The consequence is TIME. Time to corpse run; time to grind gold for repairs; time clear all the respawned mobs to get to the boss fight you were attempting to complete.
I don't know about you, but time is my most valuable asset. WoW isn't the most popular MMORPG because it appeals to teenagers that can play 40+ hours a week...its got 10,000,000+ users because it appeals to people (like me) who can play 5-10 hours a week.
FYI Blizzard invented a game like this. Its called 'hardcore Diablo 2'. Basically a rogue-like dungeon crawl with better graphics, random maps and mobs with random abilities,etc.
Works great until you spend 50 hours playing and die due to lag, or an idiot flags pvp and kills you.
Non-permadeath is a way to make a game safer and more player friendly. There's always hardcore gamers that scream "CAREBEARS SUXORS", but they're a relative few and invariably immature. Its a game of digitized pixels, if your self-worth comes from how well you play then you're a pretty shallow person. Play and let play...people play MMORPGs for a variety of reasons, and usually its not the exact same as yours.
WoW has 10,000,000+ players because its easy to play, have various tiers of rewards for however much (or little) time you want to put into it, and has a casual multiplayer aspect. People like to say 'WoW isn't that good', then provide examples of niche products that have limited appeal to a mass audience. WoW is the McDonalds of MMORPGs, and that's ok.
Please mod parent up. I'm a secular atheist (recovering Catholic), but I recognise the significant contributions that numerous schools of theology have provided to the world. Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Thomas More, etc all built upon foundations of philosophy and rational thought established by the greek philosophers; in turn their works were inspiration for subsequence generations e.g. the natural rights of man coming out of the Enlightenment period. Its all well and good to jump upon the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades as 'christianity is teh evil!', but if you do that you throw the baby out with the bathwater... no preservation of greek and latin learnings during the dark ages, no reformation and all the advancements in human individualism (fairly unique concepts owned by the western world), no Renaissance, no Enlightenment. Religion as a social force must be understood in the context of its time.
Dawkins' criticisms of organised religion are valid IMHO and worth debating, but I agree that he goes too far arguing religion has not provided immense benefits to civilisation. I think its more apropos to ask whether we continue to benefit from organised religion given our current sociological makeup, and this stage of our intellectual capability.
#1. Tolkien assigned Christopher -- a fully fledged professor in his own right -- as his literary successor. It was JRR's DESIRE to have his son continue this work.
#2. Christopher is extremely dilligent to point out where he has supplemented material, and what he has changed from his notes. His openess about the process is to be lauded; he also presents it as 'here's the best i can do with what was available to me'. He's not writing original work e.g. The Hobbit 2: The Quickening.
#3. The problem the slashdot community has with Disney is that they built their empire on public domain materials -- Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, etc -- and then became copyright litigous bastards.
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There's a nice long history of incestuous couplings in German history and literature. Siegelinde and Sigmund of Die Valkure for one, which is of course based on earlier germanic legends...
And sorry Star Wars fans, Luke and Leia are borrowed right out of this tradition. Fortunately Lucas had the common sense to put in Han Solo to foil their germanic destiny...
PS Even John Williams 'leitmotifs', musical themese for characters, in the soundtracks borrows heavily from Wagner's approach in The Ring Cycle.
This issue is that lobby groups in the US are trying to influence trade policy, to force Canada to fall in line. Canada has had to keep up with alot of WIPO / WTO copyright changes over the years just to stay a member. The US could easily say "well if you don't honour our IP, we won't let you trade lumber...".
The US, being the largest economic superpower (still!), and our largest trading partner, has alot of leverage that they're not afraid of using. You know that softwood lumber dispute? The one that the US lost at NAFTA, WTO, etc time and time again? The US just stonewalled Canada...we eventually conceded some tariffs in the interest of saving our domestic industries, even though by every treaty under the sun we were free and clear.
Canada has a number of laws making copyright work for the benefit of society. I don't agree with all of them, but I understand their purpose. The first is CANCON, laws promoting the distribution of Canadian generated media based on quotas. e.g. Don't meet a quota, you lose your broadcast license.
There's practical exceptions too. Copyright is null-and-void for organisations translating media into formats that make them accessible to visually or audio-impaired individuals. e.g. Library can MAKE books on tape for subjects that might not be commercially availably; or they can reprint large font editions.
