Ok those are some of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. First of all, a hurricane is "nature's way" of restoring the balance in energy. A decent size hurricane releases energy equivalent to a 10 megaton bomb every 10 minutes. Maybe it's just me, but I dont exactly want start pissing around with that type of energy.
Even if "ocean plowing" or any of those other wonderful ideas would impact a hurricane, they are not at all feasible. Yeah ok let's just call up Russia and tell them we want to borrow a dozen subs to plow the atlantic ocean during hurricane season. Do you even have any idea how much it costs to even get a sub out of "port" let alone have 40 of them drive around in circles for 5 months out of the year. And I for one am not paying those taxes. If you got a couple trillion lying around and want to spend it on that go for it, or feel free to send me some of it. I could go on but I will spare/. and cut things off there. Bottom line, these ideas are absurd.
What a 100% load of crap. AccuWeather and Santorum are a bunch of morons.
"It spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of 'warm and sunny.'"
Barry Myers, AccuWeather's executive vice president
What Barry means to say is that he wants us to be paying HIM hundreds of millions of dollars a year to "produce" warm and sunny forecasts. I use the term produce so incredibly loosely because all they do is repackage the national weather services forecast. They take their data and make slightly different pretty pictures and charge people an arm and a leg to view the exact same thing they could see for free.
"It is not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products and services for free." Good call Santorum, you come with that all by yourself or did your boyfriend help you? Of course it is not easy, gee do I want to get something for free or pay for it, that is a tough one. Maybe if they were able to actually offer something worthwhile above and beyond what the NWS is offering then you have justification for charging people money.
And guess what, we (as well as AccuSucks customers) are all having to pay for this imbecile putting together this bill and trying to get it passed.
PS AccuWeather's forecast for my area today....warm and sunny.
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Ok those are some of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. First of all, a hurricane is "nature's way" of restoring the balance in energy. A decent size hurricane releases energy equivalent to a 10 megaton bomb every 10 minutes. Maybe it's just me, but I dont exactly want start pissing around with that type of energy. Even if "ocean plowing" or any of those other wonderful ideas would impact a hurricane, they are not at all feasible. Yeah ok let's just call up Russia and tell them we want to borrow a dozen subs to plow the atlantic ocean during hurricane season. Do you even have any idea how much it costs to even get a sub out of "port" let alone have 40 of them drive around in circles for 5 months out of the year. And I for one am not paying those taxes. If you got a couple trillion lying around and want to spend it on that go for it, or feel free to send me some of it. I could go on but I will spare /. and cut things off there. Bottom line, these ideas are absurd.
What a 100% load of crap. AccuWeather and Santorum are a bunch of morons. "It spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of 'warm and sunny.'" Barry Myers, AccuWeather's executive vice president What Barry means to say is that he wants us to be paying HIM hundreds of millions of dollars a year to "produce" warm and sunny forecasts. I use the term produce so incredibly loosely because all they do is repackage the national weather services forecast. They take their data and make slightly different pretty pictures and charge people an arm and a leg to view the exact same thing they could see for free. "It is not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products and services for free." Good call Santorum, you come with that all by yourself or did your boyfriend help you? Of course it is not easy, gee do I want to get something for free or pay for it, that is a tough one. Maybe if they were able to actually offer something worthwhile above and beyond what the NWS is offering then you have justification for charging people money. And guess what, we (as well as AccuSucks customers) are all having to pay for this imbecile putting together this bill and trying to get it passed. PS AccuWeather's forecast for my area today....warm and sunny.