a dozen government bodies. It said emission limits were unfair and would constrain China's current energy and manufacturing industries.
China is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gasses, but is exempt from its restrictions because it is a developing country.

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Linda Carter's representation of Wonder Woman.
Just watch a re-run. She wears this school-marm outfit, and she does a *transformation sequence* complete with *twirling* to turn into Wonder Woman, with the requisite revealing outfit.
She has magic bulletproof bracelets, a magic rope that forces truth telling, and she has a TIARA THAT SHE CAN USE AS A WEAPON.
The mind boggles.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

For those in the curious, assuming a dyson sphere of 1au radius, which we can't, and an exact sphere, which we can't, and a perfectly flat track around the entire sphere, which we can't, we get the following invalid, but impressive, numbers.
The hypothetical track would be
1,512,706,032 Miles
long, and at 120mph, take
12,605,883.6 Hours
or
525245 Days
or
75035 Weeks
or
1443 Years
over a thousand _years_ to drive the sphere. That's some beef, there!
Edit: fixed diameter/radius confusion. A dyson sphere of 1au _diameter_ would be excitingly hot.

fixed my calculations, and did some more. Again, this hypothesizes things that we can't know, specifically an earth-orbit AU sized sphere, and a perfect sphere.
Land Area
3,534,038,715,220,621,215
sq km
1,364,500,034,448,275,905
sq mi
Land Area of the Earth, for reference.
196,935,000
sq mi
510,059,287
sq km
#1/#2 gives us 6,928,682,227 times the surface area of the earth, which is an excitingly large number, especially when you consider that it's blatantly, obviously, Too Bloody Small, due to the increased usage of the inside of the sphere's framework. Given the current population of the planet, at 6,590,974,617, there's still enough surface area to give _every person alive_ their own earth-sized patch of Sphere.

UF-Gryphon is not going to run shy on real estate, not for a _long_ time. I'm going to bed now, mind thoroughly boggled

can someone double-check my circumference numbers again?
that's.. that's a _lot_ of land. Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Scientists think they found a near Earth
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
The population density of Wyoming is very low, but that doesn't mean the people there aren't also out to kill you.
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"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

This stupid.

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The Internet Is For Norns.

Finally the Rock has come ba...
Opps, wrong thought process.
Well, before my wrestling mind takes back over, let me say this.
Shizuru is now Level 50. and maybe now I'll finish that story I'm writing.
In accordance with her own wishes, she leveled alone at Ms. Liberty and danced at Pocket D for a bit.Follow the light of your heart on the path of your destiny... Say, is that a tentacle?
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I have need for a copy of the In Nomine book "Liber Canticorum", but it's currently out-of-print at the publisher. The local game store doesn't have a copy. I can't figure out how to work the website of the next-closest game store (it relies on miscoded JavaScript, I think), so I have no idea whether a five-hour drive each way would help me.
I thought that if anybody would know of an available copy of "Liber Canticorum" kicking around, it might be somebody here. Does anyone have or know of a copy for sale?

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Seriously, because I don't get a lot of time on the internet to check for myself and I have been out for a while. This could actually be a good chance for everyone to take a collective step back and see what we're doing.
Thoughts?

As someone whose first COH character was a scrapper and who still runs a majority of that type, this amuses me, makes me nod my head and go "damn straight!".
View original thread here.
I've culled some of the ones that I liked the best here -
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I was reading "White Jazz" by James Ellroy and came across what I think should be the signature line for scrappers.
Quote:
"He's a scrapper, and scrappers get results sooner or later."
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My signature line would probably be more like: "There were HOW many of them in the group I just charged blindly into?"
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Followed by "Woops, scrapper lock!"
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"I'm just a Blapper with a better insurance policy."
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"Thus the blade is swung down"
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"Can I kill 'em yet? Can I? Can I?!?"
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"I'm like an imp, but with less fire, more doom and no leash at all whatsoever."
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"Why did you seven all die to that mob over there? I just fought this mob over here myself."
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"I'm not soloing, they started it!"
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I always liked "Why yes, I do think I'm a living blender."
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"We ready? Ready! Ready! Ready!... aw crap, there he goes again... crazy scrappers!"
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" 6...5... 4...close enough!"
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"I found the Boss... nvm I got him"
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"Whoops, did not see the AV..."
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"Why is this guy taking so long to defeat?"
*glances at target window*
"Oh, he's an AV. That explains it"
*continues fighting (actually happened on the Nemesis AV mission - scrapper running solo.)
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What goes through a Spines/Regen's mind when spying a large group of closely packed evil-doers...Other than "I can take 'em."
"Ohhhhhh.... Play pals!"
Then after the devastation..
"Awww... No one ever wants to stay and play with me...
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"look there's a large group! LEEEERROOOOY JEEEENKINS!"
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I think mine is still, 'Well, I needed two more guys to finish the 'Defeat X' mission...and that batch of fifteen was just *there*...'
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"Yup, that's a scrapper pull." (after I tried using laser eye beam to pull a single KoA and got the entire room)
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"Damn that was cool, but if you ever charge Envoy of Shadows again I'm booting you from the team." (after I lead the charge against EoS in the first encounter about 20 times with 20 team wipes in a row back in issue four)
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You want to taunt something? Stab it in the face.
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"The only line a Scrapper stands in is the line of fire"
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"My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She is an AoE."
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"A scrapper's job is not damage... a scrapper's job is violence."
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Here is a good Scrapper quote, this guy musta been a Scrapper to the core:

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Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking. --Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne

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Yeah, you read the subject right, someone went and started a wiki for the Virtue server. Here's the main page.
Maybe we should add the Legendary and members to that?
-Logan
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