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Re: Would seem pretty simple...

Great idea! They own the wires, why shouldn't they be able to do with them as they please. In fact, I think we should extend the concept. I get my power from a local energy conglomerate DTE Energy.

I bet you they could engineer appliances with a chip that identifies itself to the appliance as a "DTE Energy approved" appliance. We could then implement a QOS style of routing of energy to it. On days of high energy useage and brown outs, my DTE Energy sold air conditioner can get power when my neighbor has to deal with a brown out.

DTE could justify this program in infrastructure improvement, but oops, how would they explain why we just created an incentive not to improve their energy disbursement for all. I guess I'll have to work on that one.

calvoiper

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Re: Would seem pretty simple...

Yeah--and then we could provide for "politically correct" and "politically incorrect" uses of electricity. People who, for example, challenged the local status quo could have their electricity downgraded.

Right after discriminatory classes of service based on destination IP comes discriminatory treatment based on message content, folks....

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