[ale] OT need 600-1000W power protection for 3 minutes - cheap

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> <snip>



>   Some number of years ago, AccuWeather made a small financial
> contribution to Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) to support a bill that
> would force the National Weather Service to prevent the public from seeing
> its data on its web page and require the public to pay for service from
> AccuWeather after the public paid for the data via taxes.  The NWS
> effectively gave AccuWeather the finger and kept publishing the data.  The
> Senate bill (S786) died in committee (killed by Senator Bill Nelson of
> Florida since the National Hurricane Center was in AccuWeather's
> crosshairs, too, and that's a no-go for Florida.
>

Not to start a political fight but...

There are _so_ many assholes in congress that try to privatize
public-funded data it's downright nauseating. Certain groups have had NOAA
in their crosshairs for decades (ask NOAA researchers why they use a DC-3
plane for research instead of something built after all the researchers
were born). The medical world is so full of taxpayer research $ that leads
to privately held patents it's no wonder medical stuff costs so much. Many
thanks to a now dead president who by executive order allowed public money
to fund private research and no longer require the public a stake in the
patents that research generated. Like steroid-doped pigs at the slop
trough. Grr.

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