It's 8 miles (give or take) from the Causeway Bridge to Chef Menteur Highway. Hardly a walkable city. The tourists walk the French Quarter and think they've seen the city. I call bullshit.
A great majority of the people in New Orleans has feet and the ability to use them. Even getting to La Place, 25 miles west on either I-10 or Airline Highway, is better than sitting in New Orleans. At least La Place isn't under water last I checked. At a decent walking speed of 2 miles per hour, that makes it a 12.5 hour walk.
Those tourists tend to also have feet, rental cars, or other means of transport. For that matter, they can catch a ride with a local - most of the people I've known down there would at least give up a spot in the back of the truck or something. If I still lived down there, you can bet your ass I'd be willing to give somebody a ride if they wanted to go.
See number 3.
Causeway Bridge to Covington, then I-12 West. I-10 West to Baton Rouge, or catch I-55 North just outside La Place and take it to Hammond, or to Jackson, MS. Airline Highway West, also to Baton Rouge (or just to La Place or Lutcher). I-59 North to Meridian, MS or follow it all the way to I-24 in the northwest corner of GA. Highway 90 West to Hahnville, then 3127 West goes halfway to Baton Rouge. River Road as far as Memphis if you like. There's 7 escape routes right off the top of my head. Any able-bodied person on foot could have made it to La Place or Hahnville within 12 hours or so, depending on what side of the river they started out from. Both of those places have high schools which are used as shelters in hurricanes, and both are above sea level (and here's to hoping the East Saint John Wildcats kick the crap out of the Hahnville Tigers and the overprivileged Destrehan Wildcats this year, assuming they get to play. Yes, I know, that's 2 high school football teams in the same division with the same team name...go figure.)
There are, of course, those who could not walk/bike/drive to safety, and it is for them that I reserve my pity and my disaster relief donation dollars. If the idiots had gotten out when they were told to, the emergency services currently being used to airlift Boudreaux, Scioneaux and Arceneaux (yes, those are real names) off the roofs of their houses could instead be used to evacuate the few elderly, handicapped, and infirm.
My "haughty presumption of superior intellect" is based upon the fact that about 80-90% of the people down there did leave, meaning the ones left behind are the dumbest 10-20% and those who physically couldn't leave. I'd bet my next paycheck that the former outnumber the latter 10 to 1.
I was just wondering, what exactly COULD have been done? Have everybody face southeast and blow really hard to make the hurricane move further east?
The only thing that you can do when there's a hurricane coming is GET THE FUCK OUT. A mandatory evacuation was announced at least 36 hours beforehand. Anyone with half a brain had ample opportunity to GET THE FUCK OUT.
Knowing that there are plenty of people with less than half a brain, they opened up the Superdome so when those dipshits finally realized, too late, that the governor really meant it when he said GET THE FUCK OUT, they'd have something to cower in besides their single-story wooden houses left over from the Great Depression and earlier.
3/4 of a million MRE's, millions of gallons of bottled water, etc. etc. were all staged at nearby locations (as close as they could get without being just as fucked as the idiots who stayed in the city).
So, my question to you is this: What else was the government supposed to do to save the stragglers from their own stupidity?
Strange...some of the best friends I've ever had live in Louisiana, including a few in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, the top ten biggest assholes I've ever met were split evenly between SoCal and NYC. Of course, like any place, Louisiana has its share of assholes. I'm sure there are some nice people in SoCal and NYC - I just haven't had the pleasure of meeting them.
Unlike you, however, I don't make sweeping generalizations about a population of millions after meeting a few dozen of them.
Actually, right now would be the safest time to move to Louisiana. Since a major hurricane just hit, it's statistically less likely to happen again for a few decades...
Only 4 clusters, one of which (named SuperMike) was the 11th fastest supercomputer on planet Earth and the 2nd fastest supercomputer at any academic institution on planet Earth when it was first benchmarked.
2 years after SuperMike was built, Caltech finally built one faster and caught up with LSU.
