Re: [APML] You may soon have to pay to get a weather forecast...

[Howard Edin <howard@howardedin.com>]

Andrew Clegg wrote:

>  
> It may soon be illegal for the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue 
> non-severe weather forecasts under the provisions of the National 
> Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, Senate Bill S.786 
> <http://www.wunderground.com/education/santorum_s786.asp>, introduced 
> April 14 by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
> 

Brought to you by the <sarcasm>good</sarcasm> folks at Accuweather. This 
is far from a done deal. This was discussed on /. a few days ago:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/2058212&tid=103

and previously on /. at:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/0027250&tid=103

(urls may wrap).

Howard
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