Guess I'll keep my Honeywell mercury tilt switch thermostats a little while longer. As for the phone - if things start going this route, they can keep the damn

Guess I'll keep my Honeywell mercury tilt switch thermostats a little while longer. As for the phone - if things start going this route, they can keep the damn thing. I'll figure out some other way to communicate, I don't have to have their phone. Furthermore - in regards to the thermostat setting: If I have the money to pay my bill for what I use, what damn business is it of anyone what I do as long as I can pay for it, and it isn't directly harming them? Again - they'll have a hard time though bypassing tech that's 100+ years old... But if the power company says "well - you have to have this to get power from us" - then that just moves me one step closer to going off-grid.