I worry that our relaxed personal use copyright laws are in jeopardy on a daily basis. Fortuntely the Canadian government is slightly more accessible to the public than the US congress, so we hve some safeguards in place. (note: i said ~slightly~)
I'm surprised it took so long to bring up this old myth. Hitler was not an atheist.
His religious views are unclear, but he certainly wasn't an atheist or agnostic.
Hitler was not a professed/practicing atheist, but also demonstrated no application of religious belief in his political theories or actions. Atheism I'd argue is an absence of belief in a divine power, and should not be treated as an alternate belief.
Stalin was an atheist, but that is beside the point. The point is he didn't murder in the name of atheism. You might as well mark him by the colour of his hair, it's just as relevant as a lack of belief in one particular supernatural entity.
I think you're making my point for me in a way... Stalin was an atheist, but didn't kill in the name of atheism. Similarly Hitler might have been minimally Christian or Pol Pot minimally Buddhist, but they didn't kill in the name of Christianity or Buddhism.
I'm concerned with reductionism in arguments. "Christians killed the most" or "Islam killed the most" when using a sample size of 1,000 years across numerous continents and cultures is a useless measurement.
For example, I'd argue very little of the Crusades had to do with a theological belief in doing the will of God. The majority of the peasants doing the fighting did so for money or food or because they were ordered; the majority of the countries who participated did so to maintain political relationships via the Holy Roman Empire, etc. Its not a simple argument that Christians = Killers any more than Islam = Terrorists.
The all time winners of body count would be secular atheists or agnostics of course. Hitler and Stalin easily surpass any religiously oriented genocidal campaign. Stalin alone is good for 40-50 million deaths through deliberate starvation, gulags, mass executions, etc. Even if the crusades were as brutal, I doubt the Christian forces had the logistics or numbers capable of reaching such a bodycount.
I consider myself a secular atheist, but I call a spade a spade...I think this concept of 'religious wars' is overdone and loses historical, sociological, and ethnic context. The Crusades were religious wars, only insomuch as the dominant government of the day was feudalism which was based on some religious principles (divine right of kings). And there were alot of Muslim armies, but half of the Koran is about various tribes/countries in the middle east fighting with each other.
BIOS is a nice protection for, maybe, a 6 year old. By the age of 9 I had read my motherboard manual back to front, and figured out that unplugging the computer and popping out the CMOS battery would 'soft reset' the BIOS to default. Then i could get to the 2nd hard drive full of computer games.
If you leave an intelligent child alone long enough without supervision, there is no telling what they'll figure out. I suspect on a macro-level this is part of the challenge as a parent... making life difficult enough for the kids to slow them down, but also not constricting them so much that they emotional on intellectually suffocate.
As a person with minimal medical knowledge, does this perhaps open a door to a future possible therapy for other immune system affecting/avoiding diseases? e.g. HIV
To anyone familiar with his personal history, its clear he had psychological problems; I've read numerous opinions by mental health professionals that he exhibited numerous signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Don't be quick to judge his personal worth.
Like many artists, scientists, and other great thinkers his personal life was a mess, his personal opinions muddled and ugly. But his accomplishments will remain long after his death; immensely talented as a chess player and his victory during the height of the cold war had political ramifications.
His death @ 64 in some ways is a poetic end, given life's major achievements.
I still use IBM keyboards at work and home due to their durability. True story -- IBM used to market the keyboards to banks (like the one I work at) as a productivity enhancer...the loud audible 'click click click' has been proven in usability studies to improve data entry by 3-5% since its another feedback response (audible) to a potential error. When I mistype on an IBM keyboard, I *know* I've mistyped.
I also like the fact that I can bludgeon someone to death with it, if worse comes to worst.
FWIW, I felt Fellowship was fairly accurate and as good as could be expected. Dialogue was moved around a bit, some significant pieces excised (necessary due to time constraints), but on the whole it worked. The Two Towers, however, is a completely different matter. I am most upset with the whole subplot of Faramir and the significant changes to plot they entailed.
I threw up in my mouth a little with Elrond showed up with Anduril in RotK. And the green pacman army of undead was just ridiculous. Denethor was comical, when in reality he was a character whose gravitas was nigh-equal to Gandalf, with the exception that Denethor gave into despair. The movies devolved into caricatures that I just wanted to be over.
