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1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. VeriSign itself
12. Finally, complain to the media. If they get lots of letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

Resulting in something like this

That would seem to help with your average lab rat's life expectancy...

Unfortunately not. Half starving them does seem to improve life expectancy.

dogs monkeys

You cite Clinton's "failure to deal with Iraq" and then you admit that Iraq had nothing to do with al Qaeda, 9-11, or terrorism. Why would his dealing with Iraq in 1998 have stopped 9-11? I would argue (and the evidence is quite clearly on my side here) that Bush's handling of Iraq has dramatically increased terrorism; there were no Iraqi suicide bombers prior to April 2003. I would also argue that the Bush Admin was well aware of this.

Try re-reading the news for the first 8 months of Bush's presidency. There was no significant talk of Iraq at all. Nothing. Even after 9/11 the target was Afghanistan, not Iraq.

Wrong. The Bush Admin was gunning for Iraq from 9/11 on, and it is clear from statements by Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and even Bush. I don't have time to do your homework for you, but a quick look at the Defense Department website turns up this example. And whether or not you think Bush wanted to go after Iraq from the beginning, it was obvious by mid- to late-2002 that attacking Iraq was on America's agenda whether we found a good reason to do so or not. And despite all the claims we haven't even found a single chemical weapon there, not to mention the dreaded biological and nuclear weapons Bush scared America into believing existed.

If Bush knew there was no threat in Iraq and sent us to war anyway, he should be impeached. But so far there is no evidence of that.

Actually, there's quite a bit of evidence that his administration lied, starting with his claims of an IAEA report on Saddam's nuclear weapons that didn't exist, the claim that there was evidence Iraq was involved in al Qaeda (which he has since backed off of), and the Nigerian yellow cake uranium documents that were such obvious forgeries they could only have been included in the Bush Administration's "evidence" for propaganda purposes. If the Administration didn't know these things were lies, then they are beyond incompetent. I won't even get into the half-truths his administration has been snowing us with; the above are the demonstrable lies.

Now, that said, I really don't think impeachment hearings are the best thing for this nation, and I probably wouldn't support them. But there's surely more than enough evidence to justify them then there was during the Clinton impeachment fiasco. Lying about an affair in front of your wife is a very different thing than lying about national security issues to the American people while supporting policies that you are well aware make us less secure as a nation.

But in a worst-case scenario we have one less ruthless dictator in the middle east.

And you have a massive increase in chaos, death, and terrorism in the middle east. And some ten attacks on American soldiers per day. And a billion-dollar per week price tag, not to mention the $87 billion more Bush asked for.

the hippies of Arcata have been living with pedestrian-monitoring cameras for some time now. Near the University campus boundry (where shiny rocks and crystals are sold on blankets) there's a large, ugly cement kiosk, which houses the camera. Repeatedly, and without fail, every few weeks the unsightly camera-box is broken into, and the camera is either stolen or smashed. Hippies really don't like getting their picture taken.

Check. They should stand out how?

Another dumb idea... License the user
Both ideas have some dumb, expensive slow-moving govt body out there... WRONG.

And I'm also happy about your 401k--it went up last month, did it? How many more months will it have to go up at that rate to get up to where it was before Bush took office?

