I challenge you

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

Can you cap your electricity usage to 100 kwh per month for six months?

[Ric]

I thought you were dead.

[nameraka]

That sounds like it involves math. I’m out.

[The_annoying_one]

Nope

[André Toulon]

No

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

3 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

No

You might have to, later.  That's part of what the new "smart meters" are for.  

 

Rationing.

[André Toulon]

I might need a hunk of silver too but I like to live on the edge 

[mthor]

11 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

You might have to, later.  That's part of what the new "smart meters" are for.  

 

Rationing.

How will you make your espresso? Your electricity will be rationed, and your gas stove will be confiscated (emissions, you know).

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

13 minutes ago, mthor said:

How will you make your espresso? Your electricity will be rationed, and your gas stove will be confiscated (emissions, you know).

Never mind the espresso.  When the ration is used up before the end of the month, all the food in the fridge will spoil.

 

But, we haven't gotten there yet.  How many meters have to be replaced first?

[André Toulon]

Goalposts 

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

3 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

Goalposts 

There aren't any

[SwimOdin]

ERCOT

[scoobdog]

1 hour ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

You might have to, later.  That's part of what the new "smart meters" are for.  

 

Rationing.

No they aren't.

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

2 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

No they aren't.

And the Titanic wasn't sinking.

 

 

[mthor]

1 hour ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

Never mind the espresso.  When the ration is used up before the end of the month, all the food in the fridge will spoil.

 

But, we haven't gotten there yet.  How many meters have to be replaced first?

Well, the novelty has worn off. I'm out.

[scoobdog]

3 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

And the Titanic wasn't sinking.

 

 

Wut?

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

Just now, scoobdog said:

Wut?

Don't Look Up

Same problem, different venue

[tsar4]

I do that and somebody dies.

[André Toulon]

11 hours ago, scoobdog said:

No they aren't.

 

11 hours ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

Don't Look Up

Same problem, different venue

The titanic was capped at 100 kwh?

 

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

8 hours ago, André Toulon said:

 

The titanic was capped at 100 kwh?

 

I'm referring to a perpetual state of denial, regardless of what the issue happens to be.  

[Insipid]

20 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

I'm referring to a perpetual state of denial, regardless of what the issue happens to be.  

Like your return, for instance. People will enjoy taking the potshots at you again. I suppose you must enjoy that too, but you do you.

[scoobdog]

4 hours ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

I'm referring to a perpetual state of denial, regardless of what the issue happens to be.  

How is the "smart meter" going to cut off power once the "quota" is met?

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

1 minute ago, scoobdog said:

How is the "smart meter" going to cut off power once the "quota" is met?

It's addressable, like a cable box.

[scoobdog]

22 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

It's addressable, like a cable box.

What does "addressable" mean?

[Gemini]

28 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

What does "addressable" mean?

i don't know. I hope he doesn't talk to it, especially with the expectation that it talks back. (And not through a remote control either.)

"You will change the channel!"

"No, I won't!"

"Don't make me sit on you again."

"No! NO! Anything but that!"

Edited February 6, 2023 by hornedlizardman
The Shift button is your friend.

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

54 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

What does "addressable" mean?

Just like a cable box.  Remote access to all the controls.  It's done just as easily as reading your daily or monthly usage remotely.

[André Toulon]

Lol, he just makes shit up as he goes along.

[scoobdog]

3 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

Just like a cable box.  Remote access to all the controls.  It's done just as easily as reading your daily or monthly usage remotely.

How, though, Packard?  I know you can monkey-see-monkey-do words other people use, but do you actually know what it means?

[Gemini]

22 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

How, though, Packard?  I know you can monkey-see-monkey-do words other people use, but do you actually know what it means?

This thread is now about Sea-Doo jet skis.

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

1 hour ago, scoobdog said:

How, though, Packard?  I know you can monkey-see-monkey-do words other people use, but do you actually know what it means?

Look it up!  All it means is remote access.  Whether that's done by wire, radio, cell phone band or whatever is irrelevant.  The point is that as long as there's a way to specifically access and target any one specific box, it will be done.

[scoobdog]

33 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

Look it up!  All it means is remote access.  Whether that's done by wire, radio, cell phone band or whatever is irrelevant.  The point is that as long as there's a way to specifically access and target any one specific box, it will be done.

It does not just mean remote access.  An addressable advice doesn’t necessarily have access to a network.

[Walter Von Moo Moo]

2 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

It does not just mean remote access.  An addressable advice doesn’t necessarily have access to a network.

So, you wanna split hairs.

 

I'm done.

[scoobdog]

Just now, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

So, you wanna split hairs.

 

I'm done.

Good.

[Gemini]

4 minutes ago, Walter Von Moo Moo said:

So, you wanna split hairs.

 

I'm done.

Well-done?

[stilgar]

2 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Good.

He's not though.

[scoobdog]

15 minutes ago, stilgar said:

He's not though.

Of course he isn't.