Alot of people comment on how the movies 'felt' like LOTR, but in reality that credit goes to set designers and cinematographers who lifted (with permission in most cases) from long time artists associated with Tolkien publications. They looked like Tolkien, smelled like Tolkien, but true lovers of the books know the movies were (paraphrasing a rogers water quote) "competent forgeries".
Statistics are lies and damn lies, but I acknowledge that recidivism is an issue. The question is how much risk does this recidivism pose to the society, and what's the best way to combat it?
Doing a GIS its hard to find 'unbiased' statistics on molestation -- most are filtered through support groups or traditional values groups etc. But I found this bureau of justice report which is less biased since its based on actual convictions and charges.
The most germaine part IMHO -- "Sex offenders were less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested for any offense -- 43 percent of sex offenders versus 68 percent of non-sex offenders. But sex offenders were about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison -- 5.3 percent of sex offenders versus 1.3 percent of non-sex offenders."
So on the whole, sex offenders are LESS likely to cause societal harm again, but if they do it is more likely to be of a sexual nature. IMHO 5.3%, roughly 1 in 20, is a pretty good, low rate of recidivism. The waters are a bit muddied since molesters are mixed in with your garden variety rapists, but most of these databases track all sexual offenders anyways.
Ultimately my biggest problem with online databases is that it doesn't constructively contribute to preventing molestation. Money and effort would be better oriented towards research, monitoring, support, and therapy of child molesters instead of playing to the fears of parental voters.
Its the old justice vs vengence conflict all over again. Theoretically after their time in the penal system a convict has paid their debt to society, and has been their slate wiped clean. The public tracking websites appeal to a mob-mentality, fear based culture that suggests criminals can't reform, that you're at risk at all times, and that someone is out to get you and your family. Yes a number of child molesters (and other criminals) re-offend upon being released from prison. The question should be whether public tracking databases reduce this likelihood.
My personal opinion is 'no', in fact they exacerbate the problem by limiting convicts' abilities to reintegrate into society. Once branded with the scarlet letter, they live out their Les Miserables' existence being pursued by law enforcement and vigilantes for the rest of their days.
Child molesters are the boogeymen of the 2000s, just like drug lords were of the 1980s and 90s, gangs of the 60s and 70s, and communists of the 1950s. They pose a societal threat, but not somuch that you need to legislate around their existence and vastly expand policing powers beyond what already exists.
Very odd. Here in Canada, HD DVDs appear to take up more shelf space in most electronics stores -- mainly because more titles are carried on HD DVD.
If you eliminate PS/3s from the equation, the player competition is a wash and people are waiting (like me) to find the winner. PS/3s of course are doing the worst of the 3 consoles too, so don't discount the incluence of 360s in the north american market.
Finally, asking Michael Bay about industry trends is like asking Michael Bay to direct a good movie. He can't do either.
An excellent example is prostitution, without a moral component defined by religious values there is no justification for laws against prostitution and thus there should be none.
Well, this aside I think we could agree that regulation of said activity might be in society's best interest -- elimination of pimps/coercion/sex slave trade, then there's the public health factor (STDs), and then finally we have to acknowledge not-in-my-backyard (depressed real estate values in said neighbourhoods). So there's justifications to regulating and having laws around prostitution. But they're open to negotiation, debate, measurement, etc.
"The particulars of the relationship however are not the point and thus were omitted."
Sounds pretty straight forward to me -- he was sleeping with her and received financial gain. There's a word for that, I'm trying to remember it...um...
Carbs are really *needed* as long as you use them up! If you take a 800 calories shot of carbs from your McLarge Cola and then sit on your couch, you'll end up either fat or with diabetes or both. 800 carbs consumed => 1600 calories burned in exercise and you'll be fine and feel good.
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The consequence is TIME. Time to corpse run; time to grind gold for repairs; time clear all the respawned mobs to get to the boss fight you were attempting to complete.
I don't know about you, but time is my most valuable asset. WoW isn't the most popular MMORPG because it appeals to teenagers that can play 40+ hours a week...its got 10,000,000+ users because it appeals to people (like me) who can play 5-10 hours a week.
