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Silver
05-20-2008, 04:30 PM
And you morons ranted when you thought Bush was listening to you order you pizza? How do you feel about this?


"There is nothing wrong with your thermostat. Do not attempt to adjust the temperature. We are controlling your power consumption. If we wish to make it hotter, we will turn off your air conditioner. If we wish to make it cooler, we will turn off your heater. For the next millennium, sit quietly and we will control your home temperature. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your thermostat. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... SACRAMENTO!"*

Building codes and engineering standards are generally good things. Updating and improving codes and standards better protect us against earthquakes, for example, as we better understand the weak points and failure modes of existing construction techniques. Requirements that ensure proper handling of sanitary wastes can be largely credited with the increased life spans in industrialized countries through the reduction of communicable diseases.

In California, we have 236 pages of state-mandated standards for building energy efficiency, known as Title 24. This prescribes methods for calculating the sizes of your home windows, the capacities of your air conditioner and heater, the thickness of the insulation in your attic. A small cottage industry has sprung up to perform these engineering calculations that are required for any new commercial or residential construction or major change to existing structures. While I've never personally been involved in this branch of retail professional engineering, I've had colleagues who would moonlight doing Title 24 calcs. It is now just part of the mandated paperwork involved in the construction business these days in California.

A new revision to Title 24 is in the works for 2008[2

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/who_will_control_your_thermost.html

avatar4321
05-20-2008, 04:56 PM
honestly, i dont care if someone listens to me make a pizza order. I do care if someone is trying to control the tempature in my house.

Mr. P
05-20-2008, 05:19 PM
January 04, 2008

Old stuff. Pretty sure we went round about this months ago.

For the record...no f'kin way will one of these units ever work in my house!

Silver
05-20-2008, 08:22 PM
Old stuff. Pretty sure we went round about this months ago.

For the record...no f'kin way will one of these units ever work in my house!

Really? The date of the article is May 20, 2008.....you must have an advance copy....:laugh2:

Hagbard Celine
05-20-2008, 08:33 PM
I'd like to see a list of all the porn videos I've ever watched and I'd like to see it right now, with video excerpts. I wonder if that list exists, deep within the bowels of the Pentagon. I'm glad my tax dollars are working for me.

Mr. P
05-20-2008, 09:34 PM
Really? The date of the article is May 20, 2008.....you must have an advance copy....:laugh2:

Hit your link in post #1 it says
January 04, 2008 for the article :poke:

manu1959
05-21-2008, 12:00 AM
this did not make it into the final regs......