What should be controversial in the proposed revisions to Title 24 is the requirement for what is called a "programmable communicating thermostat" or PCT. Every new home and every change to existing homes' central heating and air conditioning systems will required to be fitted with a PCT beginning next year following the issuance of the revision. Each PCT will be fitted with a "non-removable " FM receiver that will allow the power authorities to increase your air conditioning temperature setpoint or decrease your heater temperature setpoint to any value they chose.I like the way Joseph Somsel begins this piece, parodying the intro to "The Outer Limits": We will control the horizontal...
Y'see, it's not about "gun control" per se, it's about control, and more specifically, who gets to do the controlling.
I've been warning for years that the next step after personalized guns are mandated will be to require a remote radio-controlled shutoff switch for the authorities. After all, who could possibly be against such a life-saving device--except someone up to no good?
How tough of a sell do you think that would be to our savvy and informed electorate?
[Via Les K]
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We, the "fireflies", are faced with a choice: either develop new technology that can overpower the police-state, or move into the new Pleistocene. Which will it be?
Wow, looks like I might have to scrounge up a spare heating element and a spare refrigeration compressor, which will cost more energy than if the yahoos would just leave me alone.
I wonder if this applies to off the grid homes as well.
Oh, and yes David I have no doubt that there is research into remote kill switches for firearms as well as vehicles. Doesn't Taser offer something similiar on their reduced power subject, I mean civilian, models?
There's no such thing as hardware that can't be removed or circumvented. There'll be a hack for this a week after people start installing them in large numbers.
In the end, all they'll do is turn people into scofflaws.
You mean some of you are not scofflaws yet???
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