<sarcasm>Thank you for displaying your lack of prejudice </sarcasm>
I'm a conservative. I'm not a neoconservative, or a Bush fanboy. I'm not even a libertarian (though I voted for Badnarik last fall, but there's a long story behind that).
I'm also a recently-converted Christian. I'm not a fundamentalist or an evangelist. I'm not even what you might call "religious". I just believe in Jesus Christ and that through Him, one may be granted salvation.
With those two premises in mind, I support the.xxx TLD. People are going to view porn, no matter what "we" or "they" do. Yes, I beleive viewing pornography is a sin (Matthew 5:28). No, it's not a crime. Yes, there is a difference. It is not the job of the government to save our souls - it's the job of the church. Neither should try to do the other's job, just as you shouldn't take your car to a beauty salon for a transmission rebuild or go to a mechanic for a cut and style.
Another reason that I, a born-again Christian, refuse to call for the prohibition of pornography, I refer the reader to John 8:7, in which Jesus said "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone". I will not cast the proverbial stone at those who produce, sell, or consume pornography.
Porn is legal (at least for people over a certain age in the US). It generates revenue. It is a profit-making enterprise, and a part of the free market. As a conservative, this is perfectly fine with me.
The owner of a computer or network has the right to restrict the material viewed on said computer(s) or transmitted across said network. This right to determine how your own property is used falls within what is called property rights. As a conservative, this is perfectly fine with me.
The.xxx TLD will accomodate both of these things. It keeps the porn available to those who may legally view it, while simultaneously giving those who wish to filter out the porn a simple TLD to drop into their filtering software, firewalls, proxy servers, etc.
Logically, true conservatives should support the.xxx TLD.
I think the parent meant a hand-cranked battery charger. It might take an hour or so, but you could charge a weak battery to the point of being able to start your car with something like that.
A Casio FX-68 (the credit card sized scientific calculator you're probably referring to) sold on eBay recently for $77. Wow.
Check out the TI-25X for a slightly larger than credit card sized scientific calculator...sadly the really small ones are no longer available, as near as I can tell.
It's a matter of economics. These people are making quite a bit of money and can thus afford the new computer, while time spent cleaning out their machines is time that they'd rather spend with friends/family/clients/etc. The time is probably worth more to them than the money.
Let's say these guys make $150,000 a year. Dividing that out into an hourly rate we get $75 per hour (assuming 2 weeks of vacation every year and 40 hours per work week). 2 hours a month spent cleaning up virii and spyware adds up to $1800 a year for these guys. Or enough for 4 new $450 computers.
Of course, there's still no excuse for their inability to keep the stuff from getting into their computers in the first place, but that's another matter entirely.
As a conservative with libertarian leanings, I'd just as soon not have my logs retained at all.
That being said, and having no choice currently in the "if", but given a choice of "who", I'd say my local town government. At least we can vote those bums out of office - theoretically.
Then again, my local town government is one of those where the city manager is the brother-in-law to the sheriff, who is a cousin of the local court judge, who is the father-in-law of the tax commissioner, who is the sister of the school board superintendent, who is best friends with the court clerk, and so forth (not actual relations of course, but it is a very tight old-boy network with many familial relationships).
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a hex editor would be more useful than a text editor for this kind of thing...
Nothing wrong with that, except that (IIRC) the amount of energy expended to create a solar cell exceeds the energy it will produce before it reaches the end of its life expectancy...
Let's see here...post a message about the liberal media to a story about the liberal media and get modded "Offtopic" twice.
It's okay, I have plenty of karma to burn. Nice to see that the Left still stands against censorship (except, of course, censorship of that with which they disagree).
Yup, there's no liberal bias in the news, and nobody calling themselves "journalists" while pushing a liberal agenda...
