The people who knowingly decided to live below sea level bear no responsibility?

Seriously; this look to government to protect one's self has gone too far.

Amen. It is selfish but we are supposed to take care of ourselves- it is our primary responsibility.

This bill will increase demand but does NOTHING to address the supply side issue.

If you really want health care costs to plummet; allow 100 medical schools to open up. In 8 years we will have doctors clamoring for business and dropping prices with each other to compete; and we can then abolish Medicare/Medicaid because prices will be cheap.

Unfortunately, AMA has congress by the balls so this sort of true reform will never happen.

The product I use is called Homeseer (in OP) and it does much of what you say. It uses a 900 Mhz wireless protocol mesh network called Zwave which communicates to various devices. It is supported by multiple manufacturers. I have light switches, thermostats, motion sensor, light sensors, temp sensors, appliance modules, door locks, and door sensors that all run Zwave. Big names like Trane and Schlage support it. In addition there are other sensors (water sensors, humidity sensors) you can get. Zigbee sort of hasn't caught much traction. You can buy zwave products at lowes.

It runs on Windows; which some say is a minus-- but doesn't bother me.

There is a slick iphone interface cause HSTouch which allows you to create your own screens for control (works on Windows/Linux/CE and Mac too I believe).

When I get home- I pull out my iPhone and unlock my doors; turn on the light and the heat.

Zwave is still growing; and I imagine integration into these products is forthcoming. The beauty of zwave over wifi is that it comes little power; so battery operated devices are plausible. Throughput it 9600 -> 40 kbps.

To add devices; I just bring my zwave usb stick to a device; click a button on each; and it adds. The network self optimizes.

Again; long way to go but the community is pretty strong.

Good idea. We should give him an environmental award just for coming up with it.

the public option won't pay for this...

I don't know what footage you have seen; but the videos I have seen have kids sitting around on the street not really doing much. I think we will find out that the cops probably went a little overboard here; but that is speculation and I will wait for the official inquiry.

Damn spellchecker. Even doesn't know spell checker is one word.

There is climate change on mars? I didn't realize they had Hummers there.

Learn something new every day.

All you have to do it rub a bunch of balloons against this thing and viola; free electricity.

I would love to see this graphic superimposed on one for video games. I imagine kids today are spending far more for their media on their Wiis, Xboxes, PS3s, PCes, PSP, DSes, and other gaming systems than they did on Nintendo DS cartridges and Quake in 1999. They are probably also running up their cell phone bills. The dollars probably just migrated.

but when are they going to bring a stable version of their IPV4 offering. My connection goes down quite often. And their TV boxes are even worse.

I haven't seen one of these since I threw out my dual audio cassette player from 1987. I think they are going for a nostalgia thing.

That would create more defenseless victims. 10 out of 10 criminals prefer a victim without a gun. You think murders/rapists/home invaders care about gun laws?