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Should Taxpayers Pay Twice For Weather Data?

Posted by timothy on from the decaptivation dept.

theodp writes "Thanks to O.M.B. Circular A-130, taxpayers now enjoy free access to SEC, Patent Office, and IRS data over the Internet. Now the Bush administration must decide whether to order the National Weather Service to make taxpayer-funded weather readings freely available on the Net, ignoring complaints from an industry trade group that doing so violates pre-Internet era agreements."

10 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Ooh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is gonna kick up a storm.

  2. That long silence you hear... by AvantLegion · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... is people trying to figure out how they can bash Bush over this.

  3. Judging by other Bush Admin decisions... by Senjutsu · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll skip options one and two and head straight to Option Three:

    Declare the weather a matter of national security, and order that it be classified as sensitive material immediately.

  4. Re:James Fallow's Article in today's NYT by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uhh...ebag? The article referenced in the submission is the Fallows article, republished through CNet.

    I guess we can at least look forward to a Michael Sims finding a way to dupe this using the original NYTimes. I wonder -- do the editors get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated by each of the articles they sponsor n the front page?

  5. Sorry, Lando by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    ignoring complaints from an industry trade group that doing so violates pre-Internet era agreements

    I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

  6. No way by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Wx data were publically available, we run the risk of weathermen like this instead of the highly trained media professionals we have now.

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  7. Re:slashdot.org.us? by Peter+La+Casse · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's slashdot.org.us. In American English, though, the ".us" is silent.

  8. Re:Article summary is hyper-incorrect, as usual by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny
    perhaps an incorrect triplicate story should be referred to, appropriately, as "tripe".
    Actually I think tripe probably describes a wider selection of Slashdot content than that.
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  9. The world's best research by handy_vandal · · Score: 2, Funny

    The world's best research sees its first incarnation on bar napkins across the globe.

    Bar napkins in strip joints, if we're lucky.

    -kgj

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  10. Re:slashdot.org.us? by jason+ward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah... how I wish the us was silent sometimes....

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