CBS says he is you dumb intercourse

Johnny Cash died too.. I guess its a bad day to be named John.. More Information... Johnny Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as "The Man in Black," has died, according to hospital officials in Nashville, Tenn. He was 71. Cash was 71. Known as "The Man in Black," Cash was a towering figure in American music. His career spanned country, rock, folk and gospel. "Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," said Cash's manager, Lou Robin, in a press release issued by Baptist Hospital in Nashville. The release said Cash died at the hospital at 1 a.m. EDT. He was released from Baptist on Wednesday where he had spent two weeks being treated for an unspecified stomach ailment. "I hope that friends and fans of Johnny will pray for the Cash family to find comfort during this very difficult time," Robin said. Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years and was once diagnosed with a disease called Shy-Drager's syndrome, a diagnosis that was later deemed to be erroneous. Dozens of hit records like "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" defined Cash's persona: a haunted, dignified, resilient spokesman for the working man and downtrodden. Cash's deeply lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life. He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson. "One Piece at a Time" was about an assembly line worker who built a car out of parts stolen from his factory. "A Boy Named Sue" was a comical story of a father who gives his son a girl's name to make him tough. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" told of the drunken death of an American Indian soldier who helped raised the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, but returned to harsh racism in America. Cash said in his 1997 autobiography "Cash" that he tried to speak for "voices that were ignored or even suppressed in the entertainment media, not to mention the political and educational establishments." Cash's career spanned generations, with each finding something of value in his simple records, many of which used his trademark "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm. He never stopped working and his video "Hurt" was nominated for seven MTV Video Music awards, winning one at the ceremonies last month. Cash's deep impact on music was evident there as even boy band star Jason Timberlake felt compelled to pay tribute to Cash, who he beat out for one award, saying: "My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash. I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight." Cash wasn't there to hear those accolades - although he'd planned to be - as he was in the hospital with a stomach problem, a stay of only a few days. Cash was a peer of Elvis Presley when rock 'n' roll was born in Memphis in the 1950s, and he scored hits like "Cry! Cry! Cry!" during that era. He had a longtime friendship and recorded with Dylan, who has cited Cash as a major influence. He won 11 Grammys -- most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honors as best male country vocal performance and numerous Country Music Association awards. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. His second wife, June Carter Cash, was a singing legend in her own right, as is daughter Roseanne Cash. June Carter Cash, who co-wrote Cash's hit "Ring of Fire" and partnered with her husband in hits such as "Jackson," died this past May. The late 1960s and '70s were Cash's peak commercial years, and he was host of his own ABC variety show from 1969-71. In later years, he was part of the Highwayman supergroup with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kristofferson. In the 1990s, he found a new artistic life r

More Information on John Ritter

John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the madcap comedy series "Three's Company" a smash hit in the 1970s, has died, his publicist and longtime assistant said Friday. He was 54.

Ritter fell ill Thursday on the set of his ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter," said Susan Wilcox, his assistant of 22 years. The cause of death was a dissection of the aorta, the result of an unrecognized flaw in his heart, said his publicist, Lisa Kasteler.

Ritter died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday.

Ritter, a Southern California native who lived in Beverly Hills, was the
son of country music legend Tex Ritter, who made his mark in the "singing cowboy" tradition and died in 1974, just before his son hit it big in television.

John Ritter, who had more than a little of his dad in his face and smile, came into his own as an actor in 1977 in his role in "Three's Company" - a sitcom with the then-daring premise of a man sharing an apartment with two women. The show's popularity continues today, in syndication on "Nick at Nite," and Ritter - unlike some actors forever remembered for a certain role - had a sense of humor about always being Jack Tripper to generation after generation of fans.

He even accepted the role of emcee at TVLand's award show earlier this year, with honors serious and humorous for big moments in the world of rerun television.

"Three's Company" was by no means Ritter's only acting credit. He appeared in more than 25 television movies and in a number of large screen films, onstage in New York, and also produced several films. And he was a frequent guest on dozens of TV shows from drama to variety and comedy: everything from "Medical Center," "Mannix," and "Hawaii Five-O" in the late 1960s, to "MASH," "Kojak," "The Bob Newhart Show," and "Mary Tyler Moore" in the 1970s, "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s and "The Larry Sanders Show," "Dave's World," "Touched by an Angel," "Chicago Hope" and "Ally McBeal" in the 1990s.

Ritter, who would have turned 55 on Wednesday, made a successful return to sitcom acting with "8 Simple Rules" last year, and the ABC show was scheduled to begin its second season on Sept. 23.

