Since this is rec.boats, you might go out on the water at some time. Do
you ever use the VHF weather to keep up with the weather while sailing?
Well, that would go away,as well as general aviation weather for pilots.
Ever call up the local radar on the internet when storms are about?
Gone unless you want to pay for a subscription service. You probably
don't go cruising, so you wouldn't miss the USCG WEFAX daily reports,
but I will, as will a great many cruisers. This IS NOT a good thing.
krj

Dave wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:59 -0400, DSK said:


Guvmint paid weather may have made sense once upon a time. Today I'm not at

all sure it does. Them as needs it can pay for it.

???

But you are paying for it, and will continue to pay for it. The proposal
is not private funding of the weather services, but to continue to use
tax money for weather services, which will then be given *only* to
for-profit weather advisors, and sold to you... in other words, everyone
will pay for it, those who use it will pay twice, and those who are
smiled on by our benevolent gov't are guaranteed a profit.

Want to re-think your above statement?


Nope. First, the money spent by those purchasing the service from the
guvmint doesn't just go poof and evaporate. (Though what does happen to it
is another story.) Second, nobody's "guaranteed a profit." Like anything
bought and sold, the data may result in a profit, and it may result in a
loss to the purchaser. "Guaranteed a profit" is simply empty-headed populist
rhetoric.