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April 23, 2005
More insane legislation
According to Boing Boing and this article, there's apparently a bill up in the US Congress to prevent the National Weather Service (US equivalent of the Bureau of Meterology) from publishing weather forecasts online as it's seen to be unfair competition to the fee-for-service weather forecasts available online.
You have GOT to be kidding me? The weather is now the property of private service providers???? OMG that country is so full of it.
Posted by jj at April 23, 2005 10:51 AM
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Yeh that is Santorum, he is the senator for Pennsylvania, and unsurprisingly Accuweather is in Pennsylvania. Accuweather got that legislation for approx $3500 USD. Senators are going cheap.
The are plenty of others that use that service, including the military, so it probably wont get any further. It will reinforce the fact that US representatives are up for sale, and that dollars buys access.
Santorum is up for re-election soon and losing badly in the polls at the moment, so this may have been a "go-nowhere+ piece of legislation for his corporate donors. I dont think the legislation has any backers yet.
As an Australian working in the US, there is much to love about America. The government isnt one of things. But I could level the same accusation at Australia.
Posted by: Cameron Riley at April 23, 2005 11:08 AM
As an Australian working in the US, there is much to love about America. The government isnt one of things. But I could level the same accusation at Australia
Good point. And if the bill doesn't get any further, thank goodness for that... I wish the same could be said about all the bills that will hit the Australian Parliament come 1 July.
Posted by: jj at April 23, 2005 1:07 PM
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