And Dan Rather never said:
"The new Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor." -- Leading off the March 16, 1995 CBS Evening News.
or
"Republicans kill the bill to clean up sleazy political fundraising. The business of dirty campaign money will stay business as usual." -- CBS Evening News, February 26, 1998.
or
"There was no doubt Republicans in the House had enough votes tonight to pass another key item in their agenda to rip up or re-write government programs going back to the Franklin Roosevelt era. It is a bill making it harder, much harder, to protect health, safety, and the environment." -- CBS Evening News, February 28, 1995.
or
"President Bush tonight outlines his cut-federal-programs-to-get-a-tax-cut plan to Congress and the nation." -- CBS Evening News, February 27, 2001.
or
"I hear you talking and, as I have before on this subject, I don't know of anybody, friend or foe, who isn't impressed by your grasp of the details of this [health care] plan. I'm not surprised, because you have been working on it so long and listened to so many people." -- Interview with Hillary Clinton, 48 Hours, Sept. 22, 1993.
or
"I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies." -- Dan Rather on CNN's Larry King Live, June 18, 2004.
or
"This Democratic platform calls for not a single new domestic spending program. In other words, the party continues to march toward what some would call the center, others would say the right." -- CBS's Democratic convention coverage, July 19, 1984.
or
"Democrats were quick to portray the ticket as, quote, 'two Texas oilmen' because Cheney was chief of a big Dallas-based oil supply conglomerate. They also blast Cheney's voting record in Congress as, again quote, 'outside the American mainstream' because of Cheney's votes against the Equal Rights for Women Amendment, against a woman's right to choose abortion -- against abortion as Cheney prefers to put it -- and Cheney's votes against gun control." -- Reporting on Bush's selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate, July 25, 2000 CBS Evening News.
or
"Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America." -- Reporting on Lieberman's selection exactly two weeks later, August 8, 2000 CBS Evening News.
Nope, no liberal bias in mainstream media. None at all. Nothing to see here, move along.
At least O'Reilly and Limbaugh have the decency to call themselves commentators. Dan Rather is at least as biased as either of them but got away with calling his editorialization "journalism" for 40 years.
No offense intended...some of the best trolls are the subtle ones who are hard to distinguish from non-trolls, hence my wondering if I'd been expertly trolled or not:)
When talking about a planet that's BILLIONS of years old, 3 warm winters doesn't even amount to statistical noise. Talk to an actual climatologist someday; you may learn a thing or two.
And a libertarian is the polar opposite of a "bleeding heart", at least with regards to economics and your right to do whatever you want to do with something you own (like, say, land)....or have I been trolled?
The after-action report would be a wonderful opportunity to remind the boss about your budget request for a backup database server that was denied by the bean counters last quarter...
My 20-year-old former next door neighbor (a habitual criminal and the one person in the neighborhood I wouldn't gladly invite to brunch with my folks) was recently convicted on 4 counts of auto theft. The cars he stole were worth a total of about $25,000. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison (actually 4 5-year terms, but served concurrently). How does this compare to the kid who got a year and a half for releasing a worm that infected 50,000 computers? Let's do the math.
For purposes of this discussion, I'll assume that the car thief totally demolished the cars he stole, for a total damage of $25,000. That makes his sentence one year for every $5,000 in damages.
The LovSan worm infected about 50,000 computers. Let's assume that each computer cost $1,000. Let's also assume that the machines were out of service for 2 days as a result of the worm. Given an average PC lifespan of 4 years (1460 days), that's 1/730 of the computers' lifespans, or about $1.37 in damages per computer infected. Multiply by 50,000 computers, and you have $68,500 in direct damages.
That doesn't count the costs of removing the infection, lost productivity, etc. etc.
The kid got off light; a just sentence would have been 12 years or more, IMHO. Of course, that'd only be 4 years in jail before he got paroled.
Then again, I think my punk-ass neighbor got off light, too. If I'd caught him trying to steal my truck, he'd be serving his sentence in a hospital bed, eating and crapping through tubes.
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And the raw sewage from the 1600 miles of sewer lines in the city of New Orleans alone whose contents are now mixing with the floodwaters.
- It's 8 miles (give or take) from the Causeway Bridge to Chef Menteur Highway. Hardly a walkable city. The tourists walk the French Quarter and think they've seen the city. I call bullshit.
