In article xq%re.122720$sy6.18607@lakeread04,
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote:

(d) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN DISCLOSURES- An officer, employee, or
agent of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
National Weather Service, or any other department or agency of the
United States who by reason of that status comes into possession of
any weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning

emphasis:

that might influence or affect the market value of any product,
service, commodity, tradable, or business may not--

(1) willfully impart, whether directly or indirectly, such weather
data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning, or any part
thereof,

Emphasis:

before the issuance of such weather data, information, guidance,
forecast, or warning to the public under subsection (c); or

The way I read this even the Navy would have to encode their
broadcasts to keep us from using them. Also no NWS people could
speak at any cruising association meeting.

Naaah, it just means they can't play favorites.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

"Jere Lull" wrote in message

The way I read this even the Navy would have to encode their
broadcasts to keep us from using them. Also no NWS people could
speak at any cruising association meeting.

Naaah, it just means they can't play favorites.

I hope you are being fecitious. The way the bill reads NWS or any other
Federal agency personal with weather data is specifically and totally
muzzeled. No statements or sharing weather information of any kind to
anybody any time unless Accuweather can't do it. (Not won't but can't.)

The commercial services are into mass marketing their product and are not
going to provide a service if they can't make a profit and marine weather is
not a profit maker. Say goodby to WEFAX. Say goodby to VHF weather radio.
Say goodby to sea state and wind forcasts.

You guys better get off your asses and say something to your Senators or we
may be sailing blind or paying $50+ to get a weather forcast anytime you
sail outside the harbor.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
"Jere Lull" wrote in message


The way I read this even the Navy would have to encode their
broadcasts to keep us from using them. Also no NWS people could
speak at any cruising association meeting.

Naaah, it just means they can't play favorites.


I hope you are being fecitious. The way the bill reads NWS or any other
Federal agency personal with weather data is specifically and totally
muzzeled. No statements or sharing weather information of any kind to
anybody any time unless Accuweather can't do it. (Not won't but can't.)

The commercial services are into mass marketing their product and are not
going to provide a service if they can't make a profit and marine weather is
not a profit maker. Say goodby to WEFAX. Say goodby to VHF weather radio.
Say goodby to sea state and wind forcasts.

You guys better get off your asses and say something to your Senators or we
may be sailing blind or paying $50+ to get a weather forcast anytime you
sail outside the harbor.

Here is the reply I received from Senator Bill Nelson

Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you need to send another message to
Senator Nelson, please use the form on his Web site:
http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm#email

Thank you for contacting me regarding the National Weather Service.
The weather information provided on its website is invaluable and should
not be limited.

The National Weather service is a branch of the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is the primary
source of weather data, forecasts, and warnings to the United States, and
provides information to television broadcasters and private meteorology
companies to prepare their forecasts. During the hurricane season of 2004,
when Florida was being battered by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and
Jeanne, the National Weather Service provided valuable information through
its website to the people of Florida to help them prepare for the disaster.
During these hurricanes, The National Weather Service website received
billions of hits, breaking a government record previously held by NASA
sites after the Mars rover landing last spring.

Legislation has been introduced that would limit the ability of the
National Weather Service to offer its information to the general public.
S. 786, the National Weather Service Duties Act, introduced on April 14,
2005, would, among other things, prevent the National Weather Service from
providing weather forecasts (with the exception of severe weather warnings)
to the public on its website if a private company also is capable providing
this information.

I oppose the National Weather Service Duties Act because it has a
variety of negative effects. This legislation would force consumers to get
on-line weather information from commercial websites that are cluttered
with pop-up ads and invasive solicitations, even though the consumer has
already paid for the taxpayer-funded National Weather Service. It would
prevent any National Weather Service forecaster from doing a one-on-one
interview with a news reporter, and could even prevent the National Weather
Service from providing any service on-line that is provided by a private
vendor. I have written a letter to President Bush asking that he publicly
oppose this attempt to push the weather service back to its pre-Internet
era and limit the public's right to access government information.

I appreciate your informed policy suggestions. Please do not
hesitate to contact me again in the future.

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:42:20 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

I hope you are being fecitious. The way the bill reads NWS or any other
Federal agency personal with weather data is specifically and totally
muzzeled. No statements or sharing weather information of any kind to
anybody any time unless Accuweather can't do it. (Not won't but can't.)

The commercial services are into mass marketing their product and are not
going to provide a service if they can't make a profit and marine weather is
not a profit maker. Say goodby to WEFAX. Say goodby to VHF weather radio.
Say goodby to sea state and wind forcasts.

You guys better get off your asses and say something to your Senators or we
may be sailing blind or paying $50+ to get a weather forcast anytime you
sail outside the harbor.


Only the lowest permit themselves to conduct a newsgroup debate on the
basis of spelling and punctuation - but when the target is as
delicious and well-regarded as Glenn, why would that stop me? :-)

Fecitious? Glenn fecit.
Personal? Human relations is the PC term, these days...
Muzzeled? A happy mix, perhaps, of muscled and muzzled.
Goodby? A relative of Scooby.
Forcast? E-less in Gaza.....

I want some of the sauce that Glenn's using!

Brian Whatcott, Altus, OK

I blame that on an experimental teaching system they tried out on my third
grade class. Never quite recovered from it. At least you understood what I
said which should be sufficient. Now turn on your spell checker and write
your Senator.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

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