FYI Blizzard invented a game like this. Its called 'hardcore Diablo 2'. Basically a rogue-like dungeon crawl with better graphics, random maps and mobs with random abilities,etc.
Works great until you spend 50 hours playing and die due to lag, or an idiot flags pvp and kills you.
Non-permadeath is a way to make a game safer and more player friendly. There's always hardcore gamers that scream "CAREBEARS SUXORS", but they're a relative few and invariably immature. Its a game of digitized pixels, if your self-worth comes from how well you play then you're a pretty shallow person. Play and let play...people play MMORPGs for a variety of reasons, and usually its not the exact same as yours.
WoW has 10,000,000+ players because its easy to play, have various tiers of rewards for however much (or little) time you want to put into it, and has a casual multiplayer aspect. People like to say 'WoW isn't that good', then provide examples of niche products that have limited appeal to a mass audience. WoW is the McDonalds of MMORPGs, and that's ok.
Please mod parent up. I'm a secular atheist (recovering Catholic), but I recognise the significant contributions that numerous schools of theology have provided to the world. Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Thomas More, etc all built upon foundations of philosophy and rational thought established by the greek philosophers; in turn their works were inspiration for subsequence generations e.g. the natural rights of man coming out of the Enlightenment period. Its all well and good to jump upon the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades as 'christianity is teh evil!', but if you do that you throw the baby out with the bathwater... no preservation of greek and latin learnings during the dark ages, no reformation and all the advancements in human individualism (fairly unique concepts owned by the western world), no Renaissance, no Enlightenment. Religion as a social force must be understood in the context of its time.
Dawkins' criticisms of organised religion are valid IMHO and worth debating, but I agree that he goes too far arguing religion has not provided immense benefits to civilisation. I think its more apropos to ask whether we continue to benefit from organised religion given our current sociological makeup, and this stage of our intellectual capability.
I think you're being unfair to the Israeli/Palestinians to be honest...
HUGE Farking difference in thise case.
#1. Tolkien assigned Christopher -- a fully fledged professor in his own right -- as his literary successor. It was JRR's DESIRE to have his son continue this work.
#2. Christopher is extremely dilligent to point out where he has supplemented material, and what he has changed from his notes. His openess about the process is to be lauded; he also presents it as 'here's the best i can do with what was available to me'. He's not writing original work e.g. The Hobbit 2: The Quickening.
#3. The problem the slashdot community has with Disney is that they built their empire on public domain materials -- Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, etc -- and then became copyright litigous bastards.
There's a nice long history of incestuous couplings in German history and literature. Siegelinde and Sigmund of Die Valkure for one, which is of course based on earlier germanic legends...
And sorry Star Wars fans, Luke and Leia are borrowed right out of this tradition. Fortunately Lucas had the common sense to put in Han Solo to foil their germanic destiny...
PS Even John Williams 'leitmotifs', musical themese for characters, in the soundtracks borrows heavily from Wagner's approach in The Ring Cycle.
That's funny, i always thought the monosyllabic, slanting foreheads and abundance of body hair ENDORSED the theory of evolution.
And you should have seen the MEN!
Who would have thought that a Japanese company DIDNT come up with the Squirtatron?
This issue is that lobby groups in the US are trying to influence trade policy, to force Canada to fall in line. Canada has had to keep up with alot of WIPO / WTO copyright changes over the years just to stay a member. The US could easily say "well if you don't honour our IP, we won't let you trade lumber...".
The US, being the largest economic superpower (still!), and our largest trading partner, has alot of leverage that they're not afraid of using. You know that softwood lumber dispute? The one that the US lost at NAFTA, WTO, etc time and time again? The US just stonewalled Canada...we eventually conceded some tariffs in the interest of saving our domestic industries, even though by every treaty under the sun we were free and clear.
Canada has a number of laws making copyright work for the benefit of society. I don't agree with all of them, but I understand their purpose. The first is CANCON, laws promoting the distribution of Canadian generated media based on quotas. e.g. Don't meet a quota, you lose your broadcast license.
There's practical exceptions too. Copyright is null-and-void for organisations translating media into formats that make them accessible to visually or audio-impaired individuals. e.g. Library can MAKE books on tape for subjects that might not be commercially availably; or they can reprint large font editions.
