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Buyers be aware of 'smart appliances'
TORONTO SUN ^
| SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
| SIMON KENT
Posted on 09/15/2013 5:37:37 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: Chickensoup
Can we imagine power so ‘inbedded’; that ‘we’ may have to beg for toast. . .Can see an all to real horror story - from Hollywood (post their enlightenment) - unfolding; whereby citizens; beg; beg; beg. . .for life; and the ‘switch’;the Government connection - that allows it; and then waits to see; if they will; in fact; turn it on.
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:21:07 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: rickmichaels
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:35:21 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: editor-surveyor
My router is older than that and I don’t have any smart appliances. If one of them dies and I have to get a new one of something, it could communicate but I don’t have a smart meter, either, so maybe no info. can be communicated from my house yet.
If you have a smart meter, the power company can cut it off or let it run for certain hours and cut it off - do anything they want with your power and control any smart appliance plugged into that power source.
WE ARE LIVING IN THE BOOK/FILM 1984.
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:36:50 PM PDT
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
To: JimSEA
I make it a point not to buy a toaster smarter than I am. your toaster knows the exact moment to POP UP....do you??
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:43:05 PM PDT
by
terycarl
To: rickmichaels; All
"Buyers be aware of
'smart appliances'"
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:43:51 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: svcw
Well, if they do maybe they can also make my toaster work better.......I swear you could add three rooms to your house before the damned thing could make toast. plug it in....
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:45:25 PM PDT
by
terycarl
To: svcw
Well, if they do maybe they can also make my toaster work better.......I swear you could add three rooms to your house before the damned thing could make toast. Mine too, until I found the "toast" button on the front.
It fooled me because when I pushed down the bread, a light came on, the heaters came on, the toaster got hot, and, eventually, after a long time, I got toast. So, being completely stupid, I figured that the toaster was toasting.
I was a fool.
No, the way my toaster was designed, after all that stuf starts, then I have to pick one of four almost identical buttons with little symbols on them to actually start toasting the bread so as to finish the toasting within, say, a week.
That's right, unbenownst to me, I had actually bought a Crock-Toaster. A toaster designed to be started on your way out the door in the morning, so that when you get home at night - ding! - you have fresh, hot toast ready for you.
/rant
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:52:59 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Talisker
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posted on
09/15/2013 6:57:49 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Stand or die)
To: Talisker
My toaster was given to me and my wife as a wedding present, 50 years ago.
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:02:10 PM PDT
by
Venturer
( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
To: Ladysforest
The Left's rhetoric; not unlike Obama's doublespeak; is all you get. In Jacksonville (Fl) last year; someone was addressing concerns of what was 'rumored to be'; i.e. the installation of 'smart meters' on homes of residents. Do not recall person or what Office, she was repping; but she made it clear, on questioning; that yes; Jacksonville was paying for the purchase of 'smart meters'; but there were no intentions by City Governance, to either impose or install these meters for required use; by citizenry. . . NOPE; no way. And 'yes'; "we are purchasing them'. . .for whatever. You know; some folks DO want them; and we need to be ready; for that. (No personal ordering; just a plan and a 'guestimate' for how many might be needed;and just 'in case'.) Have to say; have no update on that; but now, am wondering; if our line was cut in the past year. . .
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:03:53 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: Venturer
And the name/kind of toaster? If still working; still used; should be in 'Guiness Book' of World Records. . .
Perhaps a photo? Made in Germany or England? Drop sides?
Or. . .you prefer toast made in your oven; and under broiler? (And your toaster is 'counter art'?)
Whatever; beginning to long for the 'good old days';when 'ever' they were.
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:10:40 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: rickmichaels
What’s next - condoms with RFID chips?
Hmm, that could be interesting...
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:15:02 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: rickmichaels
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:21:44 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Weekend BUMP)
To: rickmichaels
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:23:15 PM PDT
by
Dysart
(Being nuts has its advantages...and the machete doesn't hurt, either.)
To: Dysart
Are we all gonna die?
= = = = = = = = = =
Sooner or later.
I read somewhere that all people that ate beans during the Civil War died.
So I guess NOT eating beans may prolong one’s life????
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:29:07 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98 --Egoist:A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. (Ambrose Bierce))
To: rickmichaels; a fool in paradise
Smart appliances, smarttelephones, smart bombs or smart children?
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:34:58 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Chickensoup
I’m happy that all of my appliances are dumb, as is the meter on my house.
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:42:01 PM PDT
by
basil
(2ASisters.org)
To: UCANSEE2
They don't call them 'pop tarts' for nothing. Now that's hawt...
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:51:16 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Revolting cat!
That’s cute and funny or he doesn’t want to get peanut butter on his book.
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:52:25 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- <<http://vimeo.com/63749370)
To: rickmichaels
Wouldn’t it be easy enough to assign IP addresses to the appliances and block those IP addresses from accessing the internet?
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posted on
09/15/2013 7:54:14 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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