- A great majority of the people in New Orleans has feet and the ability to use them. Even getting to La Place, 25 miles west on either I-10 or Airline Highway, is better than sitting in New Orleans. At least La Place isn't under water last I checked. At a decent walking speed of 2 miles per hour, that makes it a 12.5 hour walk.
- Those tourists tend to also have feet, rental cars, or other means of transport. For that matter, they can catch a ride with a local - most of the people I've known down there would at least give up a spot in the back of the truck or something. If I still lived down there, you can bet your ass I'd be willing to give somebody a ride if they wanted to go.
- See number 3.
- Causeway Bridge to Covington, then I-12 West. I-10 West to Baton Rouge, or catch I-55 North just outside La Place and take it to Hammond, or to Jackson, MS. Airline Highway West, also to Baton Rouge (or just to La Place or Lutcher). I-59 North to Meridian, MS or follow it all the way to I-24 in the northwest corner of GA. Highway 90 West to Hahnville, then 3127 West goes halfway to Baton Rouge. River Road as far as Memphis if you like. There's 7 escape routes right off the top of my head. Any able-bodied person on foot could have made it to La Place or Hahnville within 12 hours or so, depending on what side of the river they started out from. Both of those places have high schools which are used as shelters in hurricanes, and both are above sea level (and here's to hoping the East Saint John Wildcats kick the crap out of the Hahnville Tigers and the overprivileged Destrehan Wildcats this year, assuming they get to play. Yes, I know, that's 2 high school football teams in the same division with the same team name...go figure.)
- There are, of course, those who could not walk/bike/drive to safety, and it is for them that I reserve my pity and my disaster relief donation dollars. If the idiots had gotten out when they were told to, the emergency services currently being used to airlift Boudreaux, Scioneaux and Arceneaux (yes, those are real names) off the roofs of their houses could instead be used to evacuate the few elderly, handicapped, and infirm.
My "haughty presumption of superior intellect" is based upon the fact that about 80-90% of the people down there did leave, meaning the ones left behind are the dumbest 10-20% and those who physically couldn't leave. I'd bet my next paycheck that the former outnumber the latter 10 to 1.I was just wondering, what exactly COULD have been done? Have everybody face southeast and blow really hard to make the hurricane move further east?
The only thing that you can do when there's a hurricane coming is GET THE FUCK OUT. A mandatory evacuation was announced at least 36 hours beforehand. Anyone with half a brain had ample opportunity to GET THE FUCK OUT.
Knowing that there are plenty of people with less than half a brain, they opened up the Superdome so when those dipshits finally realized, too late, that the governor really meant it when he said GET THE FUCK OUT, they'd have something to cower in besides their single-story wooden houses left over from the Great Depression and earlier.
3/4 of a million MRE's, millions of gallons of bottled water, etc. etc. were all staged at nearby locations (as close as they could get without being just as fucked as the idiots who stayed in the city).
So, my question to you is this: What else was the government supposed to do to save the stragglers from their own stupidity?
Strange...some of the best friends I've ever had live in Louisiana, including a few in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, the top ten biggest assholes I've ever met were split evenly between SoCal and NYC. Of course, like any place, Louisiana has its share of assholes. I'm sure there are some nice people in SoCal and NYC - I just haven't had the pleasure of meeting them.
Unlike you, however, I don't make sweeping generalizations about a population of millions after meeting a few dozen of them.
Pssst...Careful, your bigotry is showing.
Actually, right now would be the safest time to move to Louisiana. Since a major hurricane just hit, it's statistically less likely to happen again for a few decades...
Only 4 clusters, one of which (named SuperMike) was the 11th fastest supercomputer on planet Earth and the 2nd fastest supercomputer at any academic institution on planet Earth when it was first benchmarked.
2 years after SuperMike was built, Caltech finally built one faster and caught up with LSU.
<sarcasm>Thank you for displaying your lack of prejudice </sarcasm>
Darn that slashcode stripping out the symbol for "cents" from the first line of my post!
