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el 02-Jul-2008 | Hilzoy mocks a column in the American Spectator. A former Reagan staffer wildly speculates that:
In this Obamaland vision the state would mandate that every heating and cooling system in a private dwelling include a "non-removable" FM receiver that would allow the government to decide the temperature inside your home. "Wow," hilzoy boggles. "This has 'emerged as a proposal in California'??! Where? In a college dorm at 2am? Maybe a cocktail party? Definitely a sign of Obama's real intentions!"
But it's worse than that! PG&E has a voluntary program (not mandatory, as the Reagan staffer claims) called SmartAC. People who volunteer to join the program can help prevent blackouts by asking PG&E to install "A SmartAC programmable communicating thermostat [which] can be programmed to fit your lifestyle by choosing different temperatures and settings for weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.… During peak demand periods in the summer, the SmartAC Thermostat will receive a radio signal from PG&E, which will incrementally adjust the temperature upward by no more than 4 degrees."
The system also lets you adjust your own thermostat over the internet. Cool, huh? Note that this is not some nefarious plot imposed by the government, it's a voluntary program whereby people can team up to keep the lights on for everyone by saving power at key moments. If I had an air conditioner, I'd have one of these things installed. Not only would it be nice to be able to turn on my AC from work, so that it was cool when I got home, it'd be nice to have that $25 check PG&E would send me just for getting the thing installed.
This is exactly the sort of thing conservatives ought to support. It's a market-based, voluntary system, it conserves energy, and it's administered by a public utility, not by government regulation. And yet, you still have folks fantasizing about how the government might try to pry thermostats from their cold, cold hands. Read the comments on this post...
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| Conservative fantasyland | | Hilzoy mocks a column in the American Spectator. A former Reagan staffer wildly speculates that:
In this Obamaland vision the state would mandate that every heating and cooling system in a private dwelling include a "non-removable" FM receiver that would allow the government to decide the temperature inside your home."Wow," hilzoy boggles. "This has 'emerged as [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jul-2008 by Thoughts in Planet Earth
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| The Simple Booth Companions [Tokyo Game Show 2008] | | D3Publisher, the folks behind the delightful Simple Series and the not so delightful Dark Sector, have Tokyo Game Show booth companions. Six of them by our count. That's a very conservative number for a company that releases not so conservative game [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Oct-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Tokyo game show 2008 d3publisher Dark Sector Tgs08
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| Princess Debut Charms Our Dancing Shoes Off [E308] | | Back at E3, we had a chance to check out some of the titles Natsume is publishing in the US. Titles like Rune Factory 2 for the DS. It's of course the second Rune Factory game, which is best explained as Harvest Moon meets fantasyland. The game's going to be out this fa [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in e308 Harvest Moon Natsume News Princess debut
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| Even Germany's Box Art Is Censored Now [Left 4 Dead] | | The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, or USK, are Germany's classification board. And as you may already be aware, they're a conservative bunch, banning games that even Australia let slide. But this, this is new. W [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Oct-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Left 4 Dead Censorship Classification Germany News PC Pc Games usk Valve
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| Who Dumped Google Stock Last Quarter? You Did | | A good reminder that even conservative investors who don't gamble on individual stocks are still doing just that -- they're just paying someone to do it for them. Reports released by Fidelity this week show that the company's two biggest fund [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Apr-2008 by Silicon in GOOGBSC
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