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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Matt Barrow wrote: "Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message ... In article , "Matt Barrow" wrote: Can you get a Nexrad image directly from NOAA/NWS? Snipola http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php As well as many other websites. While airborne? To get access to this data while airborne, I have to pay a private company. I don't care about that, because I'm paying the company to transmit the data to me, just like I pay my ISP to provide an Internet connection when I pull the data off of the web. The bottom line is that my tax dollars are being spent to generate the data, and therefore I shouldn't have to pay a private company for access to the data if I otherwise have a means of access. The government prints currency, but the corporations & financial institutions generate wealth. Well, one out of two ain't bad. Financial institutions don't create wealth either. Generate. |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com... Matt Whiting wrote: Well, one out of two ain't bad. Financial institutions don't create wealth either. In an indirect sense, by helping move capital to where it can be best leveraged, they do. I'm not sure how this applies to our tax dollars paying for data that companies want to sell to us again. Someone else on this thread mentioned Jeppeson, which I think is a useful model. Jepp does a *lot* to add value to the data for which we've paid. They don't complain that the government sells charts; they simply sell better (at least in the opinion of enough people to keep them in business) charts. Exactly. At least some of the weather companies do provide valuable packaging. I don't happen to recall the maker of the unit, but I like the software provided to pilots at an FBO I frequent. There's nothing there I cannot get elsewhere, but the packaging - really, just the UI - is much cleaner than the NSW's sites provide. The FSS briefer can be using RAW data that's four hours old. Also, their dissemination capacity is minimal. What companies like Jeppesen, XM, and Meteorlogix provide is a whole slew of enhanced, timely, value-addded services. Then there are the services that combine weather with flight planning, which is a significant value added and well beyond what the government does. But rather than actually earn their fees, some companies would prefer to whine and try to take the product of our tax dollars and sell them to us again. It's nothing but a con job at that level: selling something to the people that already paid for it. IIUIC, the taxpayers paid only for the raw data collection. |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com... wrote: that have risked capital and effort to provide a service needed by the public What privately owned weather satellites orbit the Earth today? Quite a few, actually. Communications mainly, but not exclusively. Who paid for the weather monitoring stations across the country? Who pays for the weather ballons? Government, but it doesn;t necessarily have to be that way. Government paid for them, but government builds/creates NOTHING. That's *my* capital being risked there. Bureaucracy at it's best. People keep demanding more, then wonder why we're in the state we are. |
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"james" wrote in message ups.com... Rick Santorum has the brains of, well, Santorum. He has the brinais of a statist politician...him and about 530 others alongside him. |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Matt Barrow wrote: "Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message ... In article , "Matt Barrow" wrote: Can you get a Nexrad image directly from NOAA/NWS? Snipola http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php As well as many other websites. While airborne? To get access to this data while airborne, I have to pay a private company. I don't care about that, because I'm paying the company to transmit the data to me, just like I pay my ISP to provide an Internet connection when I pull the data off of the web. The bottom line is that my tax dollars are being spent to generate the data, and therefore I shouldn't have to pay a private company for access to the data if I otherwise have a means of access. The government prints currency, but the corporations & financial institutions generate wealth. Well, one out of two ain't bad. Financial institutions don't create wealth either. Generate. They don't generate wealth either, since generate is a pretty close cousin to create. http://www.webster-dictionary.net/definition/generate Matt |
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