[vox] new senate bill: no more free NOAA data

[Dylan Beaudette <dylan@iici.no-iMAPSp.org>]

Hi everyone,

just thought that i would pass on the news about a new bill in the  
senate, proposing to ban public NOAA weather data from being  
distributed on the net.

as seen here on slashdot:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/04/21/2058212.shtml? 
tid=103&tid=187&tid=98&tid=219


article:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/04/21/ 
m1a_wx_0421.html

CA senators:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm? 
State=CA

thanks,

--
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341

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