I worry that our relaxed personal use copyright laws are in jeopardy on a daily basis. Fortuntely the Canadian government is slightly more accessible to the public than the US congress, so we hve some safeguards in place. (note: i said ~slightly~)
I'm surprised it took so long to bring up this old myth. Hitler was not an atheist. His religious views are unclear, but he certainly wasn't an atheist or agnostic.
Hitler was not a professed/practicing atheist, but also demonstrated no application of religious belief in his political theories or actions. Atheism I'd argue is an absence of belief in a divine power, and should not be treated as an alternate belief.
Stalin was an atheist, but that is beside the point. The point is he didn't murder in the name of atheism. You might as well mark him by the colour of his hair, it's just as relevant as a lack of belief in one particular supernatural entity.
I think you're making my point for me in a way... Stalin was an atheist, but didn't kill in the name of atheism. Similarly Hitler might have been minimally Christian or Pol Pot minimally Buddhist, but they didn't kill in the name of Christianity or Buddhism.
I'm concerned with reductionism in arguments. "Christians killed the most" or "Islam killed the most" when using a sample size of 1,000 years across numerous continents and cultures is a useless measurement.
For example, I'd argue very little of the Crusades had to do with a theological belief in doing the will of God. The majority of the peasants doing the fighting did so for money or food or because they were ordered; the majority of the countries who participated did so to maintain political relationships via the Holy Roman Empire, etc. Its not a simple argument that Christians = Killers any more than Islam = Terrorists.
The all time winners of body count would be secular atheists or agnostics of course. Hitler and Stalin easily surpass any religiously oriented genocidal campaign. Stalin alone is good for 40-50 million deaths through deliberate starvation, gulags, mass executions, etc. Even if the crusades were as brutal, I doubt the Christian forces had the logistics or numbers capable of reaching such a bodycount.
I consider myself a secular atheist, but I call a spade a spade...I think this concept of 'religious wars' is overdone and loses historical, sociological, and ethnic context. The Crusades were religious wars, only insomuch as the dominant government of the day was feudalism which was based on some religious principles (divine right of kings). And there were alot of Muslim armies, but half of the Koran is about various tribes/countries in the middle east fighting with each other.
BIOS is a nice protection for, maybe, a 6 year old. By the age of 9 I had read my motherboard manual back to front, and figured out that unplugging the computer and popping out the CMOS battery would 'soft reset' the BIOS to default. Then i could get to the 2nd hard drive full of computer games.
If you leave an intelligent child alone long enough without supervision, there is no telling what they'll figure out. I suspect on a macro-level this is part of the challenge as a parent... making life difficult enough for the kids to slow them down, but also not constricting them so much that they emotional on intellectually suffocate.
So complete immune system replacement?
As a person with minimal medical knowledge, does this perhaps open a door to a future possible therapy for other immune system affecting/avoiding diseases? e.g. HIV
The problem is Ron Paul isn't yet desperate enough for help, and doesn't know where to find them.
To anyone familiar with his personal history, its clear he had psychological problems; I've read numerous opinions by mental health professionals that he exhibited numerous signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Don't be quick to judge his personal worth.
Like many artists, scientists, and other great thinkers his personal life was a mess, his personal opinions muddled and ugly. But his accomplishments will remain long after his death; immensely talented as a chess player and his victory during the height of the cold war had political ramifications.
His death @ 64 in some ways is a poetic end, given life's major achievements.
I still use IBM keyboards at work and home due to their durability. True story -- IBM used to market the keyboards to banks (like the one I work at) as a productivity enhancer...the loud audible 'click click click' has been proven in usability studies to improve data entry by 3-5% since its another feedback response (audible) to a potential error. When I mistype on an IBM keyboard, I *know* I've mistyped.
I also like the fact that I can bludgeon someone to death with it, if worse comes to worst.
FWIW, I felt Fellowship was fairly accurate and as good as could be expected. Dialogue was moved around a bit, some significant pieces excised (necessary due to time constraints), but on the whole it worked. The Two Towers, however, is a completely different matter. I am most upset with the whole subplot of Faramir and the significant changes to plot they entailed.