At the Burbank hospital where he died, Ritter was accompanied by producers and co-workers, his wife, Amy Yasbeck, and 23-year-old son Jason, Wilcox said. He is survived by three other children, Carly, Tyler and Stella.

See, in 1984, the government lied to its people about the past, and went so far as to remove evidence of the real past. Anyone can pick up a history book/surf the web/watch TV and learn what I've just said.

But they
don't do they?

And from the look of this Bin Laden has already won.

CBS News: "Download Suit Targets 12-Year-Old"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/28/tech/mai n570507.shtml

CNN: "Who's targeted by music swapping suits?"
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/downlo ading.music.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The targets of the first lawsuits against music fans who share songs on the Internet include an elderly man in Texas who rarely uses his computer, a Yale University professor and an unemployed woman in New York who says she didn't know she was breaking the law. . . .

MSNBC: Similar article via AP.

ABC: I didn't search long enough to find it, but I'll bet it's there.

Here.

Could you provide links to substantiate your claims of increased music sales linked to P2P piracy? Thanks.

Here's a start

More on the Ipso-Reid study covered here. The original study isn't available through their website, unless you look a lot harder than I did.

Here's more on the Jupiter study

Still more

Liebowitz writes about it, but his only purpose was to conclude that filesharing doesn't hurt the music business.

ZDNet reports on what is probably the same Jupiter study

This article sits right in the middle of the issue, but certainly hints at an Odyssey study supporting my point.

Here's a study about studies

This came out during the height of the Metallica fight against Napster

You can google for more if you're not satisfied with these. :)

Well.. some think video games are bigger than movies, amongst others U.S. News and bill gates [articles from end of 2002].

A particular quote from the U.S. News piece:
Last year, U.S. retail sales of video games exceeded Hollywood box office revenue for the first time, and this year sales are on track to pass $10 billion.

note that they _do_ compare US sales with US sales, although they conveniently forget video revenue / tv rights / merchandise for movies.

I think we need more data to determine who is right. $10Bn is impressive in any case though.

1) Does this kid need to learn his lession in jail?
No, This kid is young. He's stupid.

I disagree. He does need to go to jail, if found guilty. Penalties for a crime are not only punishment for the convicted, but hopefully a deterrent to future potential criminals.

I'm sure he didn't do this realizing that he'd be headed to jail in a few months (if proven guilty).

So he's been living in a cave? (well...maybe his parents basement). With all the publicity going around, and a couple of high profile cases caught and jailed...I'm sure he knew. Probably just so arrogant that he thought he'd never be caught.

someone came along and leaned up on it wrong and it stopped working. I'd be pissed at the manufacturer, not so much the leaner (who is laying on the ground with a bloody nose by now).

Evidently you do advocate some punishment for the 'leaner/virus writer'.

The army unit that owns/runs Neda, is that the same army unit that lost all those people in that plane crash this past Feb?

I have read some reports that kids were being arrested for online chatting with the opposite sex. I have to think that people are looking for ways around the system if it was as you describe, with so many welcoming the ability to read what they wanted. I also have to think that they are having some success with getting around the censorship to. How are they managing to do this now?

Given that there is state sponsored monitoring and that people are trying to get around this, how frequent or common is it that someone will be questioned/arrested for trying to bypass the filters? I guess I am wondering how effective the whole system is. If you have X thousands of people trying to break the rules, how effective is the state at detecting and finding those who do it?

If you can say, how long have you been out of the country and how did you come to leave? Your english is excellent, better than schooled english. Yours must be an interesting story. You just don't hear of many Iranian emigres. I guess the ability to leave the country is limited but I don't know if that is true. Anyway, here is to your new found life. May you and your country find freedom.

I agree all of your benefits of using natural gas but this resource is currently suffering from an unbalanced supply and demand also and it about to turn into a huge crisis if something is not done in the near future. Some articles I've read already claim it is impossible to ward of sharp price increases because it is too late to make up for the lack or exploration in recent years. Between gas and electric prices getting out of control and no nuclear expansion, it looks like geothermal or solar might finally make some inroads.

hold it right there, bud.

