Should Taxpayers Pay Twice For Weather Data?

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."

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xbmc

[blackomegax]

i already get free weather reports on my xbox via xbmc. weather.com also has free weather. i dont see what the deal is. /doesnt pay taxes/

Mod parent up, funny

[Pfhorrest]

Although written in the exact format as the traditional Slashdot "such-and-such is dead" offtopic trolls, and posted by a GNAA member no less... Johnny Carson is actually dead according to MSNBC which makes the parent post actually quite funny, in an ironic sense.

Slashdot: Where explaining the joke still won't make it funny, but it might make it +1 Funny.