I threw up in my mouth a little with Elrond showed up with Anduril in RotK. And the green pacman army of undead was just ridiculous. Denethor was comical, when in reality he was a character whose gravitas was nigh-equal to Gandalf, with the exception that Denethor gave into despair. The movies devolved into caricatures that I just wanted to be over.
Alot of people comment on how the movies 'felt' like LOTR, but in reality that credit goes to set designers and cinematographers who lifted (with permission in most cases) from long time artists associated with Tolkien publications. They looked like Tolkien, smelled like Tolkien, but true lovers of the books know the movies were (paraphrasing a rogers water quote) "competent forgeries".
Statistics are lies and damn lies, but I acknowledge that recidivism is an issue. The question is how much risk does this recidivism pose to the society, and what's the best way to combat it?
Doing a GIS its hard to find 'unbiased' statistics on molestation -- most are filtered through support groups or traditional values groups etc. But I found this bureau of justice report which is less biased since its based on actual convictions and charges.
The most germaine part IMHO -- "Sex offenders were less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested for any offense -- 43 percent of sex offenders versus 68 percent of non-sex offenders. But sex offenders were about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison -- 5.3 percent of sex offenders versus 1.3 percent of non-sex offenders."
So on the whole, sex offenders are LESS likely to cause societal harm again, but if they do it is more likely to be of a sexual nature. IMHO 5.3%, roughly 1 in 20, is a pretty good, low rate of recidivism. The waters are a bit muddied since molesters are mixed in with your garden variety rapists, but most of these databases track all sexual offenders anyways.
Ultimately my biggest problem with online databases is that it doesn't constructively contribute to preventing molestation. Money and effort would be better oriented towards research, monitoring, support, and therapy of child molesters instead of playing to the fears of parental voters.
Its the old justice vs vengence conflict all over again. Theoretically after their time in the penal system a convict has paid their debt to society, and has been their slate wiped clean. The public tracking websites appeal to a mob-mentality, fear based culture that suggests criminals can't reform, that you're at risk at all times, and that someone is out to get you and your family. Yes a number of child molesters (and other criminals) re-offend upon being released from prison. The question should be whether public tracking databases reduce this likelihood.
My personal opinion is 'no', in fact they exacerbate the problem by limiting convicts' abilities to reintegrate into society. Once branded with the scarlet letter, they live out their Les Miserables' existence being pursued by law enforcement and vigilantes for the rest of their days.
Child molesters are the boogeymen of the 2000s, just like drug lords were of the 1980s and 90s, gangs of the 60s and 70s, and communists of the 1950s. They pose a societal threat, but not somuch that you need to legislate around their existence and vastly expand policing powers beyond what already exists.
Given that you can play the whole Blame Canada song uncut in prime time on Canadian TV, I think its pretty ironic...
PS Anne Murray likes the song too.
Very odd. Here in Canada, HD DVDs appear to take up more shelf space in most electronics stores -- mainly because more titles are carried on HD DVD.
If you eliminate PS/3s from the equation, the player competition is a wash and people are waiting (like me) to find the winner. PS/3s of course are doing the worst of the 3 consoles too, so don't discount the incluence of 360s in the north american market.
Finally, asking Michael Bay about industry trends is like asking Michael Bay to direct a good movie. He can't do either.
You must be new here - welcome! Are you familiar with all sections of Slashdot?
An excellent example is prostitution, without a moral component defined by religious values there is no justification for laws against prostitution and thus there should be none.
Well, this aside I think we could agree that regulation of said activity might be in society's best interest -- elimination of pimps/coercion/sex slave trade, then there's the public health factor (STDs), and then finally we have to acknowledge not-in-my-backyard (depressed real estate values in said neighbourhoods). So there's justifications to regulating and having laws around prostitution. But they're open to negotiation, debate, measurement, etc.
"The particulars of the relationship however are not the point and thus were omitted."
Sounds pretty straight forward to me -- he was sleeping with her and received financial gain. There's a word for that, I'm trying to remember it...um...
Carbs are really *needed* as long as you use them up! If you take a 800 calories shot of carbs from your McLarge Cola and then sit on your couch, you'll end up either fat or with diabetes or both. 800 carbs consumed => 1600 calories burned in exercise and you'll be fine and feel good.
Agree 100%.
And no, diet drinks are even worse for you.
Why?