Two points:
First to “torrito (10)”: “God given rights” are actually exactly the point. We do have God given rights and strong limitations on the government’s ability to infringe upon those rights (read your constitution sometime). We are simply fed up with the creeping infringement upon our rights to live as we choose as long as we don’t infringe on the same rights of others. I regularly ski double black diamond chutes, and I even go down them with my young son who is a better skier than I am. Are you suggesting that because some fools skiing beyond their skill level sometimes gets hurt on these runs, they should all be closed by federal law and we should only be permitted to ski on nearly flat groomed slopes? Are parents who go skiing with their children neglegent and guilty of child abuse? Perhaps we should all have mandatory training, testing and licensing to allow us to ski. Go ahead and apply this logic to any other risky activity that you might engage in (perhaps eating sushi, climbing ladders to change aforementioned lightbulbs, bicycle riding, woodworking, rock climbing, swimming, sailing, mowing the grass,…) I am sure that I could find a few activities that you enjoy that are at least as dangerous as table salt. Would you be singing the same tune if it were your chosen activities that were curtailed by some do gooder in government somewhere, or that you had to pay a licensed professional to do work you could easily do yourself because of safety concerns?
Second: One thing I really see overlooked by the technology concerns dimmable can lights. I have many can lights that are built to hold 60 watt spots. I run these bulbs dimmed at different times of the day, and only at 100 percent to read or play table games with. Neither CFLs or LEDs dim as far as I can tell. The voltage drops to a certain point and they just cut out. Moreover, CFL’s are simply too glaring to have in an uncovered fixture such as a can. All of us with can lights will have problems with using anything other than incandescent spot lights, especially if we don’t want to live with the same level of lighting all of the time (too dim to read or too bright to watch TV).