(Yes, that's 2 or $0.02 in dead presidents)
.xxx TLD. People are going to view porn, no matter what "we" or "they" do. Yes, I beleive viewing pornography is a sin (Matthew 5:28). No, it's not a crime. Yes, there is a difference. It is not the job of the government to save our souls - it's the job of the church. Neither should try to do the other's job, just as you shouldn't take your car to a beauty salon for a transmission rebuild or go to a mechanic for a cut and style.
.xxx TLD will accomodate both of these things. It keeps the porn available to those who may legally view it, while simultaneously giving those who wish to filter out the porn a simple TLD to drop into their filtering software, firewalls, proxy servers, etc.
.xxx TLD.
I'm a conservative. I'm not a neoconservative, or a Bush fanboy. I'm not even a libertarian (though I voted for Badnarik last fall, but there's a long story behind that).
I'm also a recently-converted Christian. I'm not a fundamentalist or an evangelist. I'm not even what you might call "religious". I just believe in Jesus Christ and that through Him, one may be granted salvation.
With those two premises in mind, I support the
Another reason that I, a born-again Christian, refuse to call for the prohibition of pornography, I refer the reader to John 8:7, in which Jesus said "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone". I will not cast the proverbial stone at those who produce, sell, or consume pornography.
Porn is legal (at least for people over a certain age in the US). It generates revenue. It is a profit-making enterprise, and a part of the free market. As a conservative, this is perfectly fine with me.
The owner of a computer or network has the right to restrict the material viewed on said computer(s) or transmitted across said network. This right to determine how your own property is used falls within what is called property rights. As a conservative, this is perfectly fine with me.
The
Logically, true conservatives should support the
I think the parent meant a hand-cranked battery charger. It might take an hour or so, but you could charge a weak battery to the point of being able to start your car with something like that.
A Casio FX-68 (the credit card sized scientific calculator you're probably referring to) sold on eBay recently for $77. Wow.
Check out the TI-25X for a slightly larger than credit card sized scientific calculator...sadly the really small ones are no longer available, as near as I can tell.
It's a matter of economics. These people are making quite a bit of money and can thus afford the new computer, while time spent cleaning out their machines is time that they'd rather spend with friends/family/clients/etc. The time is probably worth more to them than the money.
Let's say these guys make $150,000 a year. Dividing that out into an hourly rate we get $75 per hour (assuming 2 weeks of vacation every year and 40 hours per work week). 2 hours a month spent cleaning up virii and spyware adds up to $1800 a year for these guys. Or enough for 4 new $450 computers.
Of course, there's still no excuse for their inability to keep the stuff from getting into their computers in the first place, but that's another matter entirely.
As a conservative with libertarian leanings, I'd just as soon not have my logs retained at all.
That being said, and having no choice currently in the "if", but given a choice of "who", I'd say my local town government. At least we can vote those bums out of office - theoretically.
Then again, my local town government is one of those where the city manager is the brother-in-law to the sheriff, who is a cousin of the local court judge, who is the father-in-law of the tax commissioner, who is the sister of the school board superintendent, who is best friends with the court clerk, and so forth (not actual relations of course, but it is a very tight old-boy network with many familial relationships).
a hex editor would be more useful than a text editor for this kind of thing...
Nothing wrong with that, except that (IIRC) the amount of energy expended to create a solar cell exceeds the energy it will produce before it reaches the end of its life expectancy...
My, my. Lame ad hominem *and* profanity all in one sentence. Must've tickled your hypocrisy nerve there. Truth hurts, doesn't it?
Dan Rather has been the face of CBS News for 23 years. He *IS* (well, *WAS*) CBS News. FNC has barely even been around for HALF that long.
It's okay, I have plenty of karma to burn. Nice to see that the Left still stands against censorship (except, of course, censorship of that with which they disagree).
Yup, there's no liberal bias in the news, and nobody calling themselves "journalists" while pushing a liberal agenda...
And Dan Rather never said:
"The new Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor."
-- Leading off the March 16, 1995 CBS Evening News.
or
"Republicans kill the bill to clean up sleazy political fundraising. The business of dirty campaign money will stay business as usual."
