Big Brother

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/11control.html?_r=3&sq=thermostat&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=1&adxnnlx=1200186015-opf/V41vutOKS0CJ0rTBdA" title="Big Brother At It's Finest">California Seeks Thermostat Control</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The conceit in the 1960s show “The Outer Limits” was that outside forces had taken control of your television set.<br />n<br />nNext year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages.</blockquote><br />n<br />nLet's not try to solve the problem of not enough energy to go around, just take control of consumers lives by sheer power of being the Government and <strong>knowing</strong> what is best for people. Big Brother at it's <s>best</s> worst.<br />n<br />n<strong>Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell</strong>