Sen. Stevens' hilariously awful explanation of the Internet

Sen. Stevens' hilariously awful explanation of the Internet 


Senator Ted Stevens, a neutricidal
<http://internetweek.cmp.com/news/189601945>  maniac who wants to allow the
phone companies to charge Google and others for delivering their packets to
you, gave this incredible description of his understanding of how the
internet works. This man is so far away from having a coherent picture of
the Internet's functionality, it's like hearing a caveman expound on the
future of silver-birds-from-sky and why we need to keep them from flying so
high they anger the gods. 

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in
the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? 

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet
commercially... 

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And
again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a
truck. 

It's a series of tubes. 

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are
filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be
delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material,
enormous amounts of material. 

Link <http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499>  (Thanks, Trips
<http://www.gosleepgo.com>  and everyone else who sent this link!) 


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