My sister recently bought a house with the plan of moving into it. The house was 1965 vintage everything. One of the contractors was an electrician.
I happened to be visiting and was able to lend a sympathetic ear.
He (and his wife) spend a lot of time looking for hardware. Recent mandates for upgrades to all "services" outran the supply chain. Home owners are not forced to upgrade but any work to the "service" will not pass inspection unless the upgrades are incorporated. He can only charge for the hours he is actually working on the house.
He was not a happy guy. He has overhead. Twiddling thumbs or driving to Indiana to pick up a part does not put money in his pocket.
The Matrix
In the movie The Matrix, humans are an energy source that are farmed. To make the farming process more efficient, the humans are heavily sedated with drugs and entertainment. This is, of course, pure balderdash in the thermodynamic sense.
It makes a lot more sense if you substitute "data" for "energy".
As improbable as it sounds, what if the mandates to install surge suppressors was all about protecting the data collecting microphones and cameras and other sensors rather than protecting the subject's "devices"?
Out here you can't SELL a house unless it is up to 'code', and that's definitely a possibility!
ReplyDeleteAre surge suppressors required elsewhere? If it's "now" a wide spread thing that's happened quietly then you may be on to something..
ReplyDeleteIf it's local maybe someone's BIL sells house suppressors?
I believe the experts call this TFH
ReplyDelete"Please stand-by for mandatory software updates. Do not turn off your computer.....
DeleteThe call-out for the new subroutine is AFDB (which stands for Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie).
The MicroSoftWeenie company uses only evironmentally-friendly recycled electrons, pixels and thought-rays."
Hey, I'm supposed to be the paranoid one .......
ReplyDeleteJust 'cause you are paranoid does not mean they aren't trying to get you.
ReplyDeleteNice connecting of the dots.
Having helped design such detection systems for several decades, I can tell you that what you know about is already obsolete. "nano-" is large these days. And they are out to get you.
ReplyDeleteI know the cameras I installed in my store only lasted about six months un-supressed. I also know that high end appliances are electrically delicate. I must own 20 APC or APC type 1500 VA units and I even went so far as to put globe style AC approriate units from Midnight solar on the panels at the office. No fried HVAC units since. (Watch me jinx it.) It is so smart to take measures I am surprised it requires a code change. Lends credence to your thesis. Rapscallions! Roger
ReplyDeleteAnd my first thought at the beginning of an article was "What does an electrician do with a 30 Cal supressor?"
DeleteIt cheaper for a utility to lobby a government for these than to install one on the house side of all the pole pigs (transformers). Keeps them from buying appliances when your delivered voltage goes from 240 to 3 thousand.
ReplyDelete“The pea Princess” is what we nicknamed our daughter. So sensitive to everything ( hypochondriac actually)
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