[opendtv] Re: The Weather and do these people have NO shame?
- From: William Smith <wsmith@xxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:07:05 -0400
Weather data is in the public interest... When I fly I want the airlines
to have the best data available period.
I don't think any one entity that deals with weather could afford the
weather satellite network required to gather the data to make the
forecasts and issue alerts.
Good weather data helps in predicting disasters and we all pay for the
clean up of those through FEMA..
(I survived the 1974 April 3-4 tornadoes when I was 9)
Weather information is priceless as it can and does save lives...
I hope you never need that "free" weather information... I would hate to
have to set through a "This tornado alert brought to you by Charmin,,
when the big one hits your going to need us,," EAS alert.
I guess in your eyes they have to shutdown NOAA weather radio as well..
Imagine the gall of breaking into a 60 minute music sweep to warn
people... that would get a person fired at most stations.
We are pulling that free weather data and other specialized weather site
(Such as University of Kentucky's Ag weather) for transmission to
Emergency personnel, weather spotters, and other users via our
datacasting system. We wrote our own display Lapp for dispatch centers
and the like)
William
Mitch Cardwell wrote:
> I think this is foolish and Santorum is a tool, but I couldn't help but
> notice your remark: "free weather information is a necessity for many."
> If it's a necessity then it has value, they ought to pay for it and
> they are, through their taxes. The problem is, so am I and I have
> absolutely zero need for it. We paid for the infrastructure, but the
> Feds could sell that off to a private entity to reimburse us for that
> and then only those who need weather data would have to pay for it.
>
> Why should my tax dollars be funding free weather data for the
> airlines, tv stations and the Weather Channel?
>
> Mitch
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:36 AM, John Willkie wrote:
>
>
>>Accuweather is in State College, PA, so Rick Santorum is the Senator
>>from
>>Accuweather.
>>
>>I have issues with governmental agencies competing with private
>>insterests.
>>However, Accuweather and TWC entered this environment, and now they
>>want to
>>change it. Also, free weather information is a necessity for many.
>>After
>>this goes through, many people -- I don't mean farmers; they pay for
>>much
>>more detailed weather/climate informaton than anybody else -- will
>>only be
>>able to get weather information from free radio and tv.
>>
>>Let's call it for what it is: greedy overreaching by commerical
>>interests
>>that want to change the rules of competition that were in place when
>>they
>>entered the marketplace.
>>
>>John Willkie
>
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