MSFT had never paid a dividend until this year. and even then, it was a miniscule fraction of their actual profits, despite the accounting-foo.

jon

While I totally agree with your imperfect systems comment, I doubt very much NIMBY has anything to do with this blackout. Probably just old equipment that could stand to be updated, or a basic design flaw in the grid that could be fixed. There may be a shortage of plants, I don't know, but NIMBY seems like an easy excuse for what may be other issues. Or maybe I'm just sensitive to that after the California thing, where Shrub's pals blamed environmentalists while they looted the state via Enron. Talk about being blind and not thinking rationally. If you can't figure out that story for yourself, you just ain't trying. And if that doesn't make you pissed off about this administration, then you need to check your assumptions at the door and take another look.

"California went through rolling blackouts that were largely due to a poorly-executed deregulation of that state's power industry"

Actually, there was a significant amount of fraud involved. Check it out here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/26/national /main546097.shtml

The immediate question I have is does that include 747s?

No.

According to this article, the iBot costs $29,000. Most people who would benefit from this technology cannot afford it, unfortunately.

Is it just me, or do an awful lot of the hardcore war on drug politicians have an awful lot of drugs up nose in their past?

It could be an interesting wrinkle for the development of primates as a whole, but probably not the human branch.
That's not absolutely true considering a recent study that puts chimpanzees in the same family tree as humans(closer to us than other great apes such the gorilla,etc). Now we have another probable great ape discovery, that IMHO looks even more morphologically closer to us than chimps.

"And is the US (or any other country, for that matter) supposed to take the same attitude towards each government for eternity, no matter what takes place?"

You mean like Israel? There is a certain amount of concern over using helicopter gunships in police actions, but I'm sure that someone will have a quiet word _any day now_.

I'm by no means naive enough to consider the global political situation as either transparent or fixed, but there are huge numbers of people that do. The minority with a grudge will say to themselves that 'block x' of the world population is evil and should be destroyed by whatever means necessary.

The cute thing is that George Bush firmly aligned himself with the mentality of the west banks settlers and the Jakarta suicide bombers by falling into the naive judgement of 'good' and 'evil' according to his moral structure and belief system. So the wheel keeps turning until someone says, 'Hey, maybe if we stopped supplying the guns to developing nations and controlled the global trade in arms, perhaps, just perhaps, people might stop killing each other on a grand scale.' Just to give you some perspective, US defence spending is around 40% of the _global_ amount spent on 'defence'.

"9/11 and related events are quite enough to make one reconsider their perspective on things..."

Only if you live in a nation that had the luxury of ignoring terrorism or relabelling them 'freedom fighters'. The rest of the world has had to deal with numerous organisations planting bombs on a daily basis since the 1900s, so don't think that the US is anything special simply because you erect a couple of massive targets.

While someone might brand this post 'Anti-American', it's actually from someone who actually likes Americans. They have a proactive attitude that's only blighted by a certain degree of arrogance and a certain uneasyness that they think the rest of the world should be just like America with a different accent.

The major problem is not that Mike Hawash shouldn't be charged with intent, but the means with which he was charged and the relative dichotomy between the sentencing of a man that 'intended' to cause the US harm and the complete ignoring of Kenneth Lay's damage to the US. If you're going to bring up 9/11, consider the number of victims produced by Enron.

I take objection to that statement. I know quite a few people who work in the childcare industry, and its shortcomings are, by and large, not their fault.

Oh, I take it its not 'their fault' when they leave a child in the back of a hot vehicle in the summer heat to bake like a friggin' potato? As we got to hear about no less than three times this year. Then there's the child who was left for two hours to wander in a public park because his daycare workers neglected to realize (or care) that they left the child behind after a field trip.

Take offense to it all you like. I'm sure there are some fine people who work in the industry. I'm thinking this is not the norm, based on all the stuff in the news.

