In article , Dave
wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:36:03 -0400, krj said:

If we
did not
have the NWS prediction available and had to rely on the other forecast,
the
people of the Gulf coast of Florida may have let down their guard, with
disastrous results.

This argument illustrates just how far the free lunch bunch will go in
exploiting the naivete of the unthinking.

I agree with you completely, sir! Those fee for service people, who
take taxpayer funded data, value-add it and then onsell it to the
public, are definitely exploiting the unthinking. Especially when they
get it wrong!

If they were actually collecting the data themselves, using their own
funded satellites, met stations and the like, well, that'd be
different. But they're not. They sure are a free lunch bunch, hey,
Dave?

PDW