Re: X-10 friendly switchmode PS

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>You'll be happy to know that the EPA's new rules that old powerplants can
>evade clean air regs by declaring new plants "upgrades" has been struck down
>by the courts.  That's probably only because judges don't get millions of
>dollars in campaign contributions.  Congressmen rolling over for Big
>Business is not likely to stop any time soon, Abramoff scandals or not.  The
>federal government has become a slave to big business and all of the efforts
>of muckrakers like Upton Sinclair and Ralph Nader have largely evaporated.
>Anyone who thinks Congress cares more if people get sick from Mad Cow
>disease than they do about the health of the US cattle industry better get
>some reality meds.  There's a woman who believes that there have been many
>deaths from Mad Cow in the US - but that they've been misdiagnosed as other
>illnesses and that the Feds just don't care to investigate.

That ruling was made in a lower court with a majority of Clinton
appointeees. I expect it to be overturned by a higher court.