How often do your friends gripe and complain about the kids they're charged to watch? My guess whoever's bitching the most is the one who cares the least.

I'm writing from an Australian perspective, so I'm not entirely sure if it equates with the US. But here, the legal maximum ratio is 15 children to 1 carer. Because thats the maximum, thats what centres use (anything else impacts profits). There is no chance of indiviudal interaction, not because the workers don't care, but because they're overworked.

And generally, with toddlers and the like its easier for said daycare workers to slack off and ignore our kids because they can't communicate to us how poorly their being treated. Add to this the proof that putting your child in daycare makes them more aggressive.

Couple that with the fact that childcare personnel are unable to discipline a child in any way for fear of legal repercussions

I don't know what the local laws are about discipline, but time outs are what we use at home, and only spank when its warranted. Rest assured that if I were unfortunate enough to have my child in the care of some daycare troll and were to witness anything other than a timeout, someone would be wearing my size 13 shoe in their ass. Sure, they could get me for assault but Texas allows for claiming self-defense when defending a child and no jury in the state would put a parent in jail for defending their child.

All this is moot anyway - my kids will never attend daycare.

You're joking right? Clinton? Adding to the country's debt? I don't think so. He had several balanced budgets during his two terms. Bush on the other hand, record setting deficit.

Very interesting, here it is reformated:

I'm part of a group that put a proposal in for LifeLog. This project seems like a good tie-in. More info on LifeLog: DARPA page

Please see the following articles if you are interested in reading what others have to say about it:

* CBS News: A Diary That Never Sleeps

* Geek.com: DARPA looking to record lives of interested parties

* The Oregonian: Step into one man's world, as recorded by the Pentagon's planned LifeLog

* Timesunion: Your diary's got nothing on LifeLog

No need to just "make them up" Steal them from soldiers!

While it is true that many technical jobs have been moved to India, the best Indian engineers actual come to the US to have jobs here.

CBS's 60 Minutes had a segment on students of the ultra-competitive Indian Institute of Technology a while ago. And apparently all the graduates from IIT want to come to the US.

Therefore, I have the thesis that technical jobs in the US are simply getting more and more advanced, whlie "easier" technical jobs are being moved overseas.

So what's stopping me from putting one on your car and knowing everywhere you go?

Or even worse, something like this which happened in my hometown.

"It seems more likely that jamming an Iranian satellite signal would come from the American dishes at the Guantanamo installation than from Cubans."

Armchair punditry at it's worst.

If you'd do some research about NITV The TV station is actually broadcasted from the US into Iran. That's right. National Iranian TV (NITV) is produced in the US. And no, I am not making this up.

NITV, not being state run, has government enemies in Iran for doing things like making fun of the leaders there. So the Mullahs in Iran call the Castro gang in Cuba and get them to do a favor for them.

This is something the US military would not want to block.

>You haven't shown a single lie.

You haven't been reading.

"False" has been changed to "Dubious" to be politically correct for the Cheney-Rumsfeld regime.

>He improved the country's reputation.

Here's an improved reputation

>So what if he got a bunch of hatemongers a little angrier.

You give little credit to our patriotic politicians

Very truly yours,
W00t

Get Your War On 19

>You haven't shown a single lie.

You haven't been reading.

"False" has been changed to "Dubious" to be politically correct for the Cheney-Rumsfeld regime.

>He improved the country's reputation.

Here's an improved reputation

>So what if he got a bunch of hatemongers a little angrier.

You give little credit to our patriotic politicians

Very truly yours,
W00t

Get Your War On 19

I mean just look at this:


Japan's Web Chats, Death Pacts

How the hell will they stand listening to this guy's crap?

Well that's still not a perfect analogy. For example, if the company added a feature to the ski mask that made it harder to pull off, and advertised this feature for use in bank robberies, they'd probably be held liable for its use in a robbery. Or if they didn't advertise it, but did know that the new feature's overwhelming use would be in bank robberies, then they might also be liable.