-- CBS Evening News, February 26, 1998.
or
"There was no doubt Republicans in the House had enough votes tonight to pass another key item in their agenda to rip up or re-write government programs going back to the Franklin Roosevelt era. It is a bill making it harder, much harder, to protect health, safety, and the environment."
-- CBS Evening News, February 28, 1995.
or
"President Bush tonight outlines his cut-federal-programs-to-get-a-tax-cut plan to Congress and the nation."
-- CBS Evening News, February 27, 2001.
or
"I hear you talking and, as I have before on this subject, I don't know of anybody, friend or foe, who isn't impressed by your grasp of the details of this [health care] plan. I'm not surprised, because you have been working on it so long and listened to so many people."
-- Interview with Hillary Clinton, 48 Hours, Sept. 22, 1993.
or
"I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies."
-- Dan Rather on CNN's Larry King Live, June 18, 2004.
or
"This Democratic platform calls for not a single new domestic spending program. In other words, the party continues to march toward what some would call the center, others would say the right."
-- CBS's Democratic convention coverage, July 19, 1984.
or
"Democrats were quick to portray the ticket as, quote, 'two Texas oilmen' because Cheney was chief of a big Dallas-based oil supply conglomerate. They also blast Cheney's voting record in Congress as, again quote, 'outside the American mainstream' because of Cheney's votes against the Equal Rights for Women Amendment, against a woman's right to choose abortion -- against abortion as Cheney prefers to put it -- and Cheney's votes against gun control."
-- Reporting on Bush's selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate, July 25, 2000 CBS Evening News.
or
"Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America."
-- Reporting on Lieberman's selection exactly two weeks later, August 8, 2000 CBS Evening News.
Nope, no liberal bias in mainstream media. None at all. Nothing to see here, move along.
At least O'Reilly and Limbaugh have the decency to call themselves commentators. Dan Rather is at least as biased as either of them but got away with calling his editorialization "journalism" for 40 years.
You got me there...
:)
But, slashdot is finite, so the equation still holds true
And, if you're optimistic /.*women=/.
/.*women=0
You're forgetting that anything multiplied by zero equals zero...
There are no women on slashdot, therefore:
As for trolling, dear God, no.
:)
No offense intended...some of the best trolls are the subtle ones who are hard to distinguish from non-trolls, hence my wondering if I'd been expertly trolled or not
When talking about a planet that's BILLIONS of years old, 3 warm winters doesn't even amount to statistical noise. Talk to an actual climatologist someday; you may learn a thing or two.
...or have I been trolled?
And a libertarian is the polar opposite of a "bleeding heart", at least with regards to economics and your right to do whatever you want to do with something you own (like, say, land).
The after-action report would be a wonderful opportunity to remind the boss about your budget request for a backup database server that was denied by the bean counters last quarter...
Using that logic, the Enron execs should be set free. After all, they didn't commit any violent acts - just fraud on a massive scale.
My 20-year-old former next door neighbor (a habitual criminal and the one person in the neighborhood I wouldn't gladly invite to brunch with my folks) was recently convicted on 4 counts of auto theft. The cars he stole were worth a total of about $25,000. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison (actually 4 5-year terms, but served concurrently). How does this compare to the kid who got a year and a half for releasing a worm that infected 50,000 computers? Let's do the math.
For purposes of this discussion, I'll assume that the car thief totally demolished the cars he stole, for a total damage of $25,000. That makes his sentence one year for every $5,000 in damages.
The LovSan worm infected about 50,000 computers. Let's assume that each computer cost $1,000. Let's also assume that the machines were out of service for 2 days as a result of the worm. Given an average PC lifespan of 4 years (1460 days), that's 1/730 of the computers' lifespans, or about $1.37 in damages per computer infected. Multiply by 50,000 computers, and you have $68,500 in direct damages.
That doesn't count the costs of removing the infection, lost productivity, etc. etc.
The kid got off light; a just sentence would have been 12 years or more, IMHO. Of course, that'd only be 4 years in jail before he got paroled.
Then again, I think my punk-ass neighbor got off light, too. If I'd caught him trying to steal my truck, he'd be serving his sentence in a hospital bed, eating and crapping through tubes.