For security purposes, selected lights at home are connected to a timer. This assures that, like the motels promise, “the lights are always on”. UNLESS. If the power goes out, well, the entire arrangement is deader than a mackerel.
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Even after the power is restored, the timer settings are still incorrect, and the lights go on and off at the wrong times. So unless the operating times are reset, the whole purpose is still defeated.
And timer or not, the bulb can still burn out, leaving the same old option of stumbling around in the dark, barking up your shins and stepping on the cat, in search of another source of light.
Just goes to show that automation isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, and sometimes having something done FOR you can be worse than doing it yourself.
The government, environmentalists, and energy companies are all touting the virtues of remote-controlled thermostats for our homes. The commercials show the customer casually changing their home heat or A/C setting while away. However, the dialogue says something different: that THEY will “help” us cut our energy costs – by “helping us” to reduce the amount of energy we use. In short, we won’t be controlled the remote - the utility company/ government will.
Trust me: you DON’T want to go there. I lived in apartment complexes where the property owner controlled the temperature. You got no A/C until the first tenant collapsed from heat exhaustion – and it went back off as soon as the ambulance turned the corner. In winter, the heat didn’t come on until there was ice on the INSIDE of the windows – and then, only because the landlord needed the rent money. Forgive the play on words, but the cold fact is, the guy controlling the thermostat is always someplace else, and couldn’t care less how YOU feel.
Yeah, I know – you own your home, so that’s not gonna happen to you. Think again. Electricity providers have been staging “rolling black-outs” for years now – shutting down electricity to selected areas AT THEIR DISCRETION. And there’s not a thing the consumer can do about it, because the fine print in the contract states that they do NOT guarantee uninterrupted service. So they can shut you down anytime they choose, and for any reason.
Now, the FCC is moving to take control of the Internet. They’ve dusted off the old Fairness Doctrine, given it a new moniker, and plan to vote on it on December 21st of this year. (A Christmas present for us all, no doubt!)
Their plan calls for “Net Neutrality”, and amounts to forcing you to read/hear opposition to any information you choose to view on the internet. It’s all to insure “fairness” and “diversity”, of course. The kicker is that the Court and Congress have already ruled that the FCC doesn't have the authority to do this. Nevertheless, FCC officials say they’re going ahead with their plan. And exactly who will stop them? The OTHER control-freaks in our government?
Socialist power-grab creeping into every aspect of your personal life
This is just the next step in the socialist power-grab creeping into every aspect of your personal life:
where you go to school, and what you’re taught…
what you eat, and where you obtain it…
what medical care you get, and when and where…
how much energy you use, and where, when and how you use it…
and now, what information you get – and what opinions you form.