mosca
07-07-2006, 11:51 PM
Check out what one of our elected "representatives" is up to in Washington. This would almost be funny if it weren't so damn stupid:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32770
Senator downloads Internet
Complains it is a bit slow
By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 July 2006, 08:05
A US senator who is one the ringleaders against 'net neutrality' provisions in recent US telecom laws has claimed that he had to do so because the Internet was too slow when he downloaded it.
Senator Ted Stevens who is a Republican from Alaska in a committee transcipt printed by Wired, here, complained that the Internet was sent to him by his staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, but it took days for him to get it.
He said that it was because "it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially".
"We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people," he said cryptically.
Stevens said that the regulatory approach was wrong because it claimed that "no one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet".
He said it was important that people understood his position and we agree. He claimed that those who favoured net neutrality wanted to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. But, he said "the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck" no sir, "It's a series of tubes", he said sagely.
Just in case you did not get the metaphor he went on to comment that those tubes can be filled.
"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," he explained.
Stevens seemed to be getting hot under the collar by this point and said some even more technological things including.
"We have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that? Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people."
It is that level of technical expertise that gets you to be the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It also means that you get to have those nice people from the telco's lobby groups explain the issues to you nice and simply.
Still he seemed a little better informed when he wrote this.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32770
Senator downloads Internet
Complains it is a bit slow
By Nick Farrell: Monday 03 July 2006, 08:05
A US senator who is one the ringleaders against 'net neutrality' provisions in recent US telecom laws has claimed that he had to do so because the Internet was too slow when he downloaded it.
Senator Ted Stevens who is a Republican from Alaska in a committee transcipt printed by Wired, here, complained that the Internet was sent to him by his staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, but it took days for him to get it.
He said that it was because "it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially".
"We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people," he said cryptically.
Stevens said that the regulatory approach was wrong because it claimed that "no one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet".
He said it was important that people understood his position and we agree. He claimed that those who favoured net neutrality wanted to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. But, he said "the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck" no sir, "It's a series of tubes", he said sagely.
Just in case you did not get the metaphor he went on to comment that those tubes can be filled.
"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," he explained.
Stevens seemed to be getting hot under the collar by this point and said some even more technological things including.
"We have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that? Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people."
It is that level of technical expertise that gets you to be the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It also means that you get to have those nice people from the telco's lobby groups explain the issues to you nice and simply.
Still he seemed a little better informed when he wrote this.