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Because calories directly correspond to pounds. Not a percent. When we are talking a pound of fat on your body, about 3500 calories are stored there. So if a person takes in 2500 calories a day, and is maintaining weight, he can cut his diet to 2000 calories per day of the same foods. This will then create a caloric deficit of about 500 calories, meaning that your body will draw the energy from its fat stores. So that adds up to 3500 caloric deficit per week, or a pound of fat, roughly, per week. Percent has nothing to do with it. If you want to argue that a high carb 2500 cal diet is different than a 2500 cal high protein high fiber diet, then I agree with you. :grin: Types of food matter, yes. Carbs (high glycemic carbs) are evil, yes. But this is different from calories. Calories do matter. GI has nothing to do with energy-retention. A calorie is a calorie, converts into fat if you don't expend as much energy. I think the world would know, because you simply count calories when feeding the under-nourished (not mal-nourished).

Facebook doesn't run our lives. Unless you allow it too. It is a tool for keeping in touch with people and helping to organise events; nothing more nothing less how many hours a week do you spend on facebook, and how many hours a week do you tinker with your cell phone?

i find it interesting that noone has commented on my facebook comparison at all. facebook runs our lives more, and is less essential, making for a less bombastic debate/discussion/argument? Or I may be living under a rock in a cave here?

I've heard that he has the charisma of a rat and comes from a non-country. His policy is pragmatic, intelligent, is economical economically (which we need because of massive overspending throughout all of Europe currently). He's got an arena where he can make himself a name because noone saw him as a "threat" to their figures as prime ministers and presidents, although he has a lot of power. He's a politician for the politics by the looks of it, not as a personal ego-boost or to be the center of attention, but cause he's smart. It'll be interesting to see what the Economist writes of him in their next article about him, that's always an interesting perspective.

for doing herblore, or anything really, i'd farm herbs for profit, not for herbs. depending on level, snapdragon or torstol are the best profit (and also depending on how torstol seeds /herbs are in phase with their merchanting fluctuations). A herb run in this way is easily 150k, usually more. I personally choose to let my MTK finance its own herbing: if you have 100% herbs, 50% willows the nests / seeds low lvl herbs pay for herbing with all the good herbs, and doing whatever you like with the ranarr :D dunno if that's the "best" thing to do though, it's just easy

house at relekka, tree at brimhaven hands down. for carrying a teleport: duelling ring. either to mobilizing armies for spirit trees, ge or fairy rings, castle wars for banking, FOG for war calls, duel arena for recharging summon points (also prayer but that's further). That covers most stuff quickly.

msn/gchat, vent, ts, skype and xfire do everything irc can, but better.

this discussion would be a lot more interesting if it were about facebook :twisted: the battle over cell phones is long lost, but facebook still has people that don't use it. :ohnoes:

you are in a political union within the EU. You are in an economic union within the EU. that comes with rights and obligations, privaliges for the british, and privaliges for Eu citizens wanting to go to britain. If there were no difference in the treatment of people inside and outside the EU, what would be the point of the union at all? That's not correct. The EU is not currently a political union (although I believe it's heading in that direction). However, you are right about the economic union part. Also, that's an interesting argument, although it seems that most Britons are Euroskeptics and anti-immigration from the EU. It's something that the UK government seems to be fine with doing, but the vast majority of British citizens are against it. It's basically whether or not the people should have the voice or if the government should force the country to be in a union that most people disagree with. Since immigration from the EU causes a lot of problems with the British people, it would only make sense to abolish the Open Door policy -- which includes everyone. From what I have heard from what some British people have told me, a quota system for immigration would be one of the best possible options for the country. Actually, with the Maastricht Treaty in '92-93 the EU became a political union based on its new "pillars" Further, with the Lisbon treaty, the EU became even more centralized with the President of the EU and the HR foreign affairs representative. In effect, the HR for foreign affairs and security holds the "phone-number to Europe" that the americans wanted during the cold war. This HR is currently british, in the form of Catherine Ashton as a matter of fact.

An absolute lie. Calories can be counted. If you consume more than you burn, you gain weight. If you burn more than you consume, you lose weight. Read the book, the well-documented studies and the peer-reviewed research. The difference is negligible. It's all about what you put into your body, and you can only "Count Calories" if that's all the information that you want. It's just a rough estimate, nothing else. the calorific value of food, at least as it is defined over here, is the energetic value absorbed with normal absorption of nutrients, not the total potential energy of the food itself. The same goes for all other nutritional information. You could claim that's an estimate, but absorption of energy is very similar, to within a single percent, going by my old health and nutrition textbook... I suggest getting facts before claiming knowledge.

you are in a political union within the EU. You are in an economic union within the EU. that comes with rights and obligations, privaliges for the british, and privaliges for Eu citizens wanting to go to britain. If there were no difference in the treatment of people inside and outside the EU, what would be the point of the union at all?

