<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Some number of years ago, AccuWeather made a small financial contribution to Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) to support a bill that would force the National Weather Service to prevent the public from seeing its data on its web page and require the public to pay for service from AccuWeather after the public paid for the data via taxes. The NWS effectively gave AccuWeather the finger and kept publishing the data. The Senate bill (S786) died in committee (killed by Senator Bill Nelson of Florida since the National Hurricane Center was in AccuWeather's crosshairs, too, and that's a no-go for Florida.<br clear="all">
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not to start a political fight but...<br><br></div><div>There are _so_ many assholes in congress that try to privatize public-funded data it's downright nauseating. Certain groups have had NOAA in their crosshairs for decades (ask NOAA researchers why they use a DC-3 plane for research instead of something built after all the researchers were born). The medical world is so full of taxpayer research $ that leads to privately held patents it's no wonder medical stuff costs so much. Many thanks to a now dead president who by executive order allowed public money to fund private research and no longer require the public a stake in the patents that research generated. Like steroid-doped pigs at the slop trough. Grr.<br>
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