When these companies started to offer carrier tests, they referred consumers to seek medical supervision in the established health care system at the consumer's own discretion.
Water can be easily stored and consumers have less discretion over when they use it (for instance, people cannot defer going to the toilet, which uses more water than any other activity at home), so the case for smart water meters is weaker.Yet they are spreading all the same.
"They regulate all financial products and services, so if it involves a dollar changing hands, they can regulate it, or she can, because she actually has total discretion" over consumer financial products, Mr. Bachus said.
Using connectors called DVI and IEEE 1394 (or FireWire), consumers could, at the discretion of the program's licenser, be prevented from making any copies of a digital television program, or permitted to make only a limited number -- or keep them just for a specified time.
The Home Area Network will enable consumers to use their discretion to conserve energy by being able to automatically turn their smart appliances on or off.
The company said it has spoken to both players about their "goals for 2012" and they were free as part of the campaign to independently reply or retweet consumer tweets "at their own discretion".
Training could also be offered on a voluntary basis or at the discretion of the consumer.
Interactivity allows content to unfold at the discretion of the consumer, and this provides a vehicle for conveying complex information to diverse audiences in meaningful ways [ 27].
On the expense side of the ledger, it is easy to see that middle-class consumers have had little room for discretion.
So far we have the $700 billion bank bailout, another $700 billion "stimulus package" proposed by President Elect Obama, and the $800 billion fund Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has at his discretion, trying to jolt consumers into buying again.