I can also invent an "Eisenhower paradox" where i quote eisenhower's "increasing difficulties with cholesterol" completely ignoring the fact that his increasing cholesterol could be a result of continued smoking..... don't believe everything presented as scientific fact, that site you quoted is rediculous: do you excrete unabsorbed calories from easy-to-access sources of energy like proteins, fats and carbohydrates? show me some research showing that, and you can talk to me about "good and bad" calories. you have to expend the energy you eat, it is absorbed, and the only way you get rid of it is by using it. And yet, if you leave someone in bed, and feed them 2000 calories a day, and you have someone exercise and eat 2000 calories a day, the difference in weight loss will be negligible. However, if you alter the percentage of carbohydrates in one's diet, there will be a noticeable change. And no, not every calorie is created equally, rates of efficiency absorption vary hugely. And yes, I'm sure that Gary Taubes is a fraud, and it's just that not a single researcher or representative from MIT, PBS or the NY Times has been able to poke any holes in his research, theories and presentation. keep dreaming. if it was obvious, all nutritional advice in the world would be altered, unless you believe conspiracy theories. It would be nice if you were remotely close to the truth as experienced by us all, i sure wouldn't mind being able to eat according to his principles, but at least in my experience, eating a varied healthy diet seems to work. eating less lets me loose weight.

fixed, grammar and punctuation-wise. the content is still dubious. Anyone who writes an official email like that is not my willing employer at least....

I can also invent an "Eisenhower paradox" where i quote eisenhower's "increasing difficulties with cholesterol" completely ignoring the fact that his increasing cholesterol could be a result of continued smoking..... don't believe everything presented as scientific fact, that site you quoted is rediculous: do you excrete unabsorbed calories from easy-to-access sources of energy like proteins, fats and carbohydrates? show me some research showing that, and you can talk to me about "good and bad" calories. you have to expend the energy you eat, it is absorbed, and the only way you get rid of it is by using it.

project: do something you'll have for later, not just something random. That's what i would do anyway. ever wanted to learn something? a subject you're interested in? a language, culture, period in history, ideology (like cubism, absurdism, new modernism etc. etc.)? an instrument, a skill, a scientific experiment (what good gum has the longest lasting taste? or something)? Ever wanted to paint, or draw, or scupt, or write? Make a cartoon, script a short film, get in shape, play around with an invention? make a miniature of something (I've heard wave powerplant using magnets was cool) help a charity, build something (sports ranp/ jump is an option) any of that sound remotely interesting?

cautiously optimistic. it hasn't been released yet, so it's all speculation, really. Rumour has it the main architect behind slayer was the main architect behind dungeoneering, look at the response to dungeoneering, think what it would have been if it was fronted that the slayer-developer made it! My thoughts about what you are saying in a lovely gif form. sorry, can't make it out cause his hand's covering his face. care to give a hint?

Where are the cuts being made? On the poor whilst the rich receive tax cuts? That's the problem with these deficits in the first place. They don't happen from overspending, they usually almost always happen because tax cuts are given out. Nacho mentioned Norway, but it's pretty well documented that Norway's taxes are too high and should be cut. There's no magical number, but eventually it does squeeze the rich too much to the point of them leaving and/or evading. Luckily Switzerland is being squeezed, as are the Cayman Islands, to cut down tax evaders and work with foreign governments. Either way, Britain does have a deficit problem, but I don't know their budget well enough to know where the cuts should be made. In a recession, cuts shouldn't be made to begin with. That's why you have low deficits and/or surpluses during booms; it's basic econ 101. exactly. the issue with democracy and social benefits of all kinds is that people take them for granted, especially if someone else is paying. therefore, spending cuts have to take place, then paying down the deficits to respectable levels (total of say 25-35% of GDP is a reasonable number) and only then tax cuts. you have to pay down your loan before you pocket the difference.

cautiously optimistic. it hasn't been released yet, so it's all speculation, really. Rumour has it the main architect behind slayer was the main architect behind dungeoneering, look at the response to dungeoneering, think what it would have been if it was fronted that the slayer-developer made it!

why smelly! i didn't realize you were that evil :P

I can think of one reason, but i don't know the details to really make judgement. it's just a "possible reason" Rich people can move. then you get no taxes from them. That happened in norway with Norway's richest man, because the state wanted to squeeze a couple million extra out of him with a new tax. he finally got enough, and they ended up loosing about a billion, so far.

this unneccessary hype causing massive amounts of unneccessary discontent however good the actual content may or may not be. That's what not to like

you able to make an RSC pking vid? :P always wanted to see one tbh, especially if it's left as much unedited as possible. was may 11 the reopen, or has it not happened yet? :D

Yes it does, the fiscal deficit is huge and cutting it should be the first priority for any new government, as the conservatives have rightly made it. I wonder if any government manages to run budget surpluses to repay debt during the next decade. It's not even about reducing public deficits to less than 3% of GDP anually. It needs to be about building up surpluses, while we raid the world of all non-renewable soruces. What's going to be left for everyone after us?

again, hype starts, and people are bound to be disapointed. Why don't jagex want to learn that hype only leads to let-downs? surprises like "chairs you can sit on" are so much more well-recieved initially, then to be judged on its own merits, not as a guaranteed let-down on release...

I'm basing my number on the "acceptance" part, not the fact that they are unhappy. it's actually doing something, like quitting the game, your membership, or uttering your opinion, that really matters. arguing with irrationality: quitters never win or convince. you can at least respond to the rational arguments, which there are also plenty of (batch 2 for tweaking etc. etc. etc.). Grouping all arguments as irrational, is just as emotive an argument as unilaterally trusting Jagex. Ignore the emotive and irrational, argue the logic and factual.