I doubt it. An anlagous case involving the Tec-9 gun (hard to get fingerprints from and some other features which were allegedly used to promote sales to questionable people) was tossed:

CBS News - Gun Lawsuit Misses Target

GF.

"the administrations of President Reagan and the first President Bush both authorized providing Iraq with intelligence and logistical support, and okayed the sale of dual use items -- those with military and civilian applications -- that included chemicals and germs, even anthrax and bubonic plague."

I got a net censor, have the computers in plain site of all the patrons of the library as well as the librarians.

You mean like this? Remember kids, if cops are chasing you, drop anything that's in your hands or they may think it's a gun.

As someone pointed out below, just having similar names and being in a similar business is not enough for trademark dilution. (Re. the recent Victoria's Secret and Victor's Secret case). There has to be proof of actual harm, and since Blizzard doesn't make warcraft for Linux, that's going to be hard to prove.

I am not a lawyer, but on the surface this case looks similar to one the Supreme Court just decided recently in which Victoria's Secret sued a sex-toy company called Victor's Secret for trademark infringement because of the soundalike name. Victoria lost---the Court held that you must present strong evidence of serious harm before you can sue for trademark infringement over a similar-sounding name. The CBS news story is here.

The increase by age and lack of the wrecks bothers me as well. Simply getting older does not improve ones driving skill, the bad habits just get ingrained.

The safe environment and subsequent license is where the state can recoup the lost revenue from tickets. I'd gladly pay more for a license that would let me legaly go 10-20mph faster. And yes I've taken safe driving/racing schools.

Qualifing it per vehicle would be great, but a logistical nightmare. Even expanded vehicle classes would be nice (only one class for cars?) how about CL1, CL2, CL3: basic, advanced and performance) Hell I'd even support the divisions without the speed increase just to keep absolute morons out of Dodge Vipers. You want the car, prove you can handle it. Granted that has no chance of flying what-so-ever.

As for the limits dropping, yeah I wouldn't be suprised either. They're even starting to shave the yellow times to increase revenue using red-light cameras. I've also noticed a trend towards lots of double yellow lines, even when it is a safe passing zone.

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42513,00.html
• http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/06/column.b illpress/
• http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/08/politics /main323646.shtml

Nobody who plays an active role in international trade disputes (like the US or most other 1st world nations) is wholly clean. Yes, the steel tariffs suck and are a violation of principle. They are, however, not quite the same as the wage and price controls enacted by Richard "everyone's a Keynesian now" Nixon. The steel tariffs, specifically were meant more as an act of economic punishment for local subsidies in other countries' steel industry rather than some sort of philosophically consistent idea that controlling prices is a good thing.

One other thing, I think Thomas White got fired recently. Rumsfeld had long clashes with White and other Army leadership over a host of issues, most openly over the Crusader artillery system. You may have to pick a new whipping boy.

Could you please provide an example of *muslims* being persecuted in the USA, specifically based on their religion???

It is simply easy for someone to blame someone else, rather than looking closer at home. If there is trouble, blame someone else. Let's blame Marilyn Manson, South Park (Canada!), or Games.

How are we to make a distinction between a hardcore gamer, and an addict? It seems to be a pretty fine line.

Mike

(ps, the nytimes link is the google link)

I reply to this in the spirit you are the parent poster which asked "Is the NewsHour the same length as 60 Minutes? " and did a typo, meaning "Is the NewsHour the same show as 60 Minutes?"

I reply giving you the benefit of the doubt, knowing you may not be in America or familiar with the networks..

The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour is run on the PBS network.

60 Minutes is run on the CBS network.

Although both are news shows, they are NOT the same show.

And, please, referring to the slashdot community as "fucktards" is kinda pointless.. it really doesn't solve anything, it just pisses folks off and if they have a mod point laying around, they will just be inclined